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Sott Editors On this show, Sott Talk Radio hosts went biblical, but with a strong revisionist bent. Sott.net 2013-08-07 10:00:00 The idea that a man named Jesus Christ, born of a virgin, performer of miracles, betrayed and crucified and declared to be the 'son of god', actually existed during the Roman Empire in the area of modern-day Palestine is the subject of long and often heated debate. Historians and archeologists are adamant that there is no historical evidence for the existence of such a person, Christians on the other hand, just know in their hearts that Jesus lived and died to take away our sins (or debts). So what's the deal? The skinny is that, while it isn't exactly widely known (to say the least), there is evidence to suggest that the details of the life of Jesus Christ were in fact pinched from another famous J.C. of the same era. So, seriously, who was on first here? Transcript below: |
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Alexis Baden-Mayer Monsanto hates democracy because democracy doesn't work for Monsanto.Counter Punch 2013-08-06 00:00:00
Nine out of 10 of us want to know where Monsanto's been hiding the GMOs in our food and a most of us wouldn't eat those GMOs if we knew where they were. If everything in this country were decided democratically, most of the food we eat would be non-GMO and Monsanto would be driven out of business. We don't have a problem convincing people we're right, we have a problem with our democracy when we can't get the politicians to pass the laws that the majority of us want. But no government, no matter how corrupted by corporate money, will be able to stop us when we get the nine out of 10 people who agree with us to take action with us. And that's what's starting to happen. | |
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Angelique Chrisafis The Guardian 2011-04-15 15:28:00
Pierre Bellanger, founder of Skyrock - France's biggest station for under-25s - has won the support of the country's politicians after staging a sit-in over plans to replace him The cult French radio station Skyrock, which launched the careers of the country's biggest hip-hop stars and started France's social network craze, is in crisis as its eccentric founder has locked himself in his office over a shareholder row. Pierre Bellanger, a one-time pirate radio pioneer known for his unconventional private life, is staging a sit-in protest in his office as a rush of politicians take to the airwaves in support after shareholders tried to replace him. At stake is the heart of French youth culture and the irreverent 25-year-old radio station, which revolutionised the musical tastes of teenagers and the multiracial suburban tower blocks. In the pre-Facebook era, Skyrock's website became one of the most important social network sites in Europe and it still hosts more than 33.5m French blogs. With 4 million listeners a day, it is France's biggest radio station for under-25s and at election time, politicians fight to appear on shows to up their street cred. | |
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Syria News 2013-08-07 14:38:00
The French Interior Minister Manuel Valls confirmed in a recent interview with France 2, which was aired yesterday evening, that at least 50 French citizens are currently fighting alongside the armed terrorists in Syria and this also means that they are probably fighting in the ranks of the armed jihadists and Syrian Al Qaeda branch against the secular Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad in the capital, Damascus. French Interior Minister Manuel Valls also stated in this interview with France 2 that these French nationals could be "enemies to France" if they will return to France after their battles and fighting in the Arab nation. Of course, the French Interior Minister Manuel Valls warned about these at least 50 French citizens that are currently actual fighting in Syria against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the government in the capital, Damascus. In this interview with the known channel of France 2, the French Interior Minister Manuel Valls also stated that these nationals of France could be "enemies of France" when they will return to France after they fought in the Arab nation in the ranks of jihadists and terrorists. | |
Comment: These guys are as much 'jihadistes' as the following were 'peace observers': 13 undercover French army officers seized in Syria | |
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Channel 4 It's the jihad, innit!2013-08-07 13:55:00 Can there be any doubt that the 'war' in Syria is an Anglo-French affair on behalf of the Empire? |
Comment: We don't believe for a minute that they're driving those 4-wheel drives and carrying Kalashnikovs on a wage of $150 per month... Syria is riddled with European mercenaries and fundamentalists, bought and paid for by the CIA, MI6, DGSE and the Mossad... Former French foreign minister: UK government prepared war in Syria two years before 'Syrian revolution' began French navy officer, two others, charged with Syria-jihadi network links French Jihadists in Syria At least 50 French citizens 'waging jihad in Syria' Kurds capture British commander of 'al Qaeda in the Levant and Syria' Anglo-French arms industry forces EU to lift official embargo on sending Weapons of Mass Destruction to Al Qaeda in Syria Syria: 120 French Troops Captured Fighting With Al Qaeda Terrorists |
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Jeff Poor The Daily Caller 2013-08-03 17:01:00
HBO's Bill Maher thinks the Department of Homeland Security has outlived its usefulness. On Friday's episode of "Real Time," Maher and his guests debated the DHS's usefulness during a discussion of the debate between Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul and New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie. "There was a huge verbal slap by the Republican Party this week between Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, and Rand Paul," Maher said. "And it was sort of I think a fight for the soul of the Republican Party - where they're going to go because, OK, next month is the 12th anniversary of 9/11. Some people in the Republican Party are saying let's move on. That's Rand Paul. He is saying, you know, we spy on each other too much. We spend too much on defense. So Chris Christie is from the neocon-wing, fired back and said come to New Jersey and tell that to the widows and orphans. He played that Giuliani card, which I think is sleazy. And then Rand Paul made a fat joke. But who's going to win this battle is my question to this panel in the Republican Party?" Later in that segment, Maher suggested just eliminating the Department of Homeland Security. "Do you think we could get rid of the Department of Homeland Security?" Maher said. "This is one of those monstrosities that came out of 9/11. It has, I think, 240,000 regular employees. Janet Napolitano quit at the top. The top 15 jobs there are vacant because no one wants to work there. It's thankless because some shit is going to happen and it's mostly luck whether or not you're there when it happens. You can't stop everything. No one wants the job. Why don't we just get rid of it?" | |
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WCNC 2013-08-07 16:22:00 This is crazy! Women in Venezuela and Colombia are guarding their tresses. Thieves are targeting women who let down their hair-- literally robbing them of the hair off their heads! Authorities say it's happening downtown, at beaches and the mall. The suspects pull out scissors and cut it, then sell it at hair salons! "You have to see it to believe it," One woman said, "We're not going to be able to have long hair anymore. As a woman, this is something traumatic." It's easy money for thieves, who can sell natural hair for more than $500! |
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Simon Goodley and Phillip Inman The Guardian 2013-08-05 16:22:00
Poll of more than 1,000 employers reveals controversial contract used far more widely in the UK than government data suggests. More than 1 million British workers could be employed on zero-hours contracts, new figures released on Monday reveal, suggesting that British business is deploying the controversial employment terms far more widely than previously thought. The figure - derived from a poll of more than 1,000 employers conducted by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) - prompted renewed calls for the government to launch a full inquiry into the use of the contracts, after a week in which a string of organisations - from retail chains to Buckingham Palace - have faced criticism for hiring staff but offering no guarantee of work and pay each week. Employees on zero-hours contracts often get no holiday or sick pay and have to ask permission before seeking additional work elsewhere. The CIPD found that 38% of zero-hours contract workers describe themselves as employed full-time, typically working 30 hours or more a week. One third of voluntary sector employers use the contracts, and one in four public sector organisations. The latest numbers also call into question the accuracy of official data on the topic. Last week, the Office for National Statistics increased its estimate of the number of UK zero-hours workers by 25%, to around 250,000. | |
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The Guardian City of Rosario rocked by deadly blast that sparked evacuation of downtown area and major rescue effort.2013-08-07 15:36:00 Link to video: Aftermath of fatal Argentinian building explosion A natural gas explosion has ripped apart an apartment building in the Argentinian city of Rosario, killing at least eight people, injuring 60 and causing officials to evacuate much of the downtown. Officials said 19 people were unaccounted for. Dozens of people were trapped for a time in the upper floors of the burning building as a plume of smoke billowed up over the country's third-largest city. The building's front and back facades were ripped open but the blast on Tuesday, exposing the shattered remains of apartments inside. Firefighters working from above and below pulled people out of windows and off balconies as the bottom floors burned. The explosion damaged other buildings for blocks around, and fearing a collapse, police closed buildings and schools in a five-block radius. The city mayor, Monica Fein, confirmed the death toll and said rescuers were still looking for people in the rubble. She said 19 people were on a list of missing. |
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John Hall The Independent, UK 2013-08-07 16:02:00
A 13-year-old Brazilian boy killed his parents, grandmother and great aunt before spending a full day at school and then taking his own life. Marcelo Pesseghini is thought to have killed his military officer parents in their bedroom using a police issue .40 calibre pistol. The boy's father, 40-year-old Luiz, was found dead in his bed, while his 30-year-old mother Andreia was discovered on her knees on the bedroom floor. Marcelo Pesseghini's grandmother, 65-year-old Benedita de Oliveira Bovo, and his great aunt, 55-year-old Bernadete Oliveira da Silva, were also found dead in their beds, but in a separate part of the same building. All four victims had suffered gunshot wounds to the head. Police believe that after killing his family, Marcelo Pesseghini caught a lift to school with a friend and spent a full day in lessons. | |
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Gulf News Statistics show fruits have risen by 14.4%, fish and seafood 8.4% compared to this time last month.2013-08-06 14:17:00 Abu Dhabi: Food prices have increased by 4.4 per cent in the fourth week of Ramadan compared to the first week of last month, reflecting a rise in the price of fruits by 14.4 per cent, vegetables by 16.7 per cent, and fish and seafood by 8.4 per cent. Statistics Centre-Abu Dhabi yesterday issued its fourth weekly report on food prices in the month of Ramadan, noting the changes in food prices with the preceding week and the same week in the previous month. The report is instrumental to the monitoring of food prices by government authorities to ensure there is a sufficient supply of various goods during Ramadan and to protect the consumer. The index is compiled on the basis of a basket consisting of two main groups and 11 sub-groups. The largest rise was observed in the fruits category in Al Ain, where prices went up 25 per cent, compared with 12.2 per cent in Abu Dhabi and 9.9 per cent in Al Gharbia. Prices in the vegetables group recorded an overall rise of 16.7 per cent. A breakdown of the increase by region reveals a rise in the group's prices by 16.9 per cent in Abu Dhabi and 18.7 per cent in Al Gharbia and Al Ain. |
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New York Daily News 1997-12-03 08:26:00
A defiant Tawana Brawley broke a decade of silence last night and declared, "I am not a liar." The 25-year-old woman, whose claims of being kidnapped and raped by six white men in 1987 were later deemed a hoax by a grand jury, did not waver from her original story. "If I did that, it would be like saying it didn't happen. And it did," Brawley said. "For 10 years, they've been lying to you. . . . You should know that the hoax was pulled on you." The audience packed into Bethany Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, reacted with thunderous applause. Former Dutchess County Assistant District Attorney Steven Pagones, who's now suing Brawley's three former advisers for defamation, had a different response. "She stood there for 10 or 15 minutes and said a lot about nothing," said Pagones when reached at his Fishkill home. "She didn't give any facts." Brawley never mentioned Pagones specifically last night, but she referred to his offer earlier in the day to drop the judgment against her if she would tell her story under oath in the suit against her advisers. Pagones won a default judgment against Brawley in 1991 after she failed to answer repeated subpoenas. "A hundred-seventy million dollars, I think, and they would drop the suit against me. . . . They offered to drop the lawsuit against me if I spoke out against Alton," Brawley said, gesturing to disbarred attorney Alton Maddox. "That would never happen. There is not enough money on this planet." | |
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Amy Hawley Olathe - The FAA believes it now knows how many flights at KCI were delayed abruptly on Saturday afternoon due to spiders.KSHB 2013-08-05 02:02:00 There may have been as many as five flights delayed about 15 minutes after air traffic controllers were bombarded with an infestation of spiders. Three employees were bitten by the spiders last week at the Air Traffic Control Center in Olathe, Kan., which controls the air space around Kansas City. On Saturday, air traffic controllers had to evacuate and moved to another area of the building. Exterminators found a spider's nest egg that had likely hatched. "You're talking in some spider cases up to 400 and in large breeds, you're talking 1000's from one mom," CJ Workman with Schendel Pest Control said. The FAA has not said what kind of spider it was but said no travelers were ever in danger. |
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Lisa Balick KOIN 6 2013-08-06 11:03:00
Stevenson, Washington - A father with children in the house who was preparing for "the Rapture" blew up his family's Labrador Retriever because the devil was inside the dog, court documents showed. Christopher Dillingham,45, allegedly attached an explosive device to his dog and detonated it around 4 a.m. Sunday outside their home. Skamania County Sheriff Dave Brown, who lives nearby, said the explosion woke him up. "It sounded like a high-power rifle outside my window," he said. A slew of 911 calls sent deputies to Dillingham's home. They found the remains of the dog strewn about the yard and arrested Dillingham on the spot. Documents obtained by KOIN 6 News show Dillingham told Skamania County deputies "the world is going to end" because of a nuclear strike and he was preparing. Officers found a broken window and household belongings thrown outside when they arrived. When they asked him why he was throwing items out of his house and onto his lawn, he said he believed "the souls of demons" were inside the metal objects in the house, the documents said. | |
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Turkish Prime Ministry inspection board cites 'telekinesis' as possible cause of mysterious suicides Hürriyet Daily News 2013-08-06 22:01:00
The suspicious suicides of four engineers working at the Turkish corporation ASELSAN could have been caused by telekinesis, according to a report by the Turkish Prime Ministry Inspection Board. The report, presented to the Ankara Public Prosecutor in accordance with the ongoing investigation over the 2006-2007 suicides, claimed the victims could have been directed toward the suicides by way of telekinesis, citing the work done by neuropsychology expert Nevzat Tarhan. Hüseyin Başbilen, an engineer at Turkey's military research and development enterprise, Aselsan, was found dead in his car on Aug. 7, 2006. A court ruled in 2009 that he committed suicide. Two other engineers working at Aselsan died shortly after Başbilen. Halim Ünal was shot in the head with one bullet on Jan. 17, 2007, while Evrim Yançeken fell from the balcony of his sixth-floor apartment nine days later. Burhanettin Volkan allegedly killed himself in 2009. | |
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David Dickinson Universe Today 2013-08-07 13:42:00
A team from the University of Birmingham recently announced an astronomical discovery in Scotland marking the beginnings of recorded time. Announced last month in the Journal of Internet Archaeology, the Mesolithic monument consists of a series of pits near Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Estimated to date from 8,000 B.C., this 10,000 year old structure would pre-date calendars discovered in the Fertile Crescent region of the Middle East by over 5,000 years. But this is no ordinary wall calendar. Originally unearthed by the National Trust for Scotland in 2004, the site is designated as Warren Field near the town of Crathes. It consists of 12 pits in an arc 54 metres long that seem to correspond with 12 lunar months, plus an added correction to bring the calendar back into sync with the solar year on the date of the winter solstice. "The evidence suggests that hunter-gatherer societies in Scotland had both the need and sophistication to track time across the years, to correct for seasonal drift of the lunar year" said team leader and professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of Birmingham Vince Gaffney. We talked last week about the necessity of timekeeping as cultures moved from a hunter-gatherer to agrarian lifestyle. Such abilities as marking the passage of the lunar cycles or the heliacal rising of the star Sirius gave cultures the edge needed to dominate in their day. | |
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Ernesto Guido & Nick Howes M.P.E.C. 2013-P39, issued on 2013 August 06, reports the discovery of the asteroid 2013 PJ10 (discovery magnitude 14.8) by La Sagra Sky Survey (MPC code J75) on images taken on August 04.9 with a 0.45-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD.Remanzacco Observatory 2013-08-07 14:27:00 2013 PJ10 has an estimated size of 31 m - 70 m (based on the object's absolute magnitude H=24.6) and it had a close approach with Earth at about 1 LD (Lunar Distances = ~384,000 kilometers) or 0.0025 AU (1 AU = ~150 million kilometers) at 0218 UT on 2013, August 04. This asteroid reached the peak magnitude ~13.0 on August 04. We performed some follow-up measurements of this object on 2013, August 06.3, while it was still on the neocp, remotely from the H06 iTelescope network (New Mexico, Mayhill), through a 0.25-m f/3.4 reflector + CCD. Below you can see our image, stack of 6X15-second exposures, taken with the asteroid at magnitude ~15.3 and moving at ~ 19.0 "/min. At the moment of the close approach 2013 PJ10 was moving at ~ 218"/min. Click on the image below to see a bigger version. North is up, East is to the left
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Ernesto Guido & Nick Howes Cbet nr. 3621, issued on 2013, August 07, announces the discovery of an apparently asteroidal object (discovery magnitude ~19.5) by professional survey F51 Pan-STARRS 1 (Haleakala) on CCD images obtained with 1.8-m Ritchey-Chretien on August 04, 2013 (pre-discovery Pan-STARRS1 observations from July 26 were found later by P. Veres).Remanzacco Observatory 2013-08-07 14:24:00 After posting on the Minor Planet Center's NEOCP webpage, this apparently asteroidal object as been found to show cometary features by astrometric observers elsewhere (including our team). The new comet has been designated C/2013 P2 (PANSTARRS). We performed follow-up measurements of this object, while it was still on the neocp. Stacking of 30 R-filtered exposures, 40-sec each, obtained remotely from iTelescope network (MPC code H06, New Mexico) on 2013, August 06.3, through a 0.43-m f/6.8 astrograph + CCD + f/4.5 focal reducer, shows that this object is a comet: coma about 5" in diameter elongated in PA 120. Below you can see our image.
M.P.E.C. 2013-P42 assigns the following preliminary parabolic orbital elements to comet C/2013 P2: T 2014 Feb. 17.50; e= 1.0; Peri. = 105.19; q = 2.83; Incl.= 125.54 | |
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Nancy Atkinson Universe Today 2013-08-07 13:35:00
Recently, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano spent a "night flight" in the Cupola of the International Space Station in hopes of capturing night-time images of his home country from space. But he saw so much more, including this incredible image of the crescent Moon rising among bright blue noctilucent clouds. These wispy and mysterious clouds appear in Earth's mesosphere - a region extending from 30 to 53 miles (48-85 km) high in the atmosphere - at twilight, usually in early summer. They can be seen from Earth's northern hemisphere and, obviously, are visible from space too. You can read about Parmitano's night flight and see more of the images he took at his Volare blog. At the close of his image-taking night flight he says, "It's late, and tomorrow will be a long day. With those lights still filling my eyes, I slowly close the seven windows and cross the Station to return to my sleeping pod. Not even dreams could replace the beautiful reality that revolves, oblivious, beneath us." Find out more about the science of noctilucent clouds here in our recent article by Bob King. | |
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| Earth Changes |
WIS TV 2013-08-07 16:38:00
Blythewood, SC - A pond that was once a place of enjoyment for some families in Blythewood is nothing more than a big mud hole and why the water drained from the pond is a mystery. Sometime between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, something happened in the Dawson's Creek neighborhood that caused most of the water to rush out of a pond there. For a while even nearby Wilson Boulevard was impassible between Rimer Pond Road and Blythewood High School as the water flowed away from the neighborhood. Residents say a wall holding the water near Wilson Boulevard gave way, but what caused the failure is still not known. Some residents speculate utility work on Wilson Boulevard is the culprit, but that's not been substantiated. The people who live there now have a big smelly mess to deal with. | |
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cbc.ca 2013-08-06 16:25:00
City executive says infrastructure problems stem from decades of poor investments A backhoe was successfully lifted out of a giant sinkhole on Tuesday evening in the middle of one of Montreal's busiest thoroughfares. The sinkhole opened up Monday morning as city workers were readying to inspect a leaky sewer pipe under Ste-Catherine Street near Guy Street. The backhoe and its operator fell into the collapsed portion of the roadway. The driver escaped uninjured. Earlier on Tuesday, Richard Deschamps, the member of Montreal's executive committee responsible for infrastructure, said he hoped to have the intersection open to traffic as soon as possible. Crews used two cranes to lift the backhoe out of the three-metre deep sinkhole. | |
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J. Schafer KMUW 2013-08-07 16:26:00 A massive sinkhole in western Kansas continues to grow. The sinkhole recently developed in Wallace County, near the town of Sharon Springs. By the time it was noticed by a rancher, the hole was more than 200 feet across and 90 feet deep. The sinkhole has taken many by surprise, though not Rex Buchanan, who heads the Kansas Geological Survey. "Certainly, the location isn't surprising. Wallace County has had sort of a history of producing these things, and I've been to some of those locations, so in that sense it's not surprising," Buchanan said. "This is a pretty good-sized one, but the other ones out there are pretty good-sized as well. This doesn't occur every day, but it's certainly not out of the ordinary." Buchanan said sinkholes like this one are created by the dissolution of underlying rock deposits, such as chalk or salt. Some have suggested this sinkhole was caused by the removal of too much water from the Ogallala Aquifer, or perhaps the collapse of an old oil well. Buchanan says that's not the case because the aquifer is not present in that location, nor are there any oil wells in the immediate area. |
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Last Messages Landslides, weird weather, weirder lights in the sky, tornadoes... 2013 is strange!YouTube 2013-08-07 15:58:00 |
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SciTechDaily 2013-08-07 14:57:00
A newly published study from Princeton University and UC Berkeley reveals that slight increases in temperature and precipitation result in increased human conflict. Should climate change trigger the upsurge in heat and rainfall that scientists predict, people may face a threat just as perilous and volatile as extreme weather - each other. Researchers from Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley report in the journal Science that even slight spikes in temperature and precipitation have greatly increased the risk of personal violence and social upheaval throughout human history. Projected onto an Earth that is expected to warm by 2 degrees Celsius by 2050, the authors suggest that more human conflict is a likely outcome of climate change. The researchers analyzed 60 studies from a number of disciplines - including archaeology, criminology, economics and psychology - that have explored the connection between weather and violence in various parts of the world from about 10,000 BCE to the present day. During an 18-month period, the Princeton-Berkeley researchers reviewed those studies' data - and often re-crunched raw numbers - to calculate the risk that violence would rise under hotter and wetter conditions. | |
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Daily Times, Pakistan 2013-07-11 13:35:00
A French post office employee had the fright of her life when a metre-long python slithered quietly out of a parcel and rubbed against her. The woman was alone in the post office in the village of Blenod-les-Pont-a-Mousson in eastern France, when she felt the chilling caress and screamed for help. Firemen caught the fugitive reptile and discovered a second one in the parcel. The pair was identified by a vet as ball pythons - non-aggressive snakes that coil up into a tight ball when threatened - and was donated to a nearby zoo. "They're not dangerous but they're very impressive," an officer said. Ball pythons are popular with snake enthusiasts as pets but are also a protected species for which owners need a legal certificate stating they have not been taken from the wild. Customs officers raided the home address of the parcel's sender, where they found no certificates but two other snakes, a stuffed caiman and a stuffed turtle which the owner had been trying to sell over the Internet. The post office stressed that its terms and conditions clearly forbade the shipping of animals, live or dead. Source: Reuters | |
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BBC 2013-07-10 13:25:00
A 5.7m (19ft) python has been seized after it fell from the ceiling of a charity shop in Australia. The python, weighing 17kg (37lbs), was recovered by a snake-handler after police investigated a suspected break-in at the shop in Ingham, Queensland. "Its head was the size of a small dog," said police spokesman Sgt Don Auld. The snake fell through a ceiling panel, smashing shop goods. Police said it may have got in through the roof, which was damaged by Cyclone Yasi in 2011. When police were initially called to the property on Monday, they believed a person had fallen through the ceiling because the roof panel had been cut in half. Crockery, clothes and other goods were scattered all over the floor. Police were called back to the shop the following day when a large crowd formed outside. Sgt Auld said the snake must have been hiding when police went there the first time. It has been released in nearby wetlands. | |
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Mary Beth Cleavelin The Virginian-Pilot 2013-08-06 12:59:00
The number of dead dolphins that have washed ashore this year in Virginia reached 100 over the weekend. Since Thursday, 13 dolphin corpses have been recovered in the state, bringing the total for 2013 well above the typical 64 found annually by the Virginia Aquarium Stranding Response Team. Some of the dolphins have been severely decomposed, making it difficult for marine biologists to understand what is causing the die-off. "We get calls from people who see them floating, but we don't have the equipment to track them down," said Joan Barns, spokeswoman for the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center. "Unfortunately, there are probably more dead dolphins out there, but they just haven't landed yet." According to marine biologists, dolphin strandings peak in May and June. But this year, 44 dolphins were found dead on Virginia beaches in July, most in the southern part of the Chesapeake Bay. On average, only six or seven dead dolphins are picked up by the team in July. | |
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Mark Yuasa Seattle Times 2013-08-05 17:56:00
Keith Magnuson who lives in Seattle along the shores of Lake Washington, was waterskiing Saturday when he came across a giant dead fish. "At first I thought it was a shark, but then we figured out it was a large sturgeon," Magnuson said. Magnuson found the sturgeon that he and a friend estimated to be about 8 feet long floating belly up north of Matthews Beach. The dead sturgeon is now tied to a post, and state Fish and Wildlife planned to send out a biologist to take a look at it in the next couple days. | |
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WTSP 2013-08-06 11:45:00 Miami Beach -- Crews are working to repair a sinkhole in South Florida, after a car fell in it! The driver of a Toyota sports car says he was waiting at a stop sign, when he felt his car begin to sink. He tried to drive out, but it was too late. The driver was able to get out of the car, and crews later pulled the vehicle out of the sinkhole. City officials say they believe construction equipment caused two cracks in a water main that caused the hole to open. About 500 residents had to deal with a water outage. Source: CNN |
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| Fire in the Sky |
Russia Today The panic and havoc seen in the Russian Urals last winter when a meteor the size of a house exploded in the skies, may be set for a repeat. Scientists say the huge rock might not have been flying solo as first thought, but rather as part of a group of asteroids which still pose a threat to Earth.2013-08-07 13:50:00 |
Comment: Yes, it does boggle the mind, doesn't it? All these years they have poured money into ways of controlling people rather than looking after their well-being and future... and now we are left completely exposed to civilization-destroying cometary catastrophe. |
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dAS aLL-EINE The following footage appears to show three meteor/fireball/comet fragments falling through the sky over the very southern tip of Japan on July 20, 2013. In the foreground we see Sakurajima Volcano, in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture. The volcano has been very active lately, erupting several times in recent years.YouTube 2013-08-07 12:55:00 |
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sciencedaily.com 2013-08-06 15:51:00
Adults could be at greater risk of becoming anxious and vulnerable to poor mental health if they were deprived of certain hormones while developing in the womb according to new research by scientists at Cardiff and Cambridge universities. New research in mice has revealed the role of the placenta in long-term programming of emotional behaviour and the first time scientists have linked changes in adult behaviour to alterations in placental function. Insulin-like growth factor-2 has been shown to play a major role in fetal and placental development in mammals, and changes in expression of this hormone in the placenta and fetus are implicated in growth restriction in the womb. "The growth of a baby is a very complex process and there are lots of control mechanisms which make sure that the nutrients required by the baby to grow can be supplied by the mother," according to Professor Lawrence Wilkinson, a behavioural neuroscientist from Cardiff University's School of Psychology who led the research. "We were interested in how disrupting this balance could influence emotional behaviours a long time after being born, as an adult," he added. | |
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Benjamin Russell The Daily Express, UK 2013-08-06 16:01:00
A deaf dog and bind dog have formed an inseparable bond - acting as each other's eyes and ears wherever they go. The caring canines were abandoned as puppies but became best friends soon after they were both rescued by a dog shelter. Completely blind Dillon, a two-year-old Border Collie cross, was dropped off at a dog boarding kennel and never picked up again. And Eve, a deaf Catahoula Leopard Dog mix - who also has one eye missing - was found by a postman when she was just nine-weeks-old and almost frozen in a snow drift on Christmas Eve.
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