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Thursday, 30 April 2015

Rhode Island woman finds wild turkey in bathroom

© WLNE-TV      Imagine coming home to find a turkey sitting on your bathroom counter after crashing through a window. It happened to Nancy Page of Warwick. "The door was open and I rounded the corner and there was a turkey— sitting on my vanity," she explained. The wild bird came crashing through the window last week and created quite a mess. The turkey had accidentally turned on the faucet which ran for hours flooding the room....

Mentally-ill man dies after Ohio deputy uses takedown hold in jail

     David Dehmann, 33, died last week at the Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. Dehmann, who suffers from several conditions (Asperger's Syndrome, Tourette's Syndrome and autism), was seriously injured by a deputy at the Knox County Jail in Mount Vernon, Ohio, on April 21. Dehmann was taken into custody for alleged public intoxication, transported to a hospital, then released, but arrested a second time for alleged persistent...

Convicted Utah pedophile steals school bus and uses it's list of names and addresses to try and kidnap children

© AP Convicted child sex-offender, Patrick James Fredriksen      A known child sex offender has been arrested on suspicion of stealing a school bus and driving it around to pick up youngsters. Patrick James Fredricksen, 30 - who has previous convictions for unlawful sexual activity with a minor and impersonating a firefighter - was stopped on his way to one child's home in eastern Utah, police say. He had already used the bus's...

New telescopes see magnetic flux ropes on Sun (which can't possibly affect Earths climate).

A new telescope has peered into the Sun to see solar magnetic flux ropes for the first time. Severe flux rope twists have been described as being like "earthquakes" on the sun, and are linked to eruptions of large solar flares that change magnetic fields, and cause radiation and energetic particles to rain on Earth. We don't know much about solar magnetic flux ropes. We know they affect space weather, but thanks to climate experts we already "know"...

Left-handed people have same genetic code abnormality as those with situs inversus

© The Independent, UK 100,000 people had their genes sequenced to determine handedness.      Left-handed people may be even more unique than first thought, thanks to a study that has linked one rare condition with another. 100,000 people had their genes sequenced to determine handedness, and it seems that a condition called may be able to provide clues behind what makes people use their left hand instead of the right. One in...

Bad reputation of viruses not universally deserved

     "The word, virus, connotes morbidity and mortality, but that bad reputation is not universally deserved," said Marilyn Roossinck, PhD, Professor of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology and Biology at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. "Viruses, like bacteria, can be important beneficial microbes in human health and in agriculture," she said. Her review of the current literature on beneficial viruses...

Researchers think underwater volcano off Northwest coast is erupting - right on schedule

© Bill Chadwick, Oregon State University, Copyright Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution A “snowblower” hydrothermal vent spews hot water and white bits of bacterial mat that are blooming in the chemical-rich hot-spring water, showing that the lava flow that was erupted in 2011 at Axial Seamount is still cooling.      Newport, Oregon - Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon...

Arrogant cop recklessly pursues fire chief to ticket him for responding to an actual emergency

[embedded content] Port Wentworth, GA - Rincon Fire Chief Corey Rahn was on his way to an actual emergency on April 10 when he was aggressively pursued by police. Naturally, he believed they were en route to the same incident. A series of videos have been released documenting the absurd actions of the officer. The chief was out running errands when he was alerted that a garbage truck had rear-ended a gas truck that was carrying 9,000 gallons of gas, 15 miles away from where he was. Understanding the severity of the situation, Rahn jumped in his...

California's low-wage workers earned less in 2014 than 1979 in inflation-adjusted dollars

     Over the past 35 years, California's high-wage workers have seen steady increases in their paychecks. But low-wage workers, 4.8 million strong and about one-third of the state's workforce, earned less in inflation-adjusted dollars in 2014 than they did in 1979, according to a new analysis from UC Berkeley. Berkeley researchers analyzing U.S. Census Bureau data at the campus's Center for Labor Research and Education found...

Mainstream medical myths & alternative healing pitfalls

     Staying healthy is hard enough without intentional disinformation. Basic science and logic can reveal the life-saving truths forbidden by our medical industrial complex and corporate media. It's hard to find anyone who does not believe in the Germ Theory of Disease or that butter will clog your arteries or that we are somehow defective and at the mercy of a genetic weakness. These fictions have spanned several generations;...

Mysterious string of multicolored lights spotted over San Diego

UFO photo captured over San Diego      Did you see those mysterious lights southwest of San Diego on Tuesday night? A viewer sent us several photos he took, capturing a string of multicolored lights in the sky above San Diego. The viewer, Larry Fox, said the lights that appeared to be red, blue and green kept flashing and changing colors from his vantage point in Del Cerro. "It looked like a strobe light," he said. Fox said...

Unidentified special forces seen fighting against battalions of Ukrainian nationalists

© EPA/ROMAN PILIPEY      Unidentified special task forces are conducting a special operation in the area of the township of Avdeyevka in Donbas to render harmless a battalion of Ukrainian nationalists, Eduard Basurin, an official spokesman for the Defence Ministry of the self-proclaimed unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic said on Thursday. "About 5 a.m., our reconnaissance registered a brief exchange of fire at the positions...

George Soros: The hidden hand behind 'color revolutions'

© hlaoo1980.blogspot.com      While Baltimore burns, the city has proven itself to be yet another staging ground in a long line of scenes involving "violent protests," riots, and racial violence following an incident concerning police brutality, real or otherwise. Although the issues that have set off the spark in most of these protests were entirely legitimate, government agencies, foundations, organizations, and NGOs immediately...

Second dead dolphin washes ashore in a week in Mumbai, India

The dolphin was taken to Bombay Veterinary College for a post-mortem and then cremated yesterday      More people, perhaps, have seen dolphins in the city in the past week or so, than they might've seen in their entire lifetime. Another dead dolphin washed ashore Marine Drive on Monday, and this time, the civic body took nearly 15 hours to lift its body from the rocks. The five-foot creature was spotted at 8 pm, on the rocks...

Chile volcano: Cloud of ash and gas spew into sky as Calbuco erupts again

© Carlos Vera/AFP/Getty Images The Calbuco volcano erupted again Thursday, releasing a large column of ash into the air just over a week after it spectacularly roared to life following half a century of inactivity.      The Chilean volcano that erupted spectacularly twice last week is causing more chaos after once again spewing a cloud of ash and gas into the sky Calbuco began erupting again today, sending a massive plume of...
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