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Monday, 15 December 2014

Video shows John Crawford's girlfriend aggressively questioned after Ohio police shot him dead in Walmart

© Youtube still Police aggressively questioned the tearful girlfriend of a young black man they had just shot dead as he held a BB gun in an Ohio supermarket - accusing her of lying, threatening her with jail, and suggesting that she was high on drugs.Tasha Thomas was reduced to swearing on the lives of her relatives that John Crawford III had not been carrying a firearm when they entered the Walmart in Beavercreek, near Dayton, to buy crackers,...

Inside an internet addiction treatment center in China

(Image: Fernando Moleres/Panos Pictures) IN CHINA, if you are a kid who spends a long time online, you had better watch out. Your parents may send you off for "treatment".At the Internet Addiction Treatment Centre in Beijing, children must take part in military-style activities, including exercise drills and the singing of patriotic songs. They are denied access to the internet. One of the first experiences internees undergo is brain monitoring...

FLASHBACK: Masters and Disasters: Researchers able to predict marital happiness by measuring kindness and generosity

© sketchblog/flickr Every day in June, the most popular wedding month of the year, about 13,000 American couples will say "I do," committing to a lifelong relationship that will be full of friendship, joy, and love that will carry them forward to their final days on this earth.Except, of course, it doesn't work out that way for most people. The majority of marriages fail, either ending in divorce and separation or devolving into bitterness and dysfunction....

No proof tying Boston bombing suspects to triple murder

© WGBHAll dead: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 2011 murder victim Brendan Mess, Ibragim Todashev. For nearly any crime requiring a "Whodunnit" answer in Boston around the time of the April 15, 2013, Marathon bombing, the authorities answered: The Tsarnaev brothers.One egregious crime pinned on them was a grisly Sept. 11, 2011, triple murder in Waltham, Mass.Now, prosecutors in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have delivered a shocking reversal. They admit to...

UN 'peacekeepers' use live ammo and chemical agents against Haitian protesters

Haitian police and UN peacekeepers have attacked protesters with live ammo and chemical agents as several thousand opposition supporters tried to march on the presidential palace, demanding new leadership.[embedded content]Haiti has seen many anti-government protests in recent months calling for President Michael Martelly to step down, amid a growing anger over the high levels of government corruption. Elections have been delayed now for years.People...

Propaganda Works: According to the American people, torture is justified, and effective

Following the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA interrogation practices in the period following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, 51% of the public says they think the CIA methods were justified, compared with just 29% who say they were not justified; 20% do not express an opinion.The new national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Dec. 11-14 among 1,001 adults, finds that amid competing claims over the effectiveness of...

Extreme moderates: Syrian 'opposition' losing ground, ISIS gaining upper hand

© APFollow the leader, guys! Don't let Uncle Sam down! The U.S. has given up on the Fee Syrian Army in the north of Syria:The United States has stopped paying most of the pro-western rebels fighting in northern Syria and has suspended the delivery of arms to them, rebel commanders told McClatchy Tuesday.Some of the FSA mercenaries, now no longer getting paid, are joining jihadi groups:As many as 800 to 1,000 fighters from U.S.-vetted rebel groups...

Ten horrifying technological threats to mankind

© UnknownNano technology Technology is the archetypal golden calf of the modern age. Everything that naturally exists in a purely analog and resonant state is being artificially mechanized, computerized, digitized and hybridized (think half-human, half-robot on this one). And with this gradual suffocation of the living, breathing fabric of our world comes the ominous threat of eventual human extinction, as the very essence of humanity is systematically...

Trading sleep for work is hazardous to your health

© redOrbit Did you try to catch up on sleep this weekend? You're not alone. More than one third of American adults report getting less than 7 hours of sleep on weekdays, and many of them try to sleep extra-long on weekends to make up for it.This isn't a particularly healthy way to live -- insufficient sleep is associated with obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and a host of other physical ailments. Drowsy driving causes around 80,000 automobile...

Ron Paul: All I want for Christmas is a real Government shutdown

© money.cnn.comFormer Congressman Ron Paul The political class breathed a sigh of relief Saturday when the US Senate averted a government shutdown by passing the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill. This year's omnibus resembles omnibuses of Christmas past in that it was drafted in secret, was full of special interest deals and disguised spending increases, and was voted on before most members could read it.The debate over the omnibus may have made...

Majority of Americans approve torture: poll

© REUTERS/Kacper PempelA barbed wire fence surrounds a military area is in the forest near Stare Kiejkuty village, close to Szczytno in Northeastern Poland, in this January 24, 2014 file photo. Poland threatened to halt the transfer of al Qaeda suspects to a secret CIA jail on its soil 11 years ago, but became more "flexible" after the Central Intelligence Agency gave it a large sum of money, according to a U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report...

SOTT Exclusive: EU helps ISIS by banning the export of jet fuel to Syria

© AP/ Jacquelyn Martin, File On December 12th, Reuters reported the following:European Union governments agreed on Friday to ban the export of jet fuel to Syria from Sunday, saying it was being used by the Syrian air force for indiscriminate attacks against civilians. As has become the norm for the 'European Union governments,' they all agreed on something that has no basis in reality. There is actually no proof that the Syrian Air Force is targeting...

Homeland Security warns that major coronal mass ejection could be catastrophic to civilization

Homeland Security officials are warning that a major coronal mass ejection, solar flare or electromagnetic pulse may be inevitable and catastrophic to modern civilization. The devastation to the electric grid and modern infrastructure could impact the lives of more than 100 million, and cause untold casualties during prolonged outages.Homeland Security conducted a study assessing the risks with these extreme solar events (as well as manmade EMPs).Via...

Endangered northern white rhinos on brink of total extinction

© Wikipedia/ Sheep81 Scientists will make every effort to save the endangered subspecies of the world's biggest northern white rhinos through artificial insemination of female species, although the chances are slim, Vladimir Krever, the WWF Russia coordinator of biodiversity conservation program told RIA Novosti.Earlier, the San Diego Zoo reported that one of only six northern white rhinoceros remaining in the world died of old age on Sunday, December...

Dubai Crashed, Qatar Crashed, And The Rest Of The Gulf States Got Smoked

Share prices in energy-rich Gulf Arab states fell sharply at the start of the week Sunday, dragged down after oil prices plunged to new lows.The decline was across the board on almost all of the region's seven bourses, as investors went into a panic sell-off soon after trading kicked off.Dubai's benchmark DFM Index lost 6.2 percent to 3,373.51 points, pulled down by market leader Emaar Properties, which shed 8.0 percent, and construction giant Arabtec,...

Peru offended with Greenpeace's Nazca lines stunt

© rt.com410 × 230Greenpeace damages Nazca site. Greenpeace is apologizing to the people of Peru after pulling a stunt at the site of the sacred Nazca lines. Government officials claim the action damaged the ancient markings.Before dawn on Monday, 20 Greenpeace activists went to site of the historic Nazca lines and laid out massive yellow letters reading "Time for Change: The Future is Renewable." Currently, the United Nations is holding the Lima...
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