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Saturday, 1 November 2014

Excellent idea! Lawmaker asks Nobel Committee to strip Obama of Peace Prize

© AFP Photo/Saul LoebUS President Barack Obama walks to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 9, 2009 to address reporters after he won the Nobel Peace Prize. A representative of the populist LDPR nationalist party claims in an official letter that the US President should be blamed for thousands of innocent people's deaths and therefore cannot keep his 2009 Nobel Peace Prize."More and more international experts are calling...

More UFO's seen flying by Eiffel Tower

A UFO "fleet" speeding around the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, was inadvertently caught on a tourist's cell phone video last week and posted on YouTube, where the video is still waiting for an explanation of what the three fast-moving objects it depicts might actually be.The UFO-tracking site described the three objects, which as appear in the video as pinpoints of light, as a "fleet," apparently because the three UFOs appear to be flying one...

The wrath of Draghi: First German bank hits savers with 'negative interest rates'

© UnknownPresident of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi Deutsche Skatbank, a division of VR-Bank Altenburger Land, which was founded in 1859, is not the biggest bank in Germany, but it's the first bank to confirm what German savers have been dreading for a while: the wrath of Draghi.Retail and business customers with over €500,000 on deposit as of November 1 will earn a "negative interest rate" of 0.25%. In less euphemistic terms, they have...

Green Acres, Florida police officer Jared Nash breaks 15-year old girl's arm in school over cell phone

(Left) Daniella Galindo lays in hospital room, her arm swollen from the breaks. (Right) X-rays show breaks in Daniella’s arm. Less than a year after one of its police officers was arrested and charged with having unprotected sex with several women, knowing that he was HIV positive, the Green Acres, Florida Police Department is back in the spotlight.In an exclusive story which I am breaking here on my blog, a young girl's father vows to seek justice...

Subconscious manipulators: Subliminal messages easily bypass conscious perception

The idea of someone or something controlling our every thought and action is so 1980s. Let's face it, we live out our modern, technological lives with access to instant communication and information that allows us to enjoy greater control and freedoms of thought and expression than at any point in recorded human history; right?Each of us draws comfort from the decisions we make, sure in the knowledge that we are individuals, masters of our own...

$3.67bn will be spent on congressional elections this year, making it the most expensive mid-term election in US history

Up until recently this game had a limited number of players. Leaders from the two major US political parties, Republican and Democratic, controlled the money and devised the strategy.Thanks to legislation and Supreme Court decisions over the past 12 years, however, the game has changed entirely. The power of political parties ebbed, while outside groups and individuals have been given new freedom to buy seats at the game.They can run advertisements...

Leonardo legends: Master's self-portrait hidden from Hitler in case it gave him magic powers

Self-Portrait by Leonardo da Vinci One of the world's most famous self-portraits is going on rare public display in the northern Italian city of Turin. Very little is known about the 500-year-old, fragile, fading red chalk drawing of Leonardo da Vinci but some believe it has mystical powers.There is a myth in Turin that the gaze of Leonardo da Vinci in this self-portrait is so intense that those who observe it are imbued with great strength.Some...

Picture of a 14 month old on hook posted to Facebook leads to mother's arrest

A picture of a 14-month-old boy posted on Facebook has led to the mother's arrest.The photo shows a Spotsylvania toddler suspended in the air hanging by his twisted t-shirt. The boy is hanging from a door frame crying and obviously uncomfortable. 14-month-old boy dangles from planter hook. Investigators say the photo came to their attention when people saw the photo on social media."We had it assigned to a criminal investigation detective through...

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 7.1 - 141km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji

© USGS Event Time2014-11-01 18:57:22 UTC2014-11-01 06:57:22 UTC-12:00 at epicenterLocation19.698°S 177.794°W depth=434.4km (269.9mi)Nearby Cities141km (88mi) NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji313km (194mi) WNW of Nuku'alofa, Tonga432km (268mi) ESE of Suva, Fiji470km (292mi) SE of Lambasa, Fiji546km (339mi) ESE of Nadi, FijiScientific Data...

Recipe for disaster: Rabies and adenovirus being used in new Ebola vaccine trials

This story just popped up on this evening: "New Ebola vaccine study has begun in Maryland."Paragraph 1:The first human trials of a Canadian Ebola vaccine began Monday, part of a flood of experimental therapies rushed into testing to battle the Ebola epidemic.Another experimental vaccine is being fast-tracked and rushed out thanks to a carefully planned fearporn propaganda campaign designed to ultimately make Big Pharma a lot of big profits. No...

Business as usual: Dysfunctional America

Bill and Hillary Clinton a couple without conscience If you require more evidence that the United States is a dysfunctional society, observe American elections. Election season is slander season. Each party's attack teams focus on misrepresenting, defaming, and ridiculing the opposing party's candidates. Attack ads have replaced debates and any discussion of what the issues are, or should be, and how candidates perceive the public's interest. Each...

Hawaii Big Island beach closed: 12 foot tiger shark bites surfer's hand

© Matt Solomon North Kohala, Hawaii - An aggressive shark bit a Big Island woman's left hand while she was surfing near Halaula Lighthouse in North Kohala. Kailua-Kona resident McKenzie Clark, 34, and her friend, Brian Wargo, were about 150 yards offshore catching waves just before 11:15 a.m. on Friday. Wargo told Hawaii News Now that he missed a wave and then turned around when he heard Clark screaming."She is lifted up out of the water on top...

Dead whale found at the mouth of Maurice River, New Jersey

In Commercial Township Thursday night, officials discovered a large whale that washed up at the mouth of the Maurice River. Now the investigation into its cause of death begins. Officials say the process of examining and transporting the animal was not an easy one. It's not something you hear about everyday, a whale washed up near the mouth of Maurice River, and once discovered, officials transported it to a nearby landfill."It's not something...

Towards a new Intifada? 28 Palestinians injured as clashes with Israeli forces rage across Jerusalem overnight

JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- At least 28 Palestinians were injured as clashes with Israeli forces continued into the late hours of the night on Friday across Jerusalem, as anger over a series of killings by Israeli police boiled over into the streets of the city's Palestinian neighborhoods. © AFP Abbas MomaniA Palestinian protestor throws a burning tire during clashes with Israeli forces at the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem on Oct. 31,...

List of travel bans in reaction to Ebola - now issued by Australia and Canada too

© AFP Photo/Simon Maina The deadliest outbreak on record of the Ebola virus has prompted some countries to respond with travel bans, in an attempt to curb the spread of the deadly virus.The World Health Organization has recommended against any general ban on travel or trade with the West African countries that have been affected by the epidemic. The three countries most affected by the virus are Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. There were a small...

SOTT FOCUS: "Chickenshit" Netanyahu - King of the Jews - Evokes JFK assassination - Psychopaths Rule

Events in the world of "high politics" over the last week have been very revealing, and entertaining. The US-Israel 'special relationship' has, apparently, been souring for a while.At the beginning of this year Israeli defence minister Moshe Yaalon accused John Kerry of being "obsessive and messianic" in his pursuit of a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians. A few months later Kerry warned Israel that it was in danger of becoming "an apartheid...

US Police rape culture: 'Go ahead, call the cops. They can't un-rape you.' - Texas cop

© Shutterstock.comHighway patrol officer and female motorist In the video embedded below, two Austin, Texas police officers were accidentally recorded by a dashboard camera having what they thought was a private conversation.After a brief back-and-forth between the two men about a minor collision they handled earlier in the day and other matters, an attractive woman walks by."Look at that girl over there," one officer says.The Free Thought Project...

Google fined for capturing Canadian's clevarage on street view

© Reuters/Ints Kalnins A Canadian woman has successfully sued Google for displaying her cleavage on Street View. The ruling stated her privacy had been disrespected - despite Maria Pia Grillo being in public, sitting on the steps of her house."In addition to malicious comments and humiliation she suffered at work, the plaintiff, in particular, has experienced a significant loss of personal modesty and dignity," the judge Alain Breault declared.Google...
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