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Monday, 9 February 2015

SIDS death plausibly linked to vaccines in a 4-month-old baby boy

The grief and responsibility parents feel after losing their child to vaccines is unimaginable and extremely traumatic. Many parents regret not researching vaccines before trusting others to make that decision for them. This mother received proof her son Nicholas plausibly died from the vaccines and she wants to remind parents how important it is to be your own advocate and to do your own research.Her experience leads to this simple reminder, that...

9/11 trial on hold after Gitmo detainees accuse translator of being CIA torturer

© ReutersDetainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the watchful eyes of military police during in-processing to the temporary detention facility at Camp X-Ray of Naval Base Guantanamo Bay in this January 11, 2002 file photograph A military judge halted a hearing at Guantanamo Bay on Monday when two detainees being tried in connection with the September 11 terror attacks said they recognized their translator from a secret CIA prison...

Manipulation-Craft, or how they get us to agree

© coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.comWe are not so smart. Manipulation takes many forms, and aims at us from multiple levels. Emotions, inattention, preoccupation, distraction, lack of information, misinformation, and levels of trust all aid in the success of manipulation-craft bewitchment. The systems and techniques, utilized to manipulate and deceive, are known and tried. They are natural systems experienced in society and the psychological...

French nuclear power plants, drones and UFOs - oh my

Drones and other UFOs have been seen over French nuclear facilities Several unidentified flying objects have been spotted over nuclear power plants in France and Belgium over the last few months, and the story has been all over European news.Thus far, the media has reported that the UFOs are likely drones. However, currently, months after the sightings began, the French government still doesn't know who they belong to. Now a director of one of those...

Is a forced vaccination agenda behind the measles hysteria?

© Unknown Several months ago there was a measles outbreak among the Amish where 383 people were infected, and (as usual) nobody came even close to death. The media hardly expressed concern except to criticize the Amish for not being vaccinated. Now comes the Disneyland infection and suddenly it's a national security threat. The issue of mandating vaccines is being broadcast widely, almost as if we are dealing with a conspiracy of creating a crisis...

Third Man Factor: The hallucinatory effects of survival

© unknown If you're unfamiliar with the poem, it was written by T.S. Elliot after reading a strange account from famed Antarctic explorer, Ernest Shackleton. During the last leg of his 1914-1917 expedition, he was hiking with his two remaining companions, desperately trying to reach a British whaling station. They were low on food, dehydrated, poorly equipped, and very near death's door.That's when he reported sensing an unseen member among the...

Big Pharma 'repatenting' raises prices of top drugs by more than 6 times

© Natural Society What happens when mega pharmaceutical companies get their new grip around one of the oldest asthma medications that many rely on for daily use? Based on historical data, it appears that one of the first action items is to exponentially increase the price of the same medication without any actual advancements of any kind. It's a process that is involved with 'repatenting.'The art of repatenting is one that massive corporations absolutely...

Humanoid robots to staff new Japanese hotel

© Huis Ten BoschHenn-na Hotel Robots Actroids. In Walt Disney World's Carousel of Progress, a scene is presented where a robot bell boy is helping a lady out of her futuristic car. While the robots at Nagasaki's high tech Henn-na hotel will not be driving around on one wheel, the hotel will be primarily staffed by robots.In a world where nearly every movie and novel to feature robotic AI ends with mankind being nearly wiped out, the idea of staying...

Spontaneous DNA mutation causes miracle cure

© Thinkstock It's a medical miracle. A woman who had been suffering from an extremely rare disease for 50 years has experienced a spontaneous cure as a result of changes in her DNA. Doctors described the chances of such an event as "astronomically low" and the equivalent of winning the top lottery prize.The lucky lady is now 58 and her identity is unknown. Before her sudden cure she had a condition known as "WHIM syndrome" which caused serious outbreaks...

Shhh! Your t.v. may be eavesdropping

© samsungToo smart? Samsung's Smart TV may be a little too smart for its own good.Tucked into the privacy policy of the South Korean electronics behemoth's Smart TV are a few paragraphs that may send chills down the spine of some consumers. According to the document, the unit's voice recognition protocols can "capture voice commands and associated texts so that [Samsung] can provide you with Voice Recognition features and evaluate and improve the...

Cancer epidemic in Fukushima as cancer rates skyrocket - truth being "swept under the rug"

Fukushima resident Chieko Shiina, supporter of the Fukushima Collaborative Clinic (translated by Carole Hisasue), Jan 24, 2015 ():- Already, 85 children have had surgeries for thyroid cancer, there are 112-113 children who are suspected of having cancer. When children get cancers it progresses very quickly. The former person in charge of health, Yamashita Shunichi, said it would be only a 1 in a million chance of children getting any kind of cancer...

Troop of monkeys sends man to his death in India

Troop of monkeys. The rising monkey population in Braj region has become a cause of concern for residents. In yet another tragic incident involving the rowdy primates, an elderly sant (holy man), identified as mahant Lal Baba, 75, of Madhav Kunj, fell from the terrace and died at spot on Wednesday evening.Baba had gone up to the terrace to fetch items needed for a puja when a tribe of monkeys pounced upon him. The frightened man who tried to flee,...

Pharmaceutical money: Is your doctor taking it?

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Another JPMorgan banker dies after murder-suicide

By now, there have been so many banker-related suicides that it has become a moot point of i) tracking them all or ii) trying to find a pattern. And yet, one name continues to stand out: JPMorgan. The bank which has been most prominent among the list of "suicided" bankers notched one more casualty over the weekend when "a JPMorgan Chase & Co. employee strangled and stabbed his wife to death before turning the knife on himself, according to...

Two US wars of aggression hidden from the history books

© unknown While there are only a few wars that are recognized by the public education system and mainstream media, the US has been involved in hundreds of different wars and invasions all over the planet in the past 100 years.Below is some information about just two of the wars that are often left out of the history books.Between 1964 and 1973, the U.S. dropped over two million tons of bombs on Laos during 580,000 bombing missions, making Laos the...

Not lovin' the American Dream any more: McDonald's employee trashes restaurant after being fired

This is the moment the man batted a pile of drinks cups to the floor as he rants at the other employees A furious McDonald's employee has been caught on camera having a meltdown of epic proportions and trashing the restaurant after being fired.A customer in the St Paul branch in Minnesota filmed the incredible moment the as yet unnamed member of staff started smashing up the restaurant in a fit of rage.The disgruntled now ex-employee can be seen...

Elephant kills 3 villagers in Orissa, India

© Satish Hanumantha RaoElephant Charging A tusker killed three persons, including a couple, in Keonjhar district on Saturday night.The deceased were identified as Laxmidhara Mohanta, 28, a resident of Chakulia village and Purna Chandra Mohanta, 65, and his wife Abanti Mohanta, 55, of Sitarampur village. Purna Chandra was a retired teacher.Forest department sources said the tusker got separated from a herd at Similipal under Mayurbhanj forest division...

CEO of Gallup is worried he might "suddenly disappear" for criticizing U.S. government unemployment numbers

Gallup CEO, Jim Clifton Years of unending news stories on U.S. government programs of surveillance, rendition and torture have apparently chilled the speech of even top business executives in the United States.Yesterday, Jim Clifton, the Chairman and CEO of Gallup, an iconic U.S. company dating back to 1935, told CNBC that he was worried he might "suddenly disappear" and not make it home that evening if he disputed the accuracy of what the U.S....

SOTT Exclusive: Massive explosion in Donetsk signals renewed chaos in Eastern Ukraine

© Screenshot from http://bit.ly/1A6yqGi A powerful explosion lit up the night sky Sunday night in Donetsk at 10:50 pm. Shock waves shook the city, blowing out windows, and the blast was felt in the neighboring cities of Gorlovka and Makeyevka. The explosion was reported in the Kuibyshev region of Donetsk at or near a chemical weapons factory that was also targeted in September and November of last year. The location of the blast appears to be within...

Officers assigned to schools ask judges for authority to arrest and pepper spray 'unruly' kids for 'misbehaving'

Either accounts were recently presented to US District Judge Abdul Kallon in a lawsuit whose outcome is expected in a decision Monday. However the judge rules, it may end up determining whether police that work within schools as "School Resource Officers" are allowed to pepper-spray students for being "unruly."The suit explains that schools should "have the tools to help calm down a conflict," but that should "not involve spraying chemicals in...
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