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Solzhenitsyn praised Putin before his death

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© Sipa Press/Rex FeaturesRussian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn contrasted Vladimir Putin's reign positively against those of Yeltsin and Gorbachev, an embassy cable said.
Four months before his death Alexander Solzhenitsyn offered qualified praise for Vladimir Putin, arguing that he was doing a better job as Russia's leader than Boris Yeltsin or Mikhail Gorbachev.

The US ambassador, William Burns, visited Solzhenitsyn in April 2008 at his dacha outside Moscow. He then sent a cable to Washington giving his impressions of the Nobel-prize winning writer who was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia 20 years later.

"Solzhenitsyn, who will turn 90 this December has been in declining health for some time. A stroke has left his left arm paralysed and his hand gnarled, but Solzhenitsyn's legendary energy was undiminished, and he was alert, spoke clearly, and, as the conversation showed, actively engaged with the events of the day," Burns reported in the dispatch released by WikiLeaks.

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RT reporter kicked out of Ukraine due to her 'Russian citizenship'

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Alina Eprimian, picture from Twitter
A producer for RT's RUPTLY video agency has been ordered to leave Ukraine after local authorizes learned that she holds both American and Russian citizenships. The journalist says she has been forced out of the country because of her "Russian passport".

Alina Eprimian, a producer for RT's Ruptly video agency, has been covering an assembly of local activists in the town of Rakoshyno, some 30 km from the western Ukrainian city of Uzhgorod, in the province of Transcarpathia. People gathered to discuss to whether or not block the highway leading from Rakoshyno to Kiev.

Traffic on the major regional road has been halted for the past few days as local activists have been protesting against the mobilization of the Ukrainian army. They blocked the highway with benches, flowerbeds and vehicles, not letting any transport, except ambulances and emergency services, pass through.
They deleted all my footage. Journalists here r so proud of themselves now All they did was show the world what type of country they live in
- alina eprimian (@alina_eprimian) August 1, 2014
RUPTLY's producer has been at the scene with her equipment - camera and tripod which had labels of RT Ruptly.

According to RT's official statement, one of the Ukrainian journalists, who was also working at the scene, noticed labels of RT RUPTLY and started questioning her and filming with his video camera. This attracted attention of other reporters, who called the police. Security forces arrived along with Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) representatives.

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Chinese factory explodes, killing 68 and injuring 187 workers

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At least 68 people have been killed and over 187 injured after a huge explosion hit a metal production factory in Kunshan City in China's eastern Jiangsu Province, China Central Television reports. The blast occurred at around 7:37 a.m. local time inside a wheel hub polishing workshop of a metal factory, according to Xinhua.

A regional hospital received nearly a hundred wounded, while medical teams returning from the scene reported numerous cases of severe burns and respiratory complications. Images posted online showed charred bodies and people with burnt clothing congregated outside the factory complex, which was still billowing black smoke, reports AFP.

"The scene is a mess, its unrecognisable," a witness at the scene wrote via Sina Weibo, a popular Chinese micro-blogging service.


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The Feds want to repopulate the U.S. with genetically pure bison

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© www.euclidlibrary.orgBison: The next generation
The United States Interior Department is moving forward for now with a plan that could someday re-populate a large portion of America with herds of wild bison unlike anything seen since the 1800s.

On Wednesday, officials at Yellowstone National Park said they'll start asking for comments concerning an Interior Department proposal that would quarantine herds of bison to eliminate the spread of a certain disease, and then eventually relocate the healthy animals to ranges across the US.

Yellowstone holds most of America's bison, Reuters reported on Thursday, with around 4,000 or so of the animals, also known as buffalo, calling the park home. The Interior Department thinks public lands in parts of the American West like Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska and South Dakota could contain healthy bison herds, however, if an experiment the agency is considering works out as planned.

The Interior Department is holding two meetings next month in Montana, and wants the public to weigh in there on what they think about an effort to conserve the species and keep its population growing.

According to Reuters, roughly half of the bison in Yellowstone are believed to have been infected with a deadly type of infection spread by cows called brucellosis. Through the Interior Department's proposal, the government would move herds of the animal to external sites, and then quarantine them for years to attempt and prevent the disease from spreading further.

Then, once the animal population is ridden of the disease, new herds of healthy bison could be brought to parts of the West to re-establish buffalo populations there.

Already, though, some have expressed complaints over the proposal.

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No dissent allowed: Israel kills 2, injures dozens of other peaceful protesters in West Bank

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© Reuters / Abed Omar QusiniPalestinian Hamas supporters shout anti-Israel slogans during a protest against the Israeli offensive in Gaza, in the West Bank city of Nablus August 1, 2014.
Two Palestinians have been killed and over 90 injured in West Bank as thousands marched against the IDF's assault on Gaza. The bloodshed happened after Israeli authorities used tear gas and live ammunition to block vocal yet seemingly peaceful rallies.

In the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, a 22-year-old Tamer Faraj Sammur was shot in the chest during clashes with Israeli forces, AFP reports. Hamas urged the West Bank residents on Friday to stage a "Day of Anger" protest across another Palestinian enclave.

An Israeli army spokeswoman said she was looking into the incident. Another 14 Palestinians were injured by live and rubber-coated bullets shot by the Israeli army as more than 3,000 Palestinians took part in the demonstration.

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The garden variety psychopath: Man charged with putting needles in packaged meat 'for the hell of it'

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An Illinois man was jailed without bond after being charged of inserting sewing needles into packaged meat at a grocery store on at least seven occasions over more than a year.

A criminal complaint was filed against Ronald Avers, 68, who appeared in court Thursday on seven counts of tampering with meat products, each punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Avery was ordered jailed pending a scheduled detention hearing Monday.

The court complaint provided testimony from customers of a Shop 'n Save store in the suburbs of St. Louis, with one saying he bit into one of the needles that was inserted into a piece of boneless chuck roast.

SuperValu Inc., the corporate parent of the Shop 'n Save franchise, said that none of the cases resulted in serious injury, and that the alleged tampering was confined to only the meat department of one chain.

Comment: From THE PSYCHOPATH - The Mask of Sanity: Special Research Project of the Quantum Future School
Harrington goes so far as to say that the psychopath is the new man being produced by the evolutionary pressures of modern life. Other researchers criticize this view, pointing out the real disabilities that the clinical psychopath also suffers.

The study of "ambulatory" psychopaths - what we call "The Garden Variety Psychopath" - has, however, hardly begun. Very little is known about subcriminal psychopathy. However, some researchers have begun to seriously consider the idea that it is important to study psychopathy not as an artificial clinical category but as a general personality trait in the community at large. In other words, psychopathy is being recognized as a more or less a different type of human.

One very interesting aspect of the psychopath is his "hidden life" that is sometimes not too well hidden. It seems that the psychopath has a regular need to take a "vacation into filth and degradation" the same way normal people may take a vacation to a resort where they enjoy beautiful surroundings and culture. To get a full feeling for this strange "need" of the psychopath - a need that seems to be evidence that "acting human" is very stressful to the psychopath - read more of The Mask of Sanity, chapters 25 and 26.

Also, read Cleckley's speculations on what was "really wrong" with these people. He comes very close to suggesting that they are human in every respect - but that they lack a soul. This lack of "soul quality" makes them very efficient "machines." They can be brilliant, write scholarly works, imitate the wordsof emotion, but over time, it becomes clear that their words do not match their actions. They are the type of person who can claim that they are devastated by grief who then attend a party "to forget." The problem is: they really DO forget.
Also watch the following video to learn more on the topic of psychopathy




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Eric Garner NYPD chokehold case ruled a homicide

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The death of a New York City man who was placed in a chokehold by police has been ruled a homicide by the city's medical examiner.

According to the Associated Press, the medical examiner's office confirmed on Friday that a chokehold administered by police was the cause of 43-year-old Eric Garner's death on July 17, though asthma and heart disease were contributing factors.

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Apologists for genocide: The reasons why Gaza's population is so young

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The population density of the Gaza Strip has been disputed, but in comparison with other cities, Gaza City, with a population of around 750,000, is undoubtedly a densely populated urban area.

This goes some way to explaining the high numbers of casualties in the current conflict. Some 63 Israelis and about 1460 Palestinians have died since the current conflict started a month ago, with children accounting for at least 245 of the deaths. But why so many children? It turns out that there are unusual features about the population structure in Gaza that make it an enigma in the modern world.

First, the Gaza Strip's population of roughly 1.8 million has an unusually large proportion of children. Figures for 2013 from Index Mundi, the internet source of country data, show that that 43.5 per cent of the population is aged 14 or under, compared with 32 per cent in Egypt and 27 per cent in Israel.

Comment: This article on the New Scientist website is unconscionable, and is a prime example of the western mainstream media, once again, blaming the victim. As if the civilian resident's of the Gaza strip are somehow responsible for the atrocities committed against them.

In reality, deliberately targeting civilians, especially children, has been part of Israel's zionist agenda for a long time. Recent examples include the bombing of beach in Gaza where boys were playing football, the missile strike against a Gaza hospital, and the destruction of the only power plant in Gaza, upon which so many families depend.

Perhaps it is not quite accurate to say that the IDF is targeting children over mothers, or civilians over soldiers, because in the minds of the psychopathic leaders in Israel, Palestinians are no more than animals or insects, they want them all dead, regardless of age, gender or situation.

One can only speculate about who calls the shots on the editorial board at New Scientist, what the editor's political affiliations are, and where they get their funding from.

For when genocide becomes permissible, it's business as usual at New Scientist.


Health

Factory explosion in Jiangsu province in eastern China kills at least 65

Explosion in factory in China
© AP Photo/Xinhua, Chen Peiliang
A blast at a factory in China' s eastern industrial province of Jiangsu killed at least 65 people and injured more than 120, China's central television said.

The blast occurred in in the city of Kunshan on Saturday.

Local media reported the accident occurred at an auto metal parts making workshop because of carelessness when handling flammable materials or a steam boiler breakdown. Medics and rescuers were working at the site. Photo in the Internet show scores of burnt people sitting on the ground or lying on stretchers. Smoke was billowing over the workshop.

Some of the injured people are in grave condition.

Four hundred and fifty people worked at the factory.

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Dutch investigators had "no opportunity" to reach MH17 site: Thanks, Kiev!

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© AFP Photo / Dominique FagetWreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 two days after it crashed in a sunflower field near the village of Rassipnoe, in east Ukraine, on July 19, 2014.
Dutch experts who have taken the leading role in the MH17 plane crash investigation are not able to reach the crash site in eastern Ukraine, a spokesperson of the Dutch Safety Board told RT.

RT: Have your experts already been to the MH17 crash site in the Donetsk Region?

Wim van der Weegen: No, our Dutch investigators have not been there yet. Since the Dutch Safety Board took over the leadership of the investigation on July 23, there has been no possibility for us to visit the crash site.

RT: Why is there no possibility? Are there security reasons behind that?

Wim van der Weegen: Two things: first, yes, safety; second - we don't decide on our own whether our investigators can leave for the crash site. We depend on the information and analyses from the Dutch Ministry of Safety and Security and the Dutch Ministry of Defense. So, we rely on their information on whether it is safe or not to go to the crash site. If we get positive insights, we can arrange the logistics for how to get there.

RT: Who is helping you to collect the information from the crash site?

Wim van der Weegen: The investigation started right after the crash. There was an international team of air crash investigators. This team has collected a lot of information in the past two weeks. For example, data recorders, satellite information, radar information from air traffic controllers. The search at the crash site is just one part of a bigger, complex investigation.