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Sunday, 25 January 2015

Ancient underwater forest discovered off Norfolk coast, UK

© Rob Spray and Dawn Watson Nature experts have discovered a remarkable submerged forest thousands of years old under the sea close to the Norfolk coast.The trees were part of an area known as 'Doggerland' which formed part of a much bigger area before it was flooded by the North Sea.It was once so vast that hunter-gatherers who lived in the vicinity could have walked to Germany across its land mass.The underwater forest was discovered by Dawn Watson...

Now encircled, U.S. scrambling to protect its terror hordes in Syria

© UnknownOne of many U.S.-supported, terror-ravaged scenes in Aleppo over the past two years. The Syrian Arab Army is reportedly close to completely encircling militants that have occupied the northern city of Aleppo since they invaded it from NATO territory in 2012. Once the encirclement is complete, analysts believe the the city will be finally liberated, in a process similar to the retaking of Homs further south.The desperation of militants facing...

Study finds: "Very Strong" correlation between GMOs and two dozen diseases

It's no secret that we are living in a time where chronic disease continues to rise at an exponential rate, especially within the past couple of decades. New evidence continues to mount suggesting that Genetically Modified Organisms (more specifically GM food) might have played, and do play a key role in those statistics.A new study recently published in the last September examined US government databases, researchers searched for GE (Genetically...

CDC's own data: Vaccine-infant death link

© Unknown If you believe the official pronouncements of top governmental health agencies like the CDC and FDA, all the vaccines in the present day schedule are safe and effective.Not only are you told that they can't harm you, but that can kill you.Parents are under even more pressure. They are told that refraining from vaccinating their infants or children will greatly increase their risk of dying or being disabled. Worse, they are increasingly...

Panic in Kiev?

The following article appeared briefly at this URL on censor.net.ua and was quickly pulled down. Ironic? It would seem so. My translation. I bring it to you because it succinctly lays out the situation as I've been able to piece it together from multiple Russian- and Ukrainian-language sources, and because you are unlikely to come across anything this truthful from cough Western media cough."Panic in Kiev: Ukrainian forces surrender Donbass" International...

The Unbearable rudeness of "Bibi" Netanyahu

With the front page of the paper being occupied by so-called Deflate-gate, Congress was quick to reclaim its rightful place with its own mini-tempest over House Speaker John Boehner's invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ("Bibi") Netanyahu to speak before a Joint Meeting of Congress without prior notice to and/or approval from the Obama administration. © Unknown The issue of a foreign head of state addressing a joint meeting of Congress...

Woman, visiting family member in jail, held against her will, forced to strip for prison guards

Nashville, TN - A lawsuit filed on Thursday against Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison management company in the US, alleges that a visitor at a South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton, Tennessee, was forced to expose her genitalia to prison guards to prove that she was menstruating after she attempted to bring a sanitary napkin into a visit.On April 20, 2014, the plaintiff was making her way through a second security screening point when guard spotted the feminine hygiene product partially exposed in her pocket....

Cops in the UK just as crazy as the US: System protects cop who assaulted mother of sick child

© UnknownSick and twisted cop, Warren Luke, was cleared of any wrong-doing after brutally assaulting a mother in a hospital. A police officer who admitted to kicking and beating the mother of a sick child has just been cleared. The woman suffered over 40 injuries, but Officer Warren Luke, 38, has been cleared of causing her actual bodily harm.Luke, a Metropolitan police officer in the United Kingdom, said that he had the right to attack the woman...

A key day in the Ukrainian conflict?

© Presidential Press and Information OfficeMeeting with permanent members of the Security Council. This may turn out to be a critical day in the evolution of the Ukrainian conflict.1. The Russian Security Council met today. We do not (obviously) have a full account but Putin's website has provided some details.Strikingly, Putin referred to the junta as "official Kiev" and not "the Ukrainian government" or "the Ukrainian side". He also referred to...

SOTT FOCUS: As Islamophobia Rises, Moral Values Decrease

© Carlos Latuff"Islam is a religion that promotes death and violence!"Sez who? For years now in the US, and in European countries such as the UK, Germany, The Netherlands, and France, Muslims have experienced difficulty when it comes to finding a job, due to the ever-increasing islamophobia. And that's not all, a 2006 report by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, entitled "Muslims in the European Union: Discrimination and Islamophobia",...

Hillary Clinton mocks Putin, gladly accepts $500K in jewels from head-chopping Saudi dictator

Monsters, Inc. A Pixar family picture. Bring the kids! Hillary Clinton is a comedic genius. Just listen to her "impersonate" Vladimir Putin. Do you hear that husky, not-at-all-Russian voice? It's like she NSA wire-tapped into Putin's voice box and then temporarily share-wared his most inner thoughts. Amazing.When she loses the 2016 elections, she will surely have gainful employment as a children's entertainer. She'll need that job, too, after her...

Obama will not meet US-bound Netanyahu, but Bibi will address US congress

© AFP Photo/Saul LoebUS President Barack Obama speaks at Boise State University in Idaho on January 21, 2015 US President Barack Obama has refused to meet Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who will make a controversial visit to the United States in early March as he fights for re-election.It is a "matter of long-standing practice and principle" that the president does not meet foreign leaders engaged in an electoral campaign, a White House spokeswoman,...

European parliament report: 'cooperation with Russia is more preferable than confrontation'

Parliament's rapporteur on the strategic situation in the Black Sea and the annexation of Crimea by Russia Ioan Mircea Pașcu has delivered his report to parliament's security and defence subcommittee.In his report, Pașcu has argued that the annexation of Crimea by Russia is, "completely changing the strategic situation in the Black Sea". He claimed that Russia's move into Ukraine was prompted by NATO's eastward expansion. Russia's annexation of...

San Diego cop punished for objection to racist cartoon

© KGTV-TVRacist cartoon used by San Diego police during training exercise A San Diego, California police officer is suing his supervisors for allegedly punishing him after he objected to the use of a racist cartoon in training sessions for supervisors, KGTV-TV reported.Sgt. Arthur Scott said in his lawsuit against the city that he was transferred out of his division against his will after he complained to assistant police chief Todd Jarvis about...

Pentagon dispatches first batch of US forces to train Syrian rebels

© Reuters/Hosam KatanSyrian rebel fighters. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is sending the first wave of about 100 US forces to the Middle East in the coming days to train and equip Syrian opposition fighters battling Islamic State militants.The US troops, mostly special operations forces from the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM), will begin arriving in countries outside Syria in the next few days, Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary,...

Greece's Syriza party officially wins parliamentary elections

© Reuters/Marko DjuricaSupporters of opposition leader and head of radical leftist Syriza party Alexis Tsipras cheer at exit poll results in Athens, January 25, 2015. Greece's radical leftist party, Syriza, is leading the country's parliamentary election, claiming 36.5 percent of the vote, and leaving the ruling New Democracy party in second place with 29.22 percent, according to the first official results.The votes have so far been counted at 25...

Hundreds of dead seabirds found in north Iceland

© Wikipedia. Hundreds of dead guillemots were recently found by farmer Gunnar Óli Hákonarsson at Sandur in Aðaldalur, North Iceland. The birds, which were found on a beach east of the mouth of Skjálfandafljót river, are believed to have died from starvation due to bad weather in December. Foxes and ravens have been scavenging on the bird carcasses.Böðvar Þórisson at the Natural Institute of the West Fjords told mbl.is this week that a large number...
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