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Sunday, 15 February 2015

Study: Junk food more deadly than war, famine, genocide

Food in the end, in our tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity. ~ Louise Fresco © youthvoices.net You may already know that junk food is bad for your health, but you may not realize bad it can be. A new study from the School of Medical Sciences at Australia's University of New South Wales points to profound brain changes that junk food causes, making a junk...

Yeti digs out Boston's buried cars

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Nonprofit humanitarian organization to bring solar energy to Gaza

© Solar Gaza Lights ProjectSolar Panels in Gaza Over the past few months an international team of humanitarians have been organizing a project which would bring solar power to Gaza. Gaza engineer, Naji Abu Shaaban, along with his group of engineers in Gaza have been working around the clock to make this solar project a reality.Outside of Gaza are a number of supporters of this project which include internationally recognized artist, Martha Tjoe...

Meteor: Shooting star plummets from New Zealand night sky

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Odd display of red auroras over Manitoba, Canada

For Valentine's Day, night-sky photographer Alan Dyer received not red roses, but red . "It was an odd display. Instead of the usual green, the lights over Manitoba, Canada, on Feb. 14th were a beautiful shade of red," says Dyer, who took this 25 second exposure using a Canon 6D digital camera and a fish-eye lens: © Alan DyerTaken by Alan Dyer on February 14, 2015 @ Churchill, Manitoba. "The bright light at the right is Jupiter," he points out. "Later,...

Obama adviser John Podesta's biggest regret: Failure to break UFO secrecy

© AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, FileJohn Podesta Outgoing senior Obama adviser John Podesta reflected on his latest White House stint Friday, listing his favorite moments and biggest regrets from the past year. Chief among them: depriving the American people of the truth about UFOs.Podesta's longtime fascination with UFOs is well-documented, as his brief political hiatus following four years as President Bill Clinton's chief of staff freed him up...

We are trapped in a narrative

© Harris & EwingNational Capital digs out after storm Jan 14 1939. I've addressed the issue a hundred times, and it pains me to see it only gets worse. But it does. And it's not my pain that counts, it has no meaning whatsoever, it's the fact that we are inching ever closer to the kind of situations none of us would choose.That is, war, people dying from sheer misery, people dying because they have no access to the services we take for granted,...

13 reasons to reject the Measles outbreak hype

Hype a war, sell an invasion.Hype a disease, sell a vaccine.That's the business model. Make no mistake about it.And at the criminal liar's club called the US Centers for Disease Control, men and women are working that business model every day.Here are 13 reasons to reject the current hype about the "measles outbreak."One: Above and beyond all other reasons is the CDC's track record of lying. There is no reason to believe anything they say or publish....

Astonishing speech by African-American Mississippi judge to three white murders

Here's an astonishing speech by U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves, one of just two African-Americans to have ever served as federal judges in Mississippi. He read it to three young white men before sentencing them for the death of a 48-year-old black man named James Craig Anderson in a parking lot in Jackson, Miss., one night in 2011. They were part of a group that beat Anderson and then killed him by running over his body with a truck, yelling...

Hysteria: When letting your kids out of your sight becomes a crime

© Sammy DallalSILVER SPRING, MD - JANUARY 16: Danielle Meitiv waits with her son Rafi, Meitiv, 10, for Danielle's daughter Dvora Meitiv, 6, to be dropped off at the neighborhood school bus stop in Silver Spring MD, Friday January 16, 2015. We all want what is best for our children. We want them to be happy and successful, and we want to protect them from harm. But what if we are protecting them from extremely remote threats while ignoring the things...

More terrorism circus? Two dead, five injured in Copenhagen shootings

Danish police shot and killed a man early today who investigators believe was behind shootings at a free speech event and a synagogue in Copenhagen, killing two men and wounding five police officers, and was likely inspired by last month's terror attacks in Paris.The suspected gunman was killed in a shootout with police in the Noerrebro district of Copenhagen, Danish investigator Joergen Skov told The Associated Press.According to Copenhagen police,...

The Food Babe: Enemy of chemicals

© amazon.com "Cereals here in the United States contain a packaging ingredient called—God, I'm paranoid." The natural-food advocate Vani Hari paused, laughing, looking at a man standing a few feet from our table in a Union Square coffee shop. He was huddled over his phone, just waiting for his coffee—or so it seemed. She lowered her voice, continuing, barely audible: "... called BHT."Hari looked in my blank eyes. I asked, "In the plastic bags?"She...
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