Can he file an a-peel?: Colorado man arrested for 'menacing' deputies with a banana

© Shutterstock Authorities in Fruitvale, Colorado arrested a 27-year-old man for allegedly putting them in fear for their lives by pointing a banana at them, KCNC-TV reported.Nathan Channing faces two felony counts of menacing Mesa County sheriff's deputies after pointing the banana at Deputy Nathan Bunch as he drove by. Bunch then reportedly ducked in his car and called for backup.After another deputy, Donald Love, arrived, he and Bunch approached...

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OPEC decision likely to crash U.S. fracking industry

© UnknownDespite a slump in worldwide oil prices due mainly to fracking in the U.S., oil-producing nations left their output targets unchanged. At its meeting today in Vienna, Austria, the 12 member countries of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) voted to keep their output target unchanged despite a 30 percent slump in the oil price since June, due primarily to the explosive growth in fracking in the U.S. as well as decreasing...

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Contraceptive pill associated with changes in brain structure

© Annabelle Shemer, via Flickr Since its advent 50 years ago, the pill has helped revolutionize contraception and transform women's lives. The pill is so popular today that over 100 million women worldwide currently use this method of contraception, and the majority of users report high levels of satisfaction.Many women, however, experience unpleasant side effects, ranging from mood changes to androgenic effects, such as acne and unwanted hair growth....

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A vaccine for cancer?

© flickr.com/ Joe Flintham A series of papers published Wednesday in the journal show how the immune system can fight off cancer, and how that discovery could usher in new vaccines to stimulate that process to become more efficient. It's the latest advance in personalized medicine - tailoring a treatment to the unique genetic profile of the patient.One of the jobs of the immune system is to patrol the body looking for foreign invaders that are then...

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Police unhinged: innocent pregnant woman loses eye from cops bean-bag shooting in Ferguson

© KMOV A pregnant St. Louis woman is now blind in one eye after St. Louis County Police shot a bean-bag round at a vehicle she was riding in as the car drove away from a gas station near Ferguson, Missouri early Tuesday.The incident occurred amid high tension following a grand jury's decision not to indict white police officer Darren Wilson for the fatal August 9 shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson.Dornella Conners told...

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FBI report mistakenly reinforces that America is a police state

© unknown A recently published FBI report accidentally proves that while the police claim cops face growing threats from rowdy populations - like in Ferguson - the opposite is true. The report presents law enforcement deaths in 2013.The report found that across the entire country, only 76 LEOs were killed in "line-of-duty" incidents. 27 died as a result of "felonious" acts and 49 officers died in accidents - namely, automobile (ironically, of the...

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A Vaccine for Cancer?

© flickr.com/ Joe Flintham A series of papers published Wednesday in the journal show how the immune system can fight off cancer, and how that discovery could usher in new vaccines to stimulate that process to become more efficient. It's the latest advance in personalized medicine - tailoring a treatment to the unique genetic profile of the patient.One of the jobs of the immune system is to patrol the body looking for foreign invaders that are then...

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Writing reasonably about vaccines?: How this journalist was censored

When the editor of the invited me to review a recent narrative book about vaccines, I said yes. It was a natural fit, since I've been researching vaccines for the past fifteen years, participating publicly in vaccine debates, and writing about the vexing issue of childhood vaccination for nearly as long.But when an advanced reading copy came in the mail, I recognized the author's name as someone who had mentioned me in a January 2013 article...

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BEST OF THE WEB: Psychos say: 'Submit, Amerika!' Michael Brown was killed because he didn't prostrate himself to police authority

Did you support Wilson? You're gonna love what's coming next What's wrong with Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson's killing of the unarmed 18-year-old black teenager, Michael Brown, and with a Grand Jury decision not to indict him for that outrageous slaying, is what is wrong with American law enforcement and American "justice" in general.Both actions were permeated not only with racism, which clearly played a huge rule in both the verdict rendered...

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United Nations calls for an end to industrialized farming, organic agriculture can feed the world

© Chiot's RunGardener holding handful of Parisienne Carrots, which are a variety of heirloom carrot. In 2013, the United Nations announced that the world's agricultural needs be met with localized organic farms. That's right, we do not need giant monocultures that pour, spray and coat our produce with massive amounts of poisons, only to create mutant pests and weeds while decimating pollinators and harming human health. Don't believe the hype: We...

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Russia bans GMOs; why does the U.S. keep approving them?

There have been marches, vocal demonstrations, petitions, and laws banning GMOs, but the US is still lagging in the 'democratic' freedoms it has promised its people. Russia, on the other hand, has completely banned GMOs, placing a moratorium on their imports for 10 years. The nation rejects GMOs due to numerous dangers, while the US continues to allow Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, Syngenta, and their bullying kind to contrive a cold war on the American...

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Bloody hell! Even the U.K. is infected with Black Friday madness

Staff tried to keep order at an Asda superstore in Wembley, London as customers competed over items Police have been called to supermarkets across the UK amid crowd surges as people hunt for "Black Friday" offers.Greater Manchester Police appealed for calm after attending seven Tesco shops, at which three men were arrested and a woman was hit by a falling television.The force said the issues were "totally predictable" and it was "disappointed" by...

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Barbaric slaughter or historic ritual? World's largest animal sacrifice begins - Warning: Contains graphic images

© Omar Havana /AFP/Getty Images A festival believed to be the largest animal sacrifice ritual in the world began Friday in southern Nepal, where devotees believe the sacrifices bring good luck and a Hindu goddess will grant their wishes.In the fields outside a temple before dawn, a priest dropped five drops of his own blood and sacrificed a rat, chicken, pigeon, goat, and pig to start the festival. More than 5,000 buffaloes were ritually killed...

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SOTT EXCLUSIVE: Shock! US media outlet Washington Post questions U.S. intervention in Ukraine

On 25 November, the published an opinion piece by Katrina vanden Heuvel titled "Rethinking the cost of Western intervention in Ukraine." It's actually pretty good, which makes it all the more curious. After all, if you follow , you'd more expect to find headlines such as the following (all culled from the past 2 weeks or so): The is also one of the soap boxes for arch Russophobe and Putin-baser Masha Gessen. (Masha has a history of getting her...

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Save the Corporations...I mean Children

© AFP Photo/Stephen LovekinFormer Minister of the United Kingdom and Global Legacy Award Honoree Tony Blair. When Save the Children chose to bestow the Global Legacy Award on Tony Blair, the charity inadvertently revealed the dark underbelly of NGO activity.When Tony Blair received the Global Legacy Award last week from Save the Children, an organization dedicated to it seemed like a bad joke to many people. This, after all, was a man who had been...

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Royal Society report highlights 'significant and increasing' risks from extreme weather

© Twitter/@foxandfriends'Extreme weather' is becoming more 'normal'. NY State Thruway in Buffalo. The town recently had more snow in a single day than some cities have in a whole year! University of Exeter researchers have played a crucial role in creating a comprehensive new report indicating that the global risk from extreme weather is set to intensify.The critical report, published by the Royal Society, indicates that exposure of human populations...

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