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Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Fibromyalgia as a mitochondrial disorder

The mitochondria just keep showing up in both ME/CFS and FM We tend to think of fibromyalgia as a central nervous system disease but that focus has tended to obscure the growing evidence of problems in the body.We don't tend to think of fibromyalgia as an inflammatory disorder. It's true that overt signs of inflammation are rarely found in people with FM but some studies suggest inflammatory factors may play a role.Then there are the mitochondria....

Mall of America security catfished 'Black Lives Matter' activists, documents reveal

© blogs.mprnews.orgSocial media monitoring room at Mall of America where the marketing department works with security. Documents obtained by The Intercept indicate that security staff at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota used a fake Facebook account to monitor local Black Lives Matter organizers, befriend them, and obtain their personal information and photographs without their knowledge.Evidence of the fake Facebook account was found...

The writing is on the wall: Be prepared

Something to consider perhaps? There are many television shows like "Doomsday Preppers" and "Doomsday Castle" that tend to display examples of people preparing for extreme scenarios. Scenarios that are often so extreme that even most preppers think they are extreme. The typical response to these scenarios by the average person is that preppers are crazy and that there is no practical application for preparedness. I can tell you this is not the case,...

Chris Hedges: Bill C-51 and Canada's Security State

© Unknown This is the speech Chris Hedges would have delivered at the Toronto protest against Bill C-51 on Saturday, if he had made it to the city in time. Weather delayed his plane, but rabble.ca was able to obtain the text of his address and present it here.Hedges has spent much of his career working as a foreign correspondent in war zones across the globe, and has written extensively on the surveillance state and world conflict. rabble.ca interviewed...

The West's attempts to draw Russia into Ukraine are an utter failure

In an interview with the radio station Russia Today, Rostislav Ishchenko, President of the Center for Systematic Analysis and Forecasting, talks about who is trying to draw Russia into a military conflict, and why, Crimea's role in the situation, and the splitting of the Ukraine into separate territories.In one of your articles, you wrote that the Ukraine was in all likelihood considering some sort of attack on Crimea. What exactly did you mean?...

Dieudonné sentenced over Facebook post on Charlie Hebdo attack

© AFP Amid a crackdown on hate speech and "condoning terrorism" online, a French court has handed out a two-month suspended prison sentence to prominent comedian and political activist Dieudonne over a Facebook post in the wake of Charle Hebdo attack.The 49-year-old Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, or simply Dieudonne has been convicted for being "an apologist for terrorism" over a Facebook post he made following attacks in France that killed 17 people.he...

Heartless! Church installed sprinklers in doorways to drench homeless who sleep there

© CBS SFA homeless man uses an umbrella to hold off the water KCBS has learned that Saint Mary's Cathedral, the principal church of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, has installed a watering system to keep the homeless from sleeping in the cathedral's doorways.The cathedral, at Geary and Gough, is the home church of the Archbishop. There are four tall side doors, with sheltered alcoves, that attract homeless people at night."They actually have signs...

Ex-Big Pharma sales rep speaks out about the deception in the pharmaceutical industry

© amazon.ca "There is no such thing as a safe drug." This comes from ex-pharmaceutical sales rep and author of the book, , Gwen Olsen.For 15 years, Gwen was living an unintentional lie, working as a pharmaceutical sales rep for some of today's largest pharmaceutical manufacturers, including Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Abbott Laboratories. But through a gradual course of tragic events, Gwen's eyes were eventually opened to the...

Arabic Engraved Ring Found in Viking Grave

A ring found in a 9th century grave in Birka, Sweden (home to a Viking trading center) suggests that Vikings had contact with Islamic civilizations. The silver ring, found in a Viking woman’s grave, has a beautiful violet-colored glass gem engraved with “To Allah” or “For Allah” in Arabic. “Ancient texts mention contact between Scandinavians and members of Islamic civilization, but such archaeological evidence is rare.”h/t Boing Boing....

The FDA deliberately keeps us in the dark about bad science

© RCarner/ThinkstockWhy would the FDA let claims that have been undermined by fraud appear on drug labels? It's the same old story of prescription drugs and fraudulent studies, but the FDA doesn't seem to care.A recent article in magazine shows how the FDA hides important safety information when it uncovers scientific misconduct in clinical trials of pharmaceutical drugs. The names of the drugs and the company responsible for the misconduct are...

U.S. surveillance drone brought down by Syrian air defenses in Latakia province

© Reuters/Bob Brown Syrian military have reportedly brought down a "hostile" US surveillance drone flying in Syrian airspace, apparently without Damascus's consent. A US official confirmed that the military "lost contact" with one of their UAVs over Latakia province."Syrian air defenses brought down a hostile US surveillance plane in northern Latakia," the Syrian state news agency SANA initially on Tuesday, providing no further details. Syrian authorities...

BEST OF THE WEB: West to East: Global power balance shifting - the American empire is dying

A major recent event last week largely went unnoticed by both MSM and independent news sources alike. The British are apparently jumping ship away from the US dollar/petrodollar in an overt effort to align itself more closely with the BRICS alliance as it seeks a new standard international currency. For several years Russia, China, Brazil, India and South Africa (BRICS) have been preparing the world for its transition from USD standard international...

Solar-system-wide climate change: Astronomy in need of major re-write as 1,000 km high dust clouds and spectacular auroras discovered on Mars

© University of ColoradoThe MAVEN spacecraft arrived at Mars in September 2014 to study the planet's atmosphere. NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has discovered a dust cloud billowing above Mars, up to 1,000 kilometres above the planet's surface. The dust does not threaten spacecraft orbiting the red planet, but the unexpected finding poses big challenges to atmospheric researchers trying to explain where the cloud came from."," says Bruce Jakosky, a planetary...

Politicians tell football star Ibrahimovic 'Leave, or shut up and play' after PSG captain describes France as 'sh*t'

International football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic: 'What is WRONG with France?' National Front leader Marine Le Pen has called on Zlatan Ibrahimovic to leave France if he doesn't like it. The move follows the football star's angry remark about French match referees.He was filmed making the comment on Sunday evening."In 15 years I've never seen a [good] referee in this shit country ... [they] don't even deserve PSG," Ibrahimovic said referring to French...
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