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Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Our European ancestors brought farming, languages and a love of dairy, study shows

© The Independent, UK Thousands of Bronze Age migrants from the Caucuses came to northern Europe in a major movement of prehistoric people in the third millennium BC. The making of modern Europe began in earnest about 5,000 years ago when a mass migration of people from what is now southern Russia and Georgia introduced new technology, languages and dairy farming to the continent, a study has found. Thousands of Bronze Age migrants from the Caucuses...

Heartburn meds may increase heart attack risk

© Ohmega1982/iStockphoto A class of drugs widely used to treat heartburn could raise heart attack risk, new research suggests. While the study results need to be confirmed, commentators say the research provides another reason to reduce unnecessary use of the drugs --called proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) -- which are both prescribed and sold over the counter in Australia. The drugs include the active ingredients omeprazole, esomeprazole, pantoprazole,...

Report: Hundreds of women & children forced into sex by United Nations "peacekeepers"

© The Free Thought Project This week, a report from the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), indicated that "peacekeepers" working in Haiti were guilty of raping Haitian women at an alarming rate. The report also indicated that a large number of the victims were underage. According to the report, there were 231 people in Haiti who claimed they were sexually violated by UN peacekeepers, and were forced to perform sexual acts in exchange...

Pat Robertson to grieving mother: God killed your baby to prevent the next Hitler

© 700 Club Pat Robertson let his inner a**hole out on Tuesday when he told the mother of a dead child that God killed her baby to prevent the next Hitler or Stalin. During his program that airs on Disney-owned ABC Family, Robertson took a question from a viewer who asked the TV preacher what she should say to a grieving co-worker whose baby recently died. After her co-worker asked her "Why did God allow my baby to die?" she told the mother that...

'Marriage is simply too important:' Christian couple vows to divorce if gays allowed to wed

"MY wife and I just celebrated our 10-year anniversary. But later this year, we may be getting a divorce. The reason has nothing to do with the state of our marriage. We were married at 21 after being high-school sweethearts for several years before that. In fact, my wife is the only woman I have ever loved, the mother of our children, my perfect match... After our divorce, we'll continue to live together, hopefully for another 50 years. And, God willing, we'll have more children. We'll also continue to refer to each other as "husband" and "wife"...

US: Rare auroras and lightning visible side by side

AURORAS AND LIGHTNING: A solar wind stream hit Earth's magnetic field during the late hours of June 7th, sparking a G2-class geomagnetic storm. In the United States, surprised sky watchers from Maine to Washington witnessed a rare display of summer auroras. Outside of Rochester, Minnesota, photographer Marcella Chester recorded the green glow alongside a June thunderstorm: "I've never seen auroras and lightning visible side by side before," marvels...

Saturn's outermost ring stuns astronomers

© NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute The biggest planetary ring in the solar system is much bigger than previously thought, say scientists. A new study, reported today in , has found that Saturn's outermost ring is nearly 300 times the size of the planet it orbits. That's more than 30 per cent larger than scientists had thought. "Nobody expected [planetary] rings to ever be this large," says lead author, Professor Douglas Hamilton of the University...

Sott Exclusive: Where's my cookie?! Anti-government protests in Ukraine ignored by US and EU

© RT Large anti-government protests took place in Kiev this week The third Ukraine 'Maidan' came quickly, and was quenched just as fast. Unlike the protests that began in late 2013 and turned into the months-long 'EuroMaidan' that ended with the coup against the legitimate government of Yanukovych, this time, there were no entrenched cadres of hardened protestors in camps, no pitched battles with police, no occupation of government buildings....

Meteor soars through the sky over Santa Fe, New Mexico

© Jan Curtis Took while sleeping. Occurred at 1:23:36 AM MDT, looking east from just south of Santa Fe in the direction of the moon. Used Nikon d7000, iso 1000, 35mm Nikkor lens @ f/2.0 for 8sec. Note a few explosive bursts before terminating. Used PS 6.0 to increase contrast due to strong moonlight from RAW image. Estimate magnitude -...

Fireball captured by three separate cameras in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo, Brazil

© Screen grab via YouTube A fireball has been captured by 3 cameras exploding in the sky over Brazil on June 7, 2015. The cameras were situated in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo! Amazing! The space rock was filmed by EXOSS cameras flying over three states at 05:20 am. Such a triangulation is very rare and permitted to calculate precisely the route of the bright meteor: The meteor entered the Earth's atmosphere at an angle of 25.5...

Engineer develops inexpensive, bacteria-powered origami battery

© Jonathan Cohen, Binghamton University Photographer Origami batteries like this one, developed by Binghamton University researcher Seokheun Choi, could one day power biosensors for use in remote locations. Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, can be used to create beautiful birds, frogs and other small sculptures. Now a Binghamton University engineer says the technique can be applied to building batteries, too. Seokheun "Sean" Choi developed...

Sun halo captured in Maine skies

© WJBQ A lot of people in Maine posted photos on social media on Saturday (June 6) of a ring around the sun. I saw two rainbow rings but didn't go all double rainbow guy. Here's what caused the ring to appear overhead. According to an article by The University of Illinois, the phenomenon is called a 22 degree halo. The website explains, "Halos form when light from the sun or moon is refracted by ice crystals associated with thin, high-level clouds....A...

Toba supervolcano showing large emissions of steam and foul smelling gas

Photo from Indonesia press showing new activity (June 2015) at Mount Sinabung, prompting evacuations around the area. Western Indonesia's Mount Sinabung has been placed on high alert for what is being called a "mega-eruption" for several km/miles around the volcano. Video reports coming out from the region show ash, steam, and eruptive blasts currently occurring. In addition to the large eruption at Mount Sinabung, we now have other reports that...

German banker says Europe is being ruined by following US dictates

Interviewed on June 6th by German Economic News, the chief economist at Bremer Landesbank, Folker Hellmeyer, says that because of Obama's sanctions against Russia, German exports declined year-over-year by 18% in 2014, and by 34% in the first two months of 2015 (no later figures), but he asserts that "The damage is much more comprehensive than these statistics show," because those are only the "primary losses," and there are in addition "secondary...

New Jersey lawmaker seeks to ban smoking in car with kids under 16-years old

A New Jersey state senator wants to stop smokers from lighting up in vehicles if children 16 and under also are present. Joseph Vitale said the measure he introduced last month would protect children from being exposed to tobacco products and electronic cigarettes in confined spaces. The Middlesex County Democrat chairs the Senate's Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee. Violators would face a $100 fine, but would not face surcharges...

France paid €30,000 to buy Mohamad Merah film detailing links with French intelligence

Pictured: Mohamed Merah. Eyewitnesses who saw the shootings in 2011 stated that the gunman was "quite fat" with "European looking". The father of one of the victims of Toulouse killer Mohammed Merah accused the French spy service of paying Merah's father thousands of euros for a clip of his final minutes detailing his links with the agency. Albert Chennouf-Meyer, whose son Abel, a soldier, was killed by Merah in March 2012, filed a legal complaint...

Soldier and conscientious objector: 'I feel as if my own government is torturing me'

© Robert W. Weilbacher Spc. Robert Weilbacher during an outing on Dobongsan Mountain in South Korea. He says he would go to the picturesque area “to escape the military and clear my head.” Another way he dealt with stress while stationed in South Korea was to meditate in Buddhist temples. The military in the United States portrays itself as endowed with the highest virtues—honor, duty, self-sacrifice, courage and patriotism. Politicians, entertainers,...

Paleontologist discovers blood and soft tissue preserved in dinosaur fossils

© Reuters / Charles Platiau Tyrannosaurus rex An amazing discovery could rewrite textbooks, after a paleontologist accidentally found blood and soft tissue preserved in tattered dinosaur fossils. If proven, science expects answers to age-old questions, including: "Can we resurrect dinosaurs?" The red blood cells and collagen fibers were discovered by chance when Imperial College London's Sergio Bertazzo and Susannah Maidment were examining the...

Could overuse of antibiotics play a key role in triggering celiac disease?

© iStockphoto There's no denying that celiac disease (CD) is more prevalent now than ever. In the US, rates of CD have increased at least 5-fold over the past few decades, and prevalence in Finland has doubled. (1, 2, 3) The incidence of CD has also increased four-fold in the UK and three-fold in the Netherlands in the past 20 years, and the incidence of pediatric CD in Scotland has increased 6.4-fold. (4, 5, 6) So naturally, everyone is wondering...

Has a derivatives bomb just gone off?

I've never seen so many sophisticated Wall Street'ers this scared in my entire career. This comment comes from a very well-connected Wall Street/DC insider and is in reference to how illiquid the bond markets have become. Something deep and dark has transpired behind the Orwellian "curtain" used by the elitists to hide the inner workings of the financial markets, especially with regard to big bank balance sheets and OTC derivatives. What's happening...
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