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Catholic Priest Refuses Exorcism as Children not Church-Goers

San Juan Tlacotenco (south-west Mexico) – Shortly after starting to play with an Ouija board, three American friends (Alexandra Huerta, 22, her brother Sergio, 23, and cousin Fernando Cuevas, 18) reportedly became possessed by evil spirits and were taken to hospital.

Alexandra’s parents said they had called paramedics after a local Catholic priest in the village of San Juan Tlacotenco refused to perform an exorcism on the three because they were not churchgoers.

Minutes into it, she started ‘growling’ and thrashing around in a ‘trance-like’ state.

Sergio and Fernando also reportedly started showing signs of ‘possession’, including feelings of blindness, deafness and hallucinations.

In reporting to the home, Paramedics also took Alexandra’s parents to hospital.

Alexandra was restrained to prevent her from hurting herself, before treating the three with painkillers, anti-stress medication and eye drops.

 ‘They spoke of feeling numbness, double vision, blindness, deafness, hallucinations, muscle spasm and difficulty swallowing.’

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Synthetic ID Emerging as Fastest Growing Consumer Fraud

A man in Marina del Rey has been convicted on charges related to a fast growing high-tech crime known as synthetic identity theft, according to KNX 1070.

KNX 1070′s Charles Feldman reports the prosecution is believed to be only the second such prosecution in the nation.

Accoring to Experian, synthetic identity theft happens when thieves create new identities either by combining real and fake identifying information to establish new accounts with fictional identities, or create a brand new identity from fake or inaccurate information.

Perpetrators of synthetic ID theft currently only use a stolen Social Security number – the only piece of information that matches the “real” person – the crime can therefore go undetected for years.

“It’s almost like a ghost is committing these crimes,” says prosecutor Warren Kato with the District Attorney’s Office.

According to the Federal Trade Commission, synthetic identity theft is the fastest-growing type of ID fraud in the U.S. and has already surpassed “true-name” identity fraud, which estimated it currently accounts for up to 85 percent of all identity fraud.

To avoid becoming a victim of synthetic ID theft, consumers are urged to review their annual Social Security statement to ensure their reported income figure is not over-inflated from what was actually earned, and also to be on the lookout for mail that is sent to your home address with another person’s name.

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SUN’S MAGNETIC FIELD SET TO FLIP

Within the next few weeks the Sun’s magnetic field will complete it’s process of flipping. This is an event which takes place every 11 years and is accompanied by intense solar activity.

This solar activity could have serious implications for us, as the solar flares thrown out by the sun at this time have the potential to damage satellites and take out power grids on earth. In this age where we are dependent upon telecommunications, and the blackout of vast areas of the country could have catastrophic consequences. In 1859 the solar maximum caused, the then new technology of telegraphs, to be damaged, resulted in telegraph operators to be electrocuted, the auroras caused were seen as far south as the Caribbean; and in 1989 a solar flare resulted in the blackout of Quebec, and melted power transformers in New Jersey. Scientists will be closely monitoring the sun hoping this solar maximum will pass without incident.

Read More: BBC

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PARTICLE ACCELERATOR CREATING BLACK HOLES TO EXPLORE HIGHER DIMENSIONS IN THE UNIVERSE

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, is currently closed until April 2015, for an upgrade. When it reopens, one of the experiments scientists will be exploring are ones to investigate higher dimensions of the universe.

Scientists at the LHC have been colliding particles together, in order to create mini-black holes. The expectation in doing so, will give the physicists glimpses of dimensions we do not usually experience.

The LHC was made famous when it discovered the Higgs Boson, last year. A Higgs Boson is the particle that the current model of physics describes as giving mass to all particles in the universe. The so called “God Particle” was the missing piece in the Standard Model of Particle Physics, the beautifully simple model of the universe at particle level.