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Joe Quinn
Sott.net 2015-07-13 20:03:00
"They crucified Tsipras in there," remarked a senior EU official who had attended yesterday's European Council emergency summit meeting. "Crucified." Tsipras has certainly had it tough these last few days and weeks, but who is really being "crucified" by this series of intensive meetings that led to yesterday's "agreement" in the "Greek crisis"? Tsipras is the Greek PM and leader of the Syriza party elected in January this year - very much thanks to a middle- and lower-class populist vote. Their mandate, therefore, was to work in the best interests of the Greek people. Unusually for European governments that get elected on a populist ticket, the Syriza government tried to do exactly that. | |
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Pepe Escobar
Sputnik News 2015-07-13 15:08:00
It took the longest Eurosummit ever for the EU "institutions" to deliver a shattering humiliation of Greece cushioned in Eurocratese newspeak. This coming from "institutions" that don't break a sweat when it comes to applying sanctions on "Russia aggression". And those interminable hours were hardly enough. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble was thoroughly enjoying the torture rack - literally not giving a damn to break up Europe in two or three irreconcilable parts. In the end it was up to France (President Hollande) vs. Germany (Chancellor Merkel) - two minions history placed at this fateful juncture — to decide the future of the EU deep into the night. Germany won - with France hardly sweetening the bitter pill for Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. In the process, Merkel/Hollande performed more like a NATO commando, delivering a (economic) European remix of Shock and Awe. An unidentified, invisible - yet appalled — eurocrat memorably described it as "extensive mental waterboarding". Dick Cheney and Donald "known unknowns" Rumsfeld should be eligible for royalties - in the spirit of Atlanticist friendship. The result — this Eurosummit statement — adds a new twist to the Tacitus maxim, "they make a desert and call it peace." The Financial Times — who at least is familiar with the history of Rome — called it, "the most intrusive economic supervision program ever mounted in the EU." | |
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Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook 2015-07-12 19:38:00
Late last year, Germany's broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) investigated what turned out to be hundreds of trucks a day carrying billions of dollars in supplies, flowing across the Turkish border into Syria and directly into the hands of the so-called "Islamic State" (ISIS). The border crossing near the Turkish city of Oncupinar, approximately 100km west of the Syrian city of Kobani, is apparently only one of many such crossings where ISIS fighters, weapons, and materiel move directly under the watch and apparent assistance of NATO. TIME in their recent article titled, "ISIS Fighters Kill 200 Civilians in Syrian Town," reported that: The attacks also came after the group [ISIS] suffered a series of setbacks over the past two weeks, including the loss last week of the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad — one of the group's main points for bringing in foreign fighters and supplies.Tal Abyad, a Turkish-Syrian border crossing east of Kobani, is now a second, confirmed point of entry into Syria used by ISIS to supply its ongoing campaign within the country. | |
Comment: The U.S. did something similar in Libya, only then, they didn't bother to use their Al Qaeda proxy as a pretext. They just presented them as rebels with a cause worth supporting, even if that cause included rape, murder, torture, cannibalism, and a string of other psychopathic atrocities. (The same applies to the so-called moderate rebels in Syria.)
When it comes down to it, all the biggest, baddest, extremist Muslim groups simply do the bidding of the U.S. and its allies, whether the individuals involved know it or not. Obama knows it: Once-in-a-lifetime event! Obama tells the truth: "We're speeding up training of ISIL forces" (VIDEO) | |
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Some allies say incident means Canada was an active participant in regime changeCBC 2015-07-12 04:26:00
It was one of those events that simply appeared and disappeared during the bloody, swift-moving events of Ukraine in the winter revolution of 2014. Canada's embassy in Kyiv was used as a haven for several days by anti-government protesters during the uprising that toppled the regime of former president Viktor Yanukovych. The Harper government never fully acknowledged — during the upheaval or since — the depth and extent of the security breach, which has had far-reaching implications on how Canadians are perceived in the region. The Canadian Press has spent months piecing together the events surrounding the extraordinary incident, which started on Feb. 18, 2014 and occurred at the height of the violent crackdown against pro-European protesters. | |
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John Pilger
Global Research 2015-07-13 00:00:00
An historic betrayal has consumed Greece. Having set aside the mandate of the Greek electorate, the Syriza government has willfully ignored last week's landslide "No" vote and secretly agreed a raft of repressive, impoverishing measures in return for a "bailout" that means sinister foreign control and a warning to the world. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has pushed through parliament a proposal to cut at least 13 billion euros from the public purse - 4 billion euros more than the "austerity" figure rejected overwhelmingly by the majority of the Greek population in a referendum on 5 July. These reportedly include a 50 per cent increase in the cost of healthcare for pensioners, almost 40 per cent of whom live in poverty; deep cuts in public sector wages; the complete privatization of public facilities such as airports and ports; a rise in value added tax to 23 per cent, now applied to the Greek islands where people struggle to eke out a living. There is more to come. | |
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Sputnik
2015-07-13 14:54:00
This week saw the failure of the UK-backed UNSC draft resolution calling to declare the 20-year-old mass murder of thousands of Muslims near the town of Srebrenica as genocide committed by the Serbian army; and while some Western countries strongly criticize the failure, a Russian expert explains what actually might be behind the proposed document. Saturday, July 11, marked the 20th anniversary of the tragic events in the Muslim-majority town of the mainly Serb eastern part of Bosnia. Back in 1995 thousands of Muslims, mainly men and boys, were murdered in and around the town of Srebrenica after it was occupied by the Bosnian Serb militia under the command of Gen. Ratko Mladic. The former general is now on trial for genocide in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, along with the former President of the Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina Radovan Karadžić. The massacre in Srebrenica has previously been classified as an act of genocide by the UN International Court of Justice and ICTY, now the draft resolution pushed for the same classification, claiming that a failure to adopt it will hinder reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, one of Russia's most well-known scholars and an expert in the Balkans, Elena Guskova, who was there on the ground during the years of the Bosnian war, believes that despite the enormity of the crime, there are insufficient grounds to consider the killings an act of genocide. "We can't talk about genocide here," she told Rossiya 1 TV show "Vesti on Saturday". "What is genocide by definition? It is the elimination of a particular nation on the territory of another country. It is a systematic, deliberate killing. There was nothing of the kind on the territory of Srebrenica. Those were military actions." She also debated the actual number of those killed, saying that now it stands at 8,000, but it is absolutely unclear where this figure comes from and it has fluctuated all the time, dropping down to 5,000 and then rising up to 25,000. "This does not reflect the truth in any way," she said. "This massacre has already become a myth, which can't be either reviewed or otherwise disputed." | |
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Sputnik News
2015-07-13 14:52:00
Soldiers of the Ukrainian Army recorded a video message to President Petro Poroshenko in which they stated that they will no longer accept orders from Kiev. The 2nd battalion of the 17th tank brigade has had enough, with soldiers refusing to take orders from their command as the video message clearly showed. The battalion demanded Poroshenko to urgently deal with the widespread lawlessness in the Ukrainian Army. | |
Comment: This must be one reason Kiev has turned to ISIS for committing mass murder. Ordinary Ukrainians are sick of being used to commit an ethnic cleansing under the guise of "anti-terrorist operations".
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Sputnik News
2015-07-13 14:43:00
European creditors have agreed on a deal with Greece, but the existence of the political union in its previous form is out of the question. The EU will split, and the final break is only a matter of time, DWN wrote. Many international observers called the recent EU summit a "humiliation of the Greeks." The talks which were the longest in the history of the Union diminished all values for which the EU once stood, they said. According to DWN, this is the end of the EU in its previous form — a political union, cherishing mutual trust and democratic principles. The democracy is now becoming a marginal phenomenon. 'Strong' states now give ultimatums to 'weak' ones in a way that was never done before. | |
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Pepe Escobar
RT 2015-07-13 13:51:00
As austerity-ravaged Europe watches its undemocratic "institutions" grapple with the Greek tragedy, and the US backtracks on a fair nuclear deal with Iran, geopolitical tectonic plates are shifting in the Urals. Can you feel an inchoate multipolar world? Well, just look right here at the BRICS 2015 Ufa declaration. The EU is hardly featured in the BRICS declaration and not by accident. Forget about the dead on arrival G7. This - the joint BRICS/SCO summit - is the real deal in 2015. Russia's diplomatic masterstroke was to merge two summits - BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) - with a third, informal meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). After all, some nations with leaders present in Ufa are members of at least one of these organizations. But the absolute key point is that getting BRICS, SCO and EEU leaders in one place packs a graphic punch about the emergence of a coordinated, Eurasia-wide, and in some aspects worldwide drive towards a more equitable world order not dictated by exceptionalists. | |
Comment: The grand world chess board is getting more and more interesting.
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Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics 2015-07-13 13:25:00
Spain has shown that it is fully on board with the Brussels authoritarian direction of ending democracy. Those in power have simply convinced themselves that the people do not understand what is good for them so they must impose their will upon the people by raw force. How does this differ in any way from the justification of imposing communism? This is the death of all freedom and it is upon our doorstep. Here are the new laws in Spain: 1. If you photograph security personnel and then share these images on social media: up to €30.000 fine (particularly if photo exposes violence used against a member of the public). This fine could increase depending on the number of Instagram or social media followers you have. 2. Tweet or retweet information or the "location of an organized protest" can now be interpreted as an act of terrorism as it incites others to "commit a crime" (now that "demonstrating" in many ways has become a crime). Sound "1984"-ish? Read about Orwell and his time in Spain. 3. Snowden-like whistle blowing is now defined as an act of terrorism. If you write for a local publication, be careful what you print, whom you speak to, and whether the government is listening. | |
Comment: As the world becomes more unstable, the psychopaths tighten the noose because they know they will be the target of people's ire.
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Karen Szymczyk
Russia Insider 2015-07-12 19:24:00
In a clearly provocative move, the New York Times has reported that battalions of the Islamic State are working under Pravy Sektor command in several Ukrainian hot-spots, including the strategic port city of Mariupol. Bereft of any kind of evidence to back up its claims of "steady nighttime shipments of Russian military equipment", Andrew Kramer's report is still earnest regarding the odds stacked against the plucky Ukrainian neo-Nazis: Where do you begin? But the kicker is in the next sentence: [T]he Ukrainians welcome backing even from Islamic militants from Chechnya. | |
Comment: NATO's proxy army of psychopaths has gotten a lot of practice in Syria, Libya, and Iraq. Also see:
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Alexandra Sims
The Independent 2015-07-13 17:22:00
A doctor from Detroit, Michigan who misdiagnosed patients with cancer, giving them unnecessary chemotherapy treatment in order to claim millions in health insurance has been sentenced to 45 years in prison. Around 553 patients received unnecessary infusions or injections from Dr Farid Fata. In September, the 50 year old haematologist-oncologist pleaded guilty to giving cancer treatments to misdiagnosed patients, telling some that they had a terminal blood cancer called multiple myeloma. Feta also pleaded guilty to 13 counts of Medicare fraud, one count of conspiracy to receive payments and two counts of money laundering. | |
Comment: Forty five years is not enough for this monster.
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RT
2015-07-13 15:10:00
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem released a video allegedly showing an IDF commander killing a Palestinian who threw stones at his car. The commander didn't call an ambulance, moved the fatally-injured teen "with his leg" and drove off, says the group. The incident happened on July 3 in the West Bank town of a-Ram, north of Jerusalem. A 17-year-old Palestinian, Muhammad Ali-Kosba, began throwing stones at the car of Colonel Yisrael Shomer, commander of the Binyamin Regional Brigade. Jerusalem-based B'Tselem commenced an investigation into the matter after various Israeli politicians issued statements in support of Shomer. It analyzed several witness accounts, took footage from a surveillance camera and consulted the doctors who treated the teen. | |
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Andre Damon
WSWS.org 2015-07-11 00:00:00
Despite significant advances in communications, agriculture and bio-technology over the past 15 years, the overwhelming majority of the world population continues to live in economic privation, according to a report on global incomes published this week by the Pew Research Center. The report, entitled "A Global Middle Class is More Promise than Reality," classifies 71 percent of the world population as either poor or low-income, subsisting on less than $10 per day. The report concludes that 84 percent lives on less than $20 per day, or $7,300 per year, an income level associated with "deep poverty" in developed countries. Only seven percent of the world population lives on what the report calls a "high" income level of more than $50 per day, or $18,000 per year. The great majority of these people live in Europe or America. | |
Comment: Capitalism is not the primary reason that much of the world's population has been reduced to poverty and feudal enslavement. Capitalism is a system like any other 'ism' that can be manipulated by those whose rampant greed and lack of compassioncompels them to rise to positions of power where they are able to accumulate vast fortunes and enough political clout to insure that they remain in control. Until more people begin to understand that the blame for most of the ills of the world does not lie with any one financial system or political ideology, but can be placed squarely on the heads of those whose very nature is predatory, we will continue to fight amongst ourselves while empowering them.
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After the same-sex marriages legalization in all the US states, the law is suggested to be extended.2015-07-10 00:00:00 A 77-year-old Lois Capps, member of the US House of Representatives from California, has applied to eliminate such terms as "wife" and "spouse" from the federal law, so that, gays and heterosexuals will have equal rights. Instead, neutral "spouse", or "married couple" may be used, not to discriminate the LGBT community. California has already adopted the initiative. Pravda.Ru has reported, that such terms as "mother" and "father" are illegal in the US since 2011. It was noticed by the State Department, that more and more same-sex couples raise children. Comment: This is true on passport forms: "Parent One" and "Parent Two." Capps said her bill would also have other benefits if it became law. In one example, she noted that U.S. law says it's illegal to threaten the president's wife, but says nothing about the president's husband. "Capps' bill would update the code to make it illegal to threaten the president's spouse," her office said. In case of Clinton's winning presidential elections in 2016, Bill Clinton may be called as the"first spouse". Similar measures have been introduced by the Royal Bank of Scotland, that decided to address the clients as Mx (Mixter), instead of gendered Mr, Mrs, Ms or Miss. |
Comment: "Mx" (Mix) is commonly used by non-binary people and those who do not wish to reveal their gender. There is also "Ind," which indicates an individual, another newly created gender-neutral title for those who do not feel "Mx" meets their gender-neutral standard. Ind was created to be free of gender entirely, thus making it a better option for a gender and gender nonconforming persons. (Stay with me here, there is more to choose from!) There is also "Misc" or "Misk," derived from "miscellus", meaning "mixed," for those who would say they have aspects of various genders at various times. And then there is "Pr" to replace 'he' or 'she'. Designer honorifics. What ever happened to: "hey you..."?
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Tina Brodal
Daily Mail, UK 2015-06-16 19:14:00
A rare 1000 kg ocean sunfish measuring nearly three meters has washed up on a remote beach on Maria island off the east coast of Tasmania. When the rare fish, also known as a Mola Mola, is found, it's always in tropical waters, so when local Ian Johnstone spotted the fish on nature reserve Maria Island over the weekend, he'd never seen anything like it. Mr Johnstone is the owner of Maria Island Walk, which is an upmarket four day guided walk. 'I suspect potential global warming issues and warmer water is to blame,' Mr Johnstone told Daily Mail Australia about how he believed the dead sunfish ended up there. The sunfish is the heaviest bony fish species in the world, and its name stems from the fact that they more than often can be seen basking in the sun near the surface. | |
Comment: Other reports of rare Sunfish for the past year -
Spate of rare deep sea tropical fish found on Norfolk beaches, UK Rare ocean sunfish weighing 1.5 tons washes ashore at Palu, Indonesia Rare deep sea Ocean Sunfish found for the first time in Pakistan's waters Deep ocean sunfish found on beach in North Queensferry, Scotland "Rare" 300-pound warm-water Mola sunfish washes up on Washington coast | |
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cbc.ca
2015-07-12 18:43:00
People in Calgary woke up with a bang early Sunday morning as a line of thunderstorms hovered over the city, bringing lightning, power outages and overland flooding in communities to the east. As the storms moved eastward, severe thunderstorm warnings issued by Environment Canada remained in effect for Red Deer, Ponoka, Innisfail and Stettler by 3 p.m. MT. An earlier storm warning for Calgary was cancelled at 9:40 a.m. MT. "Meteorologists are tracking a dangerous thunderstorm capable of producing up to penny size hail and flooding rain," the agency said on its website. Thunderstorm watches — the agency's less urgent category of alert — were still in effect for much of the southeastern part of the province by late afternoon.
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Zach Evans
Evansville Courier and Press 2015-07-12 17:22:00
Evansville police shot and killed two dogs that were part of a larger pack that attacked and bit several people Saturday afternoon. Terri L. Jackson, 30, was one of the victims. "I was just walking down the street. There were like five dogs across the street. ... One of the dogs ran up to me and started barking," Jackson said. She didn't think anything of it and kept walking along South Linwood Avenue around 5 p.m. Saturday. "Then the dog bit me on the back of my leg," she said. The dog, an "aggressive" pit bull, tried to bite her again, but a neighbor came at the dog with a large stick as a distraction. Jackson lay bleeding from the wound as the neighbor fended off the dog. | |
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Heavy storms overnight Saturday into Sunday morning left cars stranded, homes flooded and streets impassable in Kentucky. Residents felt the downpour with more than three inches of rain falling over the course of a few hours in Metro Louisville and parts of southern Indiana. The Weather Channel's Chris Friedman said the flash flooding was triggered by a round of torrential rain. A flash flood warning was issued for eastern Jefferson County just after 7 a.m., but expired at 10:15 a.m. NBC station WAVE reported that the ground was already saturated from a wet start to July, leaving no place for the water to go. Jody Duncan, a spokeswoman with the Louisville Metro Government said the water is beginning to recede but they are already preparing for another big storm expected to hit late Sunday night.
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Jennifer Smith
The Boston Globe 2015-07-12 16:28:00
Natick police are warning residents after two women in town were reportedly attacked by a wild animal, described as a gray fox or coyote. State Environmental Police were notified around 9:30 p.m. Saturday that Natick law enforcement had received two separate calls that evening "for encounters with what was initially reported to be either a fox or coyote," said Peter Lorenz, the Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs communications director. The attacks occurred in 100 block of East Central Street, police said in a Facebook post. The block is a residential and retail area between large stretches of forested land. Police said the animal did not appear to be provoked before the incidents and is "aggressive and is quite possibly not healthy," Natick police said in their post. An Environmental Police officer dispatched to Natick gathered additional information and consulted with Natick police. The animal, whose description is most consistent with a gray fox, has not been located, according to Energy and Environmental Affairs officials.
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Comment: Se also: Spate of coyote attacks on four children in Irvine, California
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notrickszone.com
2015-07-10 15:59:00
After the European heat wave of last week, the pendulum has swung to the other extreme. Currently the weather pattern dominating Central Europe is bringing unusually cold air over the continent, and early this morning regions in a number of countries were hit by ground surface frost. Parts of Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Czech Republic saw surface frost - even down to the lower elevations (Belgium is hardly a mountainous region). German site Wetter24 twittered here a map depicting the frosty areas gripping this 10th of July, 2015. Also see map here. Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann here writes and supplies a link showing a German video reporting conditions that the German Eifel region woke up to early this morning. At the 1:50 mark the video reports: | |
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thelocal.se
2015-07-09 13:29:00
Suspected rat attacks have sparked fears at a care home in the Swedish capital after several residents suffered mysterious bite wounds. Just a month after a woman had to be taken to hospital after a rat attacked her in a Gothenburg care home, it looks as if the hairy beasts have struck again. The Sofiagården care home in Stockholm has reported itself to Sweden's Health and Social Care Inspectorate after mysterious scratches, bruises and wounds begun appearing on several of the elderly residents last month. Nobody was able to say how they had got their injuries, but care home bosses believe that rats could be behind them. "We can't say with certainty that they are definitely scratches or bites by rats, but the suspicion alone means that we have acted on it - we are obliged to do that under the law," head of operations Maj-Lis Johansson told local newspaper Stockholm Direkt on Thursday. | |
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thelocal.no
2015-07-10 13:16:00
Record numbers of blue stinging jellyfish are thronging the southern coast of Norway, mounting a growing a menace to swimmers. The jellyfish, which usually found in slightly warmer waters than red jellyfish, can give unpleasant stings. "I can't remember receiving so many reported sightings ever before," Jan Helge Fosså, a marine biologist at Norway's Institute of Marine Research toldAftenposten. Fosså said that he expected the jellyfish to follow the currents further north, but was unsure of why numbers had reached such high levels. Large numbers of blue jellyfish have also been spotted off Sweden's western coast. | |
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Alex Groves and Patrick O'Neill
The Press-Enterprise 2015-07-12 12:36:00
Three Temecula children were hospitalized after a family friend's dog attacked them Saturday, July 11 in Temecula, Riverside County sheriff's deputies said. All three children - ages 4, 14, and 15 - were taken to a local hospital with injuries to their arms. One later was flown to a hospital in San Diego for further treatment. The names and possible relationship of the children were not disclosed. The extent of their injuries and their conditions were not available. The dog - an American Staffordshire terrier, a breed of pit bull - was turned over to animal control officers. The children were attacked just before 5 p.m. Saturday in the 40000 block of Chantemar Way in Temecula, according to a Riverside County Sheriff's Department news release. "Witnesses stated the dog ... mistook children playing as aggressive actions," the release said. It attacked one of them, and when two other children tried to help, the dog attacked them as well, the release said. When deputies arrived, they confined the dog to a bathroom and called animal control. | |
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sciencedaily.com
2015-07-09 12:02:00
UBC research shows world's monitored seabird populations have dropped 70 per cent since the 1950s, a stark indication that marine ecosystems are not doing well. Michelle Paleczny, a UBC master's student and researcher with the Sea Around Us project, and co-authors compiled information on more than 500 seabird populations from around the world, representing 19 per cent of the global seabird population. They found overall populations had declined by 69.6 per cent, equivalent to a loss of about 230 million birds in 60 years. "Seabirds are particularly good indicators of the health of marine ecosystems," said Paleczny. "When we see this magnitude of seabird decline, we can see there is something wrong with marine ecosystems. It gives us an idea of the overall impact we're having." | |
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Oliver Milman
The Guardian 2015-07-13 04:22:00
Scientists searching for lobster larvae on Investigator research vessel instead find cluster of four volcanoes thought to be about 50m years old Four enormous underwater volcanoes, thought to be about 50m years old, have been discovered off the coast of Sydney by a team of scientists who were looking for lobster larvae. The volcano cluster was spotted through sonar mapping of the sea floor by Investigator, Australia's new ocean-going research vessel, about 250km off the coast. The four volcanoes are calderas, large bowl-shaped craters caused when a volcano erupts and the land around it collapses. The largest is 1.5km across the rim and rises 700m from the sea floor. The 20km-long volcano cluster is nearly 5km underwater. Professor Iain Suthers, a marine biologist at the University of NSW, said the volcano discovery was made when the team was searching for nursery grounds for larval lobsters. | |
Comment: Other underwater volcanoes have been discovered in recent years from off the coast of New Zealand to Antarctica. In April this year, scientists were stunned by the apparent eruption of a submarine volcano, 'Axial Seamount' off the Northwest US coast (at a similar time to the devastating Nepalese earthquake and the massive eruption of theCalbuco volcano in Chile), which could explain the "unprecedented warming occurring over the last 13 years" of water in this area.
As the number of volcanoes erupting right now is greater than the 20th century's YEARLY average, a comparable escalation in activity of their underwater counterparts seems logical. It is estimated there are up to one million submarine volcanoes on our planet. Effects from this volcanic activity, combined with increased methane outgassing, radiation from the Fukushima disaster are probably also causing the ongoing devastation of marine life,mass fish die offs and strange migratory behaviour we are currently witnessing. | |
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Hoang Phan, Minh Hang
Thanh Nien News 2015-07-06 17:02:00
Sa Pa, the favorite resort town in northern Vietnam, is going through the second winter in only six months. Or at least that's what it feels like here. The town became suddenly cold on Monday morning and many people had to wear extra coats to deal with the temperature, which fell to 12.6 degrees Celsius (54.7 degrees Fahrenheit) at 7 a.m., right in the middle of summer. Both locals and tourists in Lao Cai Province said they woke up very surprised. They said it felt cold like winter, but it got warmer later in the day. According to AccuWeather, the minimum temperature will be between 14 and 16 degrees throughout the week. Luu Minh Hai, director of the province's weather forecast center, said the region has been suffering from a depression which caused long, heavy rains the past days. The temperature in other mountains in the region also dropped to 16 and 17 degrees Celsius. Hai said such low temperature in summer has hardly ever been seen in Sa Pa. The town, which is the only place in Vietnam to have snow in winter, recorded temperature as low as 14.4 degrees Celsius in July 2005. The cold weather is even stranger considering the country has been going through the hottest year in a decade, with heat wave gripping northern and central Vietnam for months now. | |
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Sandi Doughton
PostStar.com 2015-07-10 00:00:00
Mount St. Helens' Crater Glacier continues to grow while most others around the world are shrinking. Ray Yurkewycz perched on the rim of the Northwest's most restless volcano and marveled at the primordial forces at work. Rocks and boulders sloughed off the crater walls, kicking up plumes of dust as they clattered down the near-vertical slopes. Steam rose from the twin magma domes formed after Mount St. Helens' cataclysmic eruption in 1980 and the quieter outburst that started in 2004. But Yurkewycz, operations director for the nonprofit Mount St. Helens Institute, was focused less on the volcano's fiery past than its icy present. Few people realize, he said, that the hollowed-out crater where lava was flowing just a few years ago now holds the world's youngest glacier. And if that's not surprising enough, the prosaically named Crater Glacier is also growing at a time when most glaciers around the globe are in rapid retreat. | |
Comment: Actually, there are a number of other glaciers that have been advancing within the past year:
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Christina Sarich
In fear of rising food prices and moreNatural Society 2015-07-13 00:00:00
A judge recently halted the merging of two of the largest food corporations in the world - Sysco and US Foods. Think of Sysco and US Foods like Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Were they to merge, the global market would be under the control of two corporations who already distribute 'food' to the masses which likely causes diabetes, obesity, digestive disorders, and neurological disease - only with twice the power to do so. | |
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Sayer JI
Greenmedinfo.com 2015-07-12 16:32:00
Your mobile phone is not only a carcinogenic, radiation emitting device, but may alter the structure and function of the brain, including brain wave activity that is intimately connected to cognition, mood and behavior. A concerning new clinical study published in PLoS One titled, "EEG Changes Due to Experimentally Induced 3G Mobile Phone Radiation," has revealed that so-called 3rdgeneration (3G) cell phone technology has widespread brain wave disrupting activity in subjects exposed to real-world like conditions, i.e. 15-minute "talk time" exposure to the ear area. The study abstract describes the experimental design and results: The aim of this study was to investigate whether a 15-minute placement of a 3G dialing mobile phone causes direct changes in EEG activity compared to the placement of a sham phone. Furthermore, it was investigated whether placement of the mobile phone on the ear or the heart would result in different outcomes. Thirty-one healthy females participated. All subjects were measured twice: on one of the two days the mobile phone was attached to the ear, the other day to the chest. In this single-blind, cross-over design, assessments in the sham phone condition were conducted directly preceding and following the mobile phone exposure. During each assessment, EEG activity and radiofrequency radiation were recorded jointly. Delta, theta, alpha, slow beta, fast beta, and gamma activity was computed. The association between radiation exposure and the EEG was tested using multilevel random regression analyses with radiation as predictor of main interest. Significant radiation effects were found for the alpha, slow beta, fast beta, and gamma bands. When analyzed separately, ear location of the phone was associated with significant results, while chest placement was not. The results support the notion that EEG alterations are associated with mobile phone usage and that the effect is dependent on site of placement. Further studies are required to demonstrate the physiological relevance of these findings." | |
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waterfordwhispersnews.com
2015-07-13 20:56:00
AS Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras entered his 27th hour of being chained to a radiator in a Belgium basement, the politician requested a bailout out of the Greek bailout talks, WWN can exclusively reveal. Arriving in Brussels yesterday, Tsipras was under the impression he would enter negotiations with EU leaders regarding a bailout programme for Greece, but upon entering the room was immediately struck by Angela Merkel on the back of the head with a blunt object; believed to be Enda Kenny. Waking several hours later, Tsipras realised his invite to Brussels was merely a sinister trap plotted by several European leaders, lead by the German chancellor. | |
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