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Sputnik
2015-09-19 10:06:00
Millions of refugees storming European borders have definitely come as a surprise to Western politicians. They would not have, if the West only listened to what Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi said months before he was brutally executed. In fact, some of these people would not be seeking shelter in Europe if their homes were not destroyed as a result of short-sighted aggressive Western policies. In March 2011, Gaddafi warned that without unified and stable Libya there would be no one to control countless migrants from Africa and the Middle East from fleeing to Europe. Unlike Western leaders, he apparently understood that millions, not thousands will come, should Tripoli fall. "There are millions of blacks who could come to the Mediterranean to cross to France and Italy, and Libya plays a role in security in the Mediterranean," he told the France 24 television station. | |
Comment: Indeed, Gaddafi said to Italian newspaper Il Giornale in March 2011:
The spiritual leader of Libya had a habit of telling it like it is:
See also: NATO Slaughter: James and Joanne Moriarty expose the truth about what happened in Libya | |
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Peter Schiff
Euro Pacific Capital 2015-09-19 19:02:00
Every dictator knows that a continuous state of emergency is the best means to justify tyrannical policies. The trick is to keep the fictitious emergency from breeding so much paranoia that routine activities come to a halt. Many have discovered that its best to make the threat external, intangible and ultimately, unverifiable. In Orwell's 1984 the preferred mantra was "We've always been at war with Eurasia," even though everyone knew it wasn't true. In its rate decision this week the Federal Reserve, adopted a similar approach and conjured up an external threat to maintain a policy that is becoming increasingly absurd. In blaming its continued inaction on "uncertainties abroad" (an excuse never before invoked by the Fed in the current period of zero interest rates), the Fed was able to maintain the pretense of a strong domestic economy, and its desire to lift rates at the earliest appropriate moment while continuing the economic life support of zero percent rates. Unbelievably, the media swallowed the propaganda hook, line, and sinker. | |
Comment: Yellen is probably not calling the shots but is just the mouthpiece of the the elite banking system.
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Melanie Newman
The Independent, UK 2015-09-18 17:03:00
Sir Malcolm Rifkind helped appoint the woman who earlier this week cleared him of breaching Parliamentary rules. Sir Malcolm, a former Conservative defence secretary, was one of five people who recommended Kathryn Hudson for the position of Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards in 2012, The Daily Telegraph has revealed. On Thursday Ms Hudson cleared Sir Malcolm of breaking rules on paid lobbying. He had reportedly offered to use his position on behalf of a fictitious Chinese company in an encounter filmed by undercover reporters working for the Telegraph and Channel 4's Dispatches. The reporters also met Jack Straw, who they captured on camera saying: "Normally if I'm doing a speech or something, it's £5,000 a day." | |
Comment: 'Cash for access' following the 'cash for questions' scandal in the 1990's. It's enough to make you question the integrity of these British Establishment figures.
Meanwhile the number of applications for legal assistance received by the Bar Pro Bono Unit hasalmost doubled over the past three years since widespread cuts to civil legal aid were introduced. The Bar Council has also warned that government plans to increase court fees for a second time would unbalance civil justice, giving rich people and big businesses an unfair advantage. | |
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David Mastio
USA Today 2015-09-19 14:42:00
More bad news for the Clintons. With Hillary's presidential campaign slipping in the polls against Sen. Bernie Sanders and facing a potential fresh challenge from Vice President Joe Biden, six giants of the corporate world are bailing out on the Clinton Global Initiative. On Sept. 26, CGI, a branch of the Clinton Foundation, convenes its 11th annual meeting with a star-studded cast. Bill and Chelsea Clinton will be joined by Ashley Judd, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Ted Danson, Tina Brown, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sir Richard Branson, Bill Gates and George Soros. What will be missing is more than a million dollars from a who's who of corporate behemoths that sponsored the meeting last year. Six high-profile firms ended their cash donations, to be replaced with only one similar high-profile corporate donor so far. | |
Comment: Charitable foundation? Hardly.
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RT
2015-09-19 11:51:00
They may have been defeated in last year's independence referendum, but they haven't fallen silent. Thousands of 'YES' campaigners are set to turn out today for a major rally in Glasgow, to mark the anniversary of the historic vote. In the lead up to the independence referendum in Scotland in September 2014, tens of thousands of activists attended 'YES' rallies - and those people have not dissolved into thin air. One year on they are making a statement by setting up a rally in Scotland's largest city to draw attention to their cause.
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Comment: The issue has not been decisively determined because the Scots did not get a fair election; the voting was rigged and the people know it:
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Yaakov Lappin
The Jerusalem Post 2015-09-19 15:10:00
Just before midnight Friday, Iron Dome anti-rocket battery intercepts Gazan rocket over southern city of Ashkelon. The Israeli Air Force struck three terrorist infrastructure sites, including a Hamas run telecommunications facility in the North of Gaza, early Saturday morning in response to multiple rocket attacks from the coastal enclave the previous day. The IDF Spokesperson's Office released a statement saying that the IDF viewed the rocket attacks on Israel with the utmost severity and that it would not tolerate attempts to harm Israeli citizens. The IDF said that Hamas was responsible for the attack. | |
Comment: No injuries in Israel but there will be bloodshed in Gaza. Interesting this is happening right when Netanyahu will meet with Putin.
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Pepe Escobar
RT 2015-09-19 14:03:00
Let's start with some classic Russian politics. Finance Minister Anton Siluanov is drawing up Russia's economic strategy for 2016, including the government budget. Siluanov - essentially a liberal, in favor of foreign investment - will present his proposals to the Kremlin by the end of this month. So far, nothing spectacular. But then, a few days ago, Kommersant leaked that Russia's Security Council asked presidential aide Sergei Glazyev to come up with a separate economic strategy, to be presented to the council this week. This is not exactly a novelty, as the Russian Security Council in the past has asked small strategy groups for their economic assessment. The Security Council is led by Nikolai Patrushev, the former head of the Federal Security Service. He and Siluanov are not exactly on the same wavelength. And here's where the plot thickens. Glazyev, a brilliant economist, is a Russian nationalist - sanctioned personally by the US. | |
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South Front
2015-09-17 09:36:00
After the two World Wars of the 20th Century, the humanitarian and economic situation in the Middle East and North Africa, the former colonies of the West, became far worse than that that of the entire northern Eurasia, especially Europe. And after 1991, in other words, after USSR's defeat in the Cold War, the ranks of economically depressed countries were joined by the entire Eastern Europe which was sustained by the USSR at the expense of its own citizens' welfare.Such processes always cause people mass migration from their traditional habitats. Not surprising and not unexpected ...But due to some reasons of common knowledge the problem has resumed with renewed vigor today and we name it, - the immigration crisis. Indeed, current situation is in the zone between the acute state of crisis and, simply, the war.The most of illegal immigrants are in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Greece.
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South Front
2015-09-18 09:37:00
The biggest news of the week is Poroshenko's decision to not to implement the 7th wave of mobilization. Ukraine's Mussolini explained that the move was motivated by the relative calm on the Donbass. Instead, the funding originally earmarked for mobilization purposes will be used to...recruit career soldiers. While one can suspect an effort to deceive, Poroshenko also issued orders to demobilize some of the earlier waves, which will have the combined effect of greatly reducing the UAF's manpower levels. The refusal to implement the 7th wave is also a tacit admission the 6th wave was a dismal failure, which is suggested by a ton of circumstantial evidence.
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Comment: Fort Russ is reporting that Ukraine has announced the resumption of military hostilities in the Donbass, contra the Minsk agreements, and breaking the shaky ceasefire that has been in effect for the past couple weeks:
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Joe Quinn
Sott.net 2015-09-19 08:36:00
The U.S. police state is no longer 'burgeoning' but rather in full operation. Until now, cops in the USA have had a barely plausible explanation for their summary executions of citizens: they 'feared for their lives' and were in direct contact with the victim. But a car chase yesterday in Northern San Bernardino marked the first time in decades that a citizen has been executed from the air, game hunting style, by a police sniper in a helicopter. According to San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department Deputy Olivia Bozek, the unnamed driverwas a robbery suspect who police had attempted to take into custody during a traffic stop around 12:49 PM. When the driver refused to stop, he was chased through Fontana on the 215 freeway until he reached northern San Bernardino. After a period of driving the wrong way down the freeway, the man got out of his Chevrolet Tahoe and "failed to park the vehicle properly", causing it to "crash head-on into another vehicle" injuring its three occupants. This narrative, however, is contradicted by news reports that show the man's vehicle riddled with bullets, suggesting police shot at his car while he was still in it. It seems, therefore, that the injuries to the three people in the other vehicle were a direct result of police firing on the suspects vehicle while it was still moving, forcing him to abandon it. Further, the body of the suspect is seen lying on the freeway covered with a yellow plastic sheet. This suggests that the man was shot and killed from the helicopter after he exited the vehicle, a point at which he presumably posed no direct threat to anyone. | |
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Pepe Escobar
Asia Times 2015-09-18 03:26:00
All one needs to know about the intellectual caliber of the Obama administration is that it is still pondering whether to persist in "ignoring" Russian President Vladimir Putin, or invest in a real partnership to solve the Syrian geopolitical/humanitarian drama. After all, when in doubt between diplomacy or chaos, the Beltway weapon of choice still veers towards the simplistic group think uniting neocons and neoliberalcons: regime change. And then there's the non-stop The Russians Are Coming! hysteria — the Cold War 2.0 remix, now switching from the invasion/military occupation of Ukraine to the invasion/military occupation of Syria. The White House — which, same as the Pentagon, does not do irony — actually appealed to the Kremlin to behave in a "more constructive" way side-by-side with the spectacularly inefficient coalition of the dodgy opportunists which is in thesis fighting ISIS/ISIL/Daesh. White House spokesman Josh Earnest clarified that when Obama decides that the Sisyphean task of picking up the phone and dialing K for Kremlin is actually in America's interests, he will do it. The Shakespearean doubt may last days — even as Putin reaffirmed, via Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov, he was always open to dialogue. The White House at least is mulling an offer from Moscow to actually discuss the Russian buildup in Syria via direct military-to-military talks. The Pentagon will do the talking, seeking the "clarity" that so eludes the Obama administration. | |
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Phil Stewart, Yeganeh Torbati
Reuters 2015-09-18 06:33:00
Russia has sent fighter jets to Syria, U.S. officials said, raising the stakes in a military buildup that has put Washington on edge and led Friday to the first talks between U.S. and Russian defense chiefs in over a year. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, eyeing the possibility of rival U.S. and Russian air operations in Syria's limited airspace, agreed in a call with his Russian counterpart to explore ways to avoid accidental military interactions. The coordination necessary to avoid such encounters is known in military parlance as "deconfliction." "They agreed to further discuss mechanisms for deconfliction in Syria and the counter-ISIL campaign," Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said after the call, referring to the campaign by the United States and its allies against Islamic State militants. The former Cold War foes have a common adversary in Islamic State militants in Syria, even as Washington opposes Moscow's support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, seeing him as a driver in the nation's devastating, four-and-a-half-year civil war. A senior U.S. defense official, recounting details of the conversation, said Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu had described Moscow's activities in Syria as defensive in nature.Shoigu said Russia's military moves "were designed to honor commitments made to the Syrian government," the U.S. official said. It was unclear, however, what those commitments to Syria are or how Russia's military buildup was relevant to them. | |
Comment: Putin will address the UN General Assembly on Sept. 28th and his "trajectory was to come and be ignored." To ignore Putin would be a major Western mistake. He certainly is not ignoring the West. He is not ignoring Syria. He is not ignoring ISIS. He is not ignoring the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people in desperate need of food and shelter. If anyone thinks that Putin would come to New York (UNGA) to be ignored, think again.
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Tom Perry
Reuters 2015-09-18 06:30:00
Syrian army jets carried out at least 25 air strikes on the Islamic State-held city of Palmyra on Friday, a group monitoring the war said, the second intense bombardment in two days of territory held by the militants. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was one of the most sustained government bombardments of Palmyra. The air strikes killed at least 26 people, including 12 Islamic State fighters, the British-based Observatory said. On Thursday, Syrian jets had carried out at least 12 air strikes on Raqqa, Islamic State's de facto capital in the north. | |
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James North
Mondoweiss 2015-09-17 23:19:00
Your average American who followed the debate over the Iran deal would have gotten the impression that Tehran is a military giant, with a Wehrmacht that even without nuclear weapons is capable of unleashing a blitzkrieg across the entire Middle East. The hard facts are different. In a valuable recent article in Foreign Policy, Trita Parsi and Tyler Cullis point out: * Iran spends $15 billion a year on its military. * By contrast, Saudi Arabia spends $80 billion — five times as much — and the United Arab Emirates budgets another $23 billion. | |
Comment: It is easy to see that Iran's military budget is targeted for defense whereas Israel and other Middle East countries greater military expenditures are for offensive weapons. Bloody bazaar: Who's buying at the London Arms Fair?
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Barry Grey
World Socialist Web Site 2015-09-18 12:59:00
The US Federal Reserve on Thursday again delayed its promised increase in the benchmark federal funds interest rate, which has remained at zero-to-0.25 percent since the height of the financial crisis in December of 2008. The US central bank has for months been signaling its intention to begin raising rates this year, but has repeatedly put off such action under intense pressure from Wall Street and global financial institutions. Thursday's meeting of the Fed's policy-making Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) was the object of intense and nervous concern internationally, coming in the midst of a marked slowdown in global growth and extreme volatility on financial markets. The focus of international attention on the Fed meeting reflects the degree to which the entire world economy has become dependent on infusions of cash from the major central banks into the financial markets. Trillions of dollars have been funneled to the banks and finance houses that dominate the markets—some $4 trillion from the Fed alone—to pay off the bad debts of the financial elite and facilitate its further enrichment on the basis of speculative and parasitic activities. These massive subsidies for the super-rich have done little to revive the real economy, which has never truly recovered from the September 2008 Wall Street crash. Instead, they have underwritten a nearly three-fold rise in stock prices and a further growth of financial activities such as mergers and acquisitions, stock buybacks and stock dividend increases that divert resources from productive investment. Investment levels in the major capitalist countries are at least 25 percent below pre-crisis levels. | |
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RT
2015-09-18 21:05:00
Russian authorities have summoned the Polish diplomatic mission's highest-ranking officials to account for the dismantling of a monument in the Polish town of Pieniezno which honored a Soviet Army World War II general. Both Russia's Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry have condemned the dismantling of the monument to General Ivan Chernyakhovsky, who was one of the leaders of the Soviet campaign against Nazi Germany in Poland. The Polish Ambassador Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz was called in by the Foreign Ministry on Thursday to provide an insight into what has happened in Pieniezno, the press service of the Polish embassy in Moscow said. "Remembering history is what differentiates humans from animals," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a press-conference on Wednesday. She also criticized the Polish government for allowing for the demolition of some other Soviet-era monuments. | |
Comment: Poland is following in the rest of the West's footsteps in attempting to either rewrite or wipe from the history the actions of Russia during WWII:
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Oliver Chronicle
2015-09-18 20:53:00
A loud noise that some residents heard in Oliver early this morning still remains a mystery. One resident who called the Chronicle said he heard a loud "boom" sound at around 3 am. "It sounded like something blowing up," he said. "It set off a car alarm," he added. But it didn't feel or sound like an earthquake, he said. Oliver RCMP Sgt. Blaine Gervais said police received four complaints about the noise. One complainant said the "house shook." Gervais said there was no sighting of anything indicating a possible source. A patrol was made but the origin was not located. "I am pleased you are calling it a big boom and not an explosion like other media is suggesting. I have to tell them an explosion would suggest there is evidence something exploded which we do not have." Shawn Goodsell, the Town's director of operations, said he didn't hear anyone talking about it this morning, however, Public Works clerk Patti Hannas mentioned it. Deputy Corporate Officer Linda Schultz said a couple of staff members said they heard it. One staff person checked online to see if it was an earthquake, but didn't find anything. Oliver Fire Department spokesman Rob Graham said he was sound asleep and didn't hear anything. The only time he wakes up is when his pager goes off. "I really have no idea what it was," he said. | |
Comment: Here's a possibility of what it was.
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Margaret Atwood
The Guardian 2015-09-18 11:00:00
"A Robin Redbreast in a cage, Puts all Heaven in a Rage," wrote William Blake. "Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall," wrote John Milton, channelling God's musings about mankind and free will in the third book of Paradise Lost. "Freedom, high-day, high-day, freedom ... !" chants Caliban in The Tempest. Mind you, he is drunk at the time, and overly optimistic: the choice he is making is not freedom, but subjection to a tyrant. | |
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Andrew Emett
The Free Thought Project 2015-09-19 16:10:00
While conducting a welfare check on a 47-year-old man on Friday, deputies killed the unarmed father in front of his family. Although police claim that the man was reaching for a shotgun, witnesses assert that the man was not going for a weapon when a deputy suddenly shot him to death. According to the Dickson County Sheriff's Office, Gregory Herrell's family called police asking deputies to conduct a welfare check on Herrell. Reportedly addicted to painkillers, Herrell appeared at his mother's house on Friday morning looking for money when he ended up arguing with his mom and daughter. Twenty minutes after receiving the call, two deputies arrived at his mother's residence at 10:50 a.m. As one deputy went around the back of the house, the other deputy knocked on the front door and began speaking with Herrell's mother. While his mom tried to explain to the deputy that Herrell had a shotgun but that it was unloaded, the second deputy shot Herrell in front of his mother and daughter. | |
Comment: The police cannot be entrusted with our welfare under any circumstance.
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Are you sick of the lies yet? This US woman certainly is. Does what she say here strike a chord with you? Then say it loud along with her! You know what they say, 'If you're not outraged, then you haven't been paying attention.' The personal is political, the political personal. When you see the big picture, you see how everything is connected, and you see how all the dominoes are set in place to trap you inside an eternal nightmare of your own making. If you want to get out while you still can, step one is to see the lies.
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Comment: Listen, then share!
It's time for everyone to start opening up and sharing what they see with others. With polls showing that 90% of Americans are against bombing Syria into submission, we suspect you'll be surprised just how many folks around you feel similarly. Don't push it with anyone who is reluctant, just let them be and communicate with those who do give a damn. Share SOTT articles, watch documentaries, read about what is really going on out there, find out what you can do within your communities to support each other - emotionally and materially - to prepare for the coming storm. And NETWORK with others. Many people have been preparing for this for years - they can help you. You're not alone, so don't despair. | ||
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Mark Nestmann
Activist Post 2015-09-18 15:27:00
Do you distrust the banking system? Prefer to do business in cash? Complain about the encroachment of Big Brother into every facet of your life? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you'd better watch out. You're a "person of interest" - and a growing number of businesses must report your "suspicious activities" to the feds. If they don't, they can be fined and the responsible parties even imprisoned. These requirements originated in a law called the "Bank Secrecy Act" (BSA). Of course, this Orwellian law has nothing at all to do with protecting bank secrecy. Indeed, the BSA has all but eliminated confidentiality. | |
Comment: It's only a matter of time before capital controls are fully implemented.
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China Xinhua News
2015-09-18 15:29:00
Eager technophiles may not have to reach far to find the cash for Apple's latest model. According to an advertisement with the Shanghai Sperm Bank - all you have to do is donating. "No need to sell a kidney...Shanghai sperm bank can make your iPhone 6s dream come true," says the ad which has gone viral on China's most popular social networking app WeChat this week. Capitalizing on the country's lust for new technology, the sperm bank hopes to fix a shortage in donors ahead of the release of the iPhone 6s next week. | |
Comment: It truely is amazing what people will go through to keep the consumer economy going.
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Deborah Cole
Yahoo News 2015-09-19 01:25:00
Ursula Stellenberger, a 70-year-old Munich native, has been joining the annual giant Oktoberfest beer party for more than half a century but says this year's edition is unlikely to resemble any other. The largest influx of refugees seen in decades in Germany has run smack into what Munich calls the world's biggest popular festival, starting Saturday, creating a massive headache for security forces and leaving some locals nervous about an awkward culture clash. Sipping a lager in a beer garden opposite the sprawling Wiesn grounds of the Oktoberfest, Stellenberger says she is "proud" of her hometown for welcoming war-weary Syrians and Iraqis with an outpouring of donations and hospitality. | |
Comment: Don't let the sight of human suffering ruin your good time, Oktoberfesters.
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Sputnik
2015-09-19 13:39:00
According to an online page which is regularly updated by the Washington Post, 705 people have been killed by police in the US this year, including 65 unarmed victims and 181 who were showing signs of mental illness. However, now US statistics reveal that people are fighting back as the number of police killed in the line of duty indicates. Many experts claim that ordinary Americans have waged a full-scale war against law enforcement. According to recently released statistics, some 51 police officers were killed across the US in 2014, almost double the number of murdered cops in 2013, when 27 cases were reported. | |
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Patriot Rising
2015-09-18 13:29:00
A cellphone video surfaced this week showing two Fresno cops, breaking into a locked yard and killing a family dog. Police were apparently responding to a call from a neighbor about a crying baby when they broke through the family's fence and entered their backyard. As they walked into the back yard, they completely ignored the "Beware of Dog" sign and the "Guard dog on duty" sign, and they ignored the dog himself. Carelessly ignoring all these signs, the two officers frightened the family pit bull whose name is Face. Instead of attempting to get out of the yard they were trespassing in, one of the officers kicked the dog, then drew his weapon and fired several times into Face. As the other officer became startled by the shots, he fell backward over the lawn furniture. The officer who initially fired then walked over and put one more round into Face — for good measure. | |
Comment: This is the new normal for police; shoot first and ask questions later. What were they even thinking by not just going to the front door and knocking to inquire what was going on?
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RT
2015-09-19 12:43:00
A US veterans' organizations is running an advertisement in Air Force Times urging military drone operators to refuse orders to fly attack missions. This comes as the Air Force encounters trouble retaining drone operators due to the stress of the job. The ad was funded by KnowDrones, an organization that aims to achieve an outright ban on the use of weaponized drones Many argue that drone operators do not know what they're getting into when they sign up for the job. "What this ad is trying to do is to say, 'look at this now, understand the consequences and follow your conscience and do the right thing," KnowDrones coordinator Nick Mottern told RT. "Given the fact that the president and Congress won't act to stop this, we're appealing directly to the people who are being ordered to do the killing, and who have to bear the weight of this on their conscience to put a stop to it." | |
Comment: The work of the KnowDrones campaign hopefully will gain more traction. They certainly are continuing to push this very important topic.
Sanity check: 45 veterans sign letter urging drone pilots to stand down | |
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Henry Kamens
New Eastern Outlook 2015-09-18 00:00:00
The People's Army of Donbass is fighting the West and Kiev at the front. Americans hear a lot about this conflict from various sources, but most know little about what is in effect a proxy war with Russia because they don't hear from people on the front line. Well here is one American who's been there and done it, and is still doing it. Russell Bentley has seen enough of what is going on the world to know a good cause when he sees one. As he says, "The Russian-hating fascistic junta which seized power in Kiev, and is terrorising the people under the command of NATO and criminals it has imported from other countries where it did the same, will not be satisfied until Ukraine is destroyed and much of the region, including Europe, destabilised." He decided to do something about it, and here is his account of this conflict. Can you provide some background about why you are in Ukraine? First, I am not the only American fighting Fascism in Donbass. There are several I know of, and have met, but I am the only one I will be talking about today. My name is Russell Bentley. I was born in Austin, Texas, in 1960. My call sign in the Novorussian Army is "Texas". | |
Comment: In contrast to the values of Russell Bentley, look who's joined the Kiev side of the conflict and why:
Agents of chaos: ISIL using Ukraine as a forward base into Caucasia and entry into Europe | |
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Travis Gettys
Raw Story 2015-09-18 23:21:00
Video shows nine police California officers arrested a black teenager and slammed him on to concrete while arresting him for jaywalking. Witnesses said a Stockton police officer ordered the teenager to sit down, but the teen instead continued walking toward a waiting bus, reported RT. Bystander Edgar Avendaño, who recorded the video, said the officer grabbed the teen's arm in attempt to stop him and then pulled out his baton after the teen "took off the cop's hand off his arm." Stockton police told VICE News that the 16-year-old teen did not respond to an officer's request to get out of the bus lane. "For safety reasons, the officer told the young man to get on the sidewalk," officer Joseph Silva said. "After the teenager refused to comply and used obscene language, the officer went over and a there was a scuffle."
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RT
2015-09-18 21:11:00
The Ukrainian government is "persecuting people who are telling the truth," Cesar Vidal, Spanish historian and journalist, who has been blacklisted by Kiev along with other European journalists, told RT. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday introduced sanctions against hundreds of individuals and legal entities, including dozens of journalists. Among them were employees of the BBC, El Pais, Die Zeit and RT's Ruptly. On Thursday, apparently caving to pressure from European organizations and the media, he shortened the list striking off the names of journalists for British, German and Spanish media outlets. Cesar Vidal, historian, writer and contributor for Spain's de La Razon, told RT that he was not surprised that Kiev did not remove him from the blacklist on Thursday. He believes that he was included in the sanctions list in the first place because he wrote "about the falsehood of the thesis of Ukrainian nationalism" and about some media coverage of "the reality in Ukraine." | |
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RT
2015-09-18 22:48:00
A unique, 90-percent intact steppe mammoth skeleton dating back 126,000 years has been discovered in northern Russia. The find could mean the species existed for much longer than previously thought. It is the first steppe mammoth to be found in Yakutia in Northern Russia. It's in better condition than the five other skeletons discovered in other parts of Russia. Although scientists estimated the animal's height as a little below average at just over 3 meters, the male specimen had giant tusks - each 2.5 meters long and weighing 75 kilos. "The skeleton was discovered in an anatomical position and was extracted mostly intact. Even the smaller bones of the feet were complete. It lacked the right hind leg. Evidently it had been torn off during the mammoth's lifetime," says Yevgeny Mashchenko, senior research scientist at the Paleontological Institute in Moscow. | |
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New Scientist
2015-09-18 00:00:00
A crowdsourced group of planetary detectives may have spotted a massive cloud of comets orbiting a distant star. NASA's exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope spent four years carefully watching the same patch of sky, looking for any stars that dipped in brightness. These dips happen when an orbiting planet crosses in front of the star, and measuring their size and timing provides astronomers with data about the planet. Most Kepler data is processed automatically by algorithms looking for repeating patterns, but a website called Planet Hunters lets citizen scientists inspect the data by eye in an effort to spot anything unusual. Data from one star, known as KIC 8462852, was so strange that people started labelling it "bizarre" and "curious". Orbiting planets block their stars' light for a few hours or days at regular intervals that correspond to the duration of their orbit. But this star seemed to have two small dips in 2009, a large, weirdly asymmetric dip lasting a week in 2011 and a series of many dips during three months in 2013, some reducing the brightness of the star by as much as 20 per cent. | |
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RT
2015-09-19 04:16:00
Space engines might soon become far more resourceful: An Australian PhD student has claimed to have beaten NASA's fuel efficiency record and developed a new type of ion space drive that can use a variety of metals, even those found in space junk, as fuel. University of Sydney doctoral candidate in Physics, Paddy Neumann, has developed a "new kind of ion space drive" that outperforms NASA's in fuel efficiency, according to student newspaper Honi Soit. While Neumann's technology is not that efficient in acceleration, it could potentially be used for the transportation of cargo over long distances in space. The research, which is yet to be published in a peer-reviewed magazine, so far has been presented as a record breaking invention. "The current record, held by NASA's HiPEP system, allows 9600 (+/- 200) seconds of specific impulse," the newspaper wrote. "However, results recorded by the Neumann Drive have been as high as 14,690 (+/- 2000), with even conservative results performing well above NASA's best." NASA's variation of the ion thruster (High Power Electric Propulsion, or HiPEP) was ground-tested in 2003 and was intended to be used on a mission of Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, that was canceled in 2005. | |
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Kelly Dickerson
Tech Insider 2015-09-18 02:26:00
Whistleblower Edward Snowden has some strong opinions on communications — even when those communications are coming from aliens. The former NSA agent turned fugitive was an unexpected guest on famous astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk podcast on Sept. 18. And inevitably, the two got to talking about extraterrestrials. Snowden became an infamous household name in 2013 when he leaked classified documents divulging the government's top secret mass surveillance program which involved collecting personal information on Americans via phone records without their knowledge. When the news broke, the U.S. charged him with theft and espionage, and he's now living in Russia where he has asylum. But Tyson scored an interview with him in New York City. How? Snowden rigged a robot that he can control from Russia, and rolled right into Tyson's office at the Hayden Planetarium in New York with his face displayed on the screen. The conversation inevitably turned to encryption and cyber security, but here's where an astrophysicist differs from a journalist: Tyson's line of questioning quickly turned to how encryption relates to communication with ... aliens. | |
Comment: While Snowden's theory is interesting, it should be apparent, particularly to him, that our world's most advanced encryption is not utilized in order to protect society but rather to spy, intimidate and prey on it. If we take this further to advanced 'aliens' it may follow they have developed and perfected controlling measures in ways we cannot fathom.
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RT
2015-09-18 16:26:00
UK scientists have applied for permission to genetically modify human embryos for the first time as part of research into the earliest stage of human development. Stem cell scientists at the Francis Crick Institute in London have asked the government's fertility regulator for a license to perform controversial genome editing on human embryos.Researchers hope the experiments will help scientists to learn more about genes in the first few days of human fertilization. Chinese researchers became the first researchers in the world to announce they had altered the DNA of human embryos in April. The news prompted a fresh debate over the ethics of cheap and simple new genetic techniques, dubbed genome editing, which enable scientists to modify human genes. | |
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| Earth Changes |
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9News
2015-09-19 15:41:00
Mexico's Colima volcano has spewed ash and smoke over nearby towns, after erupting again at dawn yesterday. Video from the scene showed thick plumes of black smoke billowing from the mountain. "The ashes and smoke have reached two kilometres into the air... it has been showing renewed activity over the past two months, blanketing nearby villages with ash," teleSUR English reports. Colima, also known as Fire Volcano, is located in the country's west, about 125km from Guadalajara in Jalisco. It is the country's most active volcano and has erupted more frequently since 1994, according toVolcano Discovery. Hundreds of people were evacuated from nearby towns in July amid fears of a major eruption. Airline Aeromexico has not advised of any delays.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday it is investigating the deaths of 25 Pacific walrus found on an isolated northwest Alaska beach. A person connected to an Air Force radar station in the remote area spotted the animals and notified the agency this week. The walrus included 12 pups, and some were missing their heads and tusks. The cause of death has not been determined, said Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman Andrea Medeiros, and investigators do not want to speculate. "We can't come to any conclusions based on a report," she said Friday. "You have to go out and investigate." Only Alaska Natives who live in the state may hunt walrus for subsistence or for the creation of handicrafts or clothing. | |
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Ana Ceballos
Monterey County Weekly 2015-09-18 19:32:00
Biologists arrived at San Carlos Beach near Cannery Row early on Friday morning to examine the carcass of a 20-foot humpback whale that washed ashore the night before. Although the whale's corpse was no longer resting on the shore Friday morning, it was still floating near the beach, says Justin Viezbicke, the stranding coordinator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA biologists have taken small skin samples of the dead whale and hope to conduct a necropsy, but so far, it has proven to be a challenge to find a place to conduct the procedure. "We don't know what happened. It came up last night and we are now trying to figure out why it died," Viezbicke says. The whale's carcass was reported about 9pm on Thursday. | |
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Thanh Nien News
2015-09-19 16:53:00
Rescue workers in Nghe An Province are searching for a teenager who was swept away by flash floods on his way home from school on Friday. Nguyen Van Hoa, chief police of Yen Thanh District, said the high school student was reportedly sitting on a rubber tire with two of his friends, trying to row it along a flooded road. The water was one meter deep and they were swept away by the strong flows, he said. | |
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Press TV
2015-09-19 13:40:00
At least eleven people have lost their lives in flash flooding across Iran including the capital Tehran. Head of Relief and Rescue Organization of Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), Naser Charkhsaz, said on Saturday the fatalities have occurred during the past 48 hours in the provinces of Tehran, Hormozgan in southern Iran, North Khorasan and East Azarbaijan in the country's north, IRIB reported. Meanwhile, floods triggered by torrential rain killed five people in Pakdasht town in southeast Tehran on Friday, said Hadi Rahmati, the director general of crisis management for Tehran Province. | |
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For the past eight years, farmer Paul Canik has been protecting his exotic sheep worth thousands of dollars from wolves with a special breed of guard dog called a Spanish Mastiff. After eight years, the wolves have killed two of Canik's dogs. The first one was over Mother's Day weekend, and a week ago, the second dog has been killed. "Those dogs meant the world to us," said Canik. The dogs were like family to him, and now, Canik has only four dogs left, three of which are puppies that he fears for. "We had to tie our other three guard dogs up now every night," said Canik. "We tied them up so we don't lose them." With his guard dogs tied up, the sheep are being left unprotected while Canik searches for anywhere to purchase more Spanish Mastiff dogs. | |
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Heather Navarro
NBC Southern California 2015-09-16 11:22:00
After Tuesday's SoCal storm that brought heavy downpour, officials said it was the wettest day of the year. "That was more rain than was received in nearly the previous seven months," according to a statement by the National Weather Service. The storm was kicked off by moisture from former Hurricane Linda. Record rainfall totals hit SoCal including 2.39 inches in downtown LA which shattered the 1968 record, according to the National Weather Service.
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Comment: Record rainfall, but still California, a vitally important food producing region, is still experiencing it's worst drought in 500 years. In the event of economic or environmental catastrophe, perhaps we will see 'floods' of desperate migrants there in the near future?
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Brandon Mercer
SFgate 2015-09-16 10:25:00
Literally the day after a dire report of the bleakest snow conditions in 500 years for the Sierra Nevada, snow began falling. It's not much and certainly won't matter for the four-year drought, but it's welcome. The system was forecast to bring rain to the Valley Fire area, and a dusting of snow above 7,000 feet in Northern California, Idaho, Utah, and Colorado. In Lassen Volcanic National Park, Caltrans closed Highway 89 Wednesday because of snow. The closure was from the southern boundary to the junction with State Route 44. Already, social media is lighting up with photos of Mammoth Mountain in the Central Sierra getting a good coating of snow earlier this week, and other resorts getting snow overnight into Wednesday.Utah and Colorado also got a good dusting, with snow flurries continuing across the Western United States. | |
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Max Roth
Fox13 Salt Lake City 2015-09-16 09:41:00
Monday's flash flooding was the most deadly weather disaster to ever occur in Utah. Twelve people are confirmed dead and a child is still missing after flash flooding in Hildale, and another six are confirmed dead with another individual missing after flooding in Zion National Park. Prior to Monday, that dubious distinction would have fallen to a pair of avalanches in Alta in 1881 and 1885. In each case, 15 people were killed. The most deadly flooding in Utah happened in 1923 in Farmington and in 1965 in Sheep Creek Canyon near Flaming Gorge. Utah has also experienced days where more people died in a sudden, violent events. The worst single day's disaster happened in the town of Scofield. | |
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RT
2015-09-19 04:12:00
A tornado swept through Kansas and continued through to Missouri on Friday, leaving behind ripped roofs and uprooted trees. A flash flood warning remains in effect for parts of Illinois as foul weather continues its path to the east. Spotted near Paolo, Kansas, at around 7:00pm local time, the tornado has been described by local media as "extremely large and dangerous."
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Lynn Kawano
Hawaii News Now 2015-09-17 21:25:00
The amount of small earthquakes beneath the summit of Mauna Loa has more than tripled recently prompting the U.S. Geological Survey to increase the volcano alert level from "normal" to "advisory". On the color scale, it went from green to yellow. "Over the past year we've been locating, on average, around 150 earthquakes per month," says Weston Thelen with the U.S.G.S. who says normally, fewer than 40 earthquakes a month are reported. The last time Mauna Loa erupted, was in 1984. The lava flowed for 22 days. More than 30 years later, the mountain is stirring again. "Really, we're seeing a persistence in this unrest," says Thelen, "We're not saying that an eruption is imminent, we're not even really certain that there is going to be an eruption." But the shallow earthquakes are occurring in the same areas that preceded the mountain's most recent eruptions. | |
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| Fire in the Sky |
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Kristine M. Rainey
NASA 2015-09-17 15:08:00
On September 16, at 8:22:25 PM local time, NASA meteor cameras in north Georgia and western North Carolina detected a bright fireball over middle Alabama. First seen at an altitude of 45 miles above Paul M. Grist State Park, near Selma, Alabama, the 6 inch diameter chunk of asteroid moved east at a speed of 38,000 miles per hour before burning up some 28 miles above northern Elmore County. At its most intense, the meteor was even brighter than a crescent Moon.
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Carrie Sturrock
Huffington Post 2015-09-17 20:36:00
The noise is so loud, Kollyn Zeder often doesn't let the children in her home daycare play outside, worried it might damage their hearing. Windows stay shut, even though she wants fresh air. Often she can't hear her own TV. "They fly so low over the homes, you can wave to the pilots and they wave back," she said. " It's roaring, roaring, roaring." The noise from Naval Air Station Oceana, a master jet base in Virginia Beach, Virginia, dominates almost every aspect of her life. And new studies say it may be affecting her health in ways she doesn't realize. While her situation is extreme, her plight typifies what many Americans in urban settings endure: constant loud noise with little recourse for stopping it and few policies for controlling it in the first place. | |
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Timothy Wise
Alternet 2015-09-11 17:05:00
The SAFE Act sounds like it promises accurate labeling of GM foods. But it likely guarantees that no such thing will ever happen. As the vitriol intensifies in what passes for debate over the safety of genetically modified foods, scientific inquiry, thankfully, continues. A Tufts researcher, Sheldon Krimsky, recently published his assessment of the last seven years of peer-reviewed evidence, finding 26 studies that "reported adverse effects or uncertainties of GMOs fed to animals." If recent history is any indication, Sheldon Krimsky should expect to be slammed as a "science denier." | |
Comment: New bill would give Monsanto immunity and squash GMO labeling
Forget all the progress that non-GMO advocates have made so far, too, if this bill receives enough support in Congress to actually pass. With its passing, it would preempt any local or state requirement thus overturning existing laws in Vermont, Connecticut and Maine - a direct attack to state sovereignty. | |
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Neuroscience News
2015-09-18 19:26:00
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered a new role for an enzyme involved in cell death. Their study shows how the enzyme, called RIPK3, relays signals between the cell's mitochondria "powerhouses" and the immune system. The new study shows that this crosstalk is important not only for launching immune responses against tumors, but also for regulating the inflammatory responses that may result in autoimmune diseases. "This finding could be helpful for developing strategies to target cancer and inflammatory diseases," said TSRI Assistant Professor of Immunology Young Jun Kang, who collaborated on the study with the lab of TSRI Institute Professor Richard A. Lerner, who is also Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Immunochemistry. The study was published September 18, 2015 in the journal Nature Communications. | |
Comment: For more on improving mitochondrial function and it's signalling see: Three major ways to improve your mitochondrial function
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PsyPost
2015-09-17 00:00:00
A University of Adelaide led study has found that a psychiatric drug claimed to be a safe and effective treatment for depression in adolescents is actually ineffective and associated with serious side effects. Professor Jon Jureidini, from the University of Adelaide's newly created Critical and Ethical Mental Health Research Group (CEMH) at the Robinson Research Institute, led a team of international researchers who re-examined Study 329, a randomised controlled trial which evaluated the efficacy and safety of paroxetine (Aropax, Paxil, Seroxat) compared with a placebo for adolescents diagnosed with major depression. | |
Comment: The corrupt practices of the pharmaceutical industry and their research have become so common, that any study funded by the industry should be suspect and investigated thoroughly before dosing an unsuspecting public with dangerous drugs. Unfortunately, industry watchdogs who are supposed to be protecting people from these depredations are for the most part in league with BigPharma, hence drugs are approved with little oversight.
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Kirsten Cowart
Realpharmacy.com 2015-09-12 00:00:00
Your body's ability to detox is key to maintaining good health, preventing illness and healing diseases. There is a long list of toxins and pollutants that you can find in your water, food and air that inevitably gets into your body. Even with this happening, you can still maintain great health by keeping your kidneys, digestive system, liver and lymphatic system clean and healthy. We have found an incredibly powerful recipe that is extremely inexpensive and effective at keeping your immune system healthy and ready for anything. Before we go over how to make this delicious tea though, let's quickly go over why it is so effective in healing your body by breaking down the ingredients. | |
Comment: For more information on the health benefits of lemon and ginger, see:
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Lydia Mulvany
Bloomberg Business 2015-09-17 15:41:00
Consumers are increasingly eschewing bread in favor of butter and red meat as carbohydrates take a back seat to fat and protein, a worldwide shift underpinned by a changing medical consensus that promises to transform the food industry. Global demand for fat will rise 43 percent by 2030 with per-capita consumption jumping almost a quarter, according to a report released Thursday by the Credit Suisse Research Institute. Demand is seen gaining 23 percent for red meat and falling 8.3 percent for carbohydrates. | |
Comment: It seems that finally the demonization of healthy fats is coming to an end, after over 50 years that have seen skyrocketing rates of disease related to the consumption of high carbohydrate/ low fat diets and the promotion of deadly statin drugs.
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NeuroscienceNews.com
2015-06-23 14:43:00
A major epidemiological registry-based study from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital indicates that Parkinson's disease begins in the gastrointestinal tract; the study is the largest in the field so far. The chronic neurodegenerative Parkinson's disease affects an increasing number of people. However, scientists still do not know why some people develop Parkinson's disease. Now researchers from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital have taken an important step towards a better understanding of the disease. New research indicates that Parkinson's disease may begin in the gastrointestinal tract and spread through the vagus nerve to the brain. "We have conducted a registry study of almost 15,000 patients who have had the vagus nerve in their stomach severed. Between approximately 1970-1995 this procedure was a very common method of ulcer treatment. If it really is correct that Parkinson's starts in the gut and spreads through the vagus nerve, then these vagotomy patients should naturally be protected against developing Parkinson's disease," explains postdoc at Aarhus University Elisabeth Svensson on the hypothesis behind the study. | |
Comment: If a full disconnection of the vagus nerve from the stomach reduced the risk by about half, that might suggest that either there are other factors and pathways involved in the development of Parkinson's, or that the damage was already done before the vagotomy. Either way, this is a fascinating find. But remember, the vagus nerve isn't evil. It's involved in several important digestive functions, which vagotomy can disrupt in various ways. It's also the nerve that helps us relax and form bonds with the people we're close to!
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Virginia Gewin
Civil Eats 2015-09-16 23:16:00
Autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia, and other brain-related impairments have been diagnosed in millions of children in recent years. So it caused quite a stir last year when scientists identified chlorpyrifos as one of a dozen industrial chemicals fueling what they called a "pandemic of developmental neurotoxicity." Chlorpyrifos, an organophosphate pesticide, is classified as a neurotoxin because it disruptsneurotransmission, essentially how brain cells communicate. According to the National Pesticide Information Center, it is also the active ingredient in dozens of commercial pesticides, used to control a wide range of insects on crops like corn, almonds, apples, and oranges. According to Dow AgroSciences, which manufactures the pesticide Dursban using chlorpyrifos, it has been used on more than 50 agricultural crops. | |
Comment: What information does the EPA need to review and why the continued pattern of delay?
According to Elizabeth Grossman at Yale Environment 360 Organophosphates are well known neurotoxins - some were developed as nerve agents for use in chemical weapons - and work on insects by targeting the nervous system. They have been on the market since after World War II, but their use increased in the 1960s and 1970s, when they were promoted as an environmentally preferable, rapidly degrading alternative to more persistent organochloride pesticides, such as DDT. By the 1990s, organosphosphate pesticides were one of the world's most widely used type of insecticides. Such pesticides include chlorpyrifos - used in household bug sprays, termite control, lawn care products, domestic pet flea and tick collars, and commercial agriculture - and malathion, used to control mosquitoes, fruit flies, and lice. Roughly 33 million pounds of organophosphate pesticides were used in the U.S. in 2007, the last year for which government statistics are available. | |
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Dr. Peter Osborne
Gluten Free Society 2014-12-17 21:17:00
Research Identifies Dairy as a Problem Many people embarking on a gluten free diet continue to consume milk, butter, cheese, and other dairy products without giving thought to the potential for having an inflammatory reaction. However;researchers have identified that dairy proteins can affect as much as 50% of those with gluten problems. A summary of the research findings is listed below: Patients with coeliac disease (CD) on a gluten-free diet may still have gastrointestinal symptoms. On clinical grounds cow's milk (CM) protein sensitivity may be suspected...A mucosal inflammatory response similar to that elicited by gluten was produced by CM protein in about 50% of the patients with coeliac disease. Casein, in particular, seems to be involved in this reaction.Source: Clin Exp Immunol. 2007 Mar;147(3):449-55. | |
Comment: Milk: Does it really do a body good?
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David Robson
BBC Future 2015-09-18 20:46:00
You may think your body and mind are your own. In fact, you are a fusion of many organisms - including, potentially, another person. | |
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| Science of the Spirit |
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| High Strangeness |
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Angela Hatcher
WSET/ABC13 2015-09-18 09:58:00
Bedford County - He's a legend. Most say a myth. People hunt for him on reality television. But a Bedford County woman says her story is no joke. She called the Sheriff's Office about Bigfoot. ABC 13 spoke to the woman by phone Thursday. She provided details on the condition of anonymity. The woman said she recently moved to the area and does not want to get a reputation with her new neighbors. "I know this is going to sound crazy," said the woman in a call to Bedford dispatch on September 9. The woman told the dispatcher she was driving up Route 43, toward the Peaks of Otter, around 11:40p.m. on September 9. She said her headlights hit something strange past Turkey Mountain Road, just before the first bridge. This is part of her conversation with a dispatcher on September 11. Caller: "I know this is going to sound crazy, but I went back and checked and there were prints, a Bigfoot with a baby." Dispatcher: "There were what?" Caller: "It was a Bigfoot with a baby." | |
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Josh Parry
The Echo 2015-09-13 14:17:00
Desperate owner Paul Friday even tried selling the Ford Transit on eBay to get rid of the spirits A 'haunted' van allegedly vandalised by poltergeists has been scrapped by its owner, after 12 months of being 'plagued by demonic spirits.' Paul Friday, who runs a wheelie bin cleaning company, claims the ghouls moved from his home into his van after a medium from a local church exorcised them - and now he believes they're trying to kill him after switching to haunting him personally. The 54-year-old also claims he was left with no choice but to scrap the Ford Transit and all of his work equipment after a string of 'terrifying' incidents including having his brakes tampered with and his van being doused with a gallon of petrol by 'demonic entities.' Paul Friday of Netherley believes his Ford Transit is haunted by a poltergeist. He says he has images taken on his mobile phone that show ghostly faces of a male spirit that are unexplainable. Photo by Ian Cooper He said: "It all started about 12 months ago when I bought a new generator. "It kept breaking and when I took it to be repaired the wires were all ruined. After getting it fixed it happened again and the repairman said 'it must be a ghost.' "Strange things started happening in the house and in the van so I called someone out from the spiritualist church - they said they had 'sent the spirits to the light' and that they were gone. "But things kept happening in my van - the spiritualist, Wendy, spent half an hour in the back of there and came out physically drained. "She said that the spirit was very powerful and that the best advice was probably to get rid of it. It was damaging my business as I couldn't work." | |
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| Don't Panic! Lighten Up! |
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RT
2015-09-18 11:31:00
Welsh magician Jeremy Went has created a card trick to explain the political trajectory of the newly-elected Labour Party leader. In the course of his trick, which he concocted and filmed in the space of an hour, Went covers Corbyn's surprise ascent to Labour's top job. He covers issues of transparency, popularity, public mistrust in politician's tendency to fail on their pledges and more besides. The video has clocked up 18,000 views in just two days, with Went, who maintains he is a magician not a politician, telling the Daily Mirror newspaper he "almost didn't post it because it's controversial, but the reception has been brilliant."
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Comment: Jeremy Corbyn may well need an ace or two up his sleeve to help counter his British Establishment defamers, detractors and demonizers.
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RT
2015-09-18 20:16:00
A group of volunteers from Vashon Island, Washington have managed to rescue two missing dogs, with the sole reason being that one of the canines stayed for a week near its trapped friend and scouted for help. One of the dogs, which are said to be "inseparable," guarded the other after it fell into a cistern filled with water, hidden deep in the woods. Tillie, a reddish setter, left Phoebe, a basset hound, for no more than 10 minutes each day only to seek help and then run back to her friend. |
