Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Thursday 27 August 2015


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Catherine Shakdam
RT
2015-08-25 18:47:00

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Blanketed by its wealth and protected by political alliances, Saudi Arabia has covertly run and promoted a new movement in the Middle East: religious eugenics, under the false pretense of opposing the rise of Iran. From Syria to Bahrain and Yemen the evidence is overwhelming.

Earlier this August, the Red Cross added its voice to those of other humanitarian and rights groups in its condemnation of Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, lifting the lid on Riyadh's little house of horrors in southern Arabia.

In no uncertain terms Peter Maurer, the head of the international Red Cross told reporters he had seldom witnessed such degree of devastation. He said: "Yemen after five months looks like Syria after five years ... The images I have from Sanaa and Aden remind of what I have seen in Syria."

He stressed "the firepower with which this war is fought on the ground and in the air is causing more suffering than in other societies, which are stronger and where infrastructures are better off and people are wealthier and have reserves and can escape."

A country in ruins, Yemen is also a nation in permanent mourning, as every day its people are relentlessly slain - casualties of a violent and murderous colonial war - the latest victims of Riyadh's expansionist military campaign in the Middle East.
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Christopher Black
New Eastern Outlook
2015-08-21 01:24:00

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The Minsk-2 ceasefire agreement is dead but no one wants to bury the rotting corpse. Since it was signed in February of this year the Donbas governments and Russia have bent over backward to comply with the terms of that agreement hoping against hope that the Kiev junta would do the same. They hoped in vain.

Poroshenko and his fascist allies instead have refused to change the constitution to accommodate the concerns of the Donbas republics, have tried to suppress the Communist Party and other parties in opposition, have refused to withdraw heavy weaponry from the line of contact, have maintained increasingly heavy artillery attacks on the civilian populations and areas and cut off routes for essential foodstuffs, medical aid and technical equipment. Rather than enjoying a ceasefire, the peoples of the Donbas are under a state of siege.

Poroshenko openly calls for a military solution to the crisis and has increased the draft in the west. The NATO alliance continues to pour in its forces disguised as "advisers" and "mercenaries" and puts additional pressure on Russia with multiple military exercises from the Baltic to Bulgaria, where more tanks have been recently dispatched to "send Russia a message."
Comment: Russia and Donbass have played the game of geopolitics well, despite the carnage and massive war crimes committed by Kiev and NATO against them. Knowing full well that peace was the last thing Kiev/NATO wanted (despite lip service to the contrary), Russia not only drafted all the important portions of the Minsk agreements to show that they were fully committed to a rational, peaceful resolution to the conflict; Donbass fully complied with their end of the bargain.

So when the agreements inevitably fail, it will be demonstrably Kiev's failure. What then? It looks like DPR and LPR haven't given up their wish to join the Russian Federation:
In late autumn, the integration of the two Novorossiya republics, the DPR and LPR, into the structure of Russia will reach a qualitatively new level: it is expected that after a month, after holding local elections to the government of Novorossiya, a referendum will be carried out which will put forth the question of the DPR and LPR joining the Russian Federation.
Moscow has consistently stated its wish that DPR and LPR remain part of Ukraine, albeit as semi-autonomous regions. Will that change? Or will the people's will have some effect on the so-far intransigent Kiev 'government'?
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Henry Samuel and David Chazan
The Telegraph
2015-08-27 20:37:00

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French security forces are bracing for the eventuality of civil unrest and fear there could be a missile strike on a passenger airliner or a September 11-style attack, according to sources close to French intelligence.

"Airlines have been warned of a possible attack on a plane with an anti-tank missile," a source told The Telegraph. "But pilots are unsure how to take evasive action."

After Friday's thwarted attempt to massacre passengers on an Amsterdam-Paris train and a series of terrorist attacks and attempted killings in France this year, President François Hollande warned the nation to prepare for more violence, considered inevitable as the Islamist threat grows.
Comment: This article paints the picture that France is helpless in the face of terrorism and blowback from Libya. Now France "needs" to call in the army in the guise of protecting the people to clean up undesirable neighborhoods and increase security check points.
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Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
2015-08-27 19:30:00

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On Tuesday evening, we asked what would happen if emerging markets joined China in dumping US Treasurys. For months we've documented the PBoC's liquidation of its vast stack of US paper. Back in July for instance, we noted that China had dumped a record $143 billion in US Treasurys in three months via Belgium, leaving Goldman speechless for once.

We followed all of this up this week by noting that thanks to the new FX [currency] regime (which, in theory anyway, should have required less intervention), China has likely soldsomewhere on the order of $100 billion in US Treasurys (UST) in the past two weeks alone in open FX ops to steady the yuan. Put simply, as part of China's devaluation and subsequent attempts to contain said devaluation, China has been purging an epic amount of Treasurys.

But even as the cat was out of the bag for Zero Hedge readers and even as, to mix colorful escape metaphors, the genie has been out of the bottle since mid-August for China which, thanks to a steadfast refusal to just float the yuan and be done with it, will have to continue selling USTs by the hundreds of billions, the world at large was slow to wake up to what China's FX interventions actually implied until Wednesday when two things happened: i) Bloomberg, citing fixed income desks in New York, noted "substantial selling pressure" in long-term USTs emanating from somebody in the "Far East", and ii) Bill Gross asked, in a tweet, if China was selling Treasurys.
Comment: Another sign that the economies of the world are all fighting for survival and quickly will use all of their options available to forestall a catastrophic event from happening or reduce their exposure to US debt.
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Pablo Castellani and Chiara Cruciati
Mondoweiss
2015-08-27 18:30:00

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Mamilla cemetery does not exist anymore. What exists now is a hotel, a school, a parking lot, a public garden, a nightclub and the US consulate. Also a museum to celebrate tolerance. But the meaning of tolerance in West Jerusalem, a few steps away from the Old City, is surreal — to build the story of a new Jerusalem, the Israeli authorities are erasing its past. Mamilla cemetery is a prominent cornerstone of the Arab, Islamic and Palestinian identity of the city. But today it's a forgotten place.

Since the creation of the State of Israel, the Israeli government has worked to remove the graveyard from the heart of West Jerusalem. "In 1948, the year of Nakba, the catastrophe of the Palestinian people, the upper part was immediately transformed into a public park, renamed 'Independence Park', aimed at celebrating the victory in the '48 war. They created the garden, uprooting and removing dozens of ancient tombs." explains Nader Dajani as he walks between what remains of the cemetery of his ancestors. The Dajani family is one of the most ancient and wealthy families in Palestine, several of its members are buried in Mamilla.

"In the Israeli project the only things that deserve to survive in Mamilla are two shrines: one belongs to a famous local scholar, and one to Ahmad Dajani, a well known sheikh. The only reasons behind this decision is the archaeological importance of the shrines and also their sizes: it's easy to remove a small tomb, a stone; it's harder to uproot a huge one".
Comment: On and on it goes, where will it stop? Rewriting history to justify their existence is what psychopaths do all around the world. It is always the victors of wars that write the history in their view and shut out the real truth of events.
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Adam Leszczyński
The Guardian
2015-07-02 18:55:00

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Poland accepts few refugees and has been little affected by the crisis in Europe, yet its views on immigration are among the most pungent on the continent

"We don't want terrorists here," the Polish pensioner says, when asked about EU plans to resettle refugees more broadly across the continent. "Have you seen what they're doing in the west?"

It's a popular view here, if a baffling one. Poland is little affected by the refugee crisis in Europe, and accepts vanishingly small numbers of migrants. And yet the country has some of the most pungent views on immigration on the continent. A recent survey for the television station TVN found that two-thirds of Poles share the same hostility towards immigrants expressed by the Warsaw grandmother cited above.

According to a study in 2013 by the Centre for Research on Prejudice - a professional academic centre at the University of Warsaw - as many as 69% of Poles do not want non-white people living in their country.
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Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation
2015-08-24 18:17:00

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The influx of migrants into the European Union could be dealt with humanely and practicably - if EU members worked together in solidarity. But the haphazard influx is inciting tensions between member states precisely because of the lack of EU solidarity. Germany - the biggest destination for refugees - is showing its exasperation with other states, which is in turn eroding the very foundations of the 28-member bloc.

The freedom of movement for European citizens between European Union member states is one of the foundational rights of the bloc since it declared itself a Single Market back in 1987. So, the latest warning from Germany that it may withdraw from treaty provisions that afford this right is a blow to the heart of the EU and its outward image of «unity».

Germany's interior minister Thomas De Maiziere was speaking after latest figures show that his country was projected to receive a record 800,000 migrants seeking asylum this year. That is four times the number that Germany processed last year, according to Eurostat figures cited by the BBC.

«Germany's interior minister says he cannot rule out suspending participation in the agreement allowing passport-free travel between most European states», reported the BBC.
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RT
2015-08-27 17:59:00

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Washington has derailed Russian plans to take part in an inter-parliamentary conference at UN headquarters by issuing a highly restrictive visa to the head of Russia's delegation, upper house chair Valentina Matviyenko, the Foreign Ministry said.

Matviyenko, who is the chair of the Federation Council, Russia's upper house of parliament, and the country's highest-ranking female politician, was invited to attend theFourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) - an international group founded in 1889, which closely works with the UN. She was also going to take part in the IPU's 10th Meeting of Women Speakers of Parliament that precedes the event, scheduled for August 31 - September 2.

However, when Matviyenko received her "long-delayed" US entry visa, she discovered that it contained restrictions that basically said she was not allowed "to participate in all meetings and other events held by the Inter-Parliamentary Union," the Foreign Ministry said.

"The visa contains a number of unacceptable restrictions on Valentina Matviyenko's stay in the United States," the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that it was "outraged" by the decision that has "disrupted" the Russian delegation's trip.
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Sputnik News
2015-08-27 14:51:00

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In a recent op-ed for Czech online newspaper Nova Republika, Slovak-Ukrainian politician, writer and political analyst Sergei Chelemendik suggested that it's time for Russia to stop playing the game of geopolitics according to the rules established by the West.

The writer began his piece by noting that "today there is an elementary truth that is being ignored by philosophers in both Russia and Europe: that history gains a new impetus for development when one of its participants puts forth new rules of the [geopolitical] game, forces the rest to play according to these rules, and begins to emerge victorious, using these rules."

Looking to history for examples, Chelemendik recalled that "this is how all the great conquerors and empires acted, long before the globalists and neoconservatives and even before Genghis Khan."
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Washington's Blog
2015-08-26 22:13:00

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We reported in 2012 that the U.S. supported Al Qaeda in Libya in its effort to topple Gadaffi:

The U.S. supported opposition which overthrew Libya's Gadaffi was largely comprised of Al Qaeda terrorists.

According to a 2007 report by West Point's Combating Terrorism Center's center, the Libyan city of Benghazi was one of Al Qaeda's main headquarters - and bases for sending Al Qaeda fighters into Iraq - prior to the overthrow of Gaddafi:


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The Hindustan Times reported last year:
"There is no question that al Qaeda's Libyan franchise, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, is a part of the opposition," Bruce Riedel, former CIA officer and a leading expert on terrorism, told Hindustan Times.

It has always been Qaddafi's biggest enemy and its stronghold is Benghazi.

Al Qaeda is now largely in control of Libya. Indeed, Al Qaeda flags were flown over the Benghazi courthouse once Gaddafi was toppled.

(Incidentally, Gaddafi was on the verge of invading Benghazi in 2011, 4 years after the West Point report cited Benghazi as a hotbed of Al Qaeda terrorists. Gaddafi claimed - rightly it turns out - that Benghazi was an Al Qaeda stronghold and a main source of the Libyan rebellion. But NATO planesstopped him, and protected Benghazi.)

Comment: In 1951 Libya was the poorest nation in the world. By 2010, guided by Gaddafi's vision for a strong and unified continent, it had become the the jewel of Africa. The people received free education, with every citizen owning their own home and vehicle. Basic human rights were, for the most part, universally honored. It was, by any standards, one of the most successful social experiments the modern world has seen. It still puts the West to shame. Its ongoing, barbaric destruction is one more heinous crime against humanity committed by NATO.

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RT
2015-08-27 05:44:00

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The US Air Force said its F-22 Raptor stealth fighters will be sent to Europe to show "commitment to the security and stability" of its allies. The Air Force Secretary tied the move to the US' "approach to Russia," linking it to the crisis in Ukraine.

The deployment, slated to occur "very soon," was described as part of the "European Reassurance Initiative," Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said at a Pentagon briefing on Monday. She added that it was "to support combatant commander requirements" in the region.

James said Russia's "military activity" in Ukraine continued to be of great concern to the US and its European allies, and that the deployment of the F-22s was "certainly on the strong side of the coin." She also quoted Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who said last week, "Our approach to Russia needs to be strong and it needs to be balanced."
Comment: What's a few Raptors between friends?

Before they know it, Europeans will be living under US military occupation.

For a good cause, of course...
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South Front
2015-08-26 23:10:00

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According to official reports, legislatively the strength of Kiev's army has been set at 250,000. The 22 existing brigades have been reorganized and twelve new brigades are about to be formed. Under state defense contracts the army has received more than 1,300 pieces of military equipment. Also, the Defense Ministry has created a center for development and material support for the Ukrainian armed forces and agreements have been authorized for shifting the army to NATO standards. The Minsk peaceful is going successful. (тут рукалицо)


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Nafeez Ahmed
Insurge Intelligence
2015-08-24 21:51:00

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A senior Indian police officer and anti-corruption investigator last month accused the Indian government of orchestrating the Mumbai terror attacks which occurred nearly seven years ago, according to an Indian government official.

R. V. S. Mani, a former undersecretary in India's home ministry now in the urban development ministry, testified in July that a senior police officer who investigated the 2004 'encounter killings' of four Indian Muslims in Gujarat by the Ahmedabad Police Crime Branch, had told him that the 2008 Mumbai attacks were "set up" by the Indian government.

The police officer, Satish Verma — currently Principal at the Police Training College in Junagadh — is well-known for his secondment to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India's elite anti-corruption law enforcement agency, to lead the probe into the 2004 'encounter killings.'

The 2004 victims were Ishrat Jahan Raza, a 19-year-old girl from Mumbra, Maharashtra, and three men — Pranesh Pillai (alias Javed Gulam Sheikh), Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar. Gujarat police authorities with the support of Indian government officials claimed that the killings were justified due to credible intelligence linking the four to Islamist terrorists.
Comment: You can probably add Israel's Mossad to the list: This type of operation is standard procedure. Plan the attack, train and handle the 'terrorists', then push through draconian 'anti-terror' legislation and ridicule anyone who points out the obvious.
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Society's Child
RT
2015-08-27 18:05:00

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Colorado theatre shooter James Holmes, who killed 12 people 3 years ago, received 12 life sentences and the maximum of 3,318 years in prison. A Colorado judge said he "does not deserve any sympathy."

The 27-year-old gunman was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, after a jury failed to reach unanimous agreement on the death penalty, Reuters reported. During a midnight screening of a Batman film in a Denver suburb on July 20, 2012, he killed 12 people and wounded 70 with a semiautomatic rifle, shotgun, and pistol.

"It is the court's intention that the defendant never set foot in free society again ... If there was ever a case that warranted the maximum sentences, this is the case," Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour said, as cited by Reuters.
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RT
2015-08-26 17:51:00

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A young woman in her teens allegedly harassed by a man tracked him down and gave him a thorough beating in public before the case was handed over to the police.

The Indian city of Lucknow saw an unusual demonstration of justice being served right in the street on Tuesday when a young woman beat her molester until he fell on his knees and begged for forgiveness.

The girl says the man, identified as Dhirendra, was molesting her while she was trying to get some sleep on her house's roof. She turned to Red Brigade, a women's organization which deals with cases like this in India.

They tracked the man down and took a video to teach others a lesson.


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Robert Ross
Mondoweiss
2015-08-26 20:26:00

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"The real victims of the war are the survivors," my friend Hamza, a Palestinian journalist, told me earlier this month, as we drank mango juice at a beach café in Gaza City.

Indeed, despite 12 months of relative peace, Gazans are still enduring the aftermath of three Israeli wars in the past six years, an ongoing Israeli and Egyptian imposed blockade, a crippled economy, and internal political strife.

"Everyone here—100 percent of the people—are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder," Hamza said. Just moments earlier, he and his brother instinctively ducked their heads upon hearing a nearby firework explode.

This sentiment was echoed numerous times by the doctors, public health officials, journalists, artists, and aid workers I spoke with throughout my visit to Gaza.

"The war ended on the 26th of August, 2014," said Dr. Ghada al-Jadba, the Chief Field Health Program officer for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA). "But another crisis began. You will see the destruction of the houses but behind the houses you will see more and more destruction of the people. Behind each house, there will be a very sad story, a disaster, a humanitarian disaster."
Comment: There was a deafening silence from the U.S. lasts summer while Gaza was being systematically destroyed by Israel. That silence continues to this day. There will likely come a day soon that many Americans are wondering why no one is speaking up about what is happening to them, and it will be no joy to remind them of their silence in the face of immense suffering around the planet. You reap what you sow.
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RT
2015-08-27 11:29:00

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Austrian police have confirmed that between 20 and 50 refugees have been found dead in a tractor trailer in the country's east. It appears the migrants, whose bodies have begun to decompose, suffocated in the back of the truck.

The food delivery truck was found parked on the shoulder of the A4 highway near the town of Parndorf, according to an interior ministry spokesperson.

"Unfortunately there are many dead people in there," the spokesperson told Reuters. He described the people as refugees, but said he did not have an exact number of those found in the lorry.
Comment: For more information on this horrific and rapidly escalating humanitarian crisis:

Read this sott focus article: Victims of Western wars forced to flee their countries called 'swarms of marauding people' by Western warmongering politicians

Listen to last week's 'behind the headlines' show on blog talk radio: NATO, war refugees and the EU immigration crisis
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Christopher Pala
The Guardian
2015-08-23 13:49:00

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Pediatrician Carla Nelson remembers catching sight of the unusually pale newborn, then hearing an abnormal heartbeat through the stethoscope and thinking that something was terribly wrong.

The baby was born minutes before with a severe heart malformation that would require complex surgery. What worried her as she waited for the ambulance plane to take the infant from Waimea, on the island of Kauai, to the main children's hospital in Honolulu, on another Hawaiian island, was that it was the fourth one she had seen in three years.

In all of Waimea, there have been at least nine in five years, she says, shaking her head. That's more than 10 times the national rate, according to analysis by local doctors.
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Secret History
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Science & Technology
Tia Ghose
Live Science
2015-08-27 10:14:00

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It's that point when a smooth river turns into a tumultuous swirl of white water, the tornado that unpredictably changes course on a dime or the wild interactions of three planets under one another's gravitational pull.

It's chaos.

Although most people instinctively know chaos when they see it, there hasn't been one, single, universally agreed-upon mathematical definition of the term. Now, scientists have tried to come up with a mathematical way to describe such chaotic systems.

The new definition, which was described in a paper published in July in the journal Chaos,could help identify seemingly smooth situations where the potential for chaos lurks, said study co-author Brian Hunt, a mathematician at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Earth Changes
thelocal.se
2015-08-21 18:56:00

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A Swedish man has spoken about his close brush with death when a bear he believed he had killed lunged up and launched a violent attack on himself and his hunting partner on the first day of Sweden's annual cull.

Roles were reversed at the start of Sweden's annual bear hunt on Friday when two Swedish hunters had to be taken to hospital after they were attacked by their own prey.

"I had had my eye on this bear for a week and a half, because it had been walking around eating oats in this area," Per-Anders Wärme from Bollnäs in northern Sweden told regional newspaper Hela Hälsingland after the incident.

He and his friend had fired two shots at a bear just after the hunt got under way early on Friday morning. But when they walked up to the prey it turned out it was still alive.

Keen to exert his revenge, the 270-kilo beast lunged at Wärme's colleague, who fell to the ground. And as the 49-year-old tried to get hold of his rifle and rescue the other man the bear came towards him instead.
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Sunshine Coast Daily
2015-08-27 18:06:00

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A dead whale has been found floating on the beach side of shark nets in front of the Alexandra Headland Surf Life Saving Club.

It was noticed about 11am by lifesavers and beach goers from the shore who then alerted authorities.

The beach was closed and surfers were cautioned for fears of possible nearby sharks.

Lifesavers believe the mammal, about 4m long, was a juvenile and it had puncture marks on its body.

The animal was towed out to deeper water.
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Wayne Freedman
abc7news.com
2015-08-27 17:50:00

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A John Beery Yachts employee found a dead whale under a dock in Alameda Wednesday morning.

The dead whale is at least 36 feet long and was found floating in the Oakland Estuary.

The U.S. Coast Guard notified the fisheries service of a stranded whale floating in the waters between Alameda and Oakland at about 4:30 a.m., according to Justin Viezbicke, the fisheries service's California stranding network coordinator.

The whale has washed in and wedged into the pilings at Berth 46 in Alameda.

Researchers arrived Wednesday afternoon to take tissue and blood samples to determine what kind of whale it is. Right now, it is hard to tell because its head remains submerged.


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Interaksyon
2015-08-27 17:38:00

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Mayor Ernesto Uy of Mabinay, Negros Oriental on Wednesday said he is awaiting the initial investigation report of the Mines and Geo-Sciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Region 7 on the formation of sinkholes in the last barangay of that upland municipality.

He explained that the MGB-7's investigation report would be a basis for him to determine future actions of the Mabinay local government unit regarding the sinkholes, considering that the area where they are situated is close to the proposed site for the regional centers of the newly formed Negros Island Region (NIR).

As this developed, the mayor disclosed that as of late Wednesday, he ordered the Mabinay Rescue Group to proceed to the area and monitor the sinkholes following heavy rain earlier in the day.

Last week, at least four sinkholes were found at the Malaiba riverbed with a fifth one having formed over the weekend, spurred by continuous rains and widely perceived to have been caused by what residents believed to have been an earthquake or ground shaking nearby, said Uy.

At least two tension ground cracks were also monitored to have formed around the sinkholes, he added.
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Alyssa Duranty and Louis Casiano
The Orange County Register
2015-08-26 17:21:00

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A man was hospitalized Wednesday morning after a bison attack on Santa Catalina Island, officials said.

Los Angeles County Fire Department officials helped Chris Baker, 43, around 8:40 a.m.after he was gored by a bison near Isthmus Pier, near the Two Harbors area.

He was airlifted by helicopter to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center about an hour after the attack, said Matt McClain, director of marketing and communications for the Catalina Island Conservancy.

Baker was on a hiking trail near Tower Peak on the isthmus side of an 8-foot fence, where two or three bison roam, McClain said.

"Every once and a while, they get through that gate," McClain said.
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Ben Hooper
upi.com
2015-08-26 12:25:00

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A resident of the Venezuelan capital captured video of water rushing into a city subway station amid heavy rains in the region.

Diana Valbuena posted a video to YouTube showing water rushing down the escalators and into a Caracas metro station Tuesday amid heavy rains in the city.

Commuters can be seen in the video sitting atop escalator rails to stay dry while the water flows.

Caracas Redditor frank_13 said the rain waters caused a sewage-bearing river to overflow, leading to water flowing into the subway station and other locations around the city.

The Reddit poster blamed "poor maintenance of the city" for failing to prevent the flooding.


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Sara Malm
Daily Mail, UK
2015-08-26 11:57:00

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Thailand's use of elephants as tourist attractions has come under fire yet again after an animal killed its keeper and ran off with a family still on its back during a jungle tour in Chiang Mai.

The elephant reportedly 'went berserk', during a group ride on Wednesday, attacking and killing its rider and taking off into the jungle with three terrified Chinese tourists, police said

The Chinese family, two parents and their young child, were rescued soon after as other elephant keepers came to the rescue.

'The mahout [elephant keeper] who was killed was not familiar with the elephant. They (the tourists) are safe now,' Colonel Thawatchai Thepboon, police commander of Mae Wang district in Chiang Mai province said.

Police said the incident took place at 9.30am local time as a Chinese family of three - a father, mother and a young child - took a ride on the back of a male elephant.
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NBC News
2015-08-26 22:41:00

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The volcano on Reunion Island erupted Monday after a dramatic increase in seismic activity throughout the day. The Piton de la Fournaise captured the world's attention last month when it erupted after beach cleaners found a piece of wreckage believed to have come from a missing airliner.

On Monday night tourists flocked to good viewing spots to watch the volcano's eruption. Local residents and tourists hiked about an hour up a nearby mountain at night to watch the volcano. The volcano erupted throughout the night spewing lava, fire and red smoke for hours.
Comment: Elsewhere, there has been increased activity recently at the Cotopaxi volcanoin Ecuador which is spewing out huge columns of ash, as is Mexico's Colima volcano.
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Fire in the Sky
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Health & Wellness
Rajie Kabli
Collective Evolution
2015-08-27 20:05:00

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Osteopath Dr. Mary Rene Bovier was found stabbed in her home on August 14th in Sharon, Pennsylvania. Detectives say the official cause of death will be announced following an autopsy, but various media outlets are reporting a stabbing. According to Chief Gerald Smith, a person of interest is being interviewed. "I can tell you that the person we're talking to is a close friend of hers," Smith said. No arrests have been made. This marks only the third violent death to have occurred all year for Sharon, making it quite shocking for residents. (source)

Dr. Jeff Bradstreet was the first 'alternative' doctor found dead earlier this summer. Journalist Erin Elizabeth (healthnutnews.com) got an exclusive interview with his family, who have hired private investigators to get some answers to a long list of questions they have. The main point his family wanted to get across in the interview was that he was a dedicated researcher and MD who was passionate about his work.
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Jon Rappoport
Activist Post
2015-08-27 17:48:00

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It's now been a year since William Thompson, long-time CDC researcher, publicly admitted he concealed evidence that indicted the MMR vaccine for its connection to autism.

It's been a year since Thompson publicly accused his colleagues at the CDC of doing the same thing. Two of those colleagues, Frank DeStefano and Collen Boyle, are high-ranking CDC executives in the area of vaccine safety.

During this past year, mainstream reporters and defenders of the realm have taken two approaches: silence; and vague claims that Thompson's statements are false.

Both of these approaches are slimy and disingenuous, because the man we want to hear from is Thompson himself. And we have not.
Comment: Read the CDC whistleblower William Thompson's confession
"My concern has been the decision to omit relevant findings in a particular study for a particular sub group for a particular vaccine. There have always been recognized risks for vaccination and I believe it is the responsibility of the CDC to properly convey the risks associated with receipt of those vaccines."
The MMR vaccine - Autism controversy has been ongoing for years, William Thompson is just the most recent whistleblower to shed light on the truly inhumane policies, regarding vaccinations, at the CDC. Read the following links to learn more:
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