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Thursday, 13 November 2014

Fracking blast kills one Halliburton worker, injures 2 in Weld County, Colorado

© Helen H. Richardson, The Denver PostThe Halliburton fracking site where one person was killed and two others were injured Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. Mead - One worker was killed and two were seriously injured Thursday when a frozen, high pressure water line ruptured at a Weld County oil well site.The workers were trying to thaw the line when the accident occurred, officials said.The Anadarko Petroleum Corp. well was being hydraulically fractured,...

Thundersnow starts winter with a bang, thanks to glorious lake-effect storm

Earlier this afternoon, Chris Zimmer of Mentor, Ohio, was in the right place at the right time to capture one of the rarest, most intense winter weather phenomena there is: thundersnow. Watch, and be amazed:[embedded content]Thundersnow happens only in particularly powerful snowstorms with especially strong updrafts. The sound of thunder in thundersnow is dampened, too, by all the snowflakes - you've got to be nearly underneath it to hear it.Early season lake-effect snowstorms fit the bill, with the still warm-ish water giving an extra boost of...

Neocons loathe Putin for thwarting plans for global domination

© TASS/Mikhail Metsel The continuing attacks on Vladimir Putin and Russia by members of the western political, military and journalistic elite tell us one thing - the Russian President is doing a good job both for the people of his country and in the international arena.For it is a rule which invariably holds true - if the Western elites praise the leader of a foreign country it means he is doing something which is good for those elites and bad...

Big Brother is watching you: Police in California spent $45 million on surveillance gear without oversight or public knowledge

© AFP Photo / Mark Ralston Police departments across California spent more than $45 million on surveillance equipment over the course of a decade with little to no legislative or public oversight - and without the public's knowledge, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.The ACLU report, titled 'Making Smart Decisions about Surveillance: A Guide for Communities,' reveals how California law enforcement took advantage of millions of dollars'...

Gun rights advocate tells moms against guns to 'put a d*ck in your mouth and shut up'

© Twitter/@Robhot1982The ever charming Robert J. Kinnison In an expletive-filled video diatribe directed at gun control group Moms Demand Action, a gun rights activist pushed back at the group's latest attempts to limit the open carry of weapons, telling the women to "Put a d*ck in your mouth and shut up!" in a video discovered by Liberaland.Phoenix resident Rob Kinnison - who uploads pro-gun rants on YouTube under the name Raging Rob - posted...

Newly released data adds more proof that Ukrainian warplane shot down MH17

© RIA Novosti / Alexey KudenkoDutch experts work at Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Amsterdam - Kuala Lumpur crash site New radar data indicating that military aircraft were in the air near Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 when it crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17 has been released by a Russian air safety consultancy.The consultancy provided a snapshot representing the readings taken by a radar station located in Russia's Rostov, near the Ukrainian...

Psychopathic Israeli leaders refuses to allow UN into country to investigate war crimes against Palestine

© Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa Israel has officially declined to cooperate with the UN Human Rights Council committee's investigation into the country's 50-day '' over possible war crimes committed, saying it is obvious the probe will find it guilty.The Israeli government refused entry to the investigation team on Wednesday, which arrived in Jordan's capital of Amman with plans to travel through Israel and into the Gaza Strip.The decision not...

Disgusting stuff turns us into liars and cheats, and cleanliness makes us honest again

© The Independent, UKStudy reveals the subconscious impact of emotions on decision making. Feeling physically disgusted can make us prone to deceive others, whereas cleanliness prompts us to play fair again, say scientists behind a newly published study.The decisions you make are often highly influenced by seemingly innocent objects and events around you, whilst you remain completely oblivious to the effect. Seeing an ad for a burger chain and choosing...

See no evil: Merkel's "wall of hypocrisy" regarding Israeli war crimes

© Inconnu it."On the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered a speech of sublime hypocrisy when juxtaposed beside the illegal Apartheid/Annexation Wall and beside the blockade 'wall' constricting Gaza constructed by Israel, which she once vowed, "Germany will never abandon Israel but will remain a true friend and partner."Merkel rhapsodised, "the fall of the Berlin Wall showed us that dreams can...

Russia prepares for economic war by stockpiling gold

Russia has taken advantage of lower gold prices to pack the vaults of its central bank with bullion as it prepares for the possibility of a long, drawn-out economic war with the West .The latest research from the World Gold Council reveals that the Kremlin snapped up 55 tonnes of the precious metal - far more than any other nation - in the three months to the end of September as prices began to weaken.Vladimir Putin's government is understood to...

Bilingual brains process information more efficiently

© IOTAGLOBAL Speaking more than one language is good for the brain, according to new research that indicates bilingual speakers process information more efficiently and more easily than those who know a single language.The benefits occur because the bilingual brain is constantly activating both languages and choosing which language to use and which to ignore, said Northwestern University's Viorica Marian, the lead author of the research and a professor...

Study finds that cellphone use greatly increases risk of brain cancer

Did you ever wonder how a cell phone might affect your brain? When you think about it, the use of cell phones is massively experimental, as we had no idea what kind of negative effects they might have on people when they were first introduced. Well now, decades after heavy use of cell phones, a study shows that brain tumor rates nearly triple after 25 years of cell phone use.The Swedish study, published in the journal , found that the longer someone...

Ridiculous: Police officer dubbed 'Cannibal Cop' released from jail

© Reuters / Carlo AllegriFormer New York City police officer Gilberto Valle (L), dubbed by local media as the "Cannibal Cop," speaks to the media beside his father Gilberto Valle (C) outside the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York A former New York City police officer convicted of planning to kidnap and rape women before killing and eating them was sentenced to time served on Wednesday, as he insisted in court that the women...

Russian FM reiterates: Russian troops never crossed Ukraine border

Russian troops have never crossed the border with Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told reporters Thursday."I state it openly and officially that there was no troop movement through the [Ukrainian] border and certainly no Russian military presence on the territory of Ukraine," he said. On Wednesday, NATO said it had observed columns of Russian tanks, artillery and combat troops entering Ukraine over the past two...

Be present: Living in the moment really does make people happier

© Corbis RF/AlamyReminiscing, thinking ahead or daydreaming tends to make people more miserable. Psychologists have found that people are distracted from the task at hand nearly half the time, and this daydreaming consistently makes them less happy.Happiness is found by living in the now, particularly if the now involves having sex, according to a major study into mental wellbeing.But the study also found that people spend nearly half their time...

United States of Ignorance: Americans are almost as dumb as Italians

© Pete Markham, CC-BY-SA It's quiz time, people. Let's start with an easy one: What percentage of working-age Americans are unemployed and looking for work?If you guessed about 6 percent, give yourself a pat on the back. You have a pretty good understanding of the unemployment rate, one of the basic measures of economic well-being. If, on the other hand, you guessed 32 percent -- which would rank America among the most desperate nations on Earth...

Global warming, where art thou? A mini ice age is what we're in store for

Parts of the lower 48 states could see temperatures between 20 and 40 degrees below average, the National Weather Service said Sunday. In the Wall Street Journal, we read that global warming has taken a long holiday or what officials call warming pause. "Well, the pause has now lasted for 16, 19 or 26 years - depending on whether you choose the surface temperature record or one of two satellite records of the lower atmosphere. That's according...

Robin Williams was on anti-depressant drug with 'black box' warning at the time of his suicide; findings downplayed by mainstream media

The antidepressant found in Williams' toxicology test, Mirtazapine (Remeron), has 10 drug regulatory agency warnings citing suicidal ideation If news headlines were to be believed about the autopsy findings of beloved actor/comedian Robin Williams, who tragically committed suicide nearly two months ago, no drugs were found in his system at the time of his death, as evidenced by headlines from USA Today, NBC News, the BBC and others proclaiming "no...

Alabama man vilified for telling the truth in Veteran's Day Facebook rant: 'You never fought for any freedoms...'

An Alabama gun shop employee is backing away from controversial remarks he made in a Facebook post on Veterans Day.Michael Schuette said he became angry while reading social media comments praising veterans for their service and posted remarks that have angered people all over the U.S."OK, for my yearly Veterans Day speech...to all vets...you are NOT hero's," Schuette posted. "You got paid to learn how to fight and kill for profit. You 'Served'...

Chechen Islamic State commander dead, according to Chechen leader

© Sputnik. Said TcarnaevRamzan Kadyrov. A national of Chechen origin from the post-Soviet republic of Georgia, considered to be a senior commander of the Islamic State (IS), has been killed, the head of Russia's Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov wrote in his Instagram account Thursday."The enemy of Islam Tarkhan Batarishvili, who called himself Omar al-Shishani, was killed. This will happen to everyone who dares to threaten Russia and the Chechen...
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