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Sunday, 22 March 2015

Magnitude-6.4 earthquake rocks Northern Chile

© USGS A major earthquake struck early Monday morning in northern Chile.The National Seismological Service at the University of Chile initially listed the temblor at a magnitude-6.3. The U.S. Geological Survey listed it as a magnitude-6.4.The temblor's epicenter was located 48 kilometers (30 miles) east-southeast of Putre, Chile, at a depth of 128 km (180 miles), the USGS reported. It was near the borders with Peru and Bolivia, and occurred at 12:51...

US psychological warfare in Ukraine and the targeting of online independent media coverage

If you are a journalist writing about or a person concerned about issues like Free Speech, read or write in alternative media or news, Occupy movement, Ferguson, Gaza, Ukraine, Russia, police brutality, US interventionism, fair government, homelessness, keeping the government accountable, representative government, government intrusions like the NSA is doing, or you are liberal, progressive, libertarian, conservative, separation of church and state,...

Escape plot foiled as Bedford Prison staff intercept drone laden with drugs and weapons

This is the first known case of a remote-controlled aircraft being used to infiltrate a British jail A drone has been used in a daring night-time attempt to smuggle drugs and weapons into a high security jail.The plan was only thwarted when the machine became entangled in razor wire on a security wall and was then spotted by staff at Bedford Prison.It is the first known case of a remote-controlled aircraft being used to infiltrate a British jail....

Those who achieve goals do so despite their self-doubt

We often assume that in order to achieve our goals, we need to become more confident. We need to work through our deep-seated self-doubts and take action. Because then we'll be ready. Then we'll be able to achieve what we want to achieve. We'll feel more secure with ourselves. We'll actually believe in ourselves.While learning ways to be more confident can be valuable, you don't need to put your goals on hold until you do. In fact, according to...

Facilitating control of the masses: Our habitual media consumption empowers the matrix

© Imágen de la pelícila The Matrix. The average American spends more than 10 hours a day using an electronic device. And most of that activity is not even interactive. The vast majority of the time we are just passively absorbing content that someone else has created. This very much reminds me of the movie "the Matrix", but with a twist. Instead of humans being forcefully connected to "the Matrix", we are all willingly connecting ourselves to it.There...

Argentine archaeologists find secret Nazi lair in jungle

© AlamyView of the Rio Parana from Teyu Cuare park in San Ignacio, Misiones, Argentina. A team of Argentine archaeologists investigating a series of ruins in the jungle, close to the border with Paraguay, believe they have discovered a secret Nazi lair.The cluster of stone structures, now covered by thick vines and accessible only when using a machete to cut through the undergrowth, contain stashes of German coins from the late 1930s, fragments...

People reach peak of mental powers at various ages for different skills

© unknown People reach the peak of their mental powers at different ages for different skills, according to a new study.People think fastest at around 18-years-old, but the ability to read the emotions of others does not peak until between 40 and 60, the study found.Vocabulary skills, meanwhile, do not peak until people are in their 60s or 70s. In fact there may be no time in life at which all the mental powers are peaking, although some bunch together...

Rhinos with poison-infused horns are roaming the bush in South Africa, frightening away poachers

Rhinos with poison-infused horns are roaming the bush in South Africa, frightening away poachers who don’t want sell a toxic product to their clients in Asia. At least that’s what Lorina Hern hopes.Hern, the co-founder of the Rhino Rescue Project, has spent the last four years “devaluing” the horns of rhinos by infusing them with ectoparasiticides — or anti-parasite drugs — and pink dye. The dye isn't visble on the outside, and the ectoparasiticides...

A premeditated war with Russia?

© LiveLeak Screen Grab/DMCAWe are in deep trouble... Professor Stephen Cohen, America's top Russian expert, says that he and other authorities have no input into US policy toward Russia. He says that there is no discourse, no debate, and that this is unprecedented in American foreign policy.He says that the "ongoing extraordinary irrational and nonfactual demonization of Putin" is an indication of "the possibility of premeditated war with Russia."Key...

BEST OF THE WEB: Crimea: Way Back Home (VIDEO)

Andrey Kondrashov's documentary on the return of Crimea to Russia is finally available with English subtitles. It has been just 1 year since Crimeans took to the polls to vote their return to their Motherland and leave wretched Ukraine behind. And they're glad they did. See the following news coverage for more on the documentary and Crimea 1 year later: Episode 1: Saving President YanukovichEpisode 2: Rage of the Maidan OrcsEpisode 3: Berkut. People's...

SOTT Exclusive: Kalashnikovs in India - U.S.-backed insurgents playing divide and conquer near China's borders

© SCMPA "Russian-doll" building in Inner Mongolia. Suicidal, armed to the teeth and threatening any opposition to U.S. hegemony, the extensive Western-backed Gladio network is having a field day. It seems that staging terror attacks in Tunisia, Yemen, Sweden, Denmark and Syria wasn't enough. The latest attacks happened in India and are already increasing tension between India and Pakistan - both states being Observers for Shanghai Cooperation Organisation...

EU's accidental autocrat and her two accidental missions

© www.theblaze.comAngela Merkel, a rising star? The European Union is not a state or a federation of states, it is something not seen before, but is assumed to grow state-like characteristics like a center of political accountability. It does not have a head of state or head of government. But political entities of any kind will at some point, when under pressure, cry out for leadership. Europe's crises are demanding this, and have thrown up an...

What diet soda does to belly fat

A new study published in the found that people who drank diet soda gained almost triple the abdominal fat over nine years as those who didn't drink diet soda. The study analyzed data from 749 people ages 65 and older who were asked, every couple of years, how many cans of soda they drank a day, and how many of those sodas were diet or regular.Those answers ended up being extremely predictive of abdominal-fat gain, even after the researchers adjusted...

Clinton Foundation's deep financial ties to Ukrainian oligarch

Will take money from basically anyone. Between 2009 and 2013, including when Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state, the Clinton Foundation received at least $8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, according to that foundation, which is based in Kiev, Ukraine. It was created by Mr. Pinchuk, whose fortune stems from a pipe-making company. He served two terms as an elected member of the Ukrainian Parliament and is a proponent of closer ties...
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