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Thursday, 11 June 2015

Data scientists find connections between birth month and health

© Dr. Nick Tatonetti/Columbia University Medical Center This data visualization maps the statistical relationship between birth month and disease incidence in the electronic records of 1.7 million New York City patients. Columbia University scientists have developed a computational method to investigate the relationship between birth month and disease risk. The researchers used this algorithm to examine New York City medical databases and found...

Crop circles discovered on southern Russian wheat field

Crop circles appeared mysteriously in a wheat field in the republic of Adygea over the weekend, to the puzzlement of residents in the southern Russian republic, the Interfax news agency reported Monday. Local farmer Sergei Anisimov found six circles of wheat pressed perfectly in a clockwise pattern, ranging from 7 to 13 meters in diameter, Interfax reported. Photos of the mysterious markings on the local news site 8772.ru show two big circles of...

Over 20 fake mobile phone towers found in UK

© PressTV An archival photo of phone towers. More than 20 fake phone poles, which are said to be tools to spy on public communications, have been found in the United Kingdom, according to a new investigation. The investigation was conducted by the UK-based Sky News, and its findings were released on Wednesday. The poles, which were found in London, have on them tools known in the communications industry as International Mobile Subscriber Identity,...

The FDA and Big Pharma's latest killer agenda: Destroy homeopathic medicine

© RadioMedix Like pretty much everything these days, money equates to power in the big business world of both geopolitics and monopolized corporate control designed to eliminate individual liberties and personal choice around the globe. We've seen it with the treasonous US crime cabal government that engineered the murder of 3000 Americans on 9/11 to establish a fake war on terror with fake enemies acting as mercenary Islamic stooges that conveniently...

Classic Machiavelli: 5 ways powerful people trick you into hating protesters

© Andrew Burton/Getty Images News/Getty Images Let's say that tomorrow you are elected Secret Ruler of the USA, a position that gives you total power over the government, economy, and the culture at large -- everything that hippies refer to as "the system." Now, your first job is to not get beheaded by rioting peasants, which means your first job is really to maintain "stability" (i.e., "keeping things mostly the way they are"). Immediately you'll...

SOTT Exclusive: Putin presented peace medal by the pope, more popular than ever

The polarization of opinions on Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn't be more extreme. To the 'official' West, he is an authoritarian dictator, the next Hitler, a greedy power-mad ex-intelligence menace to all the values the Western world holds dear. To everyone else, he's nothing of the sort. After all, what are Western 'values', really? As I wrote in my last article for SOTT (Where's my cookie?! Anti-government protests in Ukraine ignored...

Russian Foreign Ministry says Pentagon trying to establish covert bioweapons labs near Russia

© Reuters / Regis Duvignau The US is obstructing international efforts to eradicate biological weapons, seeking to involve other nations covertly in research on weaponized diseases, Moscow charged. America's record of handling bioweapons is poor. The accusations of mishandling biological weapons voiced by the Russian Foreign Ministry refer to a recent report that the US military shipped live anthrax by mistake. Last week, the Pentagon admitted...

Dozens of dead penguins have shown up on the coast of Uruguay

Rescued penguins wait to be fed on July 28, 2007, in the department Maldonado, Uruguay Dozens of penguins have shown up dead over the past three days on the coast of Uruguay, a government official said Thursday. One group of young specimens was found in the Rocha area 210 km (125 miles) east of Montevideo, and then another at a beach in the resort town of Punta del Este, said Graciela Fabiano of the National Directorate of Water Resources. The...

Mother arrested for use of medical marijuana to treat Crohn's disease faces 30 year prison sentence

Screenshot featuring Shona Banda from a video by MedicalMarijuana411.com. Last month, Kansas mother Shona Banda made headlines when her son was removed from her custody after he defended her use of medical marijuana to treat Crohn's Disease. He had spoken up about her use at an anti-drug presentation at his school. This prompted the school to call to Child Protective Services and authorities, which led to a raid on her home on March 24. The raid...

Conscience expressed: Drone strikes equal collateral massacres

© Unknown A wall painting in Yemen. Do you have a moment? Would you mind entertaining a humble question? Why does our government want to drive a wedge between America and the rest of the world by using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen? It isn't accomplishing anything. A study by Stanford Law School and New York University's School of Law notes the number of Islamic terrorists killed as a percentage...

Pharma industry fuels super-bug epidemic by illegally dumping drug waste into environment

© epSos.de/flickr/cc "This is a huge problem with a simple solution: Pharmaceutical companies must reveal where they source their antibiotics from and stop buying from polluting factories," said Paul Ferris, campaign director for SumOfUs.org. From the World Health Organization to the National Academy of Sciences, scientists are warning that rising antibiotic resistance poses a public health threat across the world. Now, a new report from consumer...

American dreaming, from G1 to Bilderberg

© Reuters/Kevin Lamarque US President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference at the conclusion of the G7 Summit in the Bavarian town of Kruen, Germany. What's the connection between the G7 summit in Germany, President Putin's visit to Italy, the Bilderberg club meeting in Austria, and the TTIP - the US-EU free trade deal - negotiations in Washington? We start at the G7 in the Bavarian Alps - rather G1 with an added bunch of "junior partners"...

Canadian wildfire smoke covers 17 states and causes red sun

© Richard Barnhill A smoky sunset over the District, June 9, 2015 (Richard Barnhill via Flickr) A thick haze of smoke drifted over the D.C. region late Tuesday afternoon, driven south from Canada's burgeoning wildfires by the high-level winds of the jet stream. There are six large wildfires burning in Alberta and British Columbia, according to the Remote Sensing Applications Center in Salt Lake City. These fires are pumping copious amounts of smoke...

If you were Lavrov or Putin - which leader would you choose to talk to in the West?

© AP /Jerry Lampen A Confederacy of Psychopaths G7 Joint Communique - yet another exercise in make-believe I won't divulge into the full text (which you can read @ http://1.usa.gov/1FVEGx1), but here is the "foreign policy" segment, dealing with the Ukraine: (stress added) Finding a Solution to the Conflict in Ukraine We reiterate our condemnation of the illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula by the Russian Federation and reaffirm our policy...

One Nation, Under Sedation: Medicare Paid for Nearly 40 Million Tranquilizer Prescriptions in 2013

Look up the drugs your doctor prescribes with our Prescriber Checkup tool. For more stories about physician prescribing, see our related reporting. This story was co-published with the Boston Globe, the Miami Herald and Health News Florida.   In 2012, Medicare’s massive prescription drug program didn’t spend a penny on popular tranquilizers such as Valium, Xanax and Ativan. The following year, it doled out...
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