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Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge breaks marathon world record by 78 seconds


Sputnik
Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:10 UTC
Eliud Kipchoge
© REUTERS/ Fabrizio Bensch
On Sunday, Kenyan Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge set a marathon world record at the Berlin Marathon by finishing the race in two hours, one minute and 39 seconds, chopping an astonishing 78 seconds off the standing record.

The 33-year-old athlete beat the previous world record set in Berlin by Kenyan runner Dennis Kimetto, who won the Berlin race in 2014.

"I lack words to describe this day," Kipchoge said following his victory.

"They say you miss two times, but you can't miss the third time," he said, referring to his two previous attempts to break the world record in Germany.

Amos Kipruto of Germany came second at two hours, six minutes and 23 seconds, followed by former world-record holder Wilson Kipsang of Kenya, who was just 25 seconds behind.
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Mass brawl leads to stabbings in Luton, UK - several seriously injured


Sputnik
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 01:21 UTC
ambulance
© Associated Press / Kirsty Wigglesworth
Several people have been taken to hospital with serious stab wounds after a mass brawl in a residential street in the southeastern UK town of Luton, Reuters reported Sunday.

According to media reports, local police and emergency services had responded to the scene after receiving reports of an incident. "Some people have been taken to hospital after reports of stab wounds," local police official was quoted as saying by Reuters.
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Sun

X-Files DVD & empty houses: VIDEOs from 'Ghost town' New Mexico Solar Observatory


RT
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 23:33 UTC
Sun spots
© Reuters
While authorities and operators of a New Mexico Solar Observatory remain tight-lipped why the facility was shut down abruptly 11 days ago, enthusiasts have crossed police lines to film the area that turned into a Ghost town.

The Sunspot Solar Observatory at Sacramento, New Mexico which promises to "unlock the mysteries of the Sun and its effects on Earth" has turned into a sort of terrestrial mystery after it was abruptly closed and evacuated at the request of FBI with a Blackhawk helicopter swooping over the area. And while speculations of what led to the events of September 6 were swirling, little was officially revealed to the public.

The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), which operates the facility, has released a statement that investigation of criminal activity that occurred at Sacramento Peak is underway and that a suspect "posed a threat to the safety of local staff and residents" who were removed from the mountain.

The abandoned facility attracted several enthusiasts who - 'armed' with cameras and drones - ignored the police tape and 'Do not enter' signs.
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Sherlock

WikiLeaks associate's mysterious disappearance takes a new turn

Jon Henley
The Guardian
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 01:03 UTC
wikileaks
© Associated Press/Yves Logghe
Arjen Kamphuis' effects found in the sea but his phones were turned on 1,000 miles away

Arjen Kamphuis, a leading Dutch cybersecurity expert, who went missing in the Arctic circle in August. Photograph: Dennis van Zuijlekom

On 20 August, Arjen Kamphuis, a leading Dutch cybersecurity expert, checked out of his hotel in Bodø, northern Norway. He had told friends that he planned to take the train to Trondheim, 10 hours away.

He never boarded the train. Nor, two days later at the supposed end of his holiday, did he catch his return flight to Amsterdam. An intensive search by Norwegian police, and two Dutch investigators dispatched to help them has failed to locate him.
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Fire

As outrage builds, focus turns to finding cause of fires that struck up to 80 Boston area buildings

Michael Levenson, Milton Valencia and Adam Vaccar
The Boston Globe
Sat, 15 Sep 2018 00:17 UTC
gas explosion Boston
© Associted Press
The fires destroyed at least 50 homes in the Boston area, according to local media reported.
With frustration mounting across the Merrimack Valley, Governor Charlie Baker declared a state of emergency Friday and called in another utility to handle the response to the series of gas explosions and fires that killed one and displaced thousands a day earlier.

Baker, facing growing outrage from the residents of Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover, criticized how Columbia Gas, the utility that provided gas to the dozens of destroyed homes, had responded to the disaster and placed Eversource in charge.

"We believe that will make a big difference with respect to the relationship between what gets told to us and to what actually happens on the ground, and the representations that are made to people in these three communities, so we can do everything we can to ensure their homes and communities are safe," Baker said at a press conference.
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Take 2

Wiltshire police cordon off Salisbury restaurant & street after 2 people fall ill


RT
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 19:44 UTC
Police
© Henry Nicholls / Reuters
A police officer guards a cordoned off area of Queen Elizabeth Gardens, Salisbury.
Salisbury police have placed a Prezzo restaurant on lockdown and cordoned off the surrounding roads after two people fell ill there.

Police were called to the area on Sunday evening following the incident involving a man and a woman at the Italian cuisine chain, Wiltshire Police wrote on Twitter.
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Oil Well

EPA proposed relaxing methane leak rules to boost fracking industry

Petr Svab
The Epoch Times
Wed, 12 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
Oil wells
© Getty Images
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed loosening regulations on methane leaks in the oil and gas industry. The new rules would save the industry hundreds of millions with only a marginal increase in greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants.

The change would give more breathing room to the hydraulic fracking industry, which has dominated the recent growth in the oil and gas sector.

The proposed rule (pdf) would roll back some regulations of oil and gas wells, storage tanks, and processing plants by giving them more time to fix leaks (60 instead of 30 days) and more time between inspections (a year instead of half a year) among few other conveniences.

The EPA expects the new rules would save the industry $484 million between 2019 and 2025.
"These common-sense reforms will alleviate unnecessary and duplicative red tape and give the energy sector the regulatory certainty it needs to continue providing affordable and reliable energy to the American people," said EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler in a Sept. 11 release.
Savings for the industry would help boost domestic energy production, a priority for President Donald Trump, Wheeler said.

In response to the new proposal, Clean Air Task Force, an environmental nonprofit, accused the EPA of attempting to
"cozy up to the oil and gas industry" and "placing regulatory rollbacks above protecting the public from dangerous air pollution," in a Sept. 11 release.

Comment: Regulations depend upon accurate assessments and thus affect the costs and methods of energy production. Unless EPA methane emissions data gathering has drastically changed, this has been their process for collecting measurements:
EPA's "bottom-up" approach, which measures natural gas outputs directly from the source, can come up with vastly different figures than "top-down" studies, which measure air-borne gas concentrations. A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in November 2013 using the top-down approach also found a 50 percent underestimate.


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Footprints

Syrian Army dispatches additional military convoys to Idlib


FARS News Agency
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 03:44 UTC
Syrian Army convoy
© Unknown
Syrian Army convoy
The Syrian Army sent more troops and equipment to the Northwestern parts of the country on Sunday to reinvigorate its combat capabilities for an imminent major operation in Idlib province.

The army forwarded a long convoy of military vehicles and tank-carrying trucks along with a large number of fresh soldiers to Idlib and Northern Hama to end terrorists' presence in Idlib, Aleppo, Lattakia, and Hama provinces.

In the meantime, a field source reported that hundreds of fresh army men have been deployed at contact lines with Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) terrorists and militants of the Operation Olive Branch in Afrin in recent days.

The sources further said that the army is planning to kick off a large-scale operation in different flanks to liberate Idlib province.

Meanwhile, the Arabic-language al-Mayadeen TV Network reported that the terrorists that come from China and are known as Uyghur as well as Turkistani and Uzbek militants have transferred their family members to the borders with Turkey in Idlib and Lattakia provinces.
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People

"Hostile Takeover": Anti-Islam book becomes German bestseller less than two weeks after release


RT
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:54 UTC
Hostile Takeover: How Islam Impedes Progress and Threatens Society
© M. Popow/ Global Look Press
Flying off the shelves
A new book highly critical of Islam and Muslims has been flying off the shelves in Germany to become a non-fiction bestseller. Mainstream media panned it for a simplistic approach to the religion.

The controversial book titled "Hostile Takeover: How Islam Impedes Progress and Threatens Society" reached the number one spot on Der Spiegel's non-fiction list after being on the market for less than a fortnight. It's a critique of Islam as a religion, which the author sees as detrimental to people sharing it, based on a literal reading of the Koran.

Written by one-time SPD politician and former member of the executive board of the Bundesbank, Thilo Sarrazin, the work comes eight years after Sarrazin's previous take on Muslims titled "Germany Abolishes Itself". Focusing on what he called a failure of multiculturalism policies, that book accused Arab and Turkish immigrants of "dumbing down" the German society, and shifted 1.5 million copies.

Comment: The EU bureaucrats who supported the illegal wars on the Middle East and, in turn, forced millions of migrants from a drastically different culture onto the German population only have themselves to blame: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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Clock

EU votes to quit daylight 'savings' time in 2019


Deutsch Welle
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 18:05 UTC
EU time
The EU is doing away with the twice-yearly clock changes and has given member states until April to decide if they will remain on summer or winter time. But there are fears Europe is heading for time-zone chaos.

European Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc on Friday announced that the EU will stop the twice-yearly changing of clocks across the continent in October 2019.

The practice, which was used as a means to conserve energy during the World Wars as well as the oil crises of the 1970s, became law across the bloc in 1996.

All EU countries are required to move forward by an hour on the last Sunday of March and back by an hour on the final Sunday in October.

Bulc said EU member states would have until April 2019 to decide whether they would permanently remain on summer or winter time.

Comment: Any benefits, if there ever were any, no longer serve us, and thankfully people trust their judgement enough to know that daylight savings time is really just damaging our health. And it seems, as is often the case, that Russia was way ahead of the curve, when it cancelled it in 2014: Russia Returns to Standard Time All Year

See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: Real Time and Fake Time

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