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Chevron Fire: Richmond Refinery Under Investigation Amid Criticism (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

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Huff Post
JASON DEAREN 08/08/12 09:04 PM ETAssociated Press AP

SAN FRANCISCO — A massive Chevron oil refinery fire that sent hundreds of people rushing to hospitals and is pushing West Coast gas prices higher was just the latest pollution incident at the facility that records show has increasingly violated air quality rules over the past five years.

The refinery is one of three such facilities near San Francisco that rank among the state's top 10 emitters of toxic chemicals, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Release Inventory.

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Brazilian women rebel against cesarean births

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Bangor Daily News

By JULIANA BARBASSA, The Associated Press

Posted Aug. 08, 2012, at 4:28 p.m.

RIO DE JANEIRO — From the day Mariana Migon discovered she was pregnant, she knew she wanted a natural birth. So just weeks before her due date, the first-time mother abandoned her obstetrician, her health plan, and her private hospital room for the free public hospital in downtown Rio — where she had a real chance at a vaginal birth.

“If I’d stayed with my health care plan and my doctor, I would have had a C-section,” said Migon, as she sat beside the incubator holding her baby girl, who was premature.

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The conspiracy theories begin: What was the mystery blotch that appears on Mars rover photo - but disappears two hours later?

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MailOnline
By James Nye

PUBLISHED: 23:59 EST, 8 August 2012

UPDATED: 09:33 EST, 9 August 2012

One of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover: Visible in the centre of the picture on the horizon is an unexplained shape

One of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover: Visible in the centre of the picture on the horizon is an unexplained shape

Conspiracy theorists have worked themselves up into a lather over a mysterious blotch visible in the first black and white photographs taken from NASA's new Curiosity rover as it landed on Mars.

Religion descends into hell

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Exopermaculture
August 9, 2012

By Ann Kreilkamp

 

This is such good news! And yet, and yet . . . The way they phrased the question: YES, NO or NO GOD (atheism) might have skewed the results. What if they had asked about “spirituality” as contrasted with “religion.” What would have been the result? In any case, it does appear that the hierarchy-controlled “religion” aspect of the global trance is beginning to dissolve, thanks, most likely, to all the ravaging priestly pedophiles.

BTW: now that pedophilia has been long noted at Boys Town, among Indiana tribes in Canada and Alaska, and beginning to be documented in college sports (think Penn State), and oh yes, this just in, in the Boy Scouts — will these aspects of the trance also slide downhill?

I saw somewhere, recently, a report that pedophilia is at the bottom of everything. True?

Religiosity slides worldwide, plummets in scandal-hit Ireland

Russian Muslim 'catacomb sect' faces cruelty charges

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BBC News Europe
8 August 2012 Last updated at 18:57 ET

A sect member stands at the gate of their house near Kazan, Russia, 8 August
Members of the sect could be seen at the gate of the house

Four members of a breakaway Muslim sect in Russia's Tatarstan region have been charged with cruelty against children for allegedly keeping them underground.

Police discovered 27 children and 38 adults living in catacomb-like cells in an eight-level underground bunker.

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Chemotherapy can backfire and boost cancer growth: study

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AFP Relax News – Mon, Aug 6, 2012

  • Chemotherapy can backfire and boost cancer growth: study

Cancer-busting chemotherapy can cause damage to healthy cells which triggers them to secrete a protein that sustains tumour growth and resistance to further treatment, a study said Sunday.

Researchers in the United States made the "completely unexpected" finding while seeking to explain why cancer cells are so resilient inside the human body when they are easy to kill in the lab.

Insight: Young Sudan activists push revolt against odds

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Reuters
By Yara Bayoumy and Alexander Dziadosz

Tue Aug 7, 2012 5:42am EDT

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir attends the leaders meeting at the African Union (AU) Addis Ababa July 15, 2012. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir attends the leaders meeting at the African Union (AU) Addis Ababa July 15, 2012.

Credit: Reuters/Tiksa Negeri

(Reuters) - Slogans sprayed across walls in a dusty, working-class district of Khartoum are painted over but still convey their message: Sudan's young opposition activists want to bring an Arab Spring to their country and end President Omar Hassan al-Bashir's rule.

Bahrainis continue anti-regime protests

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Tehran Times
On Line: 07 August 2012 16:20
In Print: Wednesday 08 August 2012

Bahraini protesters continue their anti-regime demonstrations in Manama and several villages across the sheikdom to demand the release of political prisoners.

Protesters took to the streets in the northern village of Jidd Hafs, east of the capital, calling for the immediate release of the political prisoners from jails.
 

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Knight Capital held $7 bln of stocks due to glitch - WSJ

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Reuters
Thu Aug 9, 2012 4:07am IST

Aug 8 (Reuters) - Knight Capital Group Inc (KCG.N) was holding about $7 billion of stocks at one point on Wednesday last week due to a software problem that led the brokerage to seek emergency funding, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Knight tried to minimize its losses arising from a huge trading shortfall by paring the total position to about $4.6 billion by the end of the trading day, the Journal said.

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