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Doctors find bizarre mass of bone, teeth & hair in teen's stomach. It was her own twin

Rachael Rettner
Live Science
Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:21 UTC
stomach lump
© Anil Kumar, et al./BMJ Case Reports/CC BY-NC 4.0A large lump in a teenager's stomach turned out to be her own "twin" inside her abdomen. Above, an image of the lump before the teen's operation.
A teenager in India was discovered to have a bizarre mass of bone, teeth and "hairy cheesy material" in her abdomen, according to a new report of the case. It was her own "twin" growing inside her, the result of an extremely rare condition called "fetus in fetu."

The 17-year-old went to the doctor after developing a lump in her abdomen that had been gradually increasing in size over the last five years, according to the report, published Aug. 12 in the journal BMJ Case Reports. The teen told doctors that she sometimes experienced abdominal pain and a feeling of fullness, even when she had not eaten much food.

A CT scan revealed that the teen had a large mass in her abdomen that appeared to contain multiple bones "resembling the shape of vertebrae, ribs and long bones," the authors wrote.

Doctors diagnosed the teen with fetus in fetu, a condition that is estimated to occur in only about 1 in 500,000 people worldwide.

The new case is even more unusual because it was diagnosed in a teenager, whereas most previous cases have been found in infancy or early childhood, the authors said. What's more, the mass appears to be the largest one ever discovered in a case like this, they said.
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NPC

Council member claims cleaning up Seattle's excrement-covered streets is 'racist'


RT
Thu, 29 Aug 2019 08:53 UTC
homeless camp Seattle
© REUTERS/David RyderHomeless encampment on a sidewalk in downtown Seattle, Washington
When two Seattle, Washington judges asked the local authorities to clean up garbage and human waste from the homeless camp outside their courthouse, one council member worried that power-washing the sidewalks might be racist.

The King County courthouse in downtown Seattle is located near the social service centers and several homeless shelters. A tent city has sprung up in the little park outside. There have been several assaults on courthouse employees, and even two attacks on jurors In May and June, leading to citizens summoned for jury duty to voice concerns about their safety.

Judges Laura Inveen and Jim Rogers, backed by King County Sheriff John Urquhart, asked the county to do something about it, the Seattle Times reported last month. Among their requests was a daily power-wash of the sidewalks, which "reek of urine and excrement."
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Arrow Down

California's homeless crisis getting worse as business owners confront 'naked junkies & streets covered in feces'

Martin Gould
Daily Mail
Thu, 29 Aug 2019 08:53 UTC
California homeless
© Andy Johnstone / Daily MailGrowing issue: Sacramento's homeless population has risen 19 per cent in two years, with 5,570 people living on the streets. Pictured above is a man sleeping on the sidewalk in broad daylight
Cali Carlisle admits she is a heroin addict — 'but in a healthy way,' she insists, even if the visual evidence belies that claim.

Her nose is the brightest shade of red imaginable. She constantly picks at scabs all over her body. Her home is a makeshift bed beneath Interstate 80 in Sacramento.

And Monday was her 26th birthday. Not that you would ever guess. Anyone looking at her would think she is at least 15 years older.

Carlisle is part of California's growing homeless emergency. The state has around 130,000 people without a roof over their heads. But she is not in downtown Los Angeles where Skid Row is a symbol of the national crisis or San Francisco where nearly one person in every hundred lives on the streets.

Instead, Carlisle and her fiancé Brian Workman are in Sacramento, the state capital, where homelessness has shot up by a shocking 19 per cent in the past two years, putting the problem squarely on the doorstep of Gavin Newsom, the state's Democratic governor.
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Books

College board drops student 'adversity score' on SAT, replaces it with "Landscape"

Dr. Susan Berry
Breitbart
Wed, 28 Aug 2019 05:53 UTC
student
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The College Board announced it would be dropping its controversial "adversity score" on the SAT college entrance exam that informed schools of the socio-economic background of students taking the test.


Instead of providing a single score that was expected to convey information such as crime rate of students' neighborhoods or poverty levels of their high schools, the College Board will use a new tool called "Landscape," the company announced Tuesday.

"We listened to thoughtful criticism and made Landscape better and more transparent," said David Coleman, CEO of the College Board. "Landscape provides admissions officers more consistent background information so they can fairly consider every student, no matter where they live and learn."

Prior to taking on his post at the College Board, Coleman served as the "architect" of the Common Core State Standards.

The Adversity Score was offered in the midst of the college admissions cheating scandal that has seen prominent parents, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, involved in a scheme to pay thousands of dollars for their children to gain entrance to elite schools.

Comment: See also:

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Propaganda

Mainstream media clutch their pearls in horror as conservatives turn their smear-tactic culture war against them

Helen Buyniski
RT
Wed, 28 Aug 2019 20:06 UTC
New York Times, subway
© Getty Images North America / Ramin Talaie
Conservatives are digging through reporters' social media histories to find "potentially embarrassing" posts that could be used to discredit their employers, MSM has discovered to its horror - only they are allowed to do that!

"A loose network of conservative operatives" is sifting through journalists' social media histories, looking for inflammatory nuggets that can be used to discredit the organizations they work for, the New York Times warned earlier this week, noting that this band of marauding internet sleuths has already exposed sensitive information about reporters from CNN, the Washington Post, and the Times itself.

Much of it, they claim, "has been professionally harmful to its targets."


Comment: Poor dears. Not that any independent journalists or alt-media outlets have ever suffered from NYT smears.


Comment: Sauce for the goose, as they say.

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Bizarro Earth

African migrants clash violently with Mexican police after being denied 'free entry' to US


RT
Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:47 UTC
African migrants Mexico
© Reuters / Jose Torres
Migrants from Africa demanding the right to travel to the US and Canada clashed with Mexican military police after Mexico cracked down on free migration in response to US threats of economic retaliation.

Nationals of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Angola, Senegal, Cameroon, and several other African countries, stuck in southern Mexico after the government clamped down on northward migration in response to US pressure, are protesting for the right to continue their journey. They are demanding travel documents and government support, so that they can enter the US. On Tuesday, their demonstrations turned violent.

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Newspaper

25 Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces killed by Houthi's in northern Yemen


Xinhua
Wed, 28 Aug 2019 06:10 UTC
Yemeni
© ReutersThe aftermath of a missile attack launched by Yemeni armed forces on a Saudi-led coalition military parade in Aden, Yemen on August 1, 2019.
Around 25 soldiers of the Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces were killed Tuesday during a large-scale attack launched by the Houthi rebels in the country's northern province of Saada, a military official told Xinhua.

"The Houthi group set up an ambush for a number of advancing military units of the government forces in Saada's eastern area of Kataf," the military official said on condition of anonymity.

He said the attack left 25 soldiers killed and scores of others injured, adding that the Houthis captured a number of soldiers.

Hadi Tarshan, the governor of Saada, confirmed to Xinhua that intense armed confrontations have been underway near Kataf for the third consecutive day.

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Bizarro Earth

BBC celebrates 'trail blazing' transgender rugby player, fails miserably at following up on obvious dangers

Diana Davison
The Post Millennial
Sun, 25 Aug 2019 15:58 UTC
transgender rugby Kelly Morgan
It has long been agreed that athletes should not use performance enhancers like steroids. What hasn't been discussed is the similar effect of transgender athletes who, biologically, have the natural equivalent of steroid enhancers without having consumed any drugs.

A recent BBC article, celebrating the accomplishments of Kelly Morgan in the sport of rugby, focuses on the social advances that Ms. Morgan has accomplished and glosses over the question of biological disadvantages she brought to the sport.

Ms. Morgan's history, as described in the article, includes mention of an injury sustained prior to transitioning to the opposite gender. According to the BBC, "injury ended that initial involvement with the sport but, after a decade wrestling with gender identity and transitioning to female, Kelly is back playing — and loving it."

Comment: There are so many blatant cues about the detriments of a biological male playing rugby with women in this story that the BBC could have dug into if it had any journalistic integrity. They've long demonstrated that they don't have such principles so it is not surprising, but it is still shameful.

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Attention

Embrace cannibalism to fight climate change say two British psychology professors

Jared Piazza and Neil McLatchie
The Conversation
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 19:55 UTC
Cannabalism
© ABC Net Australia
Vulnerable spadefoot tadpoles eat their smaller competitors to speed towards toadhood as quickly as possible. Gulls and pelicans are among bird species that eat hatchlings for food or to prevent the spread of disease. In insect species such as the praying mantis or the Australian redback spider, males offer their bodies as a final gift to females after mating.

It's more common than you'd think in mammals too. Many rodent mothers may eat some of their young if they're sick, dead, or too numerous to feed. Bears and lions kill and eat the offspring of adult females to make them more receptive to mating. Chimpanzees sometimes cannibalise unlucky rivals, usually infants, seemingly for the mere opportunity of some extra protein.

For humans though, cannibalism is the ultimate taboo. In fact, our aversion to cannibalism is so strong that consent and ethics count for little.

In one of our own experiments, participants were asked to consider the hypothetical case of a man who gave permission to his friend to eat parts of him once he died of natural causes.

Participants read that this occurred in a culture that permitted the act, that the act was meant to honour the deceased, and that the flesh was cooked so that there was no chance of disease. Despite this careful description, about half of the participants still insisted that the act was invariably wrong.

Even in the starkest of situations, the act of eating another human's flesh remains almost beyond contemplation. Survivors of the famous 1972 Andes plane crash waited until near starvation before succumbing to reason and eating those who had already died.

One survivor, Roberto Canessa, felt that to eat his fellow passengers would be "stealing their souls" and descending towards "ultimate indignity" - despite recalling that in the aftermath of the crash, he like many others had declared that he would be glad for his body to aid the communal survival mission.

Comment: Yeah, "for now..."

You see where they're taking this, right?

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Bad Guys

Lebanese army fires at Israeli drone in south of the country


Sputnik
Wed, 28 Aug 2019 19:48 UTC
Lebanese Army Forces
© Sputnik/Zahraa Al AmirLebanese Army Forces
Lebanon has accused Israel of being behind a drone strike on the office of Hezbollah near Beirut on 25 August, followed by another on Palestinian militant positions in eastern Lebanon.

Lebanon's army has opened fire at an Israeli drone in the south of the country, Reuters reported, citing Lebanese security sources.

According to the source, the troops fired shots from M16 assault rifles.

Comment: Israel incessantly complains about its safety and security, but has no problem violating another country's safety and security in pursuit of that. Bibi is playing a dangerous game in his bid to be re-elected and avoid corruption charges.

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