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60 minutes
2015-07-23 13:36:00
Australian investigative TV program 60 minutes recently aired a program that exposes the fact that high level British politicians, government ministers, intelligence, police and military chiefs have all been involved in decades-long, systematic sexual abuse, rape and murder of hundreds or perhaps thousands of children as young as 8 years old. This is not a case of a 'few bad apples' but rather a pervasive culture among the British 'elite' where the bodies, hearts, minds and souls of young children are effectively 'consumed' by individuals in positions of almost absolute power. In addition, the crimes of these vicious predators have been deliberately covered up through the use of blackmail and death threats. No one should be under any illusion that the alleged 'investigation' being conducted by the British government will reveal the real truth or see justice served, because this is merely a case of the guilty investigating themselves. 30 min video:
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Pepe Escobar
So what is the Obama administration really up to in Iran? What sort of strategic calculations have led to what for the moment looks like a tactical geopolitical shift?Sputnik News 2015-07-23 19:30:00
President Obama certainly concluded that the 36-year-long Wall of Mistrust against Iran was bound to fail. The real Masters of the Universe in Washington - those who control the deep state - always knew that the "nuclear weapons" hysteria was bogus. That was part of a strategic decision to keep the Islamic Republic isolated from the West as long as possible, and ultimately force regime change. The "policy" failed - miserably. So Obama's Plan B was a nuclear deal. And after striking a deal, why not seduce Tehran into some sort of collaborative effort in policing the Middle East - as in reigning in or, better yet, soundly defeating ISIS/ISIL/Daesh? That would provide a neat historical echo to the Shah years - the former "gendarme of the Gulf" who, when driven out of power by the Islamic revolution, plunged Exceptionalistan into fits of decades-long despair. Moreover, the Obama administration and some Beltway factions seemed to believe that factional leadership silos in Tehran - and Qom — might be manipulated to serve US strategic interests. Even before the Lausanne agreement, and in the lead-up towards the Vienna deal, this possibility was practically discussed by US Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. In diplomatic talk, these were "discussions of regional issues". | |
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Sputnik News
2015-07-23 15:34:00
The brutal Islamist group notorious for the atrocities it commits daily in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere has promised to "fill the streets of Paris with dead bodies" in a newly released video, Press TV reported. The footage, published by Islamic State's propaganda office, showed a militant saying that he is one of approximately five hundred French nationals fighting alongside IS in the Middle East. He added that the message was directed at anyone, who is trying to destroy the group, whether he is French or not. The IS fighter then fatally shot a Syrian soldier with an assault rifle and threw his body off a cliff. The video was allegedly filmed in the Syrian province of Hama. | |
Comment: ISIS receives an allowance from NATO. So much for NATO being a "defensive pact":
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Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge 2015-07-23 15:38:00
After Monday's tragic terrorist attack in the Turkish town of Suruc, just across from the Syrian border and kilometers away from ISIS-controlled Kobani, which left dozens dead in what authorities claim was due to an ISIS-linked 20 year old suicide bomber, hostilities have dramatically escalated in the past few days culminating with news that one Turkish soldier killed and one was wounded in border province of Kilis by gunfire from Syria, according to state-run Anadolu Agency reports. According to the Guardian, "one Turkish solider has been killed and another wounded in clashes with Islamic State across the Syrian border, a senior Turkish official said. The clashes continued as the Turkish army returned fire on the militants in Syria. Earlier, a Turkish police officer was shot and killed and a second wounded in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir. Violence along Turkey's 560-mile (900km) border with Syria has spiked in recent days, beginning with a suicide bombing blamed on Isis in the town of Suruç on Monday. The Diyarbakir shooting came a day after two police officers were killed in an attack in Ceylanpinar on the Syrian border claimed by militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)" | |
Comment: Turkey has been waiting to invade Syria for some time. Elements of the Turkish power structure have long been at the center of NATO's "Terrorists Inc." and have been eager to take down the biggest contenders in the region. It's a lawless world, thanks to Washington. Check out:
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RT
2015-07-23 15:10:00
US intelligence may have used Macau casinos owned by an American tycoon to set a trap for Chinese functionaries who gamble with public money,in order to blackmail and recruit them. The "highly confidential" report on the gambling industry exposing the possible CIA operation in Macau, was prepared by a private investigator in 2010 and remained secret until it was uncovered by the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley, the Guardianreports. The document dated June 25, 2010, was presented by Sands China Limited, the Macau branch of the gambling empire of Las Vegas tycoon Sheldon Adelson, as part of an ongoing lawsuit filed by Steven Jacobs, former head of Sands Macau casinos, who is suing the company for wrongful dismissal. The civil action hearing is being held at a Las Vegas court. | |
Comment: This is how Washington's 'game' works against individuals, groups, and countries. Those with power use blackmail, toxic promises, and economic warfare to vector their opponents:
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Tatzhit
Just let that headline sink in.Fort Russ 2015-07-20 16:29:00 Here is the actual language: "The ATO* spokesmen [Major General Taran and colonel Sergei Galushko] have presented proof that Donetsk is being shelled by the rebels themselves, in order to provoke return fire from the UAF forces, and then blame them for shelling Donetsk."SOURCE
So, here is the reality as presented by "Voice of Langley" in East Europe: The rebels start randomly shelling their own families in Donetsk. UAF see it, get "provoked" by somebody else doing their job, and start indiscriminately shelling Donetsk as well. Now we just wait for John Kirby and Co. to start parroting these claims... | |
Comment: Western media cannot tell the truth; they're simply not allowed, and don't care one way of the other anyway. And this is the lengths they will go: spouting complete absurdities. So, Donetsk shells civilians, and Kiev also shells civilians, but in retaliation? It simply doesn't make sense. But very little sense comes out of the Ukrainian and American governments these days. For example:More Congressional theater? Samantha Power's feet held to the fire over roots of Ukrainian crisis, commits felony by lying to Congress
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F. William Engdahl
The dual summits that took place in Russia's Ufa beginning 9 July were anything but routine. In fact it may be seen by future historians as a signal event that marked the definitive decline of the global hegemony of European civilization including North America. This is no small event in human history. It's the most significant shift in relative global economic relations since the Fourth Crusade in 1204 when the Republic of Venice emerged as a world power following their brutal, disgraceful capture and sacking of Constantinople, marking the demise of the Byzantine Empire.New Eastern Outlook 2015-07-22 15:38:00 First a look at what transpired. Russia was host to two overlapping summits of emerging alternative organizations, the annual meeting of the BRICS nations as well as the annual meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The larger significance has been all but entirely blacked out by western mainstream media such as the New York Times. First we look at the results from the BRICS meeting where Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are the five member states. The BRICS formally put their New Development Bank (NDB) into operation. It has world headquarters in Shanghai, China's banking and financial center with a branch in South Africa to serve the African region.
It is explicitly operating as an alternative to the post-1945 domination of the IMF and World Bank, the heart of Washington's Dollar System. It has member contributions of $50 billion for infrastructure projects mainly, but not exclusively, in the BRICS states. As well it has created a $100 billion financial defense fund, a so-called Contingent Reserves Arrangement, in event of speculative attacks such as were launched by Washington with the Soros Quantum Fund in 1997 to destroy the independent Asian Tiger economies. The NDB bank is in business one year after the last BRICS summit agreed to its creation, and the meeting announced that first approved infrastructure projects will begin at the beginning of 2016. That's an impressive testament to the mutual will to create an alternative to the IMF and World Bank, both of the latter controlled by Washington where they are headquartered. Notably BRICS agreed for the first time to institute formal cooperation with the leaders of the Eurasian Economic Union of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. As well they agreed to meet the leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) - Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. | |
Comment: Russia and China have shown what can be accomplished when real adults sit down to solve their problems. The corruption of the West is slowly crumbling before it.
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RT
2015-07-23 15:22:00
The former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has allegedly been offered a position in the Russian Economy Ministry, and Russian citizenship by President Putin, Italian media reported. La Stampa newspaper quoted the ex-premier as saying, "My future? Becoming minister for my friend Putin." "Think about it: in Italy I am marginalized, while Putin tells me he is ready to give me [Russian] citizenship and get me the lead of the Russian Economy Ministry," the controversial politician added. Berlusconi reportedly said it during a dinner with the 'Forza Italia' ('Forward Italy') political party. | |
Comment: Slippery Silvio must be overestimating his friendship with Putin.
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RT
2015-07-21 02:16:00
The governmental commission for legislation has approved a bill that if passed would allow Russia to impound property of foreign states, so long as Russian courts rule these countries are infringing the sovereignty of Russian jurisdiction. According to business daily Kommersant, the government will shortly look into the draft and then it will be submitted to the parliament. The current draft, developed by the Justice Ministry, would give Russian courts more powers to impound the property of foreign states. Currently such steps are only allowed on condition the government of the country in question agrees. The new rules would cancel this stipulation and introduce another - impounding would only be possible as a reciprocal measure after a court decides that a nation has damaged the economic or other interests of the Russian Federation. The Justice Ministry said in comments that the main idea behind the bill was to ensure a "jurisdiction balance" between Russia and foreign states. "The number of lawsuits against the Russian Federation is constantly growing and this happens without asking for our agreement for participation in these processes," ministry sources told Kommersant. Therefore, recognizing the ruling of foreign courts is equal to conceding national sovereignty, they added. In early July, mass media reported that several European countries, such as Belgium and France had frozen Russian state companies' assets and curtailed their agencies in these countries. The move was in connection with the June 2014 ruling by the International Court in The Hague that ordered Russia to pay compensation of $39.9 billion, $1.85 billion and $8.2 billion to three companies connected with Yukos. The oil giant was dissolved in 2007 after its top managers and key owners were jailed for tax evasion. | |
Comment: Unlike the West's approach the seizures would be used to compensate Russian citizens who are victims of Western governments grabbing property belonging to them.
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Sputnik
2015-07-20 22:59:00
Germany, the largest and most industrialized economy in the EU, projected as a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations, is set to remain within the tight grip of the US, as Washington fears becoming isolated in the international arena amid the rise of the BRICS countries, according to a Russian Colonel General. Germany, Europe's most industrialized and populous country, famed for its technological achievements, is prohibited from acquiring its own nuclear weapons. It renounced the nuclear option in the Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968. However, it is among the nations with the dubious distinction of hosting US nuclear weapons, along with Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey. The removal of the US nuclear warheads from Germany is a long-term aim of the country's government. However, the weapons remain in place. | |
Comment: How's that Western 'freedom and democracy' working out for you, Germany?
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ITAR-TASS
2015-07-22 23:11:00
The Ukrainian companies that have lost their property in Crimea after the Black Sea peninsula's reintegration into Russia may claim a total of $2 billion from Moscow, ex-Governor of the Dnipropetrovsk Region, billionaire businessman Igor Kolomoisky said on Wednesday. The Ukrainian oligarch declined to comment in detail on the intention of PrivatBank, part of Kolomoisky's Privat Group empire, to file a relevant lawsuit against Russia to The Hague Tribunal. "I don't want to comment on anything [on The Hague Tribunal]. I believe lawsuits from all various structures and not only from PrivatBank will total about $2 billion," he said in reply to a question put by a TASS correspondent. | |
Comment: This is what Kolomoisky is complaining about that occurred back in April:
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RT
2015-07-22 21:53:00
The European Commission has set up a €315 billion European Fund for Strategic Investments. It has the potential to add up to €440 billion to the EU's GDP and create over one million new jobs in the coming three years. The Fund represents an Investment plan for Europe, which was unveiled by EU Commission President Jean-Claude Junker last year. It's supposed to make billions of euros available for investment projects throughout the 28-nation bloc, with a heavy emphasis on financing for infrastructure, small businesses, education, youth employment and telecoms. "Investments is what the European Union is missing today, as the level of investments currently is 15 percent lower than in 2007," European Commission Vice-President Jyrki Katainen, responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness, said in a press release Wednesday. He also expressed confidence that "the project is an important step for growth and employment in Europe." | |
Comment: Yup, that should fix Europe's problem, increase debt to fuel the stock market.
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RT
2015-07-22 21:36:00
President Barack Obama used his last appearance on the Daily Show to defend the Iran nuclear deal and his other achievements. Host Jon Stewart pointed out that diplomacy might work better than failed US policies of bombing, invasion and regime change. "Whose team are we on in the Middle East?" Stewart, host of the popular comedy program for over 16 years, asked the president. "Who are we bombing?" | |
Comment: So everything is fine and going according to plan. Sit back and be amazed when the SHTF.
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RT
2015-07-23 19:42:00
A Kyrgyz schoolgirl received a 6-month-old Newfoundland puppy from the Russian President as a gift. She had asked him for the animal in an email during the annual Direct Line on April 16, 2015. Dasha Yaitskaya said she wanted a dog of that exact breed. There were none in Kyrgyzstan, and it was impossible for her family to bring such a pooch from abroad. "That's true! We received a letter addressed to the president from the girl, saying her family couldn't afford to buy the dog," the president's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS on Thursday. The girl's parents weren't aware that their daughter had written to the president about her wish and were surprised to see the puppy. They nevertheless extended a warm welcome to the new family member. | |
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Surviving in Argentina 2015-07-21 00:00:00
In Latin America it's called "Trafico de personas". You know it as human trafficking. It didn't use to be a widespread problem in Argentina. It existed, but after the 2001 collapse it increased significantly. Poverty, crime, government and police corruption all works to create an environment where slavery flourishes. The same is happening in US right now. Human trafficking is on the rise. Calls to U.S. trafficking hotline rise 26 percent led from last year by sex victims. When people ask about the similarities between what happened in Argentina and Greece and what could happen in America, I explain that it's already happening. The difference is that in the case of U.S. it's a slow, long process with few landmark moments but with very similar results. Poverty, social degradation and loss of standards of living just degrades everything around you until one day you wake up, look around and wonder what the heck happened. | |
Comment: Under the chaos of ensuing economic turmoil, earth changes and other types of upheaval, the predators will be out in droves and emboldened to take advantage. Vigilance and safeguards must be applied on a constant basis.
To get some further sense of how widespread and pervasive human trafficking is already, see also: Tip of the iceberg: Human trafficking in one graphic Social Decay: UK child sex trafficking, sex abuse, and modern slavery soars, says National Crime Agency Saudi diplomatic/military compound in Virginia investigated for human trafficking US drops biggest-ever human trafficking case amid evidence doubts Child Protective Services children found in human trafficking sex trade Sex trafficking victim says police involved in human slave trade abused and threatened her FBI: Child Sex Trafficking at Epidemic Levels US farm companies charged with human trafficking Human Trafficking: Modern Day Slavery Affecting 30 Million Women and Children 'Shameful' failure to tackle slavery and human trafficking in the UK 139 graves, signs of torture found in Malaysia human trafficking camps Nigeria: Trafficking in Human Beings Trial Delayed in Nashville for Somalis Accused in Child Sex Trafficking Ring | |
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Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Business Insider 2015-07-22 01:38:00
Gun-toting citizens are showing up at military recruiting centers around the country, saying they plan to protect recruiters following last week's killing of four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The citizens, some of them private militia members, said they're supporting the recruiters, who by military directive are not armed. "We're here to serve and protect," Clint Janney said Tuesday, wearing a Taurus 9mm handgun as he stood in a parking lot across from a recruiting center on the west side of Columbus. "What the government won't do, we will do." | |
Comment: This is just an accident waiting to happen. These people are only too happy to brandish their weapons. Imagine when the economy starts really breaking down what can happen with all of these guns.
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RT
2015-07-22 15:11:00
Officials in Cincinnati, Ohio have launched a probe into the fatal shooting of a black motorist by a white officer during a traffic stop. Prosecutors say the victim was shot once in the head, while still inside the car, after struggling with the officer. "We are rapidly investigating what occurred between University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing and Samuel Dubose and we expect to have our assessment complete before the end of next week," Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph T. Deters said in a statement on Tuesday. Dubose, 43, was pulled over on Sunday night by Tensing, because he was missing the front license plate on his car, University Police Chief Jason Goodrich explained at a news conference on Monday. University and city police work together on and around the campus. When Dubose was asked for his driver's license and registration, he "produced a bottle of alcohol from inside the car, handing it to Officer Tensing," Goodrich said, adding that after a brief struggle the car rolled forward, and Tensing was knocked to the ground. He then shot Dubose. | |
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Amanda Froelich
This professor harnessed the ancient technique of "chip grafting" and produced a tree capable of bearing 40 different kinds of fruit!TrueActivist 2015-07-22 19:19:00
Technology is only as limited as the human mind, and when one can conceive a grand vision, it will no doubt be made manifest at some point or another. Such statement applies to the enchanting-looking tree (pictured below) which is capable of bearing40 different types of stone fruit, including peaches, nectarines, apricots, and almonds. Artist and Syracuse University professor Sam Van Aken is responsible for this magnificent wonder and achieved it by harnessing an ancient technique called "chip grafting." As National Geographic shares, the process is one of patience. Over a period of several years, Van Aken tediously spliced branches with buds of various varieties into a base branch called the "working tree." | |
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Two maps of lightning fatalities, using data from 2005-2014, offer interesting insight to where the greatest risk is of being killed by lightning. The data was collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the maps were compiled by Vaisala Inc., operators of the National Lightning Detection Network, which detects cloud-to-ground lightning strikes anywhere in the continental U.S. The rankings include all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. This first map plots the number of deaths for each state from 2005-2014. The states are color coded based on their ranking. Not surprisingly, Florida, with 47 deaths, is the state with the highest total number of deaths due to lightning over the past 10 years. Second place goes to Texas with 20 deaths, and Colorado is third with 17 deaths. | |
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myfoxtampabay.com
2015-07-23 20:02:00
Firefighters in Citrus County were on the scene Thursday of a possible sinkhole which swallowed a truck-mounted drilling rig. Deputies said the sinkhole opened up from drilling a well at the home in Beverly Hills and no one inside the home was hurt. The home was about 60 feet away from the hole, which was about 30 feet deep, said the Citrus County public information officer. There was also no damage to the home, but photos on the Citrus County Sheriff's Office Facebook page show it took down most of the large truck and only the nose of the truck was sticking up out of the hole.
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lex18.com
2015-07-23 19:39:00
What was built to be an oasis in their front yard has now become an eye sore for a Lancaster family. "It's a big mud hole," said Cathy Fritz, homeowner. "It's focal point of the house so it's a little more heartbreaking to see." In the past 24 hours, the Fritz family has been watching their dream home, on Dairy Way, go down the drain. They knew something was wrong when one day the ponds had overflowed and the next morning, they were almost empty.
"They dropped about three feet more and I knew we had big trouble, big trouble," Fritz said. To try to figure out exactly how serious the situation was the family measured how quickly the water was receding and were shocked with their discovery. "It was dropping about 14 inches an hour," Fritz said. It didn't take long before they found a sinkhole, they say, had doubled in size in a day. | ||
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hongkong.coconuts.co
2015-07-23 16:01:00
Just in case you weren't aware of how nasty the weather has been the last few days - perhaps you live and work in a mall or are a duck - we have photographic evidence. A Hong Kong resident spotted a waterspout (basically a mini tornado-looking thing over water) near Kau Yi Chau, an uninhabited island just west of Victoria Harbour, at around 8am yesterday morning. An active southwesterly airstream that brought heavy rain and thunderstorms to Hong Kong yesterday is said to be to blame/thank for the phenomenon. According to radar data from the Hong Kong Observatory, we were experiencing particularly heavy rain at the time. You don't say? | |
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cjme.com
2015-07-23 14:43:00
The thunderstorm that rolled through Wednesday afternoon didn't last long, but it was intense with strong wind, lightning, heavy rain and small hail. In Kerrobert, north of Kindersley, large hail and strong wind tore down trees and ripped siding off homes and businesses. Patsy Kiss, manager of the Wild Goose Motel in Kerrobert, watched the clouds roll in. "I said to my husband and the girl working the office, 'Oh, hoho! are we in for one wicked hail storm," she said. "It was coming from the west and I seen it coming. The clouds were just white and I thought, 'Oh, are we gonna get it' and we did." Golf-ball sized hail fell from the sky for 15 minutes combined with wind and rain. Kiss said nearly all the homes in Kerrobert have siding ripped off. She guessed that two thirds of the homes have broken windows.
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Agriculture officials in Nakuru County, Kenya are investigating an anthrax outbreak that has killed scores of animals at Lake Nakuru National Park. According to local media, more than one hundred buffaloes and two rhinos have died in the past five days. In addition, officials have killed animals suspected of having the lethal bacterial disease. Bacillus anthracis, the agent of anthrax, was confirmed by Kenya Wildlife Service veterinarians at the Lake Nakuru National Park. Nakura County Executive for Agriculture Dr. Stanley Chepkwony said, "We are also warning people not to come into contact with these animals or their meat products." Anthrax is a bacterial pathogen in livestock and wild animals. Some of the more common herbivores are cattle, sheep,goats, horses, camels and deers. Anthrax is a very serious disease of livestock because it can potentially cause the rapid loss of a large number of animals in a very short time. Affected animals are often found dead with no illness detected. It infects humans primarily through occupational or incidental exposure with infected animals of their skins. | |
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Emmett Berg
Reuters 2015-07-22 18:05:00
A fast-spreading wildfire forced the closure of an entrance to Glacier National Park in Montana and prompted the evacuation of two campgrounds and a motor inn inside the park at the height of the summer tourist season, officials said on Wednesday. Shuttle bus drivers and others first spotted the so-called Reynolds Creek Wildland Fire on Tuesday just east of a popular hiking site, Logan Pass, park officials said in a statement. The blaze has since charred about 2,000 acres (809 hectares) in the park, officials said. Park authorities shut down the St. Mary entrance at the eastern end of the park and about 20 miles (32 km) of roadway from that entrance to an area called Big Bend, said Katelyn Liming, a spokeswoman for the team fighting the blaze. Some visitors who were on the road were forced to abandon their vehicles to escape the fast-moving blazes on Tuesday, and one vehicle was engulfed by flames, although no injuries have been reported, officials said. | |
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RT
2015-07-22 21:02:00
With Muscovites already having complained about the weather in the Russian capital for most of July, on Wednesday the constant change of sunny and rainy weather several times in one day resulted in spectacular scenes in the skies above the city.
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Yahoo! News
2015-07-22 22:48:00
Eruptions of ash at five volcanoes shrouded the skies over parts of the Indonesian archipelago Wednesday, forcing three airports to close. Mount Raung on Java island blasted ash and debris up to 2,000 meters (6,560 feet) into the air after rumbling for several weeks, government volcanologist Surono said. Ash erupted also from Gamalama and Dukono mountains on the Moluccas islands chain, Sinabung volcano on Sumatra island and Mount Karangetang on Siau island, darkening the skies, Surono said. A total of more than 13,000 people have been evacuated due to the volcanic eruptions since last month, mostly from around the slopes of Sinabung in Tanah Karo District, added Surono, who uses a single name. "Our evaluation showed there is no extraordinary natural phenomenon that triggered simultaneous eruptions of the five volcanoes," Surono said, adding that all the eruptions are natural and normal occurrences in a nation with about 130 active volcanoes. Comment: Nothing to see here folks! It's just increasing climate chaos on the way towards sudden glacial rebound! Move along! | |
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| Health & Wellness |
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Peter Osborne
Gluten Free Society 2015-07-23 05:12:00
Gluten IS a problem You see the articles and hear the news stories - Gluten Sensitivity Doesn't Exist. Yet millions of people are gravitating toward the diet and feeling better. As a matter of fact, the gluten free diet isthe biggest diet trend ever. It dwarfs Atkins, South Beach, Paleo, SCD, FODMAP, Sugar Free, Fat Free... But it doesn't exist right? I find it hard to believe that people would voluntarily restrict their diets for a trend if their was not adramatic improvement in their health. I find it hard to believe that people would avoid classic favorites like pizza and hamburgers if doing so didn't lead to improvements in diseases like migraine headache, IBS, depression, chronic fatigue, neuropathy... Gluten is NOT the only problem & celiac is not the only gluten related disease Even though research overwhelming proves that gluten sensitivity exists, there are other non gluten components found in grains that can cause autoimmune problems. Additionally, there are other foods, chemicals, and medications that have been shown to cause similar types of inflammatory damage. These things are rarely discussed and are a proverbial "no man's land" when it comes to getting a proper diagnosis. Because of this, the people who test negative for celiac disease as well as those who don't have symptoms of classic celiac disease are left without a diagnosis. They are left without validity to why they are sick when they are exposed to grains or any of the other items on the list below. This, in my humble opinion is where the science needs to focus. To date we have had studies showing the following food based chemicals and drugs can trigger symptoms identical to gluten sensitivity and celiac disease
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Comment: Actually, grains are more problematical that this article portrays. See:
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Tracie White
Stanford School of Medicine 2015-07-22 23:58:00
Along with the burgeoning use of advanced medical imaging tests over the past decade have come rising public health concerns about possible links between low-dose radiation and cancer. Using new laboratory technology, scientists have shown that cellular damage is detectable in patients after CT scanning, according to a new study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. "We now know that even exposure to small amounts of radiation from computed tomagraphy scanning is associated with cellular damage," said Patricia Nguyen, MD, one of the lead authors of the study and an assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine at Stanford. "Whether or not this causes cancer or any negative effect to the patient is still not clear, but these results should encourage physicians toward adhering to dose reduction strategies." | |
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Yasmin Anwar
A new study finds that the sleep-deprived brain can mistake friends for foesUniversity of California - Berkeley 2015-07-22 21:43:00
If you can't tell a smile from a scowl, you're probably not getting enough sleep. A new study shows that sleep deprivation dulls our ability to accurately read facial expressions. This deficit can have serious consequences, such as not noticing that a child is sick or in pain, or confusing another pedestrian for a potential mugger. "Recognizing the emotional expressions of someone else changes everything about whether or not you decide to interact with them, and in return, whether they interact with you," said study senior author Matthew Walker, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at UC Berkeley. The findings were published today in the Journal of Neuroscience. "These findings are especially worrying considering that two-thirds of people in the developed nations fail to get sufficient sleep," Walker added. Indeed, the results do not bode well for countless sleep-starved groups, said study lead author Andrea Goldstein-Piekarski, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, who started the study as a Ph.D. student. | |
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RT
2015-07-17 20:30:00
Lyme disease is not only growing more rampant in its normal hotspots across the US, but it's alsospreading dramatically to new geographic areas where it has been virtually unknown previously, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control. "Over time, the number of counties identified as having high incidence of Lyme disease in the northeastern states increased more than 320 percent,"researchers wrote in the report. They also noted that the disease is appearing in some states for the first time ever. Cases in the US remain concentrated in in the Upper Midwest and the Northeast, but more parts of those regions are now considered to be at high risk for infection. There are now 260 counties where the number of Lyme disease diagnoses is at least twice that expected for the population as a whole, up from 130 a decade earlier, the report published Wednesday said. "The risk is expanding, in all directions," said Kiersten Kugeler, the lead author of the CDC study. The high-risk counties are distributed among 17 states. The entire state of Connecticut, where the disease was first identified in 1975, has been a high-risk zone for decades. High-risk zones now encompass nearly all of New England. | |
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University of Cambridge
2015-07-22 22:20:00
Do you like your jazz to be Norah Jones or Ornette Coleman, your classical music to be Bach or Stravinsky, or your rock to be Coldplay or Slayer? The answer could give an insight into the way you think, say researchers from the University of Cambridge. In a study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of psychologists show that your thinking style - whether you are an 'empathizer' who likes to focus on and respond to the emotions of others, or a 'systemizer' who likes to analyse rules and patterns in the world—is a predictor of the type of music you like. | |
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Greenberg, DM, Baron-Cohen, S, Stillwell, DJ, Kosinski, M, & Rentfrow, PJ. Musical preferences are linked to cognitive styles. PLOS ONE; 22 July 2015 | |
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RT.com
2015-07-23 02:55:00
Mysterious crop circles have appeared in Russia's Samara region, with local residents, thrilled by the shapes of "possible extraterrestrial origin," recalling that a similar pattern surfaced on the same buckwheat farm exactly a decade ago. The circles were discovered by a local resident off the highway just outside the city of Tolyatti. The design comprises of 5 circles ranging from 60 to 150 feet in diameter connected by lines. A local paranormal research organization that is searches for extraterrestrial life has noted that the same circles appeared on exact same day 10 years ago in 2005. "We examined the photographs. We will now l analyze and compare the photos with similar phenomenon that was recorded in Tolyatti 10 years ago," Nikita Romanov, head of the regional research association Kosmopoisk Romanov, told RIA Novosti. | |
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Sputnik News
2015-07-22 23:46:00
Satirical publication The Onion has, on occasion, fooled many into believing its headlines are true.But a joke from earlier this month about soothing the Israeli prime minister's fears over the Iran nuclear deal was realistic enough that it ended up coming true. "US Soothes Upset Netanyahu With Shipment of Ballistic Missiles" read a headline posted on theOnion last week. The article went on to describe Washington's attempts to provide Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with assurances that the Iran deal would not result in a nuclear apocalypse. "Bibi always gets a little cranky when he sees us talking to Iran, but a few dozen short-range surface-to-surface missiles usually cheer him right up," the Onion wrote, quoting an imaginary State Department official. Of course, we try not to spoil him by giving him a new whole new tactical ballistics delivery system every single time he throws a fit," the same supposed official continued. This article was, of course, a joke. It's what the Onion does best: writing satirical articles like "Study: Employees Happiest When Pretending to Work From Home" and "Idiot Zoo Animal With Zero Predators Still Protective of Young." But only one day later, in a rare case of art not only imitating, but predicting life, an article emerged from Israeli newspaper Haaretz, quoting actual US officials with an eerily similar plan. |
