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Sott.net
2012-11-22 00:00:00
Evidence of Revision is a six-part documentary containing historical, original news footage revealing that the most seminal events in recent American history have been deeply and purposefully misrepresented to the public. Footage and interviews provide an in-depth exploration of events ranging from the Kennedy assassinations to the Jonestown massacre, and all that lies between. The footprints left in this archival footage reveal the coordinated, clandestine sculpting of the America we know today. Evidence of Revision proves once and for all that history has been revised, even as it was written!
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Tyler Rogoway
NWO Report 2015-11-20 21:27:00
Seemingly pulled right from a James Bond movie, we got a glimpse this week of Russia's new super military nerve center in action, called the National Defense Control Center (NDCC), as Russian heavy bombers made their combat debut in the Syrian conflict. This was also the first time the venerable Tu-95 Bears or the Tu-160 Blackjacks would see combat. The video below was released by the Russian government and media apparatus showing the center supposedly at work, with a montage of the heavy bomber's mission being displayed on a massive screen. The video may have also inadvertently shown that Russiahas ground artillery units far outside of its forward operating outpost south of the Syrian port city of Latakia, something that the Russian Ministry of Defense still denies.
Additionally, a labyrinth of underground tunnels, transportation routes and facilities are said to exist below the sprawling compound. Three helicopter pads,one of which is floating, are used to move Russia's military and political elite to and from the series of buildings. The centerpiece of this updated complex is a truly impressive and giant central atrium built out of glass and steel. | ||
Comment: With facilities like this, it's no wonder ISIS didn't stand a chance!
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RT
2015-11-21 04:32:00
Russia is not welcome to join the US-led coalition in Syria, as France has proposed, until it changes its "focus" and stops "propping up" President Assad, the US State Department said. Yet, Washington continues to insist their goal isn't defeating Assad. "If other nations not in the coalition [the US-led coalition] want to join it and become part of it and focus on the fight against ISIL [Islamic State/IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL] that's a conversation we're certainly willing to have," US State Department spokesperson John Kirby said. An appeal to expand the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State came from French President Francois Hollande three days after deadly attacks in Paris a week ago. Stating that "France is at war," Hollande called for the creation of a "large coalition," which could unite forces with Russia "to achieve a result that has taken too long."
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Comment: The anti-ISIL aspect of the US-lead coalition has primarily been an ongoing disinformation battle for the minds and support of Western publics. This becomes clearer every day that Russia displays true expertise and real success. Given a choice, whose coalition would you join?
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Sputnik
2015-11-22 20:55:00
Russia's stance on Syria changed after it was directly attacked by ISIL, according to France's Defense Minister. According to French Defense Minister Jean Yves Le Drian, Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft have been launching significant strikes against the Islamic State positions in Syria. "Russia's stance on Syria has changed... It was dealt a serious blow by the Islamic State... Now Russia launches significant strikes against ISIL positions," Le Drian told Europe1 radio station. On September 30, Russian military aircraft began executing precision strikes against ISIL forces in Syria at the behest of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Since the beginning of the airborne campaign Russian aircraft have carried out over 2,000 sorties, destroying about 3,000 ISIL targets and eliminating hundreds of militants. The warships of Russian Caspian Flotilla also launched a series of cruise missile strikes against the ISIL assets in Syria. On Tuesday Russian Aerospace Forces intensified their campaign in Syria, launching massive airstrikes against ISIL forces. | |
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Sputnik
2015-11-22 20:41:00
Russian airstrikes have played a decisive role in aiding Syrian and Iraqi forces in their fight against ISIL, leaving the jihadist group with only several dozen bases in the two Arab countries, media reports said. Syrian and Iraqi troops, supported by Russian air strikes in Syria, have continued to advance on Islamic State militants, leaving the jihadist group with just 34 bases in these two Arab countries, the Iranian news agency FARS quoted a media activist as saying. "At present, ISIL only has 34 bases in Mosul, Raqqa, etc. which were many more in number," Mohammad Ali al-Hakim, Managing-Director of Iraq's al-Nakhil news agency, said. According to him, the Islamic State may finally be destroyed in the foreseeable future. "The end of the ISIL which has been borne by the westerners is close," he said. | |
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Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss 2015-11-20 20:08:00
The argument that the U.S. and the west are finally undertaking the war Israel has been fighting for years is of course a major theme of pro-Israel commentary post Paris. Militant Israeli policies re Palestinian resistance are being offered as a role model to the west; and the Palestinian political party Hamas is being put on the same plane as ISIS - a longstanding propaganda claim of the Israeli prime minister, or as long as ISIS has been in the news. Hillary Clinton echoed that point in her Council on Foreign Relations speech yesterday: In September I laid out a comprehensive plan to counter Iranian influence across the region and its support for terrorist proxies such as Hezbollah and Hamas. We cannot view Iran and ISIS as separate challenges. Regional politics are too interwoven. Raising the confidence of our Arab partners and raising the costs to Iran for bad behavior will contribute to a more effective fight against ISIS.Clinton is surely mindful of the views of the big Democratic donor Haim Saban, who gavean interview yesterday saying Muslims must be subject to "more scrutiny," and that Clinton is "absolutely made of steel and she will take no baloney from no ISIS." Meanwhile on NPR, Andrea Bernstein defended Clinton's "cautiously hawkish" positions by saying that the Republicans are a lot more bellicose - so she can't be that bad. | |
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Mike Whitney
Counterpunch 2015-11-20 19:43:00
If you're one of the millions of Americans who think Hillary Clinton would make a lousy president, then pat yourself on the back because she pretty much proved it yesterday. In a presentation to the Council on Foreign Relations, Clinton made it clear that if she's elected in 2016, she's going to drag the country straight to war. Invoking the same imagery as her ideological twin, George W. Bush, Clinton fulminated for more than an hour and a half on Syria, war, terrorism, war, no-fly zones, war, radical jihadism, war, and "metastasizing threats", whatever the heck those are. Oh, and did I mention war? Seriously, while regretful Democrats can claim that they never thought Obama would turn out to be the disappointment he has been, the same can't be said about Clinton. Madame Secretary has a long pedigree and the bold print on the warning label is easy to read. There's simply no excuse for anyone to vote for a proven commodity like Hillary and then complain at some later date, that they didn't know what a scheming and hard-boiled harridan she really was. Clinton's hawkishness is part of the public record. It's right there for everyone to see. She voted for Iraq, she supported the Libya fiasco, and now she's gearing up for Syria. Her bloodthirsty foreign policy is just slightly to the left of John McCain and his looneybin sidekick, Lindsey Graham. Simply put: A vote for Clinton is a vote more-of-the-same death and destruction spread willy-nilly across the planet in the endless pursuit of imperial domination. It's that simple. Here's an excerpt from her speech: "...let's be clear about what we're facing. Beyond Paris, in recent days, we've seen deadly terrorist attacks in Nigeria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Turkey, and a Russian civilian airline destroyed over the Sinai. At the heart of today's new landscape of terror is ISIS. They persecute religious and ethnic minorities, kidnap and behead civilians, murder children. They systematically enslave, torture, and rape women and girls. ISIS operates across three mutually reinforcing dimensions—a physical enclave in Iraq and Syria, an international terrorist network that includes affiliates across the region and beyond, and an ideological movement of radical jihadism. We have to target and defeat all three. And time is of the essence. ISIS is demonstrating new ambition, reach, and capabilities. We have to break the group's momentum, and then its back."..... | |
Comment: This woman is absolutely insane and anyone who votes for president in 2018 will be insane to vote for her. Her lust for blood and death of all kinds is practically unmatched.
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Riley Waggaman
Russia Insider 2015-11-22 19:38:00
Close your eyes and think about "defenders of human rights". What image bubbles up from your subconscious? If you answered "Saudi Arabia", you probably represent one of the 115 countries that just passed a Saudi-proposed UN resolution condemning "Syrian human rights violations." Yes, Saudi Arabia —the oasis of human dignity where Harry Potter fans (widely considered the greatest dangers to world peace) are dealt with accordingly — is leading the fight against Syrian violence caused by Saudi-funded terrorists. Here are the terrible details:
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Andrew Buncombe
The Independent 2015-11-19 19:22:00
The debate over whether to allow Syrian refugees to settle in the US took a dark twist after a leading presidential candidate likened those fleeing the violence in the Middle East to "rabid dogs". Republican Ben Carson told a campaign event in Mobile, Alabama, that allowing Syrian migrants into the US could put Americans at risk. "If there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog," he said on Thursday, according to Reuters. "By the same token, we have to have in place screening mechanisms that allow us to determine who the mad dogs are, quite frankly." Comment: Someone ought to remind Ben Carson that what he is recommending is no different than what the Nazis did in Germany. The US is riven by debate over whether or not to permit the entry of refugees fleeing Syria, which has suffered from the violence of more than four years of civil war. | |
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RT
2015-11-22 19:03:00
A watchdog group found that 80 percent of Army contracts were for services already being provided by the government. The Navy and other agencies reported about 13 percent in contract services duplication, according to the Government Accountability Office. In its November report, the GAO found that the Department of Defense (DOD), which is responsible for more than half of the federal government's discretionary spending, kept inaccurate records and duplicated government services when contracting. Only federal employees can perform functions such as conducting criminal investigations, making policy and budget decisions, carrying out intelligence operations, making hiring decisions, and choosing supplies to be purchased, while contractors inherently support much of that work, the GAO said. The problem is that the Pentagon doesn't always adequately review which services are closely associated with government functions in order to mitigate risk and waste. The GAO review began seven years ago following what the Office of Management and Budget called in 2011"uncontrolled growth under the prior administration [Bush Administration]," when one in six federal dollars was contracted out. "[DOD] has continued to lack the means to reliably identify functions performed by contractors," the GAO report stated. | |
Comment: It's certainly possible that these duplicate services are not accidental at all, but rather done intentionally to funnel money to other, more clandestine projects.
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Steven MacMillan
New Eastern Outlook 2015-11-22 00:00:00
Similar to a heroin addict, Western nations have a destructive addiction which they are so dependent on, they appear unwilling to give it up. Funding radical terror organisations is the modus operandi of many prominent nations in NATO, with the US, UK and France, playing a prominent role. From the Afghan Mujahideen to the so-called Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS), extremist groups have been used as geopolitical tools by the West for decades. Over 120 people dead and hundreds injured, the tragic scenes in France have shocked many people in Europe. ISIS has claimed responsibility for terror attacks in other regions of the globe recently, including in Lebanon, where at least 44 people were brutally killed. Dabiq, the magazine of ISIS, has also just published a photo of parts of a homemade bomb that they claim was used in the atrocious terrorist attack on the Russian passenger plane in the Sinai Peninsula, which killed over 220 people. | |
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Sputnik
2015-11-22 18:53:00
The US' "war on terror" is a covert geopolitical project carried out under a fake counter-terrorism agenda, Canadian author Professor Michel Chossudovsky believes. According to the renowned Canadian economist and author Michel Chossudovsky, Washington's widely-discussed "war on terror" is nothing less than a series of military and covert intelligence operations being undertaken simultaneously on different geographic locations. "Major military and covert intelligence operations are being undertaken simultaneously in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia and the Far East. The US military agenda combines both major theater operations as well as covert actions geared towards destabilizing sovereign states," Professor Chossudovsky writes in his article for Global Research. The Canadian author elaborates that the operations are carried out by the Western military alliance, while all the actions are coordinated "at the highest level of the military hierarchy." | |
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RT
2015-11-22 18:13:00
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on Russia and the US to join their efforts to combat terrorism. He told the annual East Asia Summit in Kuala Lumpur that terrorists and ideology extremists must be "defeated in the name of humanity." "In that regard, we need to unite. We need to show global solidarity to address the common enemy of ISIL, Daesh, some other extremists and terrorist groups," Ki-moon said, referring to Islamic State. The UN Secretary-General stressed that he "highly commended the leadership of the Russian Federation together with the United States to address some of the root causes of terrorism," Reuters reported. He said that the United Nations is currently assembling information and gathering ideas and experience from its member states. Early next year, the UN is going to present a "comprehensive plan of action to defeat violence and extremism," Ban said. | |
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US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard introduces legislation to end illegal war in Syria to overthrow Assad
Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge 2015-11-21 17:43:00
Last month, US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard went on CNN and laid bare Washington's Syria strategy. In a remarkably candid interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gabbard calls Washington's effort to oust Assad "counterproductive" and "illegal" before taking it a step further and accusing the CIA of arming the very same terrorists who The White House insists are "sworn enemies." In short, Gabbard all but tells the American public that the government is lying to them and may end up inadvertently starting "World War III." For those who missed it, here's the clip:
Well, in the wake of the attacks, Gabbard has apparently had just about enough of Washington vacillating in the fight against terror just so the US can ensure that ISIS continues to destabilize Assad and now, with bi-partisan support, the brazen Hawaii Democrat has introduced legislation to end the "illegal war" to overthrow Assad. | ||
Comment: Tulsi Gabbard has proven that there are some politicians in the US who see the reality of what US foreign policy is about and are willing to speak out condemning it:
US congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard: 'How is Russia bombing terrorists a bad thing?' Alternate reality? CNN broadcasts U.S. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard telling the truth about Syria Congresswoman who publicly supported Russia's anti-terror campaign says she was disinvited from Democratic debate | ||
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Robert Parry
Consortium News 2015-11-19 16:23:00
Official Washington's many false narratives about Russia and Syria have gotten so tangled that they have become a danger to the struggle against Sunni jihadist terrorism and conceivably a threat to the future of the planet, a risk that Robert Parry explores. One way to view Official Washington is to envision a giant bubble that serves as a hothouse for growing genetically modified "group thinks." Most inhabitants of the bubble praise these creations as glorious and beyond reproach, but a few dissenters note how strange and dangerous these products are. Those critics, however, are then banished from the bubble, leaving behind an evermore concentrated consensus. This process could be almost comical - as the many armchair warriors repeat What Everyone Knows to Be True as self-justifying proof that more and more wars and confrontations are needed - but the United States is the most powerful nation on earth and its fallacious "group thinks" are spreading a widening arc of chaos and death around the globe. | |
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Sputnik
2015-11-22 15:07:00
The leaders of all countries should consider the potential dangers of war games and do whatever it takes to prevent the escalation of the world's most hazardous conflicts, according to Robert Farley, a senior lecturer on diplomacy for the University of Kentucky. Every global war gets started with a so-called "spark," or crisis situation, Farley writes in an article for The National Interest. He goes on to pinpoint five modern-day conflicts that could incite World War III if political solutions can't be found for each of them. | |
Comment: It is not a failure of the world powers to understand the dangers of war games but possibly a planned provocation. Indeed with all the tensions around the world rising rapidly, it wouldn't take much to light the fuse.
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Maxwell Tani
Business Insider 2015-11-22 00:00:00
Donald Trump claims that "thousands" of people in New Jersey were "cheering" amid the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on US soil. In an interview on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, Trump doubled down on his assertion that he saw people in New Jersey — where the real-estate mogul claims there are "large Arab populations" — cheering as the World Trade Center came down. | |
Comment: Trump appears to be inventing things nearly out of whole cloth in order to justify his deeply xenophobic, fascistic thinking. He has entered the mind set of the 'reality creators': politicians who have no problem whatsoever making up stuff to get others to think and do as they would want them to. We should not underestimate the capacity for buffoons to behave in incredibly destructive ways.
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Sputnik
2015-11-22 21:25:00
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Boston to protest against the efforts of Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker to stop the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the state, local media reported Saturday. According to The Boston Globe newspaper, the event that brought together some 500 people took place Friday night. "Don't give into racist fear! Refugees are welcomed here," the people chanted, as quoted by the media outlet. Speakers from several refugee organizations gave speeches in support of the refugees and calling for compassion. Baker was one of the governors calling to stop the refugee resettlement program in fears that the security measures in place were not enough to stop extremists from entering the country disguised as refugees. On Thursday, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would block the presidential administration from resettling some 10,000 Syrian refugees as well as Iraqi refugees to the United States in 2016, as was announced by Obama earlier in the year. The move followed the deadly attacks in Paris last week which claimed lives of at least 130 people. The Islamic State extremist group claimed responsibility for the attacks. | |
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Brendan Kelly
Opposing Views 2015-11-22 20:28:00
A California man is facing 25 years to life in prison for killing a one-year-old girl by crushing her with his foot while he watched television. Daniel Ruiz, 25, was found guilty November 19 of one count of second-degree murder and one count of assault on a child causing death, according to the San Bernadino County District Attorney's Office. He faces 25 years to life when he is sentenced January 15. Ruiz was asked to watch two children in August 2013, while his girlfriend Terra and her friend Andrea went to the store. In court, the convicted murderer said that he decided to crush the baby because he felt "taken advantage of" by the baby girl's mother when she asked him to watch her children for 30 minutes. Ruiz said that he was angered by the request and decided to take it out on one-year-old Scarlett. He put his foot on her chest and pushed down as hard as he could with his 230 pounds of weight on her body. As the baby gasped for air, he got up and turned on the television. After changing channels for a few minutes, Ruiz noticed that Scarlett appeared to be having a seizure, police say. He reportedly tapped her on the cheek to get her to snap out of it. The two women returned home shortly after that and Ruiz ran outside to tell Scarlett's mother that she needed to go to the hospital. According to officials, the women were gone for about 30-45 minutes. Andrea was unable to get through to 9-1-1, so she grabbed Scarlett and ran directly to the fire station across the street. The fireman and hospital workers were unable to revive Scarlett, however, and she died in the hospital soon after. The cause of her death was discovered in an autopsy two days later. | |
Comment: It is appalling that this man received just 25 years for cold blooded murder of this baby girl? You have to wonder what the heck is wrong with the U.S. justice system.
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Glenn Greenwald
The Intercept 2015-11-20 19:28:00
CNN suspended its global affairs correspondent, Elise Labott, for two weeks for the crime of posting a tweet critical of the House vote to ban Syrian refugees.Whether by compulsion or choice, she then groveled in apology. This is the original tweet along with her subsequent expression of repentance:
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John Vibes
The Free Thought Project 2015-11-20 19:25:00
A judge who has been accused of sexually assaulting numerous defendants who passed through his courtroom, has skipped court this week and failed to show up to defend himself against these charges.Judge Joseph Boeckmann had reportedly been coercing young men into sexual acts since as far back as 2009. Boeckmann would select young men that passed through his court, and he would give them community service near his house. Once they were near his home, Boeckmann would get them inside and force them into sexual acts and sometimes take photos. Boeckmann would offer the young men lighter sentences or money in exchange for their silence. He reportedly had a fetish for spanking the boys, both for their "punishment" and for his personal enjoyment. According to the complaint: All of the men that Boeckmann molested were over the age of 18, however, it is suspected that he has child pornography on his computer, and it has been reported that his computer has been confiscated since the allegations have been made public. | |
Comment: In a totalitarian state, the rule of law is divided in two. One rule of law for the elite and another for the rest of us.
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Sky News
2015-11-21 14:03:00
Four British tourists were among seven people killed in a helicopter crash in one of New Zealand's best-known tourist spots. The pilot and six passengers were on board the aircraft when it went down at Fox Glacier on the remote west coast of the South Island in what have been described as poor conditions. Four rescue helicopters were sent to the scene and a paramedic and alpine rescue team were winched down to the scene of the crash and confirmed there were no survivors. A spokesman for the New Zealand Police said it is thought all six passengers were foreign tourists, while the pilot was a local man. "It is believed two were Australians," the spokesman said, adding that formal identification will take "some time."
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RT
2015-11-22 13:47:00
"This was the Apocalypse." These are the words of Pierre Janaszak, a TV and radio presenter, who spoke to RT after experiencing the massacre at France's Bataclan theater.He says the ordeal has changed his view of the world forever. Pierre Janaszak, a TV and radio presenter, went to the Bataclan with his sister on that fateful Friday evening. He says he just wanted to make her happy because she is a huge fan of "The Eagles of Death Metal," the US band that was performing in the Paris theater on November 13. Pierre was on the left side of the balcony in front of the stage - drinking beer and having fun. When he first heard the shooting, about 50 minutes into the gig, he thought it was "part of the show." | |
Comment: Well, staring at your naval thinking good thoughts won't make the problem go away. People should reconnect with their empathy and quit supporting the psychopaths in power.
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RT
2015-11-22 13:34:00
The son of a New York mob boss has given Islamic State a stark warning, saying if they are planning any attacks in New York, they will have to contend with the Sicilian mafia.The notorious crime syndicate say they want to do their bit to protect locals. Giovanni Gambino, the son of a key figure in the Gambino mob organization, says the mafia is in a much better position than security bodies, such as the FBI or Homeland Security, to give New Yorkers the protection they need. "They often act too late, or fail to see a complete picture of what's happening due to a lack of 'human intelligence,'" he said in an interview with NBC News, as cited by Reuters, adding that the mafia's knowledge of individual movements and interaction with locals gives it the upper hand, even compared to the latest surveillance technologies. | |
Comment: Well, the US creates the boogie man and then claims to be protecting you from it whereas the Mafia is actually helping to protect people. Which would you choose?
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RT
2015-11-22 13:16:00
A Greek coastguard has been accused of deliberately trying to sink an inflatable refugee boat carrying Syrian refugees crossing the Aegean Sea. A video shows a man seemingly trying to prod the life raft with a pole. The footage was released by the Turkish Institute of Public Diplomacy and shows a person on board the Greek vessel trying to sink the inflatable dinghy, despite it being packed with 58 refugees. | |
Comment: This story is hard to believe. Was the Turkish Coastguard doing the filming? If so, why would the Greek Coastguard try to prod the refugee boat under the Turkish glaring search light? Turkey maybe trying to score some points here trying to portray themselves in a good light.
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RT
2015-11-22 04:49:00
A Turkish Airlines Airbus A330 jet flying from New York City to Istanbul was sharply diverted mid-air and landed in Halifax, Canada due to a bomb threat. Firefighting crews and police have evacuated the aircraft. 256 passengers and crew have been moved to the terminal building, and "all is going smoothly," the emergency services stated on their Twitter account. Canadian emergency services and Royal Canadian Mounted Police are responding to the situation, East Hants Fire Service Dispatches reported on Facebook. The fire department earlier tweeted that a bomb threat has been made. The flight in question is Turkish Airlines TYH2 / TK2. While the nature of the threat has not been confirmed, plane watchers on social media have speculated it may have been made online. An investigation into the bomb threat is currently taking place, they added. | |
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Tyler Durden
Zerohedge 2015-11-21 00:30:00
The 'Great Recession' was evidently so bad for the economy that it stopped the net influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico. For the first time since the 1940s, more Mexicans have been leaving the U.S. to return home than arriving, a reversal that brings down the curtain on the largest immigration wave in modern American history. As WSJ reports,the Pew Research Center figures released Thursday suggest that the surge in legal and illegal Mexican immigration that helped transform America - and remains a contentious issue on the presidential campaign trail - may have peaked for good. Pew Hispanic found that, according to official numbers, more than 800,000 undocumented workers came to the United States during 2009-2014 while more than 1 million fled the U.S. during the same period. It seems that employment became more difficult after the 2008 economic crisis, while Mexico's economy actually improved. | |
Comment: Looks like the Mexican immigrants see the writing on the wall that the US economy is not in good shape.
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Owen Jarus
LiveScience 2015-11-16 14:11:00
Pieces from a mysterious board game that hasn't been played for 1,500 years were discovered in a heavily looted 2,300-year-old tomb near Qingzhou City in China. There, archaeologists found a 14-face die made of animal tooth, 21 rectangular game pieces with numbers painted on them and a broken tile which was once part of a game board. The tile when reconstructed was "decorated with two eyes, which are surrounded by cloud-and-thunder patterns," wrote the archaeologists in a report published recently in the journal Chinese Cultural Relics. The skeleton of possibly one of the grave robbers was also discovered in a shaft made within the tomb by looters. | |
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Rossella Lorenzi
Discovery News 2015-11-18 18:53:00
Italian archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Medieval teenage girl who was burnt and thrown carelessly in a pit, her grave covered with heavy stone slabs. Her burial shows she was seen as a danger even when dead, according to the archaeologists. The skeleton was discovered at the complex of San Calocero in Albenga on the Ligurian Riviera, by a team led by scientific director Philippe Pergola, professor of topography of the Orbis Christianus Antiquus at the Pontifical Institute of Archaeology at the Vatican. At the same location, in September 2014, the team unearthed the remains of another "witch girl," a 13-year-old female who was buried face-down. Like other deviant burials, in which the dead were buried with a brick in the mouth, nailed or staked to the ground, or even decapitated and dismembered, both the face-down burial and the stone-covered tomb aimed at preventing the dead girls from rising from the grave. Further analysis determined the "witch girl" who was buried face-down just suffered from scurvy, a disorder caused by an insufficient intake of vitamin C. | |
Comment: See also: Rare 'prone' burial in Italy attributed to a 'witch girl'
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Maggie Fox
NBC News 2015-11-18 23:25:00
Pigeons can tell the difference between healthy tissue and a tumor, and they might be able to sit in for humans doing some of the more boring chores in a pathology lab, researchers said Wednesday. They're especially eagle-eyed when it comes to diagnosing breast cancer, it seems, the researchers report in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE. They flunk out on reading mammograms, however, so don't look for the birds to be replacing human specialists any time soon, the teams at the University of Iowa and the University of California Davis said. | |
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ScienceDaily
2015-11-19 00:00:00
Humans have the best of all possible visual worlds because our full stereo vision combines with primitive visual pathways to quickly spot danger, a study led by the University of Sydney has discovered. The surprising finding published today in Current Biology shows that in humans and other primates, information from the eyes is not only sent to the visual cortex for the complex processing that allows stereoscopic vision, but also could feed directly into deep brain circuits for attention and emotion. "The brain cells that we identified suggest that human and other primates retain a visual pathway that traces back to the primitive systems of vertebrates like fish and frogs," said University of Sydney's Professor Paul Martin from the Sydney Medical School, who led the team that made the discovery. | |
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ScienceDaily
2015-11-19 00:00:00
Researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute at The University of Queensland have uncovered a new form of secret light communication used by marine animals. The findings may have applications in satellite remote sensing, biomedical imaging, cancer detection, and computer data storage. Dr Yakir Gagnon, Professor Justin Marshall and colleagues previously showed that mantis shrimp (Gonodactylaceus falcatus) can reflect and detect circular polarising light, an ability extremely rare in nature. Until now, no-one has known what they use it for. The new study shows the shrimp use circular polarisation as a means to covertly advertise their presence to aggressive competitors. | |
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ScienceDaily
2015-11-20 00:00:00
A way of estimating more accurate distances to the thousands of so-called planetary nebulae dispersed across our Galaxy has been announced by a team of three astronomers based at the University of Hong Kong: Dr David Frew, Prof Quentin Parker and Dr Ivan Bojicic. The scientists publish their results in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Despite their name, planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planets. They were described as such by early astronomers whose telescopes showed them as glowing disc-like objects. We now know that planetary nebulae are actually the final stage of activity of stars like our Sun. When they reach the end of their lives, these stars eject most of their atmosphere into space, leaving behind a hot dense core. Light from this core causes the expanding cloud of gas to glow in different colours as it slowly grows, fading away over tens of thousands of years. There are thousands of planetary nebulae in our Galaxy alone, and they provide targets for professional and amateur astronomers alike, with the latter often taking spectacular images of these beautiful objects. But despite intense study, scientists have struggled to measure one of their key properties -- their distance. | |
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M.V. Subramanyam
The Hindu 2015-11-22 21:07:00
The revenue and police officials of Kadapa exhorted the villagers of Nayanoripalle in Chintakommadinne mandal in Kadapa District to vacate the village and move over to safer places and large sinkholes formed in the village could endanger lives. Kadapa District Collector K.V. Ramana and Geological Survey of India officials of Hyderabad visited Nayanoripalle village on Sunday and inspected the multiple sinkholes. Earlier, officials of the mining and groundwater departments conducted a survey on the Collector's directions and detected limestone deposits at a depth of 30 feet. Heavy rains since a week resulted in dissolving of the limestone and soil sunk to depths of 30 feet, the officials deduced. The villagers were panic-stricken with the formation of sinkholes of a diameter of 25 metres at several places in Nayanoripalle. | |
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