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Jason Hirthler
Counterpunch 2015-02-22 20:06:00
How the Russian Bear Emerged From Hibernation. In Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy, the philosopher delivered his summarization of the writings of Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas thusly, "Before he begins to philosophize, he already knows the truth; it is declared in the Catholic faith. If he can find apparently rational arguments for some parts of the faith, so much the better; if he cannot, he need only fall back on revelation. The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading." American foreign policy is determined in much the same fashion. Valuable objects are desired.Noble justifications are manufactured. Trusting populations are deceived. War is made. Empires do their special pleading on a global scale. For instance, the U.S. and its allies know precisely how they want to portray the Ukrainian conflict to their deluded Western populations. They need only apply the false flags and fashion the nefarious motives - like so many brush strokes - to the canvas of geopolitics. Both the government and their corporate media vassals know their conclusions in advance. They are simple: Russia is the aggressor; America is the defender of freedom; and NATO is gallant security force that must counter Moscow's bellicosity. As the chief pleader in the construction of this fable, theObama administration has compiled a litany of lies about the conflict that it disseminates almost daily to its press flacks. | |
Comment: This article is very sobering on where this world is headed and it doesn't look good. Washington is hell bent on war.
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Ghada Chehade
Russia Insider 2015-02-21 23:14:00
As the conflict in Ukraine persists and as peace talks between Putin and western European leaders (Merkel and Hollande) continue, it is important to look at the economic actors/interests that benefit from conflict and regime change in the Ukraine and how this compares to situations like Syria, Libya and Iraq. There are under-reported angles and interests to these conflicts that we hear little about in western mainstream media and that many do not look for because they are too caught up in political or human dramas. For instance, mainstream media spend so much time demonizing a single enemy, be it Putin in the Ukraine situation, Assad in Syria, Gaddafi in Libya or Saddam Hussein in Iraq, etc., that they do not also critically explore how external actors may exploit or bolster such conflicts and situations in order to secure politic-economic motives such as access to oil, making way for destructively conditional IMF loans, or quashing domestic policies that undermine foreign imperial and economic interests. In western media, a dangerously false binary exists; wherein opposition to western imperial and corporate agendas for a particular region equals support for "evil men" like Putin or Gaddafi, for instance. This is part of what I call distraction politics or conflation politics, where opposition to neoliberal and imperial policies—such as IMF loans with austerity conditions that devastate and impoverish a nation, its people and its agriculture—is conflated with support for certain tyrants (as defined by the west). | |
Comment: Western propaganda is so backwards that it's brain damaging. For accurate information about what happened in Ukraine - and why - check out:
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Kathleen Miller
Bloomberg 2015-02-22 22:54:00
Visitors to the Mall of America must be "particularly careful" after a terror group threatened the Minneapolis-area tourist attraction, the U.S. Homeland Security secretary said. Jeh Johnson's comments during an interview Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" program followed the release of a video Saturday by the terror group al-Shabaab that called for attacks in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., according to the news network. "If anyone is planning to go to the Mall of America today, they've got to be particularly careful," Johnson said. He said later on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he wasn't telling people to steer clear of the mall. Gunmen from al-Shabaab, based in Somalia, attacked a shopping mall in Kenya in September 2013. At least 67 people died during the attack, which lasted for days. Minneapolis is home to one of the largest Somali populations in the U.S., and federal officials have said al-Shabaab lured recruits from the region. The world is dealing with a "new phase" of global terrorism, Johnson said on NBC. Previously, terror groups would train recruits to commit acts of violence and then send them into other countries to carry out plans. Now, such groups are using the Internet and social media to push people to carry out attacks on their own, he said. | |
Comment: Ah yes, the old 'warning' before a funding vote for Homeland Security.
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Deep Resource
2015-02-22 22:35:00
Most western media are 'soft-controlled' by the government and in end effect by Washington. For starters, the editors and journalists hired can be trusted to follow the cultural-Marxist party line, no need to 'control' them explicitly. So if for instance der Spiegel writes something, you can expect it to be in line with what Washington thinks. Yesterday der Spiegel came with the surprising advice to Kiev to 'cave in, in order to win':spiegel.de - Kiew muss aufgeben, um zu siegen The author of the article Benjamin Bidder says that Kiev's plan A, regain control over the entire area of the former Ukraine, is unrealistic (which it is). Kiev forces have low morale and are up against an enemy backed by Russia, with virtually endless military resources. Even if Washington would send in heavy weapons, it would not make a difference. | |
Comment: The West and its puppets got it handed to them in Ukraine. But the corporate elite have still made out with Ukraine's valuable resources. Also see:
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Washington Blog
2015-02-20 19:55:00
No Longer Focused On Deposits Or Loans Bloomberg reported last month:
Wait ... what? Banks don't need deposits? They're not giving many loans? Isn't that what banks do? If they're not collecting deposits and making loans, what are they doing? In reality, big banks aren't really acting like banks anymore. Big banks do very little traditional banking, since most of their business is from financial speculation. For example, we noted in 2010 that less than 10% of Bank of America's assets come from traditional banking deposits. The big banks are manipulating every market. They're also taking over important aspects of thephysical economy, including uranium mining, petroleum products, aluminum, ownership and operation of airports, toll roads, ports, and electricity. And they are using these physical assets to massively manipulate commodities prices ... scalping consumers of many billions of dollars each year(more here and more). The evidence demonstrates that the big banks have essentially become huge criminal enterprises ...waging warfare against the people of the world. | |
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RT
2015-02-22 19:10:00
Kiev's military and self-defense forces in eastern Ukraine have announced they will withdraw heavy weapons from the frontline following Saturday's exchange of 191 prisoners. This comes as OSCE monitors have visited the devastated city of Debaltsevo. Ukrainian Army and Donbass forces have agreed to remove heavy weapons from the conflict zone, Eduard Basurin, deputy commander of the DPR's Defense Ministry's corps, said on Sunday. "Today we've done preparatory work. Tomorrow is a holiday [Defender of the Fatherland Day], andstarting from [February] 24 the process of heavy weapons pullout will begin," Basurin said, as cited by the Donetsk news agency. Ukrainian General Aleksandr Rozmaznin told AFP: "The papers have been signed to begin withdrawing heavy weapons all along the frontline." | |
Comment: Ukraine's security service negotiator is reporting 1,500 Ukrainian soldiers "missing in action", which no doubt means the number is much higher.
To get an idea of the difference between the way DPR and LPR treat their POWs, and the way Kiev 'treats' them, just watch this (and this):
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Malia Zimmerman
Fox News 2015-02-21 16:37:00
Video of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians being marched along a Libyan beach before being beheaded by black-clad members of ISIS is hard for any civilized person to watch, but experts who made it through the sickening, five-minute clip told FoxNews.com Friday they came to the same conclusion: The footage was faked. No one holds out hope the victims, mostly poor fishermen who had gone to Libya to scratch out a living, are still alive. But several anomalies in the video, which was posted online Feb. 15,indicated to trained eyes that at least some of the production was done on "green screen" with background added later, perhaps to disguise the real location of the atrocity. A day after the clip went viral, Egyptian warplanes struck hard at an eastern port city near Tripoli, where the video appeared to have been shot. Experts who examined the sickening footage of ISIS militants killing Christians in Libya say the tape was doctored with. In the above still, the killers appear to be more than 7 feet tall.
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Comment: It is not in the interests of the U.S. national security state to bring videos like this into question. What is Fox thinking?
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Raúl Ilargi Meijer
The Automatic Earth 2015-02-22 18:06:00
When it comes to the ongoing Greek question, I see a lot of people eagerly jump to conclusions, after the 'debt deal', that I don't think are justified; certainly not yet. The overall conviction in the press seems to be that Syriza has given in on just about all fronts, and Germany and Dijsselbloem are the big winners. But since that may well be the exact position Syriza wants 'the other side' to be in, where they think they have prevailed, one will have to try and think a few steps ahead before judging the situation. There's far more grey area here than many pundits seem to assume, easily 50 shades of it. If Greece wouldn't have given Germany the idea that it was winning, Athens would have already come very close to an exit from the eurozone. The problem with that is that it is not part of the mandate Syriza has been given by Greek voters. Who have spoken out for an end to austerity, but within the existing euro framework. | |
Comment: This Grexit will be interesting to watch in the coming weeks.
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New revelations in Venezuela have linked U.S. private security firm Blackwater, now known as Academi, to the aircraft that was to be used as part of Thursday's thwarted "Blue Coup" attempt. The four-stage plan included economic war, an international media offensive against the Venezuelan government, political destabilization fomenting ungovernability, and finally the use of a Super Tucano aircraft to strike "tactical targets" in the capital, such as the Presidential Palace, teleSur, and military intelligence. The coup was planned for the one-year anniversary of violent opposition protests known as the Guarimba and was to come one day after a public statement by leading opposition leaders calling for a "transition". According to U.S. aviation records, the EMB-314B1 or "Super Tucano" aircraft in question was acquired from Brazilian manufacturer Embraer by the firm Blackwater Worldwide in 2008 allegedly for the purpose of pilot training. Registered under the serial number N314TG, the aircraft is, moreover, the only one of its kind sold by the Brazilian firm to a private company. | |
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i24news.tv
2015-02-22 14:42:00
Radiation levels at the tsunami-hit plant measured 50 to 70 times greater than usual. Sensors at the Fukushima nuclear plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water to the sea, the plant's operator announced Sunday, highlighting difficulties in decommissioning the crippled plant. Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said the sensors, which were rigged to a gutter that pours rain and ground water at the Fukushima Daiichi plant to a nearby bay, detected contamination levels up to 70 times greater than the already-high radioactive status seen at the plant campus. TEPCO said its emergency inspections of tanks storing nuclear waste water did not find any additional abnormalities, but the firm said it shut the gutter to prevent radioactive water from going into the Pacific Ocean. | |
Comment: It seems TEPCO doesn't have a clue of what is going on or how to contain the radioactive leaks. This is an ongoing disaster for the world.
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Dara Lind
Vox 2015-02-17 00:00:00
If Congress doesn't act before February 27, the Department of Homeland Security is going to run out of money and go into a partial shutdown. (Eighty-five percent of employees would still be working, but they wouldn't be getting paid.) Congress doesn't appear to have a plan for action; as of last week, before it broke for recess, House and Senate lawmakers were each telling each other to do something. Meanwhile, politicians in both parties have already skipped to the step where they blame the other party for the possible shutdown — making them seem pretty resigned to it happening. House Speaker John Boehner said on Sunday he's "certainly" ready for a DHS shutdown. | |
Comment: DHS is an organization that was created in the wake of 911 (an inside job), and consumes $60 billion tax payer money every year. There is no reason whatsoever to keep it going, other than to terrorize the American population.
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Alexander Mercouris
Sputnik News 2015-02-20 00:31:00
In reality President Poroshenko sacrificed Ukrainian soldiers because he did not want to incur the wrath of the war party in Kiev by ordering their retreat. Control of Debaltseve was important to the east Ukrainian militia. As a key railway junction it interfered with communications between the two rebel republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. It was also an obvious launch pad for a new government offensive aimed at cutting the militia controlled areas off from each other. It is impossible to see how Debalsteve was comparably important to the Ukrainian government. The very things that made Debaltseve important to the militia guaranteed that in the event of renewed fighting the militia would aim to capture it. A glance at the map shows why in that event, given the balance of forces, it was indefensible. So it proved. By Monday 9th February 2015, even Western journalists were admitting the militia had encircled Debaltseve and the Ukrainian troops there were cut off. The Ukrainian government however denied it. The denial reached farcical levels during the negotiations in Minsk. Half the 16 hours of negotiations were reportedly taken up with attempts to get Ukraine's President Poroshenko to admit the obvious, that his troops in Debaltseve were encircled. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko refused to do so, refusing to order his troops to retreat and rejecting all offers from others to arrange this. | |
Comment: The Right Sector party is insane and wants the war to continue to produce a "pure Ukraine". That's code for genocide of the Russian inhabitants of Ukraine. They have likely threatened him serious harm if he goes against their wishes. The IMF won't give any more loans with which he can continue the war, until Porchenko agrees to even harsher austerity terms. This in turn will increase the public's animosity towards his regime. He also came away from the US Congress empty-handed in he request for aid. Porky is caught between a rock and a hard place, and saving his own skin seems to be the main goal.
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Sam Jones
The Guardian 2015-02-20 23:12:00
Russian expansionist ambitions could quickly become "an obvious existential threat to our whole being", the most senior British military officer in Nato has said in a strongly worded speech. General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, appointed last year as Nato's deputy commander of forces in Europe, said the alliance needed to develop both fast-reacting conventional forces and capacities to counter Russian efforts at coercion and propaganda, as seen in Ukraine. Talking of "an era of constant competition with Russia", Bradshaw told an audience at the Royal United Services Institute that Nato had to maintain a cohesive system of deterrence on its eastern borders, something that would require help from the EU. He said Nato was pushing ahead with plans for a very high readiness joint taskforce, "in order to convince Russia, or any other state adversary, that any attack on one Nato member will inevitably lead them into a conflict with the whole alliance". David Cameron has warned Vladimir Putin of "more consequences" if a ceasefire in Ukraine does not hold. Speaking on a visit to Govan shipyard in Glasgow on Friday, the prime minister said the responsibility for what had happened in Ukraine "lies absolutely squarely with Vladimir Putin and Russia", and a strong response was needed. Comment: The neonazis in Kiev that the US, NATO and EE enthroned, are asking for lethal weapons to start "a full scale war", which throws the Minsk agreements into the garbage bin, and Cameron and Bradshaw, yet again, blame... Russia!? Ukrainian deputy foreign minister claims Kiev preparing for 'full-scale' war | |
Comment: For a deputy commander of NATO's forces, he sounds very prone to paranoid ideation and easily terrorized by imaginary threats...
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RT
2015-02-21 21:58:00
Muslims in Oslo formed a human chain around the city's main synagogue, chanting "No to anti-Semitism, no to Islamophobia." Over 1,000 people took part in the rally to show solidarity with Jews just a week after a fatal shooting in a Denmark synagogue. Muslims in Norway, many young women, formed what they called a ring of peace, as the small Jewish congregation filed out of the synagogue after Shabbat prayers on Saturday. The Muslim message to the Jews in Norway was simple - they mourn and stand in solidarity with the victims of increasingly instances of violence against Jews in Europe, including the terror attacks in France in January and in neighboring Denmark last week. "This shows that there are many more peacemakers than war-makers," Zeeshan Abdullah, one of the organizers told the crowd. "There is still hope for humanity, for peace and love across religious differences and background."
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Comment: The percentage of crazies is always smaller than the percentage of normal, decent people, in any population. Islamophobic and anti-Semitic propaganda is designed to get people to forget this simple fact. Unfortunately it works.
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RT
2015-02-22 14:23:00
Almost 900 child abductions were reported in the UK during 2014 alone. Statistics gathered from police forces indicate the numbers of cases are on the increase. The study has shown kidnappings and abductions of kids and teenagers under 18 increased by 13 percent between 2012-2013 and 2013-2014. Kidnappings, if taken alone, soared by 18 percent over the same time, according to the research. The figures were collected from the police and analyzed by the charity Parents and Abducted Children Together (Pact), the Independent reported. Between 2013 and 2014, 401 were abducted by people other than their parents (for instance, when a stranger lures a child in with sweets), 158 by an aggrieved parent, and 321 children were kidnapped. | |
Comment: No matter how one slices it, the kidnapping and abduction of children is a sad indication of our society and shockingly continues to rise.
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Andy Campbell
Huffington Post 2015-02-21 00:00:00
A community is rallying around a Toronto family after their 3-year-old boy -- who wandered into the cold Thursday night, wearing nothing but a diaper, T-shirt and boots -- was found dead near his home. Elijah Marsh, 3, was pronounced dead shortly after authorities located him. He was reportedly huddled up to an air conditioner unit just 1,000 feet away from where he got locked out of his family's apartment. He may have spent up to six hours in frigid temperatures. Surveillance footage shows a boy who looks like Elijah leaving the home at about 4:05 a.m. | |
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Tyee staff
TheTyee.ca 2015-02-18 00:00:00
On Wednesday, Feb. 18 The Tyee's Katie Hyslop reported on the demolition of St. Michael's Indian Residential School in Alert Bay, British Columbia. A day-long ceremony honoured St. Michael's survivors with prayer, speeches and song. | |
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Michel Collon
Global Research 2006-03-16 22:43:00
It becomes a little less difficult to determine whether we have been informed correctly about Yugoslavia. Did they have a right to present the Nato war as "humanitarian"? Did the Great Powers have secret strategies? Were there media lies told and war propaganda spread? We recommend that you take this brief Media test in order to have a clear view, and to test how your media is going to inform you in current and coming wars. Media Quiz How good is our information on the destruction of Yugoslavia? 1 Did the war begin in 1991 with the secessions of Slovenia and Croatia? O Yes O No O Don't know 2 Did Germany deliberately provoke the civil war? O Yes O No O Don't know 3 Did the US really remain 'passive and disinterested' during this war? O Yes O No O Don't know 4 Did the World Bank and the IMF help destroying this country? O Yes O No O Don't know | |
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RT
2015-02-22 17:42:00
Dutch scientists have scanned a statue of Buddha, dating back to the 11th or 12th century, to reveal a mummy inside. They've also taken samples of the mummy's insides and discovered scraps of paper with ancient Chinese characters on them. A human skeleton glows through the statue's silhouette on the computed tomography scan, done in the Meander Medical Center in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.
this 12th century Buddha statue was just found to be containing a mummified monk.pic.twitter.com/uZzm8La5NR— Koi Fresco (@koifresco) February 22, 2015
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Comment: Pretty amazing find.
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Phil plait
On Saturday, Valentine's Day, the Rosetta spacecraft dipped down low over the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. How low? At one point, it was less than 9 kilometers from the surface!Slate 2015-02-16 00:00:00 Given that the comet is 4.3 kilometers long and shaped like a rubber ducky that's been sitting in the Sun for 4 billion years, this was a pretty low and gutsy pass. It was done to get extremely high-resolution pictures of the comet, of course, but the spacecraft will also be making a series of more distant passes to sample the environment around the comet at different locations. Around the time of closest approach, the lower resolution NAVCAM instrument was used to snap photos of the comet. One of them showed the very, very weird Imhotep region of the comet, and, well, see for yourself:
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Comment: One simple truth will explain all the strangeness related to comets. NASA, mainstream scientists and the MSM promote comets as dirty snowballs ignoring all the evidence to the contrary:
Electric Comet Theory: The Enduring - Yet Downplayed - Mysteries of Comets The True Origins of Electric Comet Theory Electric Universe: Where Do Asteroids Come From?
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Christopher Brennan
Daily Mail, UK 2015-02-21 20:18:00
Humans may be staying inside for the frigid temperatures of the polar vortex, but the gust of arctic weather has brought unexpected guests to New York City. Seven snowy owls have been spotted this year in the city, which reached a 60-year low of 1F for February 20 on Friday morning. The birds are generally seen along the water in Brooklyn and Queens, but one was found on Governor's Island off the southern tip of Manhattan, according to DNA Info. | |
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Ashley Collman
Daily Mail, UK 2015-02-22 20:02:00
Residents in Naples, Italy woke up this morning to a massive sinkhole that opened up in the middle of a street. Officials say the sinkhole started off as a depression in the road and is most likely caused by a broken sewer. 'It was 5 this morning when I heard a huge thud. I looked out and saw the road collapse and swallow a car,' a woman who lives in a neighboring apartment told Il Mattino. | |
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US Geological Survey
2015-02-22 19:02:00
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Courtney Coren
Newsmax 2015-02-18 15:48:00
While the direction of climate change cannot be determined based on a single event, the collection of record-breaking winters shows that the planet is getting colder, climate expert John Casey tellsNewsmax TV. "Just about every American can now see that we've had a series of brutal, record-setting winters that are starting earlier, staying longer and breaking records that are 100 and 150 years old," Casey told J.D. Hayworth, who was joined by Republican strategist Ford O'Connell, on "America's Forum" Wednesday. "Clearly, the planet is getting colder," said Casey, president of the Space and Science Research Corp. Watch video here: | |
Comment: For more information read:
'Forget global warming, prepare for Ice Age' Last Ice Age took just SIX months to arrive Scientist predicts mini Ice Age | |
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Laylan Connelly
Orange County Register 2015-02-22 15:55:00
Daniel Stringer had an idea after eying the little lobster-like crustaceans that washed ashore on Balboa Island. "I'll get the barbeque," said Stringer, who has lived on Balboa Island for 47 years and has never seen the small crabs like the ones that showed up Saturday. "I like mine with butter." Thousands of mini crabs - which actually look like tiny lobsters or craw fish - created a rim of red along the shoreline, scattered on the sand along the sleepy seaside of Balboa Island in Newport Beach. Most washed up dead at high tide, but some were still alive and swimming near the shoreline. Passerby stopped to marvel at the unusual sight, some people coming to the aid of the ones that still looked like they had some life to them. | |
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news.asiaone.com
2015-02-22 15:45:00
A man and woman got off a train in South Korea, only to fall right into a sinkhole in the train station. CCTV footage shows what happened during that incident. As the man and woman get off the train, a patch of tiles in the station can be seen looking slightly out of place compared to the rest of the floor. As both the man and woman step onto that patch, the section of floor gives and they both fall in. Another man and woman look on in shock after narrowly avoiding the fall. According to online reports, the man and woman sustained injuries from their fall.
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The Coal Hill man found dead in the woods near his home earlier this month died from "canine injuries" from a family member's dogs, according to newly-revealed autopsy results. Fredrick Crutchfield, 63, was found dead Feb. 4 by a family member. Investigators sent his body to the Arkansas State Crime Lab to determine a cause of death. An autopsy revealed Crutchfield died from loss of blood due to "multiple canine injuries," according to a statement released by the Johnson County Sheriff's Office on Friday (Feb. 20). Deputies said the dogs involved in the death belonged to a family member. The animals have since been impounded, according to the Sheriff's Office. | |
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Margie King
Greenmedinfo.com 2015-02-12 21:06:00
Long revered for its spiritual and mental benefits, yoga is fast becoming equally valued for its benefits in reversing the effects of modern chronic diseases. For more than 5,000 years humans have practiced the ancient Indian art of yoga. Long revered for its spiritual and mental benefits, yoga is fast becoming equally valued for its benefits in reversing the effects of modern chronic diseases. A new study from Harvard University finds that yoga has particular benefits for your heart. In a meta-analysis of 32 randomized controlled trials, researchers concluded that a yoga practice lowers heart disease risks as well as the risks of metabolic syndrome.[i] Metabolic syndrome is defined as having at least three of the following metabolic risk factors - increased blood pressure, high blood sugar level, excess body fat, and abnormal cholesterol levels. It greatly increases the chance of cardiovascular problems.[ii] | |
Comment: Why Yoga? Healing research:
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Andrew Gilligan
The Telegraph, UK 2015-02-22 21:07:00
Toxic fumes in cabin air pose a health risk to frequent fliers and aircrew, a coroner has said in a landmark report. Stanhope Payne, the senior coroner for Dorset, said people regularly exposed to fumes circulating in planes faced "consequential damage to their health". Mr Payne, who is inquiring into the death of Richard Westgate, a British Airways pilot, called on BA and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to take "urgent action to prevent future deaths". Most airline passengers, who fly only occasionally, will not be affected by the problem, but some frequent travellers who are genetically susceptible to the toxins could fall ill. Mr Payne's call for urgent action is likely to be welcomed by campaigners who have raised similar concerns for a number of years. His report, obtained by the Telegraph, is the first official UK recognition of so-called "aerotoxic syndrome", a phenomenon long denied by airlines but which is blamed by some for the deaths of at least two pilots and numerous other incidents where pilots have passed out in flight. Co-pilots can normally take over, but campaigners claim the syndrome is a suspected cause of some mid-air disasters. Frank Cannon, the lawyer for Mr Westgate's case, said: "This report is dynamite. It is the first time a British coroner has come to the conclusion that damage is being done by cabin air, something the industry has been denying for years." Mr Cannon said he was acting for approximately 50 other aircrew allegedly affected by the syndrome, working for airlines including Emirates, Cathay Pacific, Etihad, Thomas Cook and EasyJet. He is also representing two passengers. Commercial passenger planes have a system which compresses air from the engines and uses it to pressurise the cabin. But it can malfunction, with excess oil particles entering the air supply. In a confined space, with the air recirculated, the cumulative effect on frequent fliers, especially aircrew, can be harmful, the coroner said. | |
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U.S. Airways Flight Attendant Says: Toxic Airplane Cabin Air Sickening Flight Crews Aerotoxic Syndrome - Toxic Airline Cabin Air Could be Making You Sick Airplane Cabin Air Filled with Toxic Chemicals Airlines are ignoring studies revealing toxic effects of contaminated air entering the cabin and cockpit Is cabin air making us sick? | |
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A new genetically modified apple that doesn't brown when cut open or bruised finally has been cleared to be grown in the U.S. An arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday — after a three-year wait — that the Okanagan Specialty Fruit's Arctic Apple in Golden and Granny varieties doesn't pose any harm to other plants or pests. The apple won't be at grocery stores yet, though this was its last major regulatory hurdle. The company is still waiting on the conclusion of a voluntary review by the FDA before the apple can enter the market place. | |
Comment: As the debate over the health and safety of GMO foods continues and concerned consumers continue the push for GMO labeling, this new revelation by the feds to push yet another mad science experiment on the American public isn't really surprising!
It is becoming more and more obvious that American consumers are being bombarded with more products they don't want or need! Notice how the author states in the final portion of this article that based on the 'regulatory environment' in the U.S. these 'mad science projects' are being exported to countries like Brazil where they may be more openly excepted! For more information on GMO apples read the following: | |
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Jefferey Jaxen
Natural Society 2015-02-22 19:18:00
IBM's Watson computer may soon decide if some individuals receive healthcare or not. IBM, whose stock price has sunk to its lowest in four years, has recently "announced a $1 billion investment to establish the new Watson Group." IBM's Watson computer processes large amounts of your information to make a better decision for you. Watson is now embedded in the Department of Veteran's Affairs Data Center in Austin, Texas to "advise doctors on treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder." According to their press release, the technology will "transform decision making." Or said in a different way, if you are a Veteran in need of care, IBM's Watson will soon make the decision about your health care for you. | |
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Lindsay Abrams
Salon 2015-02-21 18:00:00
A, C, D, E, K and the eight Bs: There's a lot that can go wrong when we don't get sufficient amounts of these 13 chemicals in our diets. Things like pellagra, caused by a B3 deficiency and characterized by delusions, diarrhea and "scaly skin sores," or beriberi, which occurs in the dearth of B1 and can affect either the nervous or cardiovascular system, depending on which type you've got. But in North America, vitamin deficiencies are a rarity. The nutrition-related health problems we do have to worry about are a lot different: obesity comes to mind, as does diabetes and hypertension. Incredibly enough, argues science writer Catherine Price, it's the fact that we've solved the former that's contributing to the latter: food companies add synthetic vitamins to otherwise unhealthy fare, preventing us from developing scurvy but also, at the same time, from following truly nutritious diets. "We use vitamins as insurance policies against whatever else we might (or might not) be eating," Price writes in "Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest for Nutritional Perfection," "as if by atoning for our other nutritional sins, vitamins can save us from ourselves." "The irony of our vitamin obsession," Price argues, is that "by encouraging the idea that isolated dietary chemicals hold the key to good health, our vitamania is making us less healthy." | |
Comment: It's true: you can't out-supplement a bad diet. Adopt a protective diet like the low-carb, moderate protein, high fat ketogenic diet and supplement with high quality vitamins, minerals and herbs from a reputable supplier for the best health results. Listen to this episode of the Sott Talk Radio Network's Health and Wellness Show for more on the ketogenic diet.
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Tony Isaacs
The Best Years of Life 2015-02-21 13:35:00
In recent years, statistical cancer death rates have been showing decreases for some cancers in some parts of the world, which has led some people to optimistically report that cancer is getting easier to beat. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Cancer is actually getting harder to beat as a result of three primary culprits: 1) Our world is becoming increasingly toxic, 2) We are beset by existing and increasing radiation, and 3) Our food is becoming increasingly less nutritious. As noted in "Hiding the Truth about Losing the War on Cancer", statistics can be manipulated and often have been by those with vested interests in maintaining the illusion that we are turning the corner, or that a cure is just around that elusive corner, in the decades long and mostly failed war on cancer. The statistics which tell the real story are those which clearly show that the incidence of cancer continues to grow alarmingly, as does the expected worldwide cancer deaths. Between one in two and one in three people are now expected to encounter cancer in their lifetimes. According to the WHO's World Cancer Report, considered to be the most comprehensive global examination of the disease to date, cancer rates could further increase by 50% to 15 million new cases in the year 2020. | |
Comment: For more on a dietary approach to both preventing and treating cancer see:
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Tom Boggioni
RawStory 2015-02-20 04:41:00
Parents seeking help with children with autism are turning to a "miracle" cure that involves giving the children enemas, using a dangerous industrial solution used for bleaching wood pulp. According to If You Only News, parents have turned to Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS), containing sodium chlorite which is mixed with citric acid (i.e. orange juice) to make chlorine dioxide. According to the promoters, the solution, which can be taken orally or administered via an enema, can cure HIV, malaria, hepatitis, autism, acne, and cancer. Miracle Mineral Solution is the brainchild of Jim Humble, who quit the Church of Scientology to form the Genesis II Church of Health & Healing in order to promote his "miracle" cure in Africa and Mexico. The Food and Drug Administration disagrees with Humble's claims and has posted a warning on their website calling the product "dangerous" and "potentially life threatening," advising "drinking the amount recommended on product labels can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and symptoms of severe dehydration." | |
Comment: One tragedy after another. For more information on the dangers of MMS:
MMS: Miracle Mineral Solution or Trojan Horse? Your Body and DNA | |
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Zoya Klebanova
Sott.net 2015-02-21 22:24:00
Hello, and welcome to the first article in a new series on natural pet health (as featured on SOTT Radio Network's Health and Wellness Show). My name is Zoya, and I am a 4th-year veterinary student. During my studies, I have had the opportunity to observe and learn about various practices, recommendations, medicines and foods that aren't particularly beneficial or right for our pets' well-being. So in this introduction to the series I'll briefly cover what I think are the 10 main lies told to us by the mainstream veterinary community, or in other words the 10 main issues misrepresented or presented to us incorrectly. These are lies that contribute to the development of various diseases and prevent your pets from having long, healthy and happy lives. Unsurprisingly, many of the issues are similar to the lies told by human doctors, and in many cases if you educate yourself on better nutrition and a better way of life in general, this knowledge can be applied to your pet as well. Of course, with some modifications.
Dry vs. Raw food Pet owners are often told that kibble or dry food is good for pets, particularly if it's a special diet, for example, some sort of metabolic bland or dry food for cats with kidney disease. Well, the reality is that it isn't true. My favorite counter-argument is - how would you feel after eating croutons all your life, no matter how tasty the croutons are? We are going to expand on this in further articles, but for now let me just say that as it turns out, dry food is one of the main reasons for many metabolic and hormonal diseases in the first place, and in many cases it also very expensive! So you end up paying twice, the first time for buying bad food and then for visit to a veterinarian. The solution - feed your pets with a natural, species-appropriate diet. This will be the subject of my next article. | ||
Comment: Listen to the entire Health and Wellness show on the SOTT Radio Network, that covers topics of health, diet, science, homeopathy, wellness culture, and more.
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Gary Boyle
Best actorSott.net 2015-02-22 12:07:00 The best actor award goes to......Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, for his portrayal of a sensitive, caring, jovial, human being, in the 'Bibi-sitter'.
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