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Friday, 16 January 2015

The bizarre ESP experiments conducted on Canadian aboriginal children without parental consent

© Library and Archives of CanadaBrandon Indian Residential School students in 1946. Canada's residential schools for aboriginal children were places of hunger, isolation and misery. Children as young as 3 were separated from their families and became wards of the state.In the 1940s, the children were also, as more and more evidence is revealing, the unwitting subjects of bizarre, cruel and unethical experimentation . A recently uncovered experiment...

Jean-Marie Le Pen to Russian newspaper: 'Charlie Hebdo attack has the hallmarks of being a secret service operation'

Komsomolskaya PravdaThe founder of the National Front party and MEP, Jean-Marie Le Pen, is an 86-year-old politician is a the legend of France. As a teenager, participated in the resistance movement. He fought with France's airborne troops in Indochina and Algeria. This old man with difficulty rising from a chair politely declined my hand. He damaged his left eye in a street brawl, but he sees women perfectly with his right eye. This Frenchman...

Pakistani father sacrifices five children 'to gain magic powers'

© Naharnet.com A Pakistani father-of-six is on the run after strangling five of his children to death, apparently believing the sacrifice would endow him with magical powers including alchemy, police said Friday.Ali Nawaz Leghari, 40, killed the two girls and three boys, aged between three and 13 overnight Thursday in the village of Saeed Khan, some 230 kilometers (140 miles) north of the city of Karachi."The man's financial condition was bad but...

Paul Craig Roberts: Ruin Is Our Future

Neoconservatives arrayed in their Washington offices are congratulating themselves on their success in using the Charlie Hebdo affair to reunite Europe with Washington's foreign policy. No more French votes with the Palestinians against the Washington-Israeli position. No more growing European sympathy with the Palestinians. No more growing European opposition to launching new wars in the Middle East. No more calls from the French president to end the sanctions against Russia.Do the neoconservatives also understand that they have united Europeans...

An Afghan training base that melted in the rain? US wasted billions on botched projects

© AFP Photo/Jeff PachoudAfghan policemen stand guard for a debriefing during an exercise under the supervision of the Eurogendfor, on September 26, 2012, at the National Police Training Center in the Wardak province The United States wasted nearly $500,000 on an Afghan police training center that began to fall apart only months after it was built due to shoddy contractor work, according to a watchdog report released Thursday.The center's adobe-style...

Department of Homeland Security promises to protect your privacy while they intrude into every aspect of your life

© AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster US citizens' privacy will be protected even as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) prepares additional efforts to counter the "new phase" in the threat of global terrorism, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson told Sputnik on Friday."The thing that is the greatest strength in our country is...our values in our privacy, our freedom to associate," Johnson told Sputnik when asked about the agency's planned response to the renewed...

Ice covering Great Lakes makes giant leap in January

Animation of ice cover on the Great Lakes from Jan. 7 to Jan. 14 (NOAA)Ice cover on the Great Lakes has made quite a leap after the first, week-long cold snap of the season.As of Thursday, ice covered 34.1 percent of the Great Lakes, up from just 5.6 percent on Jan. 1, and 10.8 percent on Jan. 5 - the first day of a polar plunge that gripped most of the eastern U.S. for days to come. "Last year, the Great Lakes were 21.2 percent ice-covered on Jan....

Cop shoots unarmed man in the back, pepper sprays his dying body, then runs away

Rocky Ford, CO - Former Rocky Ford police officer will be standing trial on second degree murder charges after a preliminary hearing Thursday morning.James Ashby was arrested on Nov 14., and fired that day for the killing of 27-year-old Jack Jacquez on October 12.[embedded content]Jaquez was reportedly out skateboarding when Officer Ashby approached him. Ashby then followed the man home and into his mother's house. Jaquez reportedly knocked on the back door and when his mother let him in the officer followed.According to court records released...

China reacts to Japan's ignoring their past aggression, states it 'erodes Japan's international credit'

© XinhuaPeople visit the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu Province Days after China and Japan took a step closer to setting up a consultative mechanism to govern contacts in the East China Sea, Beijing on Thursday criticised Japan's "denials" of its wartime atrocities."It is irrefutable that the Nanjing Massacre was a cruel crime that the Japanese militarists committed during...

Brazil increases terrorist threat level for Olympic Games; officials aware that there are 'certain people who can lend assistance to such groups'

© XinhuaBrazilian counter terrorism officials say they are prepared for a “lone wolf ” attack during the Olympic Games, but they think it is unlikely to happen With a year-and-a-half to go until Rio de Janeiro hosts the next Olympic Games, Brazilian counter terrorism officials say they are prepared for a "lone wolf " attack during the Games, but they think it is unlikely to happen.Brazil has raised the terrorist threat level for the Summer Olympic...

Paris Charlie - the Shock Doctrine par Excellence

January 15, 2015 " At the same time France lawmakers agreed to displayed 10,000 troops throughout the country to protect 'vulnerable places'; spying on citizens, for their protection takes on new forms and formats. A direct reaction to the attack on Charlie Hebdo on January 7 and the assault on a kosher supermarket on January 9? - Killing 17 people in all? Is that it?French Ministers of the Interior and of Defense have advanced their wish of substantially...

Some folks will get tortured: Gitmo guards being recruited as police officers

© Unknown"You're hired!" This week, as millions of Americans demand that Guantanamo Bay guards be prosecuted for war crimes, it seems that some of them may be getting jobs as cops instead.It was recently reported that large numbers of military police officers who were formerly stationed at the infamous torture prisons, are now getting jobs as local cops, and could be coming to a town near you. The Worcester Police department in Massachusetts is...

Don't be a helicopter parent! Autonomous tots have higher cognitive skills

© TheOtherNate Higher cognitive skills are found in the children of mothers who are consistently able to support the development of their baby's sense of autonomy, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Montreal. The researchers specifically looked at executive functioning, which refers to a range of cognitive processes that are essential for cognitive, social and psychological functioning. "We have shown that the child's...

Government tyranny and terrorism work hand in hand

© unknown I was in the middle of working on an article covering real U.S. economic stats versus manipulated statistics when the Charlie Hebdo shootings took place. And though I knew the implications of the event would be far-reaching, I was originally undeterred from my financial subject matter. I had already covered in previous articles the inevitability of ISIS attacks on Europe and America,including the "warnings" of Saudi Arabia in August of...

Lake Erie's sudden freeze of January 2015

NASA/NOAA satellite image from above the Great Lakes taken just after 1:30 p.m. Monday Lake Erie was less than six percent frozen last Tuesday with ice covering only a sliver of the lake's western basin.But, after a week with frigid temperatures in the single digits, heavy lake-effect snows and high winds, Lake Erie is freezing up fast.Nearly 60 percent of the lake waters were frozen today, according to graphs by the Great Lakes Environmental Research...

Tongan volcano creates new island since last month's eruption

© Agence France-PresseThis handout photo taken on January 15, 2015 from a boat at sea and released by New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade shows smoke rising from the eruption of a volcano, some 65 kilometres (40 miles) southwest of the South Pacific nation Tonga's capital Nuku'alofa. Nuku'Alofa, Tonga -- A Tongan volcano has created a substantial new island since it began erupting last month, spewing out huge volumes of rock and...

A 'New-Fashioned' food system that helps and heals

© Photo by Brenda Palmer/American Alps RanceElectrified fences mean cattle can be moved frequently — better for the cattle and for the land. Calling something "old-fashioned" might encourage tourists and antique buyers to take note, but it does not captivate the hearts and minds of our mainstream culture.Too often, the Earth-stewardship movement positions itself as one of returning to a bygone era - to the good old days, pre-electricity and pre-petroleum....
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