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Friday, 12 December 2014

Berkeley protests: Undercover police officer pulls gun after being caught infiltrating group and instigating looting and violence

© Michael Short/One of last nights undercovers pointing his gun directly at freelance photographer Michael Short An undercover California highway patrol officer who had infiltrated protests against police violence in Oakland pulled a gun on demonstrators after his and his partner's cover was blown.According to accounts in the and the , a few dozen protesters remaining from larger demonstrations yelled that two men in plainclothes were police."Just...

Facts on estrogen dominance

Estrogen is not a single hormone. It is a class of hormones and hormone like compounds that have estrogenic properties.There are human estrogens, animal estrogens, synthetic estrogens, phytoestrogens, and xenoestrogens.The three human estrogens are estradiol, estrone, and estriol, and belong to the steroid hormone family."Estrogen dominance" is a term coined by Harvard physician John R. Lee M.D. It describes a condition where a woman can have deficient,...

Shooting reported at Portland, Oregon high school

© Google Maps A shooting at a Portland, Oregon high school on Friday has left at least three people injured, according to the Associated Press.Portland's KPTV-News reported on Friday afternoon that at least two people were shot by a gunman or gunmen outside the city's Rosemary Anderson High School. A third victim was also taken to an area hospital, the Fox affiliate reported, citing a Portland fire official. It's not clear if he was shot as well.Despite...

Another case of mind controlled violence and unstable behavior? Shooting reported at Portland, Oregon high school

© Google Maps A shooting at a Portland, Oregon high school on Friday has left at least three people injured, according to the Associated Press.Portland's KPTV-News reported on Friday afternoon that at least two people were shot by a gunman or gunmen outside the city's Rosemary Anderson High School. A third victim was also taken to an area hospital, the Fox affiliate reported, citing a Portland fire official. It's not clear if he was shot as well.Despite...

Extreme flooding in Sao Paulo, Brazil

© Thaddeus PawlowskiAerial view of Sao Paulo flooding Violent storms and heavy rainfall hit Sao Paulo in Brazil on December 10, 2014, causing flooding and traffic chaos as authorities announced a state of alert in some parts of the city.[embedded content]Thunderstorm dumped more than two inches of rain in only a few hours. Streets turned into flowing rivers. Cars were swept away by flash floods in parts of the city, where mud and debris clogged...

School violence continues: 3 shot near high school in Portland, Oregon, police say

© Maxine Bernstein/The OregonianPortland Police Chief Mike Reese and Mayor Charlie Hales stand on peace mural on North Killingsworth Court and North Borthwick as police investigate shooting outside Rosemary Anderson High School. Three people were shot Friday afternoon near a high school in Portland, Oregon, Lt. Rich Tyler of the Portland Fire Department said.Portland police Sgt. Pete Simpson said three student-age people, two males and a female,...

Civil unrest is rising everywhere while government digs in its heels

I have warned that governments always turn against the people. Illinois just made it a felony to film police abuse in the USA. The Spanish government has followed the same course. Despite protests from political, judicial and population, the politicians who are becoming ruthless elite dictators rather than democratic representatives of the people, passed a law which provides extensive fines for protesters who dare to film the abuse of police. They...

Six released Guantanamo detainees 'happy to be' in Uruguay

© Reuters / Andres StapffFormer Guantanamo detainees Ahmed Adnan Ahjam (C) and Omar Mahmoud Faraj (L) from Syria walk alongside an unidentified police officer (R) in a neighbourhood in Montevideo December 12. Six former US detainees, who have never been charged, are beginning their new life as refugees in Uruguay. They arrived on Sunday and have given their first comments to the press to say they are happy to be there.The six include four Syrians,...

Finally? Both sides confirm ceasefire finally 'real' in east Ukraine

Chechen volunteers, fighting for Novorussia. The ceasefire in Ukraine is actually being implemented, and both sides of the conflict have acknowledged this in a rare demonstration of accord after months of mutual accusations."I have good news," Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, currently on a visit to Australia, told journalists on Friday. "Today, for the first time in seven months, there was a real 24-hour-long ceasefire.""You can't imagine...

Probiotics: A myth or a miracle?

© probiotics.org The chances are, you think you are an individual. Within a few social, economic and legal constraints, you probably see yourself as pretty autonomous. The reality, however, is that you are more of an ecosystem than an individual. There are 10 times more microbial cells in your body than human ones.In recent years, scientists have developed a greater understanding of the important roles played by the 100tn or so bugs the average...

Will the CIA torture report cause the masses to wake up to 9/11 truth? We can only hope

© unknown With CIA torture programs now fully exposed to the world, a common background theme has emerged. The CIA torture report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is a summary of the original report which you can read for yourself. In the first few pages of the Senate report we are quietly reminded that the backdrop which set the stage for the justification of torture is 9/11. More specifically, the 9/11 "official story" narrative....

Bonanza for Big Pharma: Dangerous drug cocktails prescribed to almost 60% of patients taking opiate painkillers

© AlamyThe greatest growth in prescription drug use between 2009 and 2013 came in the 20-44 age group. Almost 60% of patients taking prescription opiate painkillers are prescribed potentially dangerous drug combinations, according to a study released on Tuesday by a prescription drug management company."There could be instances when prescribing these combinations of drugs is appropriate, but not at this scale," said Lynne Nowak, a doctor with Express...

What the end of racial profiling looks like...

© www.weedist.comWhy do common folk have to educate law enforcement? It was 11 years ago when we first argued that constitutional protections can be balanced against national security interests, and that racial profiling is bad policing practice because it's ineffective and hurts law enforcement's legitimacy in communities. Sadly, racial profiling is used in 2014 as much as it was in 2003, and too often with deadly consequences. The deaths of Michael...

Comet Lovejoy heading our way

© Gerald RhemannThe new Comet Lovejoy, C/2014 Q2, as imaged on November 27th by Gerald Rhemann in Austria using a remotely operated 12-inch f/3.6 astrograph in Namibia. A new Comet Lovejoy, designated C/2014 Q2, is heading our way out of deep space and out of the deep southern sky. It may brighten to 5th magnitude from late December through much of January as it climbs into excellent viewing position for the Northern Hemisphere, high in the dark...

Yet another country: Austria considers repatriating its gold

The gold reserves of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) and their deposits in the UK and in Switzerland are a recurring theme in political discussions. Especially like the Freedom require relocation to Austria, the example of the Deutsche Bundesbank in mind, who want to move their gold by 2020 half of them to Germany.In Austria, the Court has adopted in its recent OeNB examination of the issue of gold. In its draft report he gives the OeNB diverse recommendations on the way. One of the key points: Given the "high concentration risk in the...

Personality traits determine the strength of the immune system

Researchers have found new evidence that explains how some aspects of our personality may affect our health and wellbeing, supporting long-observed associations between aspects of human character, physical health and longevity.A team of health psychologists at The University of Nottingham and the University of California in Los Angeles carried out a study to examine the relationship between certain personality traits and the expression of genes...

'This year's flu shot is a dud' says the government and any discussion of natural alternatives is not allowed

They're also telling doctors to supplement with drugs that don't work and have terrible side effects. This is the same government that wasted billions stockpiling these very drugs.The flu shot is not a static formulation. It changes each year based on the World Health Organization's assessment of which flu virus strains (usually three or four) will be the most prevalent that season. The CDC is admitting that the flu shots distributed this year...

Flights disrupted again after computer failure at UK control centre

Swanwick air traffic control centre Passengers are facing widespread flight disruption after a computer failure at the UK's air traffic control centre.Nats said it was in the process of returning to normal operations after a "technical problem" at its Swanwick control centre caused delays and grounded some flights.Problems were reported around the UK.The government said the scale of the disruption was "unacceptable" and said it had asked for a "full...

Intelligence bill bolsters warrantless spying on U.S. citizens

© Police State USAHouse of Representatives Washington D. C. - With virtually no warning or debate, the Intelligence Authorization Act for 2015 (H.R. 4681) was rushed to the House floor and passed, containing a dangerous section which, for the first time, statutorily authorizes spying on U.S. citizens without legal process.Representative Justin Amash (R-MI) made a hastened effort to draw attention to the disturbing bill, only hours before the vote...

Can cops predict crime?

© ThinkstockNew software uses records of previous crimes to predict areas or "hot spots" where police are then dispatched. The field of "predictive policing" is becoming more and more common as law enforcement officials take advantage of new tools of computer science, machine learning and big data to figure out where criminals may strike next.These programs are a far cry from the Tom Cruise film/Philip K. Dick novel in which citizens were arrested...

Bangladeshi villagers struggle to clean up after huge oil spill threatens rare dolphin preserve

© World Conservation SocietyBangladeshi villagers try to collect oil that spread in the river after an oil tanker sank in the Shela River in Mongla, in a photo taken on December 11, 2014 Bangladeshi villagers using sponges, shovels and even spoons worked Friday to clean up a huge oil spill in a protected area that is home to rare dolphins, after environmentalists warned of an ecological "catastrophe".Thousands of litres of oil have spilt into the...
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