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Interview with CEO of NSO Group – Israeli spyware-maker – on fighting terror, Khashoggi murder, and Saudi Arabia - 60 Minutes - CBS News
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Tonight we’ll take you inside the growing, shadowy global market of cyber espionage. We looked specifically at a controversial Israeli company called the NSO Group, valued at nearly a billion dollars, that says it developed a hacking tool that can break into just about any smartphone on Earth.

NSO licenses this software, called Pegasus, to intelligence and law enforcement agencies worldwide, so they can infiltrate the encrypted phones and apps of criminals and terrorists. Problem is this same tool can also be deployed by a government to crush dissent. And so it is that Pegasus has been linked to human rights abuses, unethical surveillance, and even to the notoriously brutal murder of the Saudi Arabian critic Jamal Khashoggi.

Headquartered in the Israeli city of Herzliya, NSO Group operates in strict secrecy. But co-founder and CEO, Shalev Hulio, has been forced out of the shadows and not into a good light, accused of selling Pegasus to Saudi Arabia despite its abysmal record on human rights.

Lesley Stahl: And the word is that you sold Pegasus to them, and then they turned it around to get Khashoggi.

Shalev Hulio: Khashoggi murder is horrible. Really horrible. And therefore, when I first heard there are accusations that our technology been used on Jamal Khashoggi or on his relatives, I started an immediate check about it. And I can tell you very clear, we had nothing to do with this horrible murder.

#NSO organise sa défense dans l’affaire #kashoggi ?

President Trump interview: Full transcript of President Trump’s interview on “Face the Nation” today - CBS News
▻https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-president-trump-on-face-the-nation-february-3-2019

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MARGARET BRENNAN: How many troops are still in Syria? When are they coming home?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: 2,000 troops.

MARGARET BRENNAN: When are they coming home?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: They’re starting to, as we gain the remainder, the final remainder of the caliphate of the area, they’ll be going to our base in Iraq, and ultimately some will be coming home. But we’re going to be there and we’re going to be staying—

MARGARET BRENNAN: So that’s a matter of months?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We have to protect Israel. We have to protect other things that we have. But we’re- yeah, they’ll be coming back in a matter of time. Look, we’re protecting the world.

#syrie #israël via angry arab

Feeling rapey hearing the lyrics...

"We used to play the song ’Baby It’s Cold Outside,’ but you’re the Christmas Executive Officer at Star 102 and you told us it’s no longer appropriate," Anderson wrote Tuesday. “I gotta be honest, I didn’t understand why the lyrics were so bad ... Until I read them.”

“Baby It’s Cold Outside” lyrics raise concerns: Cleveland radio station Star 102 stops playing popular Christmas song after listeners voice concerns about meaning in the “Me Too” era - CBS News

Intéressante... prise de conscience (...)

▻https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cleveland-radio-station-stops-playing-baby-its-cold-outside-after-listeners

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Radio station stops playing “Baby It’s Cold Outside” after listeners voice concerns about lyrics in #MeToo era

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Criticism of the lyrics in “Baby It’s Cold Outside” actually has been building for several years. Some Twitter users called out the “date-rapey” undertones of the song in 2013, and a number of publications have run articles questioning the song’s meaning.

I know “Baby it’s cold outside” is from another era but hearing it in 2013, the lyrics feel really date-rapey. Uncomfortable stuff.
— Emily (@elusiveemily) January 1, 2013

2013: The Year We All Independently Realized How Creepy And Rapey The Lyrics To “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” Are
— len damico (@lendamico) December 11, 2013

#harcèlement_sexuel #culture_du_viol #cinéma

IPO of french SEENTHIS puts Facebook in difficult position
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Il est tellement facile de créer des news ...

Following the IPO of french underground social network #SEENTHIS Faecebook shares drop to a historical low, european finance researchers say.

While it’s nowhere near as bad as last week’s 20 plunge, Facebook is taking another beating on Wall Street early Monday.

Shares were down almost 4 in early trading as investors continue to digest mixed earnings news that included warnings of slower future growth. And that’s continuing to chip away at both the company’s market cap and the personal fortune of founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Thedcgazette.com - Fake news sites to watch out for - CBS News
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Don’t get fooled by these fake news sites

#fake_news #wtf

Un F16 israélien abattu par l’armée syrienne.
▻https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/red-alert-sirens-sound-heavy-aerial-activity-in-northern-israel-1.5806508

Raconté comme suit par le Haaretz :

“Durant des frappes israéliennes aériennes contre des cibles iraniennes en Syrie, 2 pilotes israéliens se sont éjectés de leur avion. L’avion s’en est allé vers le bas dans le Nord d’Israel.”

The Israeli army said Saturday morning that it intercepted an Iranian drone launched from Syria into Israeli territory. In response to the provocation, the IDF attacked Iranian targets in Syria. 

Two Israeli Air Force pilots ejected from their fighter jet during the strike. The plane went down in northern Israel.

60 Minutes, barred from Yemen, still got the footage - CBS News
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The Saudi-led blockade of Yemen isn’t just targeting food supplies. As 60 Minutes found, it’s also stopping reporters. How producers got this week’s footage

#arabie_saoudite #Yemen

What the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive wants the world to know - CBS News

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Twenty-two SS officers responsible for the deaths of 1M+ people would never have been brought to justice were it not for Ben Ferencz.
The officers were part of units called Einsatzgruppen, or action groups. Their job was to follow the German army as it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and kill Communists, Gypsies and Jews.

Ferencz believes “war makes murderers out of otherwise decent people” and has spent his life working to deter war and war crimes.

#nazisme #seconde_guerre_mondiale #nuremberg #shoah

#Gardasil Researcher Speaks Out - CBS News
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This raises questions about the CDC’s recommendation that the series of shots be given to girls as young as 11-years old. “If we vaccinate 11 year olds and the protection doesn’t last... we’ve put them at harm from side effects, small but real, for no benefit,” says Dr. Harper. “The benefit to public health is nothing, there is no reduction in cervical cancers, they are just postponed, unless the protection lasts for at least 15 years, and over 70% of all sexually active females of all ages are vaccinated.” She also says that enough serious side effects have been reported after Gardasil use that the vaccine could prove riskier than the cervical cancer it purports to prevent. Cervical cancer is usually entirely curable when detected early through normal Pap screenings.

Parents in trouble with the law - Pictures - CBS News
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“My eating French Fries and being a social butterfly is over because I know why my parents send me to school”

Suite à la publication de son oeuvre la maman a subi une garde a vue prolongée pour abus de mineurs.

Ces reportages sur les parents abusifs sont toujours tristes à pleurer. On y découvre la pauvreté extrème et le désespoir sans issue. Sous l’URL cité plus haut CBS News présente des histoires encore pires, comme celle des parents qui attachent leur fils de 17 ans avec des chaînes dans la cave et le nourrrissent à peine parce qu’il ne savent pas comment gérer le trouble bipolaire dont l’adolescent est victime.

C’est dur pour les enfants de pauvres quand il n’y a ni moyens de transport en commun ni sécurité sociale.

La rubrique manhunt nous plonge encore plus profondément dans l’abîme de la catastrophe humanitaire aux #USA.

Woman stole $800 worth of toothbrushes from Pennsylvania CVS, cops say - CBS News
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-woman-steals-800-worth-of-toothbrushes-from-pennsylvania-cvs

Cops : Man angry about cleaning shoots fast-food worker
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-man-angry-over-cleaning-shoots-fast-food-worker

Newborn girl found abandoned in Mesa, Arizona yard
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/newborn-girl-found-abandoned-in-mesa-arizona-yard

VIDEO : Suspects use rock to break into California pharmacy
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-suspects-use-rock-to-break-into-california-pharmacy

Police scratching heads over suspected serial Rogaine thief
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-police-scratching-heads-over-suspected-serial-rogaine-thief

Cops : Inmate captured after swallowing pens, escaping hospital
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/indiana-police-capture-escaped-jail-inmate

Police : Baby killed by shots likely aimed at alleged gang member dad
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gunfire-that-killed-california-baby-likely-aimed-at-gang-member-father

Chinese fugitive accused of killing teen nephews to be extradited
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/shi-deyun-chinese-fugitive-accused-of-killing-nephews-agrees-to-extradition

« Affluenza » teen and mom to be sent back to U.S.
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ethan-couch-affluenza-teen-had-going-away-party-before-fleeing-sheriff-says

Couple terrorized in Ga. home invasion speak out
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/couple-terrorized-in-georgia-home-invasion-speak-out

Tuskegee airman, 93, carjacked and robbed in the same night
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tuskegee-airman-93-carjacked-and-robbed-in-the-same-night

Complaint : Wal-Mart kidnapper told victim she broke his heart
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/complaint-walmart-kidnapper-told-victim-she-broke-his-heart

Manhunt for Ohio teens accused in Pennsylvania armed robbery
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/manhunt-for-ohio-teens-accused-in-pennsylvania-armed-robbery

#éducation #école #USA #wtf

U.S. Radically Changes Its Story of the Boats in Iranian Waters: to an Even More Suspicious Version

When news first broke of the detention of two U.S. ships in Iranian territorial waters, the U.S. media — aside from depicting it as an act of Iranian aggression — uncritically cited the U.S. government’s explanation for what happened. One of the boats, we were told, experienced “mechanical failure” and thus “inadvertently drifted” into Iranian waters. On CBS News, Joe Biden told Charlie Rose, “One of the boats had engine failure, drifted into Iranian waters.”

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NASA opens applications for new astronauts, mission to Mars - CBS News
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NASA is planning a human mission to Mars for the 2030’s. And this week, the agency opened its application process for the next class of space travelers.
[…]
Applicants must be a U.S. citizen with a bachelor’s degree in engineering, biological or physical science or mathematics. They also should have three years of relevant experience, or at least 1,000 hours piloting a jet.

The physical exam is another hurdle.
[…]
There have been 338 NASA astronauts ranging in age from 26 to 46. Of the 6,300 who applied for the last class, only eight - four men and four women - were chosen. That’s about a 0.1 percent chance of success.

Negative View of U.S. Race Relations Grows, Poll Finds - NYTimes.com
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Public perceptions of race relations in America have grown substantially more negative in the aftermath of the death of a young black man who was injured while in police custody in Baltimore and the subsequent unrest, far eclipsing the sentiment recorded in the wake of turmoil in Ferguson, Mo., last summer.

Sixty-one percent of Americans now say race relations in this country are generally bad. That figure is up sharply from 44 percent after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown and the unrest that followed in Ferguson in August, and 43 percent in December. In a CBS News poll just two months ago, 38 percent said race relations were generally bad. Current views are by far the worst of Barack Obama’s presidency.

The negative sentiment is echoed by broad majorities of blacks and whites alike, a stark change from earlier this year, when 58 percent of blacks thought race relations were bad, but just 35 percent of whites agreed. In August, 48 percent of blacks and 41 percent of whites said they felt that way.

Looking ahead, 44 percent of Americans think race relations are worsening, up from 36 percent in December. Forty-one percent of blacks and 46 percent of whites think so. Pessimism among whites has increased 10 points since December

The poll finds that profound racial divisions in views of how the police use deadly force remain. Blacks are more than twice as likely to say police in most communities are more apt to use deadly force against a black person — 79 percent of blacks say so compared with 37 percent of whites. A slim majority of whites say race is not a factor in a police officer’s decision to use deadly force.

Overall, 44 percent of Americans say deadly force is more likely to be used against a black person, up from 37 percent in August and 40 percent in December.

Blacks also remain far more likely than whites to say they feel mostly anxious about the police in their community. Forty-two percent say so, while 51 percent feel mostly safe. Among whites, 8 in 10 feel mostly safe.

One proposal to address the matter — having on-duty police officers wear body cameras — receives overwhelming support. More than 9 in 10 whites and blacks alike favor it.❞

Elizabeth Holmes: Youngest self-made female billionaire revolutionizing health care - CBS News
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Little is known about how Theranos’ [blood] tests work, which has raised concerns about putting diagnostic results in patients’ hands without doctors present.

Nevertheless, her company is now valued at close to a whopping $10 billion.

“It’s a really important area,” said Holmes. “When people get a lab test done, traditionally, in order for that lab test to be paid for, you have to have a symptom so the doctor can write in a code on the lab form. But if you can drop the pricing really low, then all of a sudden preventative testing can start to become possible.”

#santé #milliardaires

“In the early morning of April 3, a construction crane being operated near the #Dallas Museum of Art fell onto the building. There were no serious injuries. During the three hours it took crews to remove the fallen crane, onlookers began to gather around it. According to CBS News 24, many assumed it was a new installation of some kind.”

▻http://mashable.com/2015/04/10/dallas-museum-of-art-crane

#art

Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl on Vimeo

►https://vimeo.com/112681885

Earlier this year I had the opportunity to visit Chernobyl whilst working for CBS News on a ’60 Minutes’ episode which aired on Nov. 23, 2014. Bob Simon is the correspondent. Michael Gavshon and David Levine, producers.

For the full story cbsnews.com/news/chernobyl-the-catastrophe-that-never-ended/

–---> ***Soundtrack ’Promise land’ by Hannah Miller - licensed on themusicbed.com

Chernobyl is one of the most interesting and dangerous places I’ve been. The nuclear disaster, which happened in 1986 (the year after I was born), had and effect on so many people, including my family when we lived in Italy. I can’t imagine how terrifying it would have been for the hundreds of thousands of locals who evacuated.

During my stay, I met so many amazing people, one of which was my guide Yevgein, also known as a ’Stalker’. We spent the week together exploring Chernobyl and the nearby abandoned city of Prypiat. There was something serene, yet highly disturbing about this place. Time has stood still and there are memories of past happenings floating around us.

Armed with a camera and a dosimeter geiger counter I explored...

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Shot using DJI Phantom 2 (GoPro3+) and Canon 7D

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Philippe Perchoc sur FB a vu cette vidéo et explique :

Après avoir lu quelques livres de Günther Anders, celui d’Alexievitch sur Tchernobyl, et maintenant cette vidéo, je me dis que nous sommes certainement fascinés par notre propre capacité à abîmer ce qui fait de nous une humanité, et à y donner une dimension esthétique terrifiante.

Non, Tchernobyl n’est pas un lieu quitté par les hommes pour laisser la nature reprendre ses droits, non ce n’est pas un parc d’attraction post-soviétique. Mais par contre, ce n’est pas seulement un passé, c’est aussi peut-être un futur.

#tchernobyl #ukraine #nucléaire

USA : Michio Kaku a annoncé ce matin sur CBS que 250 millions d’Américains risquent d’être touchés par une tempête de proportion biblique qui doit frapper l’Alaska
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* Dr. Michio Kaku admits government weather control on CBS News ▻http://www.intellihub.com/dr-michio-kaku-admits-government-weather-control-cbs-news Il dit que les perturbations seront au plus fort, aux États-Unis, entre le 13 et le 15 novembre et qu’elles pourraient causer des dommages importants à certaines infrastructures. Source : ▻http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/how-the-impending-arctic-blast-will-unfold Accuweather : « Strongest Storm in the World to Approach Alaska » ▻http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/weathermatrix/strongest-storm-in-the-world-to-approach-alaska/36942007 Publié par (...)

Obama admet avoir sous-estimé la menace que représentait l’Etat islamique
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2014/09/28/obama-admet-avoir-sous-estime-la-menace-que-representait-l-etat-islamique_44

Barack Obama a admis, dimanche 28 septembre, que les Etats-Unis avaient sous-estimé la montée en puissance du groupe djihadiste de l’Etat islamique (EI) en Syrie, et n’avait pas vu venir l’écroulement de l’armée irakienne, censée la contenir dans l’Etat voisin. Aujourd’hui, estime-t-il dans une interview à l’émission phare de CBS News, « 60 minutes », la Syrie est devenue un « Ground Zero pour les djihadistes à travers le monde ».

Il aurait pu en profiter pour « admettre » qu’il ment désormais quotidiennement, au sujet de la menace russe, de la menace syrienne, de la menace iranienne, de la menace cubaine, de la menace vénézuelienne...

The Fun of Empire: Fighting on All Sides of a War in Syria
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CBS News, August 18, 2011:

President Barack Obama officially demanded that Syrian President Bashar Assad resign for the sake of his own people, saying he was no longer fit to lead after...

Obama Says Quickly Arming Syrian Opposition a ‘Fantasy’ - Bloomberg
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President Barack Obama called the idea that the U.S. could readily arm a moderate Syrian opposition force a “fantasy,” saying his administration is still working to bolster rebel groups.

Obama, in an interview today with CBS News, said the more moderate elements of the opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is made of middle-class Syrians who are facing a battle-hardened regime. There is no “ready-made” opposition group for the U.S. to back with arms and military aid, he said.

“The notion that they were in a position to suddenly overturn not only Assad but also ruthless, highly-trained jihadists if we just sent a few arms is a fantasy,” Obama said in an excerpt of the interview broadcast on the network’s evening news program.

At secret location, team collects evidence of Syrian war crimes - CBS News

▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/volunteers-gather-evidence-of-syrian-war-crimes

Canadian lawyer William Wiley advised the Iraqi tribunal that tried Saddam Hussein. He and his team have collected and combed through more than half a million videos.

But the most crucial element of this work is collecting a paper trail.

In a cramped basement at a secret location, William Wiley shows CBS News’ Clarissa Ward boxes of documents on atrocities committed during Syria’s civil war. CBS NEWS
In a cramped basement, Wiley showed a CBS News crew boxes of documents so sensitive we can’t tell you where the Syrian Commission for Justice and Accountability is based.

“This one here has about 200,000 pages of regime documentation,” Wiley said, pointing to one box.

The documents include military orders and government records, all of which had to be smuggled out of Syria.

It’s very dangerous work, Wiley says.

“We’re threatened by both sides. We’re threatened by the regime, obviously, but our people are also threatened by the radical Islamists, the al Qaeda affiliates in particular who don’t share our concept of impartial justice,” he said.

400-mile stretch of Texas now without an abortion clinic - CBS News
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AUSTIN, Texas - The last abortion clinic in the vast, impoverished Rio Grande Valley closed Thursday, along with the sole remaining clinic in the 400-mile stretch between Houston and the Louisiana border, posing a tall obstacle to women seeking to end pregnancies across a wide swath of the nation’s second-largest state.

The closures in McAllen and Beaumont bring to 19 the number of clinics that have shut down since Texas lawmakers adopted tough new abortion restrictions last summer. Twenty-four clinics remain to serve a population of 26 million women, and more closures could happen after additional restrictions take effect later this year.

Lawmakers required all abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles, all abortions to take place in a surgical facility and all women seeking abortion-inducing medications to make four clinical visits. Those rules made it impossible for the clinics in Beaumont and McAllen to stay open, said Amy Hagstrom Miller, CEO of Whole Woman’s Health.
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The admitting privilege requirement has become a favored tool for anti-abortion lawmakers across the country to close clinics. In Mississippi, a federal judge has blocked enforcement of a similar requirement because it would shut down the state’s last clinic. Alabama passed such a requirement last year, and Oklahoma lawmakers are considering a similar measure.

Most doctors do not have or need admitting privileges, and hospitals usually only grant them to doctors who routinely have patients in need of hospital care. The Texas Hospital Association opposed the requirement, saying admitting privileges were not necessary to provide women emergency care from abortion complications.

Victime de flatulences [à la suite d’une épisiotomie non souhaitée et ratée], une chanteuse d’opéra doit prendre sa retraite
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La chanteuse d’opéra Amy Herbst, âgée de 33 ans, a dû quitter la Nashville Opera Company (Etats-Unis), après une opération chirurgicale ratée qui lui provoque des flatulences récurrentes et incontinente. Une « épisiotomie bâclée », selon CBS News, opérée pendant l’accouchement de la mezzo-soprano en février 2012, à l’hôpital militaire Blanchfield, de Fort Campbell (Kentucky, Etat-Unis).

La cantatrice poursuit le gouvernement américain pour négligence et réclame 2,5 millions de dollars de dommages et intérêts, pour la perte de revenus causée par l’opération. Selon le dossier consulté par Vice.com (en anglais), Amy Herbst affirme qu’à « aucun moment, on a demandé son consentement pour la réalisation d’une épisiotomie ».

To fight Assad, Syrian opposition logs on at any cost - CBS News
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He places a 3G modem in a metal kitchen bowl and points it to the nearest Jordanian cell tower for the best reception. The metal bowl amplifies the signal considerably, he said, allowing him to reach speeds to stream video. More importantly, by connecting to a high-range Wi-Fi access point, Bayan said he can broadcast service more than 2 miles around him, acting as an Internet intermediary for others in his city.

#Syrie #opposition

Concussions may lead to Alzheimer’s plaque buildup for some - CBS News
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Concussions have already been linked to the Alzheimer’s-like degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in athletes and military members who have experienced repeated head blows and traumatic brain injuries.

Now, a new study links concussions to Alzheimer’s disease itself.

Mayo Clinic researchers gave brain scans to 141 Minnesotans who had been experiencing memory problems, and found those who had suffered a brain injury that caused them to black-out had more amyloid plaques in their brain than those who hadn’t.

Amyloid plaque is the telltale sign of Alzheimer’s disease, formed by pieces of a sticky protein that break off in the brain and clump together. Some clumps may form in brain regions involved in learning, memory and thinking, the Alzheimer’s Association explains. More plaques form as the disease progresses.

Researchers gave brain scans to 448 people without any memory or cognitive problems, and 141 people who had mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a condition characterized by declines in memory and thinking skills that aren’t caused by aging. They were also asked whether they had ever experienced a brain injury that caused them to lose consciousness. People with MCI are at a heightened risk of developing Alzheimer’s or another type of dementia, but not everyone with the condition will get worse.......

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McCain: Ukrainian protesters want connections to the West - CBS News
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Sen. John McCain said anti-government protesters in Ukraine want to “look to the West” and align themselves with the European Union instead of Russia to improve the country’s economy.

The Arizona senator was interviewed on CBS’ “Face the Nation” from Ukraine, where he is traveling to support Ukrainians protesting the decision by President Viktor Yanukovych to back away from an agreement that would solidify political and trade connections with the #European-Union. More than 200,000 people gathered in the central square of Kiev, the country’s capitol, to continue a demonstration that has lasted nearly four weeks already.

McCain said Ukraine is both strategically and geographically important to the U.S. “It is a large country, it is a cultured country, it is the beginning of Russia which a lot of people don’t know and what’s happening here is not only a desire to be part of the European Union which makes them look to the West and not be coerced into the customs union that the Russians and [Russian President Vladmir] Putin are trying to push them into but they are tired of corruption, they are tired of a bad economy,” he said. “They really want change and that change is epitomized by a turning to Europe and a relationship with Europe that they think will benefit them and their lives.”

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Ukraine has struggled internally since the fall of the Soviet Union.

“There are ethnical, cultural and religious connections with Russia and Moscow. And then, there are those in Ukraine looking to the West for their future. Yanukovych is caught in the middle. And at this point, he has to decide,” he said.

“It’s fairly clear to all of us in the West where their future lies, and I certainly hope the people in the streets of Kiev will get the message clearly through Yanukovych,” Durbin added.

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