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Thursday, 19 March 2015

Moral decisions can be influenced by tracking the eyes

© Lund UniversityThe study is the first to demonstrate a connection between gaze and moral choices, but it is based on previous studies which have shown that for simpler choices, such as choosing between two dishes on a menu, our eye movements say what we will eat for dinner before we have really decided. Our opinions are affected by what our eyes are focusing on in the same instant we make moral decisions. Researchers at Lund University and other...

US weaponry has habit of going AWOL

© www.sma-syria.comMade in the USA, now lying on Syrian sand. The reported that the Pentagon can't say what happened to more than $500 million worth of gear—including "small arms, ammunition, night-vision goggles, patrol boats, vehicles and other supplies"—it had given to the Yemeni government. The news comes as Al Qaeda and Iranian-backed groups vie to control the country following the collapse of the country's US-backed regime in January. The...

Netanyahu won. Now what?

© Reuters/Nir EliasLikud party supporters react after hearing exit poll results in Tel Aviv March 17, 2015. So he won and I have to say I am relieved. There will be no more endless cycles of pointless 'negotiations' with Israel pretending that some day it will agree to a two-state solution while continually escalating both settlement (colony) building and the maltreament of the Palestinians. Now everyone will see that the Palestinians were right...

Cossack group to unveil bronze bust of Putin as a Roman emperor

© PiterTV/Youtube/Русские СериалыThe clay cast of the bust depicting Putin as a Roman Emperor is in the workshop of St Petersburg's Academy of Arts. The St Petersburg's Cossack community has promised to mark Russia's anniversary of the allied victory over the Nazis by unveiling a bronze bust of Russian president Vladimir Putin depicted as a Roman emperor.Andrey Polyakov, the leader of the St Petersburg Cossack group Irbis - a popular organisation...

'Exclusively For White People' signs appear on businesses in Austin,Texas

© AP Racially charged stickers have flooded the city of Austin, Texas leaving residents and business owners in awe, with some considering it racist, while others called it a joke.Having the city's logo on them, the stickers read: "exclusively for white people," and were put on at least six businesses.The racist remarks were discovered by passersby, employees and business owners.Brianna Smith was walking by a store this week when she spotted one."This...

Government - the beneficent leader of The Group

(The Underground, Jon Rappoport)More and more, education is entraining children to think of themselves as part of a group.This is one basic way to cut off the consciousness of being an individual and what it really means.The government, the State, has now become the beneficent leader of The Group, and if you need confirmation, just ask any politician. He'll give you a sound bite or two.People enmeshed in the current culture don't realize that,...

Russia-led peacekeepers ready to head to Donbass region once approved by UN

© Reuters / John TrastA building in Debaltsevo destroyed by shelling The head of the CSTO military bloc says the organization is ready to send peacekeepers to Donbass once such a move is sanctioned by the United Nations."The Collective Security Treaty Organization has peacekeeping potential, our forces are constantly undergoing the necessary training. If the United Nations makes this decision we would be ready to provide such units," CSTO Secretary...

Western proxy army ISIS claims responsibility for Tunisia museum attack

© Reuters / Zoubeir SouissiPeople surround an ambulance carrying the bodies of the victims of an attack by gunmen on Tunisia's national museum in Tunis March 18, 2015 Islamic State militants have claimed responsibility for the deadly museum attack on Wednesday in Tunisia that claimed over 20 lives, according to an online audio recording cited by Reuters.The three-hour attack took place at the Bardo Museum in Tunisia's capital on Wednesday. As a...

The 'can o' tuna' vaccination argument makes no sense

Certainly if you are on the frontlines of the vaccine debate you've heard the argument from pro vaxxers 'hey well, y'know, a can of tuna has about the same amount of mercury in it that a vaccine does.' Or about aluminum, 'a muffin has as much aluminum as a vaccine containing aluminum'. It is a silly argument but it shows you the mindset of some of these people that don't question and research the very vaccine inserts or information available to...

Lavrov criticizes Reuters MH17 'new witnesses' report

© RIA Novosti Evgeny Biyatov Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has condemned a news report of witnesses' statements, in which people said they had seen a rocket fired at the time of Malaysian Boeing crash in Ukraine in July 2014. "Looks like a stovepiping," Lavrov said."Attempts at distorting facts, enforcing versions on what could have happened continue to exist, with some based on openly dirty intentions," Lavrov told journalists on Thursday....

Moscow expects response from Europe over Ukraine's Donbass status laws

© RIA Novosti / Anton Denisov Moscow expects its European partners from the 'Normandy Four' to give their appraisals of the freshly-approved Ukrainian laws on self-rule in the southeastern regions."We have not yet heard any judgments on the part of our colleagues and partners. We still hope that such judgments will appear," Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.He added that if the Minsk peace accords...

Several reported dead in escalating conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan

© RIA Novosti / Iliya Pitalev The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia escalated on Thursday leaving several military dead. Different figures were produced by each side, ranging from at least three, up to 20 people in the disputed enclave in the South Caucasus.The defense ministry of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, which is an unrecognized state populated mostly by ethnic Armenians and completely surrounded by Azeri territories,...

Ebola cases in Guinea rise as 3 doctors infected

Guinea has suffered a setback in its fight against Ebola with a rash of new cases, including three doctors infected by the virus, with officials blaming weak surveillance and a failure to follow safety procedures.The outbreak, which began in eastern Guinea more than a year ago and has killed over 10,000 people in the three West African countries worst hit, had appeared to be on the wane, but Guinea has seen cases rise for three consecutive weeks,...

A personal account of life in Sevastopol one year after Crimea re-joined Russia

The last year changed many things in my life, so it will be appropriate to summarize certain intermediate results associated with the changes in Sevastopol borne of the Crimean spring. I decided not to group this in blocks, so I simply write what came to my mind during the attempts to recall what has changed over a year.1. Crimea stopped being a part of Ukraine and became a part of Russia. I wished for this event for many years, so here my dream...

Is a gold-backed ruble in Russia's future?

originally appeared at KOPP Online. Translated for RI by Alexander SamarkinRussia is struggling with a number of liabilities these days. The price for oil, Russia's most important export good, has reached historical lows. During the previous weeks the Ruble could only recover slightly from its devastating slump against the Dollar, that has been lasting for a year now.Compared to February last year, the Russian currency now has about 40% less purchase...

People have spoken: Over half of Ukrainians fed up with Poroshenko - Almost 60% don't believe stories published by Ukrainian press

© Reuters / Mykola LazarenkoUkrainian President Petro Poroshenko (R) talks to Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk A recent poll by a Ukrainian research group shows how unhappy the country is with their politicians. Only eight percent say the country is going in the right direction, while almost two-thirds assert they don't approve of the president's actions.The figures should make for worrying viewing for President Petro Poroshenko and his...

Bark beetles are decimating our forests which may be a good thing

© www.motherjones.comInto the woods... They gobble up trees and send politicians into a frenzy. But do the bugs know more about climate change than we do? There is an eerie feel to this grove of lodgepole pines that I can't quite put my finger on as entomologist Diana Six tromps ahead of me, hatchet in hand, scanning the southwestern Montana woods for her target. But as she digs the blade into a towering trunk, it finally hits me: the smell. There's...
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