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Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Oklahoma cop faces 32 charges of sex crimes committed on duty

© Reuters / Larry Papke An Oklahoma City police officer has been charged with six more counts of sexual offenses while on duty after three more victims, including a teenager, told authorities he forced them to have sex with him.Before the latest accusations, Daniel Ken Holtzclaw, 32, had already been charged with 26 counts, including rape, sexual battery, oral sodomy, indecent exposure, stalking, and burglary.The new counts against Holtzclaw, a...

Colorado mother turns teenage son in to authorities after he was charged with rape

© 9News A Colorado teen who allegedly raped a young girl was handed over to the police last Thursday by his own mother.Fort Collins Police issued an arrest warrant on Oct. 24 for Elijah Jordan Jackson, 19, before his mom drove him from Wyoming to a deputy waiting at Larimer County Jail, 9NEWS.com reports."Certainly, a very unusual situation," Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith said. "What was unusual was when the deputy spoke with the suspect's...

Watch a bowling ball and feather falling in a vacuum

© BBC You probably know that two objects dropped in a vacuum fall at the same rate, no matter the mass of each item. If you've never seen a demonstration of this, then you really should, because it's incredible to watch.Here is perhaps the perfect example, brought to us by physicist Brian Cox. He checked out NASA's Space Simulation Chamber located at the Space Power Facility in Ohio. With a volume of 22,653 cubic meters, it's the largest vacuum...

Mother calls police to help her son take his medicine, cop shows up and shoots him

© LatoffI'm here to help. In Gretna, Florida, Juanita Donald called the police to come assist and get her 24 year old son to take his medication, as she had done in the past.On Tuesday morning, around 9:30 am, she called the police to help her with her son Kaldrick Donald and one officer showed up, Sergeant Charles Brown.Charles Brown ended up tasing Kaldrick Donald repeatedly, and then took him into the isolated bathroom in the family's house and...

Governments lied about the Spanish Flu to prevent panic. It backfired, as it will with Ebola

. © unknown The mainstream American press has agreed - at the request of the government - not to report on suspected Ebola cases.Let's provide some context ...The U.S. National Academies of Science noted in 2005 (starting on the bottom of p. 64):In the United States, national and local government and public health authorities badly mishandled the [1918 "Spanish Flu"] epidemic [which killed up to 50 million people worldwide], offering a useful case...

Obama flexes his executive order to defy GOP Congress and pass immigration reform

© AFP Photo /Brendan Smialowski Following a disappointing Election Day for his Democratic Party, President Barack Obama said he may sign an executive order on immigration reform so the Republican-controlled Congress can take the issue up on its own.From the White House on Wednesday afternoon, Pres. Obama told reporters he's willing to authorize an immigration reform bill himself in order to kick-start lawmakers in the House of Representatives and...

November 5th: Anonymous' Million Mask March taking place in 463 locations around the world!

Members of the activist movement known as Anonymous are preparing to take to the streets around thw world in the second annual Million Mask March on 5 November.To date 463 groups in towns and cities around the world have organised events to mark the Million Mask March on Wednesday, which coincides with Guy Fawkes Night.The Guy Fawkes Mask has become an unofficial emblem of the online movement.Last year hundreds of thousands of people took part...

A second tropical pufferfish washes up dead in Europe within a week

Deadly: The Oceananic pufferfish A Beach walker was stunned when he found a deadly pufferfish - washed up in Dorset.At first glance the bizarre-looking fish appeared to be a large bloated mackerel.But it soon became apparent it was a deadly pufferfish, normally only found in sub-tropical waters. It appears to have died while in full defensive mode, with its stomach fully inflated.The species is well-known for ballooning in size by filling their...

Will we ever learn? Texas votes for George Bush once again

© Erich Schlegel / Getty Images / AFPTexas Land Commissioner-elect George P. Bush George Bush won statewide office in Texas again. But he's not the former president, and he's not the governor-elect. George Prescott Bush will become the next state land commissioner after a landslide victory.Bush won the office with nearly 60 percent of the vote, AFP reported. The Texas land commissioner, "oversees matters that range from state lands and coastal issues...

UK mystery of still warm and bleeding dead dolphin found in village a mile from the sea

Mystery: The covered body of the dead porpoise warm and dripping with blood - the RSPCA is investigating the strange discoveryResidents of a village a mile from the sea are stunned after finding a dead porpoise in an alleyway - lying in a pool of its own blood. The 4ft long creature - similar to a dolphin - was discovered in Tarring, just outside Worthing, West Sussex, and appeared to have died recently. Locals have no idea how the 12 stone mammal...

Tense stand-off between Million Mask March protesters and police in London

© Ruptly viode screenshot/RT.com Protesters and police engaged in a tense and prolonged stand-off outside London's Buckingham Palace as metal barriers cordoning off the area were removed and protesters incited police to fight.police yelled. protesters shouted at police.Jostling with the metal barriers segregating police from protesters took place, with some being lifted off the floor and hurled at the law enforcement officials.As they were felled,...

36 stranded pilot whales die in New Zealand

About 36 pilot whales that had become stranded in the Eastern Bay of Plenty in New Zealand have died.Two whale pods beached themselves in the Ohiwa harbour on the north-east coast on Monday.Wildlife conservationists launched a rescue operation and helped one pod to be refloated on Tuesday, while 21 more whales were successfully herded out to sea on Wednesday.The reasons for mass pilot whale strandings are not well understood.media player. Press...

George Soros warns: "Europe is under threat by Russia, freedom isn't free"

The European Union and the euro could founder if its members don't stand together against Russia, George Soros said Tuesday in Düsseldorf. George Soros, one of the world's richest men and a tireless defender of oligarchs Central European democracy, warned that the European Union, a mainstay of post-war stability, could dissolve and unravel if the 28-country bloc can't agree on a common response to Russia's aggression in the Ukraine.Speaking on Tuesday in Düsseldorf at a dinner sponsored by , Mr. Soros, an 84-year-old Hungarian-American who survived...

A bitter pill to swallow: Fluoroquinolone antibiotics

[embedded content]Fluoroquinolones are among the most dangerous drugs on the market and should be avoided unless your life depends on it. Despite their dangers, they're the most commonly prescribed class of antibiotics in the United States... In 2010, Bayer's top two fluoroquinolones (Cipro and Avalox) brought in $1 billion in sales.That same year, Johnson & Johnson sold $1.3 billion-worth of its drug, Levaquin. All antibiotics carry a risk of side effects, but fluoroquinolones are in a class by themselves when it comes to potential health...

Brain dissociates emotional response from explicit memory in fearful situations

© Marek"In the traumatic events seems that over time there is a portion of memory that is erased or we do not have access, we forget the details but still maintaining the emotional reaction. The imprint is divided into two separate paths. The brain dissociates the explicit memory of a negative event from the emotional response." Researchers at the Cognition and Brain Plasticity group of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) and the...

Monsanto looses 'GMO Ground Zero': Hawaiians in Maui County win community GMO victory

© Babes Against BiotechMaui residents in late October protested Monsanto's heavy pesticide use. Residents of Maui County in Hawaii, frequently referred to as 'GMO Ground Zero,' claimed a victory Tuesday evening when a measure to ban the planting of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) passed with 50.2 percent.Agribusiness giants Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences, which for decades have run enormous growing and testing operations on the island, spent...

Psychiatric surveillance of U.S. public school children

. The document is partly devoted to articulating Obama's proposed gun control measures that failed to move gain legislative traction in 2013. Yet an under-reported section of is applied to "making schools safer" and "improving mental health services" for students.[1] While presented by the Obama administration as "commonsense solutions to gun violence," one is left to consider the long range implications of such an initiative, particularly in light...

Paleontologists discover ancient groundhog-like mammal in Madagascar

© Lucille Betti-Nash.This is an artist’s rendering of Vintana sertichi. The new fossil mammal, named , belongs to Gondwanatheria (or gondwanatherians), a group of early mammals that lived during the Cretaceous through the Miocene in the Southern Hemisphere, including Antarctica.The animal's skull was huge, measuring 13 cm long - twice the size of the previously largest known mammalian skull from the entire Age of Dinosaurs of the southern supercontinent...

Hawaii to relocate homeless with one-way plane tickets

© Reuters/Jose Miguel Gomez One of the biggest shelters in Hawaii has secured the funding to start an initiative that will vet the homeless population of Waikiki and ultimately select 120 individuals to be flown elsewhere with one-way plane tickets.Hawaii's Institute for Human Services (IHS) officially launched its $1.3 million initiative to fight homelessness this week, and among the facets involved in the effort is a program that will put dozens...

Reading between the lines of the "chickenshit" Netanyahu comments and the supposedly fractured U.S.-Israeli relationship

The obsession in politics and diplomacy with decorum - largely a relic from the past - can easily distract people from the realities of the present. Case in point, the uproar over Jeffrey Goldberg's latest article in the , the headline of which, The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations Is Officially Here, would seem important enough to warrant more attention than it has gotten so far.Instead, the whisper of an unnamed "senior Obama administration official,"...
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