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Maple:
Perhaps the pixs are fake, and perhaps the conspiracy theorists are wrong in their assertions. But one cannot deny the fact that their are lots of logical questions which demands answers. I kept asking myself, what does ISIS stand to gain from attacking France who actually plays no major military role in the fight against ISIS in Syria, and who is by the way one of the most vocal critic of Russia's war efforts against ISIS and "moderate Islamist" in Syria?

One would think Russia which has been bombing ISIS non stop in Syria should be a much easier target for ISIS terrorists attack. Considering ISIS declaration of war on Russia and Russia's close proximity to syria and the large number of ISIS recruits from Russia. ISIS didnt deem Russia a worthy target, but France, why?

The media are saying some of the ISIS terrorist entered France as SYRIAN REFUGEES. And the world knows, europe are battling for solutions to the Syrian refugee crisis. Theres an ongoing negotion btw Eu countries and Turkey. Syrian refugees would be returned to Turkey and it would stop the flood of Syrian refugees and in return, Turkey would be compensated with $Billions and a " ticket" to become an EU member. Last month the British parliament voted to cut back military spendings of British war mission against ISIS in Syria. That vote was said to be a humiliating defeat for David Cameron, US and war hawks. The world has barely started mourning the attack on on France, when the British Parliament swung into action by even doubling the military funding they voted against just last month. I kept asking myself this, which country or countries stand to benefit most from this tragedy and the military and political repercussions that is sure to follow? . Nato has promised stern military retaliation in Syria, with many Nato planes on Syrian skies bombarding ISIS, what are the chances that there won't be direct confrontation with Russian fighter jets who are in control of Syrian airspace?

How did ISIS came into existence in the first place, and who is financing them?
Why is Turkey, a Nato country bombing the Syrian Kurds who are fighting ISIS, rather than ISIS?
Why is turkey the major gateway of ISIS recruits into Syria?
why has Nato countries been paying lip service in their war against ISIS?
Why does Nato keeps training "moderate jihadist" in Jordan and Turkey, despite admitting that about 80% of this trained fighters end up joining ISIS?
The number of bombs Russia dropped on ISIS in their first 3 weeks of bombardment is more than what Nato countries dropped on ISIS in 1yr. Why? Why? Why?

Abeg, make sombodi helep me answer these questions. And may God bless the soul of all the innocent lives that were lost in France, Nigeria, Syria et al.

The Americans and European union including Australia has some explaining to do with their dirty closet. Russia is the world's last defense to terrorism

We've activated Safety Check again after the bombing in Nigeria this evening.

After the Paris attacks last week, we made the decision to use Safety Check for more tragic events like this going forward. We're now working quickly to develop criteria for the new policy and determine when and how this service can be most useful.

Unfortunately, these kinds of events are all too common, so I won't post about all of them. A loss of human life anywhere is a tragedy, and we're committed to doing our part to help people in more of these situations.

In times like this, it's important to remind ourselves that despite the alarming frequency of these terrible events, violence is actually at an all-time low in history and continues to decline.

Deaths from war are lower than ever, murder rates are generally dropping around the world, and -- although it's hard to believe -- even terrorist attacks are declining.

Please don't let a small minority of extremists make you pessimistic about our future.

Every member of our community spreads empathy and understanding on a daily basis. We are all connecting the world together. And if we all do our part, then one day there may no longer be attacks like this.

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102481809620421?fref=nf&pnref=story

President Vladimir Putin says he’s shared Russian intelligence data on Islamic State financing with his G20 colleagues: the terrorists appear to be financed from 40 countries, including some G20 member states.

During the summit, “I provided examples based on our data on the financing of different Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) units by private individuals. This money, as we have established, comes from 40 countries and, there are some of the G20 members among them,” Putin told the journalists.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96k_8ywt22g

Putin also spoke of the urgent need to curb the illegal oil trade by IS.

"I’ve shown our colleagues photos taken from space and from aircraft which clearly demonstrate the scale of the illegal trade in oil and petroleum products," he said.

“The motorcade of refueling vehicles stretched for dozens of kilometers, so that from a height of 4,000 to 5,000 meters they stretch beyond the horizon," Putin added, comparing the convoy to gas and oil pipeline systems.

It’s not the right time to try and figure out which country is more and which is less effective in the battle with Islamic State, as now a united international effort is needed against the terrorist group, Putin said.

Putin reiterated Russia’s readiness to support armed opposition in Syria in its efforts to fight Islamic State.

"Some armed opposition groups consider it possible to begin active operations against IS with Russia's support. And we are ready to provide such support from the air. If it happens it could become a good basis for the subsequent work on a political settlement,” he said.

“We really need support from the US, European nations, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran,” the president added.

Putin pointed out the change in Washington’s stance on cooperation with Moscow in the fight against the terrorists.

"We need to organize work specifically concentrated on the prevention of terrorist attacks and tackling terrorism on a global scale. We offered to cooperate [with the US] in anti-IS efforts. Unfortunately, our American partners refused. They just sent a written note and it says: ‘we reject your offer’,” Putin said.

“But life is always evolving and at a very fast pace, often teaching us lessons. And I think that now the realization that an effective fight [against terror] can only be staged together is coming to everybody,” the Russian leader said.

According to Putin, first of all it should be decided which groups in Syria can be considered terrorist organizations and which can be attributed to an armed, but still legitimate part of the Syrian opposition.

“Our efforts must be concentrated on the battle with terrorist organizations.”

Putin also disagreed with Western criticism of Russia’s actions in Syria, where the country has been carrying out a large-scale air campaign against Islamic State and other terror groups since September 30.

“It’s really difficult to criticize us,” he said, adding that Russia has repeatedly asked its foreign partners to provide data on terrorist targets in Syria.

“They’re afraid to inform us on the territories which we shouldn’t strike, fearing that it is precisely where we’ll strike; that we are going to cheat everybody,” the president said.

“Apparently, their opinion of us is based on their own concept of human decency,” he added.

Putin told the media that Russia has already established contact with the Syrian opposition, which has asked Moscow not carry out airstrikes in the territories it controls.


Still no conclusion on what caused Sinai plane crash

It’s too early to make conclusions about the reasons for the crash of the Russian A321 jet over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in late October, as all possible reasons are still being considered by the investigators, Putin said.

“We know about all the possible scenarios, all of the scenarios are being considered. The final conclusion can only be made after the implementation and completion of the inspection,” he stressed.

"If there was an explosion, the traces of explosives would have remained on the liner’s cover and on the belongings of the passengers. It’s inevitable. And we have enough equipment and skilled, world class experts, capable of finding those traces. Only then would it be possible to speak about the reasons for this tragedy," the president added.

With 224 people dying in the crash, Putin said that "it's a huge emotional pain for all of us; for all Russian people, no matter what the cause of the crash was."

https://www.rt.com/news/322305-isis-financed-40-countries/

President Vladimir Putin says he’s shared Russian intelligence data on Islamic State financing with his G20 colleagues: the terrorists appear to be financed from 40 countries, including some G20 member states.
During the summit, “ I provided examples based on our data on the financing of different Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) units by private individuals. This money, as we have established, comes from 40 countries and, there are some of the G20 members among them ,” Putin told the journalists.
Putin also spoke of the urgent need to curb the illegal oil trade by IS.

" I’ve shown our colleagues photos taken from space and from aircraft which clearly demonstrate the scale of the illegal trade in oil and petroleum products ," he said.

“ The motorcade of refueling vehicles stretched for dozens of kilometers, so that from a height of 4,000 to 5,000 meters they stretch beyond the horizon," Putin added, comparing the convoy to gas and oil pipeline systems.

It’s not the right time to try and figure out which country is more and which is less effective in the battle with Islamic State, as now a united international effort is needed against the terrorist group, Putin said.
Putin reiterated Russia’s readiness to support armed opposition in Syria in its efforts to fight Islamic State.

"Some armed opposition groups consider it possible to begin active operations against IS with Russia's support. And we are ready to provide such support from the air. If it happens it could become a good basis for the subsequent work on a political settlement,” he said.

“We really need support from the US, European nations, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran,” the president added.

https://www.rt.com/news/322305-isis-financed-40-countries/

And you know that electoral shock is worse than electric shock.

This says a lot about politics

No harm there, regardless the reason.
I will apply and still maintain the employer - employee relationship.

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If we’re honest, we all know that while our ability to stay in touch with other people in our lives is greatly enhanced by technology, it’s not the same thing as actually being together and sharing the important events of our lives.

It’s one thing to watch the live video of a child’s first birthday party; it’s another to actually taste the cake, hold the little one, feel her breath blowing out the single candle, and hear her laughter in your ear as you hold her close. As much as our tech-providers and gadget companies want us to believe that we can stay connected wherever we are and whatever we’re doing, it’s not the same as being there.

Technology’s impact on our ability to relate, to communicate, and to connect with other people also has some unintended negative consequences. If we want to be good stewards of the amazing capabilities that technology affords us today, we have to navigate this very carefully.

While it’s undeniable that we can connect with others in so many meaningful ways, if we invest too much of our lives into social media, and especially if we do so with selfish motives, then that can actually hurt our relationships, even robbing us of that which God values most. It really all depends on how we choose to use it.

We have to make sure technology is enhancing our relationships, not replacing them. We need to ensure our ability to communicate doesn’t prevent us from talking more while actually saying less. We must focus on loving other people more than Liking them.

Today, instead of commenting on a loved one’s latest pics on Pinterest, write them a note or postcard—you know, by hand—and let them know how much you appreciate them. Maybe you call someone rather than text. Or perhaps you drop by for a quick visit instead of calling. Rather than relying on technology as the conduit for your relationships, engage at a deeper level.

Let others see your love by your presence, not your wi-fi coverage.

https://dantewest./2015/11/01/nigeria-staying-in-touch/

If we’re honest, we all know that while our ability to stay in touch with other people in our lives is greatly enhanced by technology, it’s not the same thing as actually being together and sharing the important events of our lives.

It’s one thing to watch the live video of a child’s first birthday party; it’s another to actually taste the cake, hold the little one, feel her breath blowing out the single candle, and hear her laughter in your ear as you hold her close. As much as our tech-providers and gadget companies want us to believe that we can stay connected wherever we are and whatever we’re doing, it’s not the same as being there.

Technology’s impact on our ability to relate, to communicate, and to connect with other people also has some unintended negative consequences. If we want to be good stewards of the amazing capabilities that technology affords us today, we have to navigate this very carefully.

While it’s undeniable that we can connect with others in so many meaningful ways, if we invest too much of our lives into social media, and especially if we do so with selfish motives, then that can actually hurt our relationships, even robbing us of that which God values most. It really all depends on how we choose to use it.

We have to make sure technology is enhancing our relationships, not replacing them. We need to ensure our ability to communicate doesn’t prevent us from talking more while actually saying less. We must focus on loving other people more than Liking them.

Today, instead of commenting on a loved one’s latest pics on Pinterest, write them a note or postcard—you know, by hand—and let them know how much you appreciate them. Maybe you call someone rather than text. Or perhaps you drop by for a quick visit instead of calling. Rather than relying on technology as the conduit for your relationships, engage at a deeper level.

Let others see your love by your presence, not your wi-fi coverage.

https://dantewest./2015/11/01/nigeria-staying-in-touch/

Having sex with no condom is high risk. I've heard that saying before of the so called normal girls being more HIV+ than actual roadside hustlers

There was a video I watched on Facebook showing the Ghanaian guy snatching the Nigerian flag and throwing it down in protest.

He was angry his flag wasn't provided, instead of blaming his management team, he went ahead to disrespect Nigeria.

Glad he got the beating he deserves.

Sore loser.

During the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, an Air Force airman says that his unit was ordered to launch a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. His captain’s use of common sense over 50 years ago may have saved the world from a nuclear apocalypse.

An article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists paints a picture of John Bordne, an Air Force airman who was stationed at one of four secret US missile sites in Japan during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. While the US Air Force has not come out and verified the claims, Bordne’s account is that, in the early morning hours of October 28, 1962, his unit of 32 Mace B cruise missiles inexplicably received launch orders.

Each Mace B cruise missile had an enormous payload 70 times more powerful than the atomic bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Within strike range were various communist countries: the capital cities of Hanoi, Vietnam; Beijing, China; and Pyongyang, North Korea, as well as the Soviet military facilities in Vladivostok.

Bordne says that a few hours before his shift began, the commander at the Missile Operations Center on Okinawa began a routine radio transmission to the missile sites, giving a string of characters that normally did not match the ones that the crews had. But this time was different: For the first time in history, the codes matched.

The fate of the entire world hung in the balance when US Air Force Captain William Bassett had clearance to open his pouch to see if his personal string of characters matched the last part of the code that was transmitted. They did. This authorized him to open an envelope to read his site’s launch instructions, but the captain declined to fulfill the order of launching a nuclear strike.

Bassett then saw that three of his four targets described in the envelope were not located in the Soviet Union. This was a fact that was corroborated over telephone correspondence with an officer at a different site. Indeed, the fact that they were only at DEFCON 2 added to the incredulousness of the orders: If they were actually supposed to launch their nuclear missiles and kick off World War III, they should have gone to DEFCON 1, the maximum possible level of alert, which is necessary for such a strike to occur.

The crew, with their fingers on the button, were ready to launch the nukes, but Bassett stalled them, as Bordne recalls, and ordered two armed airmen to “shoot the [lieutenant] if he tries to launch without [either] verbal authorization from the ‘senior officer in the field’ or the upgrade to DEFCON 1 by Missile Operations Center.”

“If this is a screw up and we do not launch, we get no recognition, and this never happened,” Bordne recalled the captain

And the fiasco turned out to be a screw up indeed, one of a magnitude only a few notches away from nuclear war.

“None of us will discuss anything that happened here tonight, and I mean anything. No discussions at the barracks, in a bar, or even here at the launch site. You do not even write home about this. Am I making myself perfectly clear on this subject?” Bassett reportedly told his men after the crisis had passed.

Bassett died in 2011, and during his lifetime, the crew faithfully kept to his orders, with the public remaining oblivious to crisis until now.

But not even those stationed at the secret bases on Okinawa could have known that the Soviet Union was facing its own brush with starting World War III.

On October 27, 1962, just a day before Bordne’s experience occurred, Soviet Navy officer Vasili Arkhipov also saved the world from destruction in the middle of the Cold War’s tensest moment. He was the second-in-command of a B-59 submarine when American destroyers began to drop depth charges on it, trying to force the Soviet vessel to surface.

The submarine’s captain assumed that the Americans were trying to destroy his nuclear-armed submarine and that a catastrophic war had broken out. He ordered the B-59’s ten kiloton nuclear torpedo to prepare for firing on an enemy aircraft carrier that was leading the American task force near Cuba. The launch of the B-59’s torpedo required the authorization of all three senior officers aboard the submarine, and Arkhipov was alone in denying permission. His level head, like Bassett’s, may have saved the human species.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, best known for its Doomsday clock, is now calling on the Air Force to release details on the harrowing Okinawa event. Other organizations have attempted to uncover this information through Freedom of Information Act requests, but the Bulletin notes that these requests could take years, if they are successful at all.

Source: https://www.rt.com/usa/319999-cuban-nuclear-apocalpyse-revealed/

armadeo:
Not to hold brief for the vc but it is also possible that he is trying to curb corruption and you know corruption fights back

Since the ordinary workers don't want the present VP, the the ass should be taken to court, forensic team and the police

Glad they are learning how to do it by the French. Good move. If the ordinary staffs can be this angry, surely it's obvious the VC is corrupt.

Something unpleasant is going on there, and these are our children's welfare we are talking about.

A mysterious chunk of space debris will hit Earth off the coast of Sri Lanka on November 13. Scientists have no clear idea what it is, other than that it is likely artificial in origin, and have dubbed the object WT1190F.

“It’s a lost piece of space history that’s come back to haunt us,” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Nature.

Detected by the Catalina Sky Survey, an observation lab at the University of Tucson, the alleged piece of space debris initially puzzled observers. But astronomers then went back through the lab’s past images from telescopes, and noticed that it had been present at least since 2012

From then on they calculated the orbit of the object, which has been circling the Earth at a longer orbit than the Moon, and deduced that the piece of cosmic refuse was likely placed there by man.

“To fit the solar radiation pressure effects on its orbit you need to assume a high area-to-mass ratio – implying the thing is hollow, like an empty rocket stage would be,” McDowell told Popular Mechanics.

“So it has the right size and properties, and it is in an orbit which would be surprising for a natural object (whizzing around the Earth-Moon system) but where we know there are a bunch of pieces of space junk.”
Astrophysicists believe that the object could even be a memento of the Apollo missions that took US astronauts to the moon. But scientists may never discover for sure: WT1190F’s re-entry into the atmosphere would likely burn up most of the debris, before dumping it in an extremely remote spot.

“It's coming in fast and will get very hot – it’s possible a few dense parts of say a rocket engine will survive to impact the ocean,” said McDowell of its potential disintegration, before warning that he
“would not necessarily want to be going fishing directly underneath it.”

But scientists are also using the arrival of WT1190F to simulate a different situation – that of an asteroid or a large projectile hurtling towards Earth. Alerts will be raised, and multiple labs will track the debris in real-time, though there will be no need to warn the military, or send Bruce Willis into space.

“What we planned to do seems to work. But it’s still three weeks to go,” Gerhard Drolshagen, who manages the European Space Agency’s near-Earth objects office, told Nature.

Although this is the first instance of a piece of space debris being tracked as it returns to Earth, WT1190F is not a one-off. Among all recognized space junk, there are 86 unknown objects crossing the lunar orbit, mostly lunar probes, or parts of rockets.

There are also dozens of others floating uncontrollably in outer space, of which McDowell says about 20 are being observed from Earth. These will likely outlast most objects on Earth, and would possibly be the first harbinger of our civilization to be witnessed by any other species in our universe.

https://www.rt.com/news/319788-moon-space-debris-wtf/

The world of social media was simply not ready to accept the findings of a new WHO report which has categorized sausages, ham, bacon and other processed meats as carcinogens that significantly increase the risk of bowel cancer.

Twitter went through all of Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief when faced with the daunting news.
Many were in denial.

The most elaborate one came from the North American Meat Institute, an intimidatingly-named lobbying group.

Plenty of users were angry.

Some tried to bargain.

Then there was depression.

And finally acceptance.

With bacon-death imminent, there was gallows humor.
Plenty saw a wider context.

But many were lost for words, and resorted to simply posting pictures of a treat that may well be banned from the shops at the behest of UN bureaucrats, only to be bought from underground butchers, one strip at a time.

Eating bacon, hot dogs and other processed meats cause cancer –
@WHOhttps:///OFOhC7l4Vkpic.twitter.com/i8wJA5zFS9
— RT (@RT_com) October 26, 2015

The only way bacon will ever kill anyone is if a bartender ever tried to put any in my martini
— Simon Majumdar (@SimonMajumdar)
October 26, 2015

WHO: "Bacon and sausage can cause cancer" ME: "Well how bad can that really be"
— Ian Boudreau (@iboudreau) October 26, 2015

Oh come on! So now #bacon is bad for us? A bacon sandwich is beyond good. This is one food scare that I refuse to be scared of.
— Dr Jez Phillips (@drjezphillips) October 26, 2015

The WHO classified cured meat as a class 1 carcinogen. The North American Meat Institute responds. pic.twitter.com/Nc9B5DvOe9
— Matthew Trumbell (@MTrums) October 26, 2015

Bacon can give you cancer, says WHO.
pic.twitter.com/xL5knsbhad
— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) October 26, 2015

Oh, bacon. How could you? I gave you so much love and time, and this is how you repay us all??
— James Moran (@jamesmoran) October 26, 2015

Devastating that scientists say bacon causes cancer and we face the fact that we’ll have to give up science.
— paul bassett davies (@thewritertype)
October 26, 2015

What's the point of living in a world where bacon causes cancer?! https:///p3gYqTC3va
— Natalia Antonova (@NataliaAntonova)
October 26, 2015

Me, discovering that I can get cancer from bacon. pic.twitter.com/FNGdaS2gzq
— David Whitley (@mrdavidwhitley)
October 26, 2015

If bacon gives you cancer, that's it. Bring on nuclear sodding apocalypse.
— Wings Over S******d (@WingsScotland) October 26, 2015

Wake up, find out WHO has cancelled joy.
#mondays#bacon
— Amy Tennery (@amytennery) October 26, 2015

Agreed. Something's going to kill you. I want mine to be bacon. https:///zajzVzWgSU
— Mark Watson (@watsoncomedian)
October 26, 2015

World Health Organization? More like World HELL Organization for trying to ruin bacon, amirite? (I am not rite, they are good at medicine)
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) October 26, 2015

If sausage, bacon, and ham can cause cancer, I have no idea how I've made it 22 years without getting cancer.
— Josh Bishop (@joshbishop92) October 26, 2015

no my bacon cigarette startup is doing just fine why do you ask
— Warren Ellis (@warrenellis) October 26, 2015

If bacon is wrong! I don't want to be right
#bacon#shoplocal#loveyourbutcher#leeds

If Middle East strongmen Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were still in this world, it would have been a better place, because what came instead is much worse, US presidential candidate Donald Trump said.

Asked by CNN's Jake Tapper on his State of the Union show whether the world would have been better off with Hussein and Gaddafi still ruling in Iraq and Syria, Trump said “100 percent.”

"I mean, look at Libya. Look at Iraq. Iraq used to be no terrorists. [Hussein] would kill the terrorists immediately, which is like now it's the Harvard of terrorism," Trump said.

"I'm not saying he was a nice guy, he was a horrible guy, but it was a lot better than it is right now. Right now, Iraq is a training ground for terrorists. Right now Libya, nobody even knows Libya, frankly there is no Iraq and there is no Libya. It's all broken up. They have no control. Nobody knows what's going on."

Both Hussein and Gaddafi were dictatorial leaders who ruled with a strong hand. Hussein was ousted by a US-led coalition that acted with no mandate on a pretext that he had a clandestine program of weapons of mass destruction. The accusation was later proven to be false. He was tried and executed by the post-invasion authorities.

Gaddafi was ousted by a violent uprising propped by a NATO bombing campaign, which hijacked a UN resolution demanding protection of civilians from bombings by Gaddafi forces. NATO instead devastated the Libyan army, allowing the rebels to catch and summarily execute Gaddafi.

Both Hussein and Gaddafi committed atrocities against their own people, but now the situation with human rights in Iraq and Libya is “worse than ever,” Trump told CNN.

"People are getting their heads chopped off, they're being drowned. Right now, they are far worse than they were, ever, under Saddam Hussein or Gaddafi," he said.

“Libya is a disaster. Iraq is a disaster. Syria is. The whole Middle East. And it all blew up around [former Secretary of State] Hillary Clinton and [President] Barack Obama.”

Trump, who has been the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for next year’s presidential election, has been losing ground to his rival Ben Carson, who surged past Trump in the early-voting state of Iowa. The latest opinion poll, published Friday by Bloomberg/Des Moines Register, gives 28 percent support for Carson as opposed to 19 percent for Trump for the state’s Republican caucus.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who committed UK’s military support to then-President George W Bush to invade Iraq in 2003, has acknowledged that the current Middle East bloodshed may stem from that decision. He also said that in Iraq, Libya and Syria the West tried different approaches to regime change, and in none of these countries did turn out well.

Source : https://www.rt.com/usa/319681-trump-saddam-gaddafi-better/

Lebanese security forces are interrogating a Saudi prince on charges of carrying drugs on his private plane after they allegedly retrieved 2 tons of narcotics from the aircraft, local media reported.

Abd al-Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud was detained on Monday in Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport.

The prince was about to conduct a flight on his private plane to Saudi Arabia.

Lebanese TV station Al Mayadeen also said that 40 packages of drugs, weighing 2 tons in total, were confiscated.

The prince was arrested and taken in for questioning along with four other people.

According to Press TV they were charged with attempting to smuggle pills of captagon, an amphetamine allegedly widely used among fighters in the Middle East.

https://www.rt.com/news/319727-saudi-prince-drug-arrest/

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The UN has finally come out with a verdict on meat, with a report indicating that processed meat like sausages and ham can cause cancer, with red meat also under suspicion.

The Monday report issued by WHO is set to once again heat up the ongoing debate over the health dangers of a carnivorous diet. The document was released with data from the WHO-operated and France-based International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

Its research now says there is “sufficient evidence” to include processed meat into group 1, the same as tobacco, asbestos and diesel fumes – all highly carcinogenic.

The study connects the foods to bowel cancer, with pancreatic and prostate cancers high in the running.

"For an individual, the risk of developing colorectal (bowel) cancer because of their consumption of processed meat remains small, but this risk increases with the amount of meat consumed," Dr. Kurt Straif, head of IARC’s Monographs Program, said in a statement.

Research is ongoing. Red meat like beef, lamb and pork continue to be hotly debated, but have now been classified as “probable” carcinogens, which is classed as 2A, a group that also includes chemicals found in weed killers.

The category below is reserved for suspected carcinogens for which there’s “limited evidence.”

Source: https://www.rt.com/news/319720-un-report-meat-cancer/

1. I am anti-American
I’m not quite sure what that means, but if we are to take the founding documents of the country of America as indicative of what the US stands for – the Constitution and the Bill of Rights – then I am all for them.

The problem is that the Republic that America was created to be has been usurped by something else called Democracy.

In a Republic there are laws set in stone. There exist immovable principles, no matter how many fools can be drummed up to vote against their own interests.
In Democracy there are no principles other than how many fools you can drum up.

Yes, it’s true. I don’t believe in Democracy. To me, Democracy is a form of corporatized, Satanic hypocrisy the object of which – at least currently – is to mask a Cultural Marxist agenda designed to destroy you not only in this life, but also in the life to come.
But a Republic? Sure, I can get behind that. My problem with America is that it has ceased to be one.
Just because there is a plebiscite every few years where the people put an ‘x’ on a ballot sheet, this does not mean anything under a system where the ruling elite’s current placeman can rule by dictate known as Executive Orders.

So I’m not against America. I’m for America. I’m just saying that what we now have isn’t America.
America has gone and no one would like to see its return more than I.


2. Everything in America is stable, so what are you talking about?
This was in part, my point.

Things in the US – and all the other countries built on the same model – do seem stable. But you can only keep throwing straw on the donkey’s back so long.
Sooner or later it breaks.

My argument is that when it does break, unlike in previous collapses, the economic, the moral, and the social resilience to withstand such a rupture is no longer sufficient to the needs of the body politic.
I have personally lived through an economic collapse. It wasn’t pretty. The shops were cleared out in a couple of days. I had literally to race across the city to the airline’s central office with our last remaining money to buy tickets out of the country, all the time knowing that the currency could lunge down yet again before I could get to the office and make them take my money.
When things go, they go quickly.


3. America is different
If you think this can never happen in the US, think again.

American exceptionalism is a popular belief. But no amount of belief in it will protect the US against the hard laws of reality, as the ruins of Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome will attest.

The Soviet Union was a great empire. Where is that now?
But – preppers aside – the US is in a worse condition to the Soviet Union prior to its collapse.

The population of the USSR had no illusions about the intentions of its government – given the millions killed by that government in the course of the 20th century – and most were used to improvising and collaborating to survive.

Added to that, most families had access to a dacha with some land where they could grow the basics.
Americans by comparison are weak, unprepared and isolated and have no conception of how to live frugally or improvise.


4. America is the greatest nation on earth
I agree that it was, at least prior to the institution of the Federal Reserve in 1913 – which is the point also at which point America began talking about ‘Democracy’.
I also agree that America was founded on principles of real capitalism, industry and initiative. The successful were allowed to flourish and the unsuccessful were allowed to fail. If these are measures of greatness, then America certainly was great.
But that was then.

As of Q4 2012, Forbes rated the United States as the country with the highest debt of any country in absolute terms, an estimated $14.6 trillion in general government net debt, double the debt of second-placed Japan.

And US debt has grown $10 trillion in the last decade.
The so-called Fed has created trillions of dollars in fiat currency, and no one really knows what the final numbers are because this privately run bank, which controls the US is not audited.

This fact was lamented by Alex J. Pollock , president and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago (1991-2004) in the Wall Street Journal – hardly a hotbed of wild-eyed conspiracy theories.

Add to this the fact that the so-called Fed is gearing up for QE4 (i.e. a fourth round of creating interest-bearing fiat currency as debt since it began bailing out the criminals and psychopaths who were behind the mortgage collapse).

Iceland on the other hand simply let its banks fail and prosecuted the criminals and psychopaths.
As Bloomberg reports, this happy isle is finding crisis-management decisions made half a decade ago, have put it on a trajectory that have turned 2 percent unemployment into a realistic goal.

So from where I’m standing, if American values are the arbiter of greatness, Iceland is the greatest nation on earth right now.


5. I am a ‘pro-Russia’ propagandist
I don’t accept this. And I know whereof I speak. I lived in Russia for over 15 years. I learnt Russian in my twenties and speak it fluently.

I have seen Russia from the inside – the good, the bad and the ugly. I know Russia in ways few foreigners are likely to. Believe me: there is plenty wrong with Russia.
But there is plenty right with it – and it does not make me a propagandist to say so.

And it is Russia and not America, which has the moral high ground on the world stage right now – a fact which many in America acknowledge.

For example, Putin has operated within international law regarding Syria, and has moved decisively to put paid to Islamic State – a move which almost everyone but the US and Israel applauded.

And it is Russia and not America which has stood up to defend at least some normative aspects of decency to protect minors from the onslaught of indoctrination into what – at least by any scriptural measure – is rank immorality, no matter how packaged and presented as tolerance and virtue.

But it was America – not Russia – which in recent years has been the cause of crisis across the world, destroying country after country as per the PNAC plan, a plan which anticipated – in fact bemoaned the lack of – an event such as a new Pearl Harbour.
One year later they got just such an event: 9/11.
How lucky can you be?

So something is very rotten in the US. It has over-extended itself militarily. It is belligerent, arrogant, and hypocritical beyond words. It is corrupt, bankrupt and sick.

What I am saying is that since its underlying health is so eviscerated, when what comes to all, comes to the US – and the right detonator is triggered – its end will be explosive.

My mum always says there are some people who are already walking dead.

hpk:
respecting is one thing and standing by her against the odds is another thing.

There's nothing there. Religion is over hyped anyway.

OVI75 you no serious... if Dantata catch you

Like seriously!
Martin Shkreli is one of the few rotten eggs in the medical profession.
Hiking HIV drugs from $13.50 per tablet to $750 per tablet.
Even the Devil and its demons ain't that cruel.

Last month, the Internet went into full outrage mode when it learned that Turing Pharmaceuticals decided to jack up the price of an important AIDS-related drug called Daraprim from $13.50 per tablet to $750 per tablet. The company did this despite the fact that this is not a new medicine, it isn’t facing massive shortages, and it doesn’t cost anywhere close to $750 per tablet for the company to produce.

The CEO of Turing, a sickeningly smug former hedge funder named Martin Shkreli, tried to paint this gigantic price increase as an altruistic move that would benefit patients. This only made the rest of humanity collectively gag even further and Shkreli, who has earned the nickname “Pharma Bro,” became the most hated man on the Internet, even beating out the dentist who killed Cecil the Lion.

OK, so with all that background information out of the way, it seems that a heroic rival drug company has decided to take Shkreli to the cleaners by introducing a rival drug that will cost significantly less. As Ars Technica reports, Imprimis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is selling 100-pill packages of its Daraprim alternative for $99 each, which works out to just $0.99 per pill.

“While we respect Turing’s right to charge patients and insurance companies whatever it believes is appropriate, there may be more cost-effective compounded options for medications, such as Daraprim,” Imprimis CEO Mark L. Baum said in a news release announcing the drug.

At any rate, this is a very good lesson in public relations for future Ayn Randian supermen who think that the way to succeed in capitalism is to simply be as greedy and ruthless as possible: If you do things that make the entire world hate you, a competitor will find a way to exploit you. Hopefully Imprimis’s ploy works and the Pharma Bro will never think of pulling a stunt like this again.

Source: ARS TECHNICA

It's not compulsory to go to church. If he loves you, he will respect your beliefs.

The entire stretch of the Road from Cement to Sango otta is in need of repairs.

The traffic, come rain or shine is terrible due to the horrible condition of the road

Fourteen children in Yakutia have died of a previously-unknown disease caused by mutations in multiple genes. The illness kills kids before they turn three as it progresses rapidly and there's no cure so far, according to the scientist who discovered it.

In total 16 children have been diagnosed with the genetic illness, says Nadezhda Maksimova, head of a Yakutsk laboratory at the North-Eastern Federal University who discovered the deadly disease.

"We are currently studying a new, very severe disease which causes irreversible metabolic disorders in children who don't survive beyond three years of age. Of the 16 patients that we have found, only two are left alive," she told Ogonyok magazine.

To study the decease, one of the surviving tots is to be sent to Japan, with parents having launched a fundraising campaign.

Sending blood samples to a Moscow laboratory for analysis is a real challenge, Maksimova said. Samples have to be carried very carefully in a vacuum container that needs to be protected from shaking so as not to destroy the enzymes. And since Russian laws prohibit the sending of samples for analysis abroad, it is easier to send the patient instead.

“We have carried out the whole genome sequencing at the University of Osaka and found specific mutations in the gene. I think this is a big step forward to the [creation] of treatment,” Maksimova told the Russian magazine.

In fact, it's the third genetic disease discovered by the prominent Russian genetic scientist. In 2005 and 2010 she identified two other deadly disorders – the SOPH syndrome, which damages children's optic nerves so badly they eventually become blind, and the so-called “Yakut short stature syndrome” (the 3-М syndrome), which causes severe growth retardation, dysmorphic features and skeletal changes in the newborns.

To come up with the diagnosis of a genetic disease is harder than it sounds, with scientists spending years on clinical and scientific studies.

“Our discoveries were preceded by nearly 25 years of medical and genetic counseling, with expeditions sent to the regions. Genetics first visited Yakut villages with other doctors before they began to come by independently. We examined people with hereditary diseases at the site and invited them to come along with their families for further examination in town. All this has provided the basis for further research,” Maksimova says.

“Then, during the second stage, scientists need to sequence the genome of a patient, and – ideally – to find the gene responsible for this or that 'failure’. But this is only possible in case when one gene is responsible for the disease. As a rule, it's not so simple, however.”

There are over 6,000 known genetic disorders in the world. According to Maksimova, there's currently treatment for only about 10 or 15 of them. But contrary to popular belief, not only close relatives usually fall prey to genetic diseases.

“We've discovered pathologies in people from completely different, unrelated families. Imagine, people are different, while markers in their blood are one and the same. In this case, genetic scientists speak of a special 'founder effect.' In simple words, a long time ago there lived a man who had developed a mutation – he had a number of children, who help spread the defect. Today other people are the carriers of this gene and, as a rule, they do not even know about it.”

For the disease to become evident, one such carrier has to meet another person with the same hidden mutation and then give birth to a baby. To trigger the “founder effect” process, two people with one and the same broken gene have to meet up, Maksimova explained.

Maksimova says though there are a number of reasons that trigger genetic disorders, the DNA analysis can only help understand when a particular mutation emerged, but not what caused it.

“The genome of any totally healthy person can contain some five to 10 hidden mutations. So basically no one is exempt from the possibility to bear an unhealthy child. This is a kind of lottery hosted by the nature,” she concluded.

https://www.rt.com/news/319083-deadly-genetic-disease-yakutia/