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Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse 2015-08-02 16:37:00
Is Barack Obama trying to kill the economy on purpose? On Sunday, we learned that Obama is imposing a nationwide 32 percent carbon dioxide emission reduction from 2005 levels by the year 2030. When it was first proposed last year, Obama's plan called for a 30 percent reduction, but the final version is even more dramatic. The Obama administration admits that this is going to cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars a year and that electricity rates for many Americans are going to rise substantially. And what Obama is not telling us is that this plan is going to kill what is left of our coal industry and will destroy countless numbers of American jobs. The Republicans in Congress hate this plan, state governments across the country hate this plan, and thousands of business owners hate this plan. But since Barack Obama has decided that this is a good idea, he is imposing it on all of us anyway. So how can Obama get away with doing this without congressional approval? Well, he is using the "regulatory power" of the Environmental Protection Agency. Congress is increasingly becoming irrelevant as federal agencies issue thousands of new rules and regulations each and every year. The IRS, for example, issues countless numbers of new rules and regulations each year without every consulting Congress. Government bureaucracy has spun wildly out of control, and most Americans don't even realize what is happening. | |
Comment: See also: The titanic tip of the climate spending iceberg
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Nafeez Ahmed
In the scramble to access Kurdistan's oil and gas wealth, the US and UK are turning a blind eye to complicity in 'Islamic State' oil smuggling. Medium 2015-08-02 13:06:00
Key allies in the US and UK led war on Islamic State (ISIS) are covertly financing the terrorist movement according to senior political sources in the region. US and British oil companies are heavily invested in the murky geopolitical triangle sustaining ISIS' black market oil sales. The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq and Turkish military intelligence have both supported secret ISIS oil smuggling operations and even supplied arms to the terror group, according to Kurdish, Iraqi and Turkish officials. One British oil company in particular, Genel Energy, is contracted by the KRG to supply oil for a major Kurdish firm accused of facilitating ISIS oil sales to Turkey.The Kurdish firm has close ties to the Iraqi Kurdish government. | |
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Sputnik News
2015-08-03 16:00:00
Representatives of the German Journalists' Association told Sputnik News that the treason charges facing journalists from the blog Netzpolitik represent a 'serious attack on press freedom.' The German Journalists' Association declared that the charge of treason leveled against bloggers Markus Beckedahl and Andre Meister represents a "serious attack on the freedom of the press," in an interview with Sputnik News' German language radio station. "This is not treason in any way. It was not the intention of the journalists to harm the Federal Republic of Germany or its foreign policy interests," said Hendrik Zoerner, spokesman for the German Journalists' Association [DJV]. | |
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Sputnik News
2015-08-03 15:55:00
As stock markets crash and Greece plunges deeper into recession, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is left with an even bigger fight on his hands - to revive Greek growth and avoid a Grexit. The chaos in the Greek stock exchange is clear with the Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX) falling by 22.87 percent. Greece's four big banks saw the biggest fall; Piraeus Bank, National Bank, Alpha Bank and Eurobank were all down by 30 percent. But the other numbers causing concern for the Greek PM are that 25 percent of the Greek population who are unemployed as manufacturing activity also dropped to its lowest level on record last month. Markit's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for manufacturing fell to 30.2 points. Fifty points indicate growth for a country. | |
Comment: The economic warfare continues. Check out: The Greek coup: Liquidity as a weapon of coerceion
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Clifford Krauss and Keith Bradshier
New York Times 2015-07-24 00:00:00
The country has invested billions in Ecuador and elsewhere, using its economic clout to win diplomatic allies and secure natural resources around the world. Where the Andean foothills dip into the Amazon jungle, nearly 1,000 Chinese engineers and workers have been pouring concrete for a dam and a 15-mile underground tunnel. The $2.2 billion project will feed river water to eight giant Chinese turbines designed to produce enough electricity to light more than a third of Ecuador. Near the port of Manta on the Pacific Ocean, Chinese banks are in talks to lend $7 billion for the construction of an oil refinery, which could make Ecuador a global player ingasoline, diesel and other petroleum products. Across the country in villages and towns, Chinese money is going to build roads, highways, bridges, hospitals, even a network of surveillance cameras stretching to the Galápagos Islands. State-owned Chinese banks have already put nearly $11 billion into the country, and the Ecuadorean government is asking for more. Ecuador, with just 16 million people, has little presence on the global stage. But China's rapidly expanding footprint here speaks volumes about the changing world order, as Beijing surges forward and Washington gradually loses ground. | |
Comment: China needs natural resources and it is using huge financial reserves for investing in other risky economies with high interest rates to fuel its industrialization machine. In short, China is doing "business as usual" instead of Western practices of shock doctrine, austerity and regime change.
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Washington's Blog
2015-07-30 20:02:00
NATO member Turkey has been busted supporting ISIS. The Guardian reported this week: | |
Comment: Perhaps part of the reason for exposing Turkey's links with ISIS has something to do with the fact that Israel has been a supporter of Kurdish separatists in Iraq, which naturally has an effect on Turkey.
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RT
2015-07-31 17:12:00
The chairman of a committee that oversees Britain's media blackout system has denied claims that state orders were given to withhold child abuse allegations against the late MP Cyril Smith MP. In his first interview as Chairman of the Defense and Security Media Advisory Committee, Air Vice-Marshal Andrew Vallance said police may have handed fake gagging orders, known as D-notices, to a number of news outlets. The government D-notices are issued to news editors, demanding they withhold information from the public on national security grounds. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today program, Valance said "not a shred of evidence" exists that authorized D-notices were issued. Don Hale, former editor of the Bury Messenger, claims he obtained a cache of files in the early 1980s regarding a group of elite political figures who seemed sympathetic to notorious pro-pedophile group The Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE). Among these high-profile figures was the late Liberal MP Cyril Smith. | |
Comment: For more information about these depraved monsters who stalk the Establishment corridors of power;
Listen to: the recent Truth perspective radio show: Pervert politicians and other news Read: UK 'Establishment': Unmasking psychopathic faces - Pedophilia and murder in VERY high place Watch: Conspiracy of Silence | |
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Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook 2015-07-31 03:30:00
Times are tough for America's "color revolution" industry. Perfected in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union, and honed during the so-called "Arab Spring," the process of backing subversion in a targeted country and overthrowing a sitting government under the cover of staged mass protests appears to be finally at the end of running its course. That is because the United States can no longer hide the fact that it is behind these protests and often, even hide their role in the armed elements that are brought in covertly to give targeted governments their final push out the door. Nations have learned to identify, expose, and resist this tactic, and like Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime's tactic of Blitzkrieg or "lighting war," once appropriate countermeasures are found, the effectiveness of lighting fast, overwhelming force be it military or political, is rendered impotent. This was most recently observed in Armenia during the so-called "Electric Yerevan" protests - Yerevan being the capital of Armenia, and "electric" in reference to the alleged motivation of protesters - rising electric prices. American-backed "color revolutions" always start out with a seemingly legitimate motivation, but soon quickly become political in nature, sidestepping many of the legitimate, practical demands first made, and focusing almost entirely on "regime change."For the Armenian agitators leading the "Electric Yerevan," they didn't even make it that far and spent most of their initial momentum attempting to convince the world they were not just another US-backed mob. | |
Comment: Indeed. Russia has taken some bold, necessary steps to inoculate itself from the West's pernicious efforts to destabilize her from within.
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Finian Cunningham
RT 2015-08-02 00:48:00
It's been a bad month for the angst-ridden US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power. Last week, she was "outraged" by Russia's veto at the UN Security Council of an international criminal court into the downing of Malaysian airliner MH17 over eastern Ukraine. Three weeks prior, Power was again "outraged" by Russia's veto of a draft resolution to declare the mass killing at Srebrenica during the Bosnian War in 1995 a "genocide." On Srebrenica, Power said: "Russia's veto is heartbreaking for those families and it is a further stain on this council's record." On the latest MH17 veto, the American ambassador fulminated: "When people see Russia's hand up on something like this, when the whole world is united that when a civilian airliner goes up in smoke and so many families are affected, it is in all of our interests, our collective interests to see that justice is done." Leave aside Power's assertion that "the whole world is united" over the crashed airliner, which was apparently shot down near the city of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine in July 2014, with the loss of all 298 people onboard. The draft resolution for a criminal tribunal was tabled by the Netherlands, Australia, the Western-backed Kiev regime and Malaysia. The first three are allies of the US-led NATO military alliance. Hardly a world consensus, as Power would claim. But it was what Power said next in relation to the Russian veto on a MH17 probe that reveals the politicized agenda lurking behind her emotive appeal. She told US government-controlled Voice of America: "I think not only does it raise real questions about Russia's relationship to the crime itself and what they're afraid of within the creation of an independent tribunal, but also raises real questions about the Security Council and whether it can be counted on to enforce the UN charter." | |
Comment: The author generously assumes Ms. Power has a soul to sell. Her track record might suggest otherwise.
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Richard Sudan
RT 2015-08-02 23:50:00
Just a few weeks ago, an act of piracy took place on the high seas, whereby a group of international activists taking part in a humanitarian mission including a member of the Israeli parliament, were captured and detained. The story didn't attract much coverage in the MSM. Coverage elsewhere among alternative media outlets ranged from being accurate to downright disingenuous. At best, those taking part were described as what they were - aid workers, artists, journalists and politicians working toward a shared aim of reaching Gaza - and, at worst, were described as terrorists and "agitators." The illegally seized boat, the Marianne, was part of a convoy of vessels which had set sail from different destinations in European waters, with the aim of reaching Gaza in occupied Palestine. Needless to say, a group of activists attempting to break an illegal blockade of a country occupied by one of the most powerful armed forces in the world can hardly be viewed as troublemakers. Nevertheless, the Marianne was halted in its tracks, approximately 100 nautical miles from Gaza by the Israeli navy, which, operating without jurisdiction and in complete disregard of international law, boarded the boat, taking those on board prisoner. These are the facts, and this is what happened. The wave of propaganda which consequently emanated from some Israeli press offices attempted to divert attention away from the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, to another equally tragic humanitarian crisis in Syria. In a letter presented to activists on board the Marianne after its seizure, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested that the activists had gotten "lost" on their way to Syria.
One of the activists on board the Marianne, Charlie Andreasson, was held by the Israeli authorities in Ashdod for six days before finally being released. | |
Comment: Some of the reasons people of conscience decided to join the aid flotilla:
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Paul Craig Roberts
Sputnik News 2015-08-02 18:31:00
It took two decades for Russia and China to understand that "pro-democracy" and "human rights" organizations operating within their countries were subversive organizations funded by the US Department of State and a collection of private American foundations organized by Washington. The real purpose of these non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is to advance Washington's hegemony by destabilizing the two countries capable of resisting US hegemony. Washington's Fifth Columns pulled off "color revolutions" in former Russian provinces, such as Georgia, the birthplace of Joseph Stalin and Ukraine, a Russian province for centuries. When Putin was last elected, Washington was able to use its Fifth Columns to pour thousands of protesters into the streets of Russia claiming that Putin had "stolen the election." This American propaganda had no effect on Russia, where the citizens back their president by 89%. The other 11% consists almost entirely of Russians who believe Putin is too soft toward the West's aggression. This minority supports Putin as well. They only want him to be tougher. The actual percentage of the population that Washington has been able to turn into treasonous agents is only 2-3 percent of the population. These traitors are the "Westerners," the "Atlantic integrationists," who are willing for their country to be an American vassal state in exchange for money. Paid to them, of course. But Washington's ability to put its Fifth Columns into the streets of Moscow had an effect on insouciant Americans and Europeans. Many Westerners today believe that Putin stole his election and is intent on using his office to rebuild the Soviet Empire and to crush the West. Not that crushing the West would be a difficult thing to do. The West has pretty much already crushed itself. China, obsessed with becoming rich, has been an easy mark for Washington. The Rockefeller Foundation is supporting pro-American Chinese professors in the universities. US corporations operating in China create superfluous "boards" to which the relatives of the ruling political class are appointed and paid high "directors' fees." This compromises the loyalty of the Chinese ruling class. | |
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Miles Goslett and Simon Walters
The Daily Mail, UK 2015-08-02 17:17:00
Secret plans have been drawn up to wind down Kids Company, sack most of its staff and launch a new streamlined organisation to help vulnerable children who rely on it. According to some sources, it could even be relaunched under a new name. This newspaper has learned of concerns about Kids Company from whistleblowers, including employees and young people. They claim that cash was given to youngsters and spent on designer clothes, holidays, drink and drugs. The latest development in the controversy comes days after police launched an investigation into claims of sexual abuse by staff. Senior figures in the charity world believe it may be too late to save Kids Company. 'It is a financial mess and now there are serious allegations of misconduct,' said one. 'It is going to be hard to raise money for it and it is difficult to see a way forward.' Camila Batmanghelidjh was forced to quit as its £90,000-a-year chief executive last month after the Government threatened to withhold a £3 million grant unless the charity's shambolic finances were sorted out. But she is resisting moves to make her cut all her ties with the charity. A well-placed insider said: 'Camila did a great job in setting it up but she has become a personality cult and that is no way to run a major organisation. It can only be saved if she goes - but she won't.' | |
Comment: This childrens 'charity' is starting to look like a front for something else:
Powerful pedophiles are seemingly everywhere and above the law in the UK | |
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RT
2015-08-03 13:54:00
A Russian MP from the center-left Fair Russia party has proposed to send banned contraband food seized at the border to the war-torn regions of Lugansk and Donetsk, which are suffering from a humanitarian crisis caused by the pro-Kiev military. "The Russian Emergencies Ministry and non-government funds are currently providing aid to the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine, but this aid is not sufficient, especially considering the fact that the Kiev authorities have practically imposed a full blockade on the two republics," MP Andrey Krutov has written in an open letter to Agriculture Minister Aleksandr Tkachev. The lawmaker then asks the government to study the possibility of sending the banned foodstuffs seized at the Russian border to Lugansk and Donetsk instead of simply destroying them, as ordered by the presidential decree signed last week. Krutov noted that since the beginning of the Ukrainian political crisis and the subsequent war in the southeast of the country, Russia has sent 34 truck convoys to Donbass to deliver over 41 tons of humanitarian aid. | |
Comment: It seems politicians in Russia are much more capable of thinking clearly and compassionately, which is something that is increasingly rare in the West.
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Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse 2015-07-31 00:00:00
Are you ready for what is coming in August? All over America, economic, political and social tensions are building, and the next 30 days could turn out to be pivotal. In July, we saw things start to turn. As you will read about below, a major six year trendline for the S&P 500 was finally broken this month, Chinese stocks crashed, commodities crashed, and debt problems started erupting all over the planet. I fully expect that this next month (August) will be a month of transition as we enter an extremely chaotic time in the fall and winter. Things are unfolding in textbook fashion for another major global financial crisis in the months ahead, and yet most people refuse to see what is happening. In their blind optimism, they want to believe that things will somehow be different this time. Well, the coming months will definitely reveal who was right and who was wrong. The following are 11 red flag events that just happened as we enter the pivotal month of August 2015... | |
Comment: While the unwitting public is being lulled into complacency, those 'in the know' are preparing for what lies ahead: Signs that the American elite are feverishly preparing for something BIG
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Jen Marlowe
View from the Donkey's Saddle 2015-08-01 15:17:00
"This was the kitchen," the young man who led my friend Tovah and me to the house told me yesterday as I entered. "The bedroom is in the back." The smell of burnt debris penetrated before I had the chance to process what I was seeing. A simple white stucco doorway, charred at the top, led into an interior so thoroughly scorched it was impossible to determine what I was looking at. I was in the Nablus-area Palestinian village of Duma, where, earlier yesterday morning, Israeli settlers had poured flammable liquid into the window of the home in which I now stood, and then tossed molotov cocktails inside. The mother (Reham) and the father (Sa'ad) and their 4-year old son (Ahmed) sustained severe burns and are currently fighting for their lives. Their 18-month old son and brother, Ali Dawabsheh, was burned to death.
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Comment: This is the horror that Palestinians endure at the hands of religious fanatics. The reality of this terror is so far removed from the West that it becomes somehow more permissible to feel outrage over the killing of a lion than over the murder of another human being, a child. Our collective conscience is stunted, and in it's weakness bears a denied burden of responsibility. Conscience isn't ruled by the direction of an external authority telling us how to think and what to feel. It's not selectively turned on and off based on notions of acceptance. The Palestinians are suffering, and their suffering comes as a direct result of the cheapening of our own humanity.
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Shafiqul Alam
Yahoo! News 2015-08-01 22:24:00
Jubilant crowds celebrated Saturday as Bangladesh and India swapped tiny pockets of land, ending one of the world's most intractable border disputes that has kept thousands in limbo for nearly seven decades. As the clock struck one minute past midnight (1801 GMT Friday), thousands of people who have been living without schools, clinics or power for a generation erupted in cheers of celebration for their new citizenship. "We have been in the dark for 68 years," said Russel Khandaker, 20, as he danced with friends in the Dashiar Chhara enclave, which belonged to India but has now became part of Bangladesh. "We've finally seen the light," he told AFP. | |
Comment: This is part of Modi's strategy to reduce the terrorist insurgencies that have plagued the north-eastern part of India for many decades.
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Matt Apuzzo
The New York Times 2015-08-01 00:00:00
The shooting looked bad. But that is when the professor is at his best. A black motorist, pulled to the side of the road for a turn-signal violation, had stuffed his hand into his pocket. The white officer yelled for him to take it out. When the driver started to comply, the officer shot him dead. The driver was unarmed. Taking the stand at a public inquest, William J. Lewinski, the psychology professor, explained that the officer had no choice but to act. "In simple terms," the district attorney in Portland, Ore., asked, "if I see the gun, I'm dead?" "In simple terms, that's it," Dr. Lewinski replied. When police officers shoot people under questionable circumstances, Dr. Lewinski is often there to defend their actions. Among the most influential voices on the subject, he has testified in or consulted in nearly 200 cases over the last decade or so and has helped justify countless shootings around the country. | |
Comment: To further know how and why the US has become a Police State see: Israel's hand in the militarization of American police
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USA Today
2015-08-02 22:55:00
DALLAS — Sunday marked the 30th anniversary of the crash of Delta Flight 191 at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The Lockheed L-1011 jumbo jet was coming in for a landing on a rainy Friday evening Aug. 2, 1985, when it encountered a "microburst" that sent the aircraft careening along the ground north of runway 17L, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. The plane struck a car on Texas Highway 114, killing its driver, then broke up in a fireball as it slammed into two large above-ground water tanks. The crash killed 136 passengers and crew on board plus the motorist; 27 people survived the impact. The NTSB investigation said although the pilot was experienced and competent, training in dealing with microbursts was lacking. After the crash, pilots were required to train to react to microbursts and quickly take evasive action. Since then, weather forecasting and windshear detection also has improved. | |
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RT
2015-08-03 19:26:00
China is going to build its first hybrid fusion-fission reactor by 2030, according to local media reports. The reactor is expected to recycle nuclear waste making energy production more environmentally friendly. The ambitious plan is in the works at the top secret Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics in Sichuan, where China develops its nuclear weapons, China Daily Mail reports. The plans were announced in a study published in the Science and Technology Daily, an official newspaper of the Ministry of Science and Technology. The experimental research platform will be built by 2020 while the whole system could be launched by 2030, said Huang Hongwen, the deputy project manager, China Daily Mail reported Saturday. Researchers believe that hybrid reactors will generate twice as much electricity as modern reactors. These reactors are also believed to be safer as they can be immediately stopped by cutting the external power supply. Today reactors use only fission technology which means dividing atoms in half while future fusion-fission technology will merge two atoms in one. The core of the new hybrid reactor will be a fusion reactor which will be powered by a 60 trillion amperes fission reactor. | |
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Alisa Tang
Reuters 2015-08-02 09:00:00
Fifty years ago Singapore had to ration water, and its smelly rivers were devoid of fish and choked with waste from shipbuilding, pig farms and toilets that emptied directly into streams. But it's a very different story today. The world's most densely populated country now collects rainwater from two-thirds of its land, recycles wastewater and is even developing technology that mimics human kidneys to desalinate seawater. "In about a lifetime, we have transformed Singapore," said George Madhavan, an engineer who has worked for the national PUB water agency for 30 years and is now communications director. "It's not rocket science - it is more political will ... The key success factor is really government - the leadership to pull different agencies together to come up with a plan ..." As governments around the world wrestle with water crises from droughts to floods, many are looking to the tiny Asian city-state of Singapore for solutions. | |
Comment: " As governments around the world wrestle with water crises from droughts to floods, many are looking to the tiny Asian city-state of Singapore for solutions."
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Rachel Reilly and Ellie Zolfagharifard
Daily Mail 2015-08-03 17:02:00
The European Space Agency has released spectacular images from the perspective of the Philae lander, as it completed its daring descent to comet 67P. The images document the probe's fall, and could even reveal where it finally took up residence after a bumpy landing last November. Researchers believe there is even evidence that the comet-lander dropped into a hole about its own size just three feet (0.9 metres) away from a towering cliff. | |
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Kirk Durston
Evolution News and Views 2015-07-30 16:35:00
The primary way scientific discoveries and advances are disseminated is through peer-reviewed papers published in scientific journals. For researchers, the first step is to submit a paper to a journal. Those that survive preliminary filtering by the editor are sent out to be reviewed by qualified scientists in the field. On the basis of the reviewers' recommendations, a paper is accepted or rejected. Only a fraction of papers submitted for publication make it through this peer-review process and are published. One would hope that such a process would justify a high level of confidence in scientific publications, but recent findings suggest that our faith in peer-reviewed publications in mainstream journals of science may be on somewhat shaky ground. The journal Nature, for example, in a paper calling for increased standards in pre-clinical research, revealed that out of 53 papers presenting "landmark" published findings in the field of haematology and oncology, only six could be confirmed by subsequent laboratory teams. For the 89 percent of papers that failed to have their results reproduced, it was found that blind control group analyses was inadequate or data had been selected to support the hypothesis and other data set aside. Worse still, some of the papers that could not be experimentally reproduced launched "an entire field, with hundreds of secondary publications that expanded on elements of the original observation, but did not actually seek to confirm or falsify its fundamental basis." Hundreds of other peer-reviewed, published science papers based on faulty initial papers! | |
Comment: Good advice. Peer reviewed research is latched onto as if it were the new scripture, showing just how ingrained a dogmatic, almost religious mindset is, even among self-professed atheists. As with everything else, there is good and bad research, and critical thinking is needed no matter how seemingly 'obvious' the consensus view may seem. In fact, the consensus is completely wrong more often than not.
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Ron Taube
Anoka County Union Herald 2015-08-03 18:27:00
Recently on the Minnesota Ornithological Union's rare bird alert a tropical kingbird was reported. To my knowledge, this was the first reporting of this bird in Minnesota's history. It was spotted by a keen observer down in the Murphy-Hanrehan Park, part of the Three Rivers Park district in Savage, Minnesota. The tropical kingbird is most often seen in Texas, Arizona and in Central and South America. No one really knows what it is doing so far out of its area, but nevertheless, it is here. After going down to Murphy-Hanrehan once and failing to find the bird my wife, Carolyn, and I went down again a few days later to try again. I read several reports of its sightings, and it seemed that you had your best chance early in the morning or from 6 p.m. on, so we timed our visit to arrive in the evening. The tropical kingbird is between 8 1/2 and 9 inches long. It has a pale gray head with a darkened mask-like area around its eyes and a gray bill. The back is gray-green and it has a forked tail. The throat is grayish and then beneath that is an olive yellow that turns into yellow on the belly and on down. | |
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radionz.co.nz
2015-08-03 17:56:00
The Association of Plastic surgeons looked at ACC claims from 2004 to 2014 and said the number of attacks increased each year. The study found almost 6000 of those bitten by dogs were admitted to hospital - a rate of almost two a day. More than a third of them are children, with mostly facial injuries. Plastic surgeon Dr Zachary Moaveni said about 70 percent of attacks occured on private properties. He said children under 10, Maori and Pacific Islanders and people who lived in low socio-economic areas were more likely to be attacked. | |
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khq.com
2015-08-02 17:40:00
A man was attacked by a bear at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord, suffering minor injuries. KOMO-TV reports the attack happened around 8:30 a.m. on Saturday on the base near Tacoma, Washington. Officials said the man, a civilian, was attacked while walking in a restricted area. He sustained only some scratches. Officials are now looking into why the man was there. They're also looking for the animal that attacked him. Bears are common in the area. In April, Washington state wildlife agents shot and killed a black bear at the base, a week after a bear attacked a civilian base employee. That employee, who was attacked while he was running with his dog on the base, was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Source: The Associated Press | |
Comment: It seems that the local bears just don't take kindly to humans in the vicinity of this military installation, see also: Man survives second bear attack in 4 years at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington: 'I just had this deja vu'
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abc7news.com
2015-08-02 17:21:00
Another dead whale has washed up on a beach in Pacifica. Biologists have not yet identified what species of whale it is. Biologist says dead whale that washed ashore has shark bites, but likely not the cause of death. #Pacifica #mapit pic.twitter.com/s55Lxiww5I — Lilian Kim (@liliankim7) August 3, 2015 A dog walker discovered the large marine mammal on the beach along Esplanade Avenue around 6 a.m. Sunday. | |
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Rachel Eddie
Daily Mail, UK 2015-08-02 15:51:00
Monsoonal rains have caused severe flooding across Myanmar, killing at least 27 people. The death toll of 27 has not been updated since Thursday due to disrupted communications, and this figure is expected to increase. Rescue efforts are underway, but Myanmar authorities and aid groups are 'struggling to access flood-hit areas' a director at the social welfare ministry said, the ABC reported. Over 156,000 people have been affected by the floods, strong winds and resulting landslides.
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Kiran Moodley
The Independent, UK 2015-08-03 15:11:00
Video from China's Shanxi Province shows the moment a road collapsed and plunged into a river, sending several parked cars into the muddy water below following torrential downpours in the region. The video emerged after China's meteorological authority issued a blue alert for 24 hours, warning of possible thunderstorms, gales and hailstorms in northern and some southern regions of the country. Heavy rain swept parts of Gansu, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Liaoning and Yunnan provinces. No one was injured following the collapse of the road in Shanxi, which shows cars hanging perilously on the side of the river bank following the collapse of the road.
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abc.net.au
2015-08-01 14:12:00
A continuous series of cold fronts and brisk north-westerly winds have contributed to the coldest July in Melbourne in two decades, the Bureau of Meteorology says. The average top temperature was 13.3 degrees Celsius in July, the lowest mark since 1995, when it was 12.9C. Temperatures were consistently 1C below the normal average maximum temperature across the state. The mercury dropped as low as minus 6C in Bendigo. Melbourne had its coldest morning in 18 years on July 19, when the mercury dropped to just 0.6C in the city. | |
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The Independent, (Ireland)
2015-08-01 13:33:00
The beluga whale was seen surfacing near Dunseverick, Co Antrim on Thursday. It is believed to be the first ever sighting in Northern Ireland. The beluga whale is normally found over 3,000km away around the Barents sea, eastwards of the the Svalbard Archipelago. This sighting marks what is believed to be the 17th time in 100 years that this type of whale has been seen in Britain and Ireland. There have been just two recorded sightings of the whale in the Republic of Ireland - one off Clare Island, Co Mayo in 1948 and another at Cobh, Co Cork in 1988.
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Comment: This is the second such report in 2015 for this species which is normally resident in Arctic waters at this time of year, see in addition: Wrong place, wrong time: Trio of Arctic Beluga Whales seen off coasts of New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut
This unusual southward migration was also recorded in June of last year - Wrong time, wrong place: Rare Arctic Beluga whale seen in Massachusetts Wrong place, wrong time: Dead Arctic beluga whale washes up on a Scottish beach | ||
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The Cartersville Fire Department responded to the gas department on Cook Street Thursday afternoon in response to a possible gas leak and a sinkhole. The sinkhole opened up under a trailer. No one was injured. The sinkhole was about 25 feet by 30 feet and about 25 to 27 feet deep when the BCFD arrived. The scene was secured, all utilities in the area were disconnected, Cartersville Electric rerouted power and Cartersville Natural Gas was able to shut down. There were no leaks or exposure. Everyone present worked on the scene until one a.m. Friday morning. The sinkhole had to be opened up to two or three times larger in order to stabilize it. Air quality was monitored. The main concern was a number of fuel tanks that was close to the sinkhole, but there was never a problem. | |
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Shaun Towne
WPRI 2015-07-28 16:19:00
Strong to severe thunderstorms quickly tore th |
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