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Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Here's what big oil has in the pipeline if Keystone fails

© AP Photo/Tyler Morning Telegraph, Sarah A. MillerIn a Dec. 5, 2012, photo, foreman Javier Garcia works with his crew as they lower a section of pipe along the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline section two near Winona, Texas. t .TransCanada Corp., the company seeking to build the Keystone XL pipeline, has teamed up with the world's largest public relations firm to promote a proposed alternative pipeline that's entirely in Canada.Greenpeace Canada...

More images and video from the massive "Snow-pocalypse" snowstorm that hit Buffalo

© Twitter/@foxandfriendsNY State Thruway in Buffalo this morning People who live in the northern states are used to being hit with snowstorms in winter. However, it's not often that a town gets more snow in one day than some cities receive in an entire year.NY State Thruway in Buffalo this morning! #BuffaloSnow http://ift.tt/1uaGKv9 - FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) November 19, 2014 The relentless snowstorm currently battering the region could...

The shadow medical government

Over the last 50 years, tireless researchers have uncovered and revealed the existence of various elites that control governments and populations:Banks, super-banks, the military-industrial complex, intelligence agencies, psyop propagandists, Wall Street, and so forth and so on.For some reason, these researchers, many of them, have a blind spot when it comes to the ongoing operations of a shadow medical government.Blind spot. And also fear. Fear...

Walmart workers worldwide call out world's richest greedy family for 'shameful' labor practices

© Masaud AkhtarHundreds of Walmart workers and street vendors protested outside the corporation's headquarters in Gurgaon, India. Calling out one of the world's richest families for perpetuating global inequality while reaping the benefits, Walmart workers in more than ten different countries are uniting on Wednesday in a global day of action for decent wages and respect at work.With coordinated demonstrations planned in Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Argentina,...

Agriculture began the gradual degradation of the human species and nearly destroyed ancient civilization

Roughly 9,000 years ago, humans had mastered farming to the point where food was plentiful. Populations boomed, and people began moving into large settlements full of thousands of people. And then, abruptly, these proto-cities were abandoned for millennia. It's one of the greatest mysteries of early human civilization.The dawn of the age of agriculture falls during the "Neolithic," also known as the late stone age. At that time, about 12,000 years...

6 high school football players alleged to have raped girl in woods near school arrested

© WFTV Police in Winter Springs said they have arrested six teens in connection to the alleged rape of a student last week.Those arrested Wednesday were identified as Tywuan Johnson, 17, Torreano Batton, 18, Jose Sims, 17, Deoante Stewart, 17, and Tolbert Alexander, 16, all of Sanford; and Marquis Pierre, 16, of Winter Springs.Police said all six are football players, and have been charged with sexual battery and false imprisonment.Investigators...

Despicable: 11-year old child in critical condition after father uses her as cocaine drug mule

Drugs mule: The 11-year-old was rushed to a hospital in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, after a cocaine capsule burst in her stomach, where doctors found 104 capsules during surgery An 11-year-old Colombian girl is in critical condition after one of more than 100 cocaine capsules her father had made her swallow as part of a drug mule operation, burst in her stomach.The girl was rushed to hospital in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, where doctors removed...

The Ice Age begins while warmists blither on

© Office of the GovernorNY Thruway near Buffalo. This is the face of rapid global cooling, which will change life on our planet more quickly than anyone is yet prepared to acknowledge. All 50 states will see freezing temperatures on Tuesday and Wednesday with millions of Americans facing another bitter blast of unseasonably cold air.A ferocious storm dumped massive piles of snow on parts of upstate New York, trapping residents in their homes and...

By design: Children found to be more vulnerable to advertising when watching programs with action or violence

A study by a University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism researcher has found that children who watch television shows with action or violence are more susceptible to messages in the advertisements shown during the programs.Eunji Cho, a graduate student in UW-Madison's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, says the excitement of a violent show causes children to be focused and attentive, an effect that carries over to commercial breaks.To...

Ebola update video: Mali under quarantine, misdiagnoses and false positives

The Ebola outbreak is once again, branching off into a new direction. Both here in the U.S., and overseas. In West Africa, another country is on high alert. Mali's government ordered a massive quarantine, forcing more than 600 people to leave their family and friends. While here in the US, we're learning the second patient to die from Ebola could have actually have been misdiagnosed. One man we've talked to throughout this whole story saw this coming months ago. He told us about the Ebola tests and the likelihood of false positives. Today, we welcome...

Surprise! U.S. personal freedom ranking falls under Obama

© Pocketfullofliberty.com Americans' assessments of their personal freedom have significantly declined under President Obama, according to a new study from the Legatum Institute in London, and the United States now ranks below 20 other countries on this measure.The research shows that citizens of countries including France, Uruguay, and Costa Rica now feel that they enjoy more personal freedom than Americans.As the reported this morning, representatives...

Putin: U.S. wants to subdue Russia, but will never succeed

© RIA Novosti / Alexey Druzhinin The US has no plans to humiliate Russia, but instead wants to subdue it, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, adding that no one had ever succeeded in doing so - and never will.Speaking at a forum of the All-Russia Peoples' Front in Moscow on Tuesday, the Russian leader said that history was not about to change, and that no one would manage to suppress the country."Throughout history no one has ever managed...

New devices in development could improve communications as well as free people from government internet control

© Gow27 / Shutterstock If there is anything good to be said about mass surveillance, overcharging and monopolization by telecom/ISP companies, and government censorship including cell phone and Internet shutdowns as they see fit, it is that these heavy-handed measures only create a desire for freedom.For many in the modern world, open access to the World Wide Web is being viewed as an essential human right - it is a gateway to knowledge, peer-to-peer...

'Westminster pedophile ring may have murdered my 8yo son' - ex-magistrate

Home of some of the finest scum on Earth The father of an eight-year-old boy who died in the 1980s has alleged that his son may have been abducted and murdered by members of a Westminster pedophile ring. He claims Scotland Yard were complicit in "covering up" the crime.Vishambar Mehrotra, a retired magistrate, said he recorded a male prostitute saying in a telephone call that Mehrotra's son Vishal may have been abducted in the notorious Elm Guest...

Happy World Toilet Day! 2.5 billion people in the world have no cause for celebration

© flickr An estimated 2.5 billion people lack access to proper sanitation around the world, and more than a billion defecate openly. Some 4 billion cases of diarrhea each year lead to more than 2 million deaths, mainly among children. That's more than AIDS and malaria combined.In India, where 550 million people practice open defecation, 45 percent of children are stunted. The culprit in most cases is poor sanitation and lack of access to clean water....

Bus carrying Niagara University women's basketball team stranded during Buffalo snowstorm

This photo provided by Chelsea Andorka, the Niagara University women’s basketball team spokeswoman, shows the team holding a sign while their bus was snowbound near Lackawanna, N.Y., Nov. 18, 2014. Residents in upstate New York remain trapped inside their homes, with motorists stranded as a deadly snowstorm continues to dump snow across the region.A lake-effect snow warning has been issued for the rest of the week in Erie County, and the New York...

Father claims Scotland Yard covered up son's murder by Westminster paedophiles

Vishal (left) and his father Vishambar Mehrotra The father of murdered eight-year-old Vishal Mehrotra says police ignored a tip-off that the boy may have been abducted by a VIP paedophile ringThe father of an eight-year-old boy murdered in the 1980s claims that his son may have died at the hands of a Westminster paedophile ring - and that Scotland Yard helped "cover up" the crime. Vishambar Mehrotra, a retired magistrate, recorded a male prostitute...

Fire chief refuses to help black family stranded after accident: 'We ain't taking no n*ggers here'

Southeast Bullitt County Fire Chief Julius Hatfield speaks to WDRB A Kentucky fire chief is being criticized for racist comments after he refused to help a family of stranded motorists because they were black, and then suggested that an Asian-American television reporter did not understand English.In a Bullitt County Sheriff's deputy's body camera recording obtained by WDRB, Southeast Bullitt County Fire Chief Julius Hatfield can be heard discussing...

Elementary school teacher arrested for sending "sexual" photos to student

© Lee County Sheriff's Office A Lee County elementary school teacher is charged with Cruelty Towards a Child/Transmitting information harmful to minors, according to the sheriff's office.Tara Milton Roberts, 28, taught at River Hall Elementary School in Alva and is at the Lee County Jail being held without bond. She was arrested for sending photographs of herself scantily clad to a student through the KIK application , according to LCSO. The messages...
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