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Friday, 24 April 2015

Kiev Snipers Trained by CIA, Polish Secret Service claims Polish MP

Commenting on a Polish MEP's recent statement that the snipers shooting indiscriminately at police and protesters during last year's Maidan Revolution were trained in Poland, Russian Foreign Ministry human rights ombudsman Konstantin Dolgov stated that the truth about the tragedy is finally beginning to emerge. In this interview the EU Parliament Deputy and presidential candidate Janusz Korwin-Mikke also alleges that each successive...

Sadistic cop ruptures man's spleen, fellow cops laugh, take pics, as he lays dying, begging for help

     Orlando, Florida — An Orlando cop has been arrested after surveillance video showed him violently kneeing a handcuffed man. But further investigation into the matter shows that his fellow officers were not only complicit in covering it up, but also sadistically laughed as the man lay bleeding internally in the cell. Orlando police Officer Peter Delio was arrested in March and charged with felony battery after surveillance...

UK photographer snaps meteor leaving a 'Z' in the sky

     A couple of nights ago, Hawick, UK-based photographer Sam Cornwell spent some time in the great outdoors taking pictures of the April Lyrids meteor shower that happens from April 16 to April 26 of each year. Just as he was about to call it quits and return home without a keeper, Cornwell captured the above photo of a huge "fireball" streaking across the night sky. After returning home and taking a closer look at the burst...

Is genetically engineered food a fraud?

© CRAIG CUTLER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC A line up of test tubes holds genetically altered orange seedlings and the hope of creating plants resistant to citrus greening, a bacterial scourge sweeping through Florida’s citrus groves.      An estimated 85 percent of all food consumed in the United States now contains genetically modified organisms (GMOs)—from the cereal you feed your children to the milk you put in your coffee to the...

Drought spurs rodent problems across California

© Reuters/Lisi Niesner      The four year-old drought in California is causing an influx of rats and mice to seek sustenance inside homes and around public water sources during their spring breeding season, according to reports. With less available water outdoors, rodents are using structural vulnerabilities and accessible lawn foliage to gain access inside California homes that provide the necessary water sources, in Sacramento...

Turkey foreign ministry condemns Putin's words on Armenian genocide

© Alexei Nikolsky/Russian presidential press service/TASS Armenia's president Serzh Sargsyan, Russia's president Vladimir Putin, France's president Francois Hollande and president of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades during a flower laying ceremony at the Armenian Genocide memorial complex.      Turkey has condemned the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin calling the 1915 events in the Ottoman Empire genocide, the foreign...

Statue Of Liberty evacuated following bomb threat and suspicious package

     The Statue of Liberty was evacuated Friday afternoon after someone called in a bomb threat and parks police reported a suspicious package, law enforcement sources tell . The NYPD's bomb squad was called to the scene, along with EMS workers. A security sweep of the island is also being conducted. As yet, no devices have been found. [embedded content]      The FBI said it is aware of the package and...

Hopium: How far can irrational optimism take the U.S. economy?

     If enough people truly believe that things will get better, will that actually cause them to get better? There is certainly something to be said for being positive and thinking that anything is possible. And as Americans, optimism seems to come naturally for us. However, no amount of positive thinking is ever going to turn the sun into a block of wood or turn the moon into a block of cheese. Any good counselor will tell...

Psychopath caught on camera: Hidden nanny cam catches man savagely abusing cat

A family that opened their home to a houseguest was shocked to discover that the man who they thought was a trustworthy friend was actually a vicious animal abuser. Jordan Lindquist      Kaleb Cloward allowed his friend 19-year-old Jordan Lindquist to stay at his family's home. Kaleb's mother, Colleen, told CBS Las Vegas that Lindquist seemed like a "nice young man." But when the family's cat Shadow began to have health problems,...

100 years later: The Armenian genocide of 1915 (VIDEO)

© Agence France Presse An image from 1915. Turkey deported two thirds of the Armenian population; many were either killed or died of starvation during the journey      In remembrance of the Armenian genocide, here are three videos depicting the history of this mass atrocity - still denied by many today. The first is a silent film, , produced in the US in 1919, based on the book by Aurora Mardiganian, who witnessed many of the...

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.2 - 182km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada

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Pilgrim killed by wild boar in Kerala, India

© DJS Photography Wild Boar      65-year-old pilgrim, Govinda Swami from Peramballoor in Tamil Nadu, was killed in an attack by a wild boar at Pandithavalam at the Sabarimala Sannidhanam on Friday. Akhila Bharatha Ayyappa Seva Sanghom stretcher service captain Thanchavur Damodaran said the pilgrim had gone to Pandithavalam for tea around 5 a.m. when he was fatally attacked by the animal. Volunteers rushed him to the Sannidhanam...

Authorities investigate two dead gray whales off Santa Cruz County coast

© Jodi Frediani A woman snaps a photo of a young gray whale on Wednesday that washed ashore at Pajaro Dunes Beach on the southern end of Santa Cruz County.      Two gray whale carcasses washed up in Santa Cruz County this week, prompting Long Marine Lab officials to investigate their deaths. The whales — one at the northern end of the county and the other at the southern end — were first reported Wednesday, but officials couldn't...

The Key War on Terror Propaganda Tool: Only Western Victims Are Acknowledged

In all the years I’ve been writing about Obama’s drone killings, yesterday featured by far the most widespread critical discussion in U.S. establishment journalism circles. This long-suppressed but crucial fact about drones was actually trumpeted as the lead headline on the front page of The New York Times yesterday: The reason for the unusually intense, largely critical coverage of drone killings yesterday...

First they came for the Anti-Vaxxers

© memegenerator.net      Earlier this year I spent a few days at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center with my daughter who was having an EEG done. On our way home, I learned that there had been an outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria while we were there, that it had infected seven people and killed two of them. My daughter and I were fine - the infection having been limited to people using a particular kind of duodenoscope. When...
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