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 ... |
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.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Their recent run-in with the men in black – the result of a ... |
Paralyzed Man Stands Thanks to Experimental Spine Implant
2012 05 14
Rob Summers stunned doctors at the University of Louisville when, for the first time in five years, he stood on his own two feet. Paralyzed from the waist down after being hit by a car at age 20, the former Oregon State baseball player may one day step back into the batters box thanks to an electrical stimulator attached to ... |
40 die in Chinese hailstorm
2012 05 14
Forty people were killed when a brief but violent hailstorm and torrential rain swept through a mountainous region of northwest China, according to the local government.
Eighteen others remained missing in Min county, a disaster-prone area of Gansu province, while 87 had been sent to hospital, the county government said in a statement on its website.
Officials said 29,300 people had been ... |
Mysterious, unidentified, underwater ’blob’ captured on video
2012 05 11
Forget the Loch Ness Monster. There’s a new mysterious underwater creature that’s getting tongues wagging. But unlike Scotland’s mirage-like legend, this large gelatinous appendage that some experts are calling a Deepstaria Enigmatica has been captured on video.
The U.K.’s Daily Mail has images of the "whale-like blob" that were captured by a deep-sea remote-controlled underwater camera.
Though the milky mass looks like ... |
Ancient Mayan workshop for astronomers discovered
2012 05 11
Astronomical records key to Mayan calendar, which has gotten some attention recently because of doomsday warnings that it predicts the end of the world this December.
Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society’s intricate calendar some 1,200 years ago.
This undated image ... |
Peru says 5,000 birds, nearly 900 dolphins dead
2012 05 11
The Peruvian government said Wednesday that 5,000 birds, mostly pelicans, and nearly 900 dolphins have died off the country’s northern coast, possibly due to rising temperatures in Pacific waters.
Image: Source
The country’s northern beaches were earlier this week declared off-limits as scientists scrambled to pin down what was causing such a massive toll, with non-government organizations blaming oil exploration work.
But Peru’s ... |
Fed clears China’s first US bank takeover
2012 05 11
The United States on Wednesday opened its banking market to ICBC, China’s biggest bank, for the first time clearing a takeover of a US bank by a Chinese state-controlled company.
Just days after high-level US-China economic talks in Beijing, the Federal Reserve approved an application from Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to buy a majority stake in the US subsidiary ... |
Earliest Evidence of Biblical Cult Discovered
2012 05 11
For the first time, archaeologists have uncovered shrines from the time of the early Biblical kings in the Holy Land, providing the earliest evidence of a cult, they say.
Credit: LiveScience, Photo By Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Excavation within the remains of the roughly 3,000-year-old fortified city of Khirbet Qeiyafa, located about 19 miles (30 kilometers) southwest of Jerusalem, have revealed three ... |
Spain nationalizes fourth-largest bank as crisis deepens
2012 05 11
Spain’s government will effectively nationalize the nation’s fourth largest bank to shore up the hurting banking sector and try to convince investors the country doesn’t need a bailout like those taken by Greece, Ireland and Portugal, the Economy Ministry said Wednesday.
Under the deal, €4.5 billion ($5.9 billion) in funding that Bankia SA received from Spain in 2010 and 2011 will ... |
Banking giant HSBC ’a criminal enterprise’
2012 05 11
The global banking giant HSBC is a “criminal” operation, charges a former officer for the company’s southern New York region in a video interview with WND.
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“I pulled these documents because I thought they were evidence of suspicious activity taking place,” Cruz affirmed when presented by WND with various HSBC computer ledgers of customer accounts. “These same documents I brought to ... |
FDA denies a petition that sought to ban BPA from food packaging
2012 05 11
The Food and Drug Administration said that after performing extensive research on the chemical Bisphenol A, the agency is denying a 2008 petition from the Natural Resources Defense Council to ban BPA from food packaging.
BPA, which has generated controversy about its impact on health, is used in the production of plastics and resins and is found in some water bottles ... |
Largest US bank, JPMorgan Chase, says it lost $2 billion in risky trades
2012 05 10
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), the largest bank in the United States, said Thursday that it lost $2 billion in a trading portfolio designed to hedge against risks the company takes with its own money.
The company’s stock plunged more than 5 percent in late electronic trading after the loss was announced. Other bank stocks, including Citigroup and Bank of America, ... |
Is the Spectre of the Lone Gunman A Figment, A Shadow?
2012 05 10
Too often these days the media has been highlighting cases of violence or assassinations and raising the ’specter of the lone gunman’.
"The lone gunman theory is the nickname given to the controversial conclusion reached by the Warren Commission that U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a single gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald who fired only three shots, one ... |
Birmingham author claims Jack the Ripper was a WOMAN
2012 05 10
A Birmingham author has caused a storm among historians by claiming Jack the Ripper was a WOMAN.
Former solicitor John Morris, 62, has named Welsh-born Lizzie Williams as the Whitechapel monster – and claims she killed her victims because she could not have children.
Lizzie was wife of royal physician Sir John Williams, himself seen as a prime suspect by many other ... |
Syria unrest: Damascus ’suicide blasts’ kill dozens
2012 05 10
Twin suicide car-bomb attacks have killed at least 55 people and wounded 372 in Damascus, Syrian officials say.
The blasts happened near a military intelligence building during morning rush hour. State TV showed burnt cars and two deep craters in the road.
The government and the opposition blamed each other for the attack - the deadliest in Damascus since the start of ... |
