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A Dramatic 260 Foot Crater Has Mysteriously Appeared In Siberia

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A Dramatic 260 Foot Crater Has Mysteriously Appeared In Siberia

Russian geologists are on their way to a remote region of Siberia's Yamal Peninsula to investigate the mysterious appearance of what looks like a gigantic Sarlac Pit. Opinions are divided as to what caused the apparent crater.

As the Siberian Times is reporting, the unexplained hole was spotted by a helicopter flying over the gas-rich region of the Yamal peninsula, a location that translates to the "end of the world." Initial estimates place the width of the puncture at about 80 meters, but its depth is not known. A debris field around the perimeter suggests that the material was somehow thrown out of the crater.

A Dramatic 260 Foot Crater Has Mysteriously Appeared In Siberia

An expedition to the crater has been organised by the Yamal authorities. The team includes two experts from the Centre for the Study of the Arctic and one from Cryosphere Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. They're expected to arrive at the scene later today, at which time they'll take samples of soil, air, and water.

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According to the Siberian Times, initial reports and images were suspected to be fakes, but the new images taken by Russian engineer Konstantin Nikolaev suggests it's very much real. The feature is thought to have formed about two years ago.

A Dramatic 260 Foot Crater Has Mysteriously Appeared In Siberia

Scientist have posited a number of theories to explain the crater, though it's not likely to have been caused by a meteorite impact, nor does it exhibit the features of a sinkhole. One website claims that it's evidence "of the arrival of a UFO craft" to Earth. But there are at least two other — and far more plausible — explanations worth considering.


A Pingo

University of New South Wales polar scientist Chris Fogwill says it's probably a geological phenomenon known as a collapsed pingo, or hydrolaccolith. As the Sydney Morning Herald reports, a pingo is a block of ice that's grown into a small hill in the frozen arctic ground:

The ice can eventually push through the earth and when it melts away it leaves an exposed crater. Dr Fogwill says the permafrost [frozen earth] can be hundreds of metres thick, allowing for large ice features.

"It's just a remarkable land form.

"This is obviously a very extreme version of that, and if there's been any interaction with the gas in the area, that is a question that could only be answered by going there," Dr Fogwill said.

Fogwill says that global warming may cause more pingos in the future.


An Ignited Mixture


Another explanation has been posited by Anna Kurchatova from Russia's Sub-Arctic Scientific Research Center. She believes the crater was formed by a water, salt, and gas mixture that ignited an underground explosion, also the result of global warming.

A Dramatic 260 Foot Crater Has Mysteriously Appeared In Siberia

Kurchatova thinks that enough gas accumulated in ice mixed with sand beneath the surface, and that this was mixed with salt. And indeed, this area was immersed under the sea some 10,000 years ago. The change in climate caused an "alarming" melt in the permafrost, releasing gas akin to the popping of a champagne bottle cork.

Given that this region contains many gas pipelines, that's a troubling conclusion.

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Berlin To Build Very First Temple Of CHRISLAM For One World Religion

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“And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.” Revelation 17:5,6

For many years now, NTEB has sounded the shofar to warn believers and non-believers alike of the coming One World Religion of Chrislam, the bastard hybrid of Islam and Christianity/Judaism. We have given you countless verified accounts of the efforts of early Chrislam founder and champion Rick Warren to prepare the Christians to accept this new religious paradigm. 


Berlin To Build Very First Temple Of CHRISLAM For One World Religion

We have given you audio proof, video proof, and interview accounts from major news outlets around the world. We even pulled back the curtain on all the efforts of Pope Francis and the influence of the Vatican to drive through the creation of the One World Religion mentioned in the book of Revelation.

Have you paid attention? Are you listening?

Today’s bombshell is the natural next-step in the evolution of the One World Religion – a temple to call their very own. And where better to build that abomination than in the city that is most famous for introducing the world to Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust but in Berlin, Germany. If the irony of that doesn’t punch your buttons, then you need to go look up the definition of the word “irony”. Seriously, could it be any plainer, any more in-your-face than that?

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They are calling it the House of One, and it is just that. The world’s 3 major religions under one roof where they will, at first, worship in separate compartments within the the complex, but then all come together to find that oh-so-elusive “common ground” that Rick Warren is such a fan of. If no one ever told you the secret to boiling a live frog in a pan of water without it first jumping out, go look it up. There is much wisdom there.

Berlin To Build Very First Temple Of CHRISLAM For One World Religion

The BBC reports that an architecture competition has been held and the winner chosen. The striking design is for a brick building with a tall, square central tower. Off the courtyard below will be the houses of worship for the three faiths – the synagogue, the church and the mosque. It is to occupy a prominent site – Petriplatz – in the heart of Berlin.
 
The location is highly significant, according to one of the three religious leaders involved, Rabbi Tovia Ben Chorin. “From my Jewish point of view the city where Jewish suffering was planned is now the city where a centre is being built by the three monotheistic religions which shaped European culture,” he told the BBC.

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The imam involved, Kadir Sanci, sees the House of One as “a sign, a signal to the world that the great majority of Muslims are peaceful and not violent”. It’s also, he says, a place where different cultures can learn from each other. (end BBC report)

Ah, there’s the other shoe. The House of One is a “sign”, it is a “signal to the world”, that Muslims are “peaceful and non-violent”. How funny is that? But more than funny, it is something else. It is prophecy being fulfilled in your lifetime, in your hearing and in your sight. For those who can receive it, this is the One World Religion that will be headed up by the Antichrist after the Rapture of the true Church. This is where the Beast and the False Prophet will use religion to deceive not just many. but nearly every soul living on the earth.

Berlin To Build Very First Temple Of CHRISLAM For One World Religion

“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” John 17:3

Prepare yourself, for the time is short and the evil days draw nigh. Trust Jesus Christ as the express image of the Living God sent by the Father in Heaven to save your soul. The age of Grace has just about run it’s course, and that which is “next up” is already assembled in the wings, waiting to be cued in by the Master conductor.

Don’t get “left behind“, because you just might not make it through.

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Odd Humanoid Figure Spotted on the Moon [VIDEO]

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Odd Humanoid Figure Spotted on the Moon

Remember the 1967 NASA image referred to as "The Shard"? A strange and very large tower type figure that appeared in one still image captured by Lunar Orbiter III.

Odd Humanoid Figure Spotted on the Moon

Well an irregularly shaped object spotted on Google Moon could be eerily similar and it looks like it could be a cast shadow from a massive standing object, or humanoid figure.

Here are the coordinates: 27°34'26.35"N 19°36'4.75"W

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PROPHETIC EVENT: The Final Warning,False Prophet & NWO [VIDEO]

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PROPHETIC EVENT: The Final Warning,False Prophet & NWO

This video is about TODAY'S NEWS & BIBLE PROPHECY (2014-2015)....IS GOD TURNING UP THE END TIMES SIGNS SINCE THE FIRST BLOOD MOON?

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Advanced Ancient Architecture At The Ajanta Caves, India

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Advanced Ancient Architecture At The Ajanta Caves, India

The Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India are 30 rock-cut cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to the 600 CE. The caves include paintings and sculptures considered to be masterpieces of Buddhist religious art (which depict the Jataka tales) as well as frescos which are reminiscent of the Sigiriya paintings in Sri Lanka. The caves were built in two phases starting around 2nd century BCE, with the second group of caves built around 600 CE. It is a protected monument under the Archaeological Survey of India.

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Advanced Ancient Architecture At The Ajanta Caves, India

Advanced Ancient Architecture At The Ajanta Caves, India

Modern engineers are baffled as to how the caves could have been cut from the 70 foot high granite cliffs, over 2,000 years ago. All interior space in the caves was created through the removal of stone. All sculptures and art are carved from the same stone, which is the mountainside, itself.

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It Has Begun! UN Building a World Army to Usher in NWO and Disarm Citizens Everywhere

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It Has Begun! UN Building a World Army to Usher in NWO and Disarm Citizens Everywhere

The United Nations has set the world on fire! They are building an army of soldiers ready to disarm citizens at the verbal command of their leader. Their goal is to take over the world and implement their tyrannical rule and it is only a matter of time before it happens. They are recruiting soldiers from countries all across the globe and are building up their military arsenal; from MRAPS to machine guns. If you are still a skeptic on the New World Order, you won’t be after this.

It Has Begun! UN Building a World Army to Usher in NWO and Disarm Citizens Everywhere

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It Has Begun! UN Building a World Army to Usher in NWO and Disarm Citizens Everywhere 
It Has Begun! UN Building a World Army to Usher in NWO and Disarm Citizens Everywhere

What’s Next?

Massive gun confiscation through martial law! This is the key step which will precede this impending holocaust. The populace must be rendered defenseless in order for this administration to carry out its plan. Hitler, Stalin, Pot, and Mao all enforced it, and now the Obama administration and the United Nations are initiating their plan.

“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.” 
– Adolf Hitler

“To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.” 
― Adolf Hitler



“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.” – Mao Tse Tung

Now quotes from American Politicians…

“If I could have banned them all – ‘Mr. and Mrs. America turn in your guns’ – I would have!” – Diane Feinstein

“We’re bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.” – Rahm Emmanuel, senior advisor to Bill Clinton

“If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.” – President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993

“I don’t believe people should to be able to own guns.” – Barack Obama (during conversation with economist and author John Lott Jr. at the University of Chicago Law School in the 1990s)

It Has Begun! UN Building a World Army to Usher in NWO and Disarm Citizens Everywhere
It Has Begun! UN Building a World Army to Usher in NWO and Disarm Citizens Everywhere
It Has Begun! UN Building a World Army to Usher in NWO and Disarm Citizens Everywhere
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Student's Eyeballs EATEN By Bug After She Failed To Clean Contact Lenses

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Student's Eyeballs EATEN By Bug After She Failed To Clean Contact Lenses

Shocking: The young woman was under pressure at university and didn't clean her lenses

A student's eyeballs were DEVOURED by a bug - after she failed to clean her disposable contact lenses for more than six months.

Doctors said 23-year-old Lian Kao's case is an extreme lesson in the importance of basic hygiene.

Under pressure because of her university studies, the young woman failed to take ever contact lenses and wash them once for half a year.

When she eventually went to hospital, medics were horrified when they removed the contact lenses to find that the surface of the girl's eyes had literally been eaten by a single-cell amoeba.

The bug had been able to breed in the perfect conditions that existed between the contact lens and the eye.

Lian Kao has been left blinded as a result.

Student's Eyeballs EATEN By Bug After She Failed To Clean Contact Lenses

Doctor Wu Jian-liang, said: "Contact lens wearers are a high-risk group that can easily be exposed to eye diseases.

"A shortage of oxygen can destroy the surface of the epithelial tissue, creating tiny wounds into which the bacteria can easily infect, spreading to the rest of the eye and providing a perfect breeding ground.

"The girl should have thrown the contact lenses away after a month but instead she overused them and has now permanently damaged her corneas."

He said that she had been diagnosed with acanthamoeba keratitis, which although rare was always more common in the summer.

Dr Jian-liang revealed the girl's case to shock other contact lens wearers into being more careful about hygiene.

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Britain Has ‘Subculture’ Of 15,000 Vampires, Says University Lecturer

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Britain Has ‘Subculture’ Of 15,000 Vampires, Says University Lecturer

A psychology lecturer at a British university claims the UK has a population of some 15,000 vampires and is carrying out an academic study of their lifestyles.

Dr Emyr Williams, a senior lecturer from Glyndwr University in Wrexham, wants to discover more about Britain's vampire subculture, following the surge in popularity of films and TV shows about vampires.

The academic says vampires are not a myth but live and breathe a set of laws and ethics while meeting regularly all over the world, including the UK.

He is carrying out what is believed to be the first online academic surveyin the UK of people who say they are vampires aimed at gaining a better understanding of vampirism.

Dr Williams said that while plenty of work has been done on the phenomenon of vampirism before, it has never really been approached from “an academic perspective”.

“We are talking about a group of individuals who believe they have a psychological need to consume blood," Dr Williams said.

“Some books say there are between 10,000 and 15,000 people in the UK who call themselves vampires, with maybe another 30,000 being donors. So we’re trying to reach as many of these people as we can to try and understand them better.

“I’m trying to find out about those people who live as vampires, not because they read it in literature and they’re role-players, but who genuinely think they are vampires and genuinely live that lifestyle,” he said.

Interest in the myths and legends of vampirism has been boosted by films and TV shows including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and the Twilight series.

“This is a subculture that exists in every country, especially in the west,” said Dr Williams.

Britain Has ‘Subculture’ Of 15,000 Vampires, Says University Lecturer

“They are a group of people who drink blood and drain energy from people, but their well-established set of laws means they know who it can be taken from.

“Sanguine vampires take blood and have a donor. They can only cut from certain parts of the body and are not allowed to take too much.

“Psychic vampires have a different ability to gain energy, but they are the ones who, when they come into the room, feed off other people and leave them feeling drained.

“It is fascinating and all very real, which is why I wanted to conduct this study.”

Dr Williams drafted a questionnaire to gather more information for his research and hopes genuine vampires will support his efforts.

“There have been many sociological and journalistic interviews but nothing really on the psychology of this group,” he said.


“I’m asking about how they form communities, what their levels of happiness and self-esteem are and what are their religious beliefs – most would associate themselves with Christianity – and trying to create a psychological understanding of this subculture.”

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Dr Williams added: “I don’t want to label them as mad, bad or dangerous, only interested in Gothic culture and graveyards. They’re just a group of people we need to know more about.”

Dr Williams admits access to the vampire community is difficult as they are so private, but is confident his research will attract their attention.

His interest in vampires began more than a decade ago after reading an article examining social and religious beliefs of the subculture in America and Australia.

Together with Dr Janet Goodall, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of Warwick, he wrote a study into vampires and the legend of Nosferatu.

The paper explored how modern culture and vampire imagery has glamorised the myth and placed the subject back under the spotlight.

He added: “The psychology of vampires is so interesting and I genuinely don’t believe it is linked to mental illness or madness.

“Some sleep in coffins at night but the kind of literature written on them is usually through interviews and case studies and they are usually the weirdest and goriest people they can get to try and sell it, rather than those who do this for simple and less sensationalist reasons.

“It’s a religious belief, a belief in anything – we all have different belief systems and for many people vampirism is a genuine way of life.”

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Non-Human DNA Discovered During Biopsy Of Ötzi The Iceman

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Non-Human DNA Discovered During Biopsy Of Ötzi The Iceman

In 1991, hikers in the Ötztal Alps near the Italian-Austrian border stumbled upon what appeared to be a human corpse jutting out of the ice and meltwater. The body was extracted, and after exhaustive

examination, researchers concluded that the glacier mummy was a 45-year-old male, about 1.6 meters (5 foot 3 inches) tall and weighing 50 kilograms (110 pounds). Analyses of his tissue samples and possessions -- which included an axe, dagger, bow and arrows, a full set of clothing, and a first aid kit -- indicate that he lived about 5,300 years ago in the Copper Age.

He likely died from an arrowhead wound in his left shoulder. Ötzi the Iceman, as he came to be called, is house in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Italy.

A couple years ago, Ötzi’s genome was sequenced using a pelvic bone sample weighing just 0.1 grams. From this, we know that he was lactose intolerant and had type-O blood. Non-hominoid sequences were also detected with the mummified remains. These non-human reads are referred to as his “metagenome,” and it indicates the presence of microbes.

Non-Human DNA Discovered During Biopsy Of Ötzi The Iceman

Now, a team led by Frank Maixner of EURAC Research in Italy reanalyzed the metagenomic data of the Iceman’s genomic survey (pictured below). They found evidence of a pathogen in the tissue biopsy. Called Treponema denticola, this opportunistic oral pathogen is involved in the development of periodontal (or gum) disease. Its sizeable presence was especially surprising: The pathogen had to have been distributed via the bloodstream from the mouth to the hip bone.

“This ‘non-human’ DNA mostly derives from bacteria normally living on and within our body. Only the interplay between certain bacteria or an imbalance within this bacterial community might cause certain diseases,” study coauthor Thomas Rattei from the University of Vienna explains in a news release“It is highly important to reconstruct and understand the bacterial community composition by analyzing this DNA mixture.”

Non-Human DNA Discovered During Biopsy Of Ötzi The Iceman

According to the researchers, the bacteria didn’t colonize the body after death; they were part of Ötzi’s “commensal oral microflora” when he was alive. These findings confirm a CT-based diagnosis published last year showing that the Iceman suffered from periodontitis, an infection of the ligaments and bones that support teeth. It’s what happens when inflamed gums go unchecked.

The pathogen’s presence was further confirmed when the team analyzed gum tissue biopsy and a mouth swab sample taken from the Iceman. The work was published in PLoS ONE last month.

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Are you Ready for Nuclear War?

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Are you Ready for Nuclear War?

The crisis provoked by American and European charges of Russian responsibility for the shooting down of flight MH17 has brought the world the closest it has been to global war since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. But the situation today may be even more dangerous. A half century ago, the Kennedy administration—haunted by fears that miscalculations on either side could precipitate a nuclear exchange—sought to keep the lines of communications open and avoid the demonization of Soviet leaders.

Today, on the other hand, the CIA is directing an incendiary propaganda campaign against Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, a campaign that seems intent on provoking a direct military confrontation with the country with the second largest nuclear arsenal in the world. There is no question that the CIA is mobilizing all the resources and assets it commands—within governments, the media, and among academics—in a carefully orchestrated campaign aimed at polluting public opinion with anti-Russian hysteria.

As of now, there is nothing approaching a definitive explanation of the chain of events that led to the destruction of MH17. Despite all the massive surveillance technology at its disposal, upon which it lavishes tens of billions of dollars annually, the US intelligence agencies have not produced a shred of hard evidence to back up the accusations of Russian responsibility.

But while the physical circumstances surrounding MH17’s destruction remain unknown, the political purposes to which this tragedy is being put to use have become all too clear.

Since the beginning of the week, the three most influential mass circulation newsmagazines of the United States, Britain, and Germany—Time, The Economist, and Der Spiegel—have published cover stories that combine wild accusations against Vladimir Putin with demands for a showdown with Russia.

The most striking and obvious characteristic of these cover stories is that they are virtually identical. The CIA has scripted them all. The stories employ the same insults and the same fabrications. They denounce Putin’s “web of lies.” The Russian president is portrayed as a “depraved” mass murderer.

Are you Ready for Nuclear War?

What is the Russian president to make of the use of this sort of language in the most influential news magazines? He is on the receiving end of the same campaign of vilification that was previously directed against Serbia’s Slobodan Milosevic, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. Putin certainly knows the outcome of these propaganda campaigns. Serbia was bombed into political submission and Milosevic was carted off to The Hague, where he died, mysteriously, in prison. Iraq was invaded and Hussein executed. Libya was also invaded, and Gaddafi —much to the amusement of Hillary Clinton—was savagely tortured and lynched. As for Assad, the United States has directed a bloody insurgency that has resulted in the deaths of more than 100,000 Syrians.

Given this record, Putin could hardly be accused of paranoia were he to conclude that the United States and its European allies want him dead. Therefore, one must ask, what impact might this well-grounded suspicion have on his own course of action as the confrontation escalates?

In all three cover stories, the governments of Western Europe and the United States are taken to task for failing to move against Putin and Russia. The three magazines adopt a tone of angry impatience with what they perceive to be insufficient aggressiveness. They all argue that the time for talk is over. Der Spiegel declares “The wreckage of MH17 is also the wreckage of diplomacy.”

How should this statement be interpreted? If diplomacy has failed, it can only mean that war is imminent.

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In its article “In Russia, Crime without Punishment,” Time attacks Obama for asking Putin to assist in the investigation of the crash rather than immediately threatening Russia with war. It writes, “This was the crisis in a nutshell: the least Putin could do was the most Obama could ask for. The American President announced no deadlines, drew no red lines and made no threats.”

The invocation of “deadlines,” “redlines,” and “threats” is the language of war. How else should these words be read?

Time attacks Italy and France and even the Obama administration and the American people for not backing aggression against Russia: “Putin doesn’t have a lot to worry about when he looks at the forces aligned against him. Obama, as the leader of a war-weary nation, has ruled out all military options, including the provision of weapons to Ukraine.” Clearly, Time wants to place military options on the table.

In its lead editorial, entitled “A web of lies,” The Economist follows the same script, accusing the West of vacillation. “The Germans and Italians claim to want to keep diplomatic avenues open, partly becausesanctions would undermine their commercial interests. Britain calls for sanctions, but it is reluctant to harm the City of London’s profitable Russian business. America is talking tough but has done nothing new.”

The coordinated media campaign is already producing the desired effect. On Tuesday the Obama administration and the European Union announced that they had agreed on a new set of tougher sanctions. These measures are being interpreted as a transitional measure toward what Financial Times columnist Wolfgang Munchau describes as “The Atom Bomb of Financial War.” Munchau’s piece has been published not only in the Financial Times but also in Der Spiegel.

Are you Ready for Nuclear War?

By a combination of military threats and economic strangulation, the US and the EU are moving to politically destabilize Russia. As their continuous references to the Russian oligarchs make clear, they are hoping that the financial sanctions will encourage a conspiracy to overthrow and even murder Putin. The regime envisaged by Washington would convert Russia into a neo-colonial protectorate, entirely subordinated politically, economically and militarily to US imperialism.

Of course, were Putin to shift course and accommodate himself to US demands, the media campaign would make the necessary adjustments. However, events can proceed in a direction unforeseen in any CIA scenario.

The recklessness of a policy of destabilizing Russia, a power that controls the world’s second-largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, is staggering. As military forces are set on alert throughout Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region, and Ukrainian and Russian forces exchange artillery fire along their borders, the possibility for a miscalculation is mounting by the day.

Are you Ready for Nuclear War?
Are you Ready for Nuclear War?

Whatever the short-term outcome, the long-term implication of the agenda being pursued by the United States and the European imperialist powers leads inexorably in the direction of war with cataclysmic consequences. The greatest danger facing the working class is that decisions are being taken behind the scenes, with masses of people largely unaware of the risks facing the world’s population.

A hundred years ago this week, World War I was launched by small cabals of ministers, monarchs, and business interests throughout Europe, whose decision to risk everything on victory in war led to deaths numbering in the tens of millions. Today, similar forces are setting into motion a drive to a conflagration that could lead to the destruction of the planet.

There is no means to stop the momentum toward war except through the politically-conscious intervention of the working class. Anyone who believes that a nuclear war is impossible because modern governments, unlike those that were in power in 1914, would not risk catastrophe, is deluding himself. If anything, the regimes that exist today are even more reckless. Beset by mounting economic and social problems for which they have no progressive solution, they are ever-more inclined to see war as a risk worth taking.

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Russia Admits WW3 Is Coming! ‘There Is A War Coming In Europe’

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Russia Admits WW3 Is Coming! ‘There Is A War Coming In Europe’

One statement reported on by FT basically says it all, making it clear that Russia is gearing up for World War III and there is nothing that can stop it at this point.

The initial story is about the recent news of a $50 billion judgement against Russia, and the details of that can be seen at the FT article (free subscription) and in the video below, but it is the last paragraph of the FT article about a statement made by a person close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, that really brings the reality of what is coming, home.

Russia Admits WW3 Is Coming! ‘There Is A War Coming In Europe’

One person close to Mr Putin said the Yukos ruling was insignificant in light of the bigger geopolitical stand-off over Ukraine. “There is a war coming in Europe,” he said. “Do you really think this matters?”

That is what everyone has been gearing up for. That is why the Ukraine situation was set up, orchestrated and preparations are being made to pull out old war plans from the cold war era.

WW III is what all of it has been about and we were warned consistently that this would happen because when global economies are ready to crash, war is the option TPTB always fall back to.

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2014/07/30/russia-admits-ww3-is-coming-there-is-a-war-coming-in-europe/

Russia Admits WW3 Is Coming! ‘There Is A War Coming In Europe’

Russian official believes U.S. to hit RUSSIA with first strike nuclear attack

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http://www.pakalertpress.com/2014/07/30/russian-official-believes-u-s-to-hit-russia-with-first-strike-nuclear-attack/

Ebola Virus Outbreak Travels Round Globe - Was Deadly Virus Created in Laboratory?

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Protection: Health specialists work in an isolation ward in southern Guinea

Conspiracy theories about Ebola are spreading as fast as the killer virus itself.

And with no known cure or vaccine, its potential origins vary wildly from it being a CIA-manufactured weapon to a cover for "cannibalistic rituals."

Angry crowds in Africa have also accused foreigners of bringing the virus into the country.

In April, the threat of violence forced Medecins Sans Frontieres to evacuate all its staff from a treatment centre in Guinea.

In Sierra Leone, which has the largest number of Ebola cases, thousands protested outside the country's main Ebola treatment facility in the eastern city of Kenema, where police had to disperse the crowd with tear gas.

Reports say the demonstration was sparked by a rumour from a nearby market that the disease was a ruse used to justify "cannibalistic rituals" being carried out in the hospital.


Dr Leonard Horowitz, an international authority on public health education, has conducted a major study into the origin of AIDS and Ebola, questioning claims they are emerging viruses that jumped from ape to man.

In his book Emerging Viruses, he investigates the possibility the germs were laboratory creations, accidentally or intentionally transmitted via tainted hepatitis and smallpox vaccines.

He also examines CIA activities and foreign policy initiatives in Central Africa in response to alleged threats posed by communism, black nationalism, and Third World populations.

UNICEF says rumours and denial are fuelling the spread of Ebola in Africa and putting even more lives at risk.

Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa says some people still deny that the disease is real. Others believe it doesn’t have to be treated.


Ebola Virus Graphic

Widespread misconception, resistance, denial and occasional hostility in some communities are considerably complicating the humanitarian response to contain the outbreak.

Fontaine said: "The response goes beyond medical care. If we are to break the chain of Ebola transmission, it is crucial to combat the fear surrounding it and earn the trust of communities.

"We have to knock on every door, visit every market and spread the word in every church and every mosque. To do so, we urgently need more people, more funds, more partners.”

The World Health Organisation has taken some bizarre inquiries from worried Africans: Will eating raw onions once a day for three days protect me from Ebola? Is it safe to eat mangoes? Is it true that a daily intake of condensed milk can prevent infection with Ebola?


Protection: Doctors Without Borders wear protective gear in Conakry

These are just some of the questions posed to health workers responding round the clock to calls received through the free Ebola hotline in Guinea.

“Some people who call are in panic and false rumours make it difficult to calm them down”, says Dr Saran Tata Camara, one of the doctors who takes the calls.

“But if we tell them that it is not easy to contract Ebola and that they can protect themselves if they respect some rules, they often understand.”

In 2000, Uganda suffered an outbreak that ultimately killed 224 people — yet patients often ran away from ambulances and hid when health workers came looking for them.


Tragic: Health workers carry the body of an Ebola virus victim in Kenema, Sierra Leone

And in 2003, according to the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, there were widespread fears that “Euro-Americans” were buying and selling body parts.

This paranoia was fuelled further by health workers’ practice of burying the bodies of Ebola victims as soon as possible.

But that meant many family members never saw their loved ones’ bodies. In Guinea, officials are working to ensure burial practices are not only medically safe but respectful of the local culture.

It is widely thought Ebola is first acquired by a population when a person comes into contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected animal like a monkey or fruit bat.

Fruit bats are believed to carry and spread the disease without being affected by it. Once infection occurs, the disease may be spread from one person to another.


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India Shocks World, Joins Russia Against Obama Regime

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India Shocks World, Joins Russia Against Obama Regime

A new report prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) circulating in the Kremlin states that India’s veto earlier today of a landmark World Trade Organization (WTO) treaty has “shocked the world” and could very well lead to the entire collapse of this Western led global organization that for past 66 years has, in essence, economically destroyed too many once free nations to count.

According to this report, India was forced to take a stand against the West who were attempting to force this sub-continent nation into starving hundreds-of-millions of its own citizens should this WTO treaty taken effect.

In a nutshell, according to press reports, India was facing extreme pressure, mostly from the Obama regime led West, for holding up the Trade Facilitation Agreement under the WTO. It did so because it wants to first settle the question of flexibility to buy and stock as much food as it wants from its farmers. This is important to ensure the implementation of its Food Security Act.

Current WTO rules cap subsidies to farmers at 10 percent of the total value of farm production based on 1986-88 prices. [Example: Wheat: 1986:$2.42 per bushel 2014: $5.93 per bushel]

India, however, had wanted the base of calculating food subsidies updated to current price levels, taking into account inflation and currency movements. Otherwise, the government would not be able to provide subsidized food to some 67 percent of its 1.2 billion people it wishes to cover under its food security law.

India Shocks World, Joins Russia Against Obama Regime

Obama regime spokesman, Secretary of State John Kerry, this MoFA report continues, had flown to India to pressure Prime Minister Narendra Modi into signing this treaty but was quickly rebuffed. After which the US then blamed India for the collapse of these talks and stated that by New Delhi taking a hard-line position, the future of the WTO is now on “uncertain ground”.

In a further Indian move against the Obama regime, this report says, the Bank of Russia and the Reserve Bank of India, this week, agreed to set up a working group to devise tools to use their national currencies in bilateral payments bypassing the US Dollar in a further blow to the West.

India Shocks World, Joins Russia Against Obama Regime

Important to note of these events, this report continues, is that India in being a member of the anti-Western economic alliance known as BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) that last month signed an historic agreement to break the Obama regimes hegemony over the world by establishing their own monetary system.

Director Domenico Lombardi, an expert on the global economy from the Canadian think tank Center for International Governance Innovation’s (CIGI) global economy program, in commenting on the BRICS establishment of their New Development Bank (NDB) to counter the destructive policies of the Western-led World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) further stated:

“…one of the main sources of frustrations for the BRICS economies and of course for China in the first place, has “pushed the BRICS countries to come together to try to quash [Western] political power, try to leverage on their rising economic power and provide a political leverage to their rising economic power.”



The BRICS’ new financial institutions, it has been further warned, could also undermine US-EU global dominance as they have had unchallenged sway over the decision-making institutions of global financial governance for 70 years, and the last thing they want to see is competition.

So deadly serious have the US-EU become in trying to maintain their global economic hegemony, MoFA experts in this report say, one need look no further than Libya, where in 2011, Muammar Gaddafi planned to quit selling Libyan oil in US Dollars — demanding payment instead in gold-backed “dinars” (a single African currency made from gold).

Within weeks of Gaddafi announcing his plan to replace the US Dollar, it should be remembered, his regime was attacked by a supposed popular uprising by what were described by the West as rag-tag revolutionaries who curiously announced the designation of the Central Bank of Benghazi as a monetary authority competent in monetary policies in Libya and the appointment of a Governor to the Central Bank of Libya, with a temporary headquarters in Benghazi.

So absolutely astounding was it that these “rag tag” Libyan rebels were able to establish a central bank before they had even formed a government, even Robert Wenzel of the US Economic Policy Journal was forced to admit to CNBC, “I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising.

Wenzel in his CNBC interview further revealed that foreign powers may have a strong influence over the rebels and stated: “This suggests we have a bit more than a ragtag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences”.

India Shocks World, Joins Russia Against Obama Regime

Most critical to note in this report, however, is its warning that while the whole world is in the middle of a global currency war (i.e. a situation where nations all compete to devalue their currencies the most in order to boost exports), the Obama regime has now “set its sights” on Russia like it did in 2011 against Libya, and in 2003 against Iraq, and in 2000 against Iran…all nations that have sought to break away from the US Dollar.

Even Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff warned the West in 2010 that the last time there was a series of competitive currency devaluations … it ended in World War II.

Sadly, President Rousseff’s warning is being joined by some of the world’s top financial experts who warned this week that “World War III is coming”.

And with India now joining with Russia and China against the US and EU…it looks to be coming much sooner than later.

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Chikungunya: New Disease Hits The Americas

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Chikungunya: New Disease Hits The Americas

Chikingunya, meaning "writhing around in pain", has hit the American continent for the first time, with 1,200 cases reported in El Salvador and 57 imported cases in the United States of America. This viral disease, carried by the mosquito, was found in the Americas for the first time last December. There is one new case every two minutes in some areas.

The number of cases of Chikingunya has risen to 1,200 in El Salvador, according to the country's Health Ministry, which confirms this is the first time the disease has been registered in this Central American nation after it spread quickly through the Caribbean. The outbreak started last December in St. Martin (French side), the first appearance in the American continent of this virus which has manifested itself until now in Africa and Asia. New cases have been reported in the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico (23 cases) and Guadeloupe (5,190 cases between May 26 and June 1), a rate of one new case every two
 minutes. There have been a total of 165,990 cases registered by the Pan American Health Organization.

Chikungunya: New Disease Hits The Americas
The countries and territories most affected are St. Martin (French side), Martinique, St. Barthelemy, Guadeloupe, and Dominica but it is the cases in Puerto Rico which pose the greatest threat to the USA (imported cases) via travelling aircraft passengers. Health authorities consider the South-Eastern USA as the region with the highest risk due to its proximity to the Caribbean, although potentially all areas where there is a high influx of passengers from affected regions are also at risk.

Chikungunya: New Disease Hits The Americas

Chikungunya means "writhing in pain" in the Makonde language (Tanzania and Mozambique). The symptoms are muscular pain, headache, nausea, vomiting, photophobia, fatigue and rash on the trunk and/or limbs. The disease causes a febrile state which lasts between two and five days, followed by terrible pains in the joints which can last for years or months in severe cases, although others last for weeks or even days. Complications are uncommon, and most survive but it can kill elderly or debilitated patients. There is no vaccination or cure. The incubation period is one to twelve days, mostly two or three.

The virus is carried by two species of mosquito, namely Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti, although the strain currently affecting the Americas is more probably spread by Aedes aegypti. If the virus mutates to the strain carried by Aedes albopictus, this would create a public health issue in the USA because this type of mosquito is widespread in that country and is also more aggressive.

Prevention measures are to avoid areas of stagnant water and make sure that water cannot lie near inhabited regions in vessels such as plant pots or tires.

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

‘Executions By Guillotine’ Finally Passed In USA, and Government Is Pushing For Nationwide Use

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‘Executions By Guillotine’ Finally Passed In USA, and Government Is Pushing For Nationwide Use

They passed laws in Georgia to allow for the use of the guillotine on death row. But were you also aware a federal judge has now joined the ranks of those pushing for the use of guillotines nationwide? Now do you see why they “botch” executions? They need to make the people demand a better way to kill. PROPHECY WILL BE FULFILLED! (From the video commentary)

‘Executions By Guillotine’ Finally Passed In USA, and Government Is Pushing For Nationwide Use
Just as is predicted in the end times—death by beheading! And this seems to be the way in which they are bringing this primitive form of punishment back to the present! Of course, we can’t dismiss that this form of punishment has been taking place by sword in other parts of the world, such as the Middle East, for quite some time now. But the fact that this is now being pushed in a place where such punishment has been unheard of is BIG news!

Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

We are very close! All of the cards are being put into place right now for the final events that are before us—the events spoken of in the book of Daniel, and the book of Revelation.

They passed laws in Georgia to allow for the use of the guillotine on death row. But were you also aware a federal judge has now joined the ranks of those pushing for the use of guillotines nationwide? Now do you see why they “botch” executions? They need to make the people demand a better way to kill.

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Most Mysterious Locations On Earth

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Human history certainly holds its fair share of mysteries. Not all ancient civilisations were attentive bureaucrats like the Ancient Romans – the people of ancient Rome were excellent at documentation, so we know a huge amount about them, their society and their traditions. Unfortunately for historians, the story of certain societies and their creations will always remain shrouded in an intriguing mystery with no concrete answers in sight.

A perfect example is the infamous Voynich Manuscript. The Voynich Manuscript supposedly originated in Italy. Carbon dating has put the handwritten manuscript around the early 1400s. For years, the nature of the Voynich Manuscript has puzzled all those who have come into contact with it. Why? The entire manuscript is written in a coded language, completely unlike any other language or form of writing that exists. No cryptographer has ever been able to decipher the code written in the book.

Historians even enlisted the help of some expert code crackers who worked during World War II, but none have ever had any luck. The manuscript itself is a few hundred pages, and most pages even include diagrams of strange plants that don’t resemble any living species. Although many historians and cryptographers have suggested that the book could be nonsense, many maintain that the care and attention the unknown author must have put in during the manuscript’s production suggests otherwise. It begs the question: why would someone spend hours and hours (plus a lot of money – manuscripts were incredibly expensive items in the 15th century) producing something of no value to anyone?

However, the number of mysterious monuments and places that left traces still visible today greatly outweigh the number of entirely mysterious artefacts that have been discovered. Some of the monuments left behind by ancient peoples are so strange, and so well constructed, that they have left historians mystified. Aside from monuments, certain places on earth have an inescapable air of mystery about them that remains unexplained to this day. If you’re a bit of a conspiracy theorist and you’re looking for a new adventure, the following 8 locations could provide you with endlessly compelling mystery.

Groom Lake, Nevada

Groom Lake, Nevada

Most of us know this place better as ‘Area 51′ – or, more officially, the ‘Nevada Test and Training Range’. A US Military base located in Southern Nevada, Area 51 is compelling fodder for all government conspiracy theorists. The CIA are in charge of the area, and any and all activity conducted there is Top Secret. Much hypothesising over what exactly goes on in Area 51 has led to some crazy theories over the years – including the somewhat outlandish notion that this is an area where the American government performs tests on alien species. While it’s recently emerged that a significant number of the activities here involve testing military aircrafts, the conspiracy theories persist…

Newgrange

Newgrange



historical structure located in County Meath, Ireland. Newgrange is renowned worldwide for being one of the most mysterious historical places in the world. Dating back to over 3000 BC, Newgrange is still standing despite being almost 5,000 years old.

Amazingly, the roof (constructed entirely out of flat stones) has never leaked since it was built, due to the extreme care taken in its construction. The inside of Newgrange consists of a passage that leads to a chamber. At the top of the chamber, there is a small gap. Newgrange is constructed in such a way that on the winter solstice every year (December 21st), the sun shines directly into the gap and illuminates the entire chamber.

Due to the average size people would have been in the megalithic era (about four foot tall!), nobody knows how they managed to carry the giant stones and construct the building. The exact purpose of Newgrange, too, remains a mystery.

Newgrange is a historical structure located in County Meath, Ireland. Newgrange is renowned worldwide for being one of the most mysterious historical places in the world. Dating back to over 3000 BC, Newgrange is still standing despite being almost 5,000 years old. Amazingly, the roof (constructed entirely out of flat stones) has never leaked since it was built, due to the extreme care taken in its construction.

The inside of Newgrange consists of a passage that leads to a chamber. At the top of the chamber, there is a small gap. Newgrange is constructed in such a way that on the winter solstice every year (December 21st), the sun shines directly into the gap and illuminates the entire chamber. Due to the average size people would have been in the megalithic era (about four foot tall!), nobody knows how they managed to carry the giant stones and construct the building. The exact purpose of Newgrange, too, remains a mystery.

The Roanoke Colony

The Roanoke Colony

The Roanoke Colony was a plantation colony in the 16th century, when England first began to settle in the New World. Over 100 planters had been settled in the Roanoke Colony (near modern day North Carolina) and were equipped with large houses, boats and supplies. A few years later, some Englishmen were sent over on ships to check up on the progress of the Roanoke colony. What they found would shock them to the core: The entire colony had disappeared.

The houses had been torn down, their supplies were gone and the people had disappeared. No bodies were ever found, nor any trace of the Roanoke colony. The only thing left was a tall fence that had been built around the now non-existent village. The word ‘Croatoan’ had been scratched into the fence – the only clue that was left behind.

Sailing Stones

Sailing Stones

Death Valley’s Sailing Stones have always been a mystery. These are stones, incredibly heavy stones at that, which appear to slide slowly across the sand unassisted in remote parts of Death Valley. Despite being investigated for over 100 years, scientists have yet to find a definitive explanation for the movement of the stones.

Theories range from natural forces moving the stones, such as strong winds, to supernatural influences such as aliens. Although most crazy theories have been dismissed by scientists, no rational explanation for the movement exists. Nobody has ever seen the stones move. Sometimes, the stones completely change course and slide in another direction, which can be seen clearly due to the zig-zagged patterns they leave in the sand.

Yonaguni Monument

Yonaguni Monument

The Yonaguni Monument is one of the most mysterious structures in the world – probably because the entire structure is submerged off the coast of the Ryukyu Islands off the coast of Japan. The Yonaguni Monument is a pyramid style structure, with many ledges, ramps and steps. One of the structures is almost 100 foot high. It was discovered by divers in 1986, and since then scientists have been divided as to whether the structure is man made or not.

The even levels of the structure suggest that it was made by human hands, and tool marks have been found on the surface of some of the rocks. It is estimated that the rock itself dates back to before the ice age, and has since fallen into the ocean due to a natural disaster. If the structure is in fact man made, this would completely rewrite history. Ancient Asian people who lived at this time were believed to be quite primitive – however, if they were capable of making a structure like this, this would mean that they were much more advanced than Westerners at the time.

Stonehenge 

Stonehenge

Stonehenge is the fabled stone structure that has stood in Salisbury, United Kingdom for thousands of years. The mystery of Stonehenge is still unanswered. Many are still puzzled as to what role the structure had in the lives of ancient people, but others are more baffled by how it was built. The stones that it is constructed from each weigh a few tonnes each, and some of the stone used originates in Wales. It is uncertain how people transported the stones to their current location.

The purpose of the monument raises more questions. Exploration of the area and study of the soil has revealed that wooden pillars were once erected on the hill, long before the stones were placed there. This suggests that the location was seen as significant for many thousands of years. Since the people of the era had not developed any form of writing, working out the exact purpose of Stonehenge is guesswork. Like Newgrange, the monument appears to be orientated around the Winter solstice. Study of the soil shows that certain people were buried there – but once again, the significance of the burial place is unknown.

Great Pyramid of Giza

Great Pyramid of Giza

The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the most mind boggling structures in history – so much so that it is one of the fabled wonders of the world. The famous pyramid still overlooks Cairo as it has done for thousands of years. The pyramid of Giza remains a mystery because of how complex it is. The pyramid is a truly unbelievable feat of engineering that still leaves experts puzzled to this day. The weight of stone used to construct the pyramid actually outweighs the weight of all the stone used in the construction of every church and cathedral in the United Kingdom since the birth of Jesus Christ!

The construction of the pyramid is difficult to comprehend, but even more so is the production of the blocks used to build it. Each granite brick used in the construction of Giza weighs a couple of tonnes. These blocks were mined and cut out of solid rock in the earth’s surface. How the ancient Egyptians managed to do this is still a mystery to this day, considering the fact that the tools recovered from the time are too weak to carry out such a feat.

Bermuda Triangle 

Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is a part of the world that has long been the subject of debate, and since the early 20th century has permeated the public consciousness. The Bermuda Triangle is a triangle of water located in the Atlantic ocean, between Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda itself. The triangle of water is allegedly cursed, due to reports of many sea vessels and aircraft meeting their doom within the triangle.

Reports range from unexplained disappearances of aircraft flying over the triangle to ships which have emerged from the triangle with no crewman left on board. Explanations for these mysterious happenings have ranged from the supernatural to the scientific: some blame aliens, others blame magnetic fields and wormholes in time.

However, recent researchers suggest that many of the mysterious disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle have been greatly exaggerated or even fabricated, raising questions as to whether or not there’s really anything strange happening around the ‘Triangle at all. Of course, reports of anomalies occurring within the Bermuda Triangle continue to emerge, so the mystery persists.

Easter Island

Easter Island

Easter Island, located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile, hosts some of the most unusual and mysterious historical structures known to man. Easter Island is the home of the Moai statues – a total of almost 900 giant humanoid stone sculptures that were made sometime between the years 1250 and 1500.

The statues have torsos which are often buried beneath the soil. The Moai are scattered all over Easter Island and are all positioned so that they are facing inwards towards the land. It has remained a mystery as to how these structures were moved around and positioned by the islands native inhabitants, the Rapa Nui people. The meaning of the statues also remains elusive.

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Religious Children Struggle To Separate Fact From Fiction

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Religious Children Struggle To Separate Fact From Fiction

The ability of young children to distinguish fact from fiction varies considerably with exposure to religion, two new studies have found. Children who did not attend parochial (religious) schools or church were significantly better at identifying characters in religious or fantasy stories as pretend than those who did. The studies have been published in Cognitive Science.

For the investigations, researchers enrolled 5- and 6- year old children and separated them into four groups: children who attend public school and church, children who attend public school but not church, children who attend parochial school and church and children who attend parochial school but not church.

They then exposed the children to three different types of stories- biblical (religious), fantastical (where the divine element was replaced with magic) or realistic (all supernatural elements removed). They then asked the children to judge whether the protagonist (lead character) was fictional or real. 
Religious Children Struggle To Separate Fact From Fiction

Unsurprisingly, they found that all children judged the protagonist to be a real person in the realistic stories that described ordinary events, irrespective of religious background or schooling. However, when the children were read religious stories, such as Noah’s ark, there were significant differences in judgment. Children exposed to religion, either through school or church, decided that the characters were real, whereas secular children judged them to be fictional.

Furthermore, when the children were read fantastical stories where impossible events were either magical or non-magical (unexplained), the secular children were significantly better than religious children at identifying characters as fictional. They found that children from religious backgrounds would rely on religion in order to justify these incorrect classifications.

In sum, this study suggests that exposure to religion has a profound impact on the ability of children to discern reality from fiction, whether presented with religious ideas or fantasy stories.

The researchers acknowledge that the study design was not perfect. In particular, they recognize that it may not be exposure to religion that is causing these differences, but another variable that was not taken into account in the study. Still, the researchers believe that religion is the most likely contributing factor.

[Via Huffington Post, Cognitive Science, and Patheos]

Starbucks and Burger King dragged into McDonald's and KFC's Food Scandal

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Starbucks and Burger King dragged into McDonald's and KFC's Food Scandal


A suspect meat scandal in China engulfed Starbucks and Burger King on Tuesday and spread to Japan where McDonald's said a Chinese supplier accused of selling expired beef and chicken had provided 20% of the meat in its chicken nuggets.

As Chinese authorities expanded their investigation of the Shanghai-based company Husi Food, which had its main processing plant sealed on Monday, food safety officers said they would inspect its facilities and meat sources in five provinces in central, eastern and southern China.

Starbucks and Burger King dragged into McDonald's and KFC's Food Scandal

The scandal surrounding Husi, which is owned by the OSI Group of Aurora, Illinois, has added to a string of safety scares in China over milk, medicines and other goods.

Food safety violations will be "severely punished", the Chinese food agency said on its website.

Starbucks said on Tuesday it had taken sandwiches made with chicken that originated at Husi off the shelves and Burger King said it had stopped using hamburgers received from a supplier that used products from Husi.

The pizza chain Papa John's also said it would stop using meat from Husi. In Japan, McDonald's said it had stopped selling McNuggets at more than 1,300 outlets that used chicken supplied by Husi. It said the company had been supplying it with chicken since 2002.


Starbucks and Burger King dragged into McDonald's and KFC's Food Scandal

A Shanghai broadcaster, Dragon TV, reported on Sunday that Husi had repackaged old beef and chicken and put new expiration dates on them. In a statement, Husi said it was "appalled by the report" and would cooperate with the investigation. It promised to share the results with the public.

"Our company management believes this to be an isolated event, but takes full responsibility for the situation and will take appropriate actions swiftly and comprehensively," Husi said.

Food and drug safety is an unusually sensitive issue in China following scandals over the past decade in which infants, hospital patients and others have been killed or made ill by fake or adulterated milk powder, drugs and other goods.Foreign fast-food brands are seen as more reliable than Chinese competitors, though local brands have made big improvements in quality.

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Mermaid Was Allegedly Caught + VIDEO

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Mermaid Was Allegedly Caught + VIDEO
Mermaid Was Allegedly Caught + VIDEO

A mermaid is believed to be a folklore across the whole world especially in Asia, Europe, Near East, and Africa.

The very first mermaid story went out when a goddess felt love for a mortal (a human shepherd) but she killed him unintentionally. She was so ashamed that she jumped in a lake.

This story went down in the history of Ancient Greece was in Assyria c. 1000 BC when goddess Atargatis jumped into a lake and transformed into a fish but bodies of water cannot obscure her beauty so she took the form of a half human and half fish or also known as a mermaid.

Mermaid Was Allegedly Caught + VIDEO

Fake or real?

In this last image of a mermaid that was allegedly caught, a white board (or paper) looks suspicious that can make people think that this is just another hoax photo of aquatic creature.

There was no further details on when and where these photos were taken.

According to the scientists, 95% of our ocean is still unexplored. It has not seen yet by the human eyes.

Ocean is the largest part of the Earth. It covers over 70% of our planet's surface. it is also responsible for regulating the temperature and producing weather conditions all around the world.

This realm is supporting all the living organisms in the planet. We only have seen the 5% of it, but what's more in there we have yet to see? There can be more than mermaids.

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The 9,000-Year-Old Underground Megalithic Settlement of Atlit Yam in the Mediterranean Sea

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The 9,000-Year-Old Underground Megalithic Settlement of Atlit Yam in the Mediterranean Sea

Not far off the coast of the village of Atlit in the Mediterranean Sea, near Haifa in Israel, lies the submerged ruins of the ancient Neolithic site of Atlit Yam. The prehistoric settlement, which dates back to the 7th millennium BC, has been so well preserved by the sandy seabed that a mysterious stone circle still stands as it was first erected, and dozens of human skeletons lay undisturbed in their graves. Atlit Yam is one of the oldest and largest sunken settlements ever found and sheds new light on the daily lives of its ancient inhabitants. Today, Atlit Yam lies between 8 – 12 metres beneath sea level and covered an area of 40,000 square meters.

The site was first discovered in 1984 by marine archaeologist Ehud Galili, and since then underwater excavations have unearthed numerous houses, stone-built water wells, a series of long unconnected walls, ritual installations, stone-paved areas, a megalithicstructure, thousands of flora and faunal remains, dozens of human remains, and numerous artifacts made of stone, bone, wood and flint. At the center of the settlement, seven megaliths (1.0 to 2.1 meters high) weighing up to 600 kilograms are arranged in a stone semicircle. The stones have cup marks carved into them and were once arranged around a freshwater spring, which suggests that they may have been used for a water ritual.

Another installation consists of three oval stones (1.6 – 1.8 meters), two of which are circumscribed by grooves forming schematic anthropomorphic figures.

The 9,000-Year-Old Underground Megalithic Settlement of Atlit Yam in the Mediterranean Sea
Top: A diver examines megaliths at Atlit Yam. Bottom: Artist’s reconstruction of stone formation. Image source: Wikimedia

Not far off the coast of the village of Atlit in the Mediterranean Sea, near Haifa in Israel, lies the submerged ruins of the ancient Neolithic site of Atlit Yam. The prehistoric settlement, which dates back to the 7th millennium BC, has been so well preserved by the sandy seabed that a mysterious stone circle still stands as it was first erected, and dozens of human skeletons lay undisturbed in their graves. Atlit Yam is one of the oldest and largest sunken settlements ever found and sheds new light on the daily lives of its ancient inhabitants. Today, Atlit Yam lies between 8 – 12 metres beneath sea level and covered an area of 40,000 square meters.

The site was first discovered in 1984 by marine archaeologist Ehud Galili, and since then underwater excavations have unearthed numerous houses, stone-built water wells, a series of long unconnected walls, ritual installations, stone-paved areas, a megalithicstructure, thousands of flora and faunal remains, dozens of human remains, and numerous artifacts made of stone, bone, wood and flint.

At the center of the settlement, seven megaliths (1.0 to 2.1 meters high) weighing up to 600 kilograms are arranged in a stone semicircle. The stones have cup marks carved into them and were once arranged around a freshwater spring, which suggests that they may have been used for a water ritual. Another installation consists of three oval stones (1.6 – 1.8 meters), two of which are circumscribed by grooves forming schematic anthropomorphic figures.

The 9,000-Year-Old Underground Megalithic Settlement of Atlit Yam in the Mediterranean Sea

Another significant structural feature of the site is the stone-built well, which was excavated down to a depth of 5.5. metres. At the base of the well, archaeologists found sediment fill containing animal bones, stone, flint, wood, and bone artifacts. This suggests that in its final stage, it ceased to function as a water-well and was used instead as a disposal pit. The change in function was probably related to salinization of the water due to a rise in sea-level. The wells from Atlit-Yam had probably been dug and constructed in the earliest stages of occupation (the end of the 9th millennium BC) and were essential for the maintenance of a permanent settlement in the area.

The ancient artifacts unearthed at Atlit Yam offer clues into how the prehistoric inhabitants once lived. Researchers have found traces of more than 100 species of plants that grew at the site or were collected from the wild, and animal remains consisted of bones of both wild and domesticated animals, including sheep, goat, pig, dog, and cattle, suggesting that the residents raised and hunted animals for subsistence. In addition, more than 6,000 fish bones were found. Combined with other clues, such as an ear condition found in some of the human remains caused by regular exposure to cold water, it seems that fishing also played a big role in their society.

The archaeological material indicates that Atlit-Yam provides the earliest known evidence for an agro-pastoral-marine subsistence system on the Levantine coast. The inhabitants were some of the first to make the transition from being hunter-gatherers to being more settled farmers, and the settlement is one of the earliest with evidence of domesticated cattle. Human remains reveal oldest known case of Tuberculosis Ten flexed burials encased in clay and covered by thick layers of sand were discovered, both inside the houses and in the vicinity of Atlit Yam, and in total archaeologists have uncovered 65 sets of human remains.

One of the most significant discoveries of this ancient site is the presence of tuberculosis (TB) within the village. The skeletons of a woman and child, found in 2008, have revealed the earliest known cases of tuberculosis in the world. The size of the infant’s bones, and the extent of TB damage, suggest the mother passed the disease to her baby shortly after birth. What caused Atlit Yam to sink? One of the greatest archaeological mysteries of Atlit Yam is how it came to be submerged, a question that has led to heated debated in academic circles.

The 9,000-Year-Old Underground Megalithic Settlement of Atlit Yam in the Mediterranean Sea

An Italian study led by Maria Pareschi of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Pisa indicates that a volcanic collapse of the Eastern flank of Mount Etna 8,500 years ago would likely have caused a 40 meter high tsunami to engulf some Mediterranean coastal cities within hours. Some scientists point to the apparent abandonment of Atlit Yam around the same time, and the thousands of fish remains, as further evidence that such a tsunami did indeed occur. However, other researchers have suggested that there is no solid evidence to suggest a tsunami wiped out the settlement. After all, the megalithic stone circle still remained standing in the place in which it had constructed.

One alternative is that climate change caused glaciers to melt and sea levels to rise and the settlement became flooded by a slow rise in the level of the Mediterranean that led to a gradual abandonment of the village. Whatever the cause of the submerging of the settlement, it was the unique conditions of clay and sandy sediment under salty water that enabled this ancient village to remain so well preserved over thousands of years.

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