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Monday, 4 May 2015

Are robots about to take away 18 million jobs in Germany?

© DPA Robots are set to wipe out large sectors of the work force.      A study commissioned by ING-Diba claims that 59 percent of Germany's work force could be replaced by machines and software in the coming decades. The impact on German society is set to be radical. The results of the study paint an almost doomsday-esque scenario for Germany. Almost two thirds of its workforce will be unemployed. Of the 30.9 million people...

They fear us: countries around world are revoking freedom of assembly

Faced with mounting unrest and unwilling to offer reforms, democratic governments are rolling back traditional rights...      On March 26, without much fanfare or attention from U.S. media, the Spanish government ended freedom of assembly. In the face of popular opposition (80 percent of Spaniards oppose it), the upper house passed the Citizens' Security Law. Under the provision, which goes into effect on July 1, police will...

Samples of Israeli horrific brutality and war criminality in Gaza

© Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images Photo of smoke from an Israeli air strike rising over the Gaza Strip on July 14, 2014 at the Israeli-Gaza border.      The Israeli group Breaking the Silence issued a report this morning containing testimony from Israeli soldiers about the savagery and criminality committed by the Israeli military during the attack on Gaza last summer. The Independent has a good article describing the report's...

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 7.4 - 133km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea

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The Soviet Union was the ultimate target of the nuclear attack on Japan during WWII

     Atomic Weapons Were Not Needed to End the War or Save Lives Like all Americans, I was taught that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end WWII and save both American and Japanese lives. But most of the top American military officials at the time said otherwise. The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey group, assigned by President Truman to study the air attacks on Japan, produced a report in July...

Nanoparticles In food and water found to alter gut microbiome

     Nanotechnology - that is, metal oxide particles* such as titanium dioxide - are increasingly used in the commercial food supply, consumer goods, body care and in water treatment. The gut microbiome is today's most appealing topic of science because it was previously unacknowledged by the medical community just how important gut health is to the human brain, hormones, immunity, mental health and more. Maintaining a healthy...

Video of Baltimore police arresting media member saying, "I don't care."

[embedded content] This video was filmed beginning at 10:08 p.m. on May 2, 2015 in Baltimore by News2share credentialed reporters Ford Fischer and Trey Yingst. It records the events before, during and after the involuntary detainment of Fischer by Baltimore police officers for allegedly breaking the citywide 10:00 pm curfew even though news media were exempt from the curfew. Prior to the detainment approximately 4 minutes into the video, Fischer is attempting to objectively and safely record the events of the evening. He remains on the opposite...

872 days of cold, hunger and death: Leningrad siege survivors share their memories

One of the most tragic and harrowing chapters of the WWII was the siege of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, which lasted for almost 900 days. spoke to the survivors who unveiled the horrors of the deadliest siege in the history of warfare. For 872 days, from September 8, 1941 till January 27, 1944 people in the Russian city of Leningrad were encircled by Nazi forces, cut off from the rest of the country with no food or vital supplies. Though the total...

Merkel uses terrorism threat to defend BND's cooperation with NSA in corporate economic espionage

© Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch German Chancellor Angela Merkel      German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended Germany's intelligence agency following allegations it helped the US spy on European companies. She says she will fully cooperate with a parliamentary investigation and provide "all the details" it needs. Chancellor Merkel was speaking for the first time publically about the accusations that Germany's BND foreign intelligence...

Surf's up: Recent New Zealand storm bringing massive waves to southern California

© Reuters / Mike Blake      A recent storm near New Zealand is being blamed for major waves thousands of miles away off the coast of California this week. The National Weather Service says Californians can expect to encounter massive waves through Tuesday this week as a result of the storm that erupted on Thursday and Friday in the southern hemisphere, the Los Angeles Times reported. According to the paper, a high-surf advisory...

A family affair: NY Senate majority leader, son arrested on federal corruption charges

© Reuters / Eduardo Munoz New York State Senator Dean Skelos (L) hugs his son Adam Skelos while they arrive at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York May 4, 2015.      The New York Senate majority leader and his son have been arrested by the FBI on corruption and conspiracy charges. State Sen. Dean G. Skelos is accused of using his position to benefit his son's business dealings. Sen. Skelos and his son, Adam B. Skelos,...

NASA records enormous burst of plasma erupting from the sun

Screenshot from NASA video      An enormous burst of plasma erupting from the sun has had astronomers glued to their telescopes for hours. Two orbital observatories managed to capture the phenomenon on video, published by NASA. The event was filmed with the use of coronographs. They are specialized observation devices which use an occulter disk to block out light from the sun itself and create an artificial eclipse within the...

Garland Shooting: Gladio - Texas-Style

Garland shooting involved troupe of practiced war propagandists and patsies long on the FBI's watch list.  May 4, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - ABC News confirms that one of the suspects of the Garland Texas shooting incident, featuring professional war propagandists of the so-called "American Freedom Defense Intitiative" (AFDI), has been under FBI surveillance and investigation since at least as early as 2007. Their report, "Garland...
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