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Monday, 16 March 2015

Police state Canada? The Reason all of those prisons are being built

Back in 2006, the newly elected Prime Minister of Canada, right-wing Conservative Stephen Harper warned that "You won't recognize Canada when I'm through with it." After nine grueling years, that's already true in many ways. But now, Harper is going even further in his re-make of the country. Under new and pending legislation, Canada is moving rapidly towards the creation of a police state, with major curtailments of civil liberties. In recent...

Cows Are Deadlier Than You Ever Knew

Every year, cows kill more people than sharks. And yet nobody ever makes a horror movie about them, and there’s no Cow Week. These deadly beasts have managed to stay completely under the radar… until now. Find out just why cows are so deadly. Photo: Mmemichi (CC)Deliberate Attacks on People In the United States, the CDC estimates that about twenty-two people are killed by cows each year, and of those cow attacks, seventy-five percent were known to...

Body-cam footage shows officers gun down mentally ill man holding screwdriver

© Youtube Body cam footage has emerged of a June 2014 Dallas police shooting showing officers gunning down a mentally ill man who was holding a screwdriver.Family say 28-year-old Jason Harrison, who suffered from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, was in need of 'mental help' when his mother called police after he began making 'violent threats.'Body cam footage shows Dallas police employees knocking on the door of Harrison's residence before speaking...

Kerry says Assad must go until we need him to stay

In Washington DC, consistency is considered a vice, never a virtue. It is for this reason that many in Washington, especially the neoconservatives, consider their foreign policy one of virtue. You would think that our political leaders, both in the Republican and Democratic parties, would learn something from the devastating effects of our very inconsistent foreign policy, especially after the last 15 years. The chaos that we have brought to Iraq...

DPR says amendments to law on Donbas special status are violation of peace plan

© ITAR-TASS/Zurab JavakhadzeDenis Pushilin The authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) said on Monday a bill on amendments to the law on Donbas special status that has been submitted to the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) is a blatant violation of the complex of measures to implement the Minsk agreements."We consider Rada's draft resolution and a bill on amendments to article 10 of the law on the special status of Donbas as...

Why does gardening make people feel so good?

© unknown Have you ever noticed how satisfying it feels to get your hands dirty in the backyard? Does working in your garden make you feel like everything is right in the world? Perhaps you've chalked it up to the sunshine and the exercise. After all, everyone knows that a good workout and a job well done is great for your self-esteem. But is there more to it then that?There just might be if science has anything to say about it. As all experienced...

Information war: Dueling media startups crowdfund opposing views on Russia

Russia vs USSA - Round 5, fight! Washington says Moscow has a propaganda machine. Moscow says Washington owns American corporate media. Viewers and readers don't know what to believe any more. Something's got to give.What if you woke up one morning to find America and American ideas in Russia, and irony like a Russian media mogul in America? What if a founding principle of American democracy, like freedom of the press somehow became a bone of contention...

Ancient UFO 'flying saucer' found 40 meters below ground in Siberia

[embedded content]Coal miners in Siberia's Kuznetsk Basin, Russia, have found, buried 40 meters underground, a saucer-shaped object that UFO researchers claim is an ancient alien "flying saucer" craft that crashed to Earth from space thousands of years ago.Coal miners with the mining company Kuzbassrazrezugol found the bizarre and mysterious circular or disk object while excavating deep underground. The object was described as "perfectly circular...

Michigan's bald eagles are the most contaminated birds in the world

Bald eagle. Monday, March 16, 2015, 4:57 PM - A study published last month in the suggests the livers of Michigan's bald eagles are severely contaminated with phased-out flame retardant chemicals, more so than any other bird on the planet.While the area's bald eagle population is stable, the chemicals have been known to impair reproduction and disrupt hormones.Manufacturers began using polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, in furniture, electronics...

Intelligence Officer: Every terrorist attack in the US was a false flag or egged on by the government

Robert David Steele - a 20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer, the second-ranking civilian in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence, and former CIA clandestine services case officerMost terrorists are false flag terrorists or are created by our own security services. In the United States, every single terrorist incident we have had has been a false flag, or has been an informant pushed on by the FBI. In fact, we now have citizens taking out restraining orders against FBI informants that are trying to incite terrorism. We've become a lunatic...

Jammu-Srinagar highway in India closed after heavy snowfall triggers landslide

© Indian ExpressVehicles stranded on the Jammu national highway on Thursday. A 4-year-old girl was killed in a landslide triggered by snowfall and rains in the last 24 hours in Kashmir, which also forced closure of the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway even as air traffic remained suspended.Huda Jan was killed when she was buried under a landslide at Sunergund in Awantipora area of south Kashmir, Pulwama district last evening, a police spokesman said.While...

The sociopath next door: Jeering crowd took selfies and goaded suicidal man to his death

© Mail OnlineThe man, aged in his 40s, was reportedly encouraged to leap from the top of the multi-storey car park outside Southwater Shopping Centre in Telford, Shropshire (above), by a crowd who shouted: 'Get on with and jump' A suicidal man was told by a jeering crowd to 'get on with it and jump' as he perched at the top of a multi-storey car park before plunging to his death, witnesses claim.The man, aged in his 40s, was reportedly encouraged...

US govt's biggest lie: Ukraine and Putin - Is it really worth a nuclear war?

© Reuters The American Government's biggest lie in 2002-2003 was about Saddam Hussein and Iraq. We've already seen what that lie produced. It cost the U.S. more than $3 trillion, produced ISIS, and caused death and destruction in Iraq that make Saddam Hussein's dictatorship look benign by comparison. Are Americans still fooling themselves about that? (Some are; but most are not.)The American Government's biggest lie in 2014-2015 is instead about...

Oldest Roman fort protected soldiers from 'infamous pirates'

© Image courtesy of Civil Protection of Friuli Venezia GiuliaLidar (the laser equivalent of radar) revealed the oldest known Roman military camp called San Rocco (C). Also shown are the Roman military camps Grociana piccola (A) and Montedoro (B). Scale bars: 100 m. Using airborne laser scanners, researchers have discovered ancient fortifications in Italy that make up the oldest known Roman military camp, where soldiers may have fought pirates more...

Russia stands by Venezuela against U.S. idiocy and interference

The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement Thursday in which it voices its solidarity with the Venezuelan people against "Washington's aggressive build-up of political and sanctions pressure on Caracas" and "its democratically elected government.""We are aware with great concern of the increase in negative tendencies and the destabilization attempts against Venezuela, a country that is united with Russia by very close friendship ties and through...

Lawmaker urges Americans to pack an emergency 'go-bag'

Many of those so-called "go bags," medicine kits and boxes of canned food and water that Americans stockpiled after the 9/11 attacks have been lost, expired or gone bad.Rep. Robert Pittenger, R-N.C., says it's time to pack a new emergency bag and draft updated evacuation plans in preparation for another terrorist attack. He's put together a "how to" handbook to help constituents and other members of the public plan what to do."I was a Boy Scout,...

SOTT FOCUS: Happy St. Patrick's Day: The Irish Holocaust: an untold history lesson

Celtic (Irish)God of youth, love, and beauty. One of the Tuatha De Danaan, name means "young son". He had a harp that made irresistible music, and his kisses turned into birds that carried messages of love. His brugh, underground fairy palace, was on the banks of the Boyne River. In The Secret History of the World , my Irish ancestors, the Celts, are described as:...proud, imaginative, artistic, lovers of freedom and adventure, eloquence, poetry...
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