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Thursday, 23 April 2015

Cops go car to car in traffic jam, issue $18,000 in fines for cellphone use at a near dead stop

© The Free Thought Project      Honolulu, Hawaii - Writing tickets was like shooting fish in a barrel for Honolulu police earlier this month when they went car to car issuing citations for cell phone use. According to motorists, police moved into the middle of the street during the worst traffic jam in years and began a ticket writing assembly line that made them over $18,000. In total, 65 drivers were given tickets that amounted...

UK politician Greville Janner excused from prosecution of 22 sexual offenses against 9 children after timely onset of 'dementia'

© Heathcliff O'Malley Labour Lord Greville Janner      As Oskar Groening, the so-called Accountant of Auschwitz, goes on trial at the age of 93 for his complicity in war crimes, the 86-year-old Labour peer Greville Janner is excused prosecution for 22 alleged sexual offences against nine boys in his Leicestershire constituency, from the 1960s to the 1980s, because he is suffering from "severe dementia". How terribly convenient....

Cow 'starts eating sheep' on Kenya farm

© Suleiman Mbatiah/Nation Media Group A dairy cow bites a merino sheep at Miti Mingi Village in Elementaita, Nakuru County, on April 22, 2015. The strange behaviour by the cow has left villagers and the owner in shock.      A farmer in Kenya says one of his cows has given up its usual vegetarian diet and started eating sheep. Charles Mamboleo, who runs a farm in south-western Nakuru County, discovered the cow feeding on a sheep...

Cook who serves some of the most powerful people on earth needs food stamps to feed his family despite working 70 hours weekly

© Jason Reed/Reuters Tell us this, Mr Senator: when will all federal contractors be paid a living wage?      Every day, I serve food to some of the most powerful people on earth, including many of the senators who are running for president: I'm a cook for the federal contractor that runs the US Senate cafeteria. But today, they'll have to get their meals from someone else's hands, because I'm on strike. I am walking off my job...

Massive magma chamber hiding beneath volcanic system of Yellowstone National Park

© Mark Ralston, AFP/GETTY IMAGES The 'Grand Prismatic' hot spring in the Yellowstone National Park, home of a massive underground supervolcano.      A massive chamber holding enough magma to fill the Grand Canyon more than 11 times over is hiding beneath the steaming volcanic system of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. We knew of a smaller magma chamber closer to surface, holding some 10,000 cubic kilometres of magma and...

Walled off: In non-rebel eastern Ukraine, frustrations mount with Kiev

© Fred Weir/The Christian Science Monitor Col. Alexander Kruk, commander of Kharkiv region border guards, stands amid a completed section of the planned border wall. On one side, barbed-wire topped fence, watchtowers with cameras and motion detectors. On the other, berms and tank traps to slow down invading forces. He says it will stop smugglers, illegal immigrants, subversives and, in a pinch, slow down an armored assault for a few minutes. "It's...

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Russia and Argentina seal energy package, $3 billion in deals

© RIA Novosti / Alexey Druzhinin Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner seen during the ceremony of signing joint documents on the results of Russian-Argentinian talks in the Kremlin, April 23, 2015.      Russia plans to invest $2 billion in Argentinian nuclear power plants, and Russia's Gazprom has signed a deal to explore oil and gas fields in Argentina, a project worth another $1 billion. Argentinian...

Poor diet causes more disease than lack of exercise, smoking and alcohol combined, say doctors

Exercise all you like, but if your diet is bad, it won't protect you from disease      Doctors have blamed excess sugar and carbohydrates for the surge in obesity - not the lack of exercise. They said poor diet was now recognised as being responsible for more disease than physical inactivity, alcohol and smoking combined. Yet, said the experts led by cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra, the public wrongly believed that obesity was...

The clinical impact of Vitamin C: My personal experiences as a Physician

© phys.org      Is the healing power of Vitamin C too good to be true? Can this inexpensive and convenient vitamin improve and heal the toughest of ailments? My ongoing relationship with vitamin C now spans a full 20 years, when I first met Dr. Hal Huggins, a pioneering dentist who opened my eyes to a wide array of clinical approaches to different diseases with hitherto unheard-of clinical results at his clinic in Colorado Springs....

Could a tragic chapter of Australian history be unwittingly repeated in a seasonal 'flu vaccination campaign' for First Nations children?

© Unknown      There was a forced vaccination campaign in 1970-1 in the Northern Territory where forced vaccinations had a 50% fatality rate. This was reported by Dr Archie Kalokerinos, who was there during that time. He later wrote a book on it, called . The writer's 3 children and 4 grandchildren have been immunised, and I am not an anti-vaccine campaigner. I am a 'vaccine, only with adequate checks and balances', advocate. Below...

Becoming aware of internalized and societal oppression

     Many Western therapeutic models suggest that ongoing emotional/psychological discomfort and dysfunctional relationships originate in individual traumatic life experiences. Addressing such personal hurts through individual healing methods is certainly helpful and necessary. Yet there are other traumas that we—and everyone - suffers from. We cannot separate ourselves from the collective wounding caused by oppression, and...

Human embryos modified in controversial first

© Dr. Yorgos Nikas/SPL Human embryos are at the centre of a debate over the ethics of gene editing.      Scientists have genetically modified a human embryo for the first time. Junjiu Huang, a gene-function researcher at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, confirmed that his team has modified the gene responsible for a potentially fatal blood disorder in non-viable embryos — ones that cannot result in a live birth. They...

Governments are hiding aliens, claims former Canadian defence minister

A former defence minister has accused world leaders of concealing aliens. Paul Hellyer, who was a Canadian minister from 1963 to 1967, is urging world powers to release what he believes to be hidden data on UFOs      A former defence minister has accused world leaders of concealing the presence of aliens. Paul Hellyer, who was a Canadian minister from 1963 to 1967, is now urging world powers to release what he believes to be...

Strong earthquake 5.3 magnitude hits Aleutian Island, Alaska

© USGS      A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (mg/mb) was reported Friday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Buldir Island in Alaska. The temblor was reported at 02:57:30 / 2:57 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 55.98 km (35 miles). Global time of event 23/04/15 / 2015-04-23 14:57:30 / April 23, 2015 @ 2:57 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Buldir Island in Alaska, according to the U.S. Geological Survey....

SOTT Exclusive: U.S. troops and mercs bringing glory to Ukraine, protecting Poroshenko from his own troops

     About 250 US troops are now in western Ukraine for the purpose of 'training' Kiev's poorly trained, demoralized, and significantly reduced 'reserve' of cannon fodder for US perfidy and belligerence. President Petro "PeePee" Poroshenko had this to say: "My decision, as the commander-in-chief, to build a new quality army, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is beginning to become a reality with the help of our American partners."...

Not 'one iota' of exercise is needed to lose weight, says scientific study

Obesity crisis has been generated through a worsening of our diets – rather than a rise in sedentary lifestyles      The cause of obesity is a bad diet rather than a lack of exercise, according to a group of international experts. In an article discussing whether food, sedentary lifestyles or a combination of the two are responsible for the rapidly growing obesity epidemic, doctors said the obesity crisis had almost nothing...
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