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Thursday, 5 March 2015

Nuland accuses Russia of invading Ukraine (Video)

© radixjournal.com The US is increasing its claims against Moscow to a new level - with fresh accusations about thousands of Russian troops in Ukraine. At a congressional meeting, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland stated as fact that there had been an invasion. 's Gayane Chichakyan has the details.[embedded content]...

McDonald's sales rapidly decline as Americans reject fake food

© The Austrailian With 70% of the United States now overweight, it seems the public is finally beginning to wake up and make healthy living its priority. Because modern-day diseases of affluence have shown no decrease (quite the opposite, actually) in recent years, it seems more and more people are abstaining from fast food joints like McDonald's, and to the extent that the double-arch company is taking it hard.As McDonald's once-stable stock position...

Police State USA: FBI drastically under-reports the victims of police murder in the US, real numbers are much higher

© Dollar Vigilante.com US record keepers looking at uncounted law enforcement homicides realized that previous official tallies severely undercounted numbers. The new estimate put it at an average of 928 people each year over the most recent eight years, compared to 383 in published FBI data.The numbers compiled by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the research institute RTI International found that FBI statistics covered only 46% of law enforcement...

White House rejected standards for regulating explosive gas in oil-transport trains

The fireball that followed the derailment and explosion of two trains, one carrying Bakken crude oil, on December 30, 2013, outside Casselton, ND. A federal standard for regulating explosive gas in oil-transporting trains was rejected in the higher levels of the White House, according to a new report. It instead opted to allow new industry-backed regulations crafted in North Dakota to suffice.In September 2014, according to a Reuters exclusive report,...

Leidenfrost-based engine could fuel human life on Mars

© YOUTUBE/MarsOneProject (Screenshot) Researchers want to power a new kind of engine using a phenomenon known as the "Leidenfrost effect."The Leidenfrost effect occurs when a liquid comes into near contact with a surface much hotter than its boiling point (think about what happens when drops of water appear to dance across the surface of a very hot frying pan.) Upon contact, a layer of vapor forms between the liquid-solid interface, creating a barrier...

Yet again: Another crude oil train derails and catches fire

Flames and smoke can be seen at the site of an oil train's derailment near Galena Eight train cars filled with crude oil veered off the tracks in the south of Galena, Illinois. At least two of them caught fire after the 105-car-long BNSF Railway train derailed.The train derailed around 1:20 pm (19:20 GMT) in a rural area where the Galena River meets the Mississippi, according to railroad officials.Galena city fire crews responded to the reports...

Tomgram: Is drone warfare starting to unravel? Pilots quitting at record pace

It was a typical little news story on Washington's drone wars -- six paragraphs from Yemen, the sort of minimalist report that, in these years, has also regularly come out of Pakistan or even, from time to time, Somalia. "A U.S. drone attack in Yemen killed four suspected al-Qaeda militants on Saturday in the southern province of Shabwa, local Yemeni security officials told Reuters." Who those "militants" really were we seldom know; there's rarely follow-up in the mainstream media. It's just another barely noticed mini-triumph in Washington's ongoing...

Second exoplanet with four stars discovered

© Karen Teramura/UH IfAArtists conception of the 30 Ari star system. In the foreground is the primary star about which the massive exoplanet orbits. The primary's newly-found binary partner, a red dwarf, can be seen in the upper left and the secondary binary system can be seen to the upper right. For only the second time, an exoplanet living with an expansive family of stars has been revealed.The exoplanet, which is a huge gaseous world 10 times...

Agricultural nutrient pollution found to reduce rivers and streams ability to support life

© Jon Benstead/University of AlabamaDavid Manning, a University of Georgia doctoral student, and John Kominoski, a former UGA postdoctoral researcher who is now an assistant professor at Florida International University, perform maintenance on the pump used to add nutrients to one of the streams in their experiment. An important food resource has been disappearing from streams without anyone noticing until now.In a new study published March 6 in...

SOTT Exclusive: Ukraine 'information army' fail

I reported on Ukraine's new 'information army' last month, here. Launched by Kiev's Ministry of Information Policy to combat the alleged "Russian occupation on the information front", it's hard to decide whether to laugh or cry.While the source in that article says the number of recruits for the first day couldn't have topped 13,000, in the eyes of Ukraine's minister of information policy Yury Stenets, that's close enough for horseshoes to 35,000....

Changes in older brains due to vascular changes, rather than neuronal activity

Older brains may be more similar to younger brains than previously thought.In a new paper published in , BBSRC-funded researchers at the University of Cambridge and Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit demonstrate that previously reported changes in the aging brain using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may be due to vascular (or blood vessels) changes, rather than changes in neuronal activity itself. Given the...

People are 55 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist

Police Killings Grossly UnderreportedWe previously reported that Americans are 9 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than aterrorist.But it turns out that our numbers were incorrect ...This isn't surprising, given that:"Reliable estimates of the number of justifiable homicides committed by police officers in the United States do not exist." A study of killings by police from 1999 to 2002 in the Central Florida region found that the...
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