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Monday, 2 March 2015

Soul smashing cruelty! 1st grader forced to eat lunch behind divider for being one minute late

© Laura Hoover A six-year-old boy who attends Lincoln Elementary in Redwood, Oregon has been publicly humiliated by school officials on multiple occasions because he showed up a few minutes late to school. 1st grader Hunter Hoover has been made to sit by himself during lunch, behind a cardboard divider for something that was totally out of his control.On one recent morning when his mother's car had trouble starting, Hunter arrived to school exactly...

Oil storage tank leak near Yakima River in Washington State poses threat to animals and crops

© Washington Department of EcologyInvestigators are still trying to figure out what caused a storage tank to leak in Yakima River on Sunday. As much as 1,500 gallons of used motor oil leaked from an above-ground storage tank in Washington state into a creek that flows into the Yakima River, vital to the apple-growing state's agricultural hub, officials said on Monday.The cause of the spill on Sunday from the tank at a former feed lot near Sunnyside,...

Cleaning house: Venezuela orders US embassy to reduce staff from 100 to 17

© Reuters/Carlos Garcia RawlinsVenezuela's President Nicolas Maduro gestures during a meeting with supporters at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, February 19, 2015. Venezuela on Monday ordered the U.S. embassy in Caracas to reduce staff from 100 to 17 amid the worst diplomatic flare-up between the two ideological foes since socialist President Nicolas Maduro was elected in 2013.Maduro, who like his predecessor Hugo Chavez frequently locks horns with...

Sleepy Hollow redux: Ninth wave of mysterious sleeping sickness strikes Kazakhstan

© RTPeople suffering from the sleeping sickness are diagnosed with various diseases. New cases of the inexplicable disorder, dubbed "Sleepy Hollow," have appeared in Kalachi, the village in Kazakhstan where every tenth villager, including children, has mysteriously fallen asleep in broad daylight, some unable to wake up for days on end.manbek Kalzhanov, head of the administration of Esil district, told Interfax. "According to Kalzhanov, the overall...

Oil storage tank leak near Yakima river in Washington state poses threat to animals and crops

© Washington Department of EcologyInvestigators are still trying to figure out what caused a storage tank to leak in Yakima River on Sunday. As much as 1,500 gallons of used motor oil leaked from an above-ground storage tank in Washington state into a creek that flows into the Yakima River, vital to the apple-growing state's agricultural hub, officials said on Monday.The cause of the spill on Sunday from the tank at a former feed lot near Sunnyside,...

Pakistan arrests parents for refusing polio vaccine

© BBCPakistani police will only release parents once they have sworn that they will vaccinate their children Pakistani authorities have conducted their first-ever mass arrest of parents for refusing to allow their children to be vaccinated against polio.Authorities in Peshawar, in the north-west of the country, detained 471 people and charged them with "endangering public security".The local government says they will only be freed once they have...

The dark side of the Internet of Things

© Welleman Can you imagine a world where your home, your vehicles, your appliances and every single electronic device that you own is constantly connected to the Internet? This is not some grand vision that is being planned for some day in the future. This is something that is being systematically implemented right now. In 2015, we already have "smart homes", vehicles that talk to one another, refrigerators that are connected to the Internet, and...

Herders spread Indo-European languages

© Dmitry_Chulov/iStockphotoHighly mobile pastoralists likely contributed to the spread of the language group that evolved into English, say researchers. Nomadic pastoralists from the Great Steppe helped spread the large group of languages that includes English, an analysis of ancient DNA confirms.The findings, reported today in , gives weight to one of two competing hypotheses about where this language group came from."These results provide support...

Deadly bacteria escapes from Louisiana lab and no one knows how far it has spread

© Reuters / Mike Blake Weeks of investigation by federal and state agencies have failed to uncover how a potential bioterror agent escaped from a Louisiana laboratory four months ago, or how far it has spread.Since November, four rhesus macaque monkeys and a USDA investigator have been infected. Cultures of Burkholderia pseudomallei somehow got out of the secure facility at Tulane National Primate Research Center in Covington, about 50 miles north...

BEST OF THE WEB: All theater? Obama-Netanyahu 'fallout' planned in 2009

In a 2009 US policy paper published by the corporate-financier funded Brookings Institution, it was made clear that the US was determined to provoke Iran into a conflict and effect regime change at any cost - up to and including an outright military invasion and occupation of Iran with US troops.However, before it came to that, the Brookings Institution's policymakers explored other options including fomenting US-backed political unrest coupled...

Lavrov notes serious progress in talks on Iran nuclear program

© EPA/SALVATORE DI NOLFI Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday noted serious progress in talks on Iran's nuclear program."At a meeting with [US Secretary of State John] Kerry and [Iranian Foreign Minister Javad] Zarif, we discussed a number of issues on the Iranian nuclear program," Lavrov said. "We noted serious progress reached at the talks of the P5+1 with Tehran.""We discussed tasks we have to solve in order to achieve a result within...

Twitter reactions to murder of Putin's opponent Nemtsov

The range of reactions to the death of Boris Nemtsov at Twitter is wide: disbelief, sadness, glee. But conspiracy theories are already circulating. © ITAR -TASS The murder of Boris Nemtsov is a hot topic in social media in Russia. The polarizing Putin critic excited beyond death's minds, the reactions ranging from disbelief and sadness to gloat.'Boris Nemtsov... I'm speechless' _Newyorker_ wrote. Another Twitter user wrote:' Of all the so-called...

So just how much of the U.S. does China own?

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Bibi's latest cartoon: Strange map that shows the reach of 'Iranian-backed terrorists'

© Unknown Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual conference on Monday. He defended his coming and highly controversial speech to Congress, arguing that the US and Israel were strategically and sentimentally close enough to weather even major disagreements.Netanyahu often uses visuals during high-profile speeches — he famously wielded a cartoon bomb to convey Israel's red lines for...

Fireballs seen streaking over South Indian state of Kerala

People all over the state were in the grip of panic as balls of fire streaked across the skies on Friday night. The fireballs were seen after 10 pm and in many places, mild tremors and thunder sounds accompanying the fire balls escalated apprehensions among the people.While the phenomenon was first noticed in Ernakulam district, people from various parts of the state also reported seeing the phenomenon. Minister Adoor Prakash said that there was nothing to be concerned. Earthquake monitoring devices in six districts have not recorded anything unusual,...

Travelers to Europe soon to be subjected to a biometric dragnet as part of the 'smart borders' pilot test

© unknown Travel becomes truly ominous...In a trend that isn't wholly surprising, EU Observer reports:US citizens and other non-EU nationals who enter Europe will be asked to have their faces image-captured and fingerprints scanned upon arrival at a half-dozen major airports. [emphasis added]This "biometric dragnet" is the pilot test for the EU's new "smart borders" packages. The test portion will run March - September 2015, for starters. The commission...

Bill O'Reilly take four: Fox News admits his tall tales about Irish terrorists

© Reuters / Lisa Miller Fox News issued a mea culpa for one of anchor Bill O'Reilly's too-good-to-be-true stories ‒ but not for all his anecdotes that critics complain are fake. The controversial talk show host has been under fire for recollections of his reporting career.In his 2013 book, , O'Reilly wrote, "I've seen soldiers gun down unarmed civilians in Latin America, Irish terrorists kill and maim their fellow citizens in Belfast with bombs."Asked...

Authoritarians in action: How the US media frames the vaccine debate

© Joe Raedle/Getty Images Major US news media have presented a grossly distorted and misleading interpretation of vaccines and their relationship to public health since early January. These journalistic organs have suggested the recent measles outbreak in the Western US has been a crisis of monumental proportions.This flagrant and cynical sensationalism has become a foundation for intense advocacy on behalf of the pharmaceutical corporate and regulatory...

SOTT Exclusive: UFOs recorded in Mississippi, Leicestershire, and Philly

© MUFONWitness image #1. On February 26, UFOs were recorded on video and camera in Philadelphia, PA, and Lewisburg, MS. Angela Ashton, of Lewisburg, reported being in bed just after midnight when a "bright blinding light" shone through her window. She rushed outside to film it, describing it as triangle in shape and "at least the size of a football field". It reportedly hovered silently for about twenty minutes over a field before shooting straight...

Highlighting Failed Policy in Syria, 'Moderate' Syrian Militia Armed With American Anti-Tank Missiles Announces Collapse

A U.S.-backed militia in Syria, touted by the Obama administration as a trusted "moderate" group and armed with American anti-tank missiles, is reportedly dissolving following a series of defeats by al-Qaeda aligned Jabhat al-Nusra—leaving the U.S.-led war on ISIS in further disarray.The combatant group, Harakat al-Hazm, had been engaged in fierce clashes with Jabhat al-Nusra for months. The U.S.-allied militia was initially pushed from its northern...

Jimmy Kimmel makes fun of 'antivaxxer' parents, reviving hate speech and bigotry on live TV

© Mike Adams/Natural News Throughout U.S. history, certain selected groups of citizens have been subjected to extreme verbal, judicial and even physical abuse at the hands of bigoted oppressors. The historical abuse of African-Americans -- subjected to generations of abusive language and racism that still lingers today -- was villainously summed up with a bigoted hate speech label I dare not utter here.Gay Americans were similarly subjected to the...
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