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Washington Post
2015-05-01 14:13:00

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If what is happening in Baltimore happened in a foreign country, here is how Western media would cover it:

'International leaders expressed concern over the rising tide of racism and state violence in America, especially concerning the treatment of ethnic minorities in the country and the corruption in state security forces around the country when handling cases of police brutality. The latest crisis is taking place in Baltimore, Maryland, a once-bustling city on the country's Eastern Seaboard, where an unarmed man named Freddie Gray died from a severed spine while in police custody.

Black Americans, a minority ethnic group, are killed by state security forces at a rate higher than the white majority population. Young, black American males are 21 times more likely to be shot by police than white American males.
Comment: A rare moment of truth from the Washington Post. Of course, we have to be suspicious of this editorial line from a truly 'white establishment' paper like the Post. In recent days, the Post has carried other very candidly anti-system articles. For example, in this article, when referring to the video of African-America mother, Toya Graham, beating her would-be protestor son, the Post journalist states:
"Graham's message to America is: I will teach my black son not to resist white supremacy so he can live. [...]

The kind of violent discipline Graham unleashed on her son did not originate with her, or with my adoptive mother who publicly beat me when I was a child, or with the legions of black parents who equate pain with protection and love. The beatings originated with white supremacy, a history of cultural and physical violence that devalues black life at every turn. From slavery through Jim Crow, from the school-to-prison pipeline, the innocence and protection of black children has always been a dream deferred.

What is so disturbing is that white supremacy is let off the hook. A militarized and racist police force is not the problem. Systemic racism — from the War on Drugs to racial profiling, from hyper segregation to community divestment — is not the issue. The message becomes: Black children's behavior is the true enemy of peace."
Do the owners of the Washington Post have an interest now in exposing the truth about racist America in order to encourage more widespread chaos and, possibly, one of those nice 'color revolutions' in which the US State Dept. and CIA are so well-schooled?
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Puppet Masters
Pepe Escobar
RT.com
2015-05-01 06:07:00

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The twin-pronged attack - oil price war/raid on the ruble - aimed at destroying the Russian economy and place it into a form of Western natural resource vassalage has failed.

Natural resources were also essentially the reason for reducing Iran to a Western vassalage. That never had anything to do with Tehran developing a nuclear weapon, which was banned by both the leader of the Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

The 'New Great Game' in Eurasia was always about control of the Eurasian land mass. Minor setbacks to the American elite project do not mean the game will be restricted to a mere "war of attrition". Rather the contrary.
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James Petras
petras.lahaine.org
2015-04-26 13:09:00

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A recent article by Jorge Elbaum, the former executive director of DAIA (Delegation for Argentine Jewish Associations), the principle Argentine Jewish umbrella groups, published in the Buenos Aires daily Pagina 12, provides a detailed account of the damaging links between the State of Israel, US Wall Street speculators and local Argentine Zionists in government and out.

Elbaum describes how their efforts have been specifically directed toward destabilizing the incumbent center-left government of President Cristina Fernandez, while securing exorbitant profits for a Zionist Wall Street speculator, Paul Singer of Elliott Management as well as undermining a joint Iranian-Argentine investigation of the 1994 terrorist bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires.

Elbaum's article was written in response to the death of Alberto Nisman, a Zionist zealot and chief government prosecutor in the terrorist bombing investigation for over 20 years.

The serious issues raised by the political use and gross manipulation of the horrors of the bombing of the Argentine Jewish Community Center shows how Tel Aviv (and its political assets in Argentina and the US) further Israeli power in the Middle East, in particular, by isolating and demonizing Iran. This is important at two critical levels, which this article seeks to highlight.
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Sputnik News
2015-05-01 12:36:00

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Alexander Nau, a member of Germany's lower house of parliament, said that German Chancellor Angela Merkel does not care about the US attitude towards Germany as Merkel believes in the German-American friendship, which is turning Germany into one of the US's vassals.

Recent revelations that German intelligence allegedly spied on European targets at the behest of the US National Security Agency (NSA) shows that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has accepted Germany's transformation from an EU leader to a US puppet, a German lawmaker told Sputnik.
Comment: Yep, though she didn't have much choice since the EU was set up to be a US vassal in the first place. It's ordinary people who have to pay the price. The NSA's wiretapping, the sabotage of Russian economic partners by the US' sanctions, and being left with the aftermath of Ukraine's neo-Nazi descent are all crippling burdens, and more are coming.

Also see:

  • Will US led military and economic fiasco in Ukraine lead EU into financial collapse?
  • The Pentagon's long war pits NATO against China, Russia, and Iran
  • German lawmaker: No threat justifies doubling NATO Response Force
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Nick Gass
Politico
2015-04-27 12:53:00

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The commander of Iran's ground forces said that American officials planned and executed the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to justify military intervention in the region.

"These wars and these threats stem from a comprehensive American strategy. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Americans felt that a new force was beginning to materialize, namely the union between Sunnis and Shiites," said Ahmad Reza Pourdastan in an interview with Iran's Arabic-language Al-Alam state news network.

"The basis of this force was the blessed Islamic Revolution in Iran. This force is Islam, or the Islamic world. In order to prevent this force from materializing, the Americans did many things," Pourdastan said, according to a translation of his remarks by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
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RT
2015-05-01 12:24:00

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Citing an anti-Russia policy brief, US lawmakers approved $200 million for providing "lethal weapons of a defensive nature" to the Ukrainian government as part of the $600 billion Pentagon budget proposal for the fiscal year 2016.

The House Armed Services Committee passed its proposal for the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with a bipartisan vote of 60 to 2, in what Defense News described as a"marathon" session that ended around 4:30am on Thursday.

Section 1532 of the 498-page document calls for the US to provide assistance, "including training, equipment, lethal weapons of a defensive nature, logistics support, supplies and services, and sustainment to the military and national security forces of Ukraine" through the end of September 2016.
Comment: Here we go again with the semantics of defensive lethal weapons. NATO Commander Breedlove supports the idea of offensive weapons:
"I support the consideration of using offensive weapons to change the decision calculus on the ground [in eastern Ukraine] and to facilitate bringing our opponent to the table for a solution, a final solution," Breedlove told the US Senate Armed Services Committee.
But then later retracts that statement saying he misspoke and actually meant defensive lethal weapons:
"We're talking about what I said earlier - lethal defensive weapon. I used these words and don't even understand what I said. It's not a big correction in politics, it's just a military pilot after 2 and a half hours testifying in the Senate, " said Breedlove.
Is that clear now?
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RT
2015-05-01 12:08:00

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The Russian and Chinese Navies are to hold a joint exercise in the Mediterranean Sea in mid-May, a first in that part of the world. A total of nine warships from the two countries are to participate, Beijing said.

"The aim is to deepen both countries' friendly and practical cooperation, and increase our navies' ability to jointly deal with maritime security threats," Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said on Thursday in a monthly news briefing.

"What needs saying is that these exercises are not aimed at any third party and have nothing to do with the regional situation," he added, saying that the Chinese Navy would contribute its warships currently on an anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden.
Comment: US/NATO/EU will not be pleased. Europe will kick and scream they are being threatened.
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Press TV
2015-04-29 10:49:00

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is busy making attempts for a greater share of power in Israel.

On Wednesday, the premier's Likud party signed agreements with two Israeli parties, which would give him control of 46 seats out of the parliament's 120, Israeli media outlets reported. The agreements were signed with the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism (UTJ) and the center-right Kulanu parties.

UTJ leader Yakov Litzman (pictured below) confirmed to Israeli media that the party "signed a coalition deal with the Likud".
Comment: Coalitions are formed by making "deals" with other parties. There are 26, some of which are Arab. It is a scramble, once the election results are in, for parties to jockey into "winning" positions in the coalition. This kind of set-up would seem to cater to "good ole boy" politics, leaving minorities and cast-offs without enough clout to matter. What can we expect to change in Israel if nothing substantially alters in the Knesset, Arabs are locked out, Bibi gets favors from Rivlin and the power players just shift positions? Answer: It could get worse.
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ITAR-TASS
2015-04-30 21:34:00

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Unidentified special task forces are conducting a special operation in the area of the township of Avdeyevka in Donbas to render harmless a battalion of Ukrainian nationalists, Eduard Basurin, an official spokesman for the Defence Ministry of the self-proclaimed unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic said on Thursday.

"About 5 a.m., our reconnaissance registered a brief exchange of fire at the positions of the Ukrainian armed units," he said. "Our reconnaissance officers said in their reports that an unknown unit of commandoes had stormed and seized a platoon-level fortified strongpoint set up by punitive expeditioners from a nationalistic battalion."
Comment: Very interesting development in Ukraine. It is curious what the purpose of the attack is.
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Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
2015-04-30 21:23:00

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While Baltimore burns, the city has proven itself to be yet another staging ground in a long line of scenes involving "violent protests," riots, and racial violence following an incident concerning police brutality, real or otherwise.

Although the issues that have set off the spark in most of these protests were entirely legitimate, government agencies, foundations, organizations, and NGOs immediately swooped in to divert the protests into racially charged fit throwing and often violent riots.

With a carefully orchestrated network that was capable of organizing large numbers of individuals on a moment's notice, and a simultaneous media campaign that cleverly showed violence and riots but ignored peaceful or appropriately-directed violent acts, these organizations were able to turn what could and should have been a national movement into a racially-oriented hate-filled display of unrestrained destruction.
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Sputnik
2015-04-30 21:24:00

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The ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine will end only after the return of Crimea and Donbas regions under control of the Kiev authorities, President Petro Poroshenko said Thursday.

Війна закінчиться тоді, коли Україна поверне собі Донбас і Крим.#КримЦеУкраїна— Петро Порошенко (@poroshenko) April 30, 2015
"The war will end when Ukraine regains Donbas and Crimea," Poroshenko said in an interview with Ukraine's STB television channel.
Comment: Poroshenko doesn't seem to understand what he will unleash on Ukraine. If he does, he seems oblivious with this rhetoric.
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Society's Child
Julian Friese
Sott.net
2015-05-01 18:01:00

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This summary is a continuation of this list which detailed various aircraft accidents and mishaps that occurred recently (a catalogue of 54 such events over 16 days from the 18 March to 3 April).

This latest update logs 123 incidents in 27 days from April 4 to the 30 April from across the globe. (Although no doubt some reports will have been missed or overlooked.)

Below is again a somewhat dry litany of incidents by headlines (with links), but fear not, it's sprinkled with a series of arresting images and videos of crashed planes, aircraft on fire and forced emergency landings.

It's worth noting that although some sort of mechanical failures were involved in many of these accidents, perhaps more tellingly other reports yet again contain testimony about smoke being detected on board. According to this website there have been 53 reports of aircraft smoking or burning so far in 2015 (up to 29 April).

Not to put a finer point on it, what the bloody hell is going on?

April 4

Germanwings plane diverted to Stuttgart due to suspected oil loss

Helicopter exploded mid air before crashing, witnesses tell rescuers

Vehicle Incident in Germany on Saturday, 04 April, 2015 at 15:26 (03:26 PM) UTC.

76-year-old injured in Wetumpka plane crash

Small plane crashes in Orcutt strawberry field with three people on board

Small airplane makes crash landing in Arizona
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Brently Kopopolous
Sott.net
2015-05-01 15:41:00

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As I scrolled through my facebook feed on Monday, I saw a variety of responses to the situation in Baltimore. By and large, most seemed to condemn the 'rioting' which shocked and surprised me. Granted, no one likes a riot - they're dangerous for one, and damage the economic prospects of whatever area they hit for another. What I came to realize was that in America, we have a pervasive attitude of victim-blaming which is likely a trickle-down effect of psychopathic rulers and logic being blasted at us via the mainstream media.


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The original event which sparked the protests was the arrest and murder of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old man who was arrested for running from the police. He suffered a shattered spine while in police custody and of course no one knows how that happened. I'll proffer a suggestion: the 6 cops involved beat him, they beat him so much that one of strongest bones in the human body was utterly destroyed.

Tuesday night, in a perfect example of blaming the victim, an anonymous source leaked a police document to the Washington Post that claimed the 2nd prisoner in the van, who was separated from Gray by a metal wall and couldn't see him, heard Gray "banging against the walls" of the vehicle and believed that he "was intentionally trying to injure himself." This same 2nd prisoner is denying that he ever said any such thing (the statements come from a search warrant application, not an affidavit written by the prisoner). He said he heard 'little banging' noises which he presumed was from his lifeless body rolling around untethered.

Initial reports seem to differ as well, stating the complete opposite:
BPD Comm Anthony Batts says 2nd prisoner in van with Freddie Gray reports no erratic driving by van driver and Gray mostly quiet
— Jayne Miller (@jemillerwbal) April 24, 2015
We can all see where this is going: the narrative will be something like he wanted to claim police brutality and as such, injured himself. Perhaps he was just plain crazy. Whatever lie is most convenient toward putting the middle class to sleep will be flung across the mainstream andprivileged white people will continue to have no idea what's really going on. I suggest the curious reader go through that piece, it'll give you a sense of just how out-of-touch most upper-middle-class people really are.
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Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
2015-04-30 19:06:00

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We now have official confirmation that the rioting in Baltimore on Monday was purposely allowed to spiral out of control. Up until now, there had been some unconfirmed reports that police in Baltimore had been ordered to "stand down" during the riots, but nobody had been willing to come forward and go on the record. Now that has all changed. Michael Lewis is the Sheriff of Wicomico County, Maryland and what he has to say is absolutely jaw dropping. When he saw what was happening in Baltimore, he gathered up some of his fellow officers and drove down to the city to help. But when he got there, he says that all of the police were being ordered not to take any action and to let the rioters destroy property. Lewis made this astounding claim during a discussion on a Baltimore radio station...
A Maryland sheriff who traveled to Baltimore to help law enforcement stop Monday's riots told 105.7 The Fan that he was stunned when officers alerted him of the orders to stand down.
Lewis says that he never heard the mayor give any particular orders, but he is very clear about the fact that the police were being instructed to "stand down" and to "let them destroy property"....
"I was sick to my stomach like everybody else. ... This was urban warfare, no question about it. They were coming in absolutely beaten down. The [city officers] got out of their vehicles, thanked us profusely for being there, apologized to us for having to be there. They said we could have handled this, we were very capable of handling this, but we were told to stand down, repeatedly told to stand down," he said. "I had never heard that order come from anyone — we went right out to our posts as soon as we got there, so I never heard the mayor say that. But repeatedly these guys, and there were many high-ranking officials from the Baltimore City Police Department ... andthese guys told me they were essentially neutered from the start. They were spayed from the start. They were told to stand down, you will not take any action, let them destroy property. I couldn't believe it, I'm a 31-year veteran of law enforcement. ... I had never heard anything like this before in my life and these guys obviously aren't gonna speak out and the more I thought about this, ... I had to say a few things. I apologize if I've upset people, but I believe in saying it like it is."
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RT
2015-05-01 11:45:00

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British teachers concerned about the welfare of disadvantaged pupils have taken to washing their clothes, feeding them homemade lunches and even offering the youngsters haircuts as they warn of a resurgence of Victorian levels of poverty in the UK.

The crisis of growing poverty amid young school children in disadvantaged parts of Britain was laid bare in a damning study conducted by Britain's National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT).

As part of the research, a total of 2,000 leading teachers at schools across the UK were questioned.An overwhelming 84 percent said they were offering youngsters a higher degree of support than they were in 2010, when Britain's financial crisis was ongoing.

The report, published on Friday, revealed teachers regularly offer poor children sports kits for school, and tickets to attend school trips to ensure they don't miss out on formative activities early in life.

As British families struggle to make ends meet, many of these teachers delve directly into their own pockets and limited school budgets to help those in poverty, the study found.
Comment: The number of Britons living in poverty has more than doubled over the past 30 years, despite the British economy doubling in size over the same period. The UK has a very high level of income inequality compared to other developed countries which is the main reason that the impoverished are in such dire straights. The tired meme that wealth eventually 'trickles-down' to raise the poor and middle classes is an obvious deception created by the uber-wealthy so they may ignore injustice and force those who actually have a conscience to take on the responsibilities of caring for those who have been cast aside by this psychopathic economic system.
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Travis Gettys
Raw Story
2015-05-01 18:14:00

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A Detroit prosecutor suggested a violent solution to ending the protests in Baltimore over a black man's death while in police custody.

Teana Walsh, an assistant prosecutor in Wayne County, posted this week on her Facebook account that demonstrators who committed acts of violence or vandalism should be shot, reported WJBK-TV.

"So I am watching the news in Baltimore and see large swarms of people throwing bricks, etc at police who are fleeing from their assaults," Walsh posted.

"(Fifteen) in the hospital already," she continued. "Solution. Simple. Shoot em. Period. End of discussion. I don't care what causes the protestors to turn violent...what the 'they did it because' reason is...no way is this acceptable. Flipping disgusting."
Comment: Another sign of the authoritative mindset that exists in a large percentage of the American population. Authoritarians believe that what authorities do is moral and right and anyone who stands up against them should be punished. It's shocking how prevalent that mindset is in the U.S., stopping any rational thought from occurring. And from that you see a comment like the above, totally void of humanity.
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Travis Gettys
Raw Story
2015-05-01 18:07:00

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The man who recorded video of Freddie Gray's arrest was arrested at gunpoint along with two activists, days after complaining of police "harassment and intimidation."

Kevin Moore and two members of CopWatch, an activist group that records police actions, weretaken into custody Thursday night, reported PINAC News.

Moore filmed one of two videos showing police drag Gray screaming into a police van, where the 25-year-old suffered a fatal spine injury.

A woman who also filmed video of the fatal arrest has been reluctant to speak publicly, but Moore has talked with reporters about what he had seen.

He said Tuesday in a Facebook post that police had circulated his photo and announced that he was "wanted for questioning" - which Moore believes was an attempt to intimidate him into silence.

"OK y'all everyone by now know that I spoke up for Freddie and recorded all I could," Moore posted on social media. "But I would greatly appreciate if y'all could stop posting pics of me plz it's very uncomfortable knowing that the law is looking for me!! Thank y'all."
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Arturo Garcia
Raw Story
2015-04-30 17:57:00

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New statements from the Baltimore man who was imprisoned with Freddie Gray in a police van on the night of Gray's death contradict authorities' account of the night in question, a local television reporter told MSNBC host Chris Hayes on Thursday.

"The key thing to take away is, he did not see Mr. Gray, he couldn't have seen Mr. Gray," WBAL-TV's Jayne Miller said of Donta Allen, who was listed as a source in a police document indicating that Gray purposefully injured himself on the night in question. "I asked him, 'Did you hear [Gray] say anything?' He didn't hear him say anything."

An affadavit for a search warrant stated that, according to Allen, Gray was "banging against the walls" of the van on April 12. Gray died a week after being taken into custody.

Hayes broadcast the entirety of Miller's interview with Allen, during which he denies giving police any information, and accused authorities of using him as a scapegoat for their failure to provide Gray with medical assistance.


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Michael Daly
The Daily Beast
2015-04-23 16:20:00

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A man accused of public urination rode in a similar police van, suffered a spinal injury, and died.

Freddie Gray gave a cry of pain as the arresting officers hoisted him to his feet. Something seemed wrong with his legs as he was dragged in handcuffs to a police van.

"Look at his leg!" a witness can be heard shouting on a cellphone video. "That leg look broke! His leg look broke! You all dragging him like that!"

But the 25-year-old's legs do not seem to have been the source of the pain that caused Gray to cry out again. His head was hanging down, and he may have already suffered a spinal injury such as could have been exacerbated by a failure to immobilize his head and neck before moving him.

More likely, he suffered the devastating and ultimately fatal spinal trauma after he was placed in the van.

"Something happened in that van," Michael Davey, lawyer for the Baltimore police union, said at a press conference on Wednesday.
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Scott Malone and Ian Simpson
Reuters
2015-05-01 15:50:00

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Six Baltimore police officers will face criminal charges, including second-degree murder and manslaughter, in the death of a black man who was arrested and suffered a fatal neck injury while riding in a moving police van, the city's chief prosecutor said on Friday.

Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby said Freddie Gray, who died a week after his April 12 arrest, was in handcuffs but otherwise was not restrained inside the van. The officers failed to provide medical attention to Gray even though he asked for help on at least two occasions.

Gray's death has become the latest flashpoint in a national outcry over the treatment of African-Americans and other minority groups by U.S. law enforcement.
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Daniel Douglas
The Independent, UK
2015-04-30 13:15:00

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More than 50,000 families have been silently shipped out of London boroughs in the past three years, an investigation by The Independent can reveal.

Leaked documents obtained by this newspaper expose the true scale of the "social cleansing" taking place across the capital as a result of welfare cuts and soaring rents. The figures show an unprecedented number of families who cannot afford to find homes in their local area being uprooted from their neighbourhoods and dumped further and further away from the capital, cut off from their relatives and support networks.

The spike coincides with the Coalition's introduction of the benefit cap and "bedroom tax", both of which have made it significantly harder for poor people to afford housing in London. In 2010, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, vowed that the controversial welfare reforms would not lead to "Kosovo-style social cleansing", pledging: "You are not going to see thousands of families evicted from the place where they have been living."

But official figures - which the authorities have previously refused to publish - show the problem is much worse than campaigners feared. They show that councils are currently moving homeless mothers and children out of their boroughs at a rate of close to 500 families a week, with numbers continuing to rise.
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Truthvoice.com
2015-04-30 00:31:00

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Allen Bullock, the 18-year-old seen in photos smashing in a police car with a traffic cone, turned himself in after being encouraged by his parents. But now he is being held on $500,000 bail, an amount his parents cannot afford, The Guardian reports.

Bullock faces charges of rioting and malicious destruction of property, among other criminal counts, after turning himself in at the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center with his stepfather, Maurice Hawkins, at his side. According to Hawkins, who saw footage of his stepson on Saturday, the teen agreed to turn himself in after his stepfather told him that the police would "find him, knock down our door and beat him" if he didn't, The Guardian notes.

However, no good deed goes unpunished, and Hawkins now believes that they are making an example of the teen. "By turning himself in, he also let me know he was growing as a man and he recognized what he did was wrong," Hawkins told The Guardian on Wednesday. "But they are making an example of him, and it is not right."

"As parents, we wanted Allen to do the right thing," Bullock's mother, Bobbi Smallwood, said. "He was dead wrong, and he does need to be punished. But he wasn't leading this riot. He hasn't got that much power."

Hawkins noted that the proposed amount is higher than that placed on some accused murderers in the city. "Who could afford to pay that?" the stepfather asked.
Comment: If it was a drunk white kid in the suburbs the potential for jail time would be non-existent.
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Michael Allen
Opposing Views
2015-04-29 03:16:00

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David Dehmann, 33, died last week at the Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. Dehmann, who suffers from several conditions (Asperger's Syndrome, Tourette's Syndrome and autism), was seriously injured by a deputy at the Knox County Jail in Mount Vernon, Ohio, on April 21.


Dehmann was taken into custody for alleged public intoxication, transported to a hospital, then released, but arrested a second time for alleged persistent disorderly conduct (video below).


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The state's Bureau of Criminal Investigation's Special Investigation Unit is now investigating the incident, noted Mount Vernon News.
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Helen Moses
Daily Mail
2015-04-23 22:22:00

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A known child sex offender has been arrested on suspicion of stealing a school bus and driving it around to pick up youngsters. Patrick James Fredricksen, 30 - who has previous convictions for unlawful sexual activity with a minor and impersonating a firefighter - was stopped on his way to one child's home in eastern Utah, police say. He had already used the bus's on-board list of children's names and addresses to try and abduct a young girl, they added.

Fredricksen has now been booked into Emery County Jail for investigation of theft of a vehicle and attempted child kidnapping. He is also expected to face a charge of damaging a prison after breaking a sprinkler pipe inside his cell and flooding the booking area, said sheriff spokeswoman Janalee Luke. Fredricksen's crime spree is alleged to have started while he was laying turf for a landscaping firm at a baseball complex in Huntington on Monday.

An employee at the site phoned the local sheriff's office to report a worker 'was acting strange' and had left on foot with a set of master keys to the complex. Shortly afterwards, a nearby funeral-parlor worker reported that his car had been stolen from the company car park. He told police he had noticed a 'suspicious' person around the building' but was talking to a bereaved family at the time so 'wasn't too concerned', according to the sheriff's office. They claim Fredricksen was the thief and that he drove the car to an empty school bus, which had its keys inside.
Comment: Studies have shown that these types of sexual predators cannot be rehabilitated.

For more information on how the minds of these individuals operate, check out Anna Salter's book,'Predators, Pedophiles, Rapists, and other Sex Offenders' .

Also see:
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Cassandra Fairbanks
The Free Thought Project
2015-05-01 00:09:00

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Rincon Fire Chief Corey Rahn was on his way to an actual emergency on April 10 when he was aggressively pursued by police. Naturally, he believed they were en route to the same incident. A series of videos have been released documenting the absurd actions of the officer.

The chief was out running errands when he was alerted that a garbage truck had rear-ended a gas truck that was carrying 9,000 gallons of gas, 15 miles away from where he was. Understanding the severity of the situation, Rahn jumped in his personal vehicle and put a mini row of red emergency lights up so that he could rush to the scene and help.

As the fire chief was rushing to the scene, he became an unknowing suspect in a car chase. Despite his emergency lights, an officer began recklessly attempting to pull him over. However, as there was an extraordinarily dangerous situation, with a person trapped, Rahn assumed the officer was just on his way to the scene as well.

According to SavannahNow, the Central Dispatch was reportedly "too busy" to check if it was someone who was responding to an incident. So, the chase continued until eventually the officer used his PA system to demand that the fire chief stop. Rahn heroically ignored the orders and continued to where he was needed, only then learning that he was being chased.
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Tom Levy
Science Daily
2015-04-30 00:00:00

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Over the past 35 years, California's high-wage workers have seen steady increases in their paychecks. But low-wage workers, 4.8 million strong and about one-third of the state's workforce, earned less in inflation-adjusted dollars in 2014 than they did in 1979, according to a new analysis from UC Berkeley.

Berkeley researchers analyzing U.S. Census Bureau data at the campus's Center for Labor Research and Education found that low-wage workers, defined as those earning hourly wages of $13.63 or less, have seen steady declines in their inflation-adjusted buying power. This low-wage workforce, nearly three-quarters nonwhite and concentrated in two industries -- retail trade, and restaurants and other food services -- has also become older and more highly educated.

Teens made up 5 percent of low-wage workers in 2014, down from 16 percent in 1979, and 48 percent of low-wage earners in 2014 had attended some college, compared to 39 percent in 1979. The analysis also showed that 40 percent of the state's low-wage workers in 2014 were foreign-born.

"We found that low-wage workers in California are older and more educated than they were 30 years ago, and yet they've seen stagnant and even declining wages," said Annette Bernhardt, a visiting UC Berkeley professor of sociology and a senior researcher at the center. "The story of growing inequality is not just about the top 1 percent, it is also about the millions of low-wage workers and their families who struggle with economic insecurity every day."
Comment: This helps to explain why nearly a quarter of California's 38 million residents (8.9 million) live in poverty. California continues to have - by far - the nation's highest level of poverty under an alternative method devised by the Census Bureau that takes into account both broader measures of income and the cost of living.
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Secret History
Tia Ghose
Live Science
2015-05-01 11:46:00

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San Francisco — The Nazca Lines, a series of fantastical geoglyphs etched into the desert in Peru,may have been used by two separate groups of people to make pilgrimage to an ancient temple, new research suggests.

But the purpose of the desert etchings may have changed over time.

The earliest Nazca Lines were created so pilgrims could view the markings along a ritual processional route, the researchers said. But later people may have smashed ceramic pots on the ground where the lines intersected as part of an ancient religious rite, according to a study presented here on April 16 at the 80th annual meeting of the Society for American Archeology.

What's more, the Nazca Lines may have been created by at least two different groups of people who lived in different regions of the desert plateau, researchers said.
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Science & Technology
Roisin O'Connor
The Independent, UK
2015-04-30 01:41:00

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Left-handed people may be even more unique than first thought, thanks to a study that has linked one rare condition with another.

100,000 people had their genes sequenced to determine handedness, and it seems that a condition called situs inversus may be able to provide clues behind what makes people use their left hand instead of the right.

One in 20,000 people are affected by the condition which mirrors the major organs from their major positions: for instance the heart would be on the right side of the body instead of the left.

Human geneticist Silvia Paracchini and her team from the University of St Andrews found that the part of the genetic code which is abnormal in people who have situs inversus is the same that affects handedness.

Paracchini said: "The reason why it fascinates us is that we don't really understand it. It's fascinating but also puzzling.

"There must be an evolutionary advantage [to being right-handed]."

While 25 per cent of all left handedness can be linked by a person's genes, the other 75 per cent is still yet to be fully explained.
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Phys.org
2015-04-30 00:00:00

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"The word, virus, connotes morbidity and mortality, but that bad reputation is not universally deserved," said Marilyn Roossinck, PhD, Professor of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology and Biology at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. "Viruses, like bacteria, can be important beneficial microbes in human health and in agriculture," she said. Her review of the current literature on beneficial viruses appeared ahead of print April 24 in the Journal of Virology, which is published by the American Society for Microbiology.

In sharp contrast to the gastrointestinal distress it causes in humans, the murine (mouse infecting) norovirus plays a role in development of the mouse intestine and its immune system, and can actually replace the beneficial effects of certain gut bacteria when these have been decimated by antibiotics. Normal, healthy gut bacteria help prevent infection by bacteria that cause gastrointestinal illness, but excessive antibiotic intake can kill the normal gut flora, and make one vulnerable to gastrointestinal disease. However, norovirus infection of mice actually restored the normal function of the immune system's lymphocytes and the normal morphology of the intestine, said Roossinck.

Mammalian viruses can also provide immunity against bacterial pathogens. Gamma-herpesviruses boost mice resistance to Listeria monocytogenes, an important human gastrointestinal pathogen, and to Yersinia pestis, otherwise known as plague. "Humans are often infected with their own gamma-herpes viruses, and it is conceivable that these could provide similar benefits," said Roossinck.

Latent herpesviruses also arm natural killer cells, an important component of the immune system, which kill both mammalian tumor cells, and cells that are infected with pathogenic viruses.
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Earth Changes
US Geological Survey
2015-05-01 19:45:00

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Time
  1. 2015-05-01 08:06:04 (UTC)
  2. Times in other timezones
Nearby Cities
  1. 106km (66mi) SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
  2. 187km (116mi) ENE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea
  3. 310km (193mi) SSE of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea
  4. 428km (266mi) WNW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea
  5. 693km (431mi) NE of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

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The Phuket News.
2015-04-30 19:20:00

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The waterspout could clearly be seen for around a minute before decaying into a cloud above.

The last waterspout to be seen in Phuket was in November last year over Patong beach.

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration explains that waterspouts are essentially the same as tornados, but over water.

"Waterspouts fall into two categories: fair weather waterspouts and tornadic waterspouts.

"Tornadic waterspouts are tornadoes that form over water, or move from land to water. They have the same characteristics as a land tornado. They are associated with severe thunderstorms, and are often accompanied by high winds and seas, large hail, and frequent dangerous lightning.
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George Sandeman
The Guardian
2015-05-01 17:50:00

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An eight-year-old boy and two adults have been killed after their car was swept away by flood waters in south-east Queensland.

Police were called to Dances Road in Caboolture, north of Brisbane, just after 5.30pm. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene along with a man in his 70s and a woman in her 30s.

Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk described the deaths as tragic, saying police investigations were under way. "On behalf of all Queenslanders we express our deepest sympathies," she told reporters on Friday night.

She described the storm cell as "off the scale".

Caboolture alone received 333mm of rain from 9am, with 277mm falling within three hours in the afternoon. The average rainfall for Brisbane for the month of May is 74mm but, as ABC weather presenter Jenny Woodward tweeted, the city has received a record amount of 181mm, with the previous mark having been 149mm in 1980. The Bureau of Meteorology has also said that some areas of Queensland experienced winds in excess of 100km/h. 


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The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
2015-05-01 17:09:00

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A herd of 16 elephants trampled a woman on a hill of Satkania upazila in Chittagong this afternoon.

"The elephants destroyed a woman's house in the forest, eventually killing her," said Asheem Mollick, a wildlife inspector of Department of Forests.

The deceased has been identified as Ambia Khatun, 50.

Earlier in the day, the elephants were travelling from one hill to another, through the elephant pass.

On their way, they tampered with a recently built electric pole which finally killed a female aged elephant.

The rest of the elephants were still wandering in the forest.
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Bruce Di Labio
Ottawa Citizen
2015-05-01 16:50:00

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The anticipation of spring migrants pouring into Canada's Capital is still just a dream. The continuing cool weather last week slowed north bound migration yet again but with warmer temperatures this past week, truly the dream will slowly become a reality.

How cool is it?

On a recent trip to Algonquin Park on April 28, some lakes were still partially frozen and snow drifts were visible in sheltered areas. What we need is a good dose of southern air.

This past week a few new arrivals were found making their way north in spite of the weather including Ovenbird, Palm Warbler, and Northern Waterthrush. A Blue-gray Gnatcher was seen in the Pakenham area on April 26.
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The Clarion Ledger
2015-05-01 12:29:00

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A sinkhole big enough to swallow a car has developed on a busy section of Mississippi Highway 6 in Oxford.

Fortunately, people spotted the hazard and authorities re-routed traffic before anybody drove into it.
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports the problem started Wednesday morning in an eastbound lane. The hole was between the exit for Jackson Avenue and one for Chucky Mullins Drive, leading to the University of Mississippi campus.
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nbcnews.com
2015-04-29 11:38:00

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A Hawaii woman was killed in an apparent shark attack off the coast of Maui on Wednesday morning, prompting officials to close off beaches and a section of the ocean that includes a popular surfing spot.

Snorkelers near the Ahihi-Kinau Natural Area Reserve on the southwest coast of the island found the woman's body floating face-down in the water just before 9 a.m., and the injuries are consistent with a shark attack, Maui County government said in a statement.

The woman was only identified as a 65-year-old resident of Kihei, up the coast about 12 miles from where her body was found. Authorities said she was snorkeling with two friends when they became separated, and she was alone when the body was discovered.

Beaches and the ocean from the reserve to Makena State Park to the north, including a surf spot called "The Dumps" were closed until at least noon Thursday, the Department of Land and Natural Resources said.

There have only been two other shark attacks in all of Hawaii so far this year, according to the DLNR, which tracks shark attacks. Neither was fatal.

Until Wednesday, there had been only three confirmed fatal shark attacks in Hawaii waters since 1995, but all three of those occurred off the coast of Maui - two in the past 16 months, DLNR records said. 


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Richard Davies
floodlist.com
2015-05-01 10:51:00

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A storm dumped over 188mm (7.4 inches) of rain on Havana, Cuba, during 30 April 2015, leaving 2 dead and causing several buildings to collapse.

Local media say that one of the victims, an elderly man, drowned in the flood water in the Old Havana District of the city. The other victim was electrocuted after power cables were knocked down by the storm.

Water and power supplies were interrupted during the storm. At least three buildings collapsed and over 20 others were damaged. Building collapses are not uncommon in the older areas of the city, where housing stock is densely inhabited and generally in poor condition. In late November 2013, 2 people died in Havana after a building collapsed as a result of flooding.

The heavy rain flooded many of the city's streets. The municipalities of Centro Habana, Old Havana and Cerro were the worst affected, according to local media. Flood water was over 50cm deep in some areas, causing problems for drivers and pedestrians.

More heavy rain is expected in the country over the next 24 to 48 hours, particularly in western regions. The torrential rains have been caused by thunderstorms that formed rapidly in the Florida Straits, ahead of a cold front, according to Cuba's National Institute of Meteorology (INSMET).
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The Guardian
2015-05-01 08:41:00

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South-east Queensland hit by a deluge, forcing events to be cancelled, and parts of northern NSW warned to expect damaging winds and heavy rainfall


The east coast low battering Queensland is moving south toward New South Wales, with heavy rain and dangerous winds set to hit the northern rivers, mid north Coast and northern tablelands over the weekend.

Queenslanders have been experiencing wind gusts in excess of 100km/hr and extreme flash flooding on Friday, according to the Bureau of Meteorology (Bom).

The rugby league Anzac Test between Australia and New Zealand at Suncorp Stadium on Friday night has been postponed due to the bad weather.

The Australia-New Zealand Test will now be played on Sunday at 4pm, with the City-Country match going ahead at 2pm.

All tickets purchased for Friday's match will be valid for the rescheduled match, however those unable to attend will be given a full refund.

Rain had earlier forced organisers to call off the trans-Tasman curtain-raiser - the women's Test between Australia's Jillaroos and New Zealand's Kiwi Ferns - although that will now also be rescheduled for Sunday.

That east coast low is expected to cross the state border early on Saturday morning, when the rainfall in Queensland will begin to decrease and the focus will turn to NSW.

"We're going into the most intense period of rainfall in the next six to 12 hours [in NSW] and with that we'll also see those strong winds too," a Bom spokesman said on Friday afternoon.

Rainfall of around 150 to 200mm is expected for northern NSW during that time, with the possibility of localised falls of more than 350mm.

People living along the coast from the Queensland border as far south as Port Macquarie would be hit with the heaviest rain and strongest winds, with very heavy surf also predicted, according to a statement from the Bom.

#Breaking: urgent very dangerous #QLDstorm warning for #Brisbane and#MoretonBay - detail: http://t.co/R2oqBtTYoG pic.twitter.com/yD2K0ywDBP
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Zack Newmark
NLTimes
2015-04-26 09:08:00

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water main break in Breda flooded streets and left area residents without water Sunday, utility firm Brabant Water announced. The break caused a sinkhole on Haagweg, leading the company to send repair crews to the scene.

A traffic detour was set up around Haagweg, to give water crews room to work.

The incident began at about 5 a.m. The area around Haagweg and Gooren, a street 150 meters east of there, is without water until about 8 p.m., the company said less than two hours later.
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Joanne Nova
JoNova
2015-04-30 01:56:00
A new telescope has peered into the Sun to see solar magnetic flux ropes for the first timeSevere flux rope twists have been described as being like "earthquakes" on the sun, and are linked to eruptions of large solar flares that change magnetic fields, and cause radiation and energetic particles to rain on Earth.

We don't know much about solar magnetic flux ropes. We know they affect space weather, but thanks to climate experts we already "know" they can't possibly, ever in a million years, affect Earth's weather. Even though we've only just been able to see them and have no long term data on them, we have Global Circulation Climate models (which don't include these solar factors), so we have 95% certainty that none of the particles, fields or radiation changes have much impact on Earth. They might fritz satellites, electronics and communications, but Earth's atmosphere has no electrical component (wink), and the models "work" (kinda, sorta, apart from "the pause", the arctic, the ocean, the antarctic, and the holocene) without any of this fuzzy solar stuff. Got that? Repeat after me. The Sun does not affect Earth's climate. (Good boys and girls. You are fit for a government grant.)

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Science Daily: Scientists at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) have captured the first high-resolution images of the flaring magnetic structures known as solar flux ropes at their point of origin in the Sun's chromosphere.

Flux ropes are bundles of magnetic fields that together rotate and twist around a common axis, driven by motions in the photosphere, a high-density layer of the Sun's atmosphere below the solar corona and chromosphere.
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Bill Chadwick
Oregon State University
2015-04-30 00:28:00

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Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and Washington, appears to be erupting - after two scientists had forecast that such an event would take place there in 2015.

Geologists Bill Chadwick of Oregon State University and Scott Nooner of the University of North Carolina Wilmington made their forecast last September during a public lecture and followed it up with blog posts and a reiteration of their forecast just last week at a scientific workshop.

They based their forecast on some of their previous research - funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which showed how the volcano inflates and deflates like a balloon in a repeatable pattern as it responds to magma being fed into the seamount.

Since last Friday, the region has experienced thousands of tiny earthquakes - a sign that magma is moving toward the surface - and the seafloor dropped by 2.4 meters, or nearly eight feet, also a sign of magma being withdrawn from a reservoir beneath the summit. Instrumentation recording the activity is part of the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative. William Wilcock of the University of Washington first observed the earthquakes.
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Health & Wellness
Andrea Smardon
kuer.org
2015-04-24 19:54:00

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Primatologist Jane Goodall was speaking in Salt Lake City at a sold-out event Friday evening about her work and the future of chimpanzees. But in the afternoon, she lent her fame and clout to a more controversial cause. Goodall appeared with Steven Druker, the author of a book that aims to wipe out genetically modified organisms from the world's food supply.

In a talk sponsored by the Pax Natura Foundation, Jane Goodall thanked Steven Druker for writing his book, Altered Genes, Twisted Truth. She herself wrote the forward and she said the book substantiated her concerns that genetically engineered foods were dangerous.
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Heather Saul
The Independent
2015-05-01 18:01:00

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A dog has spread the plague to four people in Colorado, in an outbreak officials say could involve the first person-to-person transmission of the infection in the US in 90 years
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study published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found the infection was spread when a pitbull terrier was taken ill and eventually put down by vets. The two vets who treated the animal, his owner and a friend of the owner developed similar symptoms as the dog shortly afterwards and tested positive for Yersinia pestis, which causes the plague.

All four were treated with antibiotics and made a full recovery, NBC reports.

Dr John Douglas, director of Colorado's Tri-County Health Department, said there are eight cases of the plague in humans each year on average. "Plague is virtually always confined in this day and age to rural regions in the West," he told the network. "That is because the vector of plague is typically the prairie dog although there are other rodents that can transmit as well."
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David Perlmutter
The Daily Beast
2015-04-28 10:25:00
Researchers are just now starting to link inflammation in your gut with some of the most deadly and debilitating diseases we have.

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Why are we making such little progress in our attempts to uncover the causes of various forms of brain degeneration? These days we frequently hear about breakthroughs in our understanding of diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and arthritis, but when the discussion turns to the brain, there seems to be very little news.

Medical research continues to operate with a reductionist mentality. The human body is looked upon as simply a compilation of various parts and systems, and each of these is looked upon as functioning independent of the others.

Many attribute the tenants of reductionism to the 17th-century French philosopher and mathematician Renée Decartes, who, in 1637, proposed that the world and all living beings were basically like machines, made up of clockwork mechanisms. In his Discourses, he argued that animate beings could be taken apart, studied, and then reassembled to gain a better perspective as to the meaning of the larger picture.

And so it is that, by and large, research endeavors attempting to understand what causes the brain to degenerate in conditions like Parkinson's disease or ALS focus on the nervous system. These are devastating conditions for which modern medicine offers up no cure. And it may well be that clinging to this reductionist approach—one that sees the brain and its myriad diseases as existing apart from the rest of the body—underlies our failure to uncover the causes and therefore treatments for some of our most feared maladies.
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Capt. Randall
Greenmedinfo.com
2015-04-16 22:39:00

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Staying healthy is hard enough without intentional disinformation. Basic science and logic can reveal the life-saving truths forbidden by our medical industrial complex and corporate media.

It's hard to find anyone who does not believe in the Germ Theory of Disease or that butter will clog your arteries or that we are somehow defective and at the mercy of a genetic weakness. These fictions have spanned several generations; most doctors and the misinformed public accept them without question.

While the medical system has made great strides in trauma care and intervention, it fails miserably at prevention and the treatment of chronic disease. What's ironic is that many naturalistic physicians and supplement makers work from the same faulty "need the right drug" idea and could be more effective if they recognized the electro-chemical nature of life and broadened their focus toward manipulating macro-conditions favorable for cellular health. Then again, the marketing of everything has resulted in confusion everywhere.
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High Strangeness
CTV Vancouver
2015-04-30 09:29:00

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A strange object has been caught on video flying across the night sky in Esquimalt, B.C., and the people who filmed it insist it's a UFO.

Brian Cooper and his wife Melissa were relaxing in bed watching a movie on Monday night when all of a sudden they saw something outside their window: two strange objects darting around the night sky.

"At that point we were at a loss for words and we were like 'what the hell is that?'" Brian Cooper told CTV Vancouver Island.

Cooper and his wife leapt out to their second-storey balcony and used their cell phone to film what he claims is likely a secret military vehicle, or maybe even proof of alien life.

"I have never seen anything like this in my life. I'm a very skeptical person," he said.

Cooper said the objects first appeared around 8:30 p.m. While one soon vanished, the other kept flying over the area - including over Esquimalt's Navy base.
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Laura McVicker
NBC San Diego
2015-04-30 15:37:00

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This video was taken by our NBC 7 crew in San Ysidro. Several viewers also told us about the lights. Some said they appeared to be red, blue, and green and kept flashing and changing colors. Some who saw them say the lights didn't seem to move, like those on a plane or a drone. We put in calls to the military here to see if they could identify what these were. So far, no response. 

Did you see those mysterious lights southwest of San Diego on Tuesday night?

A viewer sent us several photos he took, capturing a string of multicolored lights in the sky above San Diego. The viewer, Larry Fox, said the lights that appeared to be red, blue and green kept flashing and changing colors from his vantage point in Del Cerro.

"It looked like a strobe light," he said.
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Don't Panic! Lighten Up!
Sputnik
2015-05-01 18:13:00

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A new application from Microsoft which claims to be able to tell person's age using their photo has proved a hit with internet users, who have been uploading its best and worst efforts, with the hashtag #HowOldRobot.

#howoldrobot According to #Microsoft's new tool, #obama is really showing the pressure. http://t.co/Be0bGcoEHQ pic.twitter.com/cl8x3ex0rm— GoSocial Media (@GoSocialJax) May 1, 2015
The years haven't been kind to US President Barack Obama.
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Melissa Randall
WLNE-TV
2015-04-30 10:06:00

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Imagine coming home to find a turkey sitting on your bathroom counter after crashing through a window. It happened to Nancy Page of Warwick.

"The door was open and I rounded the corner and there was a turkey— sitting on my vanity," she explained.

The wild bird came crashing through the window last week and created quite a mess. The turkey had accidentally turned on the faucet which ran for hours flooding the room. That's in addition to the glass and feathers that went everywhere.

Page says she wasn't really sure what to do, so she closed the door and called 911.

"My emergency was water gushing through the ceiling... and a turkey in my bathroom," said Page. "She [the dispatcher] said what? And I said it again and said this really is true."

Police, fire, and D.E.M came to the rescue. Page captured the birds' removal from the Algonquin Drive home on her cell phone. With a little prodding the turkey stands up and takes off completely unharmed.

"Everybody has gotten a really good laugh out of this because it is so comical. No one was hurt so we're real thankful for that," said Page.