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Maybe we've been conned. There's a growing recognition that Barack Obama is an incompetent poser, working out of his depth, and his administration is the gang that can't shoot straight. There's a lot of evidence to support that belief.
Everything he touches becomes a bloody mess, like crushed bones and bits of flesh caught in the tracks of a tank slicing through a rank of soldiers (or civilians). Iraq, Syria, Egypt - all gone, as prospects for countries with a prosperous and democratic future. The "reset" with Russia, meant to ensure that America and the replacement republic of the old Soviet Union can be friends, is a reset, sure enough. The new Russia looks more like a reset to the Cold War, more adversary than friend, transformed by a feckless American president and an ambitious Russian leader eager to take advantage of weak and incompetent American leadership.
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The Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project (SWPA-EHP) has been conducting a "pretty aggressive" indoor air monitoring project since 2011 in the midst of Pennsylvania's gas drilling boom, particularly near unconventional wells that employed hydraulic fracturing, project director Reina Ripple said in a webinar hosted by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The project has documented sudden increases in particulate matter within homes, she said.
"These are really significant spikes in particulate matter, and a lot of the time they do happen at night," Ripple said.
The spikes may last three to four hours, and they cannot be explained by typical household activities like cooking, Ripple said.
The spikes occur at night, she believes, because of stable atmospheric conditions that hold particulate matter low to the ground instead of dispersing it.
"The air masses at night tend to be pretty stable, so you've got a lot of people who are living not even downwind from these sites necessarily, but downslope."
Jeremy Scott "Silo" Walters was charged with computer trespass and cyberstalking for harassing the woman, who paid him $60 in June 2011 to transfer files from an old computer - including several nude photographs - to a new one.
Authorities said in a court document that the suspect "advertises himself on the Internet as a web designer, photographer, graphic designer, podcaster, artist and an 'a*shole.'"
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that the 10-minute procedure was the last interaction between the two until December 2013, when she received a phone call from a blocked number threatening to publish the photos online if she did not "play along."
The lead detective in the case against Justin Ross Harris, 33, of Marietta said Harris had exchanged sexually explicit text messages with women other than his wife in the weeks before the child's death.
He also had done Internet research on living child-free, how to survive in prison and child deaths in hot cars because he feared it could happen, Cobb County Detective Phil Stoddard testified at Harris' probable cause hearing.
A judge will decide if there is sufficient evidence against Harris on charges of felony murder and child cruelty stemming from his son's June 18 death and whether he should be released on bail pending a trial.
© AFP Photo / Kirill KudryavtsevAlgeria's national team
"They need it more than us," 26-year old Islam Slimani, whose club is Sporting Lisbon.
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014California grants wind industry permit to kill eagles, ruffling more than feathers - Washington Times
By sacrificing a few bald eagles, the Obama administration may have opened a can of worms.
In a bid to give alternative energy sources a boost, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has quietly granted a California wind energy farm a permit to kill a limited number of endangered bald and golden eagles that get sliced up in its giant turbines. But last week's free pass is sparking anger from wildlife advocates and from free market advocates who ask why they don't qualify for the same dispensation.
Kumamoto, Japan, where a woman died during an exorcism.
Reports said Rie Fukuda, aged 51, was pinned down and made to swallow a large volume of water in what detectives said was an "exorcism" carried out by her husband and two elderly women.
Kosai Fukuda, 52, an associate professor at a university in the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto, was arrested alongside Eiko Noda, 81, and Keiko Kitayama, 77, police told AFP Friday.
Noda has been performing exorcisms for money for about three decades, Nippon Television reported, citing unnamed sources in the local police.
Noda and Fukuda told police that the dead woman "had been receiving exorcism for several years".
No details were given on the religion of those allegedly involved.
Comment: It's gotta be said: If your exorcist has been working on you for three years, it's time to find a better 'exorcist'!
"This way please ma'am"... Jane Palmer of Monkton, Vermont, was arrested for knitting at the Vermont Gas Systems headquarters in South Burlington on Wednesday. She and four other women were knitting in protest of a planned pipeline to continue fracking the life out of Vermont.
One woman was bound off by police, taken away in what Vermont Public Radio says were five squad cars that responded to perhaps the most civil of all disobediences.
The knitters insisted on speaking to Vermont Gas officials about their complaints over a pipeline expansion. They were told they needed an appointment; after the utility's headquarters closed, they were warned that they were trespassing.
Jane Palmer, a diminutive woman in a floral-print dress and a straw hat, was arrested about 30 minutes after the offices closed.
"Palmer was knitting what appeared to be a turquoise scarf, and had knitted about 8 inches of it before Vermont Gas closed at 5 p.m.," VPR's Taylor Dobbs reports.
Comment: To believe NATO's chief, these women are Kremlin agents:
Paranoid androids: NATO chief Rasmussen sez 'Russians secretly working with environmentalists to make fracking seem bad'
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"The bottom line is, Americans are not as cold-hearted as you, Laura Ingraham," Uygur said. "Laura, you've got to get that through your thick skull, but you're never going to. You think everybody's as mean and evil as you are, because that's how you grew up and you think, 'That's my perspective, so isn't everybody as mean and evil as I am? Don't they hate people as much as I do?' And the answer is no."
Uygur played footage of Ingraham's Wednesday night "catfight" with O'Reilly, during which Ingraham laid out her vision of denying immigrants access to social service programs and housing.
The O'Reilly Factor host disagreed with her idea, calling it a "draconian" plan that would effectively doom the Republican Party. But O'Reilly's own idea for dealing with the recent immigrant upswing - trade sanctions against Mexico - has also been criticized.
© CNNPeople gather in front of the Albi, France, school Friday after a kindergarten teacher was fatally stabbed in class.
"This morning, a mother showed up with a knife and stabbed a 34-year-old teacher in front of her students, for reasons that will be determined by the investigation," Albi prosecutor Claude Derens told AFP.
"When I arrived at the scene they were trying to revive her. She was in cardiac arrest in her classroom," he said.
President Francois Hollande immediately sent Education Minister Benoit Hamon to the school to take charge of the government response.
"All state services will be mobilised to take care of these children and the staff who witnessed this awful tragedy," Hollande said in a statement.
Comment: This current immigrant surge will not be the cause of America's decline into Third World status. Wherever psychopaths rule there will eventually be ponerization, degradation and finally collapse. This is just another event in the circus that is America's ongoing destruction.