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Sunday, 5 October 2014

Texas Ebola patient fighting for life, new US drug 'all gone'

© Reuters / Jim YoungA worker in a hazardous material suit carries out a barrel of contents from the apartment unit where a man diagnosed with the Ebola virus was staying in Dallas, Texas, October 5, 2014. The first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the US is in critical condition at a Dallas hospital and is not receiving any of the new experimental drugs for the virus, which has killed over 3,400 people in Africa, media reports say.Thomas Eric...

US-sponsored terrorism and subversion in China, 'The battle for Chinese sovereignty'

© AFPProtesters resting, or practicing for "democracy" Western style? fully exposed as US-backed protest movement, readers should be aware that this latest turmoil is but one part of a greater ongoing campaign by the United States to contain and co-opt the nation of China.As early as the Vietnam War, with the so-called "Pentagon Papers" released in 1969, it was revealed that the conflict was simply one part of a greater strategy aimed at containing...

From Al Qaeda to ISIL, "The Terrorists R US"

© UnknownUnited Nations Security Council Meeting, September 24, 2014, chaired by president Obama © Unknown Lest we forget, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, have been financing and training the ISIL terrorists on behalf of the United States. Israel is harboring the Islamic State (ISIL) in the Golan Heights, NATO in liaison with the Turkish high command has since March 2011 been involved in coordinating the recruitment of the jihadist fighters dispatched to...

Barack Obama's 'looser policy': Syrian, Iraqi women and children are a subhuman species not worthy of protection from drone strikes

© Desconocido While one can't help but snicker when the administration of a Nobel Peace Prize winner has launched at least 7 offensive wars, mostly against Muslim countries with virtually none obtaining prior approval from Congress, until now Obama at least showed the sense to realize that maintaining proper "made for propaganda media" optics matters, even if his underlying actions were the very definition of hypocrisy. And then something snapped....

Drinking water contaminated with tetrachloroethylene causing high rates of pregnancy complications and stillbirths

© ShutterstockPCE in drinking water doubles the risk of stillbirths for pregnant women. There's something in the water for moms-to-be to be afraid of because it's causing stillbirths and other pregnancy complications. Researchers from the Boston University Medical Center found a dangerous chemical in drinking water, and published their findings in the journalThe pregnant women of Cape Cod, Mass., were experiencing some abnormally high rates of pregnancy...

American Education: Brainwashing children and suffocating freedom

A modern historian looking to chronicle the destruction of the America we all once knew could do no better than to deconstruct the U.S. education system today.Along with providing American students a middling education at best - we rank 17th in the world and well-below-average for developed nations - what's really wrong with America's education system is the fact that we're engineering the next generation to become acclimated to what this country...

Vaccine Crimes: India holds Bill Gates accountable

As Bill Gates faces a lawsuit for the illegal testing of tribal children in India, it appears that his crimes against humanity have finally caught up with him.A recent report published by Health Impact News has reported that the Gates Foundation has found itself facing a pending lawsuit, due to an investigation that is being carried out by the Supreme Courts of India.Health Impact News stated:While fraud and corruption are revealed on almost a...

Newly discovered crystalline material can absorb and store oxygen

© sdu.dkThe crystalline material changes color when absorbing or releasing oxygen. Crystals are black when they are saturated with oxygen and pink when the oxygen has been released again. Danish scientists have invented a revolutionary crystalline material that can absorb and store oxygen in high concentrations. A bucket of such material can suck the oxygen out of a room, which could potentially wave goodbye to heavy oxygen masks.Imagine if you...

Creepy ties between pharmaceutical companies and doctors

© thesocioeconomicmarket.blogspot.com On Tuesday, the federal government released details of payments to doctors by every pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturer in the country. The information is being made public under a provision of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. The law mandates disclosure of payments to doctors, dentists, chiropractors, podiatrists and optometrists for things like promotional speaking, consulting, meals, educational items...

FLASHBACK: Unheralded mathematician Yitang Zhang bridges the prime gap

© University of New HampshireYitang Zhang On April 17, a paper arrived in the inbox of , one of the discipline's preeminent journals. Written by a mathematician virtually unknown to the experts in his field - a 50-something lecturer at the University of New Hampshire named Yitang Zhang - the paper claimed to have taken a huge step forward in understanding one of mathematics' oldest problems, the twin primes conjecture.Editors of prominent mathematics...

UK anti-war protests: Hundreds rally in London against British airstrikes

Hundreds of activists rallied against Britain's involvement in airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Saturday. Protesters marched through central London holding banners and chanting anti-war slogans.Demonstrators chanted "Hands off the Middle East, No justice, No peace," which marching toward Prime Minister David Cameron's Downing Street office, where the rally was planned to end.They held banners which read: "Stop bombing Iraq"...

Dallas Ebola-positive man possibly infected 10 in Texas

© Reuters/Jim YoungWorkers wearing hazardous material suits arrive at the apartment unit where a man diagnosed with the Ebola virus was staying in Dallas, Texas, October 3, 2014. US health officials are monitoring 10 quarantined people who had contact with a Liberian man infected by the deadly Ebola virus. The individuals are being checked regularly as medical officials play down the risk of an outbreak.The 10 individuals are considered to be at...

A look back at the trial that made rape a war crime

Sara Darehshori and Pierre-Richard Prosper photographed in 1997. The task was almost unimaginable in its magnitude.After the Rwandan genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 people were slaughtered over a hundred days in 1994, the U.N. created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda with the goal of bringing the organizers of the bloodshed to justice.The tribunal's inaugural case, led by two young U.S. prosecutors, would set a number of precedents...

SOTT FOCUS: Of Head Choppers and Climate Chaos

When the first ISIS 'beheading' video was released I was immediately struck by how utterly counter-productive it was for the 'Islamic State' to produce a glossy, high-definition video of the event and make it available to Western audiences. If the goal of such a dubious PR campaign was to intimidate the anglo-American Empire into backing off from attacking the alleged Levantine 'rebels', then it failed miserably. What's most amazing however is...
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