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Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Legal and illegal elections and The Mandate from Heaven

© Unknown The legitimacy of the ruling class - whatever political form it may take - is based on the illusion that it can protect the people. whether from war, famine, economic hardship, or any other kind of disaster that disrupts the everyday routine of their lives and livelihood. The following excerpt illustrates this point:I want this country to realize that we stand on the edge of oblivion. I want every man, woman and child to understand how...

Close-minded Vatican official denounces Brittany Maynard's decision to voluntarily end life

© REUTERS/thebrittanyfund.orgBrittany Maynard (L) is pictured with her husband Dan Diaz in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters November 3, 2014. A Vatican bioethics official on Tuesday condemned the death by assisted suicide of American Brittany Maynard, a terminally ill 29-year-old who ended her life over the weekend, as an undignified "absurdity"."This woman (took her own life) thinking she would die with dignity, but this is the error,"...

Feeling down? Melancholy tunes can have beneficial emotional effects

Participants in the study revealed that most of the sad songs they listen to are slow in tempo and some of the most popular titles chosen, included: Beethoven’s Midnight Sonata, Ah Bing’s Moon Reflected in the Second Spring and Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings. Mr Barber is pictured left and Beethoven is illustrated right. Turn up those tearjerkers and dig out your Radiohead albums, because scientists claim that melancholy music can actually lift...

Man calls 911 for chest pains, sheriff deputy shows up and shoves him to the ground

© WSAZJerry Maynard A West Virginia man says he was thrown to the ground by a sheriff's deputy after he called for help while experiencing a possible medical emergency.Jerry Maynard said he was having chest pains Thursday after drinking some whiskey at his Delbarton home, reported WSAZ-TV , so he called 911. An ambulance arrived a short time later, and emergency medical crews examined him and found his vital signs normal. But the pains flared up...

SpaceShipTwo's fatal crash not caused by rocket engine

© www.floridatoday.comCrash site of SpaceShipTwo, Mojave, CA It wasn't SpaceShipTwo's hybrid rocket motor -- which was flying on Friday with a new type of fuel -- that caused the fatal crash, the head of the accident investigation agency said late Sunday. The ship's fuel tanks and its engine were recovered intact, indicating there was no explosion."They showed no signs of burn-through, no signs of being breached," Christopher Hart, acting chairman...

Why is the rise of Celiac Disease still stumping scientists?

© popapajoe.com Two new studies in the rocked the world of celiac research, both proving that scientists have a ways to go in their understanding of celiac disease, which affects about 1% of the population, whether they know it or not.One Italian study wondered if the age at which gluten is introduced into the diet could affect a person's likelihood of developing the autoimmune disease - so they kept gluten away from newborns for a year. To the...

Former NSA head used position in government to profit, trading stocks in tech firm during tenure

© Reuters/Yuri GripasFormer National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander As questions continue to be raised about the legality concerning the National Security Agency's vast surveillance apparatus, the NSA's ex spy chief is now coming under attack for ties he had to a tech company while in office.A report published on Monday this week by Shane Harris at the Daily Beast revealed that Gen. Keith Alexander, the recently retired head of the NSA,...

Memo to Bill Gross: Shut-up and stick to your shuffleboard

© iStockphoto/The Fiscal Times The once and former bond king has lost it. After a long lament about deflation and the failure of massive money printing to ignite growth, jobs and incomes in the real economy, his most recent missive comes up with a better idea. Bigger public deficits! © J. Emilio Flores/Corbis "The real economy needs money printing, yes, but money spending more so, and that must come from the fiscal side - from the dreaded government...

Blistering report on flu vaccines: Revealed by John Hopkins Scientist

A Johns Hopkins scientist has issued a blistering report on influenza vaccines in the (BMJ). Peter Doshi, Ph.D., charges that although the vaccines are being pushed on the public in unprecedented numbers, they are less effective and cause more side effects than alleged by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Further, says Doshi, the studies that underlie the CDC's policy of encouraging most people to get a yearly flu shot are often...

Collapse in slow motion: The US Empire spends trillions on war while public health services crumble

© Unknown Washington escalates its military interventions abroad, launching simultaneous air and ground attacks in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan; multiplying drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia; training, arming and financing proxy mercenaries in Jordan, the Gulf States and Iraq; and dispatching National Guard battalions to West Africa, ostensibly to combat the Ebola epidemic, though they lack the most elementary public health capabilities....

People revolt in Burkina Faso, psychopathic power struggles ensue

© Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty ImagesBurkina Faso’s military backed Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac Zida as head of state Several political parties and movements that are seeking to reclaim the legacy of Sankara were very much in evidence during the unrest that reached a critical point on Oct. 30 when thousands stormed the parliament building and setting it alight. The legislative body was set to vote on a motion to extend the 27-year rule of Compaore, who...

To avoid sanctions, Burkina Faso's military alleges it will hand over power to civilians

© Unknown Burkina Faso's military told religious leaders today that it plans to hand over power to civilians to avoid sanctions against the West African nation.The heads of Catholic, evangelical Christian and Muslim faiths met with Lt. Col. Isaac Zida this morning, the Mogho Naaba, king of the Mossi ethnic group, said in an interview. The king was in the meeting. Zida was appointed as acting president after Blaise Compaore was ousted last week."They...

Bodies of 286 women raped and shot dead discovered, 400 listed missing in East Ukraine: Donetsk official

© AP Photo/ Dmitry LovetskyThe bodies of 286 women who had been raped have been discovered in the city of Krasnoarmeisk where Ukrainian volunteer battalion was based. The bodies of 286 women have recently been discovered in the eastern Ukrainian city of Krasnoarmeisk while almost 400 women between the ages of 18 and 25 are still listed as missing, Alexander Zakharchenko, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic said Friday."Around...

New hope for 43 missing Mexican students as Iguala's fugitive mayor detained

© www.telesurtv.netStudents strike and hold rally outside Attorney General headquarters, one of many actions taking place around the world. The detention of the fugitive mayor and his wife, who are suspected of being behind the disappearance of 43 student teachers in the southern Mexican city of Iguala six weeks ago, in coordination with a local drug trafficking gang, has raised hopes that the missing will soon be found."This was the missing piece,"...

Domino effect? Militias in other regions spreading while Ukrainian junta keeps shelling

Has the recent elections in Donbass encouraged more regions or have the cumulative effects of the repression by the Ukrainian punitive forces spurred other militias to form. Whatever the reason, facts are that the Junta forces are encountering resistance in some of the neighbouring regions to Donetsk and Lugansk. In Mariupol bordering the sea there is this bit of information:Two UAF soldiers from Odessa were killed on November 2nd east of Mariupol...

17th Century Dutch warship discovered off coast of Tobago

A diver measures a cannon found at the wreck site in Tobago's Rockley Bay. The wreck of a 17th-century Dutch warship has been discovered off the coast of Tobago, a small island located in the southern Caribbean. Marine archaeologists believe the vessel is possibly the Huis de Kreuningen, which was lost during a bloody fight between Dutch and French colonists.On March 3, 1677, the French Navy launched a fierce attack against the Dutch in Tobago's...

Criminalizing kindness: 90-year old homeless advocate in Florida faces 60 days in jail for feeding human beings

Two ministers and a 90-year-old homeless advocate in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, face up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine for violating a city ordinance that effectively outlaws sharing food with homeless people in public.Homeless advocate Arnold Abbott, head of the group Love Thy Neighbor, has been feeding the homeless for more than 20 years.Abbott, along with pastors Dwayne Blackand and Mark Sims, were arrested on Sunday after distributing food...

EU split: Hungarian law gives green light to South Stream in defiance of EU

© RIA Novosti/Ramil SitdikovShareholders and partners of Gazprom's project sign on the first pipe abut during the launching ceremony of South Stream gas pipeline construction. The Hungarian parliament has approved a law on Monday which allows building the South Stream gas pipeline without approval of the European Union. The European Commission has already demanded an explanation from Hungarian authorities.The European Commission's spokesperson said...
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