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Friday, 9 January 2015

Our medical industry and corrupted data: The Cancer media war for your mind and body

© Credit: Baker Hughes A new report claims that millions of lives have been saved in the past two decades due to 'early detection' of cancer and improved treatment, but is it true?In what can only be described as the latest cancer industry propaganda push, mainstream news outlets are declaring triumphantly "More than 1.5 million cancer deaths averted in last two decades" (), "Cancer death tolls fall, millions saved" (), and "A 22 Percent Drop in...

Shifting away from NATO's narrative - Turkey's Foreign Minister calls out secret powers behind Charlie Hebdo shooting for sowing seeds of cultural conflict

© Adem Altan/AFP/Getty ImagesTurkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu condemned the Paris terror attack as an attempt to escalate new cultural conflict that could lead to the rise of Islamophobia, the Turkish Anadolu Agency reported."Whatever powers are behind this assault, they have exerted an effort to sow seeds of a new cultural conflict," Davutoglu was quoted as saying by the agency Thursday. The foreign...

Extraordinary DNA and mitochondria transfer between tumour cells observed

© Malaghan InstituteDark field image (left) highlights the transfer of fluorescent mitochondria. The bright field on the right shows the connecting nanotube. A team led by Professor Mike Berridge from the Malaghan Institute has become the first in the world to demonstrate mitochondrial DNA movement between cells in an animal tumour. Their paper was published today in the leading biological journal Cell Metabolism.The research lays important groundwork...

Blinded by Darkness: The collective denial of evil and its impact

A therapist advises a woman who's been stalked and harassed by her psychopathic ex-husband to meet him over coffee to address co-parenting. A young woman with severe somatization of trauma is told by her therapist that her psychopathic brother was engaging in sexual "play" when he was raping her vaginally with objects as children. A young man avoids necessary treatment because his perpetrator, his father, is an iconic philanthropist.Why is the burden...

Never before seen impact crater on Mars

© NASA/JPL/UAImpact crater on Mars. The surface of Mars is a well worn place in the Solar System, heavily pounded by countless meteor impacts. And some of these craters are hundreds of millions of years old. So it's unusual for there to be a completely fresh impact on the surface of Mars: but that's just what NASA scientists discovered looking through a recent batch of images returned from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.You're looking at an...

Vax Truth: Let's talk about Whooping Cough

© blog.childrens.com Let's talk about those whooping cough outbreaks, shall we?And while we're at it, can we talk about DTaP? The Diptheria,Tetanus and acellular Pertussis vaccine? We have to. Because that's what's causing the outbreaks. I'm betting at this point 98% of those on the pro-vaccine side have stopped reading. It astounds me how many people have made up their minds, and they seem to think they "know" everything there is to know about...

Kepler discovery: The 1000th exoplanet

© iltredicesimocavaliere.wordpress.comAs far as the eye can see! How many stars like our sun host planets like our Earth? NASA's Kepler Space Telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000 stars beyond our solar system, and to date has offered scientists an assortment of more than 4,000 candidate planets for further study -- the 1,000th of which was recently verified.Using Kepler data, scientists reached this millenary milestone after validating...

Ha, ha! Harvard Obamacare architects subjected to their own policy recommendations and have to pay more for healthcare

© unknown The brain incubator at Harvard, the place which according to legend, and certainly the US News and World Report's annual paid college infomercial, is the repository for some of the smartest people in the world, is furious.The reason - Harvard's illustrious faculty has learned that they too will be subject to their own policy recommendations as relates to Obamacare, which they themselves helped conceive. As the left-leaning NYT reported...

Deadly 115-vehicle pileup on I-94 near Battle Creek, MI; evacuation orders issued

[embedded content]Both directions of I-94 are closed west of Battle Creek and a shelter-in-place order is in effect due to two pileups including as many as 115 vehicles and one fatality, according to Michigan State Police Lt. Rick Pazder.Michigan State Police currently have a one-mile radius shelter-in-place order from I-94 at the 90 mile marker, which is located near 44th Street in Charleston Township, as authorities believe all hazardous materials...

150-car pileup on Michigan interstate during snowstorm leaves one dead

© Twitter/@YahooCanadaNews A crash involving 100 vehicles this morning on I-94 between Battle Creek and Galesburg killed one person, injured 16 and closed the freeway, drawing an areawide response from police, fire, rescue and community resources.Some vehicles were burning in the smashup west of Exit 92, including a truck that carried fireworks. Shortly before noon, those fireworks caught fire, causing an extended display of aerial explosions. Michigan...

FLASHBACK: Truth, justice and the curious case of Chris Kyle

"American Sniper" Chris Kyle "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night" - Bette DavisA few weeks ago I was reading online about the defamation lawsuit filed by Jesse Ventura against former Navy SEAL, Chris Kyle. The case sounded pretty interesting, so, I borrowed from a friend a copy of American Sniper, the autobiography of Chris Kyle, and read it. It was a very compelling read.Here is a little background on Chris Kyle and his story:...
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