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Wednesday, 27 May 2015

Is 'San Andreas' a cryptic warning about what is going to happen in America's future?

© endoftheamericandream.com Movie Poster.      Hollywood has a long history of inserting political messages, social commentaries, subliminal effects and even cryptic warnings about the future into big budget films. So is someone attempting to use to tell us something? For many years, doomsayers have been warning that the "Big One" is going to come along and rip the coastline of California to shreds. Up until this moment, it...

Jawbone fossils reveal new human ancestor species scientists say

© Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Cleveland Museum of Natural History The new species, combined ape-like and human-like traits.      Jaw and teeth fossils found in Ethiopia's Afar region in 2011 represent a previously unknown member of humankind's family tree that lived 3.3 to 3.5 million years ago alongside the famous human ancestor Lucy, scientists say. The fossils shed new light on a key period in the human lineage's evolution before...

Prepare yourselves, your homes, and your neighborhoods for the violence that is going to sweep America

     The thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted on a daily basis is beginning to disappear, and a new era of chaos and anarchy is coming to our cities. I don't know if you have noticed, but violence is increasing on the streets of America. Over Memorial Day weekend, 29 people were shot in Baltimore and 55 people were shot in Chicago. But of course the trend that I am talking about is much broader than that....

Is an ISIS false flag nuclear attack on America planned within the next 12 months?

     Captured British journalist John Cantlie has written an article for the Islamic State in which he claims that the possibility of an ISIS nuclear attack on America has risen "infinitely." The article appeared in the new edition of Dabiq, the ISIS online english magazine with Madison Avenue design cues. Cantlie was abducted by ISIS in 2012 and is now apparently being forced to write their english language propaganda. Claiming...

New 'Peace' lobby pressures US Presidential candidates to favor war

Here comes the peace.      There is a long history of the U.S. military-industrial complex lobbying the government for funding and influencing foreign policy, e.g., to help pick out countries to bomb or invade. However, the latest pressure group to be formed in the run up to next year's U.S. presidential elections is an insult to basic intelligence. It calls itself Americans for Peace, Prosperity and Security but literally...

Towards a militarized police state in America? Explosive new revelations over "Jade Helm 15 exercise" and potential false flags

© http://ift.tt/1HMwVQH      A growing segment of the American population is waking up to the implications of the Jade Helm 15 military operation to be conducted by Special Forces in conjunction with local law enforcement, the FBI, DHS, the DEA and Border Patrol across the entire Southwest. This massive unprecedented exercise will also commence in June sooner than first announced and last for 10 weeks through the summer till...

Baikal Technologies announces the Baikal-T1 microprocessor with MIPS P5600 CPU

     Baikal Electronics, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in ARM-based and MIPS-based processors and systems on a chip (SoC), has announced the release of engineering samples of its new Baikal-T1 multi-core microprocessor created using a 28 nanometer process and designed for use in consumer and industrial devices. The Baikal-T1 will become the first Russian offering for the communications market to use a MIPS Warrior...

Swarm of twenty-three earthquakes reported near Costa Rica's Irazu volcano

© Tico Times/Google The epicenters of 23 temblors are in an area near the Irazú Volcano.      In a span of eight hours on Monday night and into early Tuesday, experts from the University of Costa Rica and the National University registered at least 23 temblors with epicenters located north of the province of Cartago, some 22 kilometers northeast of the Costa Rican capital. Ronny Quintero, a seismologist at UNA's Volcanological...

New Comet: C/2015 K4 (PANSTARRS)

BET nr. 4108, issued on 2015, May 27, announces the discovery of a comet (magnitude ~18) by PANSTARRS survey in three w-band exposures taken with the 1.8-m Pan-STARRS1 telescope at Haleakala on May 24.5 UT. The new comet has been designated C/2015 K4 (PANSTARRS). We performed follow-up measurements of this object, while it was still on the neocp. Stacking of 20 unfiltered exposures, 30-sec each, obtained remotely on 2015, May 26.3 from U69 (iTelescope...

This may be the earliest murder victim in human history

© Javier Trueba/Madrid Scientific Films This is a frontal view of Cranium 17 showing the position of the traumatic events T1 (inferior) and T2 (superior).      Wounds discovered on a 430,000-year-old human skull discovered in Spain could indicate that the individual was one of the first-ever murder victims, according to a new study published in the May 27 edition of the open-access journal . In the study, Dr. Nohemi Sala from...

Tony Blair set to resign as Middle East peace envoy

© Reuters / Suzanne Plunkett      Tony Blair has reportedly resigned as envoy to The Quartet group of Middle East nations. The news was reported in a tweet by the Associated Press, which claimed an official had told the agency the former UK Prime Minister would stand down. Speaking ahead of his formal resignation, Blair told officials he had written to the UN General Secretary Ban-ki Moon to step down from his post. The former...

Netanyahu increases demands for 'up to $45 billion' in US military aid

© Reuters / Wolfgang Rattay V-22 Osprey - due to be exclusively supplied to Israel in the coming years.      Israel is hoping to receive $4.2 - $4.5 billion a year in military aid from the United States for ten years, to counter the threat from Iran and oil-rich Middle East states that have been re-arming rapidly, a senior Israeli source has told . Under a 10-year deal signed in 2007, Israel receives just over $3 billion a year...

No justice: Ex-police chief gets 50 days in prison for abusing his four adopted children

Cheryle and Richard Burton      What started as a tragically common report of a missing teenager, turned out to be a far more sinister saga with a conclusion so bereft of justice, it attests to all but irrefutable proof of law enforcement impunity. In case after case, incidents of undeniable police brutality and murder become opportunities for public victim-blaming; and when no punishment is wrought on the perpetrators, that...

Pentagon reports live anthrax shipped across states by accident

© Reuters / David Moir      The Pentagon says that live anthrax was inadvertently shipped across state lines from a military lab in Utah. However, a Department of Defense spokesperson says the public is not at risk. Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren confirmed to on Wednesday that the anthrax had been shipped out of state, but assured, "there are no risks to the public." "We are investigating the inadvertent transfer of live...

Thousands protest in Japan demanding removal of U.S. military base in Okinawa

     Japanese protesters gathered outside the parliament building in Tokyo on Sunday to demand the removal of a US base on the island of Okinawa. Numerous rallies have been held recently, both on the island and the Japanese mainland, to oppose the US military's presence in the country. An estimated 15,000 people took part in Sunday's protest, denouncing plans to move the US Marine Corp Air Station Futenma base to a new location...

Failed war on drugs: Doctors create more heroin addicts than street dealers

     A recently released Drug Enforcement Administration report reveals not only that heroin use has exploded, but that 4 out of 5 new users have previously abused prescription drugs. The details of the analysis, titled the "National Heroin Threat Assessment," unwittingly demonstrate that the Drug War has failed to curb drug use and has actually exacerbated the problem. The report opens with an overview of heroin addiction: The...
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