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Monday, 6 October 2014

Ancient nanostructures found in Ural mountains are out of place and time

An Oopart (out of place artifact) is a term applied to dozens of prehistoric objects found in various places around the world that, given their level of technology, are completely at odds with their determined age based on physical, chemical, and/or geological evidence. Ooparts often are frustrating to conventional scientists and a delight to adventurous investigators and individuals interested in alternative scientific theories.In 1991, the appearance...

Mother arrested after 4-year-old daughter brings backpack full of heroin to school

Police said 249 bags of heroin weighing 3.735 grams were found inside a 4-year-old girl's backpack. A Delaware mother was arrested after her 4-year-old daughter brought over 200 bags of heroin to school and passed them out to other children at a local daycare, according to police.Delaware State Troopers and medics were called to the Hickory Tree Child Care Center on Hickory Tree Lane in Selbyville Monday around 11:45 a.m. Staff at the daycare told...

Will gold crash with the Dow... or soar?

In 2008, we projected that the crash in the market was in fact a mini-crash and that the day would come when a more major crash would occur - one that reflected the level of debt. In recent months, this prognostication has been gaining traction - that a second, more severe crash is inevitable.There are two primary camps amongst economists with regard to the economic direction that a crash will generate: inflationists and deflationists.Inflationists...

NIH doctor dismisses Fox News host Elizabeth Hasselbeck's lunatic idea to close borders over Ebola fears

Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck speaks to Dr. Anthony Fauci Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Monday asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institiute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, why he was not recommending a "closing of our borders" in response to an Ebola outbreak in west Africa.On Monday's edition of , Hasselbeck pointed out that a freelance NBC cameraman was being allowed to return...

Who will profit from the wars in Iraq and Syria? The usual suspects: Halliburton, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing . . . .

An EA-6B Prowler attached to the Garudas of Electronic Attack Squadron 134 lands aboard the USS George H.W. Bush. If there's one thing we should have learned over the past 13 years of war, it's that war is good business for those in the business of war. Unfortunately, while profits for the Pentagon's contractors increase, so does the cost to taxpayers in billions in waste, fraud, and abuse. As America embarks on yet another war in the Middle East,...

Psychopathic: How 14 people made more money than the entire U.S. food stamp budget

© Rock.genius.com For the second year in a row, America's richest 14 individuals made more from their annual investments than the $80 billion provided for people in need of food. Nearly half of the food-deprived are children. Perversely, the food stamp program was CUT because of a lack of federal funding.In a testament to the inability -- or unwillingness -- of Congress to do anything about the incessant upward re-distribution of America's wealth,...

On the heels of Typhoon Phanfone, Typhoon Vongfong strengthens, threatens Japan

While Japan is now recovering from former Typhoon Phanfone, Typhoon Vongfong will continue to gain strength across the western Pacific Ocean this week.Typhoon Vongfong brought flooding rainfall and damaging wind to the northern Mariana Islands through Monday, local time. Wind gusts over 89 kph (55 mph) and and rainfall over 75 mm (3 inches) were common.Across the western Pacific Ocean, the combination of light wind shear and warm water will lead...

Cop arrested after breaking into woman's home and sexually assaulting her

A Rothschild police officer arrested over the weekend after a 21-year-old Schofield woman told police the officer sexually assaulted her in her home Friday was released Monday on a $2,500 signature bond.The officer, Corey A. Yolitz, 22, of Kronenwetter,was charged in Marathon County court Monday with second-degree sexual assault and burglary. He faces 52 1/2 years in prison if convicted on both charges.The woman, who is not being named as the victim...

US arms trade - the gift that keeps giving: ISIS militants scavenge bullets made in U.S., Iran, 19 other countries

. © Conflict Armament Research Weapons-tracking organization Conflict Armament Research worked alongside Kurdish forces to recover more than 1,700 cartridges used by ISIS. More than 20 percent of the ammunition was U.S.-made. "[ISIS] appear to have acquired a large part of their current arsenal from stocks seized from, or abandoned by, Iraqi defense and security forces," the report said. Most of the U.S. ammo was manufactured in the first decade...

Large explosion at Iran nuclear site kills two amid speculation of another Israeli sabotage

© www.zerohedge.com It was just yesterday when, in an interview with CNN, Israel PM Netanyahu reminded the world that before there was ISIS, there was Israel's most loathed enemy Iran, and told Fareed Zakaria that in addition to combating ISIS, Netanyahu said Israel and other moderate Arab states see Iran's nuclear program as a "twin" challenge that goes hand-in-hand with stopping the spread of radical Islam. From that point on it was only a matter...

Zimbabwe threatened with sanctions by Obama over Russian platinum deal

© New Zealand HeraldForeign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi and Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Mr Denis Manturov As Martin Armstrong exclaims, Obama is out of control. According to NewZimbabwe.com, Washington has said it will accelerate sanctions imposed against Harare in 2003, due to the Robert Mugabe-led government's closer ties with Russia over the US$3 billion Darwendale platinum project.columnist Nathaniel Manheru (who is thought...

Definitive data on the global warming climate change scam

Bookmark this.There is only one piece of US climate data which correlates with CO2 - the amount of data tampering NCDC is applying to US temperature. © Stevengoddard.wordpress.com All of the other relevant metrics show either no correlation, or negative correlation vs. CO2. The whole thing is a 100% scam - from top to bottom.Hot days show no correlation vs. CO2 © Stevengoddard.wordpress.com Severe tornadoes have declined as CO2 has increased ©...

U.S. would love to force China into "another Tiananmen Square" in Hong Kong

© Reuters / Tyrone SiuProtesters of the Occupy Central movement sit on a main road at the Mong Kok shopping district in Hong Kong October 6, 2014 The US would love to break Hong Kong away from mainland China or to goad Beijing into overreacting to the demonstrations, and that is what it actively seeks to achieve through NGOs, Dr. Conn Hallinan, from , told RT.RT: The protests have continued unabated for almost a week now, with Friday marked by street...

Ebola spreads to Spain as nurse who treated victims of disease in Madrid tests positive

© AFP Photo / Spanish Defence MinistryDoctors transfer Roman Catholic missionary Manuel Garcia Viejo who contracted the deadly Ebola virus, from Madrid's Torrejon air base to the Carlos III hospital upon their arrival in Spain. Photo released on September 22, 2014 A nurse who treated two Ebola patients at a Madrid hospital has become infected with the disease herself, health officials said. "Two tests were done and the two were positive," a spokesman...

Wolves at the gates of Paris - 2 seen within 40 miles of French capital

© AFP/GETTY IMAGESForests just outside Paris form an ideal environment for wolves because they are well stocked with wild boar and deer. Wolves have been spotted within 40 miles of Paris, in the first sighting so close to the capital since they crept back into France from Italy a decade ago."They are probably young adults who have separated from the pack as they search for a territory," said wildlife expert Eric Bas. "A wolf can roam about 100...

Daylight aerial anomaly recorded in Breckenridge, Colorado

© KUSAMatt Renoux at our Colorado sister station, KUSA, spotted this flying light over Breckenridge. Breckenridge Police say they are investigating reports of three "shiny" objects in the sky Friday morning."NORAD is not tracking any anomalies in that location. We are investigating," said Army Major Beth Smith, NORAD spokesperson.Multiple people have called in to report the objects floating in the sky. The Summit County Sheriff's Office is also...

Angry, rolling cloud is first new type in 60 years

© Agathman, via Wikimedia Commonsphotographed in Pocahontas, Mo., in 2008. isn't some obscure anatomical structure next to your peritoneum, nor is it a minor character from the movieNo, it's actually a type of cloud formation that weather fanciers have proposed for inclusion in the next edition of the World Meteorological Organization's "International Cloud Atlas," the ultimate reference source on the varieties of clouds.is Latin for "agitated...

FLASHBACK: Brown bear kills hunter in Irkutsk region, Russia

© Press Service of Main Office of the MIAThe bear remained nearby and was shot dead by a police marksman. 'Aggressive' animal surprised two hunters in daylight attack, mauling one to death.The other man escaped and rushed to the nearest village of Tonta where he sounded the alarm. Police and hunters went into the forest and found the dead 59 year old.The bear remained nearby and was shot dead by a police marksman.The incident - highlighted by police...

Furious Siberian brown bear gets revenge on hunter who shot him in the leg by ripping his car apart

Car-nage: A furious brown bear is believed to have staged this stunning revenge attack on the car of a hunter ... after he shot and wounded the animal in the thigh * The astonishing revenge attack apparently took place in a forest in Siberia* The hunter shot the wild brown bear in the thigh forcing it to flee * But when he returned to his car the next day he found it destroyed * Claw marks and footprints were visible in the wet clay at the scene...

Sierra Leone: 121 deaths from Ebola recorded in a single day

© Reuters/James GiahyueA health worker takes the temperature of people at a news conference on the opening of a new Ebola clinic, outside Monrovia October 3, 2014. Sierra Leone recorded 121 deaths from Ebola and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days since the disease appeared in the West African country more than four months ago, government health statistics showed on Sunday.The figures, which covered the period through Saturday,...

"Massive chick deaths" in Iceland's seabird colonies

© Tristan FerneArctic tern chick outside its nest in Iceland, July 1, 2014. When the days grew long, seabirds flocked to this hamlet on the edge of the Arctic to rear their chicks under the midnight sun. "Kria," shrieked the terns, calling summer up from the slumbering ground. Black cliffs were transformed into snowbanks of white kittiwakes. Puffins whirred between land and sea. Murres plied the shoreline, fulmars patrolled the skies. Everywhere...

FLASHBACK: Gettin Keto: Why we must dump grains, eat more fat! - Dr. Perlmutter

© Perlmutter Sugars and carbs, yes even the "healthy" kind, have been linked to everything from chronic headaches, insomnia, depression and even ADHD. Award winning author and American College of Nutrition Humanitarian of the year award Dr. David Perlmutter discusses his book "The Grain Brain".[embedded conte...

Washington has crossed the red line in Syria

At the recent United Nations Security Council (UNSC) led by President Obama its members have unanimously adopted a resolution to stem the flow of foreigners into the ranks of extremist organizations such as the Islamic State. On Wednesday, September 24, all the fifteen Security Council members voted unanimously to bind the UN Member States to adopt laws under which their citizens won't be able to fight under the banners of Islamist groups or recruit...

Chilly winter: Eurozone governments will 'enjoy' the fruits of pro-EU Kiev as latest Gazprom offer rejected

We will see soon enough just how high a price the governments of the eurozone are willing to pay for Kiev’s “European choice.” It seems that with the shelling of a school in the Kievsky district of Donetsk on Wednesday (bringing the death toll in eastern Ukraine to well over 3,500), the ceasefire between Kiev and the Russian-backed separatists will likely not hold. And while most of the attention with regard to the economic costs associated with...
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