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RT.com
70 years after the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the real reasons behind the decision still divide historians. Recently declassified documents from the time suggest the nuclear strikes may have been performed not out of military necessity but to intimidate the USSR. RTD's Peter Scott travels to the two Japanese cities that were devastated by the attacks, where he visits a victims' memorial and meets nuclear blast survivors still haunted by their memories. He also interviews President Truman's grandson, Clifton Truman Daniel, on the subject of his grandfather's controversial legacy.2015-08-05 11:38:00 Watch the Russia Today 28 minute documentary below for the details. |
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RT.com
2015-08-05 11:21:00
Blackened bodies, mothers who couldn't recognize their charred children and those still alive screaming with pain - these are horrific details the survivors of nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki recall ahead of 70th anniversary of the tragedy. The US was the first nation to use nuclear weapons against an enemy target when they dropped atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II on August 6 and 9, 1945. More than 80,000 civilians died immediately as a result of the Hiroshima bomb - a device nicknamed 'Little Boy' by the US Air Force - and other 80,000 were believed killed in the Nagasaki attack by 'Fat Man'. Thousands died from radiation sickness in the months and years following the blasts. As of August 2014 the memorials in Hiroshima and Nagasaki list the names of more than 450,000 people who died in the tragedy: 292,325 in Hiroshima and 165,409 in Nagasaki. Chiyoko Kuwabara, a survivor of Hiroshima atomic bombing, told RT that she was only 13 years old when the tragedy happened but the moments that changed her life forever still"linger in her memory." | |
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Eric Zuesse
Strategic Culture Foundation 2015-08-03 20:09:00
It's so ridiculous, no intelligent and informed person would give it any serious consideration whatsoever. It insults the public's intelligence. Here's a typical example of the ridiculousness of U.S. propaganda: On July 16th, the U.S. State Department issued a «Ukraine Travel Warning». It says: | |
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Kristina Rus
Fort Russ 2015-08-05 19:37:00
Russian Historical Society has published a report of the Soviet ambassador to Japan on the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the Archive of Foreign Policy of Russia in time for the 70-th anniversary of the attacks. The report was recorded a month after the attacks. The following are the highlights of the report: The train terminal and the city of Hiroshima were destroyed so much that there was no shelter to hide from the rain. The city was a scorched plain with 15-20 cement buildings left standing. Several dozen thousand people huddled in the dugouts on the outskirts of the city. People who came to help the victims during the first 5-10 days died. A month after the bombing grass began to grow and new leaves appeared on the burned trees. Glass windows in the cement building of police department, which was left standing, blew out inward. The ceiling was bulging upwards. | |
Comment: America is doing its best to live up to its legacy of cold-blooded mass murder. See also: Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 70 years ago the US 'elite' murdered 500,000 Japanese civilians to 'send a warning' to Russia
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Oriental Review
2015-08-05 00:00:00
A couple of weeks ago a group of influential German figures, the members of Willy Brandt Circle, have signed an Open Letter to SPD (German Social-Democrats) Bundestag delegates and cabinet ministers urging them to abandon the confrontational course in relations with Russia. The authors reviewed the degrading EU-Russia ties in the context of Ukraine's crisis which was the direct result of mutual misunderstandings and controversies. Hereby ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes an exclusive English translation of the Letter in full: *** Europe is experiencing the worst crisis since the end of the East-West conflict. Not only dealing with Greece and the thousands of refugees heighten tenses across the continent, but also the ceasefire negotiation process in Ukraine remains fragile. As long as the conflict over the future of Ukraine is unsolved, the real danger of escalation is on the table. A comprehensive peace treaty for Europe, envisioned by the Charter of Paris 1990, is still needed. Europe has no interest in aggravating old controversy between the United States and the USSR, bringing Russia to its knees. There is a difference between the European and the American interests: pan-European problems cannot be solved without Russia or even against Russia. Recent history shows: Russia and the peoples of the Soviet Union contributed more than anyone to the liberation of Europe from fascism and later to the unification of Germany. Therefore, Germany has a special responsibility to win Russia as a negotiating partner in the European peace order. | |
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South Front
2015-08-05 16:58:00
The Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), supported by U.S.-led Coalition, have continued to report advances north and south of Ramadi while simultaneously repelling ISIS's attacks east of the city. ISIS employs a mobile defense and deploys SVBIEDs against the ISF south and east of the city. These attacks are aimed to reverse the ISF's momentum. ISIS uses the same strategy of a mobile defense, which it tried in the east of Tikrit earlier this year. While the Iraqi government and ISF remained focused on Anbar, attacks by ISIS on civilians continued in Diyala. Moreover, the tensions are currently running high in allareas recaptured from ISIS, where Sunni communities were divided in terms of whether they resisted or cooperated with ISIS. It indicates that the US-backed Iraq government's attepmts to gain support of the Sunni groups in recaptured territories are far from a success.
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2015-08-03 19:01:00
NSA documents obtained by whistleblower Edward Snowden confirm the existence of ECHELON, a secret surveillance network spying on satellite communications. Set up by the US and the UK in the 1960s, ECHELON was the precursor of today's global dragnet. The revelations vindicated the work of British investigative journalist Duncan Campbell, who first wrote about ECHELON's existence in 1988 and continued writing about the program for the next 27 years. NSA newsletters cited by The Intercept confirm that the program was set up in 1966, just a year after the first communication satellites were launched into Earth orbit. The dragnet was codenamed FROSTING, and consisted of two sub-programs. While TRANSIENT was targeting Soviet Union's satellite communications, Western satellite signals were to be harvested by ECHELON. Eventually, all satellite surveillance was merged into FORNSAT, a global program exposed by the Snowden revelations. Writing in The Intercept, Campbell explained how he stumbled upon the existence of ECHELON during a 1987 trip to the US. A computer systems manager named Margaret Newsham, formerly employed by Lockheed Martin on a NSA contract, told him about the existence of a colossal surveillance scheme operated by the NSA and the UK's Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. | |
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Eric Zuesse
Global Research 2015-08-05 18:12:00
It might be the decisive piece of evidence proving who and what and how and why the MH17 Malaysian airliner over the conflict zone in Ukraine on 17 July 2014 was shot down, but the pilot's corpse has been hidden even from the people who have the most right to see it. The corpse of the pilot of the MH17 Malaysian airliner might contain in it bullets, or bullet-residues, that can prove a Ukrainian military jet intentionally fired into the pilot; or else it might contain only missile-shrapnel, which would be consistent only with the plane's having been erroneously shot down by a ground-based missile such as the Ukrainian government says it was; but the Malaysian government has prohibited anyone to see it — not even his relatives, who are still trying to find out how and who murdered their loved-one and the 297 other people who were aboard that tragic plane on July 17th of 2014. Until recently, the Malaysian government itself had had no access to the coroner's report on the corpse: it was done by a Dutch coroner, in Holland. The corpse has been hidden from everyone, and the Malaysian Government isn't even being permitted, by the other four nations on the official investigatory commission, to say anything to anyone outside the commission — not even to the pilot's family. The coroner's report on the pilot's body exists, but has been seen by no one outside of the now 5-nation investigatory commission. (The commission was originally just Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, and Ukraine, but Malaysia was recently added. The Dutch government heads the commission. The Dutch government had helped to install the current Ukrainian government, whose Air Force is a suspect in having possibly shot down the MH17 airliner. Netherlands, along with the U.S., and also along with George Soros's International Renaissance Foundation, had funded Hromadske TV, which propagandized heavily for forcing the democratically elected Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, to leave his Presidency before the next election would be held, and which then propagandized Ukrainians heavily for the ethnic cleansing operation to get rid of the residents in Ukraine's Donbass, the only area of Ukraine that had voted 90%+ for Yanukovych. So: the Dutch government had actually helped to install the current Ukrainian government — which might have shot down the MH17, and yet which is a member of the official 'investigation.') | |
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David Swanson
Washington's Blog 2015-08-04 16:05:00
The U.S. Army and Air Force public relations offices have responded to a Freedom of Information Act request by releasing huge lists of movies and television shows that they have assessed and, at least in many cases, sought to influence. Here's the Army's PDF. Here's the Air Force's PDF. The shows and films, foreign and U.S. made, aimed at foreign and U.S. audiences, including documentaries and dramas and talk shows and "reality" TV, cross every genre from those obviously related to war to those with little discernable connection to it. Films show up in theaters without any notice that they have been influenced by the Army or Air Force or other branch of the military. And they carry ratings like G, PG, PG-13, or R. But the Army's until-now-secret assessments of films also give them ratings. Every rating is positive and cryptic. They include:
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Comment: More solid evidence that the government is heavily involved in controlling the popular culture in the U.S. and around the world. See also:
The Pentagon-Hollywood Connection: Propaganda, censorship, and bribery CIA and Pentagon have long-running influence over Hollywood's representation of military Ironman, Black Hawk Down, Transformers all altered according to Pentagon 'requests' Argo: Hollywood as extension of CIA propaganda | |
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Mint Press
2015-08-05 15:28:00
A study released earlier this year revealed the shocking death toll of the United States's "War on Terror" since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but the true body count could be even higher. Published in March by Physicians for Social Responsibility, the study, conducted by a team that included some Nobel Prize winners, determined that at least 1.3 million people have died as a result of war since Sept.11, 2001, but the real figure might be as high as two million. The study was an attempt to "close the gaps" in existing research, including studies like the Iraq Body Count," which puts the number of violent deaths in that country at about 219,000 since 2003, based on media reports of the time period. Investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed, writing in April for Middle East Eye, explained some of the ways the previous figures fell short, according to the physicians' research: | |
Comment: In its self-righteous "war against terror" the US has managed to destroy at least 4 million innocent civilians, all while stealing their resources and decimating their countries and cultures. The sheer number of dead should really make the West ill with shame, guilt, and remorse. But many still hide behind the phony excuse of fighting 'terrorism' in order to hide from reality. Meanwhile the body count grows daily.
History certainly does rhyme, thanks to psychopaths always finding their ways into positions of authority. For more on this global holocaust, check out SOTT's Holocaust 2.0 series: | |
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Stephen Lendman
Global Research 2015-08-04 15:44:00
On August 2, Britain's Sunday Express newspaper headlined "SAS dress as ISIS fighters in undercover war on jihadis," saying: "More than 120 members belonging to the elite regiment are currently in the war-torn country" covertly "dressed in black and flying ISIS flags," engaged in what's called Operation Shader - attacking Syrian targets on the pretext of combatting ISIS. Maybe covert US special forces and CIA elements are involved the same way. During Obama's war on Libya, Britain deployed hundreds of Special Forces Support Group (SFSG) paratroopers - drawn from SAS (Special Air Service) and SBS (Special Boat Service) personnel. Around 800 Royal Marines and 4,000 US counterparts were on standby to intervene on short notice if ordered. The latest revelation comes two weeks after learning Prime Minister David Cameron last year approved British warplanes joining US ones in bombing Syria despite parliamentary rejection in August 2013. At least part of its current covert ground operation is under US command - so-called "smash" units traveling in pickup trucks able to launch mini-UAVs to scan terrain for targets to attack. Over 250 UK (and perhaps US) specialists are involved to provide communications support, the Sunday Express explained. British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said "(o)ur actions and surveillance capabilities are freeing up other countries to strike in Syria." | |
Comment: Remember when British SAS operatives dressed up as Arabs in Iraq to conduct their bombing operations?
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Sputnik
2015-08-05 13:41:00
A bitter row has broken out in Germany between the Ministry of Justice and the Attorney General's office over a treason investigation into two journalists, who exposed the role of the German secret service in the mass surveillance of its citizens. The Federal Minister for Justice, Heiko Maas, has called on the Federal Prosecutor General Harald Range to step down from his post after he ordered the investigation. "I have told federal prosecutor Range that my trust in his ability to fulfill the office has suffered lasting damage and therefore, in agreement with the chancellery, I will request his retirement today," Maas said. | |
Comment: Looks like the German politicians are embarrassed that their secret mass surveillance program has been revealed and are pointing fingers at each other. When we look at the definition of treason:
we see the politicians believe that being exposed on their secret programs aimed at control of the population is seen as betrayal by the whistle blowers. The accusation of treason by Netzpolitik is really quite absurd; they are not waging war against the country or aiding any enemies of Germany. So who really is waging war? Are the German people considered the enemy here? It would appear so. | |
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C. Christine Fair
Huffington Post 2015-08-04 23:25:00
When it was obvious that Narendra Modi would become India's prime minister, Pakistan grew alarmed. Modi's party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, is the party that gave India its nuclear status. Indians voted for Modi and the brave India he promised in hopes that his government would not indulge Pakistani predations, and punish them instead. Pakistan has developed one core strategy in dealing with India over the decades: deploy Islamist militants to attack India while seeking cover from retaliation under its nuclear weapons. It should be noted that while Pakistan is most notorious for supporting Islamist terrorists, it also supports religious and ethnic insurgencies within India as well. Pakistan not only seeks to use terrorism to illegitimately acquire territory in Indian Kashmir, it also wants to resist India's rise in the international system. Until the Modi administration, Pakistan has remained fairly confident that India will not respond militarily to punish Pakistan for its state-sponsored terrorism or to deter it from doing so in the future. | |
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Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper 2015-08-04 20:15:00
There isn't much that feels more self-reliant than going out to your backyard hen house to get fresh eggs for breakfast. There's no need for USDA approval, you know what your hens have been eating, and you don't have to pay a premium price and hope that the farm who raised the chickens that laid those grocery store eggs actually treated the hens humanely. Bonus points if the bacon you fry up comes from a local farm, and bonus BONUS points if you raised that little piggie yourself. Raising backyard chickens is incredibly rewarding. It's pure freedom, this control over your own food. Of course, until you have to register your chickens. Then, as food freedom activist Joel Salatin says, "Everything I want to do is illegal." With so many people moving towards self-reliance, you had to know it was only a matter of time before the government got involved. And now they have. But don't worry, it's all for your own good. | |
Comment: The state will not rest until the minutia of everyday life is registered, tracked, monitored, recorded and ultimately, controlled.
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RT
2015-08-05 19:32:00
A SWAT team responded to an active shooter situation at the Carmike Hickory 8 theater in the 900 block of Bell Road in Antioch, a suburb southeast of Nashville, Tennesee. Officials say the attacker had a gun and a hatchet. The movie was reportedly 'Mad Max'. It is unclear whether the suspected shooter was killed by a police officer who helped evacuate the theater, or by the SWAT team that responded to the emergency. His dead body was found inside the theater after the SWAT secured the building.
One person may have suffered cuts from the hatchet. No other injuries were reported. Police say the shooter had two backpacks. One was retrieved on his body, while the other is still being inspected for possible threats. | |
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RT
2015-08-03 18:55:00
Residents of the New Mexico town of Las Cruces are on the edge after blasts at two churches on Sunday. Although nobody was hurt, officials are looking into a possible link between the incident and last month's Charleston church shooting. The first explosion occurred about 8:20am in a mailbox near the entrance to Calvary Baptist Church, on the south side of the city. "It was in a mailbox that exploded completely," said Dennis Llewellyn, a former Marine who was handing out pamphlets at Calvary Baptist before the service. He compared the sound of the blast to a Claymore landmine. "The mailbox was completely opened up and twisted and blown apart. It just obliterated everything. If anyone was in front of it, it would have killed them" Llewellyn said. The second blast came twenty minutes later at the Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church, some 3.5 miles away. A trash bin outside the church exploded during the Communion service.
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2015-08-05 15:22:00
An Alabama officer gets to keep his job after being caught contemplating the murder of a black man and skewing the evidence to make it look like 'self-defense'. The case was settled out of court. But the audio recording made it out. Officer Troy Middlebrooks was heard on tape suggesting the killing of Vincent Bias - a man recently released on bail for drug-related offenses - then advocating playing it off as self-defense. The Guardian managed to obtain a copy of the audio recording. The potential victim and Middlebrooks had apparently been at odds over an earlier run-in by Bias with police. The officer can be made out trying to concoct a plan to frame the man, because "we know he did it... we just don't have the proof." | |
Comment: An interaction with a police officer, and the "justice system" in general, is a very dangerous thing in the US. Check out:
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Abayomi Azikiwe
Global Research 2015-08-04 00:00:00
A Department of Justice (DOJ) study completed earlier this year and released to the press has been published in paperback book form. Entitled "The Ferguson Report", this 173-page study shows clearly the systematic denial of fundamental civil rights to African Americans in St. Louis County, Missouri. Utilizing internal communications among law-enforcement personnel and the courts, the study makes a strong case for holding the authorities criminally liable for their premeditated plans to exploit and socially control African Americans through unwarranted stops, excessive fines and jail sentences. According to Theodore M. Shaw—Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina—in the introduction to the report, surmised that the DOJ conducted the study to unravel the political and economic context under which the developments in the aftermath of the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Even though the white police officer Darren Wilson who killed Brown was not criminally indicted, in the overall context the City of Ferguson, Missouri, the municipality stands guilty for its illegal nationally oppressive and racial discriminatory policies conducted through its daily interactions with its African-American residents. | |
Comment: Whatever form an organized response takes to the growing incarceration, abuse, terrorizing and murder of blacks in the US, one would do well to remember that there are very powerful groups involved in working to steer such efforts, subvert it, and ultimately, cunningly, negate the work of good people with conscience. But this doesn't mean that they shouldn't try.
See also: Color Revolution in Amerika? Ferguson activists were paid to protest with Soros money US: Soros Is Attempting to Take Over "Occupy America" Movement "Color Revolution" in the U.S.? Many questions about the handling of the Baltimore riots George Soros: The hidden hand behind 'color revolutions' The murder of Sandra Bland and America's 'color revolution'and: America's escalating race war: Who benefits from a mind-controlled Charleston shooter? | |
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Michael Snyder
End of The American Dream 2015-08-02 00:00:00
Have you noticed that there is a tremendous amount of Internet buzz about the month of September 2015? Never before have I seen so much speculation about what would happen in one particular month. Some people believe that we will see an economic collapse next month, others believe that there will be some sort of historic natural disaster, and others are convinced that the judgment of God is coming. So right now, large numbers of Americans are stocking up on emergency food and supplies like crazy. Personally, I have never been more concerned about any period of time as I am about the last six months of 2015. Several weeks ago, I expressed my belief that chaos will begin once the summer ends. These are the last days of "normal life" in America, and just about everything that we currently take for granted is about to be shaken. A lot of people that I know have been storing up food and supplies like never before, but I didn't realize how widespread this phenomenon was until I came across the followingNatural News report... | |
Comment: Whether the start to more dramatic changes begins in September, or after, there are so many destabilizing events in the offing that it would be foolish to not try and prepare ourselves for their coming.
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David Schwartz
Yahoo! News 2015-08-04 04:44:00
An Arizona man who admitted to decapitating his wife and her two dogs in a bloody incident last month in Phoenix told authorities he was attempting "to get the evil out" of her, according to court documents released on Monday. Kenneth Dale Wakefield, 43, also told police that he had smoked marijuana and the designer drug Spice about an hour before the gruesome killings in a Phoenix apartment on the morning of July 25, the documents showed. Wakefield, a transient with a history of mental illness who also maimed himself in the incident, was booked into a Maricopa County jail Aug. 1 on one count of first-degree murder and two counts of animal cruelty after being released from a local hospital. He is being held on $2 million bond. In court papers, police said Wakefield told them during an interview that he stabbed his 49-year-old wife, Trina Heisch, multiple times before decapitating her, and killed the dogs by cutting their heads off. "He said he was trying to get the evil out of Trina," police said in a probable cause statement filed in Maricopa County Superior Court. | |
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Sarah Griffiths
Daily Mail, UK 2015-08-05 18:31:00
Stone Age monuments such as Stonehenge suggest our prehistoric ancestors were keen astronomers. Now archaeologists believe that the ancient Irish were the first to record an eclipse 5,354 years ago. A geometric carving said to depict the phenomenon lies on the wall of a mysterious mound known as Cairn L outside Kells in County Meath, Ireland, where the landscape is covered in Neolithic ruins. The etching is one of the main focuses of the cairn and is situated at the back of the chamber, which has seven recesses - three on each side and one at the back,Martin Byrne, author of blog carrowkeel explained.
The image of concentric circles and lines is thought to have been scratched into the rock on 30 November, 3,340 BC. This date fits with the 92 solar eclipses in history tracked by Irish archaeoastronomer Paul Griffin, Irish Central reported.
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RT
2015-08-05 16:06:00
A massive monolith over 10,000 years old has been found in the Mediterranean Sea near Italy, scientists say. The block, which was apparently constructed by humans, bears traces of prehistoric civilization. The 12-meter-long monolith "resting on the sea-floor" was located at a depth of 40 meters, in a shallow bank of the Sicilian Channel, says the report by ocean scientists from Italy and Israel published in July. "It is broken into two parts, and has three regular holes: one at its end which passes through from part to part, the others in two of its sides." According to the study, the site was abandoned at about 9,350 ± 200 years BP (Before Present) and the morphological evidence, underwater observations and results of petrographic analysis suggest that the monolith was made by humans. | |
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Joshua Sokol
New Scientist 2015-07-07 20:26:00
We're homing in on the blobs from outer space. In the past three decades astronomers have seen dips in the radio signals from quasars and pulsars, seemingly caused by a dark object passing by. These events don't all look the same, so it isn't clear if they share a cause. Sometimes different radio frequencies are delayed by different amounts, while other times the radio signal twinkles. Now new observations are giving us a clearer picture. Bill Coles of the University of California, San Diego, and his colleagues used the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array, which carefully measures pulsar signals in an attempt to detect gravitational waves. The team used it to look for radio waves held up by a passing blob. | |
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April McCarthy
Prevent Disease 2015-08-05 19:47:00
Mirror mirror on the wall, am I at risk of heart disease? Behavioural change is the most effective method in implementing primary prevention in terms of a healthy lifestyle. It is also the most viable approach to reduce the socio-economic burden of chronic and widespread diseases, such as cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Wize Mirror soon available to consumers, looks like a mirror, but incorporates 3D scanners, multispectral cameras and gas sensors to assess the health of someone looking into it. The mirror will assess health status by examining the person's face, looking at fatty tissue, facial expressions and how flushed or pale they are, including telltale markers of stress or anxiety, while the gas sensors take samples of the user's breath looking for compounds that give an indication of how much they drink or smoke. The 3D scanners analyse face shape to spot weight gain or loss, while the multispectral cameras can estimate heart rate or haemoglobin levels. After the software has analysed the face - which only takes about a minute - the mirror produces a score that tells the user how healthy they seem. It also displays personalised advice on how to improve their health. | |
Comment: It's already quite simple to check your own pulse, ascertain if you are pale or step on a scale to see if you've gained weight. Don't know how much your drink or smoke? Count the number of empty bottles and cigarette butts. What's missing from the article is where this data goes once it's collected. This is simply another "smart" technology invention that will erode privacy under the guise of looking out for your health.
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The Euphrosynes: A reservoir of dark NEO asteroids discovered in the outer edge of the asteroid belt
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2015-08-03 00:13:00
High above the plane of our solar system, near the asteroid-rich abyss between Mars and Jupiter, scientists have found a unique family of space rocks. These interplanetary oddballs are the Euphrosyne (pronounced you-FROH-seh-nee) asteroids, and by any measure they have been distant, dark and mysterious -- until now. Distributed at the outer edge of the asteroid belt, the Euphrosynes have an unusual orbital path that juts well above the ecliptic, the equator of the solar system. The asteroid after which they are named, Euphrosyne -- for an ancient Greek goddess of mirth -- is about 156 miles (260 kilometers) across and is one of the 10 largest asteroids in the main belt. Current-day Euphrosyne is thought to be a remnant of a massive collision about 700 million years ago that formed the family of smaller asteroids bearing its name. Scientists think this event was one of the last great collisions in the solar system. A new study conducted by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, used the agency's orbiting Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) telescope to look at these unusual asteroids to learn more about Near Earth Objects, or NEOs, and their potential threat to Earth. | |
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Steve Scherer
Reuters 2015-08-05 12:58:00
Three people were killed when a severe rainstorm in the Italian Alps caused a landslide that swept down a mountain and across roads and parking lots, authorities said on Wednesday. The landslide occurred late on Tuesday near San Vito di Cadore, close to the ski resort town of Cortina d'Ampezzo. The corpses of a Polish man as well as a teenage girl and another man whose nationalities were not given were dug out of the debris on Wednesday, said Luca Cari, spokesman for Italy's national fire department. No one is known to be missing. | |
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Kiran Moodley
The Independent 2015-08-04 00:00:00
Mexico's famous "volcano of fire" has been active once again, this time spewing ash two miles (3km) into the sky in the latest video from the west coast of the country. The video was shot on Monday and is the latest activity from the volcano following the closure of a 7.5 mile area around Colima on July 12 after ash began to rain down on communities situated nearby. The Colima volcano, which lies near Mexico's west coast on the border of the states of Colima and Jalisco, sparked into life in early July, causing the airport in Colima to close due and forcing residents to evacuate. | |
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A child was taken to Tampa General Hospital with serious injuries after being attacked by the family dog Tuesday. Teresa Budd, a Good Samaritan and witness, says that though she was shocked by what she saw, and glad to be at the right place at the right time. "He was tossing around like a dog does when they get into things (demonstrating a growl).He would go back and forth and attack again," says Budd.
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The carcass of an elusive Cuvier's beaked whale has been found stranded on a beach at Discovery Bay in Portland, in south-western Victoria. The deep-diving mammal was discovered on a remote stretch of beach west of Warrnambool on Sunday. The whale species is known to dive to depths of up to 3,000 metres and can spend more than two hours underwater. Scott Baker, who came across the carcass while hiking, knew the find was significant. "It was very exciting, they're not very commonly found," he said. After photographing the animal, Mr Baker contacted researchers for a second opinion. | |
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CBC News
2015-08-04 17:50:00
The power went out in neighbourhoods across Calgary after the city was slammed by hail as a severe thunderstorm passed through on Tuesday afternoon. As many as 20,000 customers in many parts of Calgary were without power in the early evening "due to adverse weather conditions," Enmax said. Power was restored to all but a handful of districts in southeast Calgary by 9 p.m. The rain caused flooding on Crowchild Trail between Fifth Avenue and Memorial Drive N.W. and other major routes throughout the city, from 17th Avenue near 14th Street in the southwest to Bow Bottom Trail in the deep south. Several underpasses in the city's downtown were closed because of flooding, said Calgary Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) deputy chief Susan Henry. Downed trees, manhole covers blown off and even a roof ripped from a housing complex in the city's northeast led to hundreds of 911 calls, she said.
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cbc.ca
2015-08-04 17:25:00
Sixteen pilot whales beached on a shore near Judique, Cape Breton, Tuesday morning, sparking a rescue effort involving about 20 people. Andrew Reid with the Marine Animal Response Society said 10 of the whales were pushed into deeper water and survived. Six others died. Local resident Maggie MacIntyre said people gathered at the beach early in the morning for the rescue effort. "There were between one and four people surrounding each whale," she said. "For as many whales as we could, people were just trying to keep them upright and trying to nudge them out to deeper water." MacIntyre said the whales ranged in size, including a baby that was less than a metre long and adults that were up to 3½ metres in length. | |
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