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Saturday, 9 May 2015

Arkansas pastor's wife turns him in after finding 'tens of thousands' of child porn files on his computer

This week on Sott Radio Network: The Truth Perspective: This week's guest on the Truth Perspective is Michael Snyder. Michael is very well known for his blogs and the sheer number of other sites that republish his articles from End of the American Dream and The Economic Collapse Michael is the author of the book Get Prepared Now: Why a great crisis is coming and how you can survive it, which he wrote with Barbara Fix, and the novel The Beginning of the End, a mystery thriller set in the near future, both of which are available on Amazon. He also...

Hundreds flee Philippines's rumbling Bulusan volcano, approaching typhoon

© Bicolstandard.com      Hundreds of people fled their homes on the slopes of a rumbling Philippine volcano on Friday as authorities warned of rain-driven mudflows from an approaching typhoon that could bury them alive. Around 500 residents of farming villages around Bulusan volcano in Sorsogon province, many of them children and elderly women, boarded army trucks clutching sleeping mats and bags of clothes as Typhoon Noul (local...

The German question

© Reuters/Rainer Jensen      Seventy years after the end of World War II, and twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany is once again under the grip of 'sturm und drang', but this time barely registered in either East or West. Without a serious attempt at myth busting, it's impossible to discern what could be interpreted as a new, discreet German attempt at hegemony. Contrary to a myth currently propagated...

Hawaii rattled by two earthquakes; volcanic lake hits record level

     A pair of temblors rocked the Big Island early Saturday morning (May 9). At 2:17 a.m. a 3.1 magnitude quake struck the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park area while a second quake of 4.5 magnitude shook a minute later at 2:18 a.m. west of Pahala. The quakes were felt across the island. No changes were detected in Kilauea Volcano's ongoing eruptions or any of the other active volcanoes on the Big Island after a 4.5 magnitude...

Hundreds evacuated as Karangetang volcano erupts in N. Sulawesi, Indonesia

     At least 465 people were evacuated from their houses in Siau Tagulandang Biaro district in North Sulawesi province on Friday following eruption of Karangetang volcano, a senior official at Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said here. Impact of the active volcano's eruption has flattened several houses in Kora village in the region, BNPB Spokesperson Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said, adding that in the afternoon...

We don't need no education: Seven sins of compulsory schooling

© unknown      In my last post I took a step that, I must admit, made me feel uncomfortable. I said, several times: "School is prison." I felt uncomfortable saying that because school is so much a part of my life and the lives of almost everyone I know. I, like most people I know, went through the full 12 years of public schooling. My mother taught in a public school for several years. My beloved half-sister is a public schoolteacher....

Spain discovers Ivorian boy smuggled in suitcase

© AFP The silhouette of an Ivorian boy, shown by an X-ray scanner, being smuggled in a suitcase and discovered at Ceuta land border crossing office, May 8, 2015.      An eight-year-old boy has been crammed into a suitcase and smuggled across the border from North Africa, Spanish police say. The Ivory Coast boy named Abou was discovered on Thursday, when police at Ceuta, a Spanish enclave next to Morocco, put the roller luggage...

The 90,000 Square Foot, 100 Million Dollar Home That Is A Metaphor For America

Just like “America’s time-share king”, America just keeps on making the same mistakes over and over again.  Prior to the financial collapse of 2008, time-share mogul David Siegel and his wife Jackie began construction on their “dream home” near Disney World in Orlando, Florida.  This dream home would be approximately 90,000 square feet in size, would be worth $100 million when completed, and would be named “Versailles” after the French...

Police Handcuff and Shackle ‘Disruptive’ 5-Year-Old Special Needs Student

A family and community is outraged after police arrived at a school to “de-escalate” a situation, but instead ended up handcuffing and shackling a 5-year-old student with special needs. An official with the Jefferson-Lewis Board of Cooperative Educational Services explains that the faculty had tried to de-escalate the situation for two hours before calling the police. They hoped the officers would have special training at conflict resolution...

Netanyahu appoints Ayelet Shaked as Justice Minister who called for genocide of Palestinians

© Haaretz/Tomer Appelbaum Ayelet Shaked with HaBayit HaYehudi leader Naftali Bennett.      Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to appoint Ayelet Shaked as justice minister in his fourth government. Shaked is a Member of Knesset (MK) representing the far-right HaBayit HaYehudi ("Jewish Home") party. She is known for her extreme, ultranationalist views. During Israel's summer 2014 attack on Gaza, MK Shaked essentially...

SOTT Exclusive: The attack on the police station in Zvornik, Bosnia and the latest fear-mongering in the Balkans

© Amel Emric, AP Zvornik, area around police station      On 27th of April 2015, a suicidal lone gunmen shouting "Allahu Akbar" (where have we seen this before?) carried out an attack on a police station in Zvornik, Republika Srpska which is one of two entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina bordering Serbia. The attacker was identified as a 24-year-old Nerdin Ibrić, while some media outlets actually (still) report that he's a 60-year-old,...

Police abduct 10 children from Kentucky family because of their 'off the grid' lifestyle

     If the government does not like the way that you are raising your kids, they will come in and grab them at any time without giving any warning whatsoever. Of course this is completely and totally unlawful, but it has been happening all over America. The most recent example of this that has made national headlines is particularly egregious. Joe and Nicole Naugler of Breckinridge County, Kentucky just had their 10 children...

Researchers discover inflammation is the culprit in post-concussion like syndromes

What a concussion looks like inside the brain      A team of researchers based at McMaster University has developed a new understanding of post-concussion syndrome, answering questions that have been plaguing researchers in the field. Their study, published in the medical journal , provides an explanation for why many people with even very trivial head injuries, or even injuries to other parts of their bodies, experience incapacitating...

Dubai to put 'robocops' on the streets in two years

© comingsoon.net In-movie screenshot of the 2014 reboot of      Science fiction and Hollywood fantasy films seem to be turning into reality at a dazzling speed. As we enter the "robotic era" of drones and self-driving cars, our well being could soon be protected by armies of police androids. These days, life looks more and more like some futuristic TV series. Now that's been taken another step closer by the announcement of authorities...
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