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Tuesday, 21 October 2014

George Soros and the CIA now banking on Aecio Neves to defeat Rousseff in Brazilian elections

© Unknown After the corporate media and the CIA and George Soros manipulators tried to engineer Green Party-turned-Brazilian Socialist presidential candidate Marina Silva into the Brazilian presidency after the classic CIA textbook aerial assassination of Socialist Party presidential standard bearer Eduardo Campos, these same forces are at it again on behalf of Social Democratic Party candidate Aecio Neves. Although Neves was polling in second place...

'Someone can rob your house?': City auctions off woman's house over $95 tax bill they sent to the wrong address

© WSB-TV The City of Norcross, Georgia, recently auctioned off Xui Lui's home because she had an overdue tax bill of $94.85, which she never received.Lui, the mother of a 4-year-old, bought her two bedroom condo in 2011 and has always paid her local taxes, except for the first year.The city sent her certified letters about the tax bill, but to the wrong address, notes CBS Atlanta.Lui was recently told by the city that she must move out by Nov. 25...

Anger over 'cash for diagnoses' dementia plan in England

© AlamyMinisters have pledged to dramatically improve rates of dementia diagnosis, which has led to the new scheme. Family doctors will be paid £55 for every patient they diagnose with dementia under a new NHS England scheme which has been condemned as an "ethical travesty".Leading GPs said the national project amounted to "cash for diagnoses" - allowing doctors to make a direct profit if they classify patients as suffering from dementia.In some...

Jewelry that harvests energy from your veins

© Naomi Kizhner Naomi Kizhner, an industrial designer and graduate student from Hadassah College in Jerusalem, has designed jewelry that theoretically extracts energy from the wearers own body. The 'speculative' jewelry is embedded into the person's veins and uses their blood to turn small wheels inside the device. © Naomi Kizhner As Naomi notes, the jewelry is not meant to be a practical energy source, but a discussion piece "about how far will...

Russian bases to span entire Arctic border by end of 2014

Russia will have military control of the entirety of its 6,200 km Arctic coastal zone by the end of 2014, just a year after Moscow announced its ambitious plan to build military presence in the region, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has announced.“We have set quite a pace in our foray into the Arctic,” Shoigu said during a military council meeting in Moscow. “By the end of the year we will already deploy most of our units in the region – from Murmansk...

Tennessee woman sentenced to jail for not mowing her lawn

© www.lawnworld.com The trend of average U.S. citizens being incarcerated by overzealous judges and prosecutors within the police state formerly known as America continues with reckless abandon. In fact, these sorts of cases are becoming so commonplace I simply cannot keep up with all of them.The following story is a perfect followup to my piece earlier today, which shows how American public school students are being arrested or harassed by police...

New report further exposes Turkey links to ISIL militants

© Sky News A newly-released report has shed further light on the Turkish government's links to the ISIL militants, showing that Ankara is helping the Takfiri terrorist recruits cross the border into Syria.A reporter working for Britain's Sky News has obtained documents showing that the Turkish government has stamped passports of foreign militants seeking to cross the Turkey border into Syria to join the ISIL terrorists.Passports from different countries...

World Health Organization declares Nigeria is Ebola-free, holds lessons for others

© REUTERS/StringerStudents of Goverment Secondary School Garki wash their hands, as school resumes in Abuja September 22, 2014. Nigeria was declared free of the deadly Ebola virus on Monday after a determined doctor and thousands of officials and volunteers helped end an outbreak still ravaging other parts of West Africa and threatening the United States and Spain.Caught unawares when a diplomat arrived with the disease from Liberia, authorities...

Sub-standard saga continues: Swedish Navy establish contact with "something"

© Reutures/ Marko Savala/TT News AgencySwedish corvette HMS Visby patrols the Stockholm Archipelago, searching for what the military says is a foreign threat in the waters. Swedish forces have "established contact with something" and are lowering equipment into the water near the island of Ingaro outside of Stockholm where the search for an foreign submarine is currently underway, local media reported Tuesday."I can also see that they are lowering...

Earth at risk after cuts close comet-spotting program that spotted the Siding Spring

© Nasa, JPL-Caltech, UCLA/AAPA Nasa infrared image of Comet Siding Spring. The comet, also known by the less catchy name of C/2007 Q3, was discovered in 2007 by astronomers at the Siding Spring Observatory. The Earth has been left with a huge blind spot for potentially devastating comet strikes after the only dedicated comet-spotting program in the southern hemisphere lost its funding, leading astronomers have warned.The program, which discovered...

Galician separatists in W. Ukraine want to join Europe without the rest of Ukraine

© Unknown European Galician Assembly has become more active in Lvov. It is known for its advocacy of separatism. Activists of the organization held a conference, at which the City Mayor Andriy Sadovyi and former economic development Minister Pavel Sheremet were among the guests.The Galician Assembly consists of local intellectuals who have never concealed their separatist views (they recently registered the Ukrainian Galician party). The head of...

Military occupation of West Africa: U.S. Reaper drone crashes at Niger airport

An American drone crashed into the runway at Niger's main international airport on Monday, damaging it and shutting the facility down for hours, the US military has confirmed, adding that there were no casualties or injuries.The crash occurred in the early morning around 3:40 am at Diori Hamani International airport, according to AFP, which added that the runway was closed for nearly nine hours to enable crews to repair the damage.In a statement...

Strange-looking "elephant" pig born in China

© Huffington Post/ChinaFotoPress Despite the apparent trunk and floppy ears, that is not a picture of a baby elephant, but a very unfortunate (and maybe a little bit cute?) piglet born in northeastern China last week.The piglet was the second to be born out of eight siblings. He really stood out from his brothers and sisters as the only one with grey skin, big ears, and a trunk. Unfortunately, he was also the only one to be born without a mouth.Mouths...

Extremely rare white rhino dies in Kenya - his kind nearly extinct

© Barcroft Media, Getty ImagesSuni, seen here at Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy in November 2010, died at age 34. The northern white rhinoceros is one step closer to extinction with the death of Suni, one of only two breeding males left of his kind.The 34-year-old animal was found dead October 17 in his enclosure in Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy, possibly from natural causes, the reserve said in a statement. White rhinos are thought to be able to...

King Tut re-creation presents a shocking image

© STVA virtual reconstruction depicts King Tut at the time of death. Tutankhamun's beautiful golden mask, the embodiment of a man secure in his power, has been flattering the pharaoh for many centuries, according to the most detailed image yet of the teenage king's face and body.In the flesh, King Tut had a club foot, a pronounced overbite and girlish hips, says a "virtual autopsy" built using more than 2,000 computerized tomography (CT) scans of...

Arizona jury to consider death penalty for murderer Jodi Arias

© Reuters/Tom TingleJodi Arias, (R), speaks to prosecutor Juan Martinez during a hearing in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona in this file photo taken August 13, 2014. An Arizona jury will be sworn in on Tuesday to decide whether 34-year-old convicted murderer Jodi Arias will be executed for the 2008 slaying of Travis Alexander, court officials said.After months of delays, a 12-member jury is set to be impaneled in Maricopa County...

Heavy metal frost? A new look at a Venusian mystery

© NASAThis is a radar image of one of the areas sampled on Ovda. There is a smooth ramp across the map going from higher to lower elevations, shown as a gradual transition in radar brightness up the ramp. (The top of the ramp is brighter than the bottom of the ramp in the lower right corner). The bright areas to either side of the ramp are highland plateaus, and the curious dark spots are the mysterious areas at the highest elevations that the researchers...

Mars Orbiter image shows Comet Siding Spring's nucleus is small

© NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of ArizonaThese images were taken of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring by NASA's on Oct. 19, 2014, during the comet's close flyby of Mars and the spacecraft. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's captured views of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring while that visitor sped past Mars on Sunday (Oct. 19), yielding information about its nucleus.The images are the highest-resolution views ever acquired...

NASA's satellite sees Tropical Storm Ana over Hawaii

© NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response TeamNASA's Terra satellite captured this image of Tropical Storm Ana blanketing the Hawaiian Islands on Oct. 19 at 21:45 UTC (5:45 p.m. EDT). Tropical Storm Ana made a slow track west of the Hawaiian islands over the last couple of days, and by Oct. 20 was moving westward away from the main Hawaiian islands and heading toward the northwest Hawaiian islands. NASA's Terra satellite caught Ana on a flyby on Oct....

Gonzalo: First hand account in Bermuda, next stop: The United Kingdom

© Camille HaleyThis image shows fallen trees littler the grounds at Fort Scaur, an historical landmark in Bermuda. Fort Scaur was built in 1870 and is located in Somerset, at the western end of Bermuda. Hurricane Gonzalo departed from Bermuda leaving power outages, downed trees, and damaged homes and buildings. An on-the ground account of the storm indicated the eye passed over the island. By Oct. 20, post-tropical storm Gonzalo was approaching...

Man killed In tusker attack in Nepal - 5th fatality in 2 months

An elderly man was killed in an elephant attack in Parsa district on Friday.Bash Tamang, 55, of Ram Nagar, Nirmal Basti-1 died in the tusker attack in the Parsa Wildlife Reserve.His body was found on Saturday morning, police saidHe was returning home while he was attacked.Since Tamang did not arrive home till the late evening, a police team had started the search operation from Saturday morni...

Man killed In tusker attack in Nepal

An elderly man was killed in an elephant attack in Parsa district on Friday.Bash Tamang, 55, of Ram Nagar, Nirmal Basti-1 died in the tusker attack in the Parsa Wildlife Reserve.His body was found on Saturday morning, police saidHe was returning home while he was attacked.Since Tamang did not arrive home till the late evening, a police team had started the search operation from Saturday morni...

Moscow's Vnukovo plane crash: Snowplow driver drunk in collision with Total CEO's aircraft

© Screenshot from LIFENEWS videoThe driver of the snowplow that caused the Falcon-50 plane crash in Moscow's Vnukovo airport It was determined in the course of the investigation into the Moscow plane crash that killed the CEO of French oil giant Total that the driver of the snowplow which likely caused the crash was drunk."It has been determined that the driver of the snowplow was under the influence of alcohol," head of Russia's Investigative Committee...

No 'alien underwater activity': Sweden lied about location submarine

© UnknownIt's a dolphin! The Swedish Armed Forces admitted Monday evening that they have failed to maintain transparency and issued false information about the whereabouts of the alleged foreign submarine in the Stockholm archipelago."The Armed Forces are conducting an intelligence operation in the Stockholm archipelago. . . We are supposed to do this with maximum transparency while preserving operational secrecy. This is how a credible, correct...
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