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Tuesday, 23 December 2014

John Stewart on US budget circus: The Bill Cosby of legislation

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Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, Hawaii, under blizzard watch

© Ethan TweedieSnow on Mauna Kea - taken Oct. 14, 2014 The summit areas of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii have been placed under a Blizzard Watch from Tuesday morning through Wednesday afternoon.The National Weather Service in Honolulu said low pressure developing near the islands could spread a band of deep moisture and layered clouds over the Big Island. If that happens, heavy snow and blizzard conditions are possible at summit...

US: A short history of police brutality, cops let off the hook by the psychopathic justice system

The preordained failure of biased local prosecutors to obtain indictments against Darren Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo should not surprise us. But the outrage that followed has brought widespread attention to the nationwide problem of systemic and racist police violence and highlighted the movement that has come together to battle against it.The Ferguson grand jury's decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for the killing of African-American...

6-year old Canadian girl raped, beaten into coma, left to die in the snow

© Shutterstock A man in Canada has been placed under arrest for allegedly beating a 6-year-old girl, and then leaving her naked to die in the snow.According to Global News, emergency services responded on Saturday at 4 p.m. to the Paul Band First Nation, a group of Aboriginal peoples in Alberta.A spokesperson for the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service (STARS) said that first responders found a 6-year-old girl suffering from "traumatic injuries related...

China's Yellow River Hukou Waterfall freezes in -12° Celsius temperatures

© IndependentChina's recent cold snap as given some added icy glamour to an old landmark. Tourists have been flocking to a section of China's Yellow River in far greater numbers recently as part of the Hukou Waterfall has frozen over in the incredibly cold weather.With temperatures dropping to as low as -12° Celsius, part of China's second-largest waterfall has become a wall of ice, making it seem like someone has emptied the contents of a fire...

Your questions, our food: McDonald's scary website

[embedded content]No, seriously.Or maybe alternately,See video above. They don't say, "Hi, how are you?" or try to dazzle you with the requisite "Here are all of our glorious food products you know and love" slideshows...or really anything remotely close.You don't even get the flat, emotionless "Hey..." you might expect to receive from one of the teenagers working the cash register after school.No, what you are confronted with when you currently visit the front page of the main U.S. version of the McDonalds website is something downright...It's...

Hamas senior spokesperson demands withdrawal of draft resolution on Palestinian statehood

© Sputnik/ Nazar Aljan The draft resolution on Palestinian Statehood that was submitted to the United Nations Security Council last week must be withdrawn, a senior spokesperson for Hamas Sami Abu Zuhri told Sputnik Tuesday.The resolution sets a deadline of 12 months from the document's approval to the removal of Israeli forces from the occupied Palestinian territories.Zuhri said that the different Palestinian factions had not managed to reach a...

Dallas cop forces mother to perform 'sex acts' while holding service weapon; threatens daughter

© Shutterstock A Dallas police officer has been charged with allegedly forcing a woman to perform multiple sex acts while he was on duty.According to the , police arrested Officer David Kattner on Sunday at around 1:20 a.m.An arrest warrant obtained by the paper said that Kattner had sexually assaulted the woman three times. The woman said that Kattner had shown her warrants for her arrest, and told her that he knew where her daughter lived.The...

Exposing The Deception: How The US Economy “Grew” By $140 Billion As Americans Became Poorer

Regular readers will recall that last month, at the same time as the US Bureau of Economic Analysis reported was a far better than expected 3.9% GDP (since revised to 5.0% on the back of the previously noted Obamacare spending surge), it also released its Personal Spending and Income numbers for the month of October, or rather revised numbers, because as we explained exactly one month ago “Americans Are Suddenly $80 Billion “Poorer“” thanks to (upward)...

Nanotechnology linked to lung damage and cell death

Nanotechnology is still in its early days, and whether it will be of value to resource-poor countries is still hotly debated. Critics argue that when millions of people in countries like India or those in Sub-Saharan Africa are dying because of a lack of access to even basic healthcare, investing in cutting-edge technologies is a ludicrous waste of money. And experts are concerned that the toxicity of nanoparticles to human health and the environment...

Grieving Family Hooked With $1M Medical Bill After Cops Throw Grenade at Baby, Govt Refuses to Help

GEORGIA — The government has refused to compensate grieving parents whose 18-month-old infant was burned alive when a team of SWAT officers threw a flash bang grenade directly into the baby’s playpen.The incident occurred on the morning of May 28, as parents Alecia and Bounkham Phonesavanh and their three children were sleeping.Their baby, nicknamed “Bou Bou Jr.” was in his playpen sound asleep.That’s when the Habersham County Sheriff’s officer...

Teenaged boy saves his 4 year old sister from kidnapper

A boy, 13, is being credited with saving his 4-year-old sister from being kidnapped, authorities say.Lancaster sheriff's deputies say the boy took swift action when a man entered their fenced yard in Lancaster on Saturday and grabbed hold of his sister. The man made it about 10 feet before dropping the girl, deputies said, thanks to her brother."He definitely acted on his own instincts," said Deputy Miguel Ruiz, calling the boy's actions courageous...

Multiple UFOs filmed in daytime over mountain in Santiago Chile

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Argonne system captures toxic airborne mercury

© Habegger et. al.The mercury capture system significantly reduces the amount of vaporized mercury produced by gold shops. Pictured here: the approximate cost for the entire system is approximately $500 and uses materials already available in remote locations. In any given year, workers in artisanal and small-scale gold mining shops in remote locales like Brazil and Peru release an estimated 700 tons of airborne mercury from their rooftops.Collectively,...

Vulnerable UK pensioners choose between eating or using the toilet due to outsourced care

© Reuters/Jon Nazca Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable British pensioners receive home state care that is so cursory and inadequate they are forced to choose between eating and being assisted to the bathroom, a Freedom of Information (FoI) request reveals.An overwhelming 75 percent of local authorities in England offer pensioners visits that last a mere 15 minutes, the FoI request indicates. The number of councils booking care workers for these...

Bizarre execution of 2 NYPD cops a godsend to US government reeling from nationwide protests against police brutality

© Kevin Hagen/NYTTamir Rice did not receive and honored funeral. He was 12 years old when officers shot and killed him this year. Two police officers sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn were shot at point-blank range and killed on Saturday afternoon by a man who, officials said, had traveled to the city from Baltimore vowing to kill officers. The suspect then committed suicide with the same gun, the authorities said.The officers, Wenjian Liu...

Financial Maidan: Thousands of Ukrainians protest austerity measures

© Sputnik/ Evgeni Kotenko A crowd of thousands gathered on Tuesday outside the parliament building in Kiev to show their opposition to cost-cutting measures proposed by the government of Ukraine."First of all, they want to pass a budget, with which the majority of people gathered here today are dissatisfied, and they want to extend the powers of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine," Vitaly Yahno, the coordinator of the protest told...

Information, intelligent design, and 'paper trades'

Particle tracks in an accelerator - possibly a way to visualize the pathways extending from a single point. I've been reading , by John C. Lennox, a book arguing for "intelligent causation" - the idea that the universe and life are too irreducibly complex to have arisen by chance. Lennox, a professor of mathematics at Oxford who has debated Richard Dawkins, makes a powerful case that information lies at the heart of life, and that this information...

New study reveals agriculture has weakened human bones

According to a new study, the ends of human bones became much lighter and less dense around 12,000 years ago -- a loose demarcation that corresponds with modern man's transition from an existence reliant on hunting and gathering to one dedicated to agriculture.In other words, scientists conclude, as humans settled down to farm -- abandoning their mobile ways and assuming a more sedentary disposition -- their bones weakened. The difference in bone...

Research indicates lost memories can be restored offering hope for early stage Alzheimer's

© renta / FotoliaNew UCLA research indicates that lost memories can be restored. The findings offer some hope for patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. New UCLA research indicates that lost memories can be restored. The findings offer some hope for patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.For decades, most neuroscientists have believed that memories are stored at the synapses -- the connections between brain cells, or neurons...

13,800-year-old Haida site found 400 ft. underwater in Canada

The University of Victoria's Bluefin-12S AUV is being off-loaded from the Parks Canada vessel Gwaii Haanas II at the end of the project. The team plans to return next summer for further investigation. (University of Victoria/Canadian Press) Estimates of people's presence in the Americas have ranged from about 12,000 to 50,000 years. A new study by a team of archaeologists that has been researching the subject, has found a site dating back 13,800...
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