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Sputnik
2015-09-11 19:29:00
UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said that the United Kingdom will continue to help Ukraine's armed forces to modernize and provide technical assistance to support reform in the fight against corruption, public financial management, the ease of doing business and asset recovery. The United Kingdom will continue to provide military support to Kiev, in response to what London considers to be Russian aggression in Ukraine, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Friday. "The UK will continue to support Ukraine to restore its sovereignty and territorial integrity and reforms its institutions. Specifically, we will continue to help Ukraine's armed forces to modernize and provide technical assistance to support reform in the fight against corruption, public financial management, the ease of doing business and asset recovery," Hammond stated. The statement comes on the opening day of the 12th annual Yalta European Strategy in Ukraine. The conference, aimed at promoting Ukraine's European integration, brings together top European and world diplomats. | |
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Sputnik
2015-09-11 18:30:00
Crimea is virtually free from its dependency on shipments of produce from Ukraine, according to the First Deputy Minister of the Industrial Policy of the Republic of Crimea Konstantin Ravich. Earlier, Ukrainian MPs and leaders of the pro-Ukrainian Mejlis, claiming to represent the Crimean Tatar nation, Refat Chubarov and Mustafa Dzhemilev declared their intent to block all shipments of goods and foodstuffs from Ukraine to Crimea. In order to do so, a group of "Crimean Tatar activists and Ukrainian patriots" is scheduled to arrive at the Russian-Ukrainian border in Crimea in late September. "I believe that there's no reason to be afraid of some food blockade," Ravich said. "The residents of Crimea and tourists, when they visit local stores they see that Crimea virtually stopped using produce from Ukraine." The deputy minister added that by considering the food blockade of Crimea the Ukrainian politicians dealt a mortal blow to the Ukraine's image as a reliable business partner. Mikhail Kurkov, head of the Crimean Food Company, said that most of the goods and foodstuffs are delivered to Crimea from the Rostov and Krasnodar Regions of Russia, and that the local Crimean enterprises also increase their production output. He also added that the capacity of the Kerch ferry is more than enough to provide the residents of Crimea with all the things they need. | |
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PressTV
2015-09-13 18:47:00
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voices skepticism about the sincerity of the US, as the leader of the so-called international anti-Daesh coalition, in the fight against the Takfiri militants in the Middle East. In an interview with Russia's Channel One TV on Sunday, Lavrov said Moscow has been informed by sources in the US-led coalition that there have been instances when Washington would refuse to authorize airstrikes on confirmed Daesh positions, adding that this raises questions about the US motives. "I hope that I won't fail anyone, saying that some of our colleagues from the coalition states say that they receive information where exactly, on which positions the [so-called] Islamic State (Daesh) troops are located, but the commander of the coalition [of course, from the US] doesn't approve the strike," he said. "I could suspect that apart from the claimed purpose - fighting [the so-called] Islamic State - there is something else [as the aim] of the coalition," he added. | |
Comment: Lavrov's skepticism is well deserved given the United States' role in using terrorism as a weapon to maneuver around the Middle East and all the world. The United States' position as the dominant super power is leading the world into total chaos, and it loathes the thought of Russia taking the reigns and actually doing something productive for the world.
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Mark Chapman
The Kremlin Stooge 2015-09-09 00:00:00
Brute Force and Ignorance, Just hit town, Looking like survivors, From the Lost and Found. Brute Force and Ignorance, Have come to play, A one-night stand at eight o'clock, Then they'll be on their way. From, "Brute Force and Ignorance", by Rory Gallagher Whooo! Rory Gallagher - remember him? Don't be surprised if you don't, because he was probably the best blues guitarist you never heard of. Born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal just before the nineteen-fifties and rock & roll took off like a scared cat, a teenage Rory Gallagher stayed up late to listen to Radio Luxembourg because he couldn't afford records. He played entirely by ear, couldn't read a note, but he could play anything that had strings on it. In 1971, influential British music magazine Melody Maker voted him International Guitarist of the Year, ahead of Eric Clapton, with whom he shared both influences (Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly, Muddy Waters) and a soulful blues style. In 1995 he was dead in a London hospital, of liver complications, when he was just 47. Anyway, this post isn't really about Rory Gallagher, except perhaps in the sense of what a prophet he was. Because we have entered - are firmly established, in fact - into an age in which a significant group of people in the English-speaking world are proud to be ignorant. George W. Bush was the first president who routinely cited his low academic standings - because he thought it made him sound folksy and one of the little people - and a startling proportion of the general public is now apparently quite happy to be misled by "experts" who don't know what the hell they are talking about. | |
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RT
2015-09-11 01:29:00
After 18 years in prison, the man who exposed Israel's nuclear weapons program to the world, Mordechai Vanunu, remains restricted under obsolete principles contradicting the UN Charter on Human Rights, prominent whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg told RT. Calling Vanunu a "preeminent prophet of the nuclear era," Ellsberg stressed that Israel must recognize, for its own good, what Vanunu did was right and come clean about the existence of its nuclear weapons program. The Israeli government should also stop lying to its own people and the world and admit that they were the first to introduce nuclear weapons to the Middle East, he added. Ellsberg, who exposed the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam War to the American media in 1971 and was prosecuted and branded a "traitor" by some for his move, also talked about Vanunu's ordeal from the perspective of a whistleblower. RT:Ten years since his release, Vanunu is still under constant government pressure, is in constant fear of arrest. Why is that happening, do you think? Daniel Ellsberg: I think it's essentially what they want to be a life-time punishment, in effect, for embarrassing them, actually, in a policy that really can't be defended in the nuclear era. Is it really legitimate for a country to develop nuclear weapons in secret and continue to maintain the secrecy, then, indefinitely from the world, or pretend to keep that secret? I think not. I think Vanunu did exactly the right thing by telling his fellow citizens, and the rest of the world, that Israel had a large nuclear program. And for that, he served 18 years in prison: 10 and a half in a very small cell of isolation - a 6 by 9 foot cell - what Amnesty called "torture," essentially, for that long period. | |
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Richard Sudan
RT 2015-09-11 16:10:00
I've seen a lot of anger directed at Hungary over the last few days. There's been a lot of criticism of the government, and close scrutiny of the words of the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. I'm not a fan of the Hungarian government, and I don't like the wall being built between Hungary and Serbia. I'm even less of a fan though of the politics which led to this dire situation in the first place. Whatever you think of the politics in Hungary, it is not to blame for the refugee crisis. The same liberal media which is quick to criticize the Hungarian leadership, is not so quick to criticize those who are directly responsible for helping to cause the civil wars that continue in the lands which people are fleeing from and who, in the face of it, are calling for yet more war, and unbelievably so. Over the last few days there seems to have been a lot of focus on Hungary and other so-called EU gateway countries, with all kinds of accusations and finger pointing having taken place. The crisis is said to be a European problem by some, a Hungarian one by others, or perhaps a German one depending on your view. The conversations and chatter in the media continue, and all the while the British government is quietly contemplating bombing Syria, in a move which beggars belief. It's clear then, why attention is being shifted away from war-mongering Cameron toward another distracting scapegoat. The liberal media and the government, both want to bomb Syria, and both are resolute and steadfast in blaming anyone but the British state for its hand in causing the refugee crisis. That really tells you all you need to know. ISIS is the problem, Assad is the problem, and now this week, we are being told that Hungary and other nations on the border of the EU are the problem. | |
Comment: After 9/11, the U.S. declared a global war on terror. Millions of Muslims have been killed as a result of that big lie. The infrastructure and life in these countries has been completely destroyed as a result of that that massive lie. We are in the midst of a new holocaust as a result, this time against those with brown skin.
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Viktor Mikhin
New Eastern Outlook 2015-09-13 13:22:00
Once again the "wisdom" of Washington's generals raises the question about the American leadership's ability in both political and military affairs. This time it is due to the recent statement of the once again notorious, although retired, former leading US General David Petraeus, that suggests actively relying on the Jabhat al-Nusra currently at war in Syria. Perhaps D. Petraeus, owing to his "excessive preoccupation" did not have time to get acquainted with the fact that Jabhat al-Nusra is officially considered a terrorist organization by the White House. It is well known that it is this very organization that is the most cruel and is famed for terrorists who have left a bloody trail of numerous civilian deaths. But perhaps D. Petraeus "accidentally" revealed to us that very secret plan (after all, he led the most "secret" organization of the United States, the Central Intelligence Agency, from September 2011 to November 9, 2012), according to which the White House has set its policy of gambling on the support a leading terrorist organization, be it al-Qaeda, established by the CIA in 1988, or others, including, it appears, Jabhat al-Nusra! Who is D.Petraeus, who considers himself the savior of the American nation and the world, some new Herostratus and, who proposes new, drastic, as yet unheard of methods for fighting terrorists with terrorists? It should be noted that he was until recently a very well-known and influential figure in the contemporary US establishment. After graduating from the prestigious Military Academy at West Point in 1970, he successfully married the daughter of General William Knowlton, who, according to malicious rumors, even provided his son-in-law, a mediocre soldier, with rapid career advancement to the highest posts. Now a retired general, in his time he was the commander of the Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I) and served as the head of United States Central Command, then commanded the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. His latest position is Director of the CIA. However, the "courageous" General was then sentenced to pay a significant fine and two years' suspended sentence for his dubious affairs. As the saying goes "Don't be so sure the same won't happen to you." But the general has surfaced and he now advises the US administration on the issue of the fight against the Islamic State with whom the group Jabhat al-Nusra is at war. Clearly, it's impossible to find a better "consultant" in the USA! Of course, D. Petraeus is well aware of the tragic events that have now swept the Middle East in a bloody wave, and which began after the barbaric and unprovoked US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. Comment: Of course Petraeus is aware of these tragic events since he was a key instigator in creating them! | |
Comment: See also: Former CIA director Petraeus urging U.S. to use Al-Qaeda to fight ISIS
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Eric Draitser
New Eastern Outlook 2015-09-13 13:36:00
From Washington to the western media, everyone has been talking about reports of potential Russian 'intervention' in Syria. On the one hand, the proliferation of this meme is a case study in the western propaganda system, as one report is then repeated ad nauseam from thousands of sources, then built upon by subsequent reports, thereby manufacturing the irrefutable truth from the perspective of media pundits and western mouthpieces. On the other hand, the new reports also raise some interesting questions about the motives of both the US and Russia, as well as the other interested parties to the conflict in Syria. In examining this new chapter of the ongoing war in Syria, two critical and interrelated points seem to rise above all others in importance: Why is the western media hyping this narrative of Russian intervention? And why is direct Russian involvement, limited though it may be, seen as such a threat by the US? Dissecting the Propaganda An Israeli publication reported that Russian air power would be increasing in Syria with "Russian jets in Syrian skies," as the headline read. While all the information came from unnamed "western diplomatic sources," and was accompanied by little more than assertions of fact without any tangible evidence, the media outcry began almost immediately, with literally hundreds of news outlets reporting the same information. Within 24 hours however, a Russian military source deniedthe allegations, saying,"There has been no redeployment of Russian combat aircraft to the Syrian Arab Republic...The Russian Air Force is at its permanent bases and carrying out normal troop training and combat duty." | |
Comment: Also see: US funds ISIS while Russia provides aid to Syria to defeat ISIS
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PressTV
2015-09-12 02:34:00
Press TV has interviewed Michel Chossudovsky, with the Center for Research on Globalization in Montreal, to discuss Russia's decision to provide Damascus with military supplies and humanitarian aid. What follows is a rough transcription of the interview. Press TV: Russia's call for the world to join and help the Syrian government in fighting ISIL terrorists, seems to have fallen on deaf ears at least in Washington. Instead, we have the US president saying that Moscow's strategy in Syria is doomed to failure. Two questions here: First of all, what is Russia's strategy that the West is so opposed to? And second: Why is the West so worried about what it calls an alleged Russian build-up in Syria? Chossudovsky:Well first of all we have to distinguish between axis of aggression against the sovereign state which is what the United States is doing under the humanitarian mandate of going after ISIL when in fact we know and it is amply-documented that the ISIL is supported financed by the United States and its allies and what we might describe as bilateral military cooperation between two sovereign states namely Syria and the Russian Federation and that is something which has been ongoing you know for many, many years between the two countries. Russia has a naval base in the Mediterranean and it is also providing Syria with its air defense system, the S-300, as well as other areas of cooperation particularly focusing on training and weapons systems and so on. I do not think that implies in any way that they would be deploying ground forces. That will not happen.
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Sputnik News
2015-09-13 13:00:00
Several key German politicians have urged for close cooperation with the Russian president in solving the ongoing military conflict in Syria, saying it can't be resolved without Russia's support. Horst Seehofer, the leader of one of Germany's main conservative parties, the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), has called for closer cooperation with Russia in settling the Syrian military conflict, adding that it can't be resolved without the help of President Putin, according to Spiegel magazine. A similar comment was voiced on Saturday by Chancellor Merkel, who also urged the Western powers to turn to Russia for help. | |
Comment: In truth the Syrian 'conflict' can't be resolved until the West ends its ongoing genocide. And that's where the pressure from a strong country like Russia, that hasn't gone full-blown psychopath and still respects basic human dignity, comes in. See:
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Anton Zverev
Reuters 2015-09-09 04:45:00
Russia has started to build a huge military base housing ammunition depots and barracks for several thousand soldiers near the Ukrainian border, a project that suggests the Kremlin is digging in for a prolonged stand-off with Kiev. The base, when completed, will even have its own swimming pool, skating rink and barber shop, according to public documents. This week workmen were erecting a fence in a cornfield outside the village of Soloti to mark out the perimeter, and told a Reuters reporter to leave, accusing him of being an Ukrainian spy. In almost the same spot there was a flurry of military activity in April last year that coincided with intense fighting across the Ukrainian frontier that lies about 25 km (15 miles) away. A squadron of Mi-24 attack helicopters was seen there at the time, as well as army tents and trucks. NATO has accused Russia of using makeshift bases for sending soldiers and hardware into Ukraine to support pro-Russian separatists fighting Kiev. Russia denies its military is in Ukraine.The defence ministry did not reply to written questions from Reuters about the purpose of the base it is building and whether there was any connection to the Ukraine conflict. | |
Comment: Compared to most US military facilities, this one is rather small (about 700 acres). And, it is well within Russia's boundary.
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Sputnik
2015-09-13 12:32:00
The UK intelligence agency GCHQ has published a report on internet security advising that fewer and less complex passwords should be used in order to increase security online, instead of adding more and varied characters in a bid to raise security. GCHQ writes in the document, published in conjunction with the UK Center for Protection of National Infrastructure [CESG], a government agency which advises the UK's public sector organizations. | |
Comment: Now why would a spy agency be so concerned about people getting "password overload"?
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Ken Ritter
AP 2015-09-07 11:25:00
The U.S. Air Force is giving an ultimatum to owners of a remote Nevada property now surrounded by a vast bombing range including the super-secret Area 51: Take a $5.2 million "last best offer" by Thursday for their property, or the government will seize it. The answer: No, at least for now. The owners, who trace their mining and mineral claims to the 1870s, include descendants of a couple who lost their hardscrabble mining enterprise after the Air Force moved in in the 1940s.Nuclear tests then began in 1951, their mine mill mysteriously exploded in 1954 and they ran out of money to seek reparations from the government in 1959. "What they really want to buy is our property, our access rights and our view," said Joseph Sheahan, 54, who has led the fight with his cousin, Barbara Sheahan Manning, on behalf of about 20 property co-owners. Both live in Henderson, Nevada. "We prefer to keep our property, but it's for sale under the right price at the right conditions," Sheahan said. "Why don't they ask themselves what it cost my family over the years in blood, sweat, tears and money?" The two sides are far apart. And they know condemnation proceedings would lead to a "fair market value" determination that could end up in court for a long time. | |
Comment: Condemnation occurs when a local, state, or federal government seizes private property and compensates the owner. The power of the government to do this is called eminent domain, which essentially means the government takes private property for public use. Groom Mine and its surrounding property could be victim to this process.
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teleSUR
2015-09-12 01:54:00
Egypt's cabinet unexpectedly resigned Saturday less than a week after the agriculture minister was arrested over corruption. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi asked Oil Minister Sherif Ismail to form a new government within one week, the presidency's office said Saturday following the resignation of Ibrahim Mehleb's government. The reason behind the resignation was not immediately clear, however, officials told Reuters news agency that for a while el-Sissi has not been happy with the performance of some of the ministers. The country is battling an insurgency by an Islamic State group affiliate in the country's eastern region of Sinai while trying to fix its economy that has been crippled by years of turmoil and political uncertainty following the ouster of Egypt's long-serving, U.S.-backed dictator . Ismail is seen likely to be appointed the country's next prime minister and is considered to be one of the best performing ministers. The country will hold its long overdue parliamentary elections next month, the final step in a process the government has said would deliver democracy The former government faced a backlash over several controversial laws which were ratified by the president. One law said that journalists could face prison terms for reporting death toll figures other than government-sanctioned ones. Such laws triggered peaceful protests despite the ban on demonstrations following the election of el-Sissi as president. He won more than 90 percent of the vote and was the only candidate. When he served as an army chief, el-Sissi staged a coup against the first democratically-elected President Mohamed Morsi, who is now facing a death sentence over charges. Human rights groups accuse el-Sissi of abusing his power, silencing opposition and clamping down on media. | |
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Press TV
2015-09-11 01:27:00
The Swedish Foreign Ministry has summoned the Russian ambassador to Stockholm after Moscow said it would take "retaliatory measures" should the Scandinavian country join the NATO military alliance. On Friday, Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom asked the Russian envoy, Viktor Tatarintsev, to elaborate on the comments recently made by Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. "We are an independent state and we make our own security policy decisions independently ... We do not accept threats and I have summoned the Russian ambassador to ask questions and get an explaation," Wallstrom told journalists. The remarks came a day after Zakharova said, "Swedish membership in NATO would have politico-military and foreign policy consequences, and would require retaliatory measures from Russia." | |
Comment: Swedish war paranoia goes best with Russian parody:
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CBC
2015-09-11 20:44:00
Two years ago, Bryan Chan and his friends launched a weather balloon into space. The modest aircraft was outfitted with a cellphone and GoPro camera. They wanted to see what kind of footage they could retrieve once the camera fell back to Earth. The only problem with their experiment was that they couldn't find the balloon. But now it's been found, along with some amazing footage. The lofty idea started when Chan's friend asked for help with his doctorate work. He was studying the use of fluid lensing. "The idea behind this, with the weather balloon, was we would send some cameras up and take a picture of Earth using the atmosphere as some kind of lens," Chan tells As It Happens host Carol Off.
Chan is an aerospace systems engineer. He was born in Toronto but has lived most of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area. He explains that he and his friends had experimented with balloons before. "We had dabbled in it, and he kind of recruited us to be the so-called, alleged, balloon experts." They figured out how to mount the cameras to the balloon and attached a phone which would allow them to track it through GPS. They hoped the balloon would climb to 100-thousand feet above Earth, but were unsure whether they would be able to track the phone at that height. "We were extremely surprised," Chan explains. "Somehow it had signal to send us the data of where it was but basically right around that 90-thousand mark, it just, everything, all communications, were lost." | ||
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RT
2015-09-13 10:22:00
A woman from Kansas City has been jailed after police found her two children living in a wooden shipping crate in a damp cave. The kids, ages four and six, were barefoot and filthy and had no drinking water. 24-year-old Brittany Mugrauer was charged with two counts of child welfare endangerment. Her children were discovered Thursday in a cave by deputy sheriffs investigating a possible auto parts "chop shop" outside Kansas City, according to the Jackson County prosecutor's off The four-year-old child was using hands while eating a cup of dry ramen noodles with dirt, investigators said. The other child, six, told the detectives that he was supposed to enter first grade at school but he didn't. The children were not wearing any shoes, saying that didn't have any. The investigators also didn't find any drinkable water in the cave.
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"Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. What did you dream? It's alright we told you what to dream." ~ Pink FloydEach day, hundreds of millions of children around the world are forced to engage in boring school activities, to memorize disconnected bits of information without being given the opportunity to enjoy learning, develop useful life skills or maximize their creative potential. What is the purpose of such institutionalized schooling and is this really the best way to educate children? In most nations, educational systems are set up the same way animals are trained, where children who comply with adult demands are given a pat on the head and rewarded. Those who endure the training process increase their chances of getting into "good" colleges, and hopefully moving on to "good" jobs in the global economy. | |
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RT
2015-09-13 11:34:00
Although the world has been shocked by images of drowned refugee children washed ashore, international organizations and journalists have long been raising the alarm, warning that the Mediterranean has become a mass graveyard on Europe's doorstep. Tens of thousands of people have drowned in the Mediterranean over the past decades while fleeing to Europe in hopes of finding a better life away from their war-torn and poverty-stricken homelands in the Middle East and Africa. The number of deaths has considerably increased recently, as migrants resort to the more dangerous sea routes to reach Europe, various reports show. According to one recent EU estimate, four out of five illegal immigrants may have arrived on the continent by sea. | |
Comment: Perhaps there are a few Western officials who are heartbroken, but there are far too few who have enough of a conscience to end the wars that have forced these people to flee their home countries in search of a decent life. Most of these same officials are too embroiled in their psychopathic lust for power and resources and are only mouthing empty words to fool the public into thinking they care about the situation.
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RT
2015-09-13 14:33:00
Prominent American sportsman Roy Jones Junior had his wish for a Russian passport come true, as Vladimir Putin granted citizenship to the champion of four weight classes, who was once called the world's best boxer. A decree granting citizenship to Jones, a former Olympic silver medalist and winner of multiple world championship titles, was signed by Vladimir Putin and then officially published on the Kremlin's website on Saturday. Putin and Jones met in Crimea in August, where the latter had come to be a guest on a boxing TV show., Jones brought up the matter during friendly talk over a cup of tea. He said that it would be a win-win situation: the citizenship would be good for him and his business in Russia, and thus allow it to make a valuable contribution to the country's economy. When Putin warned Jones that he would have to spend much of his life in Russia, he said that he was hoping the sport would "build a bridge" between the two countries, according to Associated Press. | |
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Tom Chatham
Project Chesapeake 2015-08-27 13:09:00
What does it take to make you sit up and take notice of the problems surrounding society today? What will it take to make you respond to the many crises taking place today? You have eyes so you can see and ears so you can hear but for many people any negative news is a reason to tune out the world and only think good thoughts. The problems we face continue to pile up and doing nothing is not an option if you expect to survive the next few years in tact. Prior planning and execution of a plan is now required to stay out of the flood zone when the dam breaks and everyone starts to drown. It does not matter what kind of person you are. You have to be able to save yourself before you have the ability to help others including your own family. You cannot protect your family if you cannot protect yourself from dangerous situations or people. You cannot protect your family if you are too weak from lack of water or food to get others to safety. You cannot protect your family from the elements if you have no cover for them due to sudden loss of your shelter. | |
Comment: The events of late on the big, blue marble serve as one giant alarm clock. Can you hear it?
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Sputnik
2015-09-13 12:48:00
On Friday, the Donetsk News Agency published incomplete results to polling appearing show that less than a third of the population of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic actually supported the republic. Ukrainian media and their liberal Russian allies quickly jumped at the chance to stick it to the DPR. But what did polling really reveal? The Donetsk News Agency, considered the official news agency of the fledgling Donetsk People's Republic, bungled the release of polling data collected by the Special Status Sociological Research Center. Figures released on Friday appeared to show that only 29 percent of the republic's residents had declared their antipathy to post-Maidan authorities in Kiev, which Ukrainian and Russian pro-Kiev liberal media took to mean that the DPR had no real support among the population. | |
Comment: The damage has already been done. Ukrainian people won't have a second look at what the poll results actually show.
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RT
2015-09-13 12:14:00
Suspects are still at large after storming a Texas gun store by ramming it with a truck, and making it out with nearly 100 handguns and assault rifles. They were caught on CCTV footage. Police still don't know the thieves' motives. The smash-and-grab occurred in the city of Plano, on W. 15th Street, at around 3:45 a.m. on Wednesday, according to NBC.
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RT
2015-09-12 03:37:00
The California State Senate has approved the so-called right-to-die bill following its passage in the State Assembly, despite opposition from religious and disability rights groups. The bill is now awaiting approval from California's Democratic Governor. The Senate approved the End of Life Option Act in what co-author of the measure Senator Lois Wolk (D-Davis) called a "historic effort." Lawmakers approved the bill on a 23-14 vote after heated debates on Friday, the legislative session's final day. The Senate has now sent the bill to Governor Jerry Brown. If signed into law, it would allow physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill Californians upon their request. "Californians want us to act to eliminate the needless pain and prolonged suffering of those who are dying," Wolk told legislators, as cited by the Los Angeles Times. Wolk predicted earlier that Brown, a lifelong Catholic, would "struggle with this issue" given that the bill has been widely opposed by the Roman Catholic Church and disability rights groups, as well as some doctors and politicians. "Let's call this what it is. It's not death with dignity. It's assisted killing," said one of the opponents, Republican Senator Robert Huff of San Dimas, as quoted by the Times. | |
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Erin Elizabeth
Health Nut News 2015-09-12 05:07:00
The day the Short family was found murdered in their home I saw the story on the news. I didn't feel like going down another rabbit hole so I didn't even do a search on what Mr. Short did for a living. After a half dozen followers have now sent me the articles I could not help but look. It didn't really come as a surprise when I saw he owned a high traffic health social networking website. My heart goes out to all friends and family, and I sat here all evening deciding whether to do a story on this, but the very first time I saw the CNN video (see youtube video above) as to what allegedly happened - I just felt something wasn't "quite right" Apparently my readers and followers of the website agreed. We'll just stick with the facts (like usual) like I have with the holistic doctors stories I broke along with the 29 poisoned holistic doctors who survived (yes, German news confirmed some were doctors) and naturopaths at a holistic health conference. Brian Short was the founder of a very high traffic website called AllNurses.com with millions of unique visitors a month. You can look at the video on the site to see how it linked other nurses together so that they could network and share information. (If anyone has other information on this please contact me - the easiest way is to send me a message to my Facebook page. You can send me tips there as well on any stories, as that's how I end up with much of my work that I end up publishing. From the Yahoo article about the Short family: The founder of a social networking service for nurses used a shotgun to kill his wife and three children before turning the gun on himself, police said Saturday after the release of autopsy reports. | |
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RT
2015-09-11 14:53:00
The House of Commons has rejected the Assisted Dying bill by 330 votes to 118, a majority of 212, after an emotional debate Friday afternoon. The bill proposed giving terminally ill patients the right to request a lethal injection from doctors if their case receive approval from two doctors and a judge. But the controversial bill, which had been criticized by both the church and campaigners, was voted down on its second reading. The free vote was the first time the Commons had voted on the issue since 1997. Throughout the debate, MPs spoke about their personal experiences and used anecdotal evidence to make their case. Many arrived in the chamber saying they were not sure how they would vote. The bill was based on Oregon law, which opponents said had led to a rise in assisted suicides in the US state since the law was introduced. MP for Wolverhampton South West Rob Marris told the House that while he could understand why sick individuals found comfort in assisted dying, he could not say whether he would use the service himself. | |
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The mainstream media often portrays the unfortunate random killing of police officers as analogous to a larger "war on cops." The reality is that there is a concerted public relations effort underway, on the part of law enforcement, with the intention of stemming the growing public calls for more oversight and accountability. If law enforcement were genuine about wanting to save the lives of cops, they would begin by attempting to put focus on the out of control epidemic of police suicides, which dwarfs the number of cops fatally shot the line of duty. The last year on public record for police suicides was 2012, with a staggering 126 officers reported to have intentionally killed themselves. Compare that with the number of police fatally shot in the line of duty last year; 47. Let that sink in for a moment. American police are 300% more likely to kill themselves than be shot and killed by another individual. These statistics drive home the fact that the "war on cops" narrative is simplistic police propaganda, which utilizes the mainstream media as a mouthpiece in an effort to deliver the message to middle America. The stark reality is that were 47 cops shot in the line of duty in 2014 and this year the number is estimated to be even lower, projected at 43 shooting deaths if the current projections hold steady through the end of the year. While even one death is a tragedy, the reality is that now is one of the safest times to be a cop in the past 30 years. Over the past three decades, the number of police killings has decreased substantially, with 2015 being on pace to register even fewer deaths than last year, as well as fewer than the current decadal average. | |
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Annie Waldman and Sisi Wei
ProPublica 2015-09-12 19:06:00
New York University is among the country's wealthiest schools. Backed by its $3.5 billion endowment, the school has built campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai, invested billions in SoHo real estate, and given its star faculty loans to buy summer homes. But the university does less than many other schools when it comes to one thing: helping its poor students. A ProPublica analysis based on new data from the U.S. Department of Education shows thatstudents from low-income families graduate from NYU saddled with huge federal loans. The school's Pell Grant recipients - students from families that make less than $30,000 a year - owe anaverage of $23,250 in federal loans after graduation. That's more federal loan debt than low-income students take on at for-profit giant University of Phoenix, though NYU graduates have higher earnings and default less on their debt. | |
Comment: The debt burden placed on students can be crippling and more people are finding that they are saddled with debt well into their senior years, condemned to a lifetime of payments that stagnant wages and mounting economic insecurity make it nearly impossible to manage. Student loans are a trap for those who don't belong to the 1%. By excepting them from the usual bankruptcy laws, the PTB ensured the indebtedness would be perpetual.
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The Guardian
2015-09-13 17:57:00
Spectacular ancient Egyptian treasures are to be exhibited for the first time having been discovered underwater in the submerged ruins of the near-legendary cities of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus. A finely sculpted statuette of a pharaoh and a golden-eyed depiction of god Osiris are among antiquities to be unveiled in a major exhibition in Paris from next month. The cities were almost erased from mankind's memory after sinking beneath the waves in the eighth century AD following cataclysmic natural disasters including an earthquake and tidal waves. Across a vast site in Aboukir Bay near Alexandria, the seabed has been giving up secrets from a lost world in an excavation led by Franck Goddio, a French marine archaeologist. Founding head of the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology in Paris, Goddio is working with the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the University of Oxford, and the Egyptian authorities. | |
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Paul A. Philips
Activist Post 2015-09-13 17:46:00
The world is steeped in poverty with precious little in the way of humanitarian advancement because the ruling elite have suppressed a number of technologies that could have changed the world and created a utopia. Attempting to bring their innovations to the world at large the brilliant inventors of these technologies were given a hard time by the big boys of the ruling elite's establishment. Some were murdered for profit... | |
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RT
2015-09-13 12:22:00
Want proof spacemen have the most exciting jobs ever? Watch this new breathtaking GoPro video of a spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts, including the record-breaking Gennady Padalka, outside the International Space Station (ISS). Padalka recently set a new record of 879 cumulative days spent in space. He was accompanied by Mikhail Korniyenko on the spacewalk, which lasted for 5 hours 34 minutes in open space on August 10. The video, featuring the two busy doing space chores, outside the ISS was released by Russian Federal Space Agency Roskosmos on Saturday. | |
Comment: This unique job sure has some amazing views.
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Natalie Wolchover
Quanta Magazine 2015-03-10 01:23:00
Nature has revealed peculiar mathematical objects that connect order and chaos. What struck John Learned about the blinking of KIC 5520878, a bluish-white star 16,000 light-years away, was how artificial it seemed. Learned, a neutrino physicist at the University of Hawaii, Mānoa, has a pet theory that super-advanced alien civilizations might send messages by tickling stars with neutrino beams, eliciting Morse code-like pulses. "It's the sort of thing tenured senior professors can get away with," he said. The pulsations of KIC 5520878, recorded recently by NASA's Kepler telescope, suggested that the star might be so employed. A "variable" star, KIC 5520878 brightens and dims in a six-hour cycle, seesawing between cool-and-clear and hot-and-opaque. Overlaying this rhythm is a second, subtler variation of unknown origin; this frequency interplays with the first to make some of the star's pulses brighter than others. In the fluctuations, Learned had identified interesting and, he thought, possibly intelligent sequences, such as prime numbers (which have been floated as a conceivable basis of extraterrestrial communication). He then found hints that the star's pulses were chaotic. But when Learned mentioned his investigations to a colleague, William Ditto, last summer, Ditto was struck by the ratio of the two frequencies driving the star's pulsations. "I said, 'Wait a minute, that's the golden mean.'" This irrational number, which begins 1.618, is found in certain spirals, golden rectangles and now the relative speeds of two mysterious stellar processes. It meant that the blinking of KIC 5520878 wasn't an extraterrestrial signal, Ditto realized, but something else that had never before been found in nature: a mathematical curiosity caught halfway between order and chaos called a "strange nonchaotic attractor." Dynamical systems — such as pendulums, the weather and variable stars — tend to fall into circumscribed patterns of behavior that are a subset of all the ways they could possibly behave. A pendulum wants to swing from side to side, for example, and the weather stays within a general realm of possibility (it will never be zero degrees in summer). Plotting these patterns creates a shape called an "attractor." Mathematicians in the 1970s used attractors to model the behavior of chaotic systems like the weather, and they found that the future path of such a system through its attractor is extremely dependent on its exact starting point. This sensitivity to initial conditions, known as the butterfly effect, makes the behavior of chaotic systems unpredictable; you can't tell the forecast very far in advance if the flap of a butterfly's wings today can make the difference, two weeks from now, between sunshine and a hurricane. The infinitely detailed paths that most chaotic systems take through their attractors are called "fractals." Zoom in on a fractal, and new variations keep appearing, just as new outcrops appear whenever you zoom in on the craggy coastline of Great Britain. Attractors with this fractal structure are called "strange attractors." | |
Comment: As above, so below
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Nguyen Chung
Thanh Nien News 2015-09-13 19:21:00
Two women were killed in a lightning strike on a beach in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa on Saturday. Ngo Thi Phuong Hai, 32, and Pham Thi Ngoc Bich, 36, reportedly came to Cam Ranh Bay to catch snails at around 2:30 p.m. the same day. Several minutes later, it rained heavily, accompanied by thunder and lightning. The duo prepared to go back home when a bolt of lightning struck them. When people found them, they were lying unconsciously on the beach. One was already dead; the another still breathed. She was provided first aid but stopped breathing five minutes later. Local police said people catching snails in Cam Ranh Bay for a living is a common scene. | |
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Ryan Bonner
Long Beach Patch 2015-09-13 00:00:00
Heavy rain Saturday evening spawned at least one waterspout in the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, according to the National Weather Service. A NWS spotter, Tom Provenzano, took the photo above, which shows the waterspout, essentially a tornado over water, just southwest of Long Beach around 5:30 p.m. "Some of the stronger showers over the Atlantic Ocean this evening could continue to produce waterspouts, but we are NOT expecting them to move onshore," the National Weather Service's New York office posted on Facebook. | |
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Jennifer Russell and Emily Crane
Daily Mail, UK 2015-09-04 16:29:00
Magpies are set to be culled in Canberra after they began terrorising visitors by stealing their food and swooping on people - even children. According to ACT Parks and Conservation director Daniel Iglesias, between 25 and 30 magpies lived near Yerrabi Pond in Gungahlin, with some being trapped by rangers and euthanised on Thursday. Speaking to ABC News, Mr Iglesias said the culling is needed because the number of incidents involving the swooping birds has dramatically increased. 'We have one story, where a magpie stood on a child's head, leant over the child's head, put it's beak in its mouth to get food out of its mouth,' Mr Iglesias told ABC News. 'We've had other incidents where there have been other near-misses with eyes.'
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abc2news.com
2015-09-12 16:45:00
A possible waterspout and tornado activity were reported in Virginia Saturday afternoon. Around 2:30 p.m. a possible tornado was spotted near Assateague Island, north of Chincoteague. People on both Assateague and Chincoteague islands also posted photos on social media of possible waterspouts or tornados. The weather service has not confirmed a tornado or waterspout.
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The search for a missing woman ended Friday when her body was found in a car that was stuck in a sinkhole in Bluff City, just a short distance from her home. Nancy Echevarria, 66, was last seen late Wednesday afternoon driving a blue Chevrolet Lumina, which was found in the sinkhole on property in the 1400 block of Pleasant Grove Road, according to Sullivan County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Leslie Earhart. "The residents could not see the vehicle while standing on their porch," Earhart said. "It's our understanding that one of the residents was walking his dog in the yard and noticed the sun glistening off something metal in the sinkhole. When he went over to check it out, that's when he found the vehicle." The resident called 911 around 4:30 p.m. and police and rescue crews responded. "Officers responded and upon arrival, they found a blue Chevrolet Lumina in the sinkhole with one person deceased," Earhart said. Echevarria's son, Maylo Echevarria, said his mother dropped him off at a mechanic's garage in Bluff City and was supposed to drive to her home in the 900 block of Pleasant Grove Road, but she never arrived. Police believe she was driving down Pleasant Grove when she appeared to have crashed off the roadway. The sinkhole was located about 150-200 feet off the roadway and passing drivers would not have been able to see it. | |
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Gregory Pratt
Chicago Tribune 2015-09-12 15:17:00
More than a dozen waterspouts were spotted in Lake Michigan near Chicago Saturday morning, according to the National Weather Service. The weather service received seven different reports between 6:30 and 11:15 a.m. about waterspouts, though some of them could have been the same waterspout viewed from a different position, said meteorologist Casey Sullivan. There were waterspouts spotted over southern Lake Michigan from off Waukegan to Evanston to just north of Whiting Indiana, according to weather service. | |
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The Times of India
2015-09-13 14:56:00
Even as four persons died after being stuck by lightning in Saurashtra, rains that lashed many parts of the region on Saturday came as a major relief to farmers facing crop loss due to deficient rainfall in August. More good news followed as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a rainfall forecast for the next four days. Officials said that light to moderate rain or thundershowers would occur at isolated places in the districts of south Gujarat, Saurashtra, Diu, Daman, Dadra Nagar Haveli during the next four days. Rains, coupled with lightning, claimed four lives on Saturday. A man died in Moruka village of Talala taluka in Gir-Somnath, while a 10-year-old girl died in Jamdar village of Kotda-Sangani taluka in Rajkot. A 17-year-old youth identified as Arvind died in Ora village of Vichhiya taluka and one person died in Rafda village of Rajkot. Over 10 cattle died due to lightning in four districts of Saurashtra. | |
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Star Tribune
2015-09-13 10:06:00
2015-09-13 08:14:12 (UTC) The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 has hit in the Gulf of California. It says the earthquake struck Sunday at 1:14 p.m. local time at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles). The epicenter is 37 miles (59 kilometers) south-southwest of Topolobampo, Mexico. Mexico, which lies on three tectonic plates, is one of the world's most seismically active regions. | |
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Phys.org
2015-09-10 08:03:00
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have released details of a deep-sea site roughly 48 kilometers (30 miles) west of Del Mar (just north of San Diego, Calif.) wheremethane is seeping out of the seafloor, the first such finding in the region. Scripps graduate students on a 2012 UC Ship Funds Program expedition aboard Scripps's research vessel Melville off San Diego County discovered the "Del Mar Seep" during the San Diego Coastal Expedition. Such methane seeps are fascinating environments because of their extraordinary chemical features, at times with bubbling methane streams, and often inhabited by odd and uniquely adapted creatures. In 2013 the researchers returned to the site, at 1,020 meters (3,346 feet) depth, with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to collect samples that would allow them to compare the site to previously studied methane seeps. The team has issued results of a detailed characterization of the Del Mar Seep ecosystem in the August 2015 issue of the journal Marine Ecology. "The diversity of habitat types we saw within this one seep was really striking," said Ben Grupe, a Scripps alumnus who led the study. "Some areas featured dense but patchy clam beds, others had sediments covered with bacterial mats, while others had snails and glass sponges living on large carbonate rocks." | |
Comment: Another case of natural gases leaking from deep below, as Earth continues to 'open up'. A small selection of outgassing reported on sott.net include:
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Jonathan Landsman
Natural News 2015-09-12 03:33:00
Good oral hygiene and high-quality dental care are important for long-term health and have benefits that extend far beyond the teeth and gums. Likewise, poor oral health can lead to adverse outcomes and increase the risk of disease. In fact, many health issues and chronic systemic diseases are directly correlated to certain dental treatments and infections. How serious is this problem? Leo Cashman, executive director of Dental Amalgam Mercury Solutions (DAMS) and a featured expert at the Holistic Oral Health Summit says: "The root canal-treated tooth is a real serious problem for people that have them because it's a dead tooth that is prone to infection. And, it could end up quite toxic without the ability to fight off the infection of a dead tooth." | |
Comment: More information on dental hygiene: Good Dental Hygiene May Help Prevent Heart Infection
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Claire Bernish
The Anti Media 2015-09-13 17:33:00
California just dealt Monsanto a blow as the state's Environmental Protection Agency will now list glyphosate — the toxic main ingredient in the U.S.' best-selling weedkiller, Roundup — as known to cause cancer. Under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 — usually referred to asProposition 65, its original name — chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm are required to be listed and published by the state. Chemicals also end up on the list if found to be carcinogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) — a branch of the World Health Organization. | |
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Lisa Griffith
Other Worlds 2015-09-01 00:00:00
In this moment when it is vital to assert that Black lives matter, the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance honors Black and Afro-Indigenous farmers, fishermen, and stewards of ancestral lands and water. We especially honor them as a vital part of food chain workers, who together are creating food sovereignty, meaning a world with healthy, ecologically produced food, and democratic control over food systems. In 2015, the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance's two prize winners are the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in the U.S., and the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras. The prizes will be presented in Des Moines on October 14, 2015. The Federation of Southern Cooperatives strengthens a vital piece of food sovereignty: helpingkeep lands in the hands of family farmers, in this case primarily African-American ones. The Federation was born in 1967 out of the civil rights movement. Its members are farmers in 16 Southern states, approximately 90% of them African-American, but also Native American, Latino, and White. The Federation's work is today more important than ever, given that African-American-owned farms in the US have fallen from 14% to 1% in less than 100 years. To help keep farms Black- and family-owned instead of corporate-owned, the Federation promotes land-based cooperatives; provides training in sustainable agriculture and forestry, management, and marketing; and advocates to the courts and to state and national legislatures. | |
Comment: Coops, a shared working community for the common good, prove capitalism is not the only "market" economy.
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Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com 2015-09-11 15:51:00
If you want to add seven years to your lifespan, set aside 20 to 25 minutes for a daily walk. This simple habit, which can also arguably be one of the most enjoyable parts of your day, has been found to trigger an anti-aging process and even help repair old DNA. The research, presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress, followed 69 people between the ages of 30 and 60. Those who engaged in daily moderate exercise, such as a brisk walk or jog, high-intensity interval training (HIIT), and strength training experienced anti-aging benefits that could add an additional three to seven years to your life.1 | |
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Rakesh Bhattacharjee
Huffington Post 2015-09-13 14:20:00
The precise role of sleep in animals, including humans, remains unknown. As children, our parents shout at us to get more sleep. As parents, we often find ourselves complaining we don't get enough sleep. And yet, the precise function of sleep remains undetermined, and much of our perception of the role of sleep stems from our understanding of the consequences of sleep deprivation or poor sleep quality on our well-being. In a recent study by Prather and colleagues published in September's issue of SLEEP (1), investigators examined the effects of sleep deprivation on our immune system's ability to stave off infection. Cleverly, the investigators inoculated the common cold virus into the noses of adult volunteers using nasal drops and then examined the role of sleep duration in the susceptibility of developing a frank cold. Total sleep was defined objectively using actigraphy -- a device worn on the wrist that differentiates wake from sleep according to algorithms that measure body movement. The investigators discovered that following inoculation of the cold virus, those who slept less than 5 hours had a 4.5 times greater chance of developing a frank cold. Those that slept 5-6 hours had a 4.24 times greater chance of developing a frank cold, compared to those volunteers who slept greater than 7 hours (the recommended duration of sleep by the National Sleep Foundation) . The effect of sleep duration remained significantly associated with developing a cold following control of many other relevant risk factors including season, smoking history, and stress levels. | |
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WorldTruthTV
2015-09-12 00:00:00
Kidneys are the most executable pair of organs of the body. The kidneys purify the blood of unnecessary substances which are then discharged through the urethra. Kidney disease is one of the costliest illnesses in the world and managing kidney disease is very expensive. Kidney failure is often due to the build-up of waste products in the body. Inability to remove potassium from the bloodstream may lead to abnormal heart rhythms and sudden death. Pain-killer abuse Too much use of pain-killers for simple pain is a bad habit. Most pain-killers have severe side effects and can damage different organs, such as kidneys. Study shows taking pain killers long term reduces blood flow and deteriorates the kidney's main function. Alcohol consumption Too much alcohol consumption damages our kidney and liver. Drinking on limit is not bad but most of us don't stop after just one drink. Alcohol is actually a legal toxin that puts a lot of stress on our kidneys and liver. | |
Comment: Kidney disease has become an epidemic, and researchers have linked it to the prevalence of Monsanto's Roundup in the food supply:
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Bardia Rezaei
The Mind Unleashed 2015-09-11 14:58:00
Forget what you think you know about nicotine. Most people see nicotine as a vile, fiercely addictive substance that takes a large share of the blame for the multitude of deaths occurring around the world as a result of smoking. But there's another side to the story. As well as having medicinal benefits, nicotine has untapped potential as a cognitive enhancer, boosting attention, working memory and more. The problem - which you undoubtedly guessed - is that using nicotine by smoking cigarettes for its cognitive benefits is like mainlining heroin to treat your cough: it might work, but the negatives considerably outweigh the positives. However, vaping is changing all of that. | |
Comment: Additional Nicotine Benefits:
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Professor Peter Saunders
The Ecologist 2015-08-05 14:24:00
Monsanto is stepping up its attack on the WHO's classification of glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen, writes Peter Saunders. Dismissing the finding as 'junk science' the company is convening its own industry friendly panel and pushing its secret studies at regulators. Don't let them get away with it! In May 2015, the leading medical journal Lancet Oncology published a brief account of a review by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) [1]. The IARC working party had considered five organophosphate pesticides, tetrachlorvinphos, parathion, malathion, diazinon and glyphosate, and had classified the first two as possibly carcinogenic and the other three as probably carcinogenic. | |
Comment: Professor Peter Saunders is obviously angered and rightfully so! Monsanto's ongoing attempts to deny, obscure and belittle the carcinogenicity of Glyphosate, never the less, Industry and government agencies studiously ignore news that Monsanto's glyphosate is carcinogenic and continue to claim their product is safe!
Following the release of the report, the country of Sri Lanka decided to ban glyphosate completely, and other countries are considering a similar move. Is this information just too much to swallow for more immediate action to follow, or havegovernments been infiltrated so completely by biotech that the announcement that most of our food is covered in poison will simply be ignored? | |
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Stephen Feller
Big News Network 2015-09-09 13:30:00
Smoking cigarettes is universally regarded as bad for health, but not everybody who smokes develops cancer or other diseases linked to the habit. New research shows that a proportion of lifelong smokers live to extreme ages despite the long list of negative effects cigarettes have on the body. Researchers found a set of genetic markers that promote longevity in cells and mitigate damage to them, which may be the explanation for preventing diseases tied to cell dysfunction. "Many of these markers are in pathways that were discovered to be important for aging and lifespan in animal models," said Dr. Morgan Levine, a researcher at the University of California Los Angeles, in a press release. "There is evidence that these genes may facilitate lifespan extension by increasing cellular maintenance and repair. Therefore, even though some individuals are exposed to high levels of biological stressors, like those found in cigarette smoke, their bodies may be better set up to cope with and repair the damage." | |
Comment: For more on the benefits of smoking and the studies that don't show the link between smoking and cancer listen to this episode of the Health and Wellness Show.
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Zoran Jankovic DVM
Daily Pet Blog 2015-09-13 14:08:00
We all wish for our furry family members to reach their full developmental potential and to live in vibrant good health. Unfortunately common practice is not always based on common sense, instead large majority of widely accepted habits in our society is based primarily on economic interest and blatant disregard for some basic facts of nature. Here are three important reasons why you should never feed your pets highly processed commercial foods: | |
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Joel Edwards
Organic Lifestyle Magazine 2015-09-07 12:56:00
Turns out, that old adage is true - money does not buy everything. For some, money does not buy a clear conscience. Despite earning high incomes, these former pharmaceutical employees left their jobs and are now sharing the truth of what goes on behind the curtain. Many of them have written books, participated in documentaries, and shared their stories through online videos. Here are a few. | |
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WorldTruthTV
2015-09-12 00:00:00
Over the last several decades, over-use of antibiotics has reached an all-time high. The result has been drug-resistant bacteria and "superbugs" that evolve faster than scientists can figure out how to fight them. A future where bacteria are at the top of the food chain is not unheard of. Long before there were pharmaceutical antibiotics - developed in the 1940s, there were foods and herbs that helped guard against infection and disease on a daily basis. Many of these natural defenders are still in use today with holistic healers around the globe. Our ancestors also had a solution for healing, using antibiotics from nature and it would be good to remind ourselves who these antibiotics are and possibly think about using them in case of an illness. | |
Comment: See also: Herbs and foods that kill superbugs
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People with psychopathic traits are less affected by others' yawns, a new study finds. Contagious yawning has been linked to empathy levels in several studies, though not all research supports the association. However, new research in the journal Personality and Individual Differences finds that people with psychopathic traits—especially a lack of empathy—are not as susceptible to catching a case of the yawns ... at least among college students, the only group tested. Researchers from Baylor University in Texas tried to provoke 135 students to yawn in reaction to someone else's yawn. Each of the participants also completed a questionnaire regarding their personality traits, measuring psychopathic characteristics like selfishness, tendency to be manipulative, impulsivity, and a lack of empathy. Then they sat at a computer and watched 10-second video clips of facial movements, including yawning. Electrodes were attached to their faces just under the lower eyelids, on their foreheads, on the outer corners of their eyes, and on their fingertips to measure their movements in reaction to the videos. |
