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Friday, 17 October 2014

Mexico: New graves found in hunt for missing students

© www.ibtimes.comProtesters hold photos of missing students outside the Attorney General's office. The 43 have been missing since they clashed with police almost three weeks ago in the town of Iguala. Vigilantes who joined the search said they had found six new burial pits, at least two of which contained what they believe are human remains. The search had been stepped up after forensic tests showed bodies found on 4 October were not those of the...

Russia's blacklisted Rosneft, billionaire Rotenberg take EU to court over sanctions

© RIA Novosti/Vladimir Fedorenko, Vladimir AstapkovichArkady Rotenberg, Igor Sechin State-owned oil company Rosneft and billionaire Arkady Rotenberg have filed a case in the European Court of Justice against the European Council challenging its decision over sanctions, according to papers filed with the court.Rosneft submitted the claim on October 9, and Rotenberg the next day, October 10.On October 9, Rosneft announced a tender to law firms worth...

1.6 million UK pensioners living in poverty

© Reuters More than one and a half million British pensioners are "floundering" on low incomes and consigned to poverty, a report by elderly care charity Age UK suggests.The research, How We Can End Pensioner Poverty, published on Friday, reveals that poverty among pensioners is rife in Britain, with 1.6 million living below the poverty line and a startling 900,000 living in "severe poverty."While Age UK acknowledges the number of this category...

Ebola scare at Pentagon after woman vomits in the parking lot

© REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueEmergency workers in hazmat suits work in a Pentagon parking lot after a woman who recently traveled to Africa vomited there, in Washington October 17, 2014. The Pentagon confirmed an Ebola scare on Friday in one of its parking lots when the woman vomited after getting off a bus headed to a high-level Marine Corps ceremony. She was taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital at 9:53 a.m. (1353 GMT), 43 minutes after Pentagon police identified...

WikiLeaks: Updated Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - IP Chapter

© consciouslifenew.com On Thursday 16 October 2014, WikiLeaks released a second updated version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the world's largest economic trade agreement that will, if it comes into force, encompass more than 40 per cent of the world's GDP. The IP Chapter covers topics from pharmaceuticals, patent registrations and copyright issues to digital rights. Experts say it will affect...

Playing European countries against one another: NATO is to blame for Serbia-Albania brawl on a football pitch

Who would expect that a football match between Serbia and Albania would turn into a battle? Everyone! It's Serbia and Albania; it was bound to happen.Not until US influence is excised from the Balkans can things ever settle down there, argues analyst Nikola Mirkovic.[embedded conte...

Frustrated parent with engineering degree lashes out at Common Core

© f_a_r_e_w_e_l_l/Flickr There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the Common Core Standards, and one parent's rant quickly made the Internet rounds after he expressed frustration over his child's math assignments.Earlier this year, Jeff Severt's son was given a math problem to solve using a number line and strategies, which is the new Common Core approach used in schools, KSDK reports. The assignment instructs kids to help a boy named Jack...

Heavy rain floods Toronto streets, snarls transit

© Garnet Fraser / Toronto StarA car is stuck in water on Ossington Ave. at the CP Rail underpass. Heavy rain and thunderstorms wreaked havoc on Toronto streets Thursday night, leaving cars stuck in water at several flooded intersections and lengthening the commute for many Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) riders trying to get home.Subway service was suspended both ways between York Mills and Eglinton stations due to flooding at Lawrence Station,...

After being cancelled by Sean Hannity, Russell Brand threatened with arrest for presenting 'The Trews' outside Fox News HQ in New York City

After Fox News cancelled my appearance on 'Hannity' we paid them a visit at their New York Headquarters.Subscribe Here Now and send links to video news items of topical stories that you'd like me to analyse.Produced & directed by Gareth Roy. Thanks to Jimi Crayon: @jimimackayand Urban Nerds: @urban_nerds for our creative services[embedded conte...

EPA gives green light to 'Agent Orange' herbicide, failing humans and the planet

© Chafer Machinery/cc/flickrEnlist Duo herbicide will threaten the existence of over 20 endangered species. "This was an unbelievably foolish decision," said an animal watchdog group. Ignoring the concerns of scientists, doctors, food safety advocates, environmentalists, and more than half a million U.S. citizens, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday issued their final approval for what has been dubbed Dow AgroSciences' 'Agent...

No No Nano: Micro-Machinations of industrial processed food

Mammona (Aaronsims) "To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd." - Wendell BerrySteadily, stealthily, corporations are driving the goodness of natural life itself from our food, and cleverly - though unwisely - infesting it with dim bits of microscopic material substance that are obscured from human awareness. I object. Wholeheartedly.Just as synthetic chemicals, manufactured additives, irradiation, and then genetically...

Psychopathic Israeli minister exploits Holocaust to justify making "1000 Palestinian mothers cry"

© ReutersA Palestinian looks out from the remains of his house in Beit Hanun, a town in the northern Gaza Strip The countries who have pledged vast sums to rebuild the Gaza Strip in Cairo Sunday will have made worthless donations if the people of the Gaza Strip return to terror, Transportation Minister Israel Katz said Sunday.Katz, who is one of the ministers closest to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, issued the warning at a gathering of some...

Nuland Lands In Kiev As US-Backed Regime Tools Up For War

In an ominous sign that the war in Ukraine is set to further escalate, US state department official Victoria Nuland arrived in Kiev where she met with senior members of the Western-backed regime.In recent days the ceasefire brokered on September 5 has come under intense pressure as Kiev military forces have stepped up their barrage of the eastern city of Donetsk, with several civilian casualties reported almost on a daily basis.As civilian homes...

U.S. Government to Award $1 Million for Best Ebola Hazmat Suit Design

Photo by Shutterstock The White House has teamed up with USAID, the CDC, and the U.S. Department of Defense to offer a $1 million award for a superior and improved HAZMAT suit design in hopes of better assisting healthcare workers in their fight against Ebola. Due to the humid environments of Ebola-affected countries, current personal protective equipment used by health workers cannot be comfortably worn for long periods of time. Titled ‘Fighting...

The $70 Trillion Problem Keeping Jamie Dimon Up At Night

Yesterday, in a periodic repeat of what he says every 6 or so months, Jamie Dimon - devoid of other things to worry about - warned once again about the dangers hidden within the shadow banking system (the last time he warned about the exact same thing was in April of this year). The throat cancer patient and JPM CEO was speaking at the Institute of International Finance membership meeting in Washington, D.C., and delivered a mostly upbeat message:...

Confronting battered citizen syndrome

State-sponsored terrorism poses a significant challenge to the psychological well-being of the body politic. While evident in many geopolitical locales, this condition arising from such government abuses is especially prevalent in the West. Such a disorder is comparable to the psychological manipulation recognized on a micro-level in some spousal relationships.Indeed, the 13-year-old "war on terror" has contributed to a grave societal malady that...

Abandoned mines in southern Arizona spill orange sludge caused by heavy rainfall from Hurricane Odile

© AP Photo/Arizona Republic, Gooch GoodwinThis undated photo shows orange sludge leaking from the Trench Camp Mine near Patagonia, Ariz. Heavy rain from Hurricane Odile has caused the two abandoned mines to spill orange sludge into waterways that lead to the popular Patagonia Lake in southern Arizona. A popular tourist attraction in southern Arizona is at risk of being contaminated with orange and brown sludge that spilled from two abandoned mines...

Wild boar and pig attacks in Vietnam - 2 in hospital in same week

© Minh ThuPeople in the central province of Nghe An tie up a feral pig that attacked a group of locals on August 3, 2013. Pigs sent two people in the central province of Quang Binh to the hospital in the same week.Nguyen Thi Hoai, 54, was given emergency surgery and a blood transfusion at the Vietnam-Cuba Dong Hoi hospital after a feral pig she was raising mauled her while she was feeding it.The woman suffered deep injuries to her thigh and buttocks...

Japan's massive 2011 earthquake may trigger more, and larger, volcanic eruptions

© AFP Photo/Yoshikazu TsunoSnow-covered Mount Fuji is seen from Tokyo, Japan, on February 16, 2014 Japan's massive 2011 earthquake may trigger more, and larger, volcanic eruptions over the next few decades, perhaps even that of Mount Fuji - but predicting them remains close to impossible, a volcano expert said on Friday.The nation last month suffered its worst volcanic disaster in nearly 90 years when Mount Ontake, its second tallest active volcano...

This is what school lunch looks like in Chickasha, Oklahoma

© EAGnews.org This has to be a joke.I don't think this is a joke.Please, someone tell me this is a joke.From EAGNews:Lunch meat, a couple of crackers, a slice of cheese and two pieces of cauliflower qualified as lunch in Chickasha Public Schools Monday.Student Kaytlin Shelton took a photo of the skimpy lunch and showed it to her parents."It makes me want to take that and take it to the Superintendent and tell him to eat it for lunch," the girl tells...

Starvation brings new nightmare to Ebola ravaged countries

© Independent Sierra Leone's fields are without farmers. Its crops go un-reaped. In the quarantine areas, feeding is patchy - some get food, others don't. People then leave the enforced isolation in search of a meal, so Ebola spreads. In three West African countries where many already live a hand-to-mouth existence, the act of eating is increasingly rare.Ebola, the virus that has ravaged Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea at an unprecedented rate,...
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