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John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute 2015-12-28 18:43:00
In Harold Ramis' classic 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, TV weatherman Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray) is forced to live the same day over and over again until he not only gains some insight into his life but changes his priorities. Similarly, as I illustrate in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, we in the emerging American police state find ourselves reliving the same set of circumstances over and over again—egregious surveillance, strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, government spying, the criminalization of lawful activities, warmongering, etc.—although with far fewer moments of comic hilarity. What remains to be seen is whether 2016 will bring more of the same or whether "we the people" will wake up from our somnambulant states. Indeed, when it comes to civil liberties and freedom, 2015 was far from a banner year. The following is just a sampling of what we can look forward to repeating if we don't find some way to push back against the menace of an overreaching, aggressive, invasive, militarized surveillance state. | |
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RT
2015-12-28 16:24:00
The successful operations of the Russian Air Force against international terrorism in Syria have prompted other states to apply more effort in this direction, upper house speaker Valentina Matviyenko said in a recent press interview. "Russia has convincingly demonstrated its military and political leadership in this war which is important for all humanity. And this has caused other nations to become more active on the anti-terrorist front," Matviyenko told the Parlamentskaya Gazeta newspaper.The top senator added that the Russian authorities had decided to move to the front line of the anti-terrorist struggle for a valid reason. "We have been waging this war since the mid-1990s. We paid for our experience with hundreds of lives, and as a result we know that terrorism is a terrible threat," she noted. She added that the current air force operation in Syria is being conducted to ensure the security of the Russian Federation and its citizens, but at the same time is protecting the lives of all people on Earth and the security of the human civilization itself. "International terrorism can be defeated only through the joint efforts of the whole international community," Matviyenko concluded. | |
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Sputnik
2015-12-28 14:55:00
Russian combat aircraft have conducted 164 sorties and hit 556 terrorist targets in Syria over the past three days, the Russia's General Staff said Monday. "In three days, starting December 25, [Russian warplanes] conducted 164 sorties, hitting 556 terrorist targets in the provinces of Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, Hama, Homs, Damascus, Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa," chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Sergei Rudskoy told reporters. Russian jets have intensified airstrikes to aid the anti-terrorist offensive of the Syrian army and patriotic opposition forces, he stated. | |
Comment: See also: 2015: The year Russia exposed Western barbarism
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RT
2015-12-28 14:58:00
Turkey is training Islamic State terrorists in a camp disguised as a training ground for the Free Syrian Army, a 20-year-old jihadist captured by the Kurdish YPG told Sputnik. The prisoner said Ankara's help to the "moderate" Syrian opposition is not as innocent as portrayed. Captured by the Kurdish People's Protection Unit (YPG) fighters in Northern Syria in November, Abdurrahman Abdulhadi, a Syrian national-turned Daesh (Islamic State) fighter, says he was trained in Turkey before receiving his first assignment with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). The YPG maintains external security in the three Democratic Union Party (PYD) run areas, and is fighting Islamist groups, primarily Jabhat al-Nusra and IS. The PYD, an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey, has effectively been ruling parts of Syria after government troops were forced to withdraw from the areas in 2012. With special permission from the local Kurdish authorities, Russian journalists received first-hand testimony that Turkey is "a friend" of Islamic State. | |
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Israeli occupation planes have sprayed crop-killing chemicals on farmlands across besieged Gaza Strip, killing off crops in the coastal enclave.2015-12-27 23:52:00
It is the third time the Israeli occupation planes have targeted Gaza farms, killing massive amounts of crops, An estimated 371 acres of farming land in central Gaza and 50 acres of land in eastern Khan Younis have been affected. Farmers in Johr al-Deek, south of Gaza city, Al-Qarara town, north of Khan Yunis, and Wadi Al-Salqa agricultural town, south of Deir al-Balah, complained of the effects of the Israeli unknown chemicals on their crops. "Several farmers informed us that Israeli planes had sprayed their lands with pesticides," Wael Thabet, head of the plant protection department at Gaza Agriculture Ministry, said. | |
Comment: Israel is a shameless, psychopathic police state. See:
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RT
2015-12-28 14:24:00
European politicians don't say publicly anything sensible about the standoff with Russia, which they do in private, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. "Sometimes the things they say from a podium contradict what they tell you in one-on-one talks, when nobody can overhear them," the minister told Zvezda TV channel. "Alone most of EU members tell me things I find quite sensible, said Lavorov: that it was wrong to confront Russia over Ukraine, which, in fact, fell victim to this European Union policy that forced it to chose between the two. "They all say, let things quiet down a bit and we can go back to normal relations, the strategic partnership. But when they all gather together and speak in public, they just can't say those things," he said. Lavrov said such ambiguity puzzles him and puts it doubt the wisdom and foresight of EU officials. | |
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RT
2015-12-28 12:48:00
Explosions have rocked the Syrian city of Homs, the Syrian SANA news agency says. AFP cited the Homs governor, who said that at six people were killed and 37 injured in the blasts. The suicide bomber blew himself up, and almost immediately a car bomb exploded, and then another explosive device detonated at the site of the previous attack. According to preliminary data, over 30 were killed, the police source told RIA Novosti. The bombs reportedly detonated near the main square in the Al-Zahraa neighborhood, SANA news said.
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Comment: With a number of such attacks occurring in regions of Syria recently liberated from the terrorists, it looks like the regime changers are reverting to the tactics used in the first stage of 'Operation Regime Change Syria', when 'classic' terror attacks were carried out with car bombs and other pre-planted explosives.
Observe as the Western media goes completely AWOL with respect to explaining why a 'popular rebel movement' feels the need to deliberately target its supposed supporters. By the way, no 'suicide bombers' are used in such attacks. It's fairly clear that sophisticated, coordinated car-bombs and/or pre-placed bombs went off. In general, there is no such thing as 'Muslim suicide bombers', which is Western intel BS to slur Muslims and cover their own tracks. | ||
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Sam Gerrans
RT.com 2015-12-27 14:23:00
When Iceland jailed its bankers something changed. The unthinkable had happened: the real criminals had been held to account. Now Switzerland is also threatening to go off the fiat-bankster reservation. But will it happen? Josiah Stamp once said: "If you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit." Stamp knew whereof he spoke. Among his achievements, he was appointed a director of the Bank of England in 1928. All so-called modern, civilized countries are under the boot of the very mechanism Stamp described. Very few countries managed to achieve highly developed societies without it, such as Libya, Iraq and Syria. Those countries all have something else in common. Whatever can it be? However, other countries which have yet to become targets for unprovoked genocide at the hands of US agencies are waking up and smelling the pinstriped tyranny. Switzerland, for example: hardly a place traditionally associated with wild-eyed fanaticism, Switzerland is set to vote on banning banks from creating money. The English play football, drink beer and beat each other up in town centers in the evenings. The French pout and shrug and make simple things take a long time and cost a lot. The Swiss provide money a safe, boring place where nothing dramatic will happen to it, so that it may then be passed on to the next generation of rich people - preferably in an amount greater than was received - by this generation of rich people. So money is at the heart of what Switzerland does. Switzerland is also home to the Bank of International Settlements, which - while it sounds as exciting as double-entry bookkeeping - is, in fact, the spider at the center of the entire financial web. In an article entitled "Switzerland to vote on banning banks from creating money" theTelegraph reports: This sounds incredibly dull, doesn't it? But the idea behind it is what revolutions are made of. | |
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2015-12-27 19:33:00
Iraqi government forces have seized the government complex in the center of Ramadi - the last Islamic State stronghold in the western city, a military spokesman told Reuters. "By controlling the complex this means that they [Islamic State, IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL] have been defeated in Ramadi," Sabah al-Numani, a spokesman for the Iraqi counter-terrorism units leading the fight, told the news agency. Al-Numani stressed the complex is under full control of the Iraqi forces with "no presence whatsoever of Daesh [ISIS] fighters" adding that some militants could still be hiding in "pockets that could exist here or there in the city." According to al-Numan, a major clearing effort is still needed to allow Iraqi troops to move freely around the city as IS militants had filled the area with bombs and booby-traps. The necessity of a clear-up operation prevented the Iraqi government and the military from declaring a victory immediately, although some people in a number of cities were already celebrating, AFP reports. Iraqi forces advanced to the provincial government compound in Ramadi overnight and encircled the terrorists in the complex earlier on Sunday. The Ramadi offensive has been supported by airstrikes from the US-led coalition, but Iran-backed Shiite militias were barred from the operation by the government, in order to avoid sectarian violence in the mainly Sunni Anbar province.
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J. D. Heyes
Natural News 2015-12-28 19:03:00
To hear the anti-Second Amendment Left tell it, carrying a firearm for protection - of one's self and of the lives of those around him or her - is a myth perpetuated by the NRA and other gun rights groups and firearm manufacturers. | |
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Chris Hedges
Truthdig 2015-12-28 18:43:00
The seizure of political and economic power by corporations is unassailable. Who funds and manages our elections? Who writes our legislation and laws? Who determines our defense policies and vast military expenditures? Who is in charge of the Department of the Interior? The Department of Homeland Security? Our intelligence agencies? The Department of Agriculture? The Food and Drug Administration? The Department of Labor? The Federal Reserve? The mass media? Our systems of entertainment? Our prisons and schools? Who determines our trade and environmental policies? Who imposes austerity on the public while enabling the looting of the U.S. Treasury and the tax boycott by Wall Street? Who criminalizes dissent? A disenfranchised white working class vents its lust for fascism at Trump campaign rallies. Naive liberals, who think they can mount effective resistance within the embrace of the Democratic Party, rally around the presidential candidacy of Bernie Sanders, who knows that the military-industrial complex is sacrosanct. Both the working class and the liberals will be sold out. Our rights and opinions do not matter. We have surrendered to our own form of wehrwirtschaft. We do not count within the political process. | |
Comment: For more on climate change, see:
What's important to understand is that this totalitarian system Hedges so aptly describe, is one created by psychopaths in power. It's further kept in place by authoritarian followers. Their pathological worldview infects, fractures and eventually destroys the rest of society.
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BBC
2015-12-28 17:24:00
A "massive" fire has broken out at a building near to a number of factories in Leicester. The blaze started in Ross Walk, near Abbey Park, in the Belgrave area of the city at about 14:30 GMT. Leicestershire Police have asked people to avoid the area and told residents to keep windows and doors shut. Eyewitness Roy Rollings, a local parish councillor, said he could hear "loud bangs" and homes had been evacuated nearby.
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Jake Polden
Daily Mirror, UK 2015-12-28 15:30:00
This is the horrifying moment a train ploughed into a bus at a level crossing in Mexico killing four people. According to a police investigation, CCTV shows bus driver Concepcion Beltran Palomares crossing the tracks moments after a smaller car had done the same. The 43-year-old bus driver had apparently believed it to be safe to proceed and drove onto the crossing, which had no safety gates. The bus was then hit by the train travelling at full speed, leaving 22 of the 26 people on board injured, some of them severely, and four dead.
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Sputnik
2015-12-28 14:28:00
Muslims around the world have answered the call of Daesh (Islamic State) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to take up arms and join the terrorist organization with a bunch of hilarious comments mocking his words and the idea of "caliphate." Daesh recorded an audio message in which al-Baghdadi tried saying that his group is doing "better than ever," despite the increased pressure from the Syrian Army aided by Russian airstrikes, as well as a separate US-led bombing campaign. Al-Baghdadi called upon Muslims around the world to urgently join Daesh by supporting its cause and becoming new recruits. Unfortunately for al-Baghdadi, Muslims didn't buy into his nonsense, rejecting the message and laughing at Daesh's message on social media. | |
Comment: Also see: 2015: The year Russia exposed Western barbarism
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Sputnik
2015-12-28 13:59:00
Turkish society has been keeping silent about what happens in Kurdish towns, where Erdogan's army and police are shelling residential areas, killing more civilians every week. Why do even Kurds in western Turkey appear so indifferent on the issue? There are four reasons for residents of the west of Turkey to be indifferent or even hostile to the state violence against Kurds in the southeast, as described in a fresh column published in Al Monitor. The first reason is related to suppression of any opposition in the country. "It is not easy to raise one's voice in Turkey against the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government on any issue, especially when it involves the [outlawed in Turkey Kurdistan Workers' Party] PKK. Multiple times peace activists have fallen victim to terrorist attacks and arrests. For example, most recently 15 Dokuz Eylul University students were arrested in Izmir while protesting for peace," Al Monitor explains. | |
Comment: The actions of Turkey under Erdogan are despicable.The people are being terrorized, are being lied to about it, and have no idea what to make of what's really going on. No wonder, since many of these so-called 'terror attacks,' which are used to justify the violence, bear all the hallmarks of being manipulated by Erdogan and Turkish intelligence. Now doesn't that sound familiar? It's happening all around the globe:
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RT
2015-12-28 14:06:00
St. Matthews Mall in Kentucky became the scene of a massive brawl involving 2,000 people, forcing it to shut down and a big police presence to be set up around the perimeter. The chaos was apparently caused by a chain reaction, involving separate fights. Police first began responding to reports of "disturbances" at 7pm ET on Saturday. But the officers assigned to the mall could not cope with the load. According to the police, there was "a series of brawls" between people aged 13 to early 20s, which quickly grew to include up to 2,000 people, leaving "the entire mall" affected, NBC reports. "As they were responding to those disturbances, others were breaking out. ... Disturbances started to feed on themselves," police spokesman Dennis McDonald said. "They were just overwhelmed with the number of calls for service and reports of disorder." The officers had to call for backup, and 50 more officers arrived from five different agencies. | |
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Vivian Padilla
ABC15 2015-12-26 05:12:00
A man has died after being shot by an officer outside a police station on 39th Avenue and Cactus Roads Saturday morning, officials said. The Phoenix Police Department told ABC15 that a 30-year-old man was throwing rocks at a police cruiser as he was walking on a sidewalk. The officer turned his car around to make contact with the man, but by the time the officer made his way back, the man was already at the police station. | |
Comment: Sounds like what the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) do when Palestinian kids throw rocks - they shoot them dead, which is clearly an extreme over-reaction to an issue that would be simple to solve without killing anyone.
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Sputnik
2015-12-28 05:03:00
The biggest cities in the US are struggling from a lack of homeless shelters and food pantries as they appear unable to cope with the rising number of homeless people nationwide, a study by the US Conference of Mayors revealed on Tuesday. The past year has marked the year of homelessness in the US as Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Seattle — America's most populated areas — hosted a huge jump in the number of people on the streets, according to the Hunger and Homelessness study. Washington, D.C. ranks first in the list of cities with homeless as figures say it has 28 percent more homeless and 60 percent more transient families. The demand for food for the hungry rose 27 percent over last year's. The survey said that across twenty-two cities including Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, homelessness rose by 1.6 percent overall and handouts increased by 3 percent over the past year. | |
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PressTV
2015-12-28 04:55:00
A US researcher and social activist has criticized the United States for spending trillions of dollars on wars, destroying countries but failing to resolve the homelessness crisis that hits America's most vulnerable citizens. Dennis Etler, a professor of Anthropology at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Sunday while commenting on reports which say an increasing number of US cities are declaring states of emergency as homelessness is becoming more prevalent and a serious issue to deal with. | |
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RT
2015-12-27 20:27:00
A prominent Syrian journalist and filmmaker, who produced anti-Islamic State documentaries was gunned down by unknown assailants in broad daylight in Gaziantep, Turkey. This is the third assassination of a journalist in the country over the last three months. Naji Jerf, editor-in-chief of the Hentah monthly, known for his documentaries describing violence and abuses on Islamic State-controlled territories (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) was shot and killed near a building housing Syrian independent media outlets in the Turkish city of Gaziantep. His death was originally reported by a group of citizen journalists he was working with. Jerf recently completed a documentary investigating violence and crime in the IS-held parts of Aleppo for the RBSS group ["Raqa is Being Slaughtered Silently"]. The film won a Committee to Protect Journalists'(CPJ) International Press Freedom Award in November.
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George Capaccio
Common Dreams 2015-12-25 00:00:00
Daffy Donald proposes to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., while journalist Glenn Greenwald recently reported on the frightening upsurge in attacks on Muslims. As I write these words, I am listening to John Williams' score for the movie "Schindler's List." The music never fails to move me deeply. Whatever historical flaws or misrepresentations the film might have, the undeniable suffering of the Jewish people, along with millions of political dissidents and other "undesirable" human beings—the Untermenschen in Nazi parlance—is an escapable part of our history. And now the fascists and neo-Nazis among us aim to reawaken the very same mentality that led to the unimaginable cruelty and barbarity of their predecessors during World War II. What is particularly distressing in this recent outbreak of blind prejudice among a growing number of my fellow Americans is their apparent ignorance of our country's role in generating the humanitarian crises affecting Syria, Iraq and other Islamic countries in North Africa and the Middle East. Were it not for our almighty benevolence and exceptional commitment to bringing democracy to the oppressed and downtrodden, an untold number of innocent human beings would still be with us, here on Earth, living their lives, practicing their faith, loving and being loved. But our savage, power-driven, myopic leaders insist on carrying out their interventions, always according to God's plan or some equally demented design formulated in think tanks and board rooms and the halls of Congress with the noble goals of regime change and absolute control of energy resources firmly in mind. | |
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Owen Jarus
Discovery News 2015-12-28 09:02:00
An ancient marble altar showing a nude warrior battling a serpent monster has been discovered by villagers near the Akçay River in Turkey. Archaeologists said the altar likely dates to the second century A.D., a time when the Roman Empire controlled the area. The carved scene on the altar is difficult to interpret, archaeologists said. They think it may show a son of Hercules, named Bargasos, fighting a monster in a battle that would bring forth a beneficial river god named Harpasos, to whom the altar is dedicated. At the time of the altar's creation, the Akçay River was known as the Harpasos River. "According to [a command in] a dream, Flavius Ouliades set this up to the [river] god Harpasos," the Greek inscription at the top of the altar reads. The altar is 2 feet (0.61 meters) high and 1.5 feet (0.45 m) wide, and is now in the Aydin Museum in Turkey. The dedication suggests that Flavius Ouliades, the person who created the altar, had a strong belief in the river god, the archaeologists said. "As a result of a communication with the river god Harpasos in a dream, Flavius Ouliades was requested to dedicate an altar," wrote Hasan Malay, a professor at Ege University in Turkey, and Funda Ertugrul, an archaeologist with the Aydin Museum, in an article published recently in the journal Epigraphica Anatolica. Ouliades may have promised to set up the altar if the river god answered the man's prayers "for a good harvest or protection (for himself or his animals) from flooding or falling down the steep slopes or cure from its healing waters," wrote Malay and Ertugrul. | |
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Eric Jaffe
Actually, many Americans see themselves that way, too.City Lab 2015-12-11 13:33:00
Americans have a reputation for not exactly caring what the rest of the world thinks about them—a trait many public figures have lately been doing their best to enhance with each hysterical rant against refugees and immigrants. Turns out that message of self-absorption has long been received. In a series of studies published this month, an international group of behavioral researchers finds a universal perception of Americans as exceptionally—even "problematically"— | |
Comment: For more on the Dunning-Kruger effect:
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Misti Crane
Phys.org 2015-12-28 00:00:00
A songbird species that flourishes on the salmon-rich side of dams in the western United States struggles when it tries to nest on the side closed off from the fish and the nutrients they leave behind. But the songbird and the rest of the divided ecosystem rebounds, faster than some experts expected, when dams come down and rivers are allowed to resume their natural flow. Two new studies led by Christopher Tonra, assistant professor of avian wildlife ecology at The Ohio State University, illustrate the stress dams impose on species that rely on salmon and the impact of dam removal on the well-being of that wildlife. The areas previously depleted of salmon are on a fast track to recovery in a shorter time than he ever expected after the dam removal, Tonra said. "It's exciting to be able to show a real positive outcome in conservation. We don't always get that," he said. "That these rivers can come back within our own generation is a really exciting thing." During his time conducting the studies in Washington, Tonra watched reservoir beds that looked like moonscapes return to vibrant, rich habitat and cascades emerge where none had been, at least for the last century. | |
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RT
2015-12-28 20:16:00
A Christmas holiday weather-armageddon claimed the lives of over 40 people across the US over the weekend, with winter storms unleashing deadly floods and tornadoes that created havoc for travelers. Storms in the South, Southwest, and Midwest killed at least 43 people, with severe weather conditions prompting Missouri and New Mexico to declare states of emergency.
At least 13 people perished in flash flooding in Missouri and Illinois, where up to six inches of rain fell over the weekend, while in Texas at least 11 people were killed in the Dallas area by tornadoes. Advisories from the National Weather Service are still in effect for the central United States, and blizzard warnings remain for parts of New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. Flash flood warnings have been announced in a number of counties stretching from Texas to Indiana.
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The New Zealand Herald
2015-12-28 17:52:00
Floods in Australia's Northern Territory have forced hundreds to evacuate, closed roads and there are reports of crocodiles moving in to the towns. One woman is so far reported as dead and one man still missing in floodwaters, and 500 people from the community of Daly River have been evacuated to Darwin, with 390 currently being housed at the showgrounds. Residents of the remote Nauiyu community reported saltwater crocodiles had made their way into town in the floodwaters. The crocodiles were seen on the local football field and the NT News reported one had been seen taking two dogs. The Daly River is still above major flood levels at 14.68m, and is expected to remain so for several more days.
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Gerard Couzens
Daily Mail, UK 2015-12-27 15:43:00
A tourist has been bitten by a shark while swimming off the popular winter holiday destination of Gran Canaria. Victim Cristina Ojeda-Thies tweeted a photograph of the tooth-marks scarring her arm after she was treated in a hospital on Friday. But authorities are trying to play down the attack for fear that it would impact on tourism. 'Today I've had a face to face meeting with a shark,' tweeted Ms Ojeda-Thies. 'Things that happen when you swim in the Canaries in December.' Fernando Frias, President of the Canary Islands Shark Alliance which promotes shark conservation, called the incident a 'one-off'. | |
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Jareen Imam
CNN 2015-12-26 13:38:00
One unsuspecting Louisiana police officer was in for a hoot on Christmas Eve. Covington Police officer Lance Benjamin was riding alone Thursday with his windows down, patrolling the quiet streets of a Louisiana subdivision, when he felt something hard hit the side of his face. At first Benjamin thought he was struck by a football, he told CNN affiliate WVUE. "And then I felt some scratching on the back of my head and some pecking," he said. An owl had flown into the driver's side window and started attacking the officer with its wings, talons and beak.
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A preliminary magnitude-4.2 earthquake that struck 26 miles north-northwest of Barstow, in the Mojave Desert area, was reportedly felt by some in Los Angeles Sunday morning. The quake hit around 10:31 a.m. with a depth of .4 miles, the U.S. Geological Service reported. It was located 23 miles east-southeast of Johannesburg, 36 miles southeast of Ridgecrest and 62 miles northeast of Lancaster. Multiple KTLA viewers and several tweets indicated people felt it in the Hollywood, Northridge and Pasadena areas. There were no immediate reports of damage. | |
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katu.com
2015-12-26 12:17:00
Oregon Department of Transportation officials say a landslide has shut down Oregon 42 for at least the next few days. They say the highway on the border of Coos and Douglas counties was "crumbling like peanut brittle" from the force of the slide.
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The Extinction Protocol
2015-12-27 06:11:00
It's been anything but a Merry Christmas for the world, as far as Mother Nature is concerned. Nature is on a rampage and nearly everyone is feeling some degree of her wrath: flooding across the UK, torrential rains and flooding across a large swathe of South America, a searing heat-wave in Australia, raging wildfires in Southern California, the worst El Niño pattern seen in 15 years, unseasonably high temperatures throughout much of the US, storms in the US Southeast, a historic blizzard threatening the Texas panhandle, and 11 people dead from an outbreak of tornadoes that ripped through the Dallas area. All of this is indicative of a planet painfully reeling from the frightening fact that geologic and atmospheric change is pushing its climate to new extremes. Climate extremes are just one harbinger or omen of greater cataclysms to come, like one of the ill-fated riders of the apocalypse heralding a message of impending doom. Today, as the year 2015 draws to a dramatic close, we stand on the eve of a crisis marshaling across the horizon that will have profound implications for all life on planet Earth. - TEP
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Comment: See also: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - November 2015: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs
To gain further understanding as to how and why these events are occurring, read: Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection: The Secret History of the World - Book 3 by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk | ||
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Travel problems will occur across the south-central United States this weekend as a major storm brings everything from blizzard conditions to tornadoes. In terms of travel through the South Central states, the problems from the storm will range from minor inconveniences to life-threatening conditions.Accuweather 2015-12-27 17:42:00 This storm will slowly track northeastward across the South Central states into Monday with the likelihood of closed roads and flight cancellations. This storm will not only impact the South Central states. The Midwest and Northeast will be at risk for areas of ice, rain and snow on Monday.
Blizzard unfolds across New Mexico, southern High Plains "The storm diving into New Mexico and Texas will not only bring snow, but also strong winds," AccuWeather Meteorologist Evan Duffey said. The combination of strong winds and heavy snow will continue to create blizzard conditions from Roswell, New Mexico, to Lubbock and Amarillo, Texas.
"The worst of the blizzard will occur from eastern New Mexico to western Texas and the Oklahoma Panhandle, where white-out conditions will likely halt road travel and ground planes," Duffey said. Drivers are urged to never pass a snowplow as the road ahead could be extremely dangerous and covered in snow. Snowfall rates could exceed 2 inches per hour at times. Visibilities may be measured in feet. Over a foot of snow will fall from portions of eastern New Mexico into western Texas. This storm will move into portions of the Oklahoma panhandle into southwestern Kansas into Sunday night with blizzard conditions.
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Strange Sounds
Polar stratospheric clouds are back again around the Arctic Circle2015-12-27 23:05:00
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