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Harrison Koehli
Sott.net 2015-09-26 15:39:00
Today, Saturday, the largest mosque in Europe, the Baitul Futuh Mosque in London, is on fire. Completed in 2003, the 5.2-acre mosque can hold up to 10,000 people and cost a reported £15 million ($23 million) to build. Its ground and first floors are in flames, and around 70 firefighters and 10 engines are working to put them out. Information is still scarce - no word as to the cause or if anyone was hurt or trapped in the building. This comes just three days after Moscow reopened what is now Russia's biggest mosque, the Moscow Grand Mosque, which sizes up at 4 acres and has a capacity of over 10,000. First built in 1904, it has been completely rebuilt, a project that started four years ago. Turkish President Recep Erdogan and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas spoke, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin, at the grand opening. The contrast between the two events couldn't be more fitting, given the present political and religious climate.
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Russia Insider
YouTube 2014-10-24 15:57:00
In 2014, President Obama named the three major threats to US national security; ISIS, Russia and Ebola (because spiraling national debt, unequal distribution of wealth, over-incarceration, climate change etc. are less pressing issues.) It would be fair to say that Russian politicians took much offence to being placed in this list, next to a terror organisation and a disease. In relation to this statement, Putin answers a number of questions from a US journalist at the Valdai International Discussion Club, late 2014. To draw his point to a close, Putin mirrors the words of John F Kennedy in a 1963 speech titled "A Strategy for Peace", unusual for its time due to the warmth of the address to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. Putin is likely to echo the words he said at Valdai when he speaks at the UN in New York tomorrow.
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Comment: Putin isn't shy when it comes to putting liars and hypocrites in their place. With one day before his highly anticipated speech at the UN General Assembly, all eyes are on New York for Putin the Great.
See also: Putin interview on CBS 60 Minutes: Preview of UN speech | ||
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Elizabeth Harrington
Washington Free Beacon 2015-09-25 16:45:00
$8.9 million NIH study led to mobile system for 'real time behavior monitoring' Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a system that can predict the "psychological status" of users with smartphones and hope to private companies to bring the invention to the market. The technology appeared on a list of NIH inventions published in the Federal Register that are now available to be licensed by private companies. The government allows companies to license inventions resulting from federal research in order to expedite their arrival on the marketplace. The system uses smartphones to ask people how they are doing mentally during the day and based on the results can "deliver an automated intervention" if necessary. "The NIH inventors have developed a mobile health technology to monitor and predict a user's psychological status and to deliver an automated intervention when needed," according to the notice published Wednesday. "The technology uses smartphones to monitor the user's location and ask questions about psychological status throughout the day." "Continuously collected ambulatory psychological data are fused with data on location and responses to questions," the NIH said. "The mobile data are combined with geospatial risk maps to quantify exposure to risk and predict a future psychological state. The future predictions are used to warn the user when he or she is at especially high risk of experiencing a negative event that might lead to an unwanted outcome (e.g., lapse to drug use in a recovering addict)." The NIH said the technology has potential commercial applications for "real-time behavior monitoring" and "therapeutic delivery of an intervention via a mobile device." Researchers developed the system from a project that tracked the mood and cravings of drug users in Baltimore. The $8.9 million federal study sought to develop algorithms that could "automatically detect behavioral events (such as episodes of drug use or stress) without requiring self-report." | |
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Pepe Escobar
Asia Times 2015-09-27 17:50:00
Pope Francis may be the rock star. But once again, the real heart of the action is all about Russia and China — those prime "threats" to Exceptionalistan, according to the Pentagon. Where's Benjamin's Angel of History when we need him? His gaze is now certainly focused on the home of the brave. Francis may have brought the House down in DC, but it's Xi Jinping who really rocked da house in the West Coast, while Putin gets ready to be crowned the new King of New York. Who'd imagine that the New Great Game in Eurasia could be so fun? Calling Frank Underwood Even before Putin talked new world order geopolitical business at the UN, China's Xi Jinping was talking Silicon Valley business with, well, the whole Silicon Valley elite. It's all in the photo, delightfullydeconstructed (see image below) by the South China Morning Post.
This is where the action is — much more than in what Xi may have discussed with Obama; cyberspace piracy, spying, new Japanese laws on defense, the environment. China needs top IT to turbo-charge not only the internal market but also key nodes of the New Silk Roads. Even Facebook was allowed to bow to the Red Emperor. Mark Zuckerberg, in suit and red tie, talked to Xi for less than a minute, in Mandarin, at Microsoft's campus. Side by side was none other than a smiling Lu Wei - who controls China's Great Firewall, which blocks, among others, Facebook. As a priceless aside, here's Internet-alert Lu Wei calling all and sundry to "sail into the future with mutual benefit and win-win." Barely blinking while he bought 300 Boeings for lunch, Xi's real howler in the West Coast was hisHouse of Cards gambit. Referring to Beijing's massive crackdown on graft, he said, "We have punished tigers and flies ... It has nothing to do with power struggles. In this case there is no House of Cards." Non-biased China hands all interpret the anti-corruption campaign as essentially a clean up of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) so it may continue to rule ad infinitum. It's the party, stupid. So obviously there's a "hard rain's gonna fall" component, because resistance from powerful interest groups is immense. The irruption of House of Cards was predictable. Much more than a nod to Netflix, this was about China. According to GlobalWebIndex, no less than over 200 million Chinese have been using VPNs to get to Netflix and watch the season 3 of House of Cards on streaming video. | ||
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RT
2015-09-26 16:31:00
As the Syrian civil war continues to rage and Islamic State maintains its foothold in the region, Virginia state Senator Dick Black told RT that "if the US stopped training jihadists and arming jihadists, the war will end." In a lengthy interview, the Republican state senator connected the crisis in Syria to the actions of countries such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey, who he said have armed extremists like Islamic State militants that are fighting against the Syrian government. He also blamed US meddling in the Middle East for the rise of terror groups like Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS/ISIL). Comment: Senator Black is known for his controversial views, to say the least (see:Psychopathic GOP Congressional candidate: Spousal rape shouldn't be a crime). But in this case, he's right. "It is my hope and prayer that the United States wakes up and says it is time to end this slaughter. It is time to stop trying to topple regimes, bring order to the Middle East [and] stop the bloodshed. If we stop training jihadists and arming jihadists, the war will end."
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Kevin Ryan
Washington's Blog 2015-09-27 16:16:00
Media interest in Saudi Arabian connections to the crimes of 9/11 has centered on calls for the release of the 28 missing pages from the Joint Congressional Inquiry's report. However, those calls focus on the question of hijacker financing and omit the most interesting links between the 9/11 attacks and Saudi Arabia—links that implicate powerful people in the United States. Here are twenty examples.
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Comment: Then again, the Saudis have also been getting closer to Russia. Saudi Arabia has also been in the news recently, with a string of scandals. Is something up? See Harrison Koehli's SOTT Focus: Sadistic Saudi princes and Washington warmongers Vs Russia's civilizing force
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State of the Nation
2015-09-25 00:00:00
It is now well known that John Boehner is a dedicated lifelong Roman Catholic. It is also known that he has pushed for having the Pope come to America and address the U.S. Congress over many years. Meeting the Pope has always been a dream of Boehner's which has just come true. What he failed to realize was that such a moment would trigger a realization of his profound betrayal of Roman Catholic teachings and universal morality. One relatively short papal visit after the historic Congressional address put John Boehner face to face with himself. Clearly, the Pope reflected back to him the woeful lack of commitment to the most basic principles of civilization and pillars of Western society. Whether the Pope told him directly or by papal courier, Boehner had violated Catholic law and morality IN THE WORST POSSIBLE WAYS. In so doing John Boehner, through his continual crimes of commission and acts of omission in his capacity as Speaker of the House, was directly responsible for the whole nation's transgression of natural law and divine order. His meeting with the Pope surely brought this reality into stark relief. Hence, his uncontrollable crying and emotional outburst in having to confront his grave offenses against the Almighty. In yesterday's case, not against the Pope, against the Lord Almighty. | |
Comment: See also:
House Speaker Boehner to resign his seat next month Slashing social programs for the poor and elderly for token tax increases for the uber-rich The Unbearable rudeness of "Bibi" Netanyahu Pushing Crisis: GOP Cries Wolf on Debt Ceiling in Order to Impose Radical Pro-Rich Agenda U.S. Congressmen admit they didn't read NDAA before voting for it "Successful" US-led bombing in Syria: Only civilians were among the dead | |
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Kate Pickles
Daily Mail 2015-09-26 03:27:00
Jeremy Corbyn claimed the 9/11 attacks were 'manipulated' by the West so it could go to war in Afghanistan in an article he wrote 12 years ago, it has emerged today. The Labour leader made the assertions in a number of written pieces where he criticised Tony Blair and George W Bush for using the September 11 attacks in New York to go to war. He claims Osama bin Laden was made to look responsible to facilitate their aims and seemed to endorse conspiracy theories about a 'New World Order'. In the 2003 piece for The Morning Star, he wrote: 'Historians will study with interest the news manipulation of the past 18 months, The Telegraph reports. 'After September 11, the claims that bin Laden and al-Qaida had committed the atrocity were quickly and loudly made. This was turned into an attack on the Taliban and then, subtly, into regime change in Afghanistan.' Prior to that, he wrote a series of articles which appear to have endorsed the conspiracy theory about the 'New World Order'. The revelations come ahead of Mr Corbyn's first Labour conference as leader where a number of MPs are expected to state the party is unelectable under him. Labour grandee Lord Mandelson has already warned MPs against making an early move to oust Jeremy Corbyn - but insisted the party could not win with the 66-year-old 'loser' in charge. The former business secretary said the party had 'stuck two fingers up' at the country by choosing Mr Corbyn as leader but, in a leaked memo, he said Mr Corbyn couldn't be replaced until he had shown how unpopular he is at the polls. Comment: It was not stated which two fingers were 'stuck up.' | |
Comment: "Mr Corbyn was on minus 3 per cent, with 33 per cent satisfied with the way he is doing his job and 36 per cent dissatisfied." Polls can be manipulated and history rewritten. Beware those who aim to stifle any breath of fresh air. Ask yourself why!
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ITAR-TASS
2015-09-27 14:46:00
"The Russian market is one of the most attractive for our economic agents", Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic said Russia remains one of Croatia's most promising partners in economy, science and culture, Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic said on Sunday. "We are interested in expanding economic, trade, scientific and technical cooperation with Russia", Pusic, who also serves as the first deputy prime minister, told TASS. | |
Comment: Once again Russia proves to be the 'go to' country for positive economic relations.
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Sputnik
2015-09-27 14:17:00
Ahead of his much anticipated address at the 70th UN General Assembly in New York, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with American talk show host and journalist Charlie Rose and shed some light on what he is going to talk about. The interview is set to air on Sunday evening in the United States on the CBS television program 60 Minutes, right on the eve of the President's address to the UN. As a result, the Russian head of state has specified that he does not "think it reasonable to go into much detail about everything he is going to speak about". | |
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Kit O'Connell
Mint Press News 2015-09-19 14:09:00
Despite billions spent to eradicate opium crops in Afghanistan, the crop is more popular than ever there, leading many to wonder whether some U.S. forces may actually be encouraging its growth and the heroin it later becomes. In July, the Centers for Disease Control warned of record-breaking numbers of heroin deaths in the United States. "Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 18 - 25 in the past decade," the CDC reported. In the same month, it was reported that opium production is stronger than ever in Afghanistan, which now produces 90 percent of the world's supply of the plant that's refined to create heroin. This rise in production would have been impossible prior to the U.S.-led invasion, and it comes despite some $8.4 billion spent in counternarcotics efforts by the U.S., specifically designated to wipe out opium production in Afghanistan. | |
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RT
2015-09-27 13:09:00
France has carried out its first airstrikes on Islamic State positions in Syria, the Élysées Palace said in a statement. "Our country thus confirms its resolute commitment to fight against the terrorist threat represented by Daesh [Islamic State]. We will strike each time that our national security is at stake," the French Presidency said in a statement, cited by Reuters. Earlier this week France announced it may carry out airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria as an act of self-defense. "We are part of the coalition in Iraq [against ISIS]," France's President Francois Hollande said at a news conference. "We started reconnaissance flights [in Syria] to enable us to consider air strikes if they were necessary and they will be necessary in Syria." Comment: Notice no mention of the Russian led effort to form an anti-ISIS coalition. | |
Comment: Bombing Syria will not solve the refugee crises and will not be the way to defeat the Islamic State. The world will have to provide Assad with support to enable his army to defeat IS as Putin has clearly stated.
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Tina Jennings
Russia Insider 2015-09-27 12:58:00
Every now and again I buy an actual paper copy of your newspaper, The Telegraph, usually for the Sudoku. But buried deep inside yesterday's print edition (on page 14), I found this Orwellian headline: "Russia raises tension as US upgrades nuclear arsenal in Europe". Bizarrely unworthy of front page news, although you'd think it might be... after all, your readers would want to know when the Americans pile more weapons into Europe, since those of us living here will be the ones on the receiving end of retaliatory strikes. And then there's that nagging cognitive dissonance again between your headline and your content: although it's the US that's increasing its nuclear arsenal in Germany, it's Russia that's raising the tensions... odd, to say the least. How is Russia raising the tension, a reader might plausibly ask? Ah... Russia's thinking of counter-measures to restore the strategic balance on its own borders. | |
Comment: Also see: Is the US preparing to station nukes in Estonia?
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Sputnik
2015-09-27 04:03:00
The endless flow of refugees to EU countries has shifted the balance of power between Europe and Russia, forcing Germany to reconsider its relations with the latter, said Klaus Remme, a journalist at German radio Deutschlandfunk. If the Syrian conflict isn't throttled down soon, the EU won't be able to handle the stream of millions of refugees, and the consequences could be unpredictable, Remme said. "In this critical situation we have no other choice but admit that it is necessary to conduct negotiations with [Syrian President Bashar] Assad. [German Vice Chancellor] Sigmar Gabriel pointed out another uncomfortable truth: we need Russia back," the journalist added. Earlier on Friday, Sigmar Gabriel called for mending relations with Russia and cooperating with the Kremlin in the Syrian conflict, saying that the West can't ask for cooperation while anti-Russia sanctions are in place. "Gabriel said the West cannot maintain sanctions and ask for cooperation. He is right," Remme stressed. | |
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Paul Craig Roberts
Sputnik 2015-09-26 11:28:00
Washington's IQ follows the Fed's interest rate — it is negative. Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations. Washington's failures are everywhere visible. We can see the failures in Washington's wars and in Washington's approach to China and Russia. The visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping, was scheduled for the week-end following the Pope's visit to Washington. Was this Washington's way of demoting China's status by having its president play second fiddle to the Pope? Washington's cyber incompetence and inability to maintain cyber security is being blamed on China. The day before Xi Jinping's arrival in Washington, the White House press secretary warmed up President Jinping's visit by announcing that Obama might threaten China with financial sanctions. | |
Comment: Perhaps it's not that there aren't any brains in Washington exactly, but that their goals and means to an end are so far away from what a normal and well-meaning person would do - so as to be completely incomprehensible. In other words, there are some whackos puppeteering the show whose logic is cogent - but only if you're insane.
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Sputnik
2015-09-27 03:45:00
Ships with a new batch of humanitarian aid from Russia have arrived at Syrian Tartus Harbour. Food stuffs, medications, clothes, blankets, tents and other living essentials for refugees are being shipped to Syria along with automotive vehicles for civilian designation and military equipment, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. Russian sustainment center specialists are rendering all necessary assistance in unloading the ships with humanitarian aid, TVZvezda reported. The supplies are being promptly delivered on local vehicles to population centers including temporary refugee camps, each housing around 500 people. The war-ravaged nation lacks the bare necessities for people who have lost all their possessions in their destroyed home cities. Tens of thousands of refugees have fled Syria for Europe, causing the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War. Syria has been mired in a civil war since 2011, as government forces loyal to Assad fight several opposition and radical Islamist militant groups, including the Nusra Front and the Islamic State (ISIL). Russia has been supplying Syria with humanitarian aid and military equipment for much of the conflict. | |
Comment: Notice the stark contrast of Russia's involvement in Syria compared to the United States. Not only is Russia delivering needed military supplies to actually fight the terrorists in Syria, but they are also delivering aid to the people in dire need of it. How many news stories has anyone seen about the United States doing the same in any of the many countries that it has ravaged and destroyed?
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PressTV
2015-09-26 21:21:00
Russian media quoted Iranian officials as saying on Saturday that the two countries had signed deals worth a collective of $21 billion over the purchase of Russian satellite-related equipment as well as airplanes. The deals were revealed by Manouchehr Manteghi, the managing director of Iran Aviation Industries Organization (IAIO) in an interview with Sputnik news agency. Manteghi said the airplanes were Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ-100), adding that the deals over the satellite equipment and the superjets were signed during the visit by a top Iranian delegation to Russia for the MAKS-2015 international air show. "There is a large share of contracts for the purchase of this type of aircraft," Manteghi stated, not specifying, however, the exact number of jets. | |
Comment: Looks like Iran and Russia are wheeling and dealing despite all the sanctions.
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RT
2015-09-27 13:49:00
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, says Saudi Arabia should apologize for thedeadly crush in Mecca that killed 769 worshippers who were taking part in the hajj pilgrimage.The announcement was made on Khamenei's website on Sunday. "This issue will not be forgotten and the nations will seriously follow it and the Saudis, instead of shifting blame onto others and incriminating this or that, must accept their responsibility and apologize to the Islamic Ummah and their bereaved families," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said. "The Muslim world has many questions and the deaths of more than 1,000 people in this incident is not a minor issue; therefore, the Muslim world must think of a remedy to this issue," Khamenei added.
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Comment: Estimated 2M participated in the Mecca pilgrimage gone awry of which the death toll is still rising. The human stampede is allegedly due to the convoy of the son of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, escorted by 200 army forces and 150 police officers, forcing the on-foot pilgrims to rapidly and unexpectedly change directions, crushing hundreds to their deaths. Death estimates, two days ago, ranged from 717 to 1300 with injured at 863. There may be other causes that come to light but in the meantime it seems there is not enough blame to go around as each faction weighs in.
See also: Making way for Saudi Prince Salman's convoy caused deadly Hajj stampede Hajj stampede update: Death toll in Mecca rises to 717 people killed, 863 injured - Yet another bad omen for Saudi Arabia | ||
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John A. Moreno and Kirk Hawkins
KTLA 2015-09-25 19:06:00
Santa Ana police on Friday asked for the public's help in identifying an assailant who punched and kicked an 83-year-old man in a vicious attack that was captured on surveillance video. Surveillance video provided by the Santa Ana Police Department shows an assailant standing over an 81-year-old man after a vicious attack that left the elderly victim hospitalized. The incident occurred after the victim pulled into a parking lot at 5015 West Edinger Avenue about 6:10 a.m., parked and exited his vehicle, the Santa Ana Police Department said in a news release. Family members later gave the man's name as Tuyen Nguyen.In accordance with his morning routine, he was on his way to buy coffee and a newspaper, police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said. Footage released by authorities shows Nguyen walking unassumingly when he is suddenly approached by another man, who punches him in the face. In an attack that police detectives described as "without provocation," Nguyen then falls to the ground and is apparently punched at least two more times before being kicked by the assailant.
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Comment: What a vile, disgusting disgrace of a human being.
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William Grigg
The Free Thought Project 2015-09-26 15:11:00
After being profiled by Idaho's Gem County Sheriff's Office as potentially dangerous "constitutionalists" and assaulted by deputies in a guns-drawn, SWAT-style raid, Michael and Marcela Cruz have finally found peace and security from government-inflicted abuse - but they had to leave the "Land of the Free" to do it. "Bear and I are happily living in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico," Marcela told the Free Thought Project on Wednesday, referring to Michael by his long-time nickname. (His new friends in Mexico call him "Oso.") Their choice of residence might strike some Americans as ironic, given that just a few months ago the U.S. State Department issued a travel warning advising tourists and businessmen to avoid Puerto Vallarta due to violent clashes between Mexican police and politically protected narcotics gangs. The much-advertised - and, according to some analysts, much-exaggerated - dangers to be found in that Mexican tourist haven didn't intimidate a couple who had survived an unprovoked paramilitary home invasion in their tiny western Idaho town. | |
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Brian Sonenstein
A federal lawsuit in New Orleans, Louisiana, and a report by the ACLU of New Hampshire, document the practice of jailing people unable to pay their court debts, violating the due process rights of the poor by failing to provide them with legal counsel and ability-to-pay hearings.Mint Press News 2015-09-27 14:49:00
New Orleans In New Orleans, a class action lawsuit was brought this month by five people charging the government with levying fines and court fees against poor residents without first assessing their ability to pay. According to Courthouse News, "An estimated 104,900 people, or more than a quarter of the population, [live] below the poverty line" in New Orleans. Half of all adult black men in the city are unemployed and receive no unemployment compensation. In one case, officers in tactical gear allegedly stormed a family's home to collect court debt: | |
Comment: Not only is lady justice not blind, she is also very greedy. Despite debtor's prisons beingillegal in the US since 1833, the poor continue to be the prey of the American injustice system.
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RT
2015-09-27 12:19:00
Hacktivist group Anonymous has called out Saudi Arabia for its horrific human rights record by attacking the Gulf kingdom's government websites. The attack is in response to the upholding of a death sentence handed down to 17-year-old Mohammed al-Nimr. Earlier in September, Nimr's final appeal to the Saudi courts was dismissed, and his sentence of death by crucifixion for alleged anti-government activities in 2012 can now be carried out at any moment.
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Comment: Saudi Arabia is an example that humans don't have rights, only psychopaths in power do. See: Sadistic Saudi princes and Washington warmongers Vs Russia's civilizing force
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RT
2015-09-27 00:24:00
Thousands of people filled the streets of Mexico City on Saturday to remember 43 students presumed killed by a drug gang in 2014, after corrupt local police allegedly handed them over. Protesters are demanding a new probe from the Mexican government. About 3,000 police officers were deployed in Mexico City, where the central avenues Paseo de la Reforma, as well as several other streets in the center, were blocked because of the mass demonstrations. "Where are our boys?" and "We are lacking 43!" said the protest banners. | |
Comment: For more background on this tragic case, see also:
Mexicans protest and clash with police after government declares missing 43 students dead The Iguala Massacre - "You can't remain silent, the government can't remain in denial" | |
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Sputnik
2015-09-27 03:55:00
A Tennessee police officer was arrested Thursday for allegedly causing injuries that killed his infant son, according to law enforcement officials. Christopher Warren Page, 28, of the Paris Police Department is facing charges of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. TBI says baby Gunner Page succumbed to life-threatening injuries five days after they were inflicted while he was in his Puryear home on Sep. 2. The agency began investigating the incident immediately at the request of 24th District Attorney General Matthew Stowe. "During the course of the investigation, agents developed information leading to Page as the individual responsible for his son's death," the TBI said. | |
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Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper 2015-09-23 00:00:00
When it hits the fan...I mean REALLY hits the fan in a permanent kind of way, the most likely outcome is death. That's not pretty, and I'm well aware of it. I always try to be positive and optimistic, because for me, preparedness is the ultimate act of optimism, but sometimes we have to look at the numbers and face some things that are pretty terrifying. The first reality check is that some research says that only 3 million Americans are preppers. That means that 315 million Americans are not preppers. Some experts predict that within 30 days of the power going out, 50% of Americans will be dead. Within a year, an astounding 90% of the population will be dead. Do you want to survive such a scenario? Do you want your children to survive? When you read this information, you have to realize that it's very unlikely that you and your family would live through a grid failure of a year or more unless you are proactive and develop a preparedness plan that takes all of these causes of death into consideration. | |
Comment: See these among many other articles and shows we have carried here on the whys and ways of prepping:
Are you prepping your diet? Nutritional preventive medicine: Don't ignore this most undervalued aspect of prepping A good way to invest your money: Store large amounts of food, like nowAnd do have a listen to the SOTT Talk Radio shows that are devoted to this subject: Surviving the End of the World (as we Know it) Surviving the Economic Collapse, with Fernando Aguirre | |
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RT
2015-09-26 13:23:00
Deleting a friend on Facebook could have serious consequences, after an Australian work tribunal found a woman in Tasmania, who unfriended a colleague on the social network following an argument, guilty of workplace bullying. The Fair Work Commission ruled that Lisa Bird, who works at the View estate agency in Launceston, was guilty of bullying sales administrator Rachel Roberts. Bird was accused of showing a "lack of emotional maturity" for having the nerve not to say "good morning" to her colleague and subsequently deleting her from Facebook. Bird decided to unfriend Roberts after an argument. Roberts had complained that Bird, the wife of the agency's principle, James Bird, had acted aggressively towards her in order to put her down in front of the other workers. Bird called Roberts a "naughty little schoolgirl for running to the teacher." Roberts subsequently wanted to check the social network to see if her work colleague had written anything on the platform about the altercation. However, Roberts found that Bird had decided to delete her altogether. "The 'schoolgirl' comment... is evidence of an inappropriate dealing with Ms Roberts which was provocative and disobliging. I am of the view that Mrs Bird took the first opportunity to draw a line under the relationship with Ms Roberts on 29 January 2015, when she removed her as a friend on Facebook as she did not like Ms Roberts and would prefer not to have to deal with her," the tribunal stated, as cited by the News.com.au. Other complaints listed by Roberts include Mrs Bird failing to say hello to her in the morning and for not giving her copies of printouts, which were given to all the other staff members. | |
Comment: Bullies in the work place are adept and quite tactical. Kudos to the tribunal for recognizing a bully instead of blaming her victim.
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Media Matters For America
2015-09-22 21:14:00
On September 22, Pope Francis arrives in the United States for a highly anticipated visit that will include an address to Congress. But as Pope Francis has called for action on climate change, inequality, immigration, and diplomacy, right-wing media have ramped up their attacks on him.
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Comment: For such a 'christian' country, the US sure has difficulty telling the christians from the money-changers.
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Erico Matias Tavares
2015-09-27 14:57:00
You may have never heard of Vasili Arkhipov. And yet life as we know it on this planet could have ended if it were not for his crucial intervention during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Born in 1926, Arkhipov saw action as a minesweeper during the Soviet-Japanese war in August 1945. Two years later he graduated from the Caspian Higher Naval School, serving in the Black Sea and Baltic submarine fleets - just in time for the start of the Cold War, which would stay with him for the rest of his service. During the 1950s the Soviets became very concerned about the US' lead in submarines. They eventually rushed the development and construction of the K-19, the first of two new Hotel-class ballistic missile submarines. However, things did not go smoothly. Eleven people died due to accidents and fires during the construction phase. To top everything off, the champagne bottle used in the inauguration ceremony failed to break. These were frightening omens for the crew. But they could scarcely imagine the events that would unfold soon after. | |
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RT
2015-09-25 17:03:00
A 10-year-old Russian tourist has discovered a rare 3,000-year-old artifact relating to the periods of King David and Solomon that may shed light upon the mystery of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
The young boy, called Matvey, happened to come across a brown limestone seal that features two animals, one on top of the other "perhaps representing a predator and its prey," the Israeli media cited archaeologists as saying on Friday. The Russian schoolboy volunteered to take part in the Temple Mount Sifting Project for just one day. It is dedicated to recovering archaeological artifacts from 300 truckloads of soil removed from the place of worship. The seal was deciphered only recently and is claimed to be "the first of its kind to be found in Jerusalem," Dr. Gabriel Barkay, the co-founder and director of the project, said as cited by the Breaking Israel News. | ||
Comment: Whether the artifacts historically validate Biblical texts, those who need this result will likely make it so, found or otherwise. With so much recent tension surrounding the al Aqsa/Temple Mount area, non-Israeli children with a stone or any facsimile thereof, are probably, most likely yes, indeed terrorists. There seems to be debate as to whom these 300 truckloads of soil belonged and its true archeological location.
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Yang Hao
The Converstation 2015-09-23 19:39:00
Invisibility has long been one of the marvels in science fiction and fantasy - and more recently in physics. But while physicists have figured out the concept for how to make invisibility cloaks, they are yet to build a practical device that can hide human-sized objects in the way that Harry Potter's cloak can. Objects are visible to the human eye because they distort light waves according to their shape. We see the objects by registering these distortions when the light from the objects hit our eyes. In a similar way an object can also be visible to a radar, which transmits radio waves or microwaves that bounce off objects in their path. So far, most invisibility cloaks are made from engineered materials that can bend light in a way that manipulates the eye - or another device such as a radar. However, these typically only work for tiny objects. But that may be about to change. A new experiment has created a cloak that, for the first time, can hide small objects of any shape completely from visible light. The cloak, which is thinner and more flexible than any of its predecessors, can also be scaled up to hide bigger objects - potentially transforming the science into something that can be manufactured and sold. | |
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Julie Fidler
Natural Society 2015-09-26 00:00:00
Researchers have figured out how to send thoughts over the Internet using a brain-to-brain connection and a huge magnet. What could go wrong? It sounds kind of cool, at face-value: two people can play a game over the Internet by reading each other's thoughts. They don't have to look at each other, and they don't have to talk to each other. The details of the experiment, and its findings, are published in the journal PLOS One:
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Comment: Given the PTB's penchant for controlling the masses, it's probable that any technology that might enhance their efforts to get inside your mind and control you will be used to just that.
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University of New South Wales
2014-10-01 15:14:00
Scientists have discovered a new form of non-genetic inheritance, showing for the first time that offspring can resemble a mother's previous sexual partner -- in flies at least. This confronting idea, known as telegony, dates back to ancient Greek times, but was discredited in the early 20th Century with the advent of genetics. To test it out, UNSW Australia scientists Dr Angela Crean, Professor Russell Bonduriansky and Dr Anna Kopps manipulated the size of male flies and studied their offspring. They found that the size of the young was determined by the size of the first male the mother mated with, rather than the second male that sired the offspring. | |
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SpaceWeatherNews.com
2015-09-27 05:55:00
The sun is triggering the deadliest earthquakes on the planet, including the recent M8.3 earthquake in Chile on September 16, 2015 and deadly tsunami that followed, according to two papers to be published October 5th in New Concepts in Global Tectonics. The papers investigate fluctuations in the magnetic field activity of the sun and found a statistically significant relationship between M8+ earthquakes and the extremes and reversals in magnetism of solar polar magnetic fields. The team first announced the results in August 2014, and recently used the methods proposed in that study to provide evidence that a recent major earthquake fit the patterns observed in the foundational study. In early 2014, Dr. Christopher Holloman's team of researchers at The Ohio State University Statistical Consulting Service was able to construct a model that exhibited very strong agreement between solar magnetism patterns and the occurrence of large earthquakes. Dr. Holloman warned that formal testing of the model can only be performed by examining its performance over the next few years, but that the agreement was sufficient to suggest that a relationship likely exists between solar polar fields, or magnetic fields associated with the north and south poles of the sun, and large earthquakes. Now we have a subsequent event that appears to comport with the initial study. "This type of confirmation is merely the first step, but it is certainly a positive one," notes lead author Ben Davidson of SpaceWeatherNews LLC, "we were already in the process of investigating large seismic events since the end-date of our initial study when the Chile disaster occurred, and we hope to have further publications covering those events in more detail in 2016." The second paper was submitted by Davidson alone, and was restricted to analysis of the Chile earthquake in order to accompany the initial study. | |
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| Earth Changes |
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Sam Matthew
Daily Mail, UK 2015-09-27 18:54:00
This is the incredible moment a Chilean volcano sent a huge plume of ash into the sky. Volcano Calbuco, in the country's south, had laid dormant for more than 40 years when it suddenly erupted in April, causing thousands to flee. Just five months later, Calbuco, considered to be among the three most dangerous of Chile's 90 active volcanoes, was captured spewing lava again. Firefighter and amateur photographer Eduardo Minte, 28, from Osorno, Chile, took the pictures at Llanquihue Lake between the towns of Frutillar and Llanquihue earlier this month. 'This eruption was one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. My jaw dropped - it was like the almighty was descending from the heavens,' he said.
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Jane Braxton Little
The Sacramento Bee 2015-09-23 00:00:00
A Pacific Gas & Electric Co. official blamed four years of drought for last week's sudden loss of water in Mountain Meadows Reservoir and the accumulation of dead and rotting fish near Indian Ole Dam. Local residents are not so sure. The reservoir, the upper-most storage facility in PG&E's Feather River hydroelectric system, has been operating at below the minimum requirements since August, said Ron Lunder, chairman of the Mountain Meadows Conservancy, a Westwood-based nonprofit organization. What little water remained on the morning of Sept. 13 is gone. Along with leaving large-mouth bass and other non-native fish belly up, a swift drawdown dumped silt and rotting fish into Hamilton Branch, a stream that connects Mountain Meadows reservoir with Lake Almanor."Something went haywire," said Aaron Seandel, chairman of a water quality committee that has been monitoring the water levels in Lake Almanor for 25 years. PG&E spokesman Paul Moreno said an outlet valve at the dam has been continuously clogged,requiring maintenance as often as twice a day to release water downstream through Hamilton Branch to Lake Almanor. Company officials consulted with "the relevant agencies" and decided not to stop further flows out of the dam, he said. "It's a very flat, very shallow reservoir. At some point it was going to go dry," he said. | |
Comment: Faulty equipment, decisions to not stop outflows, no attention to minimums...a confluence of causes. In an overly challenged state, due to high temperatures, drought, massive and unfathomable numbers of wild fires, every source of water becomes supremely important. The loss of even one is critical.
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The News (Nigeria)
2015-09-27 15:14:00
The Earth was displaced by 140cms after a massive 8.3 earthquake rocked Chile's north coast on September 16, according to satellite images taken before and after the temblor, which were analysed by scientists, using a technique — called Synthetic Radar Aperture Interferometry (InSAR) . This technique combines before and after satellite images into colorful maps — called interferograms. The rainbow-colored fringes, which can be similarly interpreted as the elevation contours on a map, help scientists approximate how far the ground moved on a fault following an earthquake. The European Space Union launched the spacecraft that took these images, called Sentinel-1, in the Spring of 2014. It orbits about 430 miles above Earth and uses radar to sense ground movements. | |
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abcnews.go.com
2015-09-27 15:07:00
The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a 4.7-magnitude earthquake hit the northwest corner of Nevada on Saturday night — the third earthquake of this size to hit the region in the past 10 months. The USGS says the earthquake, which had its epicenter about 38 miles southeast of Lakeview, Oregon, hit at 7:44 p.m. There are no reports of damage in the region. On Sept. 14, a 4.7-magniture earthquake hit the Shelton National Wildlife Refuge near the Oregon and California borders. That earthquake was the second of 4.7 magnitude to hit the Sheldon wildlife refuge. The first one, recorded on Nov. 6, 2014, was the largest one to hit since the thousands of earthquakes started in July 2014. Source: The Associated Press | |
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Nelson Groom
Daily Mail, UK 2015-09-27 14:59:00
Darwin residents have reported feeling an earthquake from the the Indonesian islands. The 5.7 magnitude quake took place about 600km north of Darwin in the Banda Sea just before 12.30pm on Sunday. Most of the reports came from residents in the northern suburbs, but those from the rural areas as far south as Batchelor also felt tremors, reports NT News. | |
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abc.net.au
2015-09-27 14:17:00
No major damage has been reported after a hailstorm passed over south-east Queensland this afternoon. The Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe thunderstorm warning at 2:30pm, warning of heavy rainfall and large hailstones near Brisbane's CBD. The storm had earlier been near Logan before it moved north-west toward the city. The bureau said "golf-ball-sized hail" was reported at Indooroopilly at 2:15pm, with small hailstones reported south of Brisbane.
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The Hindu
2015-09-27 13:53:00
Two persons were struck dead by lightning in two different incidents in the district on Saturday. Seven goats also died in the lightning strike. In the first incident, Palanisamy (58) of Sathamangalam was reported to have struck dead while grazing goats in the village along with seven goats. Two others sustained injuries and were rushed to the Thanjavur Medical College Hospital. In another incident, Thaiyamuthu (65) of Lalgudi, who was visiting her daughter, was killed while grazing goats at Vilagam in the district. | |
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Jon Erdman
Weather Channel 2015-09-26 07:07:00
Fall's arrival may have been greeted with a collective warm shrug of the shoulders in the Lower 48 states, but Alaskans have already broken out winter coats. Officially, 6.7 inches of snow blanketed the city of Fairbanks Friday, turning the city into a winter wonderland just days into fall. Not only was this the city's first measurable snow of the season, but this was the city's third heaviest calendar-day September snow on record, topped only by Sep. 13, 1992 (7.8 inches) and Sep. 29, 1972 (7 inches). This was the city's heaviest September snow event since a four-day, 17.3-inch snow blitz from Sep. 11-14, 1992. Fairbanks only averages 1.9 inches of snow during the month of September. Two observers in College Hills north of downtown Fairbanks measured 9 inches of snow as of Friday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. The Alaska DOT reported about 10 inches of snow in the hills near Nenana west-southwest of Fairbanks along the Parks Highway, the primary link between Fairbanks, Denali National Park and Anchorage. | |
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Tony Moore
Brisbane Times 2015-09-27 01:51:00
Around 140 people were evacuated on Saturday night at a popular Queensland camping ground after a giant sink hole opened, swallowing a car, a caravan, a camping trailer and tents. The 150-metre long and 50 metre wide sinkhole opened up at MV Beagle Campground, north of Queensland's Rainbow Beach at Inskip Point. Fishermen raise alarm Rainbow Beach newsagent Ruth Modin said she was told fishermen near the camp ground may have raised the alarm on Saturday night with the campers.Ms Modin said the fishermen nearby MV Beagle campground first saw the sand moving. "There was fishermen apparently nearby who said there was this noise and the next thing the sand just started moving out to sea," she said. | |
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L. Arias
The Tico Times 2015-09-26 15:01:00
A moderate earthquake jolted residents in Cartago and San José provinces at 8:45 a.m. Saturday. No damage was reported. The National University's Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI) reported the temblor as a magnitude-4.6. The University of Costa Rica's National Seismological Network (RSN) registered a magnitude of 4.5. Both agencies reported the epicenter in the province of Cartago, 17 kilometers east of Turrialba canton. The quake struck at a depth of 19 kilometers and was felt across most of the Central Valley. People reported via OVSICORI's and RSN's social media accounts that the temblor as "very strong" in the Cartago communities of Agua Caliente, Turrialba, Tejar and Tres Ríos. Reports from San José came mostly from residents east of the capital in Curridabat, Zapote, San Pedro and Patarrá. At 10:03 a.m. a magnitude-2.8 earthquake hit the same area, its epicenter located 5 kilometers west of the first one. The later quake, however, went mostly unnoticed by people in the area, according to preliminary reports from OVISCORI and RSN. | |
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PressTV
2015-09-26 21:12:00
A landslide has killed seven people at a tea plantation in the village of Kotmale in Sri Lanka's hilly Central Province. Disaster relief officials said on Saturday the victims were buried under the landslide during heavy rains on Friday. Several houses of estate workers were covered with earth in the incident. Search and rescue teams have been deployed to the area. Two bodies of victims were found on Friday, shortly after the landslide, and five more were discovered the following day. At least one person is still missing. | |
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| Fire in the Sky |
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York Press
2015-09-27 19:07:00
Early risers in York yesterday morning could have spotted an intriguing display in the skies over the city. Heworth woman Donna Chamberlain was up with the lark on Friday when she saw what she thought could be a meteor or "space junk" burning up as it entered the Earth's atmosphere. The firey dot appeared at 6.45am and moved slowly through the sky before it disappeared again at 6.52am, but not before Donna had chance to capture the "magical" display on camera. Gabrielle Potter spotted the same thing as she walked from Holgate to the station at around 7.20am. She said: "I watched it and then it just disappeared - interesting to see! I took a photo as I've never seen anything like it before." But a space expert has been in touch to explain that rather than a meteor or falling piece of space debris, what the two woman saw was more likely a trick of the early morning light. York man Chris Bergin who edits NASA SpaceFlight.com said the pictures look just like the image created when contrails from an aircraft are caught in low angled light - like sunrise. He said: "You can also see the trail is splitting in two, not quite parallel-wise - consistent with a two engine plane.
"Meteors enter with incredible speed and such events only last a matter of seconds due to their velocity and disintegration - the latter making them visible." "Most space hardware (junk or otherwise) is tracked by Space Command, protecting other space hardware - such as the International Space Station - from conjunction events and the event in the photo matches no tracking. | ||
Comment: Not a likely conclusion, actually: Space Junk Rising Exponentially (and No, It's Not Man-Made)
See also: The Hazard to Civilization from Fireballs and Comets | ||
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| Health & Wellness |
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Mark Hyman, MD
Dr. Mark Hyman 2010-07-23 00:00:00
A hidden fungus may be making you ill. A 35-year-old recently walked into my office suffering from a whole list of health problems (which is why I often call myself a "whole-listic doctor"). She had chronic fatigue, recurrent yeast vaginal infections, itchy ears, dandruff, patchy itchy skin rashes, irritable bowel syndrome, muscle twitching, acne rosacea, malabsorption, headaches, and more. These symptoms can have multiple causes, but in her case all of these problems were related. They were symptoms of an overgrowth of yeast in and on her body. This patient had such a fungus problem that she was practically a walking mushroom! The cause was clear. She had taken many, many courses of antibiotic over the years. She had been diagnosed with a mostly benign condition called mitral valve prolapse-a problem I believe is over diagnosed and over treated-and "needed" antibiotics every time she went to the dentist. In addition, she had many urinary tract infections for which she took many more courses of antibiotics. Frequent use of antibiotics disrupts the normal balance between healthy bugs in the gut (lactobacillus, bifidobacter, e. coli) and other potentially dangerous bugs, including yeasts, bacteria, and occasionally parasites. These bad bugs are usually present in small numbers in the digestive system. But when the good bugs are killed by antibiotics (i) or not fed with adequate fiber, or the bad guys are fueled with too much sugar, or the gut's delicate ecosystem (ii) is damaged by too much stress, then yeasts and other noxious agents take over. This can result in many chronic illnesses and symptoms including allergies, chronicinflammation, joint problems, mood and brain disorders, digestive symptoms, and more. | |
Comment: If you've been on a ketogenic diet for some time and have still been having symptoms that sound like the ones listed in this article, then a hidden fungal overgrowth may be the cause. Taking steps to correct it can result in significant health improvements.
See also: A primal primer on Candida: Diagnosing and treating a fungal overgrowth | |
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Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com 2015-09-27 00:00:00
Most of our parents drilled into our heads the importance of proper posture; yet modern day life causes us to frequently ignore these great recommendations. What's worse, many of the posture-correcting strategies our parents taught us turn out to be wrong anyway. | |
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Celeste McGovern
Children's Medical Safety Research Institute 2015-09-27 16:36:00
Add one more item to the growing stack of published medical literature linking vaccines to the current explosion of autoimmune diseases from skin afflictions to neurological disorders. A paper published online this month in the journal Pharmacological Research is an international team of immunologists' roundup of current findings on vaccine-induced disease - and their conclusions are in sharp contrast to public health's "safe and effective" mantra that denies any such connection. "Vaccines and autoimmunity are linked fields," state the authors led by Luísa Eça Guimarãesof the Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases in Tel-Hashomer, Israel. Just as natural infections can sometimes induce autoimmune disease, so can vaccination induce autoimmunity that "may be severe and fatal." | |
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Jon Rappoport
Activist Post 2015-09-26 15:07:00
"Imagine this. The public is told a new disease is sweeping the world, threatening the global population with suffering and death. Millions and millions of words are spewed, detailing and reinforcing the threat. Every day, official reports are issued, blaring the new numbers of cases. Researchers are rushing to develop an effective vaccine. And then, suddenly, someone discovers there is no epidemic. It doesn't exist. What would happen?" (The Underground, Jon Rappoport) Telling the truth, of course, must lead to publishing the truth. And then follow-up investigations would be done to flesh out the story further; to prompt people with inside knowledge to emerge from their closets and confess their complicity. I'm talking about a certain kind of truth, whereby a sacred cow is destroyed; the kind of cow everyone immediately believes is self-evident, universal, and vital, representing the best motives and impulses of people in power. That kind of sacred cow. A cow holding up the world, so to speak. Destroyed. | |
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I've struggled with depression for years, and my doctor wants to put me on yet another anti-depressant," my reader writes. "Are drugs, and the side effects they bring, my only option?" If you struggle with feeling hopeless, sad, or otherwise mentally fragile, you're not alone. More than 100 million Americans - that's literally one in three - struggle through life with a depression. Pharmaceutical companies are quick to pick up on this broken brain problem, but conventional medicine cannot cure it. With its symptom-based medicine approach, conventional medicine tackles depression completely wrong. Rather than determine what actually creates that depression, many doctors immediately reach for their prescription pad. | |
Comment: SOTT Radio Health and Wellness - The Mood Cure
Today we'll be discussing mood and mood-stabilizing supplements, four syndromes that affect mood, carbohydrate addiction, the gut brain connection and some possible solutions to neurotransmitter imbalances. | |
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Raluca Schachter
Wake Up World 2015-09-10 20:23:00
I have to admit, even the title sounds disturbing! But I believe it's high time to stop sugar coating the reality we live in. I see in my practice more and more children who share their parents' nutritional deficiencies and toxicity. Yes, a pure, innocent baby who's barely starting life is also touched by the harsh environment we live in these days, and parents can pass down their imbalances to their baby. This article is not supposed to offer a pessimistic view, but rather to help raise awareness, prepare and teach you about how to better take care of your children's health. | |
Comment: Listen to the The Health and Wellness Show - Child and Infant Health
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| Science of the Spirit |
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Sara Newman, MA
Psych Central 2015-09-26 00:00:00
The need to control others may not make a lot of sense to you. If you're a live-and-let-live person, you'd never want to control someone else. Even if you're a perfectionist, you stay on your own case all day, not necessarily someone else's. But controllers are out there. They want to micromanage what you say, how you act, even what you think quietly in your own mind. It could be your boss, your spouse, or even your parent. You can't be yourself around them. They insist on being your top priority and want undue influence over your life. They might push your buttons to get an emotional reaction out of you because they want to exploit it as weakness. They have no respect for you or your boundaries. | |
Comment: Often controlling people will instinctively prey on those who are vulnerable because they have not learned what healthy boundaries are and how to set limits on these toxic people:
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Kate Baggaley
Brain Decoder 2015-09-01 13:13:00
The man hasn't recalled any dreams for 26 years, but his sleep is unquiet. Sometimes he speaks in French and Spanish or starts swearing; he has also been known to point and kick and punch. Once, his movements propelled him right out of bed. Though the fall woke him and he needed stitches, the man could not remember any dream. But just because he couldn't recall any dreams doesn't mean that he isn't having them, indicates a study of this man and others. People like him, who have a rare sleep disorder and do not lie still when asleep, are giving researchers a rare window into the dreaming mind. | |
Comment: See also: Brain Chemicals That Cause Sleep Paralysis Discovered
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