Around 7:20 a.m., an adult male jaguar escaped its habitat, according to officials. Authorities say the zoo was closed to the public at the time of the escape.
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Around 7:20 a.m., an adult male jaguar escaped its habitat, according to officials. Authorities say the zoo was closed to the public at the time of the escape.
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Forensic investigators in Amesbury, Britain, July 6, 2018
Forensic investigators in Amesbury, Britain, July 6, 2018
The bottle was apparently found in Charlie Rowley's house in Amesbury on Wednesday. "Scientists have now confirmed to us that the substance contained within the bottle is Novichok," a Friday statement by police said.
Investigators say they've not yet determined how a bottle of supposedly weapons-grade chemicals ended up in Rowley's home, or if there are more like it around. Police cordons will remain in place around the scene "for some considerable time."
Rowley, 45, and his girlfriend Dawn Sturgess, 44, took ill on June 30, with what British police later said was nerve agent poisoning caused by Novichok, citing researchers at the nearby Porton Down chemical lab. Both were admitted to the Salisbury hospital in critical condition.
Comment: Andrea Sella, professor of inorganic chemistry at University College London, described the bottle found in Amesbury as a "forensic gold mine" and a "treasure trove" providing "significant clues". Indeed, what a fantastic find, just like a real-life episode of Poirot or Midsummer Murders- the murder weapon was found with the contents still intact, even after four months... case closed?
Unfortunately for the UK government, there are still some major holes in the official story, as Craig Murray writes:
We are continually presented with experts by the mainstream media who will validate whatever miraculous property of "novichok" is needed to fit in with the government's latest wild anti-Russian story. Tonight Newsnight wheeled out a chemical weapons expert to tell us that "novichok" is "extremely persistent" and therefore that used to attack the Skripals could still be lurking potent on a bush in a park.For more information see the NewsReal episode and articles below:
Yet only three months ago we had this example of scores from the MSM giving the same message which was the government line at that time:
"Professor Robert Stockman, of the University of Nottingham, said traces of nerve agents did not linger. He added: 'These agents react with water to degrade, including moisture in the air, and so in the UK they would have a very limited lifetime. This is presumably why the street in Salisbury was being hosed down as a precaution - it would effectively destroy the agent.'"
In fact, rain affecting the "novichok" on the door handle was given as the reason that the Skripals were not killed. But now the properties of the agent have to fit a new narrative, so they transmute again.
It keeps happening. Do you remember when Novichok was the most deadly of substances, many times more powerful than VX or Sarin, and causing death in seconds? But then, when that needed to be altered to fit the government's Skripal story, they found scientists to explain that actually no, it was pretty slow acting, absorbed gradually through the skin, and not all that deadly.
- Who's behind the Amesbury 'novichok' incident?
- A Tale of two Novichoks: UK police unable to say if 'Amesbury nerve agent' is same as 'Salisbury nerve agent'
- Novichok expert: 'No one survives exposure to it'
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"Tonight, IDF fighter jets targeted an attack terror tunnel in southern Gaza, in addition to several terror sites throughout Gaza, among them complexes used to prepare arson terror attacks and a Hamas terror training facility," the IDF said, posting a video of the strike.
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"Enormous number of Western-produced modern weapons and equipment was handed over by reconciled militants to the Syrian army," spokesperson Maria Zakharova said, during her weekly news briefing on Thursday. "Different antitank missile systems, armored vehicles and small arms represent material evidence of gross interference in Syria."
The reconciliation deal with militant forces, brokered by Russian military, and the advances of the Syrian army allowed to "almost completely" liberate the embattled southwestern Deraa province. Syrian forces regained control over the border with Jordan and the operation against remaining terrorists was carried out with minimal casualties, Zakharova stressed.
Comment: No matter the count and caliber of weapons taken out of circulation...there are always more to be made, purchased and distributed - an ongoing industry fattening the pockets of the MIC with numbing regularity.
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More than 211,000 people have been waiting since before Christmas for operations or treatment - an increase of 48 per cent on the same NHS England figures from 2017.
The Royal College of Surgeons said many of these people will be in "severe pain and discomfort" which could well be affecting their ability to work or cope with day-to-day tasks.
Over 3,100 patients have waited over a year, the NHS England figures show.
Comment: In the video below an NHS GP describes how 8 years of deliberate underfunding by the Conservative government has led to dangerous understaffing issues, stealthy fragmentation and and the encroaching privatisation of services which, after running successfully for 70 years, are now resulting in failures within the system. One need only look to the abject failure of the privatised railways and water suppliers to have an idea of the bleak future that lies ahead for the UK.
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"We're seeing many of these [migrant] parents who have been removed decline to take their child," said Matthew Albence, the Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations division at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
He continued:
I will say that for the vast majority of the individuals [who leave their children]... it is because they completed the smuggling act. Their goal when they paid their smuggler, the criminal organizations, these cartels, $5,000 or $6,000 to smuggle themselves into the country, their goal was to get their child here. They've accomplished that goal. So if they return on their own [to their home country], they are willing to do so and leave the child here because that was the intended goal of their illegal entry in the first place.
In my previous life, I was a self-righteous social justice crusader. I would use my mid-sized Twitter and Facebook platforms to signal my wokeness on topics such as LBGT rights, rape culture, and racial injustice. Many of the opinions I held then are still opinions that I hold today. But I now realize that my social-media hyperactivity was, in reality, doing more harm than good.
According to news accounts, after about 20 minutes of protestors shouting down Murray's ability to speak, "Professor Stanger then took the microphone and asked the students, 'Can you just listen for one minute.' Many in the audience replied, 'no.' She added that, 'I spent a lot of time preparing hard questions.' Finally, she conceded that, 'You're not going to let us speak.'"
Stanger is a liberal professor who chose to combat Murray's ideas with words, not violence or the heckler's veto. This was simply unacceptable to the protestors.
Comment:
- Michael R. Eades, M.D.: Beware the confirmation bias
- What curiosity can do for your brain
- Curiosity: Making a choice to look deeper into everyday things to see their true significance
- Tips on overcoming confirmation bias
- Confirmation bias or why being wrong feels so right
- Confirmation bias: People ignore facts that contradict their false beliefs
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Throughout our country, and for a number of years now - and primarily because the establishment media fantasizes about, promotes, enflames and approves of the violence committed against the right (naturally, HuffPo opposes the unmasking law) - Antifa has been allowed to run rampant, committing countless acts of violence against everyday, peaceful supporters of President Donald Trump.
Antifa has also been responsible for untold amounts of vandalism and property damage, and targets the alt-right.
A website has been established called "The Prevention Project," which sports the tagline "Everyone deserves support," and attempts to push two disgusting ideas-that there are different classes of "pedophiles" for different ages of children that should be accepted by society, and that "non-offending pedophiles" should be praised for the fact that they have yet to molest a child.
The Prevention Project defines a "pedophile" as an adult who is attracted to pre-pubescent children, and claims that there are different classes of "pedophiles," based on the age of the child, which include infantophiles (pedophiles who are attracted only to infants), hebephiles (pedophiles who are attracted to pubescent children), and ephebophiles (pedophiles who are attracted to post-pubescent children).
The website then went on to argue that in the case of the fictional character "John," his sexual attraction to children, aged 6-12, was justified because he had yet to harm a child or to act on his sickening desires, and anyone who believed John was in the wrong was simply influenced by "religious beliefs." The Prevention Project stated:
Comment: If pedophilia is ever accepted as an alternative sexual choice by normal people it's curtains for civilization.
- Normalizing pedophilia: Disgusting TEDx Talk declares it's a 'natural sexual orientation'
- Normalization of Pedophilia: Psychopaths Try to Recreate Society in Their Own Image
- Is France Attempting to Normalize Pedophilia?
- American Psychiatric Association associates pedophilia with sexual orientation - but claims it is an error
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