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Sott.net 2015-01-07 21:38:00
Mother Nature was apparently determined to see out 2014 with a bang, ramping up the extreme weather and Earth Changes in December. Snowstorms buried cities in Russia's Far east and Northeastern China, where a waterfall on the Yellow River partially froze. Japan was hit with record-breaking snowfall for the second time in a year, while a deep freeze in Northern India claimed at least 150 lives. A week of non-stop electrical storms brought hail, flooding and widespread damage to Sydney, Australia, while a huge sinkhole swallowed three cars in Melbourne. Fish and whales continue to turn up dead in large numbers on coastlines and in freshwater lakes and rivers, thanks in part to increased volcanic activity, demonstrated above ground in December via eruptions in Indonesia, Mexico, Iceland, Cape Verde, Hawaii and Japan. Drought-stricken Sao Paulo was inundated with rain, turning streets into rivers. Waterspouts appeared in Australia and the Mediterranean, a tornado hit downtown LA for the first time in decades, while another 'unseasonal' tornado outbreak in the U.S. South killed 5 and left dozens homeless. The "worst flooding in decades" hit Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia and Sri Lanka, where some quarter million people had to evacuate their homes. A trail of storms pummelled the US West Coast, with landslides, mudslides, blizzards, and flash-flooding washing away homes and roads. Across the Atlantic, a so-called 'weather bomb' hit the UK and Ireland, bringing monster waves and hurricane-force winds. This was followed by a big freeze that brought blizzards to Western Europe, the Balkans and the Mediterranean, where Malta received its first snow in over a half-century. Spectacular meteor fireballs were filmed over Puerto Rico, Brazil, the US, Canada, Spain, and Japan. So-called 'mystery' booms shook homes in communities from the US to the UK. An incredible UFO sighting in Santiago, Chile, and the appearance of a bright glowing 'plasma light' over Lima, Peru rang in the New Year. Buckle up for 2015; it's gonna be 'interesting'!
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Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer Report 2015-01-07 22:47:00
France, as part of a NATO-led coalition, has been arming, funding, aiding, and otherwise perpetuating Al Qaeda terrorists for years, beginning, on record in Libya with the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and continuing until today with NATO's arming, harboring, and backing of Al Qaeda terrorists including the so-called "Islamic State" (ISIS) within and along Syria's borders. With the recent attack in Paris likely the work of the very terrorists France has been arming and backing across North Africa and the Middle East, the French government itself stands responsible, guilty of the continued material support of a terrorist organization that has now killed French citizens, including two police officers, not only on French soil, but within the French capital itself.
In the New York Times article, "Terror Attack on Charlie Hebdo Newspaper in Paris Kills 12," it was reported that: Masked gunmen with automatic weapons opened fire in the offices of a French satirical newspaper on Wednesday in Paris, the police said, killing 12 people and then escaping in a car.President François Hollande said the attack on the weekly, Charlie Hebdo, was "without a doubt" an act of terrorism and raised the nationwide terror alert to its highest status. He said that several terrorist attacks had been thwarted in recent weeks. However, despite Hollande's feigned concern and outrage over the attack, it was the French government who had advocated and presided over the arming of terrorist groups across the Arab World in the West's bid to overthrow nation after nation and reorder the entire region according to their own geopolitical and economic interests starting with the "Arab Spring" in 2011. The Washington Post would report in 2011 in an article titled, "France sent arms to Libyan rebels," that: French officials announced Wednesday that they had armed rebels in Libya, marking the first time a NATO country has said it was providing direct military aid to opponents of the government in a conflict that has lasted longer than many policymakers expected.While Hollande's predecessor, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy would be the one to set foot in decimated Libya in the wake of NATO's intervention there - which included in addition to French arms sent to terrorists, French planes providing these terrorists air cover as they carried out atrocities and genocide - Hollande would continue policies enacted under Sarkozy, both in Libya, and currently in Syria. | ||
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Ante Sarlija
Sott.net 2015-01-07 14:17:00
In light of growing civilian casualties in the U.S.-led invasion of Syria, U.S. Central Command has started an investigation into reports of civilian deaths. According to the spokesman for the Union of Syrian Medical Relief Organisations (UOSSM), between 30 to 60 people are dying each day since the U.S-led coalition started bombing Syria. Boasting about the precision of airstrikes, the top commander of the coalition 'fighting' the Islamic State, Lieutenant General James Terry, claims that: "We have some great capability in terms of precision," and "To date, we've got a very good record." Further claiming that "we took the utmost care about who we are targeting." | |
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Andy Vitalicio
China Topix 2014-08-18 20:32:00
French police are investigating a possible inside job after heavily armed men attacked a convoy of cars belonging to a Saudi Arabian prince, and stole cash amounting to 250,000 euros (US$330,000). The prince, who was not immediately identified, was in a convoy of several vehicles headed to the Le Bourget airport from the Saudi embassy in Paris late Sunday, when it was attacked by men who were described as moving like "commandos." Armed with Kalashnikov rifles and using two vehicles, about eight men targeted a Mercedes mini-van in the convoy at around 9:15 p.m. (1915 GMT), pointing their guns at the driver and forcing him to stop. The whole convoy stopped by the wayside when the armed men stopped the mini-van. The men then drove the mini-van with the driver and two passengers inside, leaving the other vehicles behind. French media reported that no shots were fired, and the Saudis were later released a short distance away from the northern ring at Porte de la Chapelle on the edge of the city. | |
Comment: It's possible the theft of the money was meant to be a distraction from the theft of 'sensitive papers'. It's certainly downplayed in this article. Given the Saudi's penchant for being in the background of much of the trouble in the Middle East and elsewhere, those papers might be very interesting.
Update 7 January 2015 Not a single update or follow-up to the above incident event has been reported by any media. Incidentally, today, January 7th 2015, an attack was carried out in Paris by a gang of Kalashnikov-firing, commando-looking men. Are the same "insiders" involved? | |
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John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute 2015-01-07 18:53:00
If ever Americans sell their birthright, it will be for the promise of expediency and comfort delivered by way of blazingly fast Internet, cell phone signals that never drop a call, thermostats that keep us at the perfect temperature without our having to raise a finger, and entertainment that can be simultaneously streamed to our TVs, tablets and cell phones. Likewise, if ever we find ourselves in bondage, we will have only ourselves to blame for having forged the chains through our own lassitude, laziness and abject reliance on internet-connected gadgets and gizmos that render us wholly irrelevant. Indeed, while most of us are consumed with our selfies and trying to keep up with what our so-called friends are posting on Facebook, the megacorporation Google has been busily partnering with theNational Security Agency (NSA), the Pentagon, and other governmental agencies to develop a new "human" species, so to speak. In other words, Google - a neural network that approximates a global brain - is fusing with the human mind in a phenomenon that is called "singularity," and they've hired transhumanist scientist Ray Kurzweil to do just that. Google will know the answer to your question before you have asked it, Kurzweil said. "It will have read every email you will ever have written, every document, every idle thought you've ever tapped into a search-engine box. It will know you better than your intimate partner does. Better, perhaps, than even yourself." But here's the catch: the NSA and all other government agencies will also know you better than yourself. As William Binney, one of the highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge from the NSA said, "The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control." Science fiction, thus, has become fact. | |
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Ray McGovern
Consortium News 2015-01-03 00:00:00
Exclusive: Heading into the last quarter of his presidency, Barack Obama must decide whether he will let the neocons keep pulling his strings or finally break loose and pursue a realistic foreign policy seeking practical solutions to world problems, including the crisis with Russia over Ukraine, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. The year 2015 will surely mark a watershed in relations between the United States and Russia, one way or the other. However, whether tensions increase - to war-by-proxy in Ukraine or an even wider war - or whether they subside depends mostly on President Barack Obama. Key to answering this question is a second one: Is Obama smart enough and strong enough to rein in Secretary of State John Kerry, the neocons and "liberal interventionists" running the State Department and to stand up to the chicken hawks in Congress, most of whom feel free to flirt with war because they know nothing of it. Comment: If past is prelude, then we have to say no. Obama is not smart enough, nor strong enough (and this seems like a silly question coming from a former CIA analyst who should know better about how things really work in Washington). Since Obama himself is mostly a puppet doing the bidding of the military industrial complex, the banking elite, and other 'interested' parties, a better question then may be: Are the people who tell Obama what to do, say, and think - sane enough to avert world-wide catastrophe by putting a stop to their objectives and modes of operation? And I think we know the answer to that one, though McGovern does break some of it down for us here. Russian President Vladimir Putin, by contrast, experienced the effects of war at an early age. He was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) eight years after the vicious siege by the German army ended. Michael Walzer, in his War Against Civilians, notes, "More people died in the 900-day siege of Leningrad than in the infernos of Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki taken together." Putin's elder brother Viktor died during the siege. The experience of Putin's youth is, of course, embedded in his consciousness. This may help to account for why he tends to be short on the kind of daredevil bluster regularly heard from senior Western officials these days - many of whom are ignorant both of suffering from war and the complicated history of Ukraine. | |
Comment: If the office of the U.S. Presidency wasn't so controlled and manipulated a seat of power, if the individuals elected to it weren't so ponerized by the career of psychopaths who wield so much influence on it, and if there weren't so many powerful groups and individuals who one had to yield to and comprise with to reach this station, then McGovern may have a point or two that might help diffuse the impending disaster. And this assumes that the President elect even has the insight and will to rule in good faith.
That's a lot of ifs. Individuals like Kerry, Nuland and their neocon family are just symptoms of a much bigger problem, and are only a few of the names of the people who really call the shots, or try to. But whoever those are who are driving the U.S. down this genocidal road of "conquest," it will be damned interesting, and terrifying, to witness the future moves and countermoves of the forces being discussed here. We are simply witnessing History in the making. And the stakes are huge. | |
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Washingtons Blog
2015-01-06 17:40:00
Many Civilians Are Being Killed By Drones Law school teacher Marjorie Cohn - president of the National Lawyers Guild - writes: She may be right ... The Council on Foreign Relations estimates that U.S. drone strikes outside of Iraq and Afghanistan have killed 3,674 people. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports that up to 4,404 people have been killed - just in Pakistan and Yemen alone - between 2004 and 2014. While it's hard to estimate how many additional people have been killed by drone in Iraq and Afghanistan, a December 2012 report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism found that US and UK forces had carried out over 1,000 drone strikes in Afghanistan over the previous five years. Given that numerous people are often killed by each drone strike, it is reasonable to assume that several thousand people have been killed by drone in that country. And many Iraqis have also been killed by drones ... long before ISIS even appeared on the scene. So - altogether - the number of people killed by drone is probably well above five thousand. In contrast, under 3,000 people were killed on 9/11. But aren't drone strikes targeted attacks on terrorists ... unlike 9/11, which was an attack on civilians? Unfortunately, no ... | |
Comment: Three thousand people dying on 9/11 does not warrant the completely fascist world we are living in today.What happened on 9/11 does not justify torture, the suffering and wholesale murder of innocent people, or the loss of our freedoms via the Gestapo police state. Unfortunately, it will get worse - in a pathocracy, there is no place to go but down.
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Colin Todhunter
RINF 2015-01-07 16:25:00
The UK government and its associated bureaucracy is colluding with powerful global agritech corporations to get genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into Britain. Politicians and officials whose views of GMOs are based on ignorance or whose statements are distorted as a result of their conflicts of interest have been spearheading this campaign. Government departments, academics and industry lobby and media bodies are working to push a pro-GM agenda and weaken regulations regarding GMOs and are engaged in a public relations campaign in an attempt to win over a skeptical public. | |
Comment: This is just another sign that democracy does not exists. Governments, in conjunction with big business, will do what they want despite the will of the people.
See also: All eyes on Hawaii: Ban GMO's; don't settle for labeling Depopulation Corn: The forgotten element in the GMO debate A letter from America: Living with GMOs | |
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RT.com
2015-01-05 02:44:00
It may become a "duty" of nurseries and elementary schools in the UK to track and report any child that shows signs of sympathy with terrorists or is a risk of potential radicalization, according to the government's plans aimed at preventing extremism. A consultation document by the Home Office on ways to enhance the UK's anti-terrorism system, the so-called "Prevent" strategy, calls for senior management and governors to "assess the risk of pupils being drawn into terrorism," manifested through youths' extremist ideas that may breed terrorist ideology. | |
Comment: Outrageous! Sowing the seeds of mistrust, division, alienation is just what the Prevent strategy is designed to do. These nurseries are being used to instill fear in toddlers and potentially program them into becoming informants under the guise of protecting them. Don't buy it folks.
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Wayne Madsen
Strategic Culture Foundation 2015-12-30 17:55:00
The recent appointment of the austerity-loving U.S. citizen and investment firm chief Natalie Jaresko as Ukraine's Finance Minister continues a trend that has seen one Eastern European country after another appointing or electing U.S. citizens as major government officials. Jaresko had Ukrainian citizenship conferred on her by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko as she arrived in Kiev to take up her new post in the government of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, himself a former legal U.S. resident who has been linked to the crypto-Satanic Church of Scientology. Jaresko is involved in contentious asset redistribution court battles with her ex-husband, Ihor Figlus. Together, the two managed the Kiev-based Horizon Capital, established 20 years ago with a $150 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Horizon Capital operated the Emerging Europe Growth Fund, a group charged with illegal insider trading of Ukrainian securities. According to court divorce documents, Horizon Capital bought Ukrainian artwork, Georgian carpets, expensive cars, and antique furniture, all of which are now subject to the battle for ownership between Jaresko and Figlus. Jaresko also managed the USAID-financed Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF), a CIA contrivance that steered U.S. investment dollars into "pro-democracy" movements in Moldova and Belarus and laundered much of the $5 billion in U.S. aid for the Maidan Square coup in Kiev that ousted President Viktor Yanukovych. Jaresko's arrival in Kiev was shortly followed by that of former Reno, Nevada assistant police chief Ron Glensor,who became an official adviser to the Ukrainian police with an initial posting at the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Khmelnytsky region. Glensor has been very active with the U.S. Department of Justice's International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP). Glensor is also a former fellow of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) in Washington, D.C. In August 1999, The Progressive magazine reported that, "Janice Stromsen, a career employee of the Justice Department who served as ICITAP's director, resisted the program's takeover by CIA elements. In February [1999], Stromsen was relieved of her duties after complaining to the Justice Department Inspector General that ICITAP was being used by the CIA to recruit agents among foreign police officials." | |
Comment: Control and subversion is the way of 'Merican 'freedom and democracy'. The little people (to include whole countries) can't possibly be left to their own devices to make choices for themselves. We've seen time and time again what happens to foreign leaders when they attempt to work in favor of their country's sovereignty. Deposing these leaders through outright murder or by discrediting them via propaganda is the way of the pathocracy. However, the lies may have a tipping point, and it may ultimately be the psychopaths themselves who are their own undoing.
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Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post 2015-01-06 14:00:00
As the "convenient" and "accidental" airdrops of weapons and supplies by the US and NATO into the hands of ISIS and al-Qaeda jihadists fighting inside both Syria and Iraq begin to draw more attention throughout largely alternative media outlets, such convenient mistakes are also being questioned by national governments, particularly those who may be in the crosshairs of NATO in the very near future. Individuals who have come to question the nature of the allegedly accidental air drops are legion, but one of the more recent and high profile skeptics is the Commander of Iran's Basij Force, Brigadier General Mohammed Reza Naqdi. In an address to a group of Basij forces on January 5, Naqdi stated that "The US directly supports the ISIL in Iraq and the US planes drop the needed aids and weapons for ISIL in Iraq ..." In addition, he stated that the US Embassy in Baghdad is the command center for ISIL and other "takfiri" militants. Indeed, while the United States military portrays the receipt of weapons and supplies by ISIS as entirely accidental, Naqdi presents the situation as quite the opposite. Contradicting the propaganda and stated aims of the US military, Naqdi stated that the Iraqi forces have managed to retrieve aid that was actually intended for ISIS fighters, not the other way around. Naqdi, however, is merely the latest official in the region who has suggested that the U.S. "assault" on ISIS is half-hearted at best. Iraqi Member of Parliament Majid al-Gharawi recently stated that all information available "pointed out that US planes are supplying ISIL organization, not only in Salahuddin province, but also other provinces," according to Iraq TradeLink. He also stated that the United States is "not serious in fighting against the ISIL organization, because they have the technological power to determine the presence of ISIL gunmen and destroy them in one month [but have not done so]." | |
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worldbulletin.net
2015-01-07 13:03:00
Eleven people were killed and 10 people wounded, five of them seriously, in the shooting in eastern Paris Eleven people were killed and 10 injured in shooting at the Paris offices of the satirical weeklyCharlie Hebdo, already the target of a firebombing in 2011 after publishing cartoons deriding Islam's Prophet Mohammad on its cover, police spokesman said. Five of the injured were in a critical condition, said the spokesman. Separately, the government said it was raising France's national security level to the highest notch. French TV channel iTELE quoted a witness as saying he saw the incident from a building nearby in the heart of the French capital. | |
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Sarah Lazare
'There is only talk of extremism and Islamic State, but not the women and children who are killed, the bodies torn apart, the stomachs blown open, which is what doctors are dealing with each day.'Common Dreams 2015-01-06 10:55:00
The United States has entered the new year pledging to lead a war on ISIS for "as long as it takes to prevail." But what of the Syrian civilians whose lives have been upended by years of conflict andwhose plight is used, in part, to justify U.S.-led military intervention? Comment: Create a humanitarian crisis, decry the lack of 'freedom' within the targeted nation and begin overthrowing the government, that's the U.S. modus operandi. According to a group of Syrian doctors and aid workers, ordinary people are being neglected by the international community. "Between 30 to 60 people are dying each day since the bombings started," said Tawfik Shamaa, spokesperson for the Union of Syrian Medical Relief Organizations (UOSSM), an association of 14 non-governmental organizations that provide aid to regions of the Levant, including besieged areas of Syria. The organization met on Monday with officials of France - whose government, a participant in the U.S.-led war, provides a majority of the group's funds, according to Reuters. "There is only talk of extremism and Islamic State, but not the women and children who are killed, the bodies torn apart, the stomachs blown open, which is what doctors are dealing with each day," Shamaa continued. The statements come amid grim warnings from United Nations officials about the crisis of civilian displacement. Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, declared at an annual meeting of Turkey's ambassadors in Ankara on Tuesday, "The Syria and Iraq mega-crises, the multiplication of new crises and the old crises that seem never to die have created the worst displacement situation in the world since World War II." "This is a world where conflicts multiply and the old ones are not solved and the result is, of course, a dramatic impact from the humanitarian point of view," Guterres added. The United Nations announced in November 2014 that at least 13.6 million people have been displaced by the wars in Iraq and Syria - a number that has since risen during an especially violent time for both countries. | |
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Al Arabiya News
2015-01-06 10:13:00
Syria has complained to the United Nations after U.S. Republican Senator John McCain, former French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner and other prominent figures reportedly entered the country without visas, with that violating its sovereignty. Syria's U.N. ambassador Bashar Jaafari called on U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the 15-member Security Council to take "the necessary measures against their nationals who enter Syrian territory illegally." McCain paid a surprise visit to Syria in May 2013, meeting with rebels after crossing the border from Turkey. Jaafari said the Republican Senator met with leaders of the al-Nusra Front, which the Security Council has branded a terrorist organization. Kouchner traveled to Kurdish areas in northern Syria in November last year. Another U.S. diplomat, David Galbraith, visited Syria in December, and a former Kuwaiti lawmaker, Walid al-Tabtaba'i, was cited for his 2013 trip in Jaafari's letter, according to AFP. Galbraith was accompanied by three U.S. political and military officials during his visit last month while Walid al-Tabtaba'i brought money and weapons to the rebels, and took part in combat in September 2013, the envoy said. "Such actions are a blatant violation of Syria's sovereignty and the resolutions of the Security Council concerning Syria," wrote Jaafari in the letter dated December 24. McCain dismissed the Syrian complaint while berating the international community for not acting to oust the Assad regime. "It is a sad but unsurprising truth that the Assad regime is less concerned with its massacre of more than 200,000 men, women and children than it is my visit with those brave Syrians fighting for their freedom and dignity," McCain said in a statement. Comment: There you have it, McCain refers to ISIS and other terror groups the U.S. unleashed in Syria as fighters for 'freedom and dignity' while at the same time claiming that the U.S. needs to deploy ground troops in order to defeat ISIS. What better proof that their 'anti-ISIS coalition' is a pure publicity stunt. Below is a photo of McCain meeting with terrorists and the current 'leader' of ISIS.
"The fact that the international community has done virtually nothing to bring down this terrible regime despite its atrocities is a stain on our collective moral conscience." | ||
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Joachim Hagopian
Global Research 2015-01-06 03:50:00
With 2014 fresh in our rear view mirror, an honest examination of events and developments of what's been happening in America to whistleblowers and journalists since 9/11 under the Bush-Obama regime seems a worthwhile review, however disturbing ands foreboding. By definition a whistleblower is an individual who reports an employer's misconduct. The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 (WPA) is a law that protectsfederal government employees in the United States from retaliatory action for voluntarily disclosing information about dishonest or illegal activities occurring within a government organization. Yet despite these supposed legal protections in place, those who have gone public disclosing illicit and immoral behavior by the federal government have been consistently singled out for discrimination and excessive punishment. In fact, more American citizens have been indicted for allegedly violating the Espionage Act of 1917 under the current president than all other previous presidents combined. Though the law was designed to punish WWI German spies, and rarely used since for indicting those selling secrets to the enemy or efforts to undermine the American way of life, it is completely obsolete. Yet it is being misused by Obama for purely political purposes to shut down the truth. The Obama administration has also turned down more Freedom of Information Act requests than any other prior presidency with each year the denial rate rising. 2013 was 57% more than the year before, with over half the total requests rejected. Of course Obama's mantra excuse is always using the "national security" card. He has also jailed more whistleblowers and journalists than any other president. By his over the top, punitive methods, Obama has declared war on the first amendment right to a free press in America, threatening, harassing, indicting and imprisoning those brave enough to speak the truth, accusing them of treason when the president through his administration has repeatedly violated the very Constitution that he has sworn to protect and uphold as the so called leader of the free world. His malevolent attack on free speech is even more incriminating and inexcusable as a Harvard educated lawyer who once taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. With their war policies both domestic and abroad one and the same, Obama has carried the totalitarian torch handed him by the Bush-Cheney administration making the United States the world's worst human rights violator. But then they're all cast from the same psychopathic mold as mere public front men simply following orders from their oligarch puppet masters who own and control them along with virtually everything else on this planet. Comment: The author is absolutely correct, and his words totally align with what we here at SOTT have been saying for years. People like Obama, Cheney, and Bush are the puppets from which the real psychopathic controllers exert their will and power. The people who think that the President of the U.S.A. is the most powerful person on earth do not understand that the position is there for show. It's all theater for the masses to consume. The man who after the Bush nightmare exploited Americans' desperate need for hope and change campaigned on false promises that his administration would be far more open and transparent than his war criminal predecessor, pledging to be the most open and honest in US history. Instead Obama has only proven to be the most guarded, vindictive and secretive president in US history. With three quarters of Obama's two term reign of terror completed, let's look at the lives of a handful of Americans who have bravely spoken out since 9/11, some known and some lesser known. At great danger to themselves these individuals have exercised their legal rights under the Whistleblower Act and/or First Amendment and paid dearly for only doing the right thing. Their courage to expose government waste, corruption, fraud and its diabolical wrongdoing has been met with blatant retribution and extreme punishment that has systematically resulted in their unlawful firing, false imprisonment, character and career assassination and indeed even their political assassination and murder, all for standing up to injustice and wrongdoing for the greater good of Americans and humanity. These brave and honest individuals working in our government and in journalism should be heralded as our national heroes for their bold truth speaking, not silenced, harmed and/or destroyed by our own criminally treasonous rogue government. | |
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Travis Gettys
Rawstory 2015-01-07 12:11:00
A former cop-turned-evangelical pastor was arrested last week on dozens of sex crime charges. James Worley, senior pastor at Powell Valley Church in Oregon, was arrested Dec. 30 on 37 counts - including two counts of rape, 20 counts of sexual abuse, 11 counts of sodomy, one count of attempted sodomy and three counts of using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct. An indictment filed Dec. 16 showed the alleged abuse took place between 2002 and 2004, when the victims were under the ages of 12 and 14 years old, reported KATU-TV. Prosecutors said they don't believe Worley was a pastor at the time of the abuse, although they believe there are additional victims. Worley was fired from the Tillamook, Oregon, Police Department in 2007 for ongoing misconduct - including unethical citation writing, destroying marijuana evidence in the field, excessive Internet use while on duty, creating sexually explicit advertisements, and making unwanted sexual advances to a woman at a 911 dispatch center. He complained to city officials that he had been poorly trained and that supervisors never told him what he was doing wrong, the station reported. Worley is active on social media and maintaining Pastor Jamie's Blog. | |
Comment: Sexual predators often take positions where they have easy access to children. The best protection we have for our children is to educate ourselves and them, so they will have a better understanding of how these predators operate and learn how to spot them.
From Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders, Who They Are, How They Operate, and How We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children by Dr. Anna Salter: See also: SOTT Talk Radio: Predators Among Us - Interview With Dr. Anna Salter | |
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David Edwards
Rawstory 2015-01-07 09:09:00
A New York family has been left homeless after law enforcement agencies effectively destroyed their entire house in the process of serving a warrant for a DUI. The Ithaca Journal reported this week that 36-year-old David M. Cady Jr. had died after being barricaded in his home for three days. After Cady missed court dates for a DUI over the summer, a warrant had been issued, and the Tompkins County Sheriff Ken Lansing said that the suspect was convinced that he would go to jail. Authorities said that they had reason to believe that Cady had been traveling to Pennsylvania to purchase ammunition so he would be ready when deputies arrived. Deputies attempted to serve the warrant at around 7 p.m. on Dec. 30, which led to a three day standoff with Cady. Autopsy results later indicated that Cady died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The suspect's wife, Melissa, and two sons were not harmed. Video that began circulating on Tuesday showed the damage caused to the Cady home when the18 law enforcement agencies decided to go in after the suspect. Comment: 18 agencies for a DUI?! The home, which easily could be mistaken for one that had been destroyed by a tornado, appears to have no external walls intact in the video. Some walls are only partially missing, while others are completely gone. The yard is scattered with shards of wood, windows, insulation and family belonging. Inside the home, food can still be seen sitting on the stove, but the kitchen and most of the other rooms are open to the outside elements. Up to 150 law enforcement and emergency personnel reportedly participated in the operation. Comment: Only in a police state would 150 people be needed to execute a warrant for a DUI. In a statement on Tuesday, the Tompkins County Sheriff's Department said little about the damage to the house. "Eventually, law enforcement knew and anticipated needing to enter the residence, in order to take the subject into custody," the statement insisted. "Based upon the information being developed through interviews and practices used by other agencies in the past, it became necessary to breech part of the outside area of the house to ensure the safety of all involved." Comment: The video shows wholesale destruction of the Cady home, not a 'breech' in a 'part' of the home. What B.S.! | |
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After a brief holiday respite, Dalhousie University must try -- again -- to reset a raveled, roiling mess that may have initially focused on a secret Facebook group but has now morphed into broader, thornier and out-of-the-university's- It will not be easy. Last month, news reports a group of fourth-year dental students had created a private Facebook group known as the "Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen," and were posting comments promoting raping and drugging fellow female students exploded like a cluster bomb over the campus. The university postponed fourth-year dentistry exams and delayed this week's reopening of a student-serviced dental clinic (though insisting there was "no public safety issue") while officials dealt with the crisis. A tearful President Richard Florizone reported he had met with targeted women and they had agreed to participate in a restorative justice process with their male colleagues. "The process is confidential, so a safe space can be created for the parties to explore the impacts, to address accountability and to forge constructive, meaningful outcomes." | |
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Andre Damon
World Socialist Web Site 2015-01-06 17:32:00
As the New Year begins, the social crisis gripping tens of millions of working people in the United States is worsening. Hunger, poverty and long-term joblessness remain at the highest levels in decades, while vital social services continue to be slashed. One would never know this from reading the press, watching the evening news, or listening to the statements of politicians. The official discourse is dominated by the supposed revival of the American economy, characterized by record corporate profits and stock prices. The fact that the great majority of the population finds it increasingly difficult to make ends meet finds no reflection in the media or official politics. The incoming Republican-dominated Congress, working with the Obama administration, will focus on cutting corporate taxes and business regulations, planning new wars, and expanding the repressive apparatus of the state. No representative of the political establishment, including the supposedly outspoken liberal Elizabeth Warren and the "independent socialist" Bernie Sanders, is proposing any significant measures to address the deepening social crisis. | |
Comment: We should all be optimistic that this social chaos will come to a head and burst. It won't be easy, but the loss of the psychopathic "American Dream" will make life better for the rest of the world. From Dmitry Orlov's article "2015: Should we be optimistic?":
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Stephen Krcmar
GrindTV 2015-01-06 00:54:00
Three friends helped save a moose in an avi-prone area of Alaska When three snowmobilers were recently cruising through Hatcher Pass, just 55 miles northeast of Anchorage, Alaska, they were surprised to discover moaning and groaning coming from someavalanche debris as well as the snout of a moose. As the moose was still expelling air, the crew stopped their sleds and began their rescue attempt. "There was just enough of its snout sticking above the snow that it could breathe," said one of the snowmobilers, Marty Mobley, to the Alaska Dispatch News. Two men dug for about 10 minutes while the other kept an eye out for another avalanche. After clearing snow from about 75 percent of the animal, the men saw what they believed was a young cow that wasn't moving much. They were worried the moose was injured due to the slide that traveled more than 1,500 feet. So one of the men used his shovel to give the moose's hindquarters a gentle nudge. "It stood right up and towered over us, because we were in kind of a hole from the digging," Mobley said. "It looked like the abominable snowman because its fur was so packed with snow, and it looked at us, shook the snow off it, and off it went." As it ran, it appeared to be uninjured, according to Mobley. | |
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My Fox Tampa Bay
A couple is charged with a crime that Lakeland Assistant Police Chief Mike Link said is one of the worst he's seen in his 30-year police career.2015-01-06 21:58:00
The shocking developments were announced Tuesday at a press conference in Lakeland, where detectives said the duo is charged with murder in the death of an infant child. The 22-day-old baby, Betsey Kee Stephens, was found dead in the couple's custody after detectives say she starved to death. Ruby, 23, and Roy Stephens, 48, told police they had just arrived in town from Indiana and checked into their motel when they discovered something was wrong. They said baby Betsey's feet were cold, so they covered them with a blanket and then got into the car to go to dinner. After arriving at the Golden Corral restaurant on U.S. Highway 98, they said they noticed Betsey was unresponsive, so they called 911. The investigation has since revealed that Betsey had been dead for more than three hours before anyone called emergency officials. Comment: They planned to fill their stomachs with food while their child died of starvation. These creatures are not human, but they are also not animals, because no animal mother would deny her child food. Read the following article to understand the nature of these monsters. Police Tuesday said pictures from the scene are unsettling. | |
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Rossella Lorenzi
Discovery News 2015-01-06 18:00:00
Gleaming cast metal called orichalcum, which was said by Ancient Greeks to be found in Atlantis, have been recovered from a shipwreck that sunk 2,600 years ago off the coast of Sicily. The lumps of metal were arriving to Gela in southern Sicily, possibly coming from Greece or Asia Minor. The ship that was carrying them was likely caught in a storm and sunk just when it was about to enter the port. "The wreck dates to the first half of the sixth century," Sebastiano Tusa, Sicily's superintendent of the Sea Office, told Discovery News. "It was found about 1,000 feet from Gela's coast at a depth of 10 feet." He noted that the 39 ingots found on the sandy sea floor represent a unique finding. "Nothing similar has ever been found," Tusa said. "We knew orichalcum from ancient texts and a few ornamental objects." Indeed orichalcum has long been considered a mysterious metal, its composition and origin widely debated. According to the ancient Greeks, it was invented by Cadmus, a Greek-Phoenician mythological character. The fourth century B.C. Greek philosopher Plato made orichalcum a legendary metal when he mentioned it in the Critias dialogue. | |
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Phys.org
2015-01-06 10:47:00
Astronomers have observed the largest X-ray flare ever detected from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This event, detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, raises questions about the behavior of this giant black hole and its surrounding environment. The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, called Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, is estimated to contain about 4.5 million times the mass of our sun. Astronomers made the unexpected discovery while using Chandra to observe how Sgr A* would react to a nearby cloud of gas known as G2. "Unfortunately, the G2 gas cloud didn't produce the fireworks we were hoping for when it got close to Sgr A*," said lead researcher Daryl Haggard of Amherst College in Massachusetts. "However,nature often surprises us and we saw something else that was really exciting." | |
Comment: To help better "understand the physics" and obtain more information on the winning Electric Universe theory,
Read: Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection. Or listen to: SOTT Talk Radio: The Electric Universe - An interview with Wallace Thornhill | |
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Luke Funk
MyFoxNY 2015-01-07 11:28:00
The Space Weather Prediction Center issued a warning for a large geomagnetic storm on Wednesday morning. The NOAA organization said the primary areas that would be affected would be in the northern portion of the northern hemisphere. Some of the storm's potential effects were power system voltage irregularities, possible false alarms triggered on security systems, and problems with GPS systems. The storm could also impact spacecraft and cause orientation problems in satellites. The warning also said that the storm could push the area where the Aurora could be seen as far south as Pennsylvania to Iowa to Oregon. The main intensity of the storm was supposed to have affected the planet just before 6:30 a.m. but the storm was reported to still be in progress at 9 a.m. The storm was listed as a G3 on the NOAA storm scale, which is considered large, but not the most severe. | |
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The Extinction Protocol
2015-01-07 21:24:00
The volcano erupted this morning at 02:45 local time with a strong explosion from the summit lava dome. It sent an 6 km tall ash column to approx. 26,000 ft (8,5 km) altitude. The eruption followed an increase in seismic activity in December, when so-called "drumbeat" earthquakes appeared - a type of volcanic tremor typically associated with movements of viscous magma at shallow depths,- in this case new lava rising beneath the existing lava dome (in place since 1991). As a consequence, the alert status of the volcano had been raised to the second highest level "Siaga" (3 on a scale of 1-4, alert). Today's explosion caused parts of the summit dome that occupies the crater, open to the western flank, to collapse and produce a glowing avalanche that traveled approx. 2000 m, remaining within the volcano's caldera. It seems that no pyroclastic flow (which could sweep over the caldera walls and into inhabited areas below) occurred. No damage to people or infrastructure was reported. Continued glow from the summit dome after the explosion suggests that magma has and continues to arrive now there. - Volcano Discovery | |
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The Extinction Protocol
2015-01-07 21:19:00
Skaftafell - Just north of here, on the far side of the impenetrable Vatnajokull ice sheet, lava is spewing from a crack in the earth on the flanks of Bardarbunga, one of Iceland's largest volcanoes. By volcanologists' standards, it is a peaceful eruption, the lava merely spreading across the landscape as gases bubble out of it. For now, those gases - especially sulfur dioxide, which can cause respiratory and other problems - are the main concern, prompting health advisories in the capital, Reykjavik, 150 miles to the west, and elsewhere around the country. But sometime soon, the top of Bardarbunga, which lies under as much as half a mile of ice, may erupt explosively. That could send plumes of gritty ash into the sky that could shut down air travel across Europe because of the damage the ash can do to jet engines. And it could unleash a torrent of glacial meltwater that could wipe out the only road connecting southern Iceland to the capital. All of that could happen. Then again, it may not. Such are the mysteries of volcanoes that more than four months after Bardarbunga began erupting, scientists here are still debating what will happen next. The truth is, no one really knows. Volcanic eruptions are among the Earth's most cataclysmic events, and understanding how and when they happen can be crucial to saving lives and reducing damage to infrastructure and other property. | |
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John Hutchinson
Daily Mail, UK 2015-01-07 20:28:00
This video footage shows the moment a young female rhinoceros named Rihanna led two pals on an escape bid from a safari park after spotting the security guard had fallen asleep. The footage shows the rhinos escaping from the front entrance of the Ramat Gan Safari Park in the city of Ramat Gan in the Tel Aviv district of western Israel after a security guard nodded off to sleep and failed to notice until too late what was happening. Although another employee of the park gave chase, it was too late to stop the white rhinos from hitting the road.
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Lucy Thackray
Daily Mail, UK 2015-01-07 20:08:00
14 skydivers have been ripped out of the sky by wild winds, with two victims rushed to hospital and 12 others treated by paramedics after the terrifying crash landings. After a 38-degree sunny day, a fierce storm quickly took hold with the skydivers suddenly facing an intense hail storm and violent winds. Horrified members of the public looked to the sky as skydivers fell at a rapid pace, battered onto St Kilda beach in Melbourne.
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Sharks have been seen devouring a dead whale floating close to rocky coastline at South Broulee near Batemans Bay in NSW, forcing authorities to close five beaches. The young humpback whale was spotted off the rocks at the popular swimming beach on Wednesday morning, according to Stan Wall from Lifeguard Services Australia. A 100m exclusion zone was set up around the whale and at one point a crowd of more than 300 people gathered to watch. However, Mr Wall said, after some time, lifeguards in the area were unable to see any spray or air bubbles coming from the animal and it was presumed dead. "We think it might have come into collision with a boat or maybe even hurt itself on the rocks that we saw it on this morning," Mr Wall said. | |
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Anna Liesowska
The Siberian Times 2014-12-23 18:37:00
With dumpy little legs, a dense body and a penchant for hiding from trouble, the Manul has proved elusive to nature lovers worldwide. Stunning images of an extremely rare and secretive cat have been taken for the first time in Siberia by staff at a new national park. The Manul, which looks similar to an overgrown tabby cat but is threatened with extinction, was spotted lurking beneath a rock in the snowy Altai Mountains. With dumpy little legs and a big dense body it is considered the clumsiest member of the feline family because it often prefers not to run away from danger but simply hide. Also referred to as a Pallas Cat, because of this elusive nature the photographers were extremely fortunate to snap pictures within the Saylyugem National park. Indeed, they have only ever been caught on camera a handful of times anywhere in the world, including in Pakistan, Iran and Nepal. Now park directors are hoping the new images will inspire animal lovers to travel to the Siberian region and see them living in the wild. | |
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Mail Online
2015-01-07 07:05:00
Nine small earthquakes rattled North Texas just hours apart on Tuesday, though no damage has so far been reported from the temblors. The magnitudes of the earthquakes, which began around 7.30am, ranged from 1.6 to 3.6, according to the USGS. Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 to 3.0 are generally the smallest people can feel. The U.S. Geological Service plotted the epicenters of the first four quakes to northeast Irving, a Dallas suburb. At least two of those could be felt throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Seismologists also installed a new earthquake-monitoring device in Irving this week, after minor temblors rocked an area which is near the site of the former Dallas Cowboys football stadium. The first quake at 3:10 p.m. measured 3.5 in magnitude. Another at about 7 p.m. measured 3.6, while tremors at 8:11 p.m. and 8:12 p.m. measured less than 3.0. The first four happened within an area near the Trinity River that's seen a swarm of mild temblors in recent months. USGS geophysicist Jana Pursley says Tuesday's quakes were the 'largest since the earthquakes started happening there in the last year.' According to NBC DFW, a 1.7 earthquake took place close to a Dallas intersection at 9:54pm, and a 2.4 earthquake hit Irving's University of Dallas campus at 10:05pm. A 1.6 earthquake struck at 11:02pm - and like many of the other quakes, was also in the vicinity of the Trinity River, the affiliate station reported. | |
Comment: These earthquake swarms are intensifying! As well as the increasing evidence linkingfracking to increased seismic activity, the Earth is 'opening up' as seismologists confirm a global surge of great earthquakes from 2004-2014 and the earthquake frequency increasing rate of strong quakes doubles in 2014
To understand why this is happening, read Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection. Here's a relevant excerpt: | |
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The Siberian Times
2015-01-05 18:28:00
The volcano, the highest mountain in the Kamchatka peninsula - Russia's Land of Fire and Ice - is active again after one year's relative calm. 'The crater is filling up with fresh lava and volcano's activity is steadily growing. There is a constant volcanic trembling, thermal anomaly and glow above the crater', said the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences. There is a warning to aircraft flying at 6,000 metres altitude. Klyuchevskaya Sopka, also known as Klyuchevskoi - which rises some 4,750 meters above the sea level - is one of the planet's most active volcanoes. Its last active phase was from August to December 2013. Increased seismic activity was noted from 19 December. | |
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Dr. Sircus
Dr. Sircus 2015-01-07 13:26:00
A snow-covered Grand Canyon is beautiful to behold. People in the U.S. began the New Year by digging out from winter storms. Typically, warm regions, like California, Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon, are all seeing snow. Record low temperatures across the U.S. southwest brought a rare winter storm to Arizona, blanketing the Grand Canyon with snow on New Year's Day. This week a dangerously cold arctic air mass moved across the U.S. Just how cold will it get? In Chicago, the wind chill will make it feel as if its 23 degrees below zero. That is downright balmy compared to parts of the upper Midwest, where forecasters are predicting wind chills of 50 below zero. Sounds like all that hot Arctic air that is melting the icecap, in many people's imaginations, is actually cold after all and the ice is back big time to prove it. It was actually easier to talk about cold climate change last summer, when winter came extremely early to the northern hemisphere. It was also easier to talk about the coming ice age in the fall when it was already winter. Now that its winter, when it is supposed to be, things should seem normal, but they are not. It is colder because we are living through cold climate change not global warming. | |
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Megan Specia
Mashable 2015-01-06 17:00:00
Parts of the Middle East were treated to an unusual sight on Tuesday as snow blanketed areas from Turkey to Israel. Much colder-than-average air pushed into the region associated with an unusually sharp dip in the jet stream this week, bringing a storm with strong winds and in some locations, snowfall. For an area that doesn't often see widespread snowfall, the past two winters have seen significant storms blanket the Middle East. In December 2013, a storm slammed parts of Syria, Jordan and Israel, dumping record snowfall on the area. | |
Comment: It sure doesn't look like it's getting 'warmer'. 'Climate change' can be explained, in part, by reduced solar activity, rather than human-caused CO2 emissions. In any event, human activity accounts - at most - for just 5% of total CO2 emissions. While overall warming may have been taking place until 1998, by the ISPCC's own admission the planet has since been cooling down. Thus 'Man-made Global Warming' can only be described as a hoax.
Read the book Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection to learn more about this topic. The New Ice Age might be just around the corner: | |
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The snowstorm starting Tuesday - the strongest for many years - is forecast to hit all of Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan, and will have consequences for Saudi Arabia, Iraq and other countries. The snowstorm is expected to continue until the end of the week.
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Hari Kumar Shrestha
Nepal Mountain News 2015-01-04 11:59:00
The continuous snowfall occurring here for two days has badly affected the life.The electricity supply is disrupted and air flights postponed. The 76-km long Beni-Jomsom roadway linking the district to the national highway has been fully blocked. Although the snowfall decreased on Friday night, it is yet to be melted. People are not able to go out of their homes. Similarly, the shops in the district headquarters are closed. A local Kul Bahadur Thakali said, "The life is thrown out of gear here. All are dormant. Here is no light, no drinking water." Technician at Nepal Electricity Authority in Mustang, Baburam Thapa, informed that more than half dozen electricity poles were crumbled thereby disrupting electricity supply. Even the telephone wires are snapped. With the electricity cut off, mobile phone and internet are fully disturbed. | |
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The Rohtang Pass at 13,050 ft in Himachal Pradesh, which acts as a key road link between Manali and Keylong, has been closed due to heavy snowfall in the area. The pass has 5 foot snow due to heavy snowfall for the last two days due to which traffic has been closed on the Rohtang Pass, government officials informed. Rohtang Pass is also used to transport supplies to the Indian Army posted along the China and Pakistan borders in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. GREF (General Reserve Engineering Force), a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) wing has removed its posts from the Pass. The Pass will now open around May at the onset of summer. | |
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ABC news
The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-6.6 earthquake has struck off the Pacific coast of Panama. There are no immediate reports of injuries or damage.2015-01-07 01:05:00 The U.S.G.S. said the quake hit at 11:07 p.m. local time Tuesday with its epicenter 151 miles (245 kilometers) south of the coastal city of Punta de Burica, close to the border with Costa Rica. Its depth was measured at 20 miles (33 kilometers). The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says no tsunami threat was issued for the area following the quake. In early December, two earthquakes with magnitudes of 5.8 and 6.6 struck in the same regionwithout causing damage or injuries. |
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Romania Insider
2015-01-07 13:31:00
The crash and burn of a meteorite into the Earth atmosphere may have been seen and captured on different recordings in Romania last night at 3 AM, according to Romanian media. Many Romanians noticed a bright light, similar to day light, which lasted for several seconds during the night, and the unusual phenomena was captured on surveillance cameras, including on the Otopeni airport in Bucharest - videos below. Internet users and bloggers reported they have seen something that may have been a meteorite disintegrating into the atmosphere, which resulted into the bright light. Some people who happened to be driving in Bucharest at the time of the incident reported the same phenomena. It is yet uncertain where the meteorite may have fallen, but, according to ProTv, this could have happened somewhere around the counties of Buzau or Vrancea, where the intensity of the light, as seen on local surveillance cameras, was also the highest. | |
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Dr Sircus
2015-01-06 12:00:00
In the brilliant scientific paper, 'The pulse of inflammation: heart rate variability, the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway and implications for therapy,' Dr. Jared M. Huston, Department of Surgery, Stony Brook University Medical Center discovered a neural control circuit that acts to keep the body's cytokine production, and therefore inflammatory response, in check.[1] During the 1990s, the authors of this review quietly opened up an entirely new way of looking at inflammation. Inflammation is intimately connected to all the major diseases of our timesshortening lives and causing pain on a persistent daily basis so this is crucial information that sadly is ignored by contemporary medicine. The vagus nerve is a very long nerve running from the hypothalamus area of your brain, chest, diaphragm, and to our intestines. It wraps around our heart and solar plexus center so it is very involved with our feelings and thinking. We have an extraordinarily hard time healing and even learning when the vagus nerve is disturbed. | |
Comment: In order to heal your body and mind it's important to make dietary changes and take care of your emotional health and well-being. With our meditation program Éiriú Eolas you can activate the vagus nerve, which will have anti-inflammatory and trauma releasing response in your body.
Here's more articles about the importance of vagus nerve: | |
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Peter R. Breggin, MD
American Free Press Newspaper 2015-01-07 15:47:00
Psychiatric drugs are more dangerous than you have ever imagined. If you haven't been prescribed one yet, you are among the lucky few. If you or a loved one are taking psychiatric drugs, there is hope, but you need to understand the dangers and how to minimize the risk. Anti-psychotic drugs, including both older and newer ones, have been shown in many human brain scan studies and in animal autopsy studies to cause shrinkage (atrophy) of the brain. The newer "atypicals" especially cause a well-documented metabolic syndrome including elevated blood sugar, diabetes, increased cholesterol, obesity and hypertension. They also produce dangerous cardiac arrhythmias and unexplained sudden death, and they significantly reduce longevity. In addition, they cause all the problems of the older drugs, such as Thorazine and Haldol, includingtardive dyskinesia, a largely permanent and sometimes disabling, painful movement disorder caused by brain damage and biochemical disruptions. | |
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University of Utah
The sugar in corn syrup is more toxic to female mice than regular table sugar, new research has found.2015-01-05 12:14:00
When University of Utah biologists fed mice sugar in doses proportional to what many people eat, thefructose-glucose mixture found in high-fructose corn syrup was more toxic than sucrose or table sugar, reducing both the reproduction and lifespan of female rodents. "This is the most robust study showing there is a difference between high-fructose corn syrup and table sugar at human-relevant doses," says biology professor Wayne Potts, senior author of a new study scheduled for publication in the March 2015 issue of The Journal of Nutrition. The study found no differences in survival, reproduction or territoriality of male mice on the high-fructose and sucrose diets. The researchers say that may be because both sugars are equally toxic to male mice. Both high-fructose corn syrup found in many processed foods and table sugar found in baked goods contain roughly equal amounts of fructose and glucose. But in corn syrup, they are separate molecules, called monosaccharides. In contrast, sucrose or table sugar is a disaccharide compound formed when fructose and glucose bond chemically. Potts says the debate over the relative dangers of fructose and sucrose is important "because whenthe diabetes-obesity-metabolic syndrome epidemics started in the mid-1970s, they corresponded with both a general increase in consumption of added sugar and the switchover from sucrose being the main added sugar in the American diet to high-fructose corn syrup making up half our sugar intake." | |
Comment: See also: High-Fructose Corn Syrup is Evil: 7 Key Findings.
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waterfordwhispersnews.com
2015-01-07 19:23:00
Following reports of record levels of borderline-illiteracy in today's teenagers, the Department of Education has revealed plans to publish this year's Leaving Certificate exam papers in a combination of emojis, emoticons, and 'text-speak'. The move comes following falling results among Leaving Cert students, which many experts have attributed to the rise in smartphone communications, in which proper spelling and grammar have been cast aside in favour of smiley faces and acronyms. Exacerbated by social media platforms such as Snapchat and Twitter, today's student now has trouble reading plain English, let alone writing it. In a bid to combat this, a spokesperson for the Department of Education today announced plans to publish exam papers written using the same nonsense that kids are used to reading and writing every day. "The ability of a teenager to form a coherent sentence had nosedived in recent years," said Owen Caughlin, spokesperson for the Department of Education. "This has lead to a drop in performance across the board when it comes to Leaving Cert results. We were going to issue spelling waivers similar to those we offer to dyslexic pupils, but in the end, we thought it would be easier to just write the exam papers using a combination of LOL-speak and wee pictures of cats high-fiving each other". Following the implementation of the emoji system, the DOE will next look at an overhaul of test marking, with the current points system expected to be replaced with Likes and FAVs. |
