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Friday, 7 November 2014

Missing Mexico students: gang members confess to mass killing, incineration

© AFPThe 43 students have been missing since September 26 Suspected gang members in Mexico have confessed to killing more than 40 missing students and incinerating their remains in a case that has shocked the country, Mexico's chief prosecutor said.In a somber, lengthy explanation of the investigation, Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam played video on Friday showing hundreds of charred fragments of bone and teeth fished from the river and its...

Police officer accidentally shoots 7-year-old girl on school trip to police headquarters

A seven-year-old girl was accidentally shot by a police officer in front of a group of children while she was on a school trip to the Nottinghamshire Police department in the UK. The incident occurred last week and is currently being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.However, according to Wikipedia, A parliamentary inquiry set up in the wake of the death of Ian Tomlinson, the girl who was shot, found that the Independent Police Complaints Commission "has neither the powers nor the resources that it needs to get to the...

Crony Capitalism Tribute: Mafia Dons vs. Politicians; Who Really Won the Election?

Who Really Won the Election?If you think Republicans won the recent mid-term election you are mistaken. PolicyMic has One Chart that Shows Who Won.Most Expensive Senate Races Money Won the Election!The Center for Responsive Politics projects the 2014 mid-term election will cost roughly $3.67 billion.When all is said and done, Team Red (all Republican candidates, parties, committees and conservative outside groups) will spend $1.75 billion on this...

Netanyahu orders homes of 'terrorists' demolished

© Reuters / Ronen ZvulunIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed officials to raze the homes of 'terrorists' who carry out attacks in Jerusalem.The order was handed down during an emergency session on Thursday to discuss several violent incidents that have hit the city, the reports, citing Israel Radio.Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, Police Chief...

Disgusting sexual predator: Julien Blanc, the 'female attraction' expert, glorifies sexual violence

Julien Blanc, a "dating coach" working for US company Real Social Dynamics, is visiting Australia this week to host a series of pick-up artistry seminars.Through a program comprising online videos and in-person classes, the company has built a business model which preys on lonely desperate men, offering them the promise of female sexual attention through force when it doesn't exist by will. The instruction and promotion of abuse and the total violation...

Wales woman murdered in 'act of cannibalism' at hostel for homeless

Murder suspect Matthew Williams died after being arrested for attacking Cerys Marie Yemm Detectives are investigating the murder of a woman amid claims that the suspected killer was trying to eat her.The 22-year-old woman is known to have been bitten and suffered severe facial injuries in the incident at a hostel for homeless people in south Wales.But some neighbours of the hostel have also claimed that the suspected attacker, who died after police...

Earthquake swarm in Nevada desert intensifying

© LA Times A swarm of hundreds of earthquakes that has been striking a corner of the Nevada desert near the Oregon border for months has intensified in recent days, prompting new warnings from seismologists.About 750 earthquakes, mostly magnitude 2.0 to 3.0, have struck the area about 50 miles southeast of Lakeview, Ore., since the swarm started in July, said Ian Madin, chief scientist for Oregon's Department of Geology and Mineral Industries.The...

Google wants to store your genome

© http://ift.tt/kEejM6 Google is approaching hospitals and universities with a new pitch. Have genomes? Store them with us.The search giant's first product for the DNA age is Google Genomics, a cloud computing service that it launched last March but went mostly unnoticed amid a barrage of high profile R&D announcements from Google, like one late last month about a far-fetched plan to battle cancer with nanoparticles (see "Can Google Use Nanoparticles...

Crafting offers meditation-like benefits

© culturbia.net More than half of US households craft at least once a year,1 but for some it becomes a daily pastime. If you're an avid crafter - knitting, quilting, scrapbooking, etc. - you've probably lost yourself in a project on more than one occasion.This tendency to become so absorbed in your craft that you're able to forget about your worries, obligations, and even physical pains is called "flow" - and it's a key reason why crafting may be...

Propaganda Alert! Russian 'Trojan Horse' bug lurking in vital US computers since 2011

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Debunking the myth: 'We need GMOs to feed the world'

The reality of food waste Do we really need Monsanto's GMOs to feed the world? Looking at the research and the studies, the answer is quite clear. Let's take a look at the 8 proofs that we most certainly need GMOs to feed the world:One Organic Rooftop Farm Can Feed 9000 People One organic rooftop farm can feed 9000 people. They don't use pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides, and they provide fresh produce to their community year-round [1]. This...

Russell Brand points out the ridiculousness of the U.S. spending $4 billion on elections while feeding the homeless is illegal

Russell Brand weighed in on the recent controversy surrounding the arrest of a 90-year-old Fort Lauderdale, Florida man whose only crime was violating a new city ordinance against feeding the homeless."He couldn't look any more like an adorable old man, could he?" Brand began. "And yet he's being ushered away by the police.""These values now aren't the preserve of extreme activists, loonies in Anonymous masks tipping over police vans - they're...

It's no crime when Big Corps do it! Leaked documents reveal that global companies cut tax deals in Luxembourg

© Tim Meko / Shutterstock The landlocked European duchy has been called a "magical fairyland" for brand-name corporations seeking to drastically reduce tax bills.Pepsi, IKEA, FedEx and 340 other international companies have secured secret deals from Luxembourg, allowing many of them to slash their global tax bills while maintaining little presence in the tiny European duchy, leaked documents show.These companies appear to have channeled hundreds...

Greenspan's stunning admission: "Gold is currency; no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match it"

GREENSPAN: ...remember, we had that first tapering discussion, we got a very strong market response. And then we reassured everybody to have no - remember, tapering is still (audio gap) of an agreement that the central banks have made -European central banks, I believe - about allocating their gold sales which occurred when gold prices were falling down (audio gap) has been renewed this year with a statement that gold serves a very important place in monetary reserves. And the question is, why do central banks put money into an asset which has...

Comet Siding Spring's dust triggered 'mind blowing' Mars meteor shower

© NASA Comet Siding Spring's close flyby of Mars last month dumped several tons of primordial dust into the thin martian atmosphere, likely creating a brief but spectacular meteor shower with thousands of shooting stars per hour had any astronauts been there to see it, scientists said Friday.The comet dust also posed a much more serious threat than expected to an international fleet of spacecraft in orbit around the red planet and roving about its...
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