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Aeneas Georg
Sott.net 2015-01-18 01:15:00
Dear leaders of Europe, In a socio-political-economic- On December 13th 2013, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, said to the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt the words "F*ck the EU". Now this was immediately interpreted by you all to be a command coming from the US boss in Washington to "f*ck the EU". The problem is - and here good knowledge of the English language is useful - that Victoria Nuland was insulting you, dear leaders, and all Europeans. She was NOT commanding anyone to "f*ck the EU", but the fact that you appear to have run with her suggestion is evident for all with eyes to see. The devil's advocate in me would suggest that she most likely meant it both ways; that is, both as an insult and as a command. BUT, at the very least, you should have been insulted and not taken it as a command. You may protest and say that you didn't take it as a command, in which case I will refer to a few examples that demonstrate how you have. In all fairness to Victoria Nuland, it didn't start with her command/insult, but the destruction of Europe has definitely gone ballistic since she provided you with renewed enthusiasm. | |
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Corey Schink
Sott.net 2015-01-17 20:14:00
I remember first reading Sebastian Haffner's Defying Hitler back in 2009. It shook me to the core to read about one man's experience with Nazi Germany, and the persecution he experienced simply trying to maintain his common sense during days of utter darkness. So many lies were taken at face value by his peers, until they finally changed and it became dangerous to speak to them. A tipping point was reached. It became impossible to speak out, despite the fact that social life continued on "as normal". History has recorded what followed. Speech could prove lethal, just as lethal as having the wrong religion, ethnicity, or skin color. Sebastian's memoirs gave us an insight into what experiencing life under 'the totalitarian beast' looks and smells like. As an American I'd felt the strange change myself, from 9/11 to the expansion of the War on Terror, Homeland Security, and Total Information Awareness. Now 'The Scum' is not the Jew and the Communist, but the "Islamo-fascist". We knew that a modern "Defying Hitler" would not have a Hitler to defy. It would not have a Bush, or an Obama, or an Osama, to defy. We were always treated to some new terrorist, evil dictator, or conspiracy. There were no symbols, like the Swastika, soaked with the blood and dread of a generation. | |
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Sarah Gray
Salon 2015-01-16 21:27:00
Russell Brand unleashed an earful in the direction of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch and those who are spewing hateful speech in the wake of the attacks in Paris. (Rather than sounding slightly unhinged, or even pedantic, the rant was surprisingly refreshing.) In an episode of Russell Brand's "The Trews," posted online this week, the comedian was baffled by comments made by Fox News' Jeanine Pirro - especially when she advocated for violence. In the video below, he attempts to dissect Pirro's comments, look deeper into potential motives, and most importantly makes a much-needed call for peace and tolerance. Watch below via "The Trews":
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Comment: Russell Brand is spot on in his analysis of Fox News, the people behind it, and why they encourage mindless violence against a foreign 'other'.
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Harrison Koehli
Sott.net 2015-01-18 16:13:00
Ukrainian troops have launched a major offensive on Novorossiyan Armed Forces this morning. Clashes have erupted all along the front line, with heavy artillery fire at Gorlovka and skirmishes in numerous cities and towns. As RT reports, the order was given early this morning, according to Poroshenko aide Yury Biryukov: In other words, the ceasefire is officially over. And Kiev broke it. As one local resident in Donetsk puts it in the video below (recorded by Ukrainian reporters from Channel 17): "Poroshenko is sending us our pensions." Last year, Kiev stopped sending pensions to citizens in the east of the country. This is how he is 'paying' the citizens there.
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Tyler Durden
The rumors of Russia selling its gold reserves, it is now clear, were greatly exaggerated as not only did Putin not sell, Russian gold reserves rose by their largest amount in six months in December to just over $46 billion (near the highest since April 2013). It appears all the "Russia is selling" chatter did was lower prices enabling them to gather non-fiat physical assets at a lower cost. On the other hand, there is another trend that continues for the Russians - that of reducing their exposure to US Treasury debt. For the 20th month in a row, Russia's holdings of US Treasury debt fell year-over-year - selling into the strength.Zerohedge 2015-01-18 22:28:00 Buying low... Russia gold reserves jump the most in six months in December, near the highest since April 2013.
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Comment: The currency wars are intensifying!
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i100
2015-01-14 16:23:00
So said Jeanine Pirro, latterly of "Birmingham is a Muslim-only city fame", as she began a piece to camera on her show Justice this weekend. Pirro, a former judge, explains of Islamic terrorism: "You're in danger, I'm in danger. We're at war. And this is not going to stop." In a seven-minute rant that has to be watched to be believed, she claims there will be efforts in America to limit free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment to "comply with Sharia blasphemy laws which call for death to those who slander the Prophet Mohamed". And how can America combat this? "Bomb them, bomb them and bomb them again," she urges. | |
Comment: This woman needs to look into a mirror (not the camera) before spewing such hate, at least she would if she had a conscience. All the forces that she narrated as "threats" were created, funded and maintained by her own government.
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Binoy Kampmark
Global Research 2015-01-17 00:00:00
"Today the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda opened a preliminary examination into the situation in Palestine." - The Times of Israel, Jan 16, 2015 It had to come. With the International Criminal Court receiving bad press for its inefficiency, and a seeming lethargy in its prosecuting nerve, Israel came storming in with the clearest of messages against announcements of a preliminary investigation into the Palestinian issue. It will do everything it can to prevent its soldiers from being investigated for war crimes by a foreign body citing universal jurisdiction. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman led the charge. Liberman released a statement to the press on Friday finding it repugnant that Israel should be the subject of any "probe". "The same court which after more than 200,000 deaths didn't see fit to intervene in what was taking place in Syria or in Libya or in other places now finds it worthwhile to 'examine' the most moral army in the world" (Jerusalem Post, Jan 16). Comment: 'The most moral army in the world'!! What a laugh - coming from the government and military that has recently killed over 2,000 innocents in 'Operation Protective Edge,' injured over 11,000 more, and has left large swaths of Gaza uninhabitable and in an even greater state of humanitarian crises than it was before. What a laugh - coming from a government and military that materially supports foreign terrorists in order to overthrow the democratically elected and peaceful leadership of Bashar al-Assad. And what a laugh - coming from the government and military that engineers false flag operations that seek to demonize and persecute an entire faith and its followers - just so it can continue it's project for a greater Israel. The importance of Israel's statement lies precisely in its own assessment about the role of international institutions, which it deems inadequate before superior domestic experiments. Otherwise, any international entity is only useful as long as the rules are appropriately adjusted. This is the very definition of law that ceases to be law, one that slips into the area of pure power politics. This concept lies at the core of those critical of ICC procedure, such as former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. This is not in itself surprising, as Kissinger might himself, given the appropriate circumstances, face a successful prosecution suit. Writing for Foreign Affairs (July/August 2001), Kissinger called the move towards an international court as "an unprecedented movement... to submit international politics to judicial procedures." | |
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Eretz Zen
YouTube 2013-01-15 00:00:00
Former French Foreign Minister, Roland Dumas, stated in a 2013 televised program on LCP that British government officials had told him about preparations for "sending rebels into Syria" two years prior to the start of the 2011 "protests" and conflict. Dumas makes it clear that it is Assad's anti-Israel stance that has made him a target for Western-backed "regime change". The fact that over 200,000 Syrian civilians have been killed in the process appears to be of little consequence to Western politicians. | |
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Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation 2015-01-17 23:00:00
How many insults does the European Union expect Russia to bear without consequences? Ethnic cleansing of Russian people by the Brussels-backed Kiev regime, a refugee crisis on Russia's borders, economic sanctions based on groundless accusations hurting Russian society - and now this - the neo-Nazi cabal that seized power in Ukraine with CIA backing last year has repeatedly been found guilty of siphoning off Russia's natural gas exports to the EU. On top of all that comes the insult of Russian President Vladimir Putin not being invited along with European leaders to attend the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. More on that in a while. But first on the issue of natural exports. Russia this week finally responded to the Kiev regime's incorrigible banditry by giving notice that it is to cut off all gas supplies that transit through Ukraine - which make up about 40-50 per cent of the EU's supply. In the middle of winter and with temperatures plummeting the move by Russian state-owned Gazprom has reportedly sent Brussels officials into panic mode. | |
Comment: The West's actions toward Russia just expose their boorish, parochial attitude, and their lack of any decency, manners, or respect. They are like a bad guest: rude, insulting, and self-centered. Compare that with the Russian mentality: The Russian national character - Confounding the West for centuries
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James Holbrooks
Holbrooks Wordsmithing 2015-01-15 14:32:00
I'm gonna lose friends. I realize now it's inevitable. Not real friends. The real stuff is forged from memories and adamantium. I'm not worried about that. No, the friends I'm destined to lose are the type that can simply click a button and disappear me from their timeline. I've been on Facebook since Christmas - as in three weeks ago. I'm sure that's hilarious to some. But it was always a conscious decision not to partake, and I stand by it. In the end there were two reasons that finally got me to pull the trigger. One was the very simple fact that I've been homesick lately and Facebook seemed like the best way to get a fix. The other reason was much more analytical: I've been writing so much about social media I figured I owed it to myself to fully explore it. | |
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Times of India
2015-01-18 21:13:00
At least three people were killed on Saturday in protests in Niger against French newspaper Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, police sources said, bringing the death toll from two days of violence in the West African country to eight. Police fired teargas at crowds of stone-throwing Muslim youths who set fire to churches and looted shops in the capital Niamey after authorities banned a meeting called by local Islamic leaders. A police station was attacked and at least two police cars burned. The police sources said two charred bodies were found inside a burned church on the outskirts of Niamey on Saturday, while the body of a woman was found in a bar. She was believed to have been suffocated by teargas and smoke, they said. | |
Comment: This is exactly what the puppet masters in the West want. If the Paris attacks hadn't been carried out, this would probably not be happening, but the attacks did, giving the CH issue all the publicity it needed to spread the racist message around the world, insulting and angering more Muslims. That said, we wouldn't be surprised if even this protest was infected with agents provocateur. Niger may have avoided armed Islamist uprisings for this long, but that is probably seen as unacceptable by those who pull the strings.
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RT
2015-01-14 03:18:00
A secularism scandal is raging in France, after a mayor in a northwestern town introduced a "pork or nothing" principle at school, even for 27 students who will get no meat substitute. The rule will apply starting from January 1 in the town of Sargé-lès-Le Mans, and may apply to Jewish pupils as well - though there aren't any in this particular school. Mayor Marcel Mortreau bases his decision on the "principle of Republican neutrality." "The mayor is not required to provide meals that respond to religious requirements. This is the principle of secularism," Mortreau told Europe1 radio. Comment: This is not religious secularism. The move was backed up by the Town Hall on the grounds that the food providers face extra work if they have to deliver meat substitutes, the Local reported. | |
Comment: Whatever you call this, this type of attitude is disastrous for any nation. History repeats...
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Alex Wellman
Daily Mirror, UK 2015-01-17 19:50:00
The death is the second to hit Taiwan in just a fortnight after another man died on New Years' Day after 5 days of gaming A man was found dead in an internet cafe after a spending three days straight on a marathon gaming binge. It is the second time a man has died from excessive gaming in just over a fortnight in Taiwan The man, known only by his surname Hsieh, was found slumped in his chair in front of a computer having spent around 72 hours playing 'combat' computer games at the cafe in Taiwan. The 32-year-old had been spotted by staff and other customers lying motionless in his chair, but they all thought he was sleeping. | |
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Ben Swann
For-profit prisons have created a "neo-slavery" in the US, according to award-winning journalist Chris Hedges. Inmates work eight hours per day for major corporations such as Chevron, Motorola, Nordstrom's and Target, yet only have the possibility of making up $1.25 an hour. In addition, companies that provide services like phone calls overcharge prisoners on even the most basic services, making hundreds of millions in profits annually. RT's Ben Swann speaks to Hedges, who explains how this shadowy system came into existence.RT America 2015-01-18 19:38:00 |
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The BRICS Post
2015-01-18 18:48:00
After Finland's pork industry was dealt a major blow by a Russian ban on pork imports, another BRICS member China has authorized the Finnish meat industry to export pork to China. China's Agriculture Ministry confirmed on Friday that Atria and HKScan, two Finnish companies, have gained permits to export pork to China. Finnish Agriculture Minister Petteri Orpo said the meat exports to China may, in the long term, offset the losses caused by import restrictions levied by Russia. Finland's Customs statistics show that the country exported about 5,000 tonnes of pork to Russia in 2013. | |
Comment: The Finnish pork industry was looking at rising costs and lower profits due to international competition, and the Russian sanctions did not help:
This goes to show just how out of touch with reality the EU has become, throwing more chaos into the system by following NATO's lead and acting aggressively towards their previous Russian allies. For more brain food check out:
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Bernie Suarez
Activist Post 2015-01-18 14:52:00
Anyone who is fully awakened to the agenda of the new world order and the globalist terrorists knows by now that they don't like to miss out on opportunities to push their lies and set up the general public for accepting their long-term agenda. It is therefore our duty to expose their lies before it happens in the hope that more people will see through their deception as it happens. As we wind down another NFL season, let's turn our attention again to how the globalists rely heavily on the irrational sports (fanaticism) platform to pump their lies and deception to an already hypnotized audience waiting as empty vessels to have their minds polluted with any lie the globalists want them to believe. First, let me say that there are few audiences in America which are as vulnerable to government propaganda as a football audience in late January. The excitement of the upcoming games and the anticipation of who will be in the Super Bowl is psychologically overwhelming for many. The excitement surrounding the chase for the Super Bowl leaves these zombie-like naive football fans wide open to subliminal messages, political suggestions, reshaping of paradigms, tweaking of belief systems, manipulation of perceptions and overall indoctrination on what one should believe. | |
Comment: For more on the dark side of the Superbowl see:
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Moreh B.D.K.
Counter Current News 2015-01-16 14:58:00
A police officer in Arkansas recently lost his job after he exposed a massive scheme that allowed officers to have sex with prostitutes and then arrest them for servicing the undercover cops. The way that Former Fort Smith Police Department Sgt. Don Paul Bales' department had it set up, cops would "prove" that they weren't really police officers, by having sex with prostitutes. The cop who had just broken the law himself would then follow up by arresting the women. Now, a lawsuit that was obtained by local KFSM, reveal that an officer was fired for exposing the twisted police work. The suit was just filed in Arkansas's Sebastian County Circuit Court. The officer in question says he just wants his job back, as he did nothing but expose criminal activity among fellow officers. This all started when Bales received a photo of an affidavit that had been filed back in April of 2014. That affidavit stated that an undercover cop in the "Street Crimes Unit" had engaged in what it termed "misconduct." The undercover officer, who was identified as "J.B.", met a woman he thought might be a prostitute through the website Backpage.com. | |
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Doyle Murphy
Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier, 22, calmly burned child in the middle of a Pemberton Township street, shocked neighbor claims. 'She knew what she was doing.'New York Daily News 2015-01-17 23:31:00
A New Jersey woman intentionally burned her baby girl alive in the middle of a quiet street, authorities said. Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier, 22, of Pemberton has been charged with the infant's murder. | |
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Mia de Graaf, Sean O'Hare
Mail Online 2015-01-18 00:23:00
When the skeletal remains of Hollywood screenwriter Gary Devore were found strapped into his Ford Explorer submerged beneath the California Aqueduct in 1998 it brought an end to one of America's most high profile missing person cases. The fact that Devore was on his way to deliver a film script that promised to explain the 'real reason' why the US invaded Panama, has long given rise to a slew of conspiracies surrounding the nature of his 'accidental' death. It didn't help that Devore's hands were missing from the crash scene, along with the script, and that investigators could offer no plausible explanation as to how a car could leave the highway and end up in the position it was found a year after he disappeared. Now the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal that Devore was working with the CIA in Panama and even a White House source concedes his mysterious death bears all the hallmarks of a cover-up. The findings, published in a new documentary The Writer With No Hands, are the first testimonies ever aired that give credence to the theories that surrounded the case in the late 90s. | |
Comment: A word about "conspiracies", quoted from Richard Dolan's book UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973:
The very label serves as an automatic dismissal, as though no one ever acts in secret. Let us bring some perspective and common sense to this issue. The United States comprises large organizations - corporations, bureaucracies, "interest groups," and the like - which are conspiratorial by nature. That is, they are hierarchical, their important decisions are made in secret by a few key decision-makers, and they are not above lying about their activities. Such is the nature of organizational behavior. "Conspiracy," in this key sense, is a way of life around the globe. | |
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Joshua Krause
The Daily Sheeple 2015-01-17 13:42:00
Over the past five years we've seen technologies like 3D printing go from making plastic cubes, to making plastic firearms. It's a huge game changer that allows the individual to make tools that once required a factory full of workers to build. It has essentially lowered the barrier to entry for the manufacturing industry, and as this technology progresses, it could fundamentally change the world we live in. But does 3D printing stand alone in this regard? Are there other emerging technologies that might democratize fields beyond manufacturing, such as medicine or energy production? Surely, we could benefit from devices that allow the every man to diagnose their own ailments, or cheaply produce all their energy needs. But what about genetic engineering? What if everyone could access the tools required to modify DNA, and do so in the comfort of their own home? | |
Comment: The evil ramifications of this device are too numerous to list. Anyone ever read Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake series?
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Joel Jorgensen
Journal Star 2015-01-18 21:33:00
Last Saturday, my alarm sounded at 3:45 a.m. and I rose out of bed in order to make the three-hour drive to Sutherland Reservoir to "twitch" a brown pelican. For nonbirders, "twitching" is a British birding term meaning to chase after a previously located (usually rare) bird. Brown pelicans are typically found in coastal areas, but birds occasionally wander inland. The brown pelican I was chasing was found by Stephen J. Dinsmore and Kevin Murphy on Dec. 26. Nebraska's other seven documented sightings, as well as the vast majority of inland records from other states of brown pelicans, are during warmer months. Thus, a brown pelican in Nebraska is notable, but one in winter is crazy. It seems most likely this particular brown pelican is from the Gulf Coast, perhaps Texas. Any part of the brown pelican's normal range is at a minimum a thousand miles from Sutherland Reservoir. It's impossible to know when this bird left its familiar coastal haunts to fly inland. The explanation for why this bird ended up at Sutherland in winter, and possibly why it is still alive, is easier to understand. Sutherland Reservoir has a cooling pond, which receives water from the Nebraska Public Power District's nearby coal-fired Gerald Gentleman power station. The constant infusion of warm water into the cooling pond keeps the water open even during the coldest winters. This human-created environment allows several fish-eating bird species, including American white pelicans, double-crested cormorants and great blue herons, to overwinter at this site when they might otherwise migrate south to warmer climes or perish. | |
Comment: Recent reports of birds completely losing their way across the Northern Hemisphere:White-rumped sandpiper from Arctic North America ends up in Australia
Rare goose from northern Asia turns up in Suffolk, UK Rare Eurasian kestrel appears in Nova Scotia, Canada Another completely lost avian species: Couch's Kingbird flies from southern Texas to New York Warbler that should be wintering in western Mexico turns up in Louisiana Bean goose from Eurasia takes a wrong turn and winds up on the Oregon Coast Four lost flamingos fly NORTH for the winter and turn up in Siberia Wrong place, wrong time: European robin turns up thousands of miles away in China Rare bird from Mongolia turns up in Wakefield, UK Wrong time, wrong place: Rare bird found in Barrie, Canada | |
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Nick Kirkpatrick
Washington Post 2015-01-12 00:00:00
Bigger than the island of Manhattan, the lava flow from the Holuhraun lava field in Iceland is now the largest the country has seen in more than 200 years, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. Since August of last year, massive amounts of lava have been spewing from a fissure that erupted in Iceland's largely uninhabited Bárðarbunga volcanic system. In the past six months, the lava flow spread a total of 32 square miles, making it now the largest lava flow since the 1783 - 84 Laki eruption that wiped out 20 percent of Iceland's population. According to the University of Iceland's Institute of Earth Sciences, the eastern part of the lava field was about 30 feet thick, and the center and western parts were about 40 feet thick. | |
Comment: See the volcanic activity around the world during the last year alone:
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thelocal.se
2015-01-17 19:18:00
A teenage girl in northern Sweden had the fright of her life on Wednesday night when a lynx which had escaped from a local zoo leapt out of the woods and pounced on her two-year-old Siberian husky. Emma Danielsson, 18, had taken Kira out for a walk near her house in the small Sami town of Lycksele at around 11pm when she heard something crashing around in the nearby woods. "At first I thought it was a fox, but the dog was reacting very strongly and starting to growl," Emma toldAftonbladet. Then the lynx leapt out of the undergrowth. | |
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Louise Cheer
Daily Mail, UK 2015-01-18 18:32:00
Two drivers travelling along a Victorian highway have narrowly escaped being crushed by seven trees during a wild storm. Posted under YouTube name Ron Cooper, the dash camera footage shows the moment he had to hit the brakes just inches away from where the first tree falls in front of his vehicle. The driver was travelling on the Black Spur highway between the towns of Healesville and Narbethong - north-east of Melbourne, which spans for about 30 kilometres, on December 29 about 2.15pm.
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Abdullah Nurullah
The Times of India 2015-01-18 18:22:00
The carcass of a 40-foot-long tropical male whale washed ashore on the Sadras Kuppam Beach near Chennai on Sunday morning. The whale, also known as the Bryde's whale, might have died after being struck by a large steel-hulled vessel as its spine was broken, a forest official said. The carcass that weighed around 15,000 kilograms was hauled with a crane and buried on the shore by forest department officials. "From the measurements of the whale, the small size of its dorsal fin and the absence of teeth, we declared it to be a tropical whale," said Supraja Dharini of Tree Foundation. | |
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The Times of India
2015-01-18 15:51:00
The nesting season for Olive Ridley turtles is barely 20 days old and already 314 turtles have washed ashore dead on the city's beaches. Conservationists say the turtles die after getting stuck in trawlers' fishing nets. On Saturday morning, 60 turtles were found dead on the stretch between Neelankarai beach and Alamparai village in Kancheepuram district, according to Tree Foundation that patrols the stretch every year during the nesting season. "The numbers are alarmingly high this year and we are just into the second week of the season that will continue till March-end," said Tree Foundation founder-chairperson Supraja Dharini. Tree Foundation volunteers buried the dead turtles near the shore later in the night. Members and volunteers of the Students' Sea Turtle Conservation Network (SSTCN), a group that patrols the coastline from Neelankarai to Napier's Bridge, including Marina and Elliot's beaches, reported 70 dead turtles were washed ashore. SSTCN coordinator V Arun said, "Considering that only 5-6% of the dead turtles are washed ashore, the real death toll could be many times higher." According to turtle conservation groups, most of the deaths are caused due to the failure in implementing the Tamil Nadu Marine Fishing Regulation Act, 1983, which prohibits fishing trawlers from operating within 5 km of the shore. | |
Comment: Other reports of turtle mass deaths over the past 2 years, some due cold weather conditions and some to unknown factors other than fishing nets: 1,122 dead turtles washed ashore in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, India in January
30 Kemp's ridley sea turtles suffering from hypothermia taken from Cape Cod to the Florida Keys Over 1,200 sea turtles have washed up on Cape Cod beaches during December Gulf World treating some 50 endangered sea turtles stranded by cold weather in Florida 23 Olive Ridleys turtles washed ashore in two days, Napier Bridge, India 800 turtles found dead on Nellore beach, India Costa Rica investigates deaths of 280 sea turtles Eighty sea turtles wash up dead on the coast of Guatemala | |
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David Rose
The Daily Mail, UK 2015-01-18 01:43:00
The NASA climate scientists who claimed 2014 set a new record for global warmth last night admitted they were only 38 per cent sure this was true. In a press release on Friday, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) claimed its analysis of world temperatures showed '2014 was the warmest year on record'. The claim made headlines around the world, but yesterday it emerged that GISS's analysis - based on readings from more than 3,000 measuring stations worldwide - is subject to a margin of error.NASA admits this means it is far from certain that 2014 set a record at all. | |
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RT
2015-01-18 15:09:00
The residents of Russia's Amur region woke up Sunday morning to notice an unusual celestial phenomenon - a shining object flying through the sky, leaving a white trail that some social media users compared to the Nike logo. "[The trace of the alleged meteorite] looked like a trace of the plane, only bigger and much brighter," an eyewitness from the city of Belogorsk in the Amur region in Russia's Far East told the local Amur.info website. The swoosh was seen near one of the military units in the city. | |
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Missy Fluegge
VacTruth.com 2015-01-17 21:35:00
Labor unions representing professionals and skilled workers from many fields have publicly opposed mandatory vaccination in written statements to a government organization. Doctors, nurses, surgeons, skilled laborers, teachers, flight attendants, manufacturing employees, energy workers, and members of many more professions have spoken out against mandatory vaccines to the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC). This news is not new, but you probably didn't know that so many labor unions and trade groups are collectively against mandatory vaccination. These groups, representing millions of workers, include names that may surprise you. Over two years ago, the NVAC recommended that facilities providing health care services should consider implementing mandatory flu vaccine policies as a condition of employment. Numerous labor unions and professional organizations protested against this proposal, but mainstream media failed to publicize their comments. [1] These organizations are opposed to flu vaccine mandates Many organizations are opposed to mandatory flu vaccination and the lack of options for exemptions, including these well-known groups:
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Comment: If this isn't enough, do read: Worshiping at the Altar of Pus: How putrid matter is the alpha and omega of vaccination
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Sydney Lupin
ABC News 2015-01-18 18:40:00
A Wisconsin newlywed started to feel sick with the flu on a Monday. By Friday, she was dead. Katie McQuestion, a 26-year-old radiology technician from Kenosha, Wisconsin, got a flu shot to comply with hospital policy and had no underlying medical conditions, but she caught the flu and developed a serious complication from it: sepsis. She died on Jan. 2. "She was the picture of health," her mother told ABC News, adding that McQuestion was married in September. "No 29-year-old should have to bury his wife." McQuestion complained she didn't feel well on a mother-daughter trip to a dress shop on Dec. 29, said her mother, who asked not to be named. The following day, McQuestion was sent home sick from work. Her mother said she picked up a prescription for her on New Year's Eve. Then, on New Year's day, McQuestion called her mother and said, "Mom, I've never been this sick," her mother recalled. McQuestion's parents and husband met her in the emergency room, and doctors told them that she had a high heart rate, low blood pressure and a low temperature. They gave her anti-nausea medication and something to help her sleep, her mother said. About 12 hours later, the hospital called McQuestion's parents and told them she had taken a turn for the worse. "They told us sepsis had set in, and it was too late," her mother said, adding that McQuestion had suffered a heart attack. "By that time, all her organs had begun to fail. There was nothing they could do." | |
Comment: The flu shot not only doesn't work, but it can increase your chances of dying if you do get sick. Why in the world would anyone get a flu shot with that in mind?
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Martin U. Muller
International Herald Tribune 2015-01-17 00:00:00
A new cluster of start-ups in Germany is seeking to exploit the digital revolution that is gripping the medical sector. In the future, we are likely to use apps that can measure our heartbeat or analyze potential skin conditions to augment normal healthcare. With recent advances in technology, visits by patients to Germany's well provisioned physical therapy centers may soon become a thing of the past. Instead, they may find themselves completing their therapy at home - in front of their televisions. The respected Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin has developed MyRehab, a form of physical therapy that enables patients to conduct their exercises at home. The system uses a special camera, a television and sensors built into a chest strap. An avatar leads the patient through the exercises and cameras and sensors monitor whether the patient has completed them correctly. The platform even makes it possible for a doctor or physical therapist to communicate with the patient using a live Internet video connection. MyRehab is just one example of what many believe will be the next Internet revolution: the digitalization of healthcare. After smartphones transformed the ways in which we communicate, move and shop, medicine appears to be next. Internet giants like Google are currently preparing to make large investments in the sector. In the United States alone, some $3.5 billion ($4.38 billion) is expected to be invested this year in healthcare-related start-ups. The market is no longer limited to gimmicky items like health wristbands or Bluetooth-connected tooth brushes. New applications are focusing on real medical care, from giving birth to treating cancer. Comment: "real medical care" Really? There are numerous examples in Germany of companies taking advantage of the surge in information technology, particularly the rapid proliferation of smartphones, to explore the opportunities in what many believe will become a fast-growing sector. | |
Comment: "APP-endectomy" is the word that comes to mind!
What we have is one more way to remove folks from any real life experience and radiate them all at the same time. Imagine the daily increasing data file you might have in Cloud and who or what has the ability to instantaneously access your "private" medical information. Then imagine the reasons someone might want it. How about the data mining of and conclusions from skewed diagnoses, for the lack proper and informed interpretations or reliability, due to increasing doctor phase out? How soon will doctors rely on this data as well? Maybe now? App drug dosages next? Will app companies ensure that medical knowledge, prescriptive measures and data processing come from valid and credible sources, and how will they know? Who will deal with incidences of further impaired health or death due to misinformation or malfunction? (Oh, of course...lots of lawyers.) And, how soon will all this be mandatory... We are currently in a health-care vice grip. The U.S. oligarchy, of wealthy special interests such as the health-care industry, make a fortune off of worthless drugs and treatments. How better to distance themselves from the consequences, while making billions, and stick it to the unsuspecting populace one more time! Apparently there's an app for that! | |
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Dr. David Perlmutter
davidperlmuttermd 2015-01-18 17:38:00
Think of it. For just the past 3 decades we have somehow become convinced that dietary fat represented a threat to our health. Mind you, fat has been a critical macronutrient for humans and our forebears for at least 2 million years. But suddenly, fat became responsible for every health woe you could think of. Fortunately, science and common sense now prevail and this ridiculous aberration in human nutrition has been corrected. Welcome fat back to the table. It's good for the heart, brain, immune system and just about every aspect of human physiology you consider. And as it specifically relates to dementia, new researchclearly shows us that individuals eating more of the "dreaded" fat actually have a substantial risk reduction for becoming demented while those with diets favoring carbohydrates the risk for dementia dramatically increased. Debates about what we should be eating are often carried out from positions based on emotion. I believe we should place greater value on the published science coming to us from our most respected institutions.
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Comment: See also Gettin Keto: Why we must dump grains, eat more fat! - Dr. Perlmutter
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BBC News
2014-11-21 21:05:00
Finnish students will no longer be taught handwriting at school, with typing lessons taking its place, it's reported. Learning joined-up writing, often in fountain pen in the UK, is almost a rite of passage for primary school students. But Finland is moving into the digital age by ditching the ink in favour of keyboards, the Savon Sanomat newspaper reports. From autumn 2016, students won't have to learn cursive handwriting or calligraphy, but will instead be taught typing skills, the report says. "Fluent typing skills are an important national competence," says Minna Harmanen from the National Board of Education. The switch will be a major cultural change, Ms Harmanen says, but typing is more relevant to everyday life. | |
Comment: Another unfortunate sign of ongoing degradation of creative and critical thinking faculties among the world population. Handwriting is one of the most important skills that any child should have a proper grasp on. Read the following articles to learn more:
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Following an insensitive tweet from Rupert Murdoch about Muslims, Jason Jones, Jessica Williams and Hasan Minhaj condemn those responsible for the Charlie Hebdo attack.2015-01-14 16:55:00
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Comment: Islamophobia is on the rise in France and there are reports of violence against minority Muslims after the attacks. This segment is in response to those events. John Stewart has lot offollowers:
Sometimes, comedy is the only way to convey the truth to a hysterical and fickle population.
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Simon Keegan
Daily Mirror, UK 2015-01-18 19:30:00
When he phones home, E.T. might be making a trunk call as the beloved alien is spotted deep inside a spooky Scottish tree Scotland now has a mysterious phenomena to rival the Loch Ness Monster as E.T has been sighted in a tree trunk. The movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was released by Steven Spielberg in 1982 and surpassed Star Wars to become the highest grossing film of all time. The lovable alien, known as E.T., entered the hearts of movie-goers around the world - but now he has also entered a tree in Scotland. Hotel owner Billy Harley, who runs the Uig Hotel on the Isle of Skye, found the amazing image of the wrinkly alien inside the trunk of a tree he was chopping to make firewood. |
