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Joe Quinn
Sott.net 2013-06-06 07:15:00
I recently wrote an article explaining the reasons why I think there were no 'actors' used in place of victims at the Boston Marathon bombings. In that article I made reference to other websites and researchers who had taken up the 'actors' meme and run with it. In this article I'll be looking more closely at the 'evidence' that has been presented in support of the 'actors' theory. Before I begin though, I should explain how and why my approach differs from the approach that the 'actors' advocates have taken. When trying to decide whether a particular conspiracy theory, or particular angle on a conspiracy theory, is likely to be true or false, my approach is to first look at the plausibility of the theory in question. In terms of the Boston bombings, the idea that 'actors' took the place of real victims is the theory. When I first was forced to consider this theory, it took me about 3 minutes of rumination before it began to make no logical sense whatsoever. I more or less spelled out the lack of logic in my previous article, but it can be summed up as: why would a US intel agency choose to use actor victims at a bombing that is designed to terrify the US population into believing that evil terrorists are out to kill them when they could very easily just plant a bomb and let the bomb do what bombs do best, kill and maim people? Why would a US intel agency choose to do this when, if you think about it, it massively complicates the planning of such an operation and greatly increases the chances of the official story falling apart? To date, no one has offered a sensible answer to this question. Some bloggers have claimed that the use of 'crisis actors' at the Boston bombings is an attempt to further blur the lines between what is real and what is false, between fantasy and reality, and usher us all into a 'reality TV' world. That's a reasonable enough idea, but hasn't that fantasy world already been achieved, to a great extent, with the long list of US/Israeli/British false flag "Muslim terror attacks" over the past 15 years? Isn't the yawning chasm between what most people believe about "Muslim terror attacks", and the likely truth behind them, wide enough that it constitutes an already massive break with reality? What do the PTB have to gain, vis a vis the public, by adding the 'actor victims' element into the mix. If the average person in the street is none the wiser about the presence of 'actors', isn't that functionally the same, from a psy-ops point of view, as if victims were real people and not actors? If people believe the 'actors' to be real victims, what's the point in having actors rather than real victims? Maybe the answer is that US intel agencies have suddenly grown a conscience and an aversion to killing people, hence their use of 'actors'? But the last time I checked, those high-level intel and government types were still a bunch of conscienceless, blood-thirsty, murderous bastards who delight in the suffering of others. So basically, that's where I was coming from when I began to look at the 'actors' theory. I could find no logical reason for the inclusion of 'actors' and many reasons why they should not be used. In addition, I found the alleged evidence for 'actors' at Boston sorely lacking in that it relied on conjecture, supposition and a good measure of imagination, all to make the evidence fit what appears to be a pre-established theory. Basically, all of the 'actors' theorists seem to have used an "ink blot test" approach to their analysis of the photographic evidence from the Boston bombings. Note, it wasn't that I was averse to the idea of the Boston bombings being staged by some element of US intel agencies - far from it. I was more or less fully convinced (based on the hard evidence and historical context) that the Boston bombings were a dyed-in-the-wool, false flag "homegrown terrorism attack", designed, like all others, to justify US imperial warmongering and to terrorize the American people into trusting their authorities and looking to them for protection. |
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Rania Khalek
Dispatches from the Underclass 2013-06-05 11:13:00
The Philadelphia School District's (PSD) state-run School Reform Commission voted in March to close 23 public schools, nearly 10 percent of the city's total, in a move they say is necessary to plug a $304 million budget deficit. Last month that same Commission followed up with a "doomsday" education budget (more like austerity on steroids) that if left unchanged will result in 3,000 layoffs and the elimination of clubs, counselors, librarians, assistant principals, secretaries, athletics, art, music and more. The Philadelphia Inquirer added that "Class sizes would be larger, and schools would have no aides to help manage them or support staff to monitor lunchrooms and playgrounds." Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. called the cuts catastrophic and is requesting money from the state, but local media speculates that the GOP-controlled state legislature is unlikely to pitch in. Considering that the House just passed a corporate tax break that if approved by the Senate will cost the state an estimated $600 million to $800 million a year, the local media is probably right. No Money for Schools, But Plenty for Prisons! Meanwhile, Pennsylvania Republican Gov. Tom Corbett and his Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel are spending $400 million to build a brand new prison in Philadelphia, which the Associated Press referred to as "the second-most-expensive facility ever built by the commonwealth, exceeded only by the Pennsylvania Convention Center." It's actually two prisons called State Correctional Institutions Phoenix I and II. Corbett and Wetzel say the new prison will replace the State Correctional Institution at Graterford, which was originally built to house Philadelphia prisoners, who currently make up 25 percent of Pennsylvania prisoners despite accounting for just one-with of the state's population. |
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Meghan Keneally
Daily Mail UK 2013-06-06 08:33:00
The National Security Agency is collecting telephone records for millions of Americans without informing the individuals involved, it was revealed late on Wednesday night. A copy of a secret order to obtain phone records for all Verizon customers was obtained, showing that the NSA was monitoring all incoming and outgoing calls made on that network. The backlash will not stop with the millions of Americans who are Verizon customers, as there is no way of knowing if other phone companies have had the same clandestine order placed upon them as well. The Guardian obtained a copy of the order that forces the phone company to hand over records of phone calls starting in late April for all of its customers on a 'ongoing, daily basis' without giving specific parameters. Because of the lack of distinction, it means that the phone records are not just being collected for suspected terrorists, but the company's entire consumer base. The only restriction set forth in the order seems to be the duration of the exchange. It was approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on April 25 and it denoted that it would only hold water until July 19, so just shy of three months. Verizon is believed to have nearly 150million customers across the U.S., all of whom could potentially be affected by the controversial court order. |
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RT
2013-06-06 11:24:00
The New York State Senate passed a controversial bill on Wednesday that aims to classify 'aggravated harassment of a police officer' as a crime, but will it give the authorities the green light for strong-arm tactics if passed? " Sponsored by Senator Joe Griffo, Bill S.2402 would make it a felony to "harass, annoy, or threaten a police officer while on duty." "Our system of laws is established to protect the foundations of our society," Senator Griffo said. "Police officers who risk their lives every day in our cities and on our highways deserve every possible protection, and those who treat them with disrespect, harass them and create situations that can lead to injuries deserve to pay a price for their actions." Griffo said that New York police require extra safeguards because "too many people in our society have lost the respect they need to have for a police officer.... We need to make it very clear that when a police officer is performing his duty, every citizen needs to comply and that refusal to comply carries a penalty." The bill, which will now move to the State Assembly, would make it a crime for a person to make any type of physical action aimed at intimidating a police officer. Harassment of a police officer would be recognized as a Class E Felony, punishable by up to four years in prison. Not surprisingly, the bill has won accolades from police. |
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Snejana Farberov
Daily Mail UK 2013-06-06 08:28:00
A Washington woman suffering from mental and hearing disabilities was left with severe bruises on her face after she claims an officer punched over and over her because she could not understand his orders. Megan Graham, 36, of Federal Way, dialed 911 while being arrested last Monday to complain about police brutality after being pulled over by an officer and hit in the face. Things quickly spiraled out of control during Graham's run-in with police officers, whom the 36-year-old disabled woman had accused of hitting her several times in the face while attempting to restrain her. The Federal Way Police Department, however, insists that it was Graham who was violent and disorderly. The 36-year-old woman now faces a felony assault on an officer charge. She is set to be arraigned June 10. It all started at around 7.15pm last Monday when Graham pulled into the parking lot of Forest Cove Apartments, where her friend lives. Moments after the woman stopped the car, a police cruiser drove up behind her with its lights flashing. Graham was under the impression that the officer spotted her using her cell phone while driving. Police records indicate that Officer Justin Antholt approached Graham and asked for her license and registration. Graham showed the officer her license, along with an expired insurance card. |
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David Francis
The Fiscal Times 2013-06-03 00:00:00
The number of contractors working in Afghanistan now vastly outnumbers American troops stationed there, according to a Congressional Research Service report. CRS, along with the Government Accountability Office, also determined that the Pentagon is unable to properly document the work these contractors are doing. And the information DOD is receiving is often unreliable and inaccurate. According to CRS, there are now 108,000 private workers in Afghanistan, a workforce that dwarfs the 65,700 American troops still stationed there. That means there are 1.6 contractors for every American soldier in Afghanistan. This is an increase from last month, when The Fiscal Times reported that there were 1.4 contractors per American soldier. Given the size of the private forces, it's not surprising that CRS found that in recent years, the Defense Department spent more than any other agency to support contractor work. "Over the last six fiscal years, DOD obligations for contracts performed in the Iraq and Afghanistan areas of operation were approximately $160 billion and exceeded total contract obligations of any other U.S. federal agency," CRS found. |
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Andew Adams
KSL.com 2013-06-06 17:37:00
An increasing number of lawsuits are being filed over fired Utah Highway Patrol trooper Lisa Steed. People who claim they have been wrongly convicted are trying to clear their names. Steed's case is raising questions about what the innocent can do to protect their rights when stopped by police, even on a minor traffic violation. Chad Ray was one of Lisa Steed's DUI convictions. On March 8, 2010, he had picked up his drunk brother and was headed home when Steed stopped him. "I passed the walking tests," Ray said. Though Ray said he wasn't drunk and passed all subsequent tests, he was arrested. And his drunk brother? Left along the side of the freeway. "I said, 'Are you really going to leave my brother on the freeway like that?' She said, 'It ain't my problem,' " he said. Ray ultimately chose to fight his conviction when he saw news of Steed's troubles. His lawsuit is one of three so far involving Steed that prosecutors are not contesting. Attorney Mike Studebaker has filed on 21 other cases like Ray's, and he's looking into more than 90 others. "We will file as many post-conviction cases as need to be filed," Studebaker said. Studebaker explained the basic game plan for these post-conviction lawsuits, known as "petitions for post-conviction relief," is to argue that due to the misconduct that has been revealed about Steed, the convictions should be vacated. Studebaker said details of Steed's record should have been disclosed to defense lawyers. |
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Press TV
2013-06-06 16:30:00
More than 25,000 Belgians have staged a rally in Brussels, protesting against the government's austerity measures while demanding equal status for workers and employees. The march on Thursday was organized by the Socialist and Christian Democratic unions, which estimated the number of protestors at 35,000. "Austerity is not the solution, it is the problem. We must change course. [There] should be more and better jobs," Secretary of the Christian Democratic Union Claude Rollin said.The protesters also expressed opposition to a proposal presented by Prime Minister Elio di Rupo's government to freeze wages for public sector workers for two years. |
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kens5.com
2013-06-05 10:45:00
A father was tazed by San Antonio police while trying to save his infant boy from a house fire. The incident occurred at around 2:30 a.m. Sunday during a house fire in the 100 block of Morningview Drive. Investigators said the parents of the eight-month-old boy had dropped off their children at their grandparents' house. Somehow, a fire got started inside the home shortly thereafter. The grandparents managed to grab one boy and rush to safety. That's when they realized one boy was still trapped inside. Emergency crews and the children's parents arrived on the scene at around that time. The boy's father tried several times to enter the burning home, but police held him back and ended up tazing him. SAPD said it was for his own safety. The infant died from injuries sustained during the blaze. Arson is under investigation. Police said the stories just don't add up. No criminal charges have been filed. The family is now looking for a new place to stay. |
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Alexis Shaw
ABC News 2013-06-05 11:09:00
A high school cheerleader has been arrested for allegedly pimping out a fellow member of her Minnesota pom-pom squad. Montia Parker, 18, of Maple Grove, Minn., is due in Hennepin County District Court to face felony charges of sex trafficking and promoting prostitution on June 12. Parker, a senior at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, Minn., allegedly contacted a fellow cheerleader after she overheard her talking with girls on the team about trying to make money, the complaint stated. Through text messages, Parker allegedly asked her sophomore teammate if she would be willing to have sex for money. The victim told Parker that she'd be willing to give men oral sex for money, according to the complaint. Parker allegedly advised the teen to take photos of herself that were "not too nasty but kinda cute" and to send them to her. Parker told the girl to wear "different outfits" and "show a little skin," the complaint stated. Using the photos the victim sent her, Parker created an ad for the 16-year-old on Backpage.com, according to the complaint. |
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Rocco Parascandola AND Sasha Goldstein
The bloody scene horrified tourists when a man started shouting
about government corruption and pulled a knife on himself Thursday
morning. Matt Lauer and other Today show cast members were set to film
nearby.New York Daily News 2013-06-06 10:16:00
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CBC News
'War on the homeless' treats homeless like 'animals,' local advocate says 2013-06-05 04:55:00
The City of Abbotsford has apologized for spreading chicken manure over a popular gathering place for the homeless in an apparent bid to drive them out of the city. "I am deeply sorry for our actions," city manager George Murray wrote in an email obtained by CBC News. "As city manager, I take this situation very seriously and retain full responsibility for the manner in which we dealt with this incident." The practice of using chicken manure to drive away the homeless came to light after local advocate James W. Breckenridge wrote a column titled "This Stinks" in the Abbotsford Today community newspaper. |
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The school has, as noted in contract, has fined Chelsey $1,000. The fine must be paid to receive her diploma and transcript.Powwows.com 2013-06-05 00:00:00 Chelsey Ramer is a member of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. Despite being warned, Chelsey wore an eagle feather on her graduation cap. The school issued a warning and asked all seniors to sign a contract about commencement. Chelsey did not sign the contract. The school has, as noted in contract, has fined Chelsey $1,000. The fine must be paid to receive her diploma and transcript. Chelsey feels she has been discriminated against. Is wearing an eagle feather in graduation covered in the American Indian Religious Freedom Act? Is the fine justified?
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Dabney Bailey
Opposing Views 2013-06-05 00:00:00
Police are sworn to uphold the law, but some police officers are allowing their political beliefs to trump their job responsibilities. As many as 200 police officers across the country are actively ignoring existing gun control laws in order to protest pending gun control legislation. Police Chief Mark Kessler of Gilberton Borough, Penn., and hundreds of fellow pro-gun police officers gathered at the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association to talk about hot-button issues affecting modern police officers. One of the biggest topics was how police officers were rebelling against federal and state gun control laws. Kessler boasted that he and city officials worked together on his so-called Second Amendment Protection Resolution, which "nullified every single gun-control law in the nation" for his small 800-person town. |
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Clara Moskowitz
LiveScience 2013-06-06 14:32:00
A new breakthrough in the strange business of "quantum entanglement" may make measuring eerily connected particles easier than ever, scientists say. Under the mind-bending rules of quantum mechanics, two particles can become entangled so that they retain a connection even when separated over long distances. The properties between the two are correlated so that an action performed on one will affect the other. To study entangled particles, physicists have to be able to detect them. In some experiments, researchers measure one of the entangled pair first, and its presence signals, or "heralds," the presence of the second particle. Recently, a team of physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute in College Park, Md., achieved a new record in heralding efficiency, meaning they were able to detect more twin particle pairs than ever before. In the experiment, the researchers used what's called a pump laser to produce a beam of light that passes through a special type of crystal. Occasionally, the photons of light in the laser beam will split in two, essentially, after passing through the crystal, creating a new pair of correlated photons. These photons will hit a detector screen exactly 180 degrees apart, so if the researchers find one, they know to look directly across the circle pattern formed on the detector, to the point 180 degrees around, to find the other. |
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EurkeAlert.org
Every 6.6 years, the comet Giacobini-Zinner circulates through the inner
solar system and passes through the perihelion, the closest point to
the Sun of its orbit. Then, the comet sublimates the ices and ejects a
large number of particles that are distributed in filaments. The oldest
of these particles have formed a swarm that the Earth passes trough
every year in early October. The result is a Draconid meteor shower -
meteors from this comet come from the northern constellation Draco - ,
which hits the Earth's atmosphere at about 75,000 km/h, a relatively
slow speed in comparison with other meteoric swarms.2013-06-06 12:12:00 Josep Maria Trigo, researcher from the CSIC Institute of Space Sciences (ICE), states: "When a comet approaches the Sun, it sublimates part of its superficial ice and the gas pressure drives a huge number of particles that adopt orbits around the Sun, forming authentic swarms. The study shows that in the evening from October 8th to 9th 2011, the Earth intercepted three dense spindles of particles left behind by the comet when it crossed through the perihelion". The researchers, who published their results in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society magazine, have obtained the orbits of twenty meteors in the solar system. Thus, they have confirmed the origin of the particles that caused the outbreak in that periodic comet. For this, they have count on 25 video-detection stations operated by the Spanish Meteor and Firewall Network (SPMN) and the collaboration of amateur astronomers. Two of those filaments of meteoroids, which had been theoretically predicted already, have been identified by scientists with those left by the comet in 1874, 1894 and 1900. Nevertheless, researchers have confirmed that there was another dense region intercepted by the Earth which had not been predicted and that involves a new challenge for theoretical models. In a second article, researchers analyze the chemical composition of six fireballs from that swarm of the comet recorded during the outbreak. José María Madiedo, researcher from the University of Huelva and coordinator of this second study, asserts: "One of them, with an initial mass of 6 kg and nearly half a meter in diameter, named Lebrija in honor of the city it over flew, came to compete with the brightness of the moon that night". The six analyzed fragments have a possibly similar composition to the carbonaceous chondrites (a type of organic-rich meteorites) but they are much more fragile. Trigo emphasizes: "They don't seem to have suffered any chemical alteration during their brief stay in the interplanetary environment, which turns out to be very interesting to confirm the astrobiological role of these particles in the continuous transportation of water and organic material to the Earth". |
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WTF News
2013-06-05 00:00:00
The mystery blob that appeared on radars across the Tennessee Valley on Tuesday is still unexplained. The anomaly as it is affectionately being called, started appearing on doppler screens in the early afternoon hours and eventually covered an area nearly the size of Huntsville city limits itself. The blob was accompanied by increased military aircraft activity and numerous reports of strange chemical odors. Huntsville, Alabama is largely anchored by various military-industrial complex companies, the NASA program and one of the largest US military bases, Redstone Arsenal. Redstone Arsenal is home to new units and personnel as a result of BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) as well as many classified entities. To see a headline like this raises many possibilities to mild skeptics and the reckless conspiracy theorists alike. Scanning the internet, many blamed the anomaly on HAARP, which is not farfetched for a number of reasons, but unlikely in this case. Others mentioned chemtrails as it is constantly rumored that new, stealthier geoengineering technologies have been developed of late. What is known is that there were more than the usual number of military helicopters flying around Tuesday afternoon. It is common to see the occasional training happening in Huntsville skies but there was an increased number of helicopters out, including multiple twin rotor Chinooks and an above average number of civilian copters. WTF News editor Baran Hines also noticed the uptick in activity over Huntsville. |
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Brett Smith
RedOrbit 2013-06-06 13:07:00
For years, people have known about the amount of human-generated trash that ends up in the ocean, but a new study in the journal Deep-Sea Research I: Oceanographic Research Papers showed just how deep our detritus sinks, particularly in the waters around Monterey, California. "We were inspired by a fisheries study off Southern California that looked at seafloor trash down to 365 meters," said lead author Kyra Schlining, a senior research technician at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Scientists from the MBARI examined 18,000 hours of underwater video collected by cameras on the institute's remotely operated underwater vehicles in search of man-made debris along the ocean floor. "We were able to continue this search in deeper water - down to 4,000 meters," Schlining said. "Our study also covered a longer time period, and included more in situ observations of deep-sea debris than any previous study I'm aware of." The videos had been used to identify objects and animals that appeared in these videos and record them in the MBARI's Video Annotation and Reference System (VARS). In the latest study, Schlining and her colleagues combed through the database to locate video clips of rubbish on the seafloor. They were able to identify over 1,500 observations of deep-sea debris, from sites near Vancouver Island to the Gulf of California to the Hawaiian Islands. |
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Deborah Sullivan Brennan
U-T San Diego 2013-06-04 09:59:00
Wildlife rehabilitation centers have rescued more than 1,550 sea lion pups along Calfornia's coast during this record year of strandings, but the number of new cases seems to be tapering off. SeaWorld, a prime intake facility for these pups, has between 70 and 80 sea lions in its care these days. That's down from nearly 200 at the height of the crisis in March, spokesman Dave Koontz said. The marine-themed park's rehabilitation center is taking in about three to five pups per week, he said, down from more than 10 per day at the peak. Since January, SeaWorld has rescued about 340 stranded pups, Koontz said. Most of these emaciated and dehydrated animals are found right at the coast, but a few have reached places such as a hotel, a resident's garage and the middle of a busy road. In March, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared a "marine mammal unusual mortality event" for California, in response to stranding rates that were nearly three times higher than the historical average. "The number of admits to rehab in recent weeks has definitely been much less than it was at the height of the event in March," said Sarah Wilken, marine mammal stranding coordinator for the agency. "But there are still a lot of animals in the centers that are in need of care." At SeaWorld, stranded sea lions receive hydration and nutritional treatment, along with medical care, before being released back to the wild after a few weeks or months. About 10 percent to 15 percent of the pups treated at the park's rehab center this year have become stranded again and required a second rescue, Koontz said. "Some of them just need a little bit more help," he said. Scientists believe that population changes among squid and small fish - primary sources of food for sea lions - may have triggered the strandings as newly weaned pups struggled to find scarce prey. They're analyzing data about food supplies and certain diseases in their quest to pinpoint the leading cause of this year's unusual toll. "There are some early indications, but the answers are going to be better in July, after this year's pups are born," Wilken said. "For the moment, everyone's grateful for the breather. But we're not yet saying that it's over." |
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Freida Frisaro
Heavy rain was pouring across much of Florida early Thursday as the
first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season headed toward the
state's western coast and a new tropical storm warning was issued for a
swath of the U.S. East Coast.Associated Press 2013-06-06 10:06:00 Tropical storm warnings were in effect for a large section of Florida's west coast from Boca Grande to Indian Pass and for the East Coast from Flagler Beach, Fla., all the way to Cape Charles Light in Virginia.
Tropical Storm Andrea's maximum sustained winds increased to near 60 mph (95 kph) and the storm was expected to make landfall in Florida's Big Bend area Thursday afternoon before moving across southeastern Georgia and the Carolinas. It was not expected to strengthen into a hurricane. "The rain covers a good portion of the Florida peninsula even though the center is a couple of hundred miles off shore," said Eric Blake, a hurricane specialist at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. |
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IndiaToday.in
Shipping containers are partly immersed in water at the flooded harbour
in Riesa in the federal state of Saxony after the Elbe river has broken
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Residents and emergency crews had worked through the night to fight the
floods in Dresden. The German military and the national disaster team
sent more support in a frantic effort to sandbag levees and riverbanks
as floodwaters that have claimed 16 lives since last week surged north.2013-06-06 09:53:00
"Everybody's afraid but the people are simply fantastic and sticking together," said Dresden resident Silvia Fuhrmann, who had brought food and drinks to those building sandbag barriers. The Elbe hit 28 feet, 9 inches around midday - well above its regular level of 6 1/2 feet. Still, that was not high enough to damage the city's famous opera, cathedral and other buildings in its historic city centre, which was devastated in a flood in 2002. Germany has 60,000 local emergency personnel and aid workers, as well as 25,000 federal disaster responders and 16,000 soldiers now fighting the floods. Further downstream, the town of Lauenburg - just southwest of Hamburg - evacuated 150 houses along the Elbe, n-tv news reported, as the floodwaters roared toward the North Sea. |
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Marybeth Haydon
Vineoflife.net 2013-06-04 00:26:00
Passau - Swollen rivers gushed into the old section of Passau in southeast Germany on Monday, as water rose in the city to levels not seen in more than five centuries. The city was one of the worst hit by flooding that has spread across a large area of central Europe following heavy rainfall in recent days. At least eight people were reported to have died and nine were missing due to floods in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. "The situation is extremely dramatic," Herbert Zillinger, a spokesman for Passau's crisis center, told The Associated Press. Much of the city was inaccessible on foot and the electricity supply was shut down as a precaution, he said. Rescuers were using boats to evacuate residents from flooded parts of the city. But with water from the Danube, Inn and Ilz rivers relentlessly pouring into the city, water was advancing into previously dry streets - in one case going from dry to ankle-deep within half an hour. Markers set in 1954, when the city suffered its worst flooding in living memory, have disappeared beneath the rising water. |
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FEMA
2013-04-12 10:25:00
Floods are one of the most common hazards in the United States, however not all floods are alike. Some floods develop slowly, while others such a flash floods, can develop in just a few minutes and without visible signs of rain. Additionally, floods can be local, impacting a neighborhood or community, or very large, affecting entire river basins and multiple states. Flash floods can occur within a few minutes or hours of excessive rainfall, a dam or levee failure, or a sudden release of water held by an ice jam. Flash floods often have a dangerous wall of roaring water carrying rocks, mud and other debris. Overland flooding, the most common type of flooding event typically occurs when waterways such as rivers or streams overflow their banks as a result of rainwater or a possible levee breach and cause flooding in surrounding areas. It can also occur when rainfall or snowmelt exceeds the capacity of underground pipes, or the capacity of streets and drains designed to carry flood water away from urban areas. Be aware of flood hazards no matter where you live or work, but especially if you are in low-lying areas, near water, behind a levee or downstream from a dam. Even very small streams, gullies, creeks, culverts, dry streambeds or low-lying ground that appear harmless in dry weather can flood. |
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Heidi Stevenson
Activist Post 2013-06-05 16:07:00
The misuse of antibiotics is not only causing new, never-before known diseases like E. coli and MRSA, the flesh-eating bacteria, it's also destroying the gut biome with devastating effects on our ability to deal with infections and destroying our ability to absorb nutrients from food. Emerging research shows that the harmful effects of antibiotics go much further than the development of drug resistant diseases. The beneficial bacteria lost to antibiotics, along with disease-inducing bacteria, do not fully recover. Worse, flora lost by a mother is also lost to her babies. The missing beneficial gut bacteria are likely a major factor behind much of the chronic disease experienced today. The continuous use of antibiotics is resulting in each generation experiencing worse health than their parents. Martin Blaser, the author of a report in the prestigious journal Nature writes: Antibiotics kill the bacteria we do want, as well as those we don't. These long-term changes to the beneficial bacteria within people's bodies may even increase our susceptibility to infections and disease.Overuse of antibiotics could be fuelling the dramatic increase in conditions such as obesity, type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, allergies and asthma, which have more than doubled in many populations. |
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Christina Sarich
Natural Society 2013-05-27 20:10:00
With cancer cures seeping into mainstream media from natural health practitioners almost weekly now, it makes one wonder why anyone would subject themselves to chemotherapy and radiation, since there is growing evidence that it poisons the body and simply causes the cancer cells to become temporarily dormant only to return later in fuller force. While these treatments are often used unnecessarily to 'treat' cancer patients, there are other, less invasive cures being used by Ayurvedic clinics all over India and in other parts of the world - some solutions having as much as a 90% success rate. In several clinics, lung and brain cancers have been treated with an over 90% success rate, and in almost every single case, the cancer was lessened. According to a clinical research test conducted in one Ayurvedic Clinic, lung cancers were minimized so effectively that only .09% of the participants in one 500-plus-person study still remained 'uncured'. | |
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Comment: Learn more about the benefits of Ayurvedic herbs:
Holy Basil for Stress Relief Why You Should Get To Know Neem Cloves Are the Best Antioxidant, Says New Study Embracing Health and Happiness through Ayurvedic Eating Ancient herb proven to be a potential cure for Alzheimer's Turmeric is the Anti-Aging, Anti-Oxidant, Anti-Inflammatory Super Spice |
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Danielle Prohom Olson
bodydivineyoga.wordpress.com 2011-02-05 20:31:00
There is no way around it. Nearly two decades of research on yoga has conclusively established that yoga not only improves physical fitness, overall health, and mental and emotional well-being, it is a healing modality par excellence. In his comprehensive book, Yoga as Medicine, Timothy McCall, MD. discusses the evidence for the therapeutic value of yoga in many conditions including: alcoholism, anxiety and stress, asthma, ADHD, cancer, carpel tunnel syndrome, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, congestive heart failure, depression, diabetes, eating disorders, fibromyalgia, high blood pressure, infertility, insomnia, IBS, migraines, MS, neurological and neuromuscular diseases, osteoporosis, pain, rheumatoid arthritis, scoliosis, urinary stress incontinence...and the list goes on. Study after study shows yoga can help virtually every ailment under the sun - not to mention its amazing rejuvenating and anti-aging properties. (See links below) Moreover, a great deal of research also shows that these same healing benefits do not accrue from just doing regular exercise. So why is yoga different? |
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Michelle K.Smith
Irish Central 2013-06-05 07:00:00
Located near the harbor in Kinsale, Charlesfort plays host to the White Lady of Kinsale, one of Ireland's most famous and tragic ghosts. Charlesfort, or Dun Chathail in the Irish language, was built between 1677 and 1682 during the reign of Charles II as a fortress to defend against attacks from enemies approaching via the sea. William Robinson, who designed the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham in Dublin, is credited with the design of the fort. According to legend, one of the fort's soldiers married a local girl and they stayed at the fort for their wedding night. The soldier had watch duty that night and a bit drunk from the day's celebrations, fell asleep. Other soldiers in the fort found him asleep while on duty and following the protocol of the day, shot him at his post. After hearing about her husband's death, the bride flung herself to her death from one of the fort's walls. |
