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Desperate survivors of Philippine typhoon raid the dead


Raw Story
Sun, 10 Nov 2013 21:46 UTC
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Tormented survivors of a typhoon that is feared to have killed more than 10,000 in the Philippines rummaged for food Sunday through debris scattered with corpses, while frenzied mobs looted aid convoys.

Two days after one of the most powerful storms ever recorded flattened entire towns across part of the Southeast Asian archipelago, desperate survival tactics created fresh horrors.

On the outskirts of Tacloban, a coastal eastern city of 220,000 where tsunami-like waves destroyed many buildings, Edward Gualberto accidentally stepped on bodies as he raided the wreckage of a home.

Wearing nothing but a pair of red basketball trousers, the father-of-four and village councillor apologised for his shabby appearance and for stealing from the dead.

"I am a decent person. But if you have not eaten in three days, you do shameful things to survive," Gualberto told AFP as he dug canned goods from the debris and flies swarmed over the bodies.

"We have no food, we need water and other things to survive."
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Mr. Potato

Racist who wanted to create whites-only town proven to be of African descent


RT
Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:45 UTC
Craig Cobb
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A white supremacist's mission to turn a small North Dakota town into an all-white enclave took an unexpected turn when a DNA test proved his bloodline included Sub-Saharan African lineage.

The 62-year-old Craig Cobb recently appeared on NBC Universal's The Trisha Goddard Show, where he submitted himself to a DNA test that indicated he was 14 percent Sub-Saharan African. He is 86 percent European, according to the analysis.

Cobb quickly rejected the results as "statistical noise," adding that "oil and water don't mix." Goddard maintained, however, "You have a little black in you." She tried to fist bump Cobb but was rebuffed twice.

Speaking to the Daily Mail after the show, Cobb said, "I agreed to the test because I assumed it was science." Instead, he called it "short science," the product of "craven and debased executives" whose "goal is to shock."

Even if a test he was comfortable with reported the same results, Cobb said his beliefs wouldn't be any different. "Well if I did have any nigger we don't want anymore of it," he said.

As RT has reported in the past, Cobb has accumulated about 13 properties in the small North Dakota town of Leith, where he is actively encouraging others with similar beliefs to move. In a town with fewer than 20 residents, Cobb plans to use newcomers to help seize control of the government and de-integrate the community.
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Arrow Down

U.S. veterans deported after years of legal residency

Allison Geller
Opposing Views
Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:00 UTC
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Foreign-born United States veterans living in the country legally are being deported in a spate of "tough on immigration" actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The November 2012 deportation of Arnold Giammarco, an Italian-born legal resident who grew up in Hartford, Conn. and served in the Army and National Guard, has garnered a significant outcry, including a Change.org petition and a website devoted to his cause, FreeArnold.com.

Gianmmarco, 57, was honorably discharged from the Army in 1979 and the National Guard in 1983. He was then charged with shoplifting and drug offenses after lapsing into substance abuse. He served his jail time and married Sharon Giammarco in 2010. They have a 3-year-old daughter.

On the Free Arnold website, Sharon Gianmmarco presents a portrait of a man who turned his life around and lifted himself out of substance abuse to create a stable family life.

"After four years of sobriety, he thought he would never again feel the cold burn of steel around his wrists," Sharon Gianmmarco wrote. "We thought that if we did the right thing, good things would happen. We thought that imprisonment was behind us and freedom was all around us and before us."

"That day in May when he was taken from us, we were running full speed ahead and were suddenly yanked backwards by an invisible rope that tied us to our past."

Gianmmarco is one of thousands of green card-holders who serve in the U.S. military, reported the Connecticut Health I-Team.
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Random selection could 'improve democracy' by reducing corruption and ensuring that diverse people are represented fairly

Anna Salleh
ABC Science Online
Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:55 UTC
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Democracy can be better served by randomly selecting representatives, argue Italian researchers.
Democracy can be better served by randomly selecting representatives, argue Italian researchers.

Dr Alessandro Pluchino of the Universita di Cantania and colleagues report their findings on the pre-press website arXiv.org.

"We think that the introduction of random selection systems, rediscovering the wisdom of ancient democracies, would be broadly beneficial for modern institutions," write the researchers.

Dr Pluchino and colleagues developed a computer simulation, in which they studied the behaviour of politicians when randomly selected independents were introduced to a model parliament.

Their model relied on four categories of people in the parliament. These were: 'intelligent' people (actions serve both personal and social interests), 'helpless or naive' (loss for self, but gain for others), 'bandits' (benefit themselves, but not others), and 'stupid' (actions produce a loss for everyone).

The model, involving a parliament made up of two parties, had 500 individuals who could each propose and vote for or against acts.

Dr Pluchino and colleagues found that in all cases studied, adding random legislators improved the performance of the parliament. Specifically, there were more acts passed with social benefit.
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People

Chinese-American protesters pound ABC studios across America, call for Jimmy Kimmel's firing

Jenny Depper
Yahoo TV
Sun, 10 Nov 2013 00:00 UTC
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© Randy Holmes/Getty ImagesJimmy Kimmel is in hot water with critics.
Jimmy Kimmel is in hot water!

On Saturday, hundreds of protesters targeted ABC Studios in Burbank, Houston, and Phoenix to protest the Oct. 16 segment of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" where one of the late night host's tiniest guests suggested that we should "kill everyone in China."

The comment was made by a young boy during an unscripted segment called "Kids' Table," after Kimmel asked a roundtable of children how the United States should repay its $1.3 trillion debt to China. Both ABC and Kimmel have since apologized for the comment, and are no longer airing "Kids' Table."

ABC said at the time, "We offer our sincere apology. We would never purposefully broadcast anything to upset the Chinese community, Asian community, anyone of Chinese descent, or any community at large. Our objective is to entertain." Kimmel added, "I just want to say I am sorry. I apologize. It was certainly not my intent to upset anyone."

However, Chinese-American groups and protesters refuse to accept the apology. ABC Studios has not responded to Yahoo TV's request for comment regarding the protests.
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Artist nails his testicles to ground in Red Square protest

Shaun Walker
Guardian
Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:56 UTC
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Performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky stages protest at 'apathy, political indifference and fatalism of Russian society'

Red Square has seen a lot over the centuries, from public executions to giant military parades, but a performance artist broke new ground on Sunday when he nailed his scrotum to cobblestones in a painful act of protest.

Pyotr Pavlensky said the protest was his response to Russia's descent into a "police state" and was timed to coincide with Police Day, which Russia's law enforcement officials celebrated on Sunday.

"The performance can be seen as a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference and fatalism of contemporary Russian society," Pavlensky said in a statement. "As the government turns the country into one big prison, stealing from the people and using the money to grow and enrich the police apparatus and other repressive structures, society is allowing this, and forgetting its numerical advantage, is bringing the triumph of the police state closer by its inaction."
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Attention

New Jersey biologists remove arrow from deer's head


breitbart.com
Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:27 UTC
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Wildlife officials have removed an arrow from a young deer's head and released the animal back into the New Jersey woods.

The arrow that had completely pierced the 5-month-old male deer's head was removed Saturday by biologists with the Department of Environmental Protection.

The biologists who did the procedure say the arrow had not damaged any major arteries or organs and the deer's prognosis for survival is excellent.
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Bizarro Earth

Colorado college job application features the word 'queer'


CBS Denver
Fri, 08 Nov 2013 11:15 UTC
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A word on job applications at Colorado College has sparked a controversy.

The word "queer" appears in the voluntary gender section responses of the applications and the private school in Colorado Springs stands by the wording.

"I'm a little skeptical of what that could present to potential employees," Colorado Collage Quinn Webb said.

The options include to not disclose, "male", "female," "transgender" or "queer." The "queer" option is stirring up some controversy. Rex Fuller with Denver's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender (LGBT) Community Center weighed in.

"It's true that for many years lots of people were called 'queer' and it was a derogatory term and they find it offensive, but there's definitely a younger generation that is trying to reform the term and give it new meaning," Fuller said.
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Chess

Flashback SOTT Focus: The Gladiator: John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Sott.net
Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:00 UTC

Comment: This is the second in a series of 12 articles written in 2006 commemorating (at the time) the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of JFK. This year, 2013, is the 50th anniversary of what can, in hindsight and in Truth, be called the Day America Died.

Anyone who has taken the time to study the facts about that fateful day in Dallas, TX, will already know that JFK was deliberately murdered by a cabal of psychopathic warmongers who were opposed to his plans for a more peaceful world. That same cabal is still in power today, and it has extended its reach across the globe.

We will be featuring one article per day between now and the anniversary.

You can find the rest of the JFK series on the right hand bar of Sott.net. You can also purchase a Kindle of the whole series on Amazon.

If you do nothing else, just take the time to watch the Sott.net/QFG produced version of 'Evidence of Revision', a three disc set that presents archive footage that will leave you in no doubt who killed JFK and why.


The Gladiator: John Fitzgerald Kennedy



Gaius Gracchus Flees From The Wealthy Elite


In my previous post, I included a chapter from Farewell America which gave a broad overview of the "American Psyche." It is crucial to understand the forces at play here in order to understand why John Kennedy was murdered, and why, when he died, the death knell of the American Republic - as well as its people - began sounding.

As I have written before, most Americans are woefully ignorant of their true history, and by design.
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Gold Coins

$1 million worth of bitcoins stolen from Australian online bank


Russia Today
Fri, 08 Nov 2013 23:50 UTC
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An Australian bitcoin bank holding over US$1 million of the crypto-currency has been hacked, leaving an unknown number of users with nothing - one of the largest thefts in the currency's four-year history.

The incident took place on October 26, when the bank was hacked, with 4,100 bitcoins valued at $1.3 million stolen, the service's operator only known as 'Tradefortress' said. He refused to give his name to the press, also stressing he was not much older than 18.

It took the bank's owner two weeks to notify the affected customers.

Bitcoin is a decentralized, crypto-currency, free from any government or central bank control. Currency is sold and bought at online exchanges, and those transactions can be virtually anonymous.

One bitcoin is currently worth more than $300 on Mt. Gox, the world's largest bitcoin exchange - up from around $50 in March. There are 11,925,700 million bitcoins in circulation.

The Sydney man offered the service called Inputs.io, which he claimed was "one of the most secure web wallets on the market." Customers were charged a small fee to keep their bitcoins there.

The site used two-factor authentication and location-based email confirmation, and said the page was started to avert "the hack of bitcoins even if the web server was compromised."

Some of the hacked money is to be refunded, the operator told Fairfax Media. Tradefortress said he would use 1,000 of his own bitcoins, as well as the money the hackers didn't steal.
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