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UK doctor’s claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year

By   /  June 22, 2012  /  Health, In Other News, World  /  No Comments

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Steve Doughty Mail Online NHS doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly hospital patients because they are difficult to manage or to free up beds, a senior consultant claimed yesterday. Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use of a controversial ‘death pathway’ into the equivalent of euthanasia of the elderly. [...]

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Obama administration Uses Prison Labor to Advance “Green” Agenda

By   /  June 22, 2012  /  In Other News, World  /  1 Comment

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Brian Koenig New American The Obama administration is utilizing the U.S. prison system to help bolster its green-energy agenda, while boosting foreign companies and funneling cash into the hands of Obama’s largest campaign donors, according to a startling new report by the Washington Free Beacon. Federal Prison Industries, more commonly known as UNICOR, is a [...]

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ACTA rejected by committee in crucial blow before final EU Parliament vote

By   /  June 22, 2012  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

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Russia Today The International Trade Committee (INTA) of the European Parliament recommends rejecting ACTA. The committee rejected the controversial legislation 19 votes to 12. This is the fourth and final committee to deliver its report on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and will likely affect the European Parliament’s vote early July. MEP Marietje Schaake, a [...]

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Newly Released Footage Proves TSA Body Scanners Are Useless

By   /  June 22, 2012  /  In Other News, Police State, World  /  No Comments

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Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Surveillance footage of engineer fooling $1 billion dollar devices released Newly released video shows engineer Jon Corbett passing through a TSA body scanner with a metal object sown inside his clothing, illustrating how the federal agency’s $1 billion dollar fleet of scanning machines are completely useless. The clip shows surveillance [...]

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UN Censorship: Rio Earth Summit text is now secret

By   /  June 22, 2012  /  Environment, In Other News, World  /  No Comments

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Marc Morano Climate Depot UN Censorship: Rio Earth Summit text is now secret — Senior official of ‘transparent’ UN admits Rio negotiating text is classified By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley RIO DE JANEIRO — In a shock move, officially-accredited non-government delegates who had traveled thousands of miles to attend the UN’s Rio+20 sustainable development conference [...]

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DEA Head Michele Leonhart Ducks Marijuana Question

By   /  June 22, 2012  /  Health, World  /  No Comments

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“I’m Just Asking You As An Expert Is Heroin Worse For Someone’s Health Than Marijuana?” Michele Leonhart, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, ducked a tough line of questioning from Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) on Wednesday, refusing to answer a number of questions about the comparative health impacts of marijuana and other, harder drugs. [...]

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BRICS: the eurozone’s savior?

By   /  June 22, 2012  /  Economy, World  /  No Comments

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VOR The world’s major fast-growing economies, mainly China and India, have become a driving force for the global economy during the 2008 crisis. Now the world is facing financial troubles again. On June 22, the participants of the BRICS Demand and the Impact on the Global Economy section of the St.Petersburg International Economic Forum held [...]

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Syrian Anti-Aircraft Guns Drop Turkish Fighter in Sea

By   /  June 22, 2012  /  Conflict, World  /  1 Comment

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Al Manar Media sources confirmed that the Syrian anti-aircraft guns shot down a Turkish military jet in the sea off Ras Al-Baseet, and hit another. Turkish state television said Friday that one of its air force military jets crashed in the Syrian territorial waters, while Turkish authorities announced it had lost contact with the F4 [...]

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China repeatedly violated economic sanctions against North Korea

By   /  June 22, 2012  /  Politics, World  /  1 Comment

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Yoshiaki Kasuga & Yoshihiro Makino AjwAsahi China time and again has flouted economic sanctions imposed by the U.N. Security Council against North Korea to punish Pyongyang for its nuclear and missile programs. In more than half of all instances, China was the culprit, according to a report by a panel of experts trying to track [...]

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CIA distributes arms to Syrian opposition – newspaper

By   /  June 22, 2012  /  Conflict, World  /  1 Comment

CIA distributes arms in Syria

VOR American CIA operatives have allegedly been distributing arms among various opposition groups in Syria via a clandestine network of go-betweens in southern Turkey. According to Zaman newspaper, the opposition fighters are getting assault rifles, anti-tank rocket launchers and other weapons paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. A source in the Turkish government told the [...]

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Residents Around Colombia Volcano on High Alert After Blasts

By   /  June 22, 2012  /  Environment, World  /  1 Comment

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EarthWeek Officials in Colombia issued 30,000 face masks to residents around the Nevado del Ruiz volcano as the mountain spewed ash and gas high above the Andes. Some living near the rumbling mountain reported hearing “strong, strange noises” coming from the summit of the 17,457-foot mountain. About 150 families were evacuated from the banks of [...]

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TV tubes could help contain Fukushima radiation

By   /  June 22, 2012  /  Environment, World  /  No Comments

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Shunsuke Kimura AjwAsahi Japan’s growing mountain of cathode-ray tubes from obsolete televisions could be recycled to help safely store soil contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Researchers at Miyagi University have developed a container capable of effectively blocking radiation made from concrete blended with lead-laced glass from the TV tubes. More than 100,000 tons of [...]

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