Ex-priest guilty of conspiring to kill boy who accused him of rape
2012 05 18
A former Roman Catholic priest was found guilty on Thursday of hiring a hit man to kill a boy who had accused him of sexual abuse.
John Fiala, 53, showed no emotion as a Dallas jury found him guilty of plotting to kill the boy, according to The Dallas Morning News. He faces a possible sentence of life in prison.
John Fiala
Prosecutors ... |
The Famous ’Tennis Shoe’ Near Death Experience
2012 05 18
"Some near-death experiences have been corroborated by witnesses. Although such evidence does not constitute scientific evidence it would certainly qualify as "circumstantial evidence" able to be upheld in a court of law.
Perhaps the most famous case of this kind is that of Maria, originally reported by her critical care social worker, Kimberly Clark (1984). Maria was a migrant worker ... |
Point, CounterPoint: Why You Should Upload Your Mind
2012 05 18
Point:
Space travel, particle physics, cosmology. These are just some of the endeavors humankind has embarked on, trying to understand the great mysteries of the universe. But why haven’t we been able to decipher those puzzles yet? Is it because they are vast and we are so small and insignificant? Well, yes.
In order to achieve these huge goals we need to ... |
The Science Delusion
2012 05 18
Steve Marshall talks to Rupert Sheldrake about dogma and delusion in contemporary science.
Sheldrake questions many of science’s basic ‘truths’, which are revealed, with splendid irony, to be either assumptions or, heaven forbid, beliefs. That the Universe began with a Big Bang has been orthodoxy since the 1960s, but it is actually a theory, and one that raises as many questions ... |
Wild Oregano - King of Herbs
2012 05 17
When it comes to medicinal herbs wild oregano is king. Oregano has been used for its medicinal values for thousands of years. The name oregano is derived from the Greek word meaning "joy of the mountains."
Oregano is a member of the mint family. Wild oregano is not the same as the one found in the grocery store. Often times you’ll ... |
Bayer CropScience and Bee Deaths
2012 05 17
The Big Picture
For several years now there has been a dramatic loss of bees in Europe and North America. As many as 50% to 90% of the bee populations have simply vanished. This is a big deal.
Bees are a keystone species – they are vital to the food chain on our planet. An
international study of 115 food crops grown in ... |
Iran terror group moved off US blacklist ’over Israeli ties’
2012 05 17
"An Iranian group considered as terrorist by the US for 15 years is moving off the black list. Government officials are advocating to clear the name of Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK, even releasing a number of PR adverts. This could further strain relations between Washington and Tehran. Jamal Abdi, the policy director for the Iranian-American national council, believes it’s MEK’s ... |
Sugar makes you stupid: Study shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory
2012 05 17
Attention, college students cramming between midterms and finals: Binging on soda and sweets for as little as six weeks may make you stupid.
A new UCLA rat study is the first to show how a diet steadily high in fructose slows the brain, hampering memory and learning — and how omega-3 fatty acids can counteract the disruption. The peer-reviewed ... |
Sonic device deployed in London during Olympics
2012 05 17
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed a sonic device will be deployed in London during the Olympics.
The American-made Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) can be used to send verbal warnings over a long distance or emit a beam of pain-inducing tones.
The equipment was spotted fixed to a landing craft on the Thames at Westminster this week.
The manufacturer denies it is ... |
Kissinger Gets Full TSA Patdown And Lives To Sell The Tale
2012 05 17
Henry Kissinger Gets the Full TSA Patdown
By Erica Ho | NewsFeed
What do toddlers in wheelchairs and former Secretaries of State have in common? They can’t escape the clutches of the TSA. So don’t think you can run through that line.
Image: Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger leaves the U.S. Capitol building on Tuesday, November 1, 2011.
Bill Clark ... |
Chinese Physicists Reportedly Break Teleportation Record
2012 05 17
We’re not at ’Star Trek’ transporter level yet, but the achievement represents a big step forward in the field of quantum cryptography.
Harry Potter and Star Trek fans, rejoice! Teleportation is real. Using powerful lasers and optics to manipulate photons, or units of light, researchers in China set a record for teleporting a photon more than 10 miles (16 km), TIME ... |
White House under fire for adding Obama policy plugs to past presidents’ bios
2012 05 17
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The Obama White House is drawing ridicule for appending the official online biographies of nearly every president over the last century in order to link President Obama’s accomplishments to the former commanders in chief.
The Obama team went into the pages of U.S. presidents dating back to Calvin Coolidge to add friendly looking "Did you ... |
Life Extension For All: Global Future Congress Announces “Avatar”
2012 05 17
Summit speakers participate in a round table discussion
World’s Leading Scientists Meet in Moscow to Announce Life Extension Project for Civilians; U.S. Launches Military Version
The first Global Future Congress 2045 (GF2045) was held on Feb.17-20 2012 in Moscow, where 56 world leading physicists, biologists, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and philosophers met to discuss breakthroughs in life extension technologies and draft a ... |
Rebekah Brooks charged in U.K. phone hacking
2012 05 16
Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks, her husband and four others were charged Tuesday over alleged attempts to conceal evidence of Britain’s tabloid phone hacking scandal, prosecutors said.
The criminal charges are the first to be filed since police launched a new inquiry into phone hacking in January 2011. Previously, two people were jailed in 2007 for hacking the ... |
Could gene therapy may help us live longer?
2012 05 16
In a pioneering experiment, Spanish scientists claim to have extended the lifespan of aging mice by up to 24%, using a single gene therapy treatment. If this research pays off, then things are looking up for aging humans too, says a team at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre which has published its findings in the ’EMBO Molecular Medicine’ journal.
Earlier ... |
Man's Penis Cut Off: What is a Man Worth?
2012 05 16
Addressing the cutting off of a man's penis by Catherine Kieu Becker, July 2011 and the laughter about it by the female hosts of "The Talk" TV show. (Angry Harry interview recorded in 2004).
This film will form part of a new series of short clips that looks at individual elements of Feminism and Misandry in society.
The films will all be ... |
Italian Police Open a Mobster’s Vatican-Owned Tomb in Search of a Missing Girl
2012 05 16
Searching for the remains of a teenager missing for three decades, Italian police opened the Vatican-owned tomb of mobster Enrico De Pedis, but the boxes of bones they found interred with his corpse only deepen the mystery.
The smell of death wafted through the 7th-century courtyard of Vatican-owned Sant’Apollinare church in central Rome on Monday as bricklayers pried open the tomb ... |
Bomb blast in Colombian capital targets ex-minister, kills 2
2012 05 16
A bomb targeting a former Colombian interior minister has killed at least two people and injured dozens of others in a busy commercial district of the capital, Bogota.
"We condemn this attack ... this government will not be thrown off course by these terrorist attacks. We will stay the course and carry out all the investigations needed to find the culprits," ... |
Chomsky: Bush kidnapped & tortured, Obama murders
2012 05 16
Noam Chomsky has slammed US drone strikes and said while the Bush administration kidnapped and tortured, present-day White House resorts to murder.
“If Bush, the Bush administration, didn’t like somebody, they’d kidnap them and send them to torture chambers,” the renowned American scholar told Democracy Now on Monday.
“If the Obama administration decides they don’t like somebody, they murder them, so you ... |
OKC & 9/11 Investigator Victim Of Set-Up?
2012 05 16
Could a former FBI Special Agent who investigated the OKC Bombing and the 9/11 attacks be the victim of a set-up?
"A former FBI Supervisory special agent who worked on some of the bureau’s most high profile terrorism and bombing cases including the Unabomber case, the USS Cole bombing, the Oklahoma City bombing and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and ... |
How Long Will Japan’s Nuclear Recess Be? Enter Kazakhstan
2012 05 15
Environmental victories are so scarce these days that you can’t blame eco-activists for trumpeting any good news — even when the news turns out to be mostly smoke and mirrors.
Take the latest sequel to Japan’s March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which was deemed the “most serious nuclear crisis since Chernobyl” by NewScientist. To this day the city of ... |
The Triumph of The Unreal: 2012 London Olympics And Totalitarian Propaganda In The 21st Century
2012 05 15
“The London 2012 Olympics have barely anything to do with sport. Not only is Britain continuing pagan/Nazi traditions and symbolism, the event is also a police state showcase and a psychological warfare attack on the people.” – Infowars, “London 2012 Is Psychological Warfare.”
There is a theory that London will be rocked with a false flag operation this summer ... |
Sent to the asylum: Victorian women locked up because they were suffering from stress, post natal depression and anxiety
2012 05 15
These days, work stress, postnatal depression and anxiety are addressed with compassion. But just a few generations ago, the women who suffered from these conditions, were confined to an asylum.
The compelling portraits shown here, taken by Victorian photographer Henry Hering in the mid-19th century, have a haunting quality.
But apart from the women’s pensive expressions and drab clothing, there is little ... |
Did the Germans launch a crewed rocket into space in 1933?
2012 05 15
On October 29, 1933, the London Sunday Referee published a report from Rugen, an island in the Baltic Sea, just off the coast of Germany. Someone named Otto Fischer had flown inside a 24-foot steel rocket, to an altitude of six miles. Were the Germans really testing out a rocket that could carry people, nearly three decades before Yuri Gagarin?
Reports ... |
The Case of the Missing Terrorists
2012 05 15
If there were any real terrorists, Jose Rodriguez would be dead.
Who is Jose Rodriguez? He is the criminal who ran the CIA torture program. Most of his victims were not terrorists or even insurgents. Most were hapless individuals kidnapped by warlords and sold to the Americans as “terrorists” for the bounty paid.
If Rodriguez’s identity was previously a ... |
Pentagon researching ’narrative networks’ as way to hijack the brain with false stories
2012 05 15
If someone - or some government entity - were able to figure out the science behind what makes people violent, what do you suppose they would do with that knowledge? It’s a legitimate question, because the Pentagon is trying to find out.
According to a recent report by the BBC, the Defense Department appears to be looking for a way to ... |
Kodak facility in New York state housed underground nuclear reactor
2012 05 14
A Kodak industrial facility in Rochester, N.Y., was home to a little-known nuclear reactor containing weapons-grade uranium, the Democrat and Chronicle newspaper reported.
The research reactor -- which was the size of a refrigerator -- was housed in a bunker underneath one of the buildings at the former Kodak Park site, the newspaper reported.
Kodak used it to check chemicals and other ... |
Scientists to build $1 billion city where no one will live
2012 05 14
In what is being billed as the first of its kind, a billion-dollar futuristic town is being built in New Mexico, but residents need not apply.
The new 15-square mile city will be built as a testing ground for new, cutting edge technologies. The Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation project will "help researchers test everything from intelligent traffic systems and ... |
Thinking So Much About Thinking
2012 05 14
WHY are we thinking so much about thinking these days?
Unlike most pop self-help books, these are about life as we know it — the one you can change, but only a little, and with a ton of work. Professor Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize in economic science a decade ago, has synthesized a lifetime’s research in neurobiology, economics and ... |
WWII fighter plane found perfectly preserved in the Sahara
2012 05 14
The Kittyhawk P-40 has remained unseen and untouched since it came down on the sand in June 1942 and has been hailed the "aviation equivalent of Tutankhamun’s Tomb".
It is thought the pilot survived the crash and initially used his parachute for shelter before making a desperate and futile attempt to reach civilisation by walking out of the desert.
The RAF airman, ... |
Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers
2012 05 14
What will you experience after you die (and you wake up to lawyers)?
Welcome to Life. Do you wish to continue? Y/N
Video from: YouTube.com
" If you liked this, you may also enjoy two novels that provided inspiration for it: Jim Monroe’s Everyone in Silico, where I first found the idea of a corporate-sponsored afterlife; Rudy Rucker’s trippy Postsingular, which introduced ... |
Magnetic bacteria may help build future bio-computers
2012 05 14
Magnet-making bacteria may be building biological computers of the future, researchers have said.
A team from the UK’s University of Leeds and Japan’s Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have used microbes that eat iron.
As they ingest the iron, the microbes create tiny magnets inside themselves, similar to those in PC hard drives.
The research may lead to the creation of much ... |
The FBI took -- and mysteriously returned -- their server.
2012 05 14
Ever wonder what it’s like to have FBI agents knock on your door? Or to have them walk into your business unannounced and walk away with your computer? Jamie McClelland and Alfredo Lopez can tell you.
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