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Monday, 8 June 2015

Vitamin B5 or Pantothenate (Pantothenic Acid): The "anti stress" factor

Vitamin B5, otherwise known as pantothenic acid or pantothenate is a water soluble B-vitamin that is critical for normal function of the human body. This vitamin is also commonly called the anti-stress nutrient because it plays a role in the production of stress hormones by the adrenal glands. Deficiency of B-5 contributes to the inability to cope with stress. Additionally, pantothenic acid plays vital roles in energy production from foodstuffs....

A sad state of affairs: The pathocratic Harper government provides neo-nazi military training to Ukraine National Guard

© Unknown The Canadian media has highlighted Prime Minister Harper's one on one meeting with Ukraine's president Poroshenko in Kiev (June 5, 2015). The official story which has been fed to Canadians is that Ottawa is providing "non-lethal aid" as well support to the country's civilian police force: "We supply a range of non-lethal military equipment," Harper said... While disappointed about this, Poroshenko praised Canada for supporting Ukraine...

US Defense Department paid 14 NFL teams $5.4M to honor soldiers

The waving of the red, white and blue, comes with a healthy dose of green. According to Christopher Baxter and Jonathan Salant of NJ.com, the New Jersey Army National Guard and the Department of Defense, paid the Jets a total of $377,000 from 2011 to 2014, for their salutes and other advertising, citing federal contracts. [1] The NFL does just about everything it can to align itself with the military, whether that means discussing...

Ex-US Intelligence Officials Confirm: Secret Pentagon Report Proves US Complicity In Creation Of ISIS

Two weeks ago, courtesy of the investigative work of Nafeez Ahmed whose deep dig through a recently declassified and formertly Pentagon documents released earlier by Judicial Watch FOIA, we learned that Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad. In his words: "According to the newly declassified US document, the Pentagon foresaw the likely rise of the ‘Islamic...

Strange trumpet sound echoing through the sky in west Phoenix, Arizona

© Youtube Strange sound again tonight. Lasted about 20mins. West Phoenix/Glendale area 11:30pm 6/1/15 [embedded content] Strange sound echoing through the sky in west Phoenix early this morning. Not the local train! It lasted from 12:20am to 12:50am. Sounds musical. Very bizarre..... [embedded content...

Strange groaning sounds come from the sky in Long Island, New York

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Slave or Rebel? Ten principles for escaping the matrix and standing up to tyranny

"Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they cannot become conscious."—George Orwell © movieimage.tripod.com The more things change, the more they stay the same. It's a shell game intended to keep us focused on and distracted by all of the politically expedient things that are being said—about militarized police, surveillance, and government corruption—while the government continues to frogmarch...

Groaning, trumpeting sounds heard in Batangas, Philippines' sky

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Some US hospitals' mark up exceeds 1,000 percent

© Thinkstock Some 50 hospitals in the United States charge the uninsured and out-of-network patients 10 times what's allowed by Medicare, reports a new public health study. The study, led by Gerard F. Anderson of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Ge Bai of Washington & Lee University was based on a review of 2012 Medicare costs reports. "There is no justification for these outrageous rates but no one tells hospitals they...

Creativity and psychosis share a genetic source

© agsandrew/iStockphoto Artistic creativity may share genetic roots with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, a new study suggests. The research, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, delves into a well-known genetic database -- the deCODE library of DNA codes derived from samples provided by the population of Iceland. The authors first compared genetic and medical data from 86,000 Icelanders, establishing a DNA signature that pointed to...

Syrian Electronic Army hacks US Army's army.mil website

© Wikipedia/ SEA ARMY The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) group of hackers who support the Syrian government broke into and defaced the US Army's official website on Tuesday redirecting it to an image promoting the Syrian Army. The US Army's website, army.mil is down as of 5:10 p.m. GMT, but the SEA left an archived copy of the page it was replaced with. The SEA also apparently gained access to the website's internal databases. The SEA, known for...

Revealed: Israel built and tested dirty bombs

© AP Photo/ Dan Balilty The Israeli government, which has never declared what is widely considered to be an extensive nuclear weapons program, built and detonated "dirty bombs" containing nuclear material over years of testing. The project consisted of 20 detonations with explosives laced with a radioactive substance, according to a report by Israeli newspaper . Mini-drones measured radiation levels and sensors logged the force of the explosions. In...

Stating the obvious: CIA Director admits US foreign policy causes terrorism

© P Photo/ J. Scott Applewhite Brennan, who has served as CIA chief since March 2013, offered the following admission during an appearance on : "I think the president has tried to make sure that we're able to push the envelope when we can to protect this country. But we have to recognize that sometimes our engagement and direct involvement will stimulate and spur additional threats to our national security interests." But as John Schwarz of the...

Strange trumpet sounds in the sky over Indonesia

© Youtube      Actually, I've already heard sound like this several times since about 2 years ago. But at that time, I just take it casually. I thought it might be the train's horn. But, fact is, there is no train station or train's rail track near my home. Then I thought it could be the big truck's horn, but truck usually pass through a highway or, at least, a big road. While another fact is my home somewhat away from such...

Idaho School District Says We Can’t Rely on Police, Trains and Arms their Staff

  Garden Valley, ID — A school district in Idaho has recently made news by purchasing firearms and training members of the staff to use them, in the case of an emergency. It takes at least 45 minutes for officers to reach the Garden Valley School district, so this measure reduces the dependence on a near useless call to 9-1-1. The cost isn’t high either, it was reported that the school has only spent $3,500 to purchase ammunition, which is...

Cop arrested on child abuse charges after slamming boy to ground at middle school

© Shutterstock      A Florida police officer was arrested on child abuse charges after he was accused of slamming a teenager to the ground. Mario Badia, a Kissimmee police school resource officer, was placed on paid administrative leave during an investigation of the May 8 incident, which was recorded on surveillance video. Witnesses said the 40-year-old officer threw the 13-year-old student down, pinned him to the ground,...

So long U.S. hegemon: GDP of BRICS could surpass G7 in 2-3 years

© RIA Novosti/Vladimir Fedorenko Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexei Pushkov      The GDP of the BRICS countries may surpass that of the G7 within two or three years, as it has already hit $32.5 trillion and rising, claims State Duma Foreign Relations chief Aleksey Pushkov. "In 2014, the total gross domestic product of BRICS countries reached 30 percent [of the world's GDP - Ed.]. This...

Former EPA scientist speaks out against GMOs

     A former senior scientist from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been speaking out against GMOs, but his voice is especially noteworthy among the many scientists who talk about genetically modified organisms. Why? Because he studied the impacts of altered crops on the environment. Read on to find out what this expert has to say about a genetically modified world and the 'pesticide treadmill' that biotech...

Why Is the Army hiring people to provide 'emergency support to disaster stricken areas throughout the US'?

     Does the Army expect that there will soon be "disaster stricken" areas all over the country? As you will see in this article, a job advertisement has been posted on a federal website seeking workers that "will provide emergency support to disaster stricken areas throughout the US". This was originally reported by Shepard Ambellas of Intellihub, but it is not receiving nearly as much attention as it perhaps should. What...
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