Huh.

Russian General goes missing in Syria, turns up dead in Turkey. Most important sentence:

"Ivanov was believed to have masterminded a series of assassination attacks which the Russian secret service carried out against Chechen leaders living abroad, the report said."

Black rice is the new cancer-fighting superfood, claim scientists

Nice. It's always good to have another choice of cancer fighting superfoods, correct?

Excerpts: "Black rice - revered in ancient China but overlooked in the West - could be the greatest 'superfoods', scientists revealed today.

The cereal is low in sugar but packed with healthy fibre and plant compounds that combat heart disease and cancer, say experts.
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Anthocyanins provide the dark colours of many fruits and vegetables, such as blueberries and red peppers. They are what makes black rice 'black'.

Research suggests that the dark plant antioxidants, which mop up harmful molecules, can help protect arteries and prevent the DNA damage that leads to cancer.

Food scientist Dr Zhimin Xu said: 'Just a spoonful of black rice bran contains more health promoting anthocyanin antioxidants than are found in a spoonful of blueberries, but with less sugar, and more fibre and vitamin E antioxidants."

Long-dormant volcano erupts in Indonesia

"Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra had been inactive for more than 400 years. It had been classified as inactive by the Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation."

While this is rather insignificant in the whole USA or Northern or Western Hemisphere scheme of things, it does procedurally fit into a number of alternative theories regarding Earth changes, manifesting from forces originating from space(several different locations), from within the earth, and from some of humanity's creations.

This post should be more developed, but I have very little follow through, at the moment. Apologies.