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Joe Quinn
Sott.net 2013-08-21 06:50:00
The mystery surrounding the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi al-Fayed on August 31st 1997 has been revived recently by the claims of a British SAS sniper whose testimony was part of the trial of another SAS soldier who was convicted of illegal weapons possession. The parents-in-law of the SAS sniper in question, known only as "Soldier N", claim that he boasted to his wife that the "SAS was behind Princess Diana's death". Unsurprisingly, the media reaction to the story has been to dismiss it, citing, incorrectly, that the investigation into Diana and Dodi's deaths was conclusive, that it was an accident, and that there was "no evidence of conspiracy". In fact, this alleged "new evidence" has done little more than provide the media with an opportunity to, once again, ridicule any idea that there was anything strange about the events in Paris that night. It is also interesting to note that, in just a few weeks, a new film about Diana's life, entitled 'Diana', will be released. The general consensus among the great British and world public seems to be that Diana and Dodi and their driver Henri Paul died as a result of a car crash caused by pursuing paparazzi. It's rather perplexing that this should be the case because the jury in the official 3-month-long inquiry into their deaths returned a verdict of "unlawful killing" and the paparazzi were exonerated. How does this happen? Well, how did it come to pass that 50% of American citizens believed that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks, despite the fact that no one, not one person, ever made such a statement publicly? Answer: The mainstream media's real job is not to report the news but to 'catapult the propaganda' that the 'elite' hope will become the new 'reality' or historical record. |
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Sott Editors
Sott.net 2013-03-03 12:00:00
U.S. President Barack Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize after spending his first year in office overseeing the expansion of the CIA's drone assassinations program in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and elsewhere. Earlier this year, French President François Hollande was awarded UNESCO's Peace Prize for bringing 'peace and stability' to Africa, following two months of French bombing campaigns and ground troop invasions of several West African countries, notably Mali. This was necessary, Hollande told French citizens, to protect their homeland from attack by "terrorists". The week we discussed this on SOTT Talk Radio, another three UK Muslims were accused of planning a "mass suicide bomb plot" that would have been "worse than 7/7″, according to hysterical British police and mainstream media. In the U.S., the FBI has been supplying "terror suspects" with materials to act out "terror plots" as part of sting operations the government then uses to justify all manner of criminal behaviour, at home and abroad. When is all of this going to end? Never, if the advocates for "endless war" have their way. We're told "they hate us for our freedoms", so given that our freedoms are disappearing fast, we need to ask the question: Are the "terrorists" winning? Is there really a "Muslim terror threat"? Why do certain countries play leading roles in this stratagem? What are the real goals behind "humanitarian intervention" and "regime change" in country after country?
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Jonathan Cook
Al Jazeera 2013-08-16 22:07:00
New documentary argues success of country's weapons industry relies on exploiting Palestinians. Israel's secretive arms trade is booming as never before, according to the latest export figures. But it is also coming under mounting scrutiny as some analysts argue that Israel has grown dependent on exploiting the suffering of Palestinians for military and economic gain. A new documentary, called The Lab, has led the way in turning the spotlight on Israel's arms industry. It claims that four million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have become little more than guinea pigs in military experiments designed to enrich a new elite of arms dealers and former generals. The film's release this month in the United States follows news that Israeli sales of weapons and military systems hit a record high last year of $7.5bn, up from $5.8bn the previous year. A decade ago, Israeli exports were worth less than $2bn. |
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Al Jazeera
2013-08-22 22:02:00
Bomber drives vehicle packed with explosives into army headquarters near Ramadi, killing at least 14 people. A suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives to a military headquarters in western Iraq and blew himself up outside it, killing 14, police said. The attack on Thursday took place near the city of Ramadi, 100km west of Baghdad. Another six people were injured, and most of the victims were soldiers and police officers. Also on Thursday, gunmen killed four people in the northern province of Nineveh, including two soldiers, and wounded another in two separate attacks, one of them targeting a checkpoint. |
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Peter Grier
Christian Science Monitor 2013-08-22 21:50:00
The announcement by Pfc. Bradley Manning comes one day after a military judge sentenced him to 35 years in prison for leaking more than 700,000 classified files. The sex change he would like to undergo can take a long time. Pfc. Bradley Manning intends to live as a woman named Chelsea Manning, he announced in a letter provided to NBC's Today show on Thursday morning. Manning's statement comes one day after a military judge sentenced him to 35 years in prison for leaking more than 700,000 classified government files to WikiLeaks. "As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am female," Manning told Today. Manning's avowed transgender status is no surprise given that testimony during his trial indicated a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, meaning he wants to live as the opposite sex. Prior to his arrest, he created an alternative identity known as "Breanna" and sent his military therapist a photo of himself wearing lipstick and a blond wig. | |
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Comment: Anybody else getting a strong sense of deja vu? Charlie Sheen, Mind Control, 9/11 and The Sixth Extinction
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Steven Chase
The Globe and Mail 2013-08-20 21:18:00
Stephen Harper is rejecting accusations from political rivals that he is shuttering Parliament for an extra month this fall merely to avoid more questions on the Senate expenses scandal. However, those questions continue to follow the Prime Minister during his northern tour, and he said on Tuesday that there is "significant evidence" that some senators did not follow rules about what they could charge taxpayers for. Mr. Harper confirmed this week that he will be seeking to prorogue Parliament until October. MPs had been set to return on Sept. 16, but are now expected back some time after Thanksgiving, when a Speech from the Throne will lay out the priorities of a government halfway through its mandate. | |
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Reuters/Youtube
2013-08-22 21:04:00
It's been 50 years since iconic civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream Speech." Although a lot of progress has been made, the struggle continues. Linda So reports. | |
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Comment: To watch recordings of Martin Luther King's
speeches and understand who killed him and why, watch the unique
historical documentary Evidence of Revision.
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2013-08-22 20:59:00
Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak was released from prison Thursday and transported to a military hospital in a Cairo suburb where he will be held under house arrest, according to state TV. Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi had ordered that Mubarak be put under house arrest as part of the emergency measures imposed this month after a wave of violence sparked by the ouster of Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi, who had succeeded Mubarak as Egypt's first freely elected President. Thursday's move followed a court decision ordering the release in relation to charges of receiving gifts from a state-owned newspaper. The release threatened to stoke the unrest as the Arab nation is already roiled in a crisis over a military coup against Morsi. |
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CBC News Canada
2013-08-22 20:47:00
Tokyo Electric Power Company workers have detected high levels of radiation in a ditch that flows into the ocean from a leaking tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan's nuclear watchdog said Thursday the leak could be the beginning of a new disaster - a series of leaks of contaminated water from hundreds of steel tanks holdng massive amounts of radioactive water coming from three melted reactors, as well as underground water running into reactor and turbine basements. Tokyo Electric Power Co. says about 300,000 litres of contaminated water leaked from one of the tanks, possibly through a seam. The leak is the fifth, and worst, since last year involving tanks of the same design at the wrecked Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, raising concerns that contaminated water could begin leaking from storage tanks one after another. "That's what we fear the most. We must remain alert. We should assume that what has happened once could happen again, and prepare for more," Nuclear Regulation Authority chairman Shunichi Tanaka told a news conference. "We are in a situation where there is no time to waste." |
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Reuters
2013-08-21 20:29:00
Former Pope Benedict has said he resigned after "God told me to" during what he called a "mystical experience", a Catholic news agency reported. Benedict, whose formal title is now Pope Emeritus, announced his shock resignation on February 11 and on February 28 became the first pontiff to step down in 600 years. "God told me to do it," the Zenith agency quoted Benedict as saying to a visitor to the convent in the Vatican gardens where he is living out his retirement in near isolation. According to the agency, Benedict told his visitor, who asked to remain anonymous, that God did not speak to him in a vision but in what the former pope called "a mystical experience". |
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The Ugly Truth
2011-03-15 00:00:00
Ed note - to all those who scoffed at my questioning whether or not the present nuclear meltdown taking place at Japan's nuke facility might have been part of an Israeli intel operation aimed at demonstrating the power of Israel's stuxnet computer virus, Haaretz is now reporting that it was the Israeli security firm Magna that was providing security for the plant prior to the incident. Source: Haaretz Israeli firm which secured Japan nuclear plant says workers there 'putting their lives on the line' Magna CEO says Japanese workers at nuclear plant 'projecting business as usual' but says it is 'unclear if they are healthy due to the high level of radiation at the reactor, which is life-threatening.' The CEO of the Israeli company that installed the security system at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant said Thursday that those workers who have elected to stay behind are "putting their lives on the line" to save Japan. Magna BSP set up the security system about a year ago at the facility, which suffered extensive damage after the recent earthquake and tsunami, with particular concern over radiation leakage from the reactors at the site. The system includes cameras and a warning system, enabling the facility's security staff to monitor anyone attempting to trespass onto the site or damage the perimeter fence. The security system was designed to guard the plant against any hostile elements seeking to seize radioactive material to use in a terrorist attack. | |
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Christine Clarridge
The Seattle TImes 2013-08-22 13:59:00
Puyallup police have for years been selectively videotaping and watching young women change their clothes and use the toilet while in custody, according to a lawsuit filed today in Pierce County Superior Court. The lawsuit names as plaintiffs 11 women and one man who claim they were videotaped in various states of undress by officers in the city jail's holding cells. Attorney James Egan said the plaintiffs were "detained for misdemeanors only to become the victims" of what he called "felony voyeurism." Egan said he began investigating the police department's booking and surveillance practices more than two years ago. He called the practice of observing detainees a "peepshow." But Puyallup City Attorney Kevin Yamamoto claims that cameras in jail holding cells are nothing new, that all Puyallup detainees are required to change into jail clothes for mug shots and that Egan went through the jailhouse videos and "cherry-picked" for alleged victims. According to Egan, the plaintiffs all had been detained by Puyallup police on suspicion of driving under the influence. They were taken to the police station where several plaintiffs claim they were patted down thoroughly and in a sexual manner, according to the suit. They then were directed into a video-monitored holding cell where they were told to strip and change into jail clothes for their mug shots, according to the lawsuit. Egan said there is no reason to require someone to change their clothes to pose for a mug shot. |
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Amy Sinatra Ayres
Yahoo!Shine 2013-08-23 07:44:00
When Rory the cat was rushed to the veterinarian in New Zealand after eating rat poison, the doctor turned to the archenemy to save him: a dog. Veterinarian Kate Heller didn't have cat blood available, and didn't have access to a lab to test Rory to find a match. So, she sought advice, and was told to try dog blood. Rory's owner, Kim Edwards, called a friend and asked if her 18-month-old Labrador Retriever, Macy, could donate the 120ml of blood needed for a rare interspecies transfusion - and it worked. "It was one of those situations that it was a do-or-die. So, he would have died if we did nothing," said Heller. Within an hour, Rory was recovering, and now, three weeks later, he's feeling like himself again. "He is not out fetching the newspaper or peeing on power poles or barking yet!" laughed Edwards. "He is just the normal cat that we have - playful, friendly." - Watch it at New Zealand's 3 News |
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Sarah Griffiths
The Daily Mail, UK 2013-08-23 13:24:00
Many people rely on their smartphone throughout the day to surf the web, check their email and send messages to friends. But what about during the night? A sleep expert has said an increasing number of people have started to use their phone and send text messages while they are asleep and often don't remember writing them. Dr Josh Werber warned sleep texting could have embarrassing consequences as well as leading to health problems as people are not getting enough quality sleep. |
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The Connexion
2013-08-23 09:42:00
Income tax bills will be dropping into letterboxes in the next few days and they will contain an unpleasant surprise for millions of taxpayers. The avis d'impôt sur le revenu for 2012 will see an increase for many, due to the freezing of inflation-linked income limits, and families could also see a rise in tax due to changes in the quotient familial. For 50,000 higher earners, a new tax band for those earning more than €150,000 per "part" will also mean a rise in tax. Some observers say that 15 million people will face rises, but Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault says it will be much less. |
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The Connexion
2013-08-22 09:38:00
A new draft law will force auto-entrepreneurs to leave the popular simplified business regime if they earn more than the minimum wage two years running. Business Minister Sylvia Pinel aims to please the artisan lobby with her proposals, which are expected to drop the upper limit for the regime from €32,600 for services to €19,000 and from €81,500 to €47,500 for sales businesses. Bodies representing artisans, especially in the building trades, have long claimed that auto-entrepreneurs cause "unfair competition". While these precise figures - mentioned by the minister in June - have been left out of the draft law, which has now been officially presented to the cabinet, Ms Pinel said the levels will correspond to the "Smic" minimum wage (on which the above figures were based). The final figures will be fixed later by decree after a parliamentary working group, headed by Socialist Laurent Grandguillaume, holds further discussions on the regime, starting this month. |
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The Connexion
2013-08-20 09:29:00
A report by school inspectors has highlighted that schools continue to enforce stereotypes and inequality between the sexes. The report by the l'inspection générale de l'éducation nationale highlights attitudes such as: - Choosing girls to look after the class while the teacher is briefly absent because they are more responsible. - Giving preferential treatment to boys because they are supposed to struggle more at school - Marking boys in terms of cognitive ability, while marking girls on the basis of positive attitude. Over half of girls pass through to terminale (ages 17+), without repeating a year, compared to 40% of boys. However girls are much less likely to pursue sciences, compared to their counterparts in Asia and the Middle East. |
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strangesounds.org
And they are talking about accidents?!?2013-08-20 13:57:00 Mysterious Explosion at New Jersey Navy station explosion - 8 hurt (ABC Local) MIDDLETOWN (WABC) - At least eight sailors were injured after an explosion and fire at the Naval Weapons Station Earle in Middletown, New Jersey, Tuesday morning.
Naval officials confirm that some kind of explosion happened during maintenance work on a 35-foot utility vessel in one of the buildings along the waterfront around 9 a.m. | |
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Comment: Earth is always moving!
The question is, what new factors have entered the solar system to cause all this mayhem at U.S. industrial factories and power plants? |
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Eric Pfeiffer
Yahoo! News 2013-08-21 23:52:00
Packs of wild, abandoned dogs are roaming the streets of Detroit, leaving city officials overwhelmed at the prospect of handing an issue that raises both animal rights and safety concerns. "It was almost post-apocalyptic, where there are no businesses, nothing except people in houses and dogs running around," the Humane Society of the United States director Amanda Arrington told Bloomberg News about a recent visit to Detroit. "The suffering of animals goes hand in hand with the suffering of people." Bloomberg reports that packs of the dogs have been spotted in groups as large as 20. In one case, Detroit police officer Lapez Moore said the city's animal-control unit recently found several of the dogs inside a flooded basement where thieves had torn out the building's water pipes. "The dogs were having a pool party," Moore said. "We went in and fished them out." But the reality of the situation is more dire than an impromptu animal pool party. Local shelters say they are forced to euthanize about 70 percent of the dogs that are brought it, and their facilities are overwhelmed by the sheer amount of abandoned and stray animals. |
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Karin Price Mueller
NJ.com 2013-08-12 10:21:00
Twenty-six cents almost cost Sergio Branco his life. Twenty-six cents. Most of us could scrape that up from under our couch cushions or on the floor of a car. Sergio Branco has 26 cents, too. The question was whether or not he would be permitted to pay it. Branco, a 33-year-old father of three, was a truck driver for Russell Reid, a Keasbey-based waste-management company. "In his spare time, he would play with his children, liked having barbecues and people over for gatherings," his cousin Sandy Marujo said. "He is a big kid at heart." In January, Branco wasn't himself. He didn't feel right. "He complained about bone pains and being extremely fatigued," Marujo said. "He decided to go to the emergency room." The Edison man underwent several tests, which indicated he had a very weak immune system. It could be leukemia, the doctors said. A few days later, a bone marrow test confirmed the diagnosis: acute myeloid leukemia. The disease, left untreated, travels fast and can kill within months, or even weeks, of diagnosis. Branco started a series of treatments including chemotherapy and transfusions, and he took three months off from work under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Doctors soon said he'd need a bone marrow transplant to prolong his life. They found a 10-point match - the best possible match. The transplant and related care for the disease would cost more than $500,000. Good thing the family had health insurance through Branco's job, they thought. But when his three-month leave under FMLA ended, Russell Reid fired him, Branco's family said. | |
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Comment: There was no "change of heart" on the part of
Russell Reid, just the fear of a lawsuit and a lot of bad publicity!
Psychopaths have no feelings.
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CBCNews Canada
2013-08-22 20:41:00
A reptile store owner under investigation for criminal negligence in the deaths of two boys after a large python escaped its enclosure had blood on his hands and shorts when police arrived at the scene in Campbellton, N.B., according to newly released court documents. Jean-Claude Savoie was distressed and pacing outside Reptile Ocean on Aug. 5, when he said four-year-old Noah Barthe and his six-year-old brother Connor were dead, police state in the documents. Inside, police found the boys' bodies on a mattress in an apartment above the store, where they had been sleeping. An African rock python kept in the apartment escaped its enclosure, slithered through the ventilation system and asphyxiated the boys, according to autospy reports. |
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Justin Pritchard
The Sacramento Bee 2013-08-22 20:12:00
A tour bus carrying gamblers to an Indian casino overturned along a Southern California freeway after sideswiping a car, injuring more than 50 people on board Thursday, authorities said. The driver made an "unsafe lane change" to the left, struck the car "and then overcorrected to the right," California Highway Patrol Officer Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh said. The skidding bus careened through a chain-link fence and down a dirt embankment, where it came to rest on its right side between the freeway and railroad tracks. Ambulances and helicopters converged on Interstate 210 in Irwindale, about 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, where firefighters laid out red, yellow and green tarps to evaluate the injured. Fifty-two people, mostly elderly, suffered minor injuries, according to doctors and fire officials. At least one passenger reported wearing a seatbelt, Van Valkenburgh said. Some of the passengers were able to get out on their own, while others needed to be rescued by firefighters or drivers who stopped to help, said Los Angeles County Fire Capt. Brian Jordan. | |
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Comment: This is eerily similar to another casino bound tour bus crash that occured earlier this year:
Two killed, dozens injured in bus rollover on Bush Turnpike in Texas |
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Ian Millhiser
Think Progress 2013-08-20 09:00:00
If you go shopping in Huntsville, Texas, you're likely to run into a local preacher with an assault rifle slung across his back. Beginning last week, Pastor Terry Holcomb started posting videos of himself wandering into local businesses with an AR-15 Bushmaster rifle - the same weapon used to kill 20 children and six adults in the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting. In one video, Holcomb wanders about a Walmart for several minutes before he is approached by two store employees and asked to leave. He argues briefly with those two employees until a manager approaches and threatens to call the police if he does not exit the store. Although Holcomb then agrees to leave the store, he refuses a request to stop videoing the engagement - at one point, his camera man claims the recording is for Holcomb's "safety." |
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The Marietta Times
2013-08-22 00:13:00
Athens - Greece's Culture Ministry has warned against "overbold" speculation that an ancient artificial mound being excavated could contain a royal Macedonian grave or even Alexander the Great. Site archaeologist Aikaterini Peristeri has voiced hopes of finding "a significant individual or individuals" within. Greek websites enthused that it could hold the long-sought grave of 4th-century B.C. warrior-king Alexander the Great - thought to lie in Egypt. A Culture Ministry statement Thursday said the partly-excavated mound has yielded a "very remarkable" marble-faced wall from the late 4th century B.C. It is an impressive 500 meters (yards) long and three meters high. But the ministry warned it would be "overbold" to link the site near ancient Amphipolis, 370 miles (600 kilometers) north of Athens, with "historic personages" before the excavation is completed. Source: Associated Press |
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SpaceWeather
Here we go again. Another comet is diving into the sun, the second one
this week. Coronagraphs onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
(SOHO) are monitoring the death plunge:2013-08-23 13:35:00
The icy comet, which probably measures a few 10s of meters wide, is vaporizing furiously and is not expected to survive much longer. Like the comet that came before it, this one is a member of the Kreutz family. Kreutz sungrazers are fragments from the breakup of a single giant comet many centuries ago. They get their name from 19th century German astronomer Heinrich Kreutz, who studied them in detail. Because of their common parentage, sungrazers often come in clusters. After today's sungrazer evaporates, it wouldn't be surprising to find yet another in the offing. Stay tuned. |
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Nancy Atkinson
Universe Today 2013-08-23 13:30:00
Recent observations of Jupiter's moon Io has revealed a massive volcanic eruption taking place 628,300,000 km (390,400,000 miles) from Earth. Io, the innermost of the four largest moons around Jupiter, is the most volcanically active object in the Solar System with about 240 active regions. But this new one definitely caught the eye of Dr. Imke de Pater, Professor of Astronomy and of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California in Berkeley. She was using the Keck II telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii on August 15, 2013 when it immediately became apparent something big was happening at Io. "When you are right at the telescope and see the data, this is something you can see immediately, especially with a big eruption like that," de Pater told Universe Today via phone. de Pater said this eruption is one of the top 10 most powerful eruptions that have been seen on this moon. "It is a very energetic eruption that covers over a 30 square kilometer area," she said. "For Earth, that is big, and for Io it is very big too. It really is one of the biggest eruptions we have seen." |
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Clara Moskowitz
LiveScience 2013-08-23 08:34:00
Strange particles called neutrinos have a habit of switching identities, changing from one flavor into another - a transformation that may help probe some of the fundamental mysteries of the universe. Now researchers conducting an underground particle detector experiment in China have published their latest measurements of this shape-shifting, which is called neutrino oscillation, and report the most precise values known for certain parameters describing how it occurs. Neutrinos come in three flavors - electron, muon and tau - which each exist as a mixture of three possible neutrino masses (though the actual value of these masses is currently unknown). Neutrinos may start as one flavor, say electron neutrinos, and then switch into muon or tau neutrinos as they travel through space. |
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Veronica Linares
Littleton, Colorado got a taste of winter
as a blast of wintry rain and hail hit the city on Thursday. The hail
storm pounded parts of the city, dropping 6 inches of hail on one street
and flooding the area with up to 4 feet of water.United Press International 2013-08-23 16:21:00 According to KPLCTV, kids were excited to get some snow in the middle of the summer. "I'm excited. It's fun in snow," one child reportedly said. Adults, on the other hand, weren't as pleased with the storm. Bryndon Jackson, who was driving when the storm struck, said he got stuck in a flash flood and was buried in hail. "All of a sudden my car just started getting washed away. Water flying up over the hood coming up to my windshield," he said. "It's freaky, it's weird."
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Giosia Wozniacka
Associated Press via Yahoo News 2013-08-23 16:14:00
A giant wildfire raging out of control spread into Yosemite National Park on Friday as authorities urged more evacuations in nearby communities where thousands have already been forced out by flames marching through the timbered slopes of the western Sierra Nevada. The fire has hit the park - whose streams and lakes, grandeur and granite peaks attract millions of people from all over the world - at the height of summer season, just a week before the Labor Day holiday. The blaze has closed backcountry hiking in the park, but was not threatening the Yosemite Valley region, one of California's most popular tourist destinations. The fire grew to more than 165 square miles and was only 2 percent contained. It continued to spread in several directions, although "most of the fire activity is pushing to the east right into Yosemite," said Daniel Berlant, spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Smoke blowing across the Sierra into the state of Nevada forced officials in several counties to cancel outdoor school activities and issue health advisories, especially for people with respiratory problems. |
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Rare sea turtle gets lost off British coast while swimming more than 3,000 miles across the Atlantic
Jennifer Smith
The Daily Mail,UK 2013-08-23 14:08:00
A rare, endangered sea turtle was spotted off the Dorset coast after it got lost on its way to the Mediterranean. The 4ft loggerhead turtle was seen as it made its 3,000 mile journey across the Atlantic from the east coast of America. It is thought the unusually warm UK waters fooled the creature into thinking it had arrived in the Canary Islands.
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The Daily Mail, UK
2013-08-23 13:44:00
The victims were standing on the banks of the Qiantang River in China's Zhejiang province yesterday when the surge took them by surprise. The power of the river was exacerbated by Typhoon Trami, a devastating tropical storm which has swept across the region this week.
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The Extinction Protocol
2013-08-23 13:09:00
Mount Hobalt, an underwater volcano off the coast of Lembata island, East Nusa Tenggara, briefly erupted on Tuesday but did not cause any damage, officials and residents said. "Based on information received from the head of the Center for Vulcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation [PVMBG], the mountain erupted Tuesday morning," Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the head of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), said. Sutopo called on villagers living around the volcano to remain alert, but added that there was no need for residents to be evacuated from the area. "The PVMBG is closely monitoring the volcano," Sutopo said. Petrus Bote, who heads the district's disaster mitigation office, said that district authorities were preparing for the possibility of a larger eruption by bolstering stocks of emergency relief supplies and increasing manpower around the area. "Many people, including fishermen, saw the peak of [Mount Hobalt] surface for a few minutes," Peter said on Tuesday. He said that a similar phenomenon took place when the volcano last erupted in May 1999. Tini Thadeus, the head of the NTT Disaster Mitigation Agency, said that the volcano briefly belched a column of smoke and ash that reached between 1,000 and 2,000 meters above sea level at around 7:13 a.m. on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Victor Mado Watun, the island's deputy district chief, said that another volcano, Mount Ile Wereng, which straddles the inland subdistricts of Atadei and Wulandoni, also experienced a brief eruption. Victor said that a three-kilometer radius danger zone around the two mountains has been declared. "The district's disaster mitigation office has sent two teams to the Atadei and Wulandoni. They are monitoring the activity of two volcanoes there and are registering the number of villagers living near them," Victor said. Hobalt is one of the five active submarine volcanoes in Indonesia, a country that sits on three geological fault lines dotted with volcanoes. - Jakarta Times |
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YouTube
Activity has remained elevated. A series of ash emissions caused by
moderately strong vulcanian-type explosions occurred over the past days.
This morning, an ash plume rose to 8,000 ft (2.4 km) altitude and
drifted east. Meanwhile, Shiveluch: The volcano continues to extrude a
new lobe of viscous lava (visible as the dark patch in the webcam image)
at the lava dome, as well as produce occasional (usually small) ash
explosions - Volcano Discovery2013-08-23 13:06:00
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The Extinction Protocol
A major eruption occurred yesterday evening. Starting at 17:45 (local
time), the top part of the Caliente lava dome collapsed and produced a
series of relatively large pyroclastic flows and explosions. Ash plumes
rose more than 2 km to elevations of 4 km altitude. The cause of the
eruption was likely the accumulation of pressurized magma and gas under
the dome composed of viscous (solid) lava. The pyroclastic flows
affected mainly the south, southeast and NNE sides. Bombs from explosive
activity were ejected to distances of 500 m. - Volcano Discovery2013-08-23 13:02:00
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The Connexion
2013-08-22 09:33:00
Climate change and rising sea levels could mean the world's leading coastal cities - with Marseille being the financial and business centre most at risk in France - facing increased flooding with costs running into the billions to provide basic protection. A study for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said that the 136 leading coastal cities could face losses of a trillion dollars a year - €750billion a year - as they had been designed to cope with past sea levels. They were built to cope with expected 100-year storm surges but were not built to face the expected 0.4metre rise caused by climate change over the next 40 years and the more devastating floods that will be produced. World Bank economist Stephane Hallegatte led the study, called "Future Flood Losses in Major Coastal Cities" and published in Nature Climate Change, and said: "Inaction is not an option. Coastal cities will have to improve their flood management, including better defences, at a cost estimated around €37.5 billion per year for the 136 cities." |
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France24
2013-08-23 01:15:00
An estimated 600,000 people in the Philippines remained at temporary shelters or with relatives on Friday after days of heavy rain that killed 20, officials said. A day after floods ebbed in the capital Manila, stagnant pools of water and high tides in coastal areas prolonged the misery in the central Luzon plains to the north, civil defence official Josefina Timoteo told AFP. "These are mainly farmers and fisher folk who still cannot return to their homes or resume work. We are still supplying their needs," said Timoteo, the civil defence chief for the region. "These are low-lying regions and this happens every year. It is a way of life for many of them and the local governments are well-organised to provide relief." Seasonal monsoons dumped more than a month's rain in Manila and surrounding provinces between Sunday and Wednesday, the state weather service said, submerging about half the capital in floodwaters. |
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USA Today
2013-08-22 23:59:00
Rio De Janeiro - About 10 tons of dead fish have been discovered in a Rio de Janeiro lake that sits next to the city's future Olympic park. Environmental officials are investigating the fish kill. Biologists say it was likely caused by raw sewage making its way into the water, as has happened before. Rio has many problems with water pollution. Many of the waterways near where Olympic events are to be held have been found to be polluted. Rio's Cedae sewage company says in a Thursday statement that all of its treatment plants are operating normally in the region where the dead fish were found. But it says it's sending out teams to see if any pipes are leaking. Source: Associated Press |
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I Made Sentana
The Wall Street Journal 2013-08-22 07:15:00
Jakarta - Indonesian authorities have been warning local villagers in East Nusa Tenggara Province about increasing volcanic activities in the area in recent days. "The people around the areas should continue to practice caution" despite there not having been fresh volcanic activity on Wednesday, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the spokesman of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency. The agency reported on Tuesday two volcanoes in the East Nusa Tenggara Province have shown "increasing activities." The volcanoes are subsea Mount Hobalt and and Mount Ili Werung. It noted Mount Hobalt erupted Tuesday morning, spewing cloud as high as 6,560 feet above the sea level for around two minutes. |
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Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Yoseph Kelen
Jakarta Globe 2013-08-14 00:00:00
Hundreds of evacuees of the eruption of the Rokatenda volcano on Palue island, East Nusa Tenggara, are suffering from illnesses at three rescue centers, sparking claims the government has not provided enough assistance. "It seems like the central government is not paying enough attention. Is it because it has received low media coverage and so the government has not been that serious in helping?" said Saleh Husin, a legislator from the People's Conscience Party (Hanura). Saleh, who comes from East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), said the central government should play a key role in the management of evacuees. Tini Thadeus, head of the local disaster mitigation agency, said up to 560 people have fallen ill with acute respiratory tract infections as of Wednesday. Tini noted that local medical teams on the field have been supported by medical teams from the Army and several nongovernmental organizations offering free medication at three evacuation points. The Sikka district had received plenty of aid, he said, but evacuees in Ropa in the district of Ende and Mbay in the Nagekeo district still require treatment. |
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| Fire in the Sky |
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WVEC.com
Virginia Beach - From the Outer Banks to York County, people reported
their homes shaking, things falling off the walls and even hearing odd
sounds. We asked about it on the WVEC13 Facebook page and hundreds of people talked about what they experienced around 8:00 a.m.2013-08-23 09:49:00
Jennifer Goyet posted, "I was in my garage and I did not feel it BUT I heard it. Sounds like something bumped into my garage door from the wind but I looked and no wind." "Hampton got three loud rumbles about a minute or two apart. Didn't feel like a quake but a trash truck or thunder," posted Ketie Martines. Kimberly O'Connor Melnyk wrote, "I live 1/2 a mile from the court house in Virginia Beach. My house shook, and a few seconds later, it shook again." Jim Ansell posted, "Shook the house in Knotts Island. 4 in a row. Lasted about 3-4 seconds each and were between 30 sec-1 min apart." The U.S. Geological Survey told 13News Now there was a sonic boom reported in Norfolk at 8:00 a.m., but officials didn't have information on the source of the boom. A sonic boom is caused by planes flying faster than the speed of sound.13News Now checked with NAS Oceana and was told that no flight operations were going on that would have caused it. Over at Tidewater Community College, Greg Frank, Dean of Natural Sciences at the Virginia Beach campus, said no instruments picked up anything indicative of an earthquake. That would indicate that the event was either a surface disturbance (ie. Explosion) or atmospheric (ie. Sonic boom). Even the NOAA site did not pick up anything, he said. |
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| Health & Wellness |
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Scott Sutherland
Geekquinox 2013-08-22 20:35:00
Mental illnesses are notoriously tricky to diagnose, and many patients suffer in silence until it's too late - too embarrassed or too incapacitated to ask for help. Wouldn't it be amazing if our bodies gave clues to call out problems we find difficult to voice? Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine recently published findings suggesting just that. They've found biomarkers in your blood will reveal thoughts of self-harm you've been concealing. Biomarkers are chemicals that show up in our bodies in response to different illnesses and conditions. In studies stretching over the past decade, psychiatrist Alexander Niculescu III and his team have worked to find biomarkers that correspond to different psychological states, and their most recent work has been biomarkers that indicate suicidal tendencies. Taking nine male subjects who suffered from bipolar disorder and had experienced a recent, sudden onset of suicidal thoughts, the team was able to identify one protein in the blood - called SAT1 - as a likely candidate. They then compared the results to samples obtained from the blood of men who had actually died from self-inflicted wounds. The same protein was present, and in even higher concentrations. |
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ICTMN.com
2013-08-19 19:38:00
The theory behind the Paleolithic Diet, short-named the Paleo Diet, is that mimicking the diet of our ancestors some 10,000 years ago - prior to the European construction of the agriculture and grain-based diet - is the healthiest way to live. Also referred to as the caveman diet, Stone Age diet and hunter-gatherer diet, the Paleo Diet is focused on avoiding refined foods, trans fat, dairy and sugar, and consuming lean proteins; fresh vegetables and fruits; and healthy fats through nuts, seeds, avocados, fish oil and grass-fed meat. Among the touted health benefits are improved blood lipids, weight loss, and reduced pain from autoimmunity. And the diet is scientifically proven to help stave off degenerative diseases such as obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, depression and infertility. In a 2007 study comparing the Mediterranean and Paleo diets, the Paleo Diet group reversed the signs and symptoms of insulin resistant, Type 2 diabetes. Meanwhile the group practicing a Mediterranean Diet experienced little to no improvements. | |
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Comment: Read also:
Some anti-paleo arguments you might encounter and how to refute them Paleo Diet Works: High Fat Diet reverses the Overloaded,Under-fuelled Condition - A case study The Unspoken Truth about the Paleo Diet & Weight Loss The paleo diet explained A Real Paleo Diet - Grassfed Meat, Fat, and Organ Meats |
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Andy Sedlak
WHIO 2013-08-22 16:47:00
Bellbrook - A family in Ohio said they've witnessed a medical miracle, and a doctor said he's never seen anything like it. It was quiet outside of Christ's Church in Bellbrook on Tuesday. It was quiet inside, too. All ears were on Tony Yahle. For the first time, the 37-year-old spoke out about a series of events that have many people using the word "miracle." "Nobody really has an explanation for it... medically, anyway," he said. Earlier this month, Yahle's family found his breathing was off and he didn't have a pulse. Family members did CPR and he was eventaully taken to Kettering Medical Center. The hospital said Yahle was "coded" for 45 minutes as team of medical personnel tried to stimulate his heart. He was declared dead the afternoon of August 5. |
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