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Friday, 6 March 2015

Nuclear waste has been dumped in fracking wells for decaces

© Desconocido Unearthed articles from the 1960s detail how nuclear waste was buried beneath the Earth's surface by Halliburton & Co. for decades as a means of disposing the by-products of post-World War II atomic energy production.Fracking is already a controversial practice on its face; allowing U.S. industries to inject slurries of toxic, potentially carcinogenic compounds deep beneath the planet's surface — as a means of "see no evil" waste...

Balkans blizzards trigger landslides, leave thousands without power

A blizzard which dumped 2.5 meters (8 feet) of snow on mountains around Sarajevo has isolated dozens of Bosnian mountain villages and left them without electricity. A man was killed in Bosnia and more than 100,000 homes across the Balkans were without electricity on Friday after blizzards brought down power lines and triggered landslides.The Bosnian died when a tree, dislodged by a landslide, fell on his car near the central town of Zepce.Dozens...

Cops make parade float mocking a woman for being raped by her father as a child

© Unknown Baton Rouge, LA — Disgusting, repugnant, vile, hateful, despicable. These are just a few words that can be used to describe the actions of several of Baton Rouge's finest.The Baton Rouge police department has launched an internal investigation into the actions of officers who allegedly rode on and helped decorate a float that mocked a woman for being raped as a child; by her father.The theme of the float was of the Baton Rouge reality...

Two "lost cities" discovered in Honduras by archaeologists

© Dave Yoder/National GeographicArchaeologists in Honduras have found dozens of artifacts at a site where they believe twin cities stood. Archaeologists have discovered two lost cities in the deep jungle of Honduras, emerging from the forest with evidence of a pyramid, plazas and artifacts that include the effigy of a half-human, half-jaguar spirit.The team of specialists in archaeology and other fields, escorted by three British bushwhacking guides...

Muslim man shot dead while taking pictures of snow with his family

Another Muslim man has been shot dead in the United States while he was taking pictures of the snow with his family in Dallas, Texas.Ahmed al-Jumaili, 36, who came to the US from Iraq about one month ago, was killed in a shooting incident on Thursday.The victim died from his injuries after he was transported to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas Police Department Spokeswoman Monica Cordova said.Investigation is under way to find out whether...

Rothschild: Geopolitical situation as dangerous as any since WWII

© Rex FeaturesLord Rothschild has served on the board of the Courtauld Institute of Art and chaired the National Gallery for seven years during the 1980s Jacob Rothschild, the 78 year-old banker and chairman of RIT Capital Partners, has delivered savers in the £2.3bn trust a stark warning about global instability and the fragility of future returns.He used his chairman's statement in the trust's 2014 annual report to outline his concerns, saying...

Attaboy! 10-year-old saves his sister from sex offender

© unknownCullahill A ten-year-old boy has been hailed as a hero after clinging onto a moving SUV to rescue his sister from a convicted sex offender.The criminal, who was on bail for robbery, attempted to abduct the girl (12) on the side of a country road near the village of Cullahill in Laois.She was playing with her two brothers near their home when the man stopped and asked for directions to the local priest's house.He then jumped from the stolen...

WHO report: Ebola virus death toll in West Africa reaches 9,840

© AP Photo/ Tanya Bindra The death toll from the current Ebola outbreak has reached 9,840. The number of those infected amounts to 24,014, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement on Friday.These cases were reported from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. In line with statistics, the maximum number of Ebola-related deaths and cases has been registered in Liberia — 4,117 cumulative deaths and 9,249 cumulative cases. Liberia is followed...

OSCE confirms Ukraine shelling of observers at Donetsk airport

© Valery Sharifulin/TASS Representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have confirmed that the mission's observers came under shelling at the Donetsk airport from an area controlled by Ukrainian military, the spokesman for the Defense Ministry of self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) told a briefing at the Donetsk news agency's press center on Friday."One episode of shelling of the Donetsk airport has...

Having a sense of purpose in life associated with 23 percent reduction in death from all causes

© Mat Hayward / FotoliaMaking up a batch of cookies with grandchildren. Having a strong sense of purpose in life is linked to a having a healthier heart. Having a high sense of purpose in life may lower your risk of heart disease and stroke, according to a new study led by researchers at Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai Roosevelt and presented on March 6 at the American Heart Association's EPI/Lifestyle 2015 Scientific Sessions in Baltimore.The...

A new level of understanding earthquakes on a microscopic scale

© Berkeley Labs As everyone who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area knows, the Earth moves under our feet. But what about the stresses that cause earthquakes? How much is known about them? Until now, our understanding of these stresses has been based on macroscopic approximations.Now, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is reporting the successful study of stress fields along the San Andreas...

Corruption at the top: Ferguson, MO judge who owes thousands in unpaid debts routinely imprisons poor citizens for minor offenses

Federal tax liens filed against Ronald Brockmeyer by the Internal Revenue Service state that he has tens of thousands of dollars in overdue personal income taxes from joint filings with his wife, Amy. The judge in Ferguson, Missouri, who is accused of fixing traffic tickets for himself and colleagues while inflicting a punishing regime of fines and fees on the city's residents, also owes more than $170,000 in unpaid taxes.Ronald J Brockmeyer, whose...

FLASHBACK: Putin: The Russian bear won't ask for permission

© RIA Novosti / Sergey Guneev Vladimir Putin has voiced his disagreement with the West's position on Russia, which he likened to the Latin proverb "What is permissible for Jove is not permissible for an ox." However, he said "a bear" won't ask anyone for permission.Stressing how different the international reaction to Kosovo and Crimea referendums was, the Russian president reminded of the proverb 'Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi'."We cannot agree...

FLASHBACK: Leaked docs reveal plot to erode stability of Venezuela and undermine Maduro presidency

© Reuters/Jorge SilvaVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Leaked documents have revealed evidence of a plot to destabilize Venezuela and undermine the rule of leftist President Nicolas Maduro. The papers appear to substantiate Caracas' claims of outside attempts to cripple the country through internal sabotage.Documents obtained by a contributor to RT's Spanish channel, Eva Golinger, detail a structured plan to erode the stability of Venezuela with...

US: Detroit breaks 114-year old cold weather record

© CBS According to the National Weather Service, the low temperature Friday morning was zero degrees, breaking the old record of 2 degrees set in 1901.It's one of many cold weather records we've broken this winter, according Accuweather Meteorologist Brian Thompson."It's the sixth record low that we've hit this year and most of them have occurred in the last few weeks," he said.It's not going to get much warmer Friday, with highs barely reaching...

CIA psy-ops manual suggests rebels should assassinate their own to create martyr

A CIA "psychological operations" manual prepared by a CIA contractor for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels noted the value of assassinating someone on your own side to create a "martyr" for the cause.The manual was authenticated by the U.S. government.The manual received so much publicity from Associated Press, and other media that - during the 1984 presidential debate - President Reagan was confronted with the following question on national television:At...

Is the U.S. 'fast-tracking' its way to a toxic nightmare?

© Shutterstock.com A speaker at an event I recently attended asked why U.S. food companies put butylated hydroxyltoluene, a food preservative and endocrine disruptor, in cereal sold stateside, while in Europe the same companies formulate the same product BHT.There are three answers to that question:The European Union prohibits numerous harmful ingredients U.S. regulatory agencies allow.Well-informed European citizens have organized and pushed for...

Neuroscientists find that different parts of the brain work best at different ages

© Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT (with image courtesy of the researchers)Researchers have been running large-scale experiments on the Internet, where people of any age can become research subjects. Their websites feature cognitive tests designed to be completed in just a few minutes. Shown here is a "pattern completion test" from their website, testmybrain.org. Scientists have long known that our ability to think quickly and recall information, also known...

Monsanto: Destroying the brains and health of everyone

© hrexach.wordpress.com One of my most recent blog entries(1 ) summarized roughly 10 years of research related to the consequences of inflammatory processes in the periphery of the body, such as the gut, and how this was driving brain degenerative inflammatory processes within the brain.One of the key findings from that research was how pathogenic bacterial waste products known as "lipopolysaccharides", (LPS) would trigger an immune response, and...

Cougar captured at Promenade mall in Temecula, California

© Joe FanaselleA mountain lion lies sedated in the bed of a pickup truck in the Promenade mall parking lot in Temecula. A mountain lion that wandered into the Promenade mall parking lot in Temecula was tranquilized for removal but died shortly after, an official said.At least one witness called the Riverside County Sheriff's Department reporting the lion walking near the Macy's store early Friday morning, March 6. The sheriff's department called...
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