Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

The way of the psychopath Duncan MacMartin Opednews 2015-07-03 20:49:00 Human beings have been domesticated like cattle over millennia by insidious and ruthless predator-parasites who easily walk among us. Their predatory nature has been largely sanitised and camouflaged by centuries of our begrudging tolerance and cowardly acceptance. Almost all of our great institutional ideas have been adjusted, perverted, corrupted and even radically transformed into environments that greatly favour their ways and tactics. Economics, governance, education, welfare, health, are now little more than facades of their original ideals filled with processes of entrapment, exploitation and frustration of potential that are working solely to empower and enrich the predators who control them. Now through the focus of a number of researchers, these predators are coming to light and being described as "successful psychopaths" -- they are composed of the majority of a 5% of humanity, who have successfully avoided being diagnosed clinically and have not been apprehended during criminal and immoral activities and then institutionalised. The "ways" of the psychopath are simplistic and become easy to observe when we finally learn to see "the wood for the trees" and we learn that many of our critical social and economic "givens" are in fact evolutionary artefacts of the influences that psychopaths have had on our cultures and societies for millennia. They have told us that, like domestic cattle, we need their fences (controls) and their oversight (surveillance) to protect us from the wolves (or terrorists) that would come and decimate us and our little ones and we have been told that the world is a terrible hostile place and that life is fraught with adversaries, a self--fulfilling prophecy when societies and cultures are governed by psychopaths. Their measures are in reality to make us defensive, terrorised and so easily influenced and ultimately such fear will intellectually infantilise us, divide us and then herd us like cattle for a more thorough and systematic control and exploitation. The psychopath is operating cognitively at what Economics Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman called "System1" or fast thinking, this is a cognitive template that is in place in infancy, the processes of which are situated largely within the limbic system, memory based and emotionally controlled. This type of primitive "fast and dirty" thinking when amplified through trial and error experiences is ideal for operating in chaotic and conflict based environments such as on the battlefield or in video games.

Puppet Masters

Iran repatriates thirteen metric tons of frozen gold from Central Bank Press TV 2015-07-02 06:40:00 Iran has secured the release of 13 metric tons of its gold assets blocked in South Africa under US-led sanctions, central bank Governor Valiollah Seif has said. The repatriation came thanks to the Iranian negotiating team's follow-up of the matter in the ongoing nuclear talks in Vienna, the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) said in a statement. "An equivalent of 13 tons of gold purchased before and held in South Africa over the past two years due to sanctions and certain obstructions arrived in the country in three consignments and was delivered to the CBI treasury," Seif said. The transfer took place over the past week and the last consignment, including four metric tons of gold bullion, arrived in Tehran Tuesday night, he added. "With the efforts of the diplomatic apparatus, the problem of transferring part of Iran's gold assets was resolved on the sidelines of the Vienna negotiations," the CBI statement said. According to the CBI, the removal of sanctions and Iran's unfettered access to its assets abroad is one of the main objectives of the country's negotiating team in nuclear talks. As much as $100 billion of Iranian assets, mostly from oil sales, are reportedly blocked overseas under the sanctions regime aimed at choking the country's economy.

Comment: Yet another country repatriating their gold. What big 'to-do' are they preparing for, and when?

South Front Crisis News 3 July: European mercenaries in Mariupol, Ukraine South Front 2015-07-03 19:48:00 The Ukrainian forces have violated the ceasefire regime 46 times over the last 24 hours, the Donetsk People's Republic defense ministry said on Thursday. The Kiev forces used multiple rocket launchers, artillery, battle tanks, anti-aircraft guns and small arms, the defense ministry said. A lot of settlements and cities of DPR came under fire were. Kiev uses foreign mercenaries against the DPR, DPR Defence Ministry spokesman Eduard Basurin said on Thursday. Basurin noted that among them were "Croats, Poles, Lithuanians, Norwegians, Danes and even Germans" who are fighting with the Ukrainian forces against the Donetsk and Luhansk republics. Foreign mercenaries are particularly numerous in the Mariupol area.

Blowing smoke: Netanyahu warns ISIS threat 'nothing' compared to nuclear Iran RT 2015-07-03 12:41:00 As the Iranian nuclear negotiations teeter on the brink, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is saying the world has more to fear from a nuclear-capable Iran than ISIS terrorists. The statement comes after the jihadists threatened to "uproot" the Jewish state. Netanyahu's statement was made on Thursday, as the talks over Iran's nuclear program held in Vienna showed no clear sign of progressing to a solution acceptable to all sides. The Israeli PM, famous for showing a cartoon with a bomb at the UN to illustrate his fears, made the warning during a visit to Israel's cyber park in Beersheba.

Did the IMF just open Pandora's Box? Tyler Durden Zerohedge 2015-07-02 22:17:00 By now it should be clear to all that the only reason why Germany has been so steadfast in its negotiating stance with Greece is because it knows very well that if it concedes to a public debt reduction (as opposed to haircut on debt held mostly by private entities such as hedge funds which already happened in 2012), then the rest of the PIIGS will come pouring in: first Italy, then Spain, then Portugal, then Ireland. The problem is that while it took Europe some 5 years to transfer a little over €200 billion in Greek private debt exposure to the public balance sheet (by way of the ECB, EFSF, ESM and countless other ad hoc acronyms) at a cost of countless summits and endless negotiations, which may or may not result with the first casualty of the common currency which may prove to be reversible as soon as next week, nobody in Europe harbors any doubt that the same exercise can be repeated with Italy, or Spain, or even Portugal. They are just too big (and their nonperforming loans are in the hundreds of billions).

Comment: My oh my, what the psychopaths have wrought.

Society's Child

Smiles-R-Us? Georgia dentist terrifies young girl with fully body restraints during routine procedure - without parents' permission Oliver Darcy theblaze.com 2015-07-02 23:52:00 A pair of Georgia parents are infuriated by the method a dentist employed to restrain their daughter during a routine procedure. James Crow told WSB-TV that he and his mother took his daughter, Elizabeth, to a Caarrollton dentist to have a tooth pulled. What ensued he could have never imagined. Not allowed inside the exam room, Crow waited with his mother in the lobby. "We were sitting out in the waiting room and all of a sudden, we heard somebody screaming," Evelyn Crow told WBS. The father rushed into the room and found his daughter bound with a tool called a "papoose board." "I couldn't see my kid in the body bag just strapped down to the bed, I couldn't handle it," Crow told WSB. "This little girl was frightened. I had to carry her out, she was shaking so bad," his mother added to the local news station. An employee of the office told WSB that parents are required to sign a release form before the papoose board is used. Crow said he didn't recall being notified.

Comment: It's truly sickening that someone so ignorant as to what would traumatize a child is allowed to practice dentistry. Without parental consent, no less!

TTP and TTIP treaties could make this the US's last Independence Day celebration Jay Johnson Sputnik 2015-07-03 18:02:00 Long ago, American colonists took a stance against a government that didn't represent the voice of the people. Fast forward to today and the recent TPP and TTIP treaties essentially silence the voice of the people once again. But is anyone paying attention? The men, unhappy with the decisions that had been forced upon them by people they had never seen before, decided to do something. Waiting until sunset, they dressed up as Indians, painted their faces, and marched down to the harbor. Upon reaching it, they stormed a ship, grabbed the cargo and threw it overboard. Shouting into the night, "no taxation without representation!" the men made a defiant stance against what they felt was an overreaching government that only saw them as streams of income. In response, the government attempted to crack down on society in a desperate attempt to remain in control. It didn't work and today historians note that the event, which came to be known as the Boston Tea Party, was one of the first shots of the War for Independence. Of course, if this event were to happen today, media would report it like this —"A local militia, believed to be a terrorist organization, attacked the property of private citizens today at our nation's busiest port. Although no one was injured in the attack, a large quantity of merchandise, considered to be valuable to its owners and loathsome to the perpetrators, was destroyed. The terrorists, dressed in disguise and apparently intoxicated, were able to escape into the night with the help of local citizens who harbor these fugitives and conceal their identities from the authorities. It is believed that the terrorist attack was a response to the policies enacted by the occupying country's government. Even stronger policies are anticipated by the local citizens." Although these two tales tell the same story, perception is key. And when 90% of American media is controlled by 6 companies, the narrative is tightly controlled. Not for the benefit of the people, of course, but for the benefit of the government. But not even for the government so much any more, as the recent buzz surrounding the TPP and TTIP have revealed. In fact, numerous stories over the last couple of weeks have shed light on just who was behind the treaties, and it reads like a list of who's who in the world of big business.That's right. Corporations wrote the treaties and the politicians, which are elected by the people to represent the people, either didn't read the treaties at all, or chose to play buzzword bingo when publicly discussing the matter. Of course, as the Guardianreports, the tens of thousands of dollars that went to the "yea" votes helped to convince those fence sitters which direction the wind was blowing and more importantly, helped their future re-election campaigns. Addressing this issue, Mansur Gidfar, spokesman for the anti-corruption group Represent. US noted -"It's a rare thing for members of Congress to go against the money these days. They know exactly which special interests they need to keep happy if they want to fund their reelection campaigns or secure a future job as a lobbyist." He went on to ask - "How can we expect politicians who routinely receive campaign money, lucrative job offers, and lavish gifts from special interests to make impartial decisions that directly affect those same special interests?"

Comment: More food for thought: The Trans Pacific Partnership paves the way for world government The Trans-Pacific Partnership will usher in the death of the republic The case that blew the lid off the World Bank's secret courts Putin calls out U.S. on TPP : "U.S. seeks to create economic cooperation for its own benefit"

Puerto Ricans fleeing economic hardship continue to struggle on American mainland Alan Yuhas The Guardian 2015-07-02 00:00:00 The Caribbean territory, whose residents are US citizens, is groaning under $73bn debt forcing it to ration water, close schools and watch its health system collapse. Facing a crisis of monumental proportions at home, tens of thousands of people are fleeing a Caribbean island in search of a better life in the United States only to find hardship and struggle on American shores. Their stories sound like those of millions of migrants - poverty at home, where the economy lies in tatters - but they differ from millions of others: they're already American. Unable to pay its $73bn debt, Puerto Rico has begun rationing water, closing schools and watching its healthcare system collapse and 45% of its people living in poverty. Emigration to the mainland has accelerated in recent years, activists say, and data shows that from 2003 to 2013 there was a population swing of more than 1.5 million people.

Comment: The difficulties faced by the Puerto Ricans will probably continue to intensify, as the U.S. pathocrats are unlikely to offer any substantial assistance. They cannot even be bothered to do anything useful to stem the tide of poverty, joblessness and crumbling infrastructure that has been plaguing America for years as they are too busy worsening living conditions around the globe. White House says no federal bailout for Puerto Rico Chronic unemployment: Just 44% of American adults are employed for 30 or more hours per week In 40 years, U.S. neighborhoods stricken by poverty almost triples Over 1 in 5 US children on food stamps & living in poverty Crumbling infrastructure: More than 61,000 bridges in the U.S. are structurally deficient and in need of repair

Third alternative health practitioner death in past two weeks Adan Salazar Global Research 2015-07-03 00:00:00 Mysterious spate of deaths rattle medical community The recent death of a holistic practitioner in Florida is concerning residents and medical experts alike, as it is the third death of an alternative doctor in almost as many weeks. On Monday morning, police found the body of Dr. Teresa Ann Sievers, 46, at her home in Bonita Springs after she failed to arrive at work. Dr. Sievers headed a health and wellness practice in Estero, Florida, which focuses on restorative healing through a variety of non-pharmaceutical treatments. Detectives say they're treating the incident as a homicide, although they are not revealing to media how she was killed, nor if they think it was a random or targeted attack. "We don't know anything but that she was murdered," Sievers' sister, Annie Lisa, told The News-Press. "Sievers was well-known in Southwest Florida for writing about women's health issues," reportsThe News-Press. "She wrote for several publications, including The News-Press, and appeared on local television." Sievers' follows the death of two other prominent alternative doctors from Florida, Dr. Bruce Hedendal of Boca Raton, and Dr. Jeff Bradstreet, 60, who lived in Florida before relocating to Georgia.

Comment: Is it all about the message (and counter-message), or are there more obvious reasons and sources for the apparent suicides murders? We must ask: "Who benefits?"

Berniemania: Largest crowd of 2016 campaign shows up for Bernie Sanders RT 2015-07-03 12:56:00 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders may be an underdog, but a massive crowd of 10,000 people gathered in Madison, Wisconsin to hear him speak - the largest crowd drawn by any 2016 presidential candidate. Sanders, an independent US senator from Vermont who has described himself as a democratic socialist, has been dismissed as a low-tier candidate ever since first announcing his campaign for the presidency. However, while he may lack the high profile of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he is showing himself to be quite capable of energizing liberals. This ability has helped him attract more people than other candidate so far, Democrat or Republican.

Comment: Bernie is an interesting wrinkle in this campaign with shades of Ron Paul. He may not win this campaign but maybe more people will get the message.

Secret History

Gun collector's dream: WW2-era tank and anti-aircraft gun found hidden in German villa's basement Melanie Hall The Telegraph 2015-07-03 17:34:00 The tank, among the weapons haul discovered hidden in the cellar of a villa in Kiel, took nine hours to remove  German soldiers grappled for nine hours with an unusual task: trying to remove a Second World War tank found in the cellar of a villa. Almost 20 soldiers struggled to remove the tank from a villa on Thursday in a wealthy suburb of Kiel in northern Germany, after police searching the property discovered the tank, a torpedo, an anti-aircraft gun and other weapons in the cellar on Wednesday. Police raided the home in the town of Heikendorf under instructions from prosecutors, who suspected that the villa's 78-year-old owner held the weaponry illegally under a law controlling the possession of instruments of war. The army was called in to try to remove the 1943-vintage Panther tank, and struggled for nine hours to tow it out using two modern recovery tanks designed to haul damaged battle tanks off the field. The soldiers ended up having to build their own wooden ramp in order to free to tank. Ulrich Burchardi, an army spokesman, described the difficult task of removing the tank without damaging the house as "precision work". The other weapons have also now been confiscated by police.

Science & Technology

Four mysterious spots detected on Pluto ABC Science, Australia 2015-07-03 20:35:00 A row of four mysterious dark spots has been discovered on the frozen surface of the distant world of Pluto by the NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. Scientists are at a loss to explain the intriguing spots which are remarkably consistent in both their even spacing along the dwarf planet's equator, and their shape and size. Each spot appears to be circular and about 480 kilometres in diameter. "It's a real puzzle-we don't know what the spots are, and we can't wait to find out," says New Horizons principal investigator Dr Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado. "Also puzzling is the longstanding and dramatic difference in the colours and appearance of Pluto compared to its darker and greyer moon, Charon." The strange spots were detected in new images of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, taken by New Horizons on June 25 and 27, 2015.

Scientists find high-precision atomic clocks useful to monitor volcanoes, improve prediction of eruptions webwire.com 2015-06-30 19:00:00 An international team led by scientists from the University of Zurich finds that high-precision atomic clocks can be used to monitor volcanoes and potentially improve predictions of future eruptions. In addition, a ground-based network of atomic clocks could monitor the reaction of the Earth's crust to solid Earth tides. Atomic clocks measure time with unbelievable accuracy. The best atomic clocks are so precise that they would lose less than one second over a period of 10 billion years. However, they are generally only used in laboratories. Science and industry have yet to take full advantage of their unprecedented ability to measure time. An international team including Dr. Ruxandra Bondarescu, Andreas Schärer and Prof. Philippe Jetzer from the Institute of Physics from the University of Zurich discusses potential applications for atomic clocks. Their analysis shows that the slow down of time predicted by general relativity can be measured by local clocks and used to monitor volcanoes. General relativity states that clocks positioned at different distances from a massive body like the Earth have different tick rates. The closer a clock is to a massive object, the slower it ticks. In a similar manner, subterranean objects influence the tick rate of local clocks that are located above the Earth's surface. New lava filling a magma chamber beneath a volcano makes a clock located above that volcano tick more slowly than a clock that is located further away. Volcanoes are currently monitored using GPS receivers. The resulting data often has to be integrated over a period of several years before an estimate of the volume of new magma can be made. A network of local, highly precise atomic clocks may provide the same information within a few hours. This would make it possible to monitor processes inside volcanoes more closely and to make better predictions for future volcanic eruptions.

Corrupt research: Millions in federal grants wasted as researcher falsified HIV vaccine results RT 2015-07-03 02:43:00 Dong-Pyou Han, a 58-year-old former Iowa State University researcher, was sentenced to prison for almost five years for faking the results of an HIV vaccine experiment - the "success" of which led to millions of dollars in government grants. Han, 58, spent millions of dollars in federal grants to fund years of work on his research, which was considered groundbreaking at the time. Other researchers at Iowa State scrutinized and called into question his apparently miraculous findings related to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.Han eventually admitted to mixing human antibodies into rabbit blood to make his vaccine appear more effective in test animals, forcing him to resign his university position in 2013

Comment: Unfortunately, this type of fraudulent research may be all too common. Dr. Richard Horton, the current editor-in-chief of the Lancet recently published a statement declaring that much of published research is in fact unreliable at best, if not completely false. "The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness." Corruption of science: Breakthrough research that turns out to be fraudulent The Corruption of Science: Pressure for positive results puts science under threat, study shows Corrupt Science: Cancer Research of 10 Years Useless: Fraudulent Studies, Says Mayo Clinic Research Integrity? What a Joke! A New Code of Conduct for Researchers Psychopaths in Academia: Report finds massive research fraud at Dutch universities Netherlands: Tilburg Professor Faked Data in at Least 30 Academic Publications Scientific Fraud Prevalent Among Science-Based Medicines

How modern technology can negatively impact human memory skills RT 2015-07-02 22:20:00 A lot of people prefer to store information in their mobile phones instead of keeping it in their heads, a new study from Kaspersky Lab reports; thus the loss or breakdown of a mobile phone can be a disaster for modern people. While mobile phones and other devices are increasingly essential in our lives and often the main place we store all our information and manage our daily schedules, Kaspesky lab has published a study attempting to uncover how modern technologies affect human memory skills. Kaspersky lab surveyed 6,000 users aged 16 and older in eight European countries. The results showed that 49 percent of UK respondents do not remember their parents' telephone numbers, 57 percent haven't memorized the number for their place of work, 71 percent of parents can't dial their children off the top of their head, and 87 percent don't know the number of their children's schools by heart. On the other hand, 47 percent can recite the phone numbers they had when they were between age 10 and 15, likely before devices had such large memories.

Researchers discover aging histones are constantly replaced in brain cells throughout life Psy Post 2015-07-01 00:00:00 For decades, researchers in the genetics field have theorized that the protein spools around which DNA is wound, histones, remain constant in the brain, never changing after development in the womb. Now, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered that histones are steadily replaced in brain cells throughout life - a process which helps to switch genes on and off. This histone replacement, known as turnover, enables our genetic machinery to adapt to our environment by prompting gene expression, the conversion of genes into the proteins that comprise cellular structures and carry signals in the brain. This new concept, described in a study led by researchers in the Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and at the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics, The Rockefeller University, was published today in the journalNeuron.

Earth Changes

83-year-old man killed by dogs in Pecos, Texas Julia Deng newswest9.com 2015-07-03 19:32:00 A pit bull attack Thursday morning left an 83-year-old man dead in his daughter's backyard, Pecos Police said. The victim was identified as Norberto Legardo, a longtime Pecos resident friends described as "very kind" and "[someone who] always did good deeds." He was feeding his daughter's dog at her Eddy Street house, investigators said, when three pit bulls belonging to a neighbor approached them. "I think the evidence is going to show that somehow the pit bulls got into [his daughter's] yard and started fighting with the dog [he was feeding]," said Pecos Police Chief Clay McKinney. "Mr. Legardo probably tried to break up the fight and then the pit bulls turned on him." A witness told NewsWest 9 one of the dogs lunged at the 83-year-old's throat and all three were involved in the attack. According to McKinney, "at least two" mauled Legardo. He added that officials are still in the early stages of the investigation and "don't have many details" about the incident. Officers were dispatched to the scene around 9:45 a.m. and found Legardo unresponsive. He was declared dead shortly after. Police said the Labrador he was feeding was found near the residence by Animal Control and is expected to recover from injuries sustained in the attack.

Fear of volcano eruption in Manipur's Ukhrul district as continuous flow of ashes, smoke eminate from village swamp Imphal naglandpost.com 2015-06-30 23:53:00 A continuous flow of smoke and ashes from a swamp at a place near Old Wahong village of Manipur's Ukhrul district has left villagers fearing of natural calamity in the form of volcanic eruption any time, a daily reported Tuesday. Villagers said that smoke radius of about two feet along with ashes have been seen gushing out from the earth's surface at Shitru area, since last two weeks.Shitru is located a place border Manipur, Nagaland and Myanmar. Villagers and onlookers feared volcanic eruption at the area in a short time.However, with majority of the villagers preoccupied with cultivation of seasonal crops, and coupled with incessant rainfall, they are yet to inform State authorities about the mysterious phenomenon till date. Yet, they are clueless and at the same time quite apprehensive in case the smokes and ashes turn out to be a prelude to a volcanic eruption. It may be mentioned that in 2013, a mud volcano erupted at the neighbouring village of New Tusom due to the shifting of tectonic plates of India and Myanmar.

Fuego volcano activity intensifies; Guatemala issues danger warning ticotimes.net 2015-07-01 18:45:00 Guatemalan authorities issued a danger warning Wednesday in response to intensifying activity in the country's Fuego Volcano. The volcano, 50 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of Guatemala City, was belching "fiery clouds" over the course of the day, said David de León, a spokesman for the government's disaster response office. The danger warning issued by the government was one step short of a declaration of emergency requiring evacuation of the communities around the volcano. He said the mountain has been shaken by explosions that have rattled windows and rooftops and spewed columns of ash to some 5,000 meters (15,000 feet) above sea level. Guatemala's civil aviation authority was advised to take precautionary measures. In February, a strong eruption forced authorities to close the international airport because of the falling ash.

Loud boom, followed by earth shaking reported near Tekonsha, Michigan wtvbam.com 2015-07-01 05:53:00 There have been no reports of damages or injuries from the minor earthquake that rattled the region late yesterday morning with an epicenter 14 miles north of Coldwater in Calhoun County's Tekonsha Township. More people apparently heard rather than felt the quake that measured 3.3 on the Richter scale with many of the callers who contacted 911 dispatchers saying there had been an explosion or sonic boom kind of sound with the rumbling or shock wave lasting 3 or 4 seconds. The U.S. Geological Survey's website said people reported feeling the earthquake as far west as Holland, north to Grand Rapids, east into Lenawee County and as far south as Northern Indiana and Northwest Ohio. U.S.G.S. geophysicists seem to have differing opinions about the relationship between yesterday's quake and the May 2, 2015 4.2 magnitude earthquake that occurred in Kalamazoo County south of Galesburg. Scientists can't agree on whether or not yesterday's event was an aftershock of the previous quake nearly two months ago nor can they concur if it was on the same fault line. Tuesday's temblor occurred at 11:42 a.m. with the epicenter at the southeast corner of Warner Lake on 12 1/2 Mile Road and 3.1 miles beneath the surface. The strongest quake ever felt in the region was a 4.6 magnitude quake that hit the Coldwater area in 1947 and some believe is proof of a fault buried deep below southern Michigan.

Comment: A loud boom, followed by ground shaking are one of the hallmarks of an overhead meteor explosion. Something wicked this way comes!

Prof Emeritus of chemical engineering Dr. Dick Thoenes on the influence of CO2 on climate Dr. Dick Thoenes The Hockey Schtick 2015-06-24 15:35:00 Dutch Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering and thermodynamics, Dr. Dick Thoenes, explains a multitude of reasons that, "My conclusion is that it is impossible that significant climate change is due solely to an increase in CO2 levels. This means that all measures to reduce CO2 emissions are pointless. This has enormous financial consequences for the world." The Dutch professor em. of Chemical Engineering at the Eindhoven University and author of many reference books on mass and energy flows in materials, exactly the areas that need the climate science, Dick Thoenes, pushes for anyone interested in clear and understandable why the postulated greenhouse effect in the real world is not seen.

Comment: About the Author: Prof. Dr. Dick Thoenes b.1930 taught chemical engineering until 1995, the year he Emiretierung, at the Eindhoven University, Netherlands. He is the author of many books and worked as a research consultant for many companies and the Swedish and Netherlands Governments. He was chairman and is now an honorary member of the KNCV (Royal Chemical Society) and became the Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) Stockholm appointed.  He focuses on "Transport phenomena" (the first in the famous book by RB Bird, et al., 1960 formulated). This includes fluid flow, mixing, mass transfer, heat transfer, evaporation, radiation, etc. These phenomena are the basis of chemical engineering and they are also the basis for climate research. So when the second assessment report of the IPCC was published in 1995 (the year of his retirement), he studied it and thought: That can not be true! Later studies confirmed this impression.

Second suspected shark attack in 24 hours near Ballina Shire, Australia Flynn Murphy Daily Telegraph 2015-07-03 15:45:00 A 52-year-old man has narrowly escaped injury after his surfboard was bitten by a suspected great white shark in the second attack in Ballina Shire, Australia in 24 hours. Beaches will remain closed until Saturday after the attack, which took place around 9am on Friday in Lennox Head, just 12 miles from where local surfer Mathew Lee was critically mauled on Thursday. While there has been no official confirmation, some believe the shark to be the same which mauled Mr Lee, who was recovering from emergency surgery today in a Gold Coast hospital. Northern NSW lifeguard coordinator Scott McCartney, who is responsible for around 279 miles (450km) of the Australian coastline stretching south from the northern NSW border, said there was a possibility the same shark was responsible for both attacks. "But there could also be more out there," he told the Telegraph

Waterspout destroys four houses in Misamis Oriental coastal village Pamela Jay F. Orias and Lynyrd Aleksei N. Corrales sunstar.com 2015-06-29 15:29:00 A waterspout destroyed four houses in a coastal village in Misamis Oriental early Monday morning. The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) reported that the waterspout that hit Purok 2, Barangay Tubigan, Initao town, also injured three people. Sixteen other houses were damaged and 20 families were affected. The injured were identified as 57-year-old Ricardo Bebangco, his wife Helen, 52, and their 13-year-old son Crilfel. They were treated at the Misamis Oriental Provincial Hospital in Initao, said Fernando Vincent Dy Jr., PDRRMO officer-in-charge. Pag-asa weather specialist Mario Guya said waterspouts are normally associated with weather disturbances such as the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), which is bringing rain to Misamis Oriental. The waterspout left P315,000 in property damage and P36,500 in crop damage, according to the PDRRMO. "We sent food packs to the families and currently, our team is still looking for temporary shelters," Dy said.

Wild boar mauls elderly couple to death in Malaysia asiaone.com 2015-07-03 15:10:00 An elderly couple was attacked and killed by a wild boar while they were tapping rubber trees at a plantation in Kuala Paya near Buloh Kasap here. The victims, identified as Loo See Sing, 66, and his wife Liow Mei Lan, 68, were carrying out their normal routine in the early morning, but did not return at their usual time. A villager, who declined to be named, said that the owner of the plantation then went in search of the couple at noon when they failed to return. "The couple usually head back with their produce by 9am but this time around, they failed to show up, prompting the owner to search for them. "The duo were found with cuts all over their bodies, which initially led police to believe they were robbed and murdered," he added.

Unusual sun halo seen in Kenosha, Wisconsin Diane Giles kenoshanews.com 2015-06-30 15:25:00 If you happened to look up during Sunday's Kenosha Civic Veterans Parade, you might have seen more than an escaped balloon. A number of people were lucky enough to see a rare summer atmospheric event: a halo. Completely encircling the sun was what appeared to be a thin, pale rainbow. "I'm really surprised to see this at this time of the year," said Justin Schultz, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Sullivan, Wis. "This is usually more of a winter (phenomenon)." Schultz said that farther up in the atmosphere that afternoon, it was cold enough for ice crystals to form. This optical projection was created when the light was refracted through the ice crystals in the higher-level cirrus clouds. It's a phenomenon similar to a sundog, which only takes place in the winter.

Rare blue moon, meteor shower await stargazers in Philippines Clift Daluz cnnphilippines.com 2015-07-02 18:51:00 Ever heard of the expression "once in a blue moon?" This expression indicates a rare event. This month, the full moon will rise twice and the second occurrence is called a blue moon. The state-run weather bureau PAGASA was quick to explain that the phrase has nothing to do with the actual color of the moon but rather as the second full moon in a calendar month. Vicente Malano, PAGASA acting administrator, says: "Since the lunar cycle is 29 days and most months have 30 to 31 days, we eventually find a situation where a full moon occurs at the beginning and the ending of the same month." He also explains that you may see a blue-colored moon under certain atmospheric conditions such as after volcanic eruptions or when there are exceptionally large fires that leave particles in the atmosphere. Malano says that, apart from the blue moon, a meteor shower happening from July 28 to 31 awaits stargazers.

Bison attack two more visitors at Yellowstone National Park Katia Hetter CNN 2015-07-02 13:26:00 Bison attacked two more visitors at Yellowstone National Park over the past week, for a total of four attacks in the park so far this season. A 68-year-old Georgia woman remained hospitalized Thursday after encountering a bison while hiking Wednesday on Storm Point Trail, according to the National Park Service. As she passed the bison, it charged and gored her. A witness reported the attack to a nearby ranger leading a hike, who called for help. Due to the serious nature of the woman's injuries, she was taken by helicopter ambulance to a hospital outside the park. Her condition was unknown Thursday. The other incident happened on June 23, when a 19-year-old Georgia woman and three friends who work at nearby Canyon Village were walking to their car after a late-night swim at the Firehole River. They saw a bison lying about 10 feet away, and one friend turned and ran. But the animal charged the teen and "tossed her in the air," the park service said. After the teen went to bed, she awoke a short time later feeling ill and called for medical help. She took an ambulance to a hospital outside the park and "was released with minor injuries later that day," the park service said.

Spectacular storm in north-east England halts electricity to 40,000 homes Mark Tran The Guardian 2015-07-02 13:03:00 Engineers are working to reconnect hundreds of households in north-east England hit by a power cut in a lightning storm during Wednesday's searingly hot temperatures. The thunderstorm left 40,000 homes without electricity in parts of North Yorkshire, County Durham, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland. Northern Powergrid said power had been restored to 32,500 of its customers by 7pm and work was continuing to make sure the rest were connected by Thursday afternoon. Spectacular lightning swept across northern England and Scotland after the hottest July day on record in many places. Scores of motorists pulled over to watch as the storm moved up the Pennines. In Sheffield, people drove out of the city to watch a huge cloud flash with almost continuous lightning but without thunder or rain. In the village of Worrall, Rick Taylor said: "I've not seen anything like this before, it's amazing. It's exactly like that scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind when the spaceship is approaching." Elsewhere, huge hailstones caused damage in parts of North Yorkshire and County Durham and the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation even issued a tornado warning for parts of the Midlands.

Thousands evacuated as severe flooding hits Rakhine State, Myanmar Ika Koeck ifrc.org 2015-07-02 12:41:00 Over the past several days, increasing heavy rains have caused severe flooding in the western state of Rakhine, Myanmar, destroying nearly 200 homes and causing serious damage to another hundred across four townships. During the first few days of the flooding, around 1,500 people were evacuated, and about 300 of the displaced continued to stay at camps for several days as the water receded. "The figures are expected to increase in the coming days, as Red Cross assessment teams access remote areas of Rakhine affected by the flooding," explains U Maung Maung Khin, head of disaster management for the Myanmar Red Cross Society. Currently the Myanmar Red Cross is working alongside local authorities to assist affected communities. Red Cross volunteers are evacuating families to safety, distributing food and water, and first aid kits in Buthidaung township which include blankets, mosquito nets, basic kitchen utensils and other essential items. Further relief stocks will be distributed in the coming days in the township of Thandwe.

Landslide toll increases to 40 in Darjeeling, India India.com 2015-07-03 14:02:00 With the recovery of two more bodies, the toll in landslide-battered Darjeeling district has risen to 40 even as 16 people still missing. The two bodies were pulled out from the debris at Mirik and Kalimpong and 16 people are missing from Kalimpong Block 1 and 2, an official of West Bengal's Disaster Management Department said. Rescue operations were underway in Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong sub divisions, where multiple landslides had also washed away highways and damaged homes Darjeeling District Magistrate Anurag Srivastava said the landslide-affected people were put up in camps and three such camps were set up in Mirik where 200-250 families have been sheltered. National Disaster Response Team, Civil Defence personnel and local volunteers were engaged in the rescue work. Rescue teams from the Sashastra Seema Bal and the National Disaster Management Authority have also been pressed into service.

6.1 magnitude earthquake jolts southern Philippines Nestor Corrales Inquirer.net 2015-07-03 03:26:00 A 6.1 magnitude earthquake shook several areas in Visayas and Mindanao Friday afternoon, state seismologist said. The offshore quake struck 41 kilometers northeast of Burgos town in Surigao del Norte at 2:43 p.m., the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury from the tremor that had a depth of 30 kilometers. It was felt at Intensity V in Surigao City, Siargao Island, Talacogon, Agusan del Sur; Carrascal, Surigao del Sur. Intensity IV in Dinagat Island; Intensity III in San Juan, Southern Leyte; Tacloban, Leyte; Palo, Leyte; Lapulapu City and Intensity II in Bislig, Surigao del Sur; Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur; Davao City. The Philippines sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" where continental plates collide causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity. With reports from Frances Mangosing, INQUIRER.net and Allan Nawal, Inquirer Mindanao

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Health & Wellness

Authoritarians at work: Texas clinic refusing to accept un-vaccinated patients Jim Bergano KVUE 2015-06-30 00:00:00 The Austin Regional Clinic takes the lead in Central Texas when it comes to vaccines after the clinic announced they will no longer accept children as patients if the child isn't vaccinated starting Wednesday. The clinic said the recent measles outbreak at Disneyland in California demonstrates just how quickly infectious diseases can spread. That outbreak started with just one case and led to more than 115 cases in at least 21 states. "That's a huge group of people that we had at Disneyland at that moment but yet so many of them got sick because these diseases are incredibly, incredibly infectious," said Alison Ziari, co-chief of pediatrics at ARC.

Comment: Pretending to care about the health and well-being of their patients is quite deceptive, considering the statistics showing that vaccines often cause the very diseases they were designed to prevent and that the side effects are often life threatening, particularly to infants and young children. These administrators are simply following the dictates of the pharmaceutical industry which is the main beneficiary of these mandates. Statistics don't lie: Mandated vaccines, child mortality and soaring rates of Alzheimer's CDC's own data: Vaccine-infant death link CDC's own data shows measles vaccine kills more people than measles 25 facts about vaccines and the pharmaceutical industry coverup Since 1989 the US government has paid out $3 billion to vaccine-injured Americans Health Authorities Now Admit Severe Side Effects of Vaccination: Swine Flu, Pandemrix and Narcolepsy Studies outside the U.S. show unvaccinated children healthier than vaccinated children Vaccines Have Serious Side Effects - The Institute of Medicine Says So!

Digesting gluten products releases molecules that survive digestion and pass through gut lining Science Daily 2015-07-02 00:00:00 Biologically active molecules released by digesting bread and pasta can survive digestion and potentially pass through the gut lining, suggests new research. The study, published in the journal of Food Research International, reveals the molecules released when real samples of bread and pasta are digested, providing new information for research into gluten sensitivity. The research is in vitro -- in the lab rather than in humans -- and the authors of the study, from the University of Milan, Italy, say that more research is needed to determine what biological effect these molecules have on the body once they pass into the bloodstream. "Previous lab tests have been done on pure gluten, but for the first time we have simulated digestion using real bread and pasta bought from the supermarket to see if these molecules are produced," said Dr. Milda Stuknytė, one of the authors of the study. "We show that not only are these molecules produced during digestion, but they can also pass through the gut lining, suggesting that they could indeed have a biological effect."

Comment: Researchers are still discovering the multiple pathways that gluten takes in damaging the health of millions of people, many of whom are still unaware of its toxicity. The New England Journal of Medicine listed fifty-five diseases that can be caused by eating gluten, among them are depression, schizophrenia, epilepsy, migraines, neuropathy, anxiety, dementia, and autism. Reasons why gluten intolerance may be even more serious than celiac disease Opening Pandora's Bread Box: The Critical Role of Wheat Lectin in Human Disease Research proves wheat can cause harm to everyone's intestines The Dark Side of Wheat - New Perspectives on Celiac Disease and Wheat Intolerance The Addictive Opioids in Wheat and Dairy Foods

Science of the Spirit

Feeling down? Take a hike - walking in nature lowers depression Rob Jordan Stanford University 2015-06-30 13:32:00 Study finds that walking in nature yields measurable mental benefits and may reduce risk of depression Feeling down? Take a hike. A new study finds quantifiable evidence that walking in nature could lead to a lower risk of depression. Specifically, the study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, found thatpeople who walked for 90 minutes in a natural area, as opposed to participants who walked in a high-traffic urban setting, showed decreased activity in a region of the brain associated with a key factor in depression. "These results suggest that accessible natural areas may be vital for mental health in our rapidly urbanizing world," said co-author Gretchen Daily, the Bing Professor in Environmental Science and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. "Our findings can help inform the growing movement worldwide to make cities more livable, and to make nature more accessible to all who live in them." More than half of the world's population lives in urban settings, and that is forecast to rise to 70 percent within a few decades. Just as urbanization and disconnection from nature have grown dramatically, so have mental disorders such as depression. In fact, city dwellers have a 20 percent higher risk of anxiety disorders and a 40 percent higher risk of mood disorders as compared to people in rural areas. People born and raised in cities are twice as likely to develop schizophrenia.

Comment: See also: Nature walks improve mental well-being, lower stress and depression Researchers find that walking in a forest optimizes natural immunity

High Strangeness

'British X-Files' on UFOs to be released by March 2016 RT 2015-07-03 12:32:00 Top secret files dubbed "the British X-Files," which UFO hunters believe could prove extraterrestrials have visited the UK, are to be released by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). UFO researchers and a House of Lords peer have campaigned for the release of 18 files about sightings that took place in the UK more than 30 years ago. The government originally planned to declassify the files at the end of 2013, but their release was stalled due to "additional processing requirements," prompting speculation about a possible cover-up.

Comment: Don't expect any grand 'revelation' about UFOs from these 30 year old documents.