Syria,John Holloway, Wedelia paludosa

Syria
On March 5, Russia Today (RT) headlined, "Stratfor leaks: NATO commandos in illegal special ops in Syria," saying:

On March 4, the Syrian Free Press claimed 100 foreign mercenaries captured after regaining control of Homs. Most were French. Others were from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab states. They had weapons supplied by America and Israel.
On March 5, 13 French officers were captured. RT said Lebanon's Daily Star newspaper reported it.

On March 7, RT said Mossad, CIA and Blackwater elements are operating inside Syria. In addition, according to Lebanon's Al-Manar, "around 700 gunmen were recently arrested in the former rebel stronghold of Babar Amr."

They came from Gulf states, Iraq and Lebanon. Qatari intelligence operatives were with them, as well as fighters from Afghanistan, Turkey, France and other European countries.

syrianfreepress
rickrozoff


Iran's Fars News Agency says Tehran has "corroborative evidence to prove US involvement in arms smuggling into Syria."

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian said thousands of weapons and mercenaries have entered a number of Syrian border towns and cities.
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AFP 5 Mar -- Israel on Monday allowed the Palestinians to export two truckloads of date bars from Gaza to the West Bank in what was the first such trade between the territories since 2007, the military and an NGO said. The rare move was permitted as part of a World Food Programme (WFP) initiative to feed Palestinian school children, Israeli NGO Gisha said in a statement, which hailed the trade as "an important step." But the military said it was a "one-off" trade and did not mean its nearly five-year ban on exports between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank was being lifted.
mondoweiss
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John Holloway Auckland historian
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1,091 possible new planets, bringing the total count to 2,321—up from 1,235 candidates formally announced last February.
Of the 46 planet candidates found in the habitable zone (where liquid water could exist), 10 are near-Earth-size.
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An examination order allows the police to force someone to turn up and answer their questions, on pain of a year in jail if they refuse.

Judith Collins assures us that the police will never abuse this power:
In response to the concerns of some groups, the 7-year threshold means that examination orders are not available to investigate such crimes as protesting,{sic}

norightturn
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fan is designed to sit on top of a freestanding wood or pellet stove, and generates its own electricity without cords or batteries. Your Ecofan AirMax starts automatically when placed on top of a stove http://www.gaiam.com/product/ecofan+airmax.do
and adjusts its speed with the stove temperature.


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r20

The official fishing-industry suck-arse brigade is proposing a Protection zone where you can actually keep fishing...
"Rob Murdoch, general manager of research at NIWA told Wilcox, "I think New Zealand is taking a very pragmatic approach to creating a MPA. I think it is a good first step.""
- would that be the guy who fired Jim Salinger for speaking out about climmate change?
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A shipping container from Auckland to Singapore costs $1553 while it cost only $486 from Sydney, as Oram concludes, "shipping costs dwarf whatever productivity gains the ports can achieve so the government must investigate them. If it refuses to do so, yet it heaps pressure on council-owned port companies and their unions to eke out efficiency gains, the government, quite simply would be acting uneconomically and, worse, immorally."
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, it is fascinating to watch how formerly radical organizations like the Center for Biological Diversity and individuals like Andy Kerr and Andy Stahl, the bête noires of the timber industry in the late 80s and early 90s, become seen as sell-outs by the next generation of environmental radicals.
...maybe Kerr and Stahl do see more room for collaboration with the timber industry ...
...the formerly hard-core are seen as selling out over time, to be replaced by a new cadre of the real activists. Donnelly equates Oregon Wild with the Sierra Club, suggesting that the former’s willingness to think about collaboration with the timber industry is equivalent to the latter’s extremely unfortunate embrace of fracking as a bridge fuel. ..
lawyersgunsmoneyblog
[whatever happened to the RAN Rainforest Action Network - they were pretty darn radical in the late 80s]
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Why now, and what next?

Why was 2011 the year that brought such a ferocious assault on labour standards? .. the long-term economic decline experienced by working- and middle-class Americans. For the past thirty-five years, wages for non-professional employees have been on a steady, if gradual, decline,.. If the country continues in the broad policy directions of neoliberal trade, privatization, de-unionization and deregulation, there is no possibility but that living standards for most Americans will continue to decline, as the country is slowly but inexorably competed down to the level of less wealthy trading partners. This broad reality provides the fundamental background framing contemporary politics. For the economic elite, the primary political challenge is how to manage the politics of decline ..
radicalphilosophy
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Andrew Breitbart suffered his untimely death just hours before he was set to release damning video footage that could have sunk Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.
Around three weeks ago on February 9 during the ‘Blog Bash’ event in Washington DC, Breitbart made a prophetic comment that takes on a somewhat chilling nature given the fact that he died in the early hours of March 1st.
Speaking to Lawrence Sinclair of Sinclair News, Breitbart stated, “Wait til they see what happens March 1st.”
It’s almost certain that Breitbart was referring to his plan to release damning footage of President Obama that he...
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wedelis daisy

Wedelia paludosa protected against paracetamol-induced hepatotoxicity, an effect not observed over oxidative stress-related parameters.
Hepatoprotection is likely mediated by some terpenes present in W. paludosa extrac
Bay Biscayne Creeping-oxeye,
Sphagneticola trilobata, commonly known as the Bay Biscayne Creeping-oxeye, is a plant in the Heliantheae tribe of the Asteraceae (sunflower) family. It is native to the Neotropics and is widespread as an invasive species in the Pacific.
\activity up to the lowest dose of 0.68 mg/mL in the in vitro assay against trypomastigotes of T. cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas' disease (American trypanosomiasis).

antinociceptive Wedelia paludosa, a Brazilian folk medicine dolorous pathologies. kaurenoic acid and luteolin marked antinociceptive
more active than acetyl salicylic acid, acetaminophen, dipyrone and indomethacin...

mendeley
luteolin is present only in leaves and stems, but in small quantities. .. support its popular use for the treatment of algesic processes.
nutrition
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low DHA levels in red blood cells are associated with smaller brain volumes and a ‘vascular’ pattern of cognitive impairment even in persons free of clinical dementia.

..1,500 dementia free ..average age of 67 ..MRI brain scans. .. tested to measure mental function, body mass, and the omega-3 fatty acid level in their red blood cells
DHA levels in the lowest 25% ..had lower brain volume.. appear two years older
bottom quartile also scored lower on tests of visual memory and executive function, such as problem solving and multi-tasking and abstract thinking.
Brain scans also showed signs of less blood supply ..

neurology
nutrition diet

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. People who have psoriasis were significantly more likely to have the gene variants known to defend against HIV-1 and delay its progression to AIDS.
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