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Friday, 14 November 2014

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 7.1 - 156km NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia

© USGS Event Time2014-11-15 02:31:40 UTC2014-11-15 10:31:40 UTC+08:00 at epicenterLocation1.928°N 126.547°E depth=35.0km (21.7mi)Nearby Cities156km (97mi) NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia156km (97mi) NW of Ternate, Indonesia160km (99mi) ENE of Bitung, Indonesia164km (102mi) W of Tobelo, Indonesia1064km (661mi) SW of Koror Town, PalauScientific Data...

Missouri KKK: We will use 'lethal force' against Ferguson protesters

© Reuters / Jessica Rinaldi The Missouri chapter of the Ku Klux Klan is threatening to use "lethal force" against protesters in Ferguson who threaten their safety, equating some demonstrators to "terrorists."Frank Ancona, leader of the KKK's Missouri operations, has been distributing fliers in the metropolitan St. Louis area warning protesters in Ferguson that those who have threatened police officers and their families will be met with violence...

Westminster, Massachusetts outrage over proposed tobacco sales ban fuels talk of recall

Westminster, Massachusetts Board of Health Westminster, Massachusetts -- In the aftermath of an emotional public hearing on the town's proposed tobacco-sales ban, some residents were discussing the possibility of recalling the Board of Health members who proposed the new policy.If the residents did want to recall the Board of Health, Town Clerk Denise MacAloney said they would only be able to recall two of its members. Since 1995, the town has had...

SOTT EXCLUSIVE: Russia to send 7th aid convoy - Poroshenko says Donbas children can sit in cellars

© REUTERS / Marko Djurica Back in August the world was seemingly united and practically foaming at the mouth in moral outrage that Russia would presume to send food and medicine to the people of Donbas (eastern Ukraine, aka Novorussia). After agreeing to the aid convoy, and after Russia providing all documentation and inspections required, Kiev hemmed and hawed, further delaying the convoy's entry, Russia finally just said, . They did, Kiev cried...

Walmart sends riot police to arrest employees daring to protest against slave wages

Protesters rally in front of a Wal-Mart in Pico Rivera on Nov. 13 Police dressed in riot gear arrested dozens of Walmart workers and their supporters who were peacefully protesting outside a Walmart store in Pico Rivera, Calif., last night.The protest followed an earlier sit-in strike at another nearby Walmart. Pictures of those protesters with their mouths taped and holding signs were tweeted with the hashtag #Walmartstrikers.Protesters were arrested...

Polish woman declared dead wakes up 11 hours later in morgue

Janina Kolkiewicz A 91-year-old Polish woman was declared dead and spent hours in a morgue before waking up, to the astonishment of hospital staff and relatives. Her demise and resurrection had apparently created an appetite, as she ate soup and pancakes.Janina Kolkiewicz was declared dead by local medics in a small town of Ostrow Lubelski in eastern Poland, reported TVP public broadcaster. She had no pulse, was not breathing and her eyes didn't...

Sott Exclusive: The NYT goes batty over China's freedom of association

Get your hip waders on because the rubbish and sheer hypocrisy coming from the NYT is about to get deep and far-flung. Edward Wong's recent propaganda hit-piece, In New China, 'Hostile' West Is Still Derided says more about Wong's obvious contempt for China's choice and ability to break away from American influence than any genuine and generalized 'anti-American' sentiment in China.What Wong fails to realize, or deliberately ignores, is that the...

Police expert: War on terror has turned our cops into occupying armies - and we're the enemy

© Thomas Nolan (YouTube) The war on terror has essentially turned police into occupying armies in some American communities, said a police and criminology expert.Thomas Nolan, an associate professor of criminology at Merrimack College and former senior policy analyst with the Department of Homeland Security, said the focus of police work had shifted greatly since he was a Boston police officer in the 1980s and 1990s."I remember it being drilled...

Senior citizen killed by elephant in India

A senior citizen was killed by an elephant in Hulaginakoppa village in Kalghatagi taluk of Dharwad district on Monday.The deceased was identified as Ramappa Tadas (75), resident of the same village. Sources said Ramappa had taken his cattle for grazing and sighted movement in a nearby sugarcane field.Mistaking it for a buffalo, he tried to chase it away, but the elephant trampled him instead.Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Sabakath Hussain told...

Blasts rock UAE and Egyptian embassies in Libya

© www.aljazeera.comTwo car bombs struck near the Egyptian and United Arab Emirates embassies in Tripoli. Bombs exploded near the Egyptian and United Arab Emirates embassies in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on Thursday though there were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage in the attacks.The blasts followed a series of car bombs on Wednesday mainly in towns under the control of the internationally recognized government, based in the...

Elephant tramples man to death in India

A 52-year-old man was trampled to death by a wild elephant at Pathiri South forest under the Chethalayath range of the South Wayanad Forest Division on Tuesday night.The deceased was identified as Joy, from Thadathil at Karyampathi, near Pulpally.Range officer P. Ranjithkumar said a herd of elephants chased Joy and his friend Chandran of Karyampathi tribal colony when they were collecting firewood from the forest. While Joy was trampled to death...

Israel hands a doctor who worked in the Gaza Strip during the latest Israeli assault a lifetime ban from entering Gaza

Mads Gilbert treating injured child at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza Mads Gilbert, a doctor who worked in the Gaza Strip during the latest Israeli assault, has been banned from re-entering the Strip by Israeli authorities who cited security reasons.The 67-year-old Norwegian has travelled to and from Gaza to treat Palestinians for several years, working in Shifa hospital during the most recent war.During his stay, he highlighted the plight of the Palestinians...

Cameron compares Russia to Nazi Germany ahead of G20 Summit

© AP Photo/ Yves Logghe David Cameron has compared Russia to Nazi Germany because of its actions in Ukraine on the eve of a tense meeting with Vladimir Putin.Mr Cameron will on Saturday night challenge Mr Putin about Russia's continued acts of aggression in Ukraine as it supplies heavy weapons and tanks to the separatists.In a reference to World War II, Mr Cameron said that the world must "learn the lessons of history" and intervene to stop "a larger...

Complicit Western media totally silent about U.S.-sponsored genocide in SE Ukraine

Here's a typical example of what's being blacked-out:This is a photo of a Ukrainian soldier guiding a truck-full of prisoners toward a ditch, to which the prisoners are then dragged one-by-one, and thrown in, and shot - then covered over with dirt after all the corpses (and perhaps some living bleeding survivors) are piled in it.(Of course, any survivors then quickly choke to death, from the dirt): And here's an explanation of how this extraordinary...

Jonathan Gruber, Obamacare architect, lies about healthcare exchanges and calls American voters 'stupid'

Does the name Jonathan Gruber ring a bell?He's an economist and professor at MIT, best known for his role in the development of the Affordable Care Act, affectionately known as Obamacare.We talked about him last summer. This might sound familiar:Gruber was an architect of both the PPACA and its Massachusetts precursor, "RomneyCare." In 2009 and 2010, he was a highly paid advisor to the Obama administration during the congressional debate that produced...

Coal mining CEO indicted for deaths of 29 miners

© Reuters / Chris KeaneA West Virginia State Police officer stands at the entrance to the Massey's Performance Coal at the scene of an accident where 12 coal miners were killed, at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia April 6, 2010 Donald Blankenship, former chief executive of Massey Energy Co., was indicted Thursday on charges that he violated mine safety laws ahead of an April 2010 blast that killed 29 miners at the company's Upper...

Hawaii sued by Monsanto and Dow over law banning GMOs

© Reuters/Mark Blinc Two biotechnology behemoths have followed through with vows to sue Hawaii's Maui County for passing a law last week that bans the cultivation of genetically modified organisms.Monsanto Co. and a Dow Chemical Co. unit filed the lawsuit in federal court in Honolulu on Thursday. The agricultural giants are calling on a judge to block the law and to invalidate the voter-approved measure.Maui County voters approved a temporary ban...

The Obamacare extortion plan: Bigger penalties this year if you don't comply

Oh, yay!The Obamacare website homepage has an exciting announcement for us!Here's what it says:See plans & prices for 2015!Starting November 15, you can enroll in an affordable health plan that works for you How about...NO. I'd rather not, thanks.Like Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper, I am NOT going to comply with Obamacare. I've said that from the day I first heard about this extortion plan.The mainstream media is alerting us that UH OH!,...
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