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Monday, 9 March 2015

Utah cops swear mysterious voice crying for help led them to unconscious toddler in submerged car

© KHONOfficer Bryan DeWitt Four Utah police officers said they heard a voice distinctly call out for help when they found a vehicle submerged upside-down in a river.But when they flipped the vehicle over, they discovered there was nobody in the car who was able to speak, reported ."The only people in there were the deceased mother and the child," said Officer Bryan DeWitt, of Spanish Fork police.Lynn Jennifer "Jenny" Groesbeck was pronounced dead...

Toxic water fluoridation: New study says promotes thyroid dysfunction

Fluoride is a toxic drug linked with an array of potentially serious health problems. Most recently, research linking fluoridated water consumption to thyroid dysfunction received attention in both British and American media.1,2,3,4Evidence also suggests it may contribute to or exacerbate behavioral problems such as ADHD, by way of pineal gland calcification.Despite irrefutable evidence of harm, the United States still adds fluoride to municipal...

Russia's remarkable renaissance (and why the West is seeking to crush it)

© Unknown Something remarkable is taking place in Russia, and it's quite different from what we might expect. Rather than feel humiliated and depressed Russia is undergoing what I would call a kind of renaissance, a rebirth as a nation. This despite or in fact because the West, led by the so-called neo-conservatives in Washington, is trying everything including war on her doorstep in Ukraine, to collapse the Russian economy, humiliate Putin and...

Landslip and flooding after heavy rain hits Scotland

Work has been taking place to clear the landslide on the A87 Heavy rain in Scotland has caused a 100 tonne landslide and flooding on roads across parts of the Highlands.The A87 Invergarry to Kyle of Lochalsh road was shut overnight at Cluanie but traffic is now getting through.Some rivers reached their highest levels on record and eight people were rescued from a flooded caravan park near Beauly.More than 30 flood warnings are in place across Scotland....

Israeli FM Lieberman: Behead Arabs disloyal to Israel

© Reuters/Ronen ZvulunAvigdor "Off With Their Heads!" Lieberman The Israeli foreign minister and head of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party Avigdor Lieberman suggested during a campaign event that Arab citizens of Israel, who are disloyal to the state, deserve to be decapitated."Whoever is with us should get everything," Lieberman said in a speech at the Interdisciplinary Center in the western city of Herzliya on Sunday. "Whoever is against us,...

A potential cause for Fibromyalgia: Gluten sensitivity

Fibromyalgia is a condition often times associated with severe and debilitating muscle, tendon, and soft tissue pain pain. The disease is also often times referred to as:MyalgiaMyofascitisFibromyositisFibrositisThe medical standard for making a diagnosis of this disease is the presence of chronic pain positioned along specific tender points. The pain has to have been present for at least three months. The diagram to the above shows the pain points...

BEST OF THE WEB: Only in Amerika: Cops make parade float mocking a woman for being raped by her father as a child

© Unknown 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 show, It focused on...

The De-Dollarization Axis: China Completes SWIFT Alternative, May Launch As Soon As September

One of the recurring threats used by the western nations in their cold (and increasingly more hot) war with Russia, is that Putin's regime may be locked out of all international monetary transactions when Moscow is disconnected from the EU-based global currency messaging and interchange service known as SWIFT (a move, incidentally, which SWIFT lamented as was revealed in October when we reported that it announces it "regrets the pressure" to disconnect...

A week's worth of training can improve vision in older adults

© Corbis Just a weeks' worth of training can improve vision in older adults, according to new research in , a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The findings show that training boosted older adults' sensitivity to contrast and also their ability to see things clearly at close distances."Our research indicates that the visual system of older adults maintains a high degree of plasticity and demonstrates that training methods can...

Cooperative social networks significantly enhanced when reputations of those in the network are known

© Daniel Tenerife/WikipediaSocial network diagram People in a society are bound together by a set of connections - a social network. Cooperation between people in the network is essential for societies to prosper, and the question of what drives the emergence and sustainability of cooperation is a fundamental one.What we know about other people in a network informs how much we are willing to cooperate with them. By conducting a series of online...

Police intelligence officer among four arrested in connection with Paris terror attacks

© Reuters / Yves Herman Four people, including an officer who worked at a police intelligence center, are being held over alleged links to Amedy Coulibaly, the kosher deli hostage-taker who killed five people during terror attacks in Paris earlier this year.The suspects are being questioned as part of the ongoing investigation into the January attacks - including the massacre at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo - which claimed 17 lives in three...

Heartless: VA manager's email mocks veteran suicides

© Shutterstock A manager at the Roudebush Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Indianapolis appears to mock the mental health problems of returning combat veterans in an email to her employees.The email obtained by contains photographs of a toy Christmas elf posing as a patient in what appears to be the hospital's transitional clinic for returning veterans. In one photograph, the elf pleads for Xanax. In another, he hangs himself with an electrical...

Archeologists begin excavation of 16th - 17th century burial ground under path of London's Crossrail transit line

© AP Photo/Matt DunhamArchaeologists excavate the 16th and 17th century Bedlam burial ground uncovered by work on the new Crossrail train line next to Liverpool Street station in London, Friday, March 6, 2015. The excavation team estimate there to be 3,000 human skeletons at the site, which was a burial ground to the then adjacent Bedlam Hospital, the world's first psychiatric asylum. The 118-kilometer (73-mile) Crossrail project to put a new rail...

How DNA is turning us into a nation of suspects

The year is 2025. The population is 325 million, and the FBI has the DNA profiles of all of them. Unlike fingerprints, these profiles reveal vital medical information. The universal database arrived surreptitiously. First, the Department of Defense's repository of DNA samples from all military personnel, established to identify remains of soldiers missing from action, was given to the FBI. Then local police across the country shadowed individuals,...
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