Red Ice Creations

Occupy Yourself - Not The Streets

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:14:44 +0100

At the heart of each conflict is two predictable polar opposites – the aggressor and the defense. Pick any conflict in history and you will be amazed that this holds true for each one. Due to the predictability of this pattern, the aggressor knows that there will be an uprising to deal with. With this knowledge, a strategic plan, and ...

’Jewish Indiana Jones’ admits Torah fraud

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:14:35 +0100

A self-described "Jewish Indiana Jones" who claimed to have travelled the world to rescue holy Torah scrolls has pleaded guilty to fraud. Rabbi Menachem Youlus, 50, admitted he had simply made up claims that he personally found and restored Torah scrolls in Europe and Israel. Prosecutors also said he defrauded the charity he founded and its donors of $862,000 (£545,000). As part of ...

Psychedelic Cathedral of Light Stuns Spectators in Belgium (Photos)

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 02:43:56 +0100

The LED Cathedral was designed with Romanesque and Renaissance architecture in mind and at its zenith, it stands an impressive 28m high. Unsurprisingly, the cathedral has already been drawing large crowds to Belfortstraat like moths to a flame. You also need not worry about the amount of energy being used, as despite being made from 55,000 LEDs, it only consumes ...

No one bids on ‘world’s largest emerald’ at auction

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 02:43:42 +0100

Despite being appraised at $1.15 million, the world’s largest cut faceted emerald failed to attract a single bid of half that amount at auction. "We definitely had some interest but there was nobody willing to put their hand up." Odenbach said one man approached him after the auction and offered a bid of $250,000, which was refused.

Earliest copy of Mona Lisa found in Prado

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 02:43:24 +0100

A copy of the Mona Lisa has been discovered in the Prado which was painted in Leonardo’s studio—created side by side with the original that now hangs in the Louvre. This sensational find will transform our understanding of the world’s most famous picture. Conservators at the Prado in Madrid recently made an astonishing discovery, hidden beneath black overpaint.

Sex, Beer & Politics: Riddles Reveal Life of Ancient Mesopotamians

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 02:43:08 +0100

Millennia before modern-day Americans made fun of their politicians or cracked crude jokes over a cold one, people in ancient Mesopotamia were doing much the same thing. The evidence of sex, politics and beer-drinking comes from a newly translated tablet, dating back more than 3,500 years, which reveals a series of riddles.

Egypt Shaken After Deadly Soccer Riots

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 02:42:49 +0100

"As Egypt mourns the deaths of scores of soccer fans, activists blamed the military and police for a tragic stadium riot in Port Said. The city’s governor resigned and the board of the country’s Football Association was ordered disbanded." Video from: YouTube.com Egypt football riot: protesters gathering in Cairo after football tragedy Also tune into: Robert Bauval - Post-Revolution Egypt

Mossad chief holds secret U.S. meetings on Iran nuclear threat, Senate panel reveals

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 03:12:51 +0100

During a broadcasted meeting of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CIA Director, panel Chairperson indicate they met Tamir Pardo in Washington this week; U.S. official: Iran willing to attack U.S. targets if threatened. Mossad chief Tamir Pardo held secret talks with top U.S. officials in recent days, cursory comments made during a public Senate hearing indicated on Tuesday. The ...

WikiLeaks Appeals To Maritime Law?

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 01:49:09 +0100

In a bid to keep its servers out of the hands of global juridiction and evade prosecution, WikiLeaks is allegedly looking into ways to relocate the servers to offshore data centres. Wikileaks’ servers have been based in many different countries such as France, Iceland and Sweden, and while the authorities have been so far unable to shut them down permanently, obviously they’re a prime target in the seemingly global fight against WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange.

Illinois reactor suffers shutdown, steam containing tritium vented

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 01:48:19 +0100

Operators at Byron Generating Station [around 110 miles from Chicago] declared an Unusual Event at 10:18 a.m.CT, due to the loss of offsite power and Unit 2 coming offline. The nuclear facility’s diesel generators activated as designed to provide power to the facility when there is a loss of offsite power to the facility. The facility remains in a safe ...

NASA probe discovers ’alien’ matter from beyond our solar system

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 01:47:27 +0100

For the very first time, a NASA spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system - material that came from elsewhere in the galaxy, researchers announced today."This alien interstellar material is really the stuff that stars and planets and people are made of - it’s really important to be measuring it," David McComas, IBEX principal investigator and assistant vice ...

Does China’s Cat-Eyed Boy Really Have Night Vision?

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 01:47:05 +0100

According to a news reel from China, a young boy there possesses the ability to see in the dark. Like a Siamese cat’s, his sky-blue eyes flash neon green when illuminated by a flashlight, and his night vision is good enough to enable him to fill out questionnaires while sitting in a pitch black room - or so say the ...

A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors (Video)

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 01:46:50 +0100

"Experiments performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. Vehicles developed by KMel Robotics." This demonstration is amazing, but also a little disconcerting. Video from: YouTube.com Quadrotor UAV in surveillance mode. Image: Source No worries, however, because they’re not without flaws: Video from: YouTube.com Will that distinctive buzzing replace the familiar sounds of police sirens? Video from: YouTube.com And in other news: ...

Prevent the EU from restricting information communicating benefits of food and natural health products

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:46:19 +0100

Ask your Member of the European Parliament (MEP) to veto the proposed list of 220 authorised ‘general function’ health claims which will also simultaneously forbid all health claims that have not been scientifically proven to standards set by the controversial European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Once this list is passed into law, around 2,500 commonly used claims about the health ...

Europe’s Secret Plan to Boost GM Crop Production

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:46:07 +0100

This article has been pulled from it’s original source independent.co.uk! - First published October 31, 2008 GM corn growing in France, which has since suspended cultivation of modified crops Gordon Brown and other European leaders are secretly preparing an unprecedented campaign to spread GM crops and foods in Britain and throughout the continent, confidential documents obtained by The Independent on Sunday reveal. The ...

Whole lotta shakin’, but it wasn’t an earthquake

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:45:55 +0100

Unusual shaking and rumbling reported around the capital region had people thinking "earthquake" - but, rest assured, there was no seismic event. Natural Resources Canada responded to public concerns by posting an explanation on its website, saying what was felt could have come from an "atmospheric source," likely sound waves travelling over a long distance. Taimi Mulder, a seismologist at ...

Monsanto Declared Worst Company of 2011

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:45:43 +0100

Biotech giant Monsanto has been declared the Worst Company of 2011 by NaturalSociety for threatening both human health and the environment. The leader in genetically modified seeds and crops, Monsanto is currently responsible for 90 percent of the genetically engineered seed on the United States market. Outside of GM seeds, Monsanto is also the creator of the best-selling herbicide Roundup, ...

Englishman Mystified By "Blue Sphere" Hail Storm

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:04:02 +0100

A man in Dorset has been left mystified after tiny blue spheres fell from the sky into his garden. Mr Hornsby, a former aircraft engineer, said the sky went a really dark yellow colour, and the 3cm diameter balls came raining down late in the afternoon during a hail storm. The Met Office said the jelly-like substance was "not meteorological".

Anonymous Warns NATO: "This Is No Longer Your World"

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:03:50 +0100

NATO has poked the bear of the internet (which responded by announcing that it’s actually a hydra). Anthropomorphic confusion aside, a NATO security report about "Anonymous" - the mysterious "hacktivist" group responsible for attacks on MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, Amazon and, most recently, Sony - has led the underground group to respond by cautioning NATO, "This is no longer your world. It is our world " ...

Next Frontier: Downloading Physical Objects to Your 3D Printer

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:03:41 +0100

Exciting times, friends. While we’ve been cleaning up the proverbial ticker tape left behind by jubilant celebration over the recently-stalled antipiracy bills, the Pirate Bay - arguably the premier resource for pirating digital content - has already moved on to the next big thing. The site has announced a new category called "Physibles" that houses digital files that can be downloaded ...

Jobless man builds a house out of $1.82 billion worth of shredded money

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:03:32 +0100

"What would you do with $1.82 billion worth of shredded money? In Ireland, people build houses out of it - at least that’s what Dublin-based artist Frank Buckley did. The unemployed artist originally wanted to create a gallery for his series of mixed-media artworks called "Expressions of Recession," but he ended up building a house instead." [...] Read the full article at: ...

Pentagon Unable to Account for Missing Iraqi Millions

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:03:21 +0100

The Pentagon doesn’t know what happened to more than $100 million in cash held at Saddam Hussein’s palace in Baghdad during the Iraq war, according to a new report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. What’s more, the Pentagon can’t find documents to explain what it spent as much as $1.7 billion on from funds held on behalf ...

If You Thought SOPA and ACTA Were Bad...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:03:11 +0100

Enter the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), the most recent of the run of international intellectual property lawmaking in the last few years. Few have likely heard of TPP, because it is also being negotiated largely in secret. The word "largely" is key, because, as was the case with ACTA, TPP documents have been leaked, creating yet another ...

ACTA is worse than SOPA: Here’s what you need to know

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:03:01 +0100

As a warrior for Internet freedom, you helped defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA by supporting Web black outs by sites like Wikipedia and by contacting your lawmaker to voice your displeasure. So loud was your voice that even the president of the United States sided with you in opposing it. But don’t take a deep sigh of relief ...

Occupy Oakland Arrests Top 400 After Volatile Day

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:02:50 +0100

For weeks the protests had waned, with only a smattering of people taking to Oakland’s streets for occasional weekend marches that bore little resemblance to the headline-grabbing Occupy demonstrations of last fall. Then came Saturday, which started peacefully enough - a midday rally at City Hall and a march. But hours later, the scene near downtown Oakland had dramatically deteriorated: clashes ...

All 3 Guilty in Canadian ’Honour Killing’ Murder Trial

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:02:41 +0100

A Montreal couple and their son were convicted Sunday of first-degree murder in the deaths of four family members in a case the judge called "despicable," "heinous" and stemming from "a completely twisted concept of honour." The bodies of Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti Shafia, 13, along with Rona Mohammad Amir, 50, were found in the family’s Nissan, submerged in ...

Resist Biometrics - Your Liberty Depends on It

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:46:43 +0100

It’s official. The biometric cataloging of the human race has begun. India’s intent to record it’s entire nations’ 1.2 billion people by iris and fingerprint scans signals a devious high tech human monitoring and control agenda. Although no one ever asks for such systems, biometrics will be sold to the populace as cool, sexy, convenient, safe and secure but will ...

Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:46:16 +0100

Over the past 50 years, billions of dollars have been spent visiting our nearest neighbor in space, the moon. It’s the only extraterrestrial body humans have ever walked on. Besides the United States and Russia, Japan, China, India and the European Space Agency have all sent robotic spacecraft moonward. Probably the most prolific of these missions, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...

OEx - Ocean Explorer USO imaged by side-scan sonar in the Baltic

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:45:48 +0100

Project - OEx OEx - Ocean Explorer USO imaged by side-scan sonar in the Baltic. Overview: Baltic Sea Unidentified Sunken Object (USO) originally imaged by the crew of the Ocean Explorer using its side-scan sonar. Seven viewers, five professional and two trainees, were tasked to work this target, all on camera. Preliminary analysis suggests that the target site is not ...

California Jews Shake Down Mel Gibson For Reparations

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:45:21 +0100

Congregation Beth Shalom in Corona, California has sent Mel Gibson a letter in hopes of guilting him into forking over some cash to bail them out of a bad investment they made on their local synagogue. Apparently, the group took out a giant loan that they can’t afford to pay back and are now facing foreclosure. In a move reminiscent ...

Sun Unleashes Strongest Flare Yet of 2012

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:44:57 +0100

A massive solar flare - the strongest one so far this year - erupted today (Jan. 27) from the same active region of the sun that triggered a raging solar tempest earlier this week. The solar flare was rated an X1.7-class eruption, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). X-class flares are the most powerful type of solar ...

Neptune in Pisces 2012-2025, An Ideal Time For The Globalists

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:41:05 +0100

The planet Neptune will be in the sign of Pisces from February 3, 2012 to 2025. Neptune takes about 164 years to make a complete cycle, spending about thirteen years in each sign. Neptune is considered the modern day ruler of the planet Pisces so it will have truly come home after its long journey around the Zodiac. Neptune was a son of Rhea, the earth mother, and Saturn, the prevailing sky god who ruled over the rest of the Roman pantheon. During the next 13 years, we’ll definitely see political systems representing "a perfect society" being strived for and we will see reforms in health care (and medicine), prison systems and the arts. It seems this is the ripe time for globalists to push forward their agendas. Of course, there is always the flip side. It would also be a time to see individual sovereignty prevail, clean technologies released, more impactful music and film (less Hollywood shite), natural cures, an overall deeper awakening to the natural world and the ability to do as you will and go un-noticed.

Update on the Unexplained Object at Bottom of Baltic Sea

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:40:44 +0100

A team of salvage divers has discovered an unexplained object resting at the bottom of the Baltic Sea near Sweden. "This thing turned up. My first reaction was to tell the guys that we have a UFO here on the bottom," said Peter Lindberg, the leader of the amateur treasure hunters. Sonar readings show that the mysterious object is about ...

Vatican is shaken by corruption scandal

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:40:29 +0100

An Italian television investigation has revealed that a deputy governor of the Vatican was transferred last year against his will after complaining about irregularities in the awarding of contracts. The programme showed letters from Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano informing Pope Benedict that he had discovered a web of corruption, nepotism and cronyism linked to inflated contract payments.

Anish Kapoor’s Olympic Tower Of Babel Is Pretty Big

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:40:01 +0100

If you live in London you’ll know that 2012 is the year that your journey to work will get significantly more dramatic, at least between the months of July and August, due to a tiny little low-key event known as the Olympic Games. It’s got something to do with running and swimming and stuff—and because of this minor sporting occasion, ...

Trafalgar Square Illuminated by Giant Sun - Curious Olympic & Freemasonic Connection

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:39:43 +0100

Just like the lyrics to the Beatles song, it’s been a long, cold lonely winter — but it’s looking a little brighter in London, thanks to an art installation by public art group Greyworld. The artists hoisted a 2.5-ton man-made sun over London’s Trafalgar Square, filling the morning sky with the light of 210,000 watts of power. The sun, which appeared ...

Found ‘Guilty’ By Despicable Scottish Establishment For Exposing Despicable Scottish Establishment

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:39:27 +0100

Robert Green Found ‘Guilty’ Robert was denied key defence witnesses, including former Scottish Lord Advocate, Elish Angiolini, whose behaviour was fundamentally relevant to the case. The outcome was never in doubt from the start. A thoroughly decent man has been ‘convicted’ for acting thoroughly decently. But the trial proved beyond doubt that there was no police investigation into the allegations of ...

Big Ben’s Tilt Could Force MPs Out Of Commons (Time to "knock it down"?)

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:39:06 +0100

The iconic clocktower which houses Big Ben tilts by 0.26 degrees (46cm) at the top and if the subsidence gets much worse, MPs may be forced out of the Palace of Westminster. The House of Commons Commission, which is chaired by Speaker John Bercow, will meet to discuss a new report that offers a range of options, up to and ...

Police Covered Up Truth Behind Infamous Student Shooting

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:38:50 +0100

The West German police covered up the truth behind the fatal shooting of a student in 1967 to protect the policeman who fired the shot that changed the course of German history, according to new investigation conducted by federal prosecutors. Benno Ohnesorg was shot dead on June 2, 1967 during a demonstration against the visiting Shah of Iran. The incident triggered ...

What if there were another advanced species on earth?

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:38:38 +0100

What if Neanderthals, who bit the dust just 28,000 years ago, had instead wised up and were now living next door? Or what if, during all these millennia that humans have been evolving, some unrelated creature had evolved cognitive and technological prowess in keeping with our own? Another scenario: what if humans had split into two separate species — the ...

Poland’s Mysterious Crooked Forest

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:38:19 +0100

In a tiny corner of western Poland a forest of about 400 pine trees grow with a 90 degree bend at the base of their trunks - all bent northward. Surrounded by a larger forest of straight growing pine trees this collection of curved trees, or "Crooked Forest," is a mystery. Planted around 1930, the trees managed to grow for ...

Marine to serve no time for killing 24 Iraqi civilians, women, children

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:37:59 +0100

A US Marine accused over the killing of 24 Iraqis in 2005 was demoted but will serve no time behind bars, a judge ruled, as locals in Iraq condemned the light sentence. Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, who led an eight-man squad whose other members have all been let off, was sentenced to 90 days confinement but he will not serve them ...

Helicopters To Buzz Downtown LA In Urban Warfare Drill

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:37:44 +0100

Joint military training exercises involving helicopters are being conducted in downtown LA all this week through Thursday with the police providing support, according to a statement issued by the LAPD. The exercises, closed to the public, are "designed to ensure the military’s ability to operate in urban environments, prepare forces for upcoming overseas deployments, and meet mandatory training certification ...

Flash Mob Swarms Store - Supports it!

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:37:29 +0100

It began quietly, as an email to 40 friends. But when a steady stream of customers began coming through the door before the family-owned Chagrin Hardware had even opened for the day on Saturday, it was clear that it had turned into much more than that. The idea started with Jim Black, a resident of Chagrin Falls, a close-knit village in Cleveland’s ...

ACTA of War: Cyber attacks & street protests over censorship bill (Video)

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:35:14 +0100

"There’s swelling anger in Poland over the country signing up with others to a global anti-piracy pact. Critics say the deal is as bad, if not worse, than America’s planned laws, which were shelved when web giants like Wikipedia and Google went on a protest blackout. RT’s Alexey Yaroshevsky is in Warsaw where the fear is that big corporations now ...

Australia PM Loses Shoe Fleeing Angry Crowd (Video)

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:34:55 +0100

"Prime Minister Julia Gillard lost her shoe as police swept her away from an angry protest by backers of indigenous rights on Australia’s national holiday. She said she was fine but angry over the distraction from "a wonderful event." Video from: YouTube.com

Please respect my religion!

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:34:13 +0100

We are often asked to "respect people’s religions." In the first place, many religious ideas are very disrespectful to human beings and are not worthy of respect. Secondly, what about people respecting our religion in return? The word "religion" comes from the Latin noun religiõ, which means, among other things, "scrupulousness" or "conscientiousness." In my perspective of reality, I endeavor ...

Researcher & Author David Flynn Dies at 49

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:22:34 +0100

It’s with great sadness that I inform you that author and briliant symbologist David Flynn passed away on January 22nd, 2012. David Flynn was the author of the bestseller "Temple at the Center of Time: Newton’s Bible Codex Finally Deciphered and the Year 2012". Many have praised this fascinating book which discloses, among other things, knowledge which was sought after by ...

National Grand Lodge of France (GLNF) is Falling Apart - Abandoned By Regular European Grand Lodges

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:22:18 +0100

Ed comment: This story has been unfolding throughout 2011, we’re just now picking it up. Grand Master François Stifani The Grande Loge Nationale Française continues to make the news in France, and they seem to be heading for a very ugly and very public implosion. At the heart of the troubles is Grand Master François Stifani. An internal battle has raged against ...

2012 Zion Olympics in London Coincide with Tisha B’Av - Commemoration of the Destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:52:28 +0100

If you ever listened to the programs that we did with Rik Clay, you know that we’ve been following he 2012 Zion Olympics connection closely. You can listen to all four hours that we did with Rik Clay in 2008 in case you missed it. Even Iran is boycotting the 2012 Olympics because of the blatant Zion symbolism. So adding to the ...

Dragon Flare! Strongest Solar Storm Since 2005 Hitting Earth

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:52:14 +0100

The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving eruption. The solar flare occurred at about 11 p.m. EST (0400 GMT) Sunday and will hit Earth with three different effects at three different times. First comes electromagnetic radiation, followed by radiation in the form of protons. Then, finally the coronal mass ejection -- that’s the plasma from the sun itself -- hits.

Mexico authorities unravel child trafficking ring

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:52:03 +0100

The Irish couples ensnared in an apparent illegal adoption ring in western Mexico thought they were involved in a legal process and are devastated by allegations organisers were trafficking in children, the families said on Monday. Photo: AP “All the families have valid declarations to adopt from Mexico as issued by the Adoption Authority of Ireland,” they said in a statement, which ...

JFK library releases last of his secret tapes

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:51:53 +0100

President John F. Kennedy’s library is releasing 45 hours of privately recorded meetings and phone calls, providing a window into the final months of his life. The tapes include discussions of conflict in Vietnam, Soviet relations and the race to space, plans for the 1964 Democratic Convention and re-election strategy. There also are moments with his children. On one recording, made days ...

A Message For All Of Humanity (Video)

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:51:42 +0100

"One of the most inspirational speeches in recorded history was given by a comedian by the name of Charlie Chaplin in the movie "The Great Dictator"." Video from: YouTube.com

Yes, The War for the Internet Has Begun

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:51:33 +0100

By now, people who use the Internet seriously, and even plenty who don’t, are aware of the arrest of six-foot-seven, 300-pound Kim Dotcom, an outsize figure in the business of facilitating Internet downloads. The problem with his company, Megauploads, according to the US Justice Department and the FBI that carried out the arrest, is that his brainchild allowed users to traffic ...

It’s a boy! Couple reveal sex of their ’gender neutral’ kid after five years

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:51:23 +0100

Beck Laxton, 46, and partner Kieran Cooper, 44, decided not to reveal baby Sasha’s gender in the hope it would let its ’real’ personality shine through. They referred to it as "The Infant" and only allowed their child to play with ’gender-neutral toys’ in their television-free home. During the first five years of his life, Sasha has alternated between girls’ and boys’ ...

185 killed in north Nigeria sect attack, police say

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:51:12 +0100

The aging Muslim spiritual leader of this northern Nigeria city, his eyes heavy with fatigue, leaned into a microphone Monday and whispered to God his wish for peace after the killing of at least 185 people in an attack by a radical Islamist sect.

Research into more deadly strain of bird flu suspended over fears for potential spread

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:12:12 +0100

A group of scientists have suspended their research about a more-deadly strain of the bird flu because of massive objections to the study itself. The scientists in question altered the strands of the H5N1 bird flu to make an even more deadly version in hopes of learning key details about the evolution and development of pandemics. The scientists involved feel that the work should not be hindered as the details that they expect to learn about the development and early warning signs of pandemic diseases is vital to protecting society.

Former Liberian President worked for the CIA: report

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:11:57 +0100

Liberia’s Charles Taylor, the first African head of state to be prosecuted for war crimes by an international tribunal, used to work for the CIA, the Boston Globe newspaper reported this week. The report, based on information uncovered through a freedom of information request made six years ago, said that Taylor had a relationship with the US spy agency for years, ...

Marijuana doesn’t harm lung function, study found

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:11:43 +0100

Smoking a joint once a week or a bit more apparently doesn’t harm the lungs, suggests a 20-year study that bolsters evidence that marijuana doesn’t do the kind of damage tobacco does. The results, from one of the largest and longest studies on the health effects of marijuana, are hazier for heavy users — those who smoke two or more joints ...

Treblinka: Revealing the hidden graves of the Holocaust

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:36:52 +0100

Any doubts about the existence of mass graves at the Treblinka death camp in Poland are being laid to rest by the first survey of the site using tools that see below the ground, writes forensic archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls. When the Nazis left Treblinka in 1943 they thought they had destroyed it. They had knocked down the buildings and ...

One Third of the Holocaust

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:36:43 +0100

The death camps Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec made up nearly 1/3 of the holocaust. Does the burial space at Treblinka add up? Let’s put it this way, you can’t bury the equivalent to the stadium spectators of the Rose Bowl Game in two pits not much bigger than the chicken coop, and then sentence someone to life imprisonment based on ...

Strange Sounds 2012 debunked into oblivion

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:36:31 +0100

The mania surrounding the strange war of the worlds sounds heard worldwide continues. Never discount the copy cat effect - but are they ALL copies of the Kiev video or generated sounds?

Strange Sounds Map

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:36:21 +0100

Reports of unidentified events presenting as loud, unusual sounds coming seemingly from the sky, or "everywhere", have been making their way into YouTube since the summer of 2011. This map reports locations of the events, and links to the applicable YouTube report. Location is noted to the best of my ability with the information provided by the original poster of ...

Voluntary ’De-Baptism’ Rising in Europe

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:24:03 +0100

Sunday evening youth mass in Saint-Germain-des-Pres is overflowing with parishioners. People stand in aisles or sit cross-legged in corners of the cavernous, sixth century Paris church. Father Benoist de Sinety, parish priest at Saint Germain for the past three years, says he has always had the good fortune of seeing crowds of young people seeking their bearings or rediscovering faith. ...

Amazon Kindle: Digital Book Burning

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:58:47 +0100

Ed comment: Amazon: the book jungle, from A - Z. Offer everything, corner the market and then when there are no competitors left. You can censor and "burn" (erase) all the books you wan’t - no one will ever know the titles ever existed. Kindle. I can’t believe I didn’t see it sooner. It’s all in the name/symbol. Amazon’s Kindle is ...

The Great Martin Luther King Copyright Conundrum

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:58:31 +0100

Believe it or not, to legally watch that famous Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream" speech -- arguably one of the most hallowed moments in American history -- costs $10 thanks to the twisted state of United States copyright law. The news of how MLK’s most famous moment costs money to watch is not a new one. But given the ...

Curse of the skyscrapers

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:58:19 +0100

An "unhealthy correlation" exists between the construction of skyscrapers and financial crashes, according to a new report from Barclays Capital. The construction of the Empire State building in New York in 1930, along with towers in Kuala Lumpur in 1997 and Dubai in 2010 have all been followed by economic crises, the report noted. "Often the world’s tallest buildings are simply the ...

Tepco Drills a Hole in Fukushima Reactor - Finds that Nuclear Fuel Has Gone Missing

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:57:59 +0100

The fuel inside the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors is believed to have melted through the pressure vessels and been accumulating in the outer primary containers after the Fukushima plant lost its key functions to cool the reactors in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami on March 11 last year.

War of the Web: Anonymous strikes back after feds shut down file-sharing hub Megaupload

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:58:16 +0100

Following a wildly successful protest against SOPA and PIPA internet censorship legislation on Wednesday, the Department of Justice "conducted a major action" on Thursday and shuttered MegaUpload, a popular file-sharing site accused of trading in copyrighted movies and televisions shows. The conspicuously timed raid "on Megaupload Thursday proved that the feds don’t need SOPA or its sister legislation, PIPA, in order to pose a blow to the Web," writes the AnonOps Communications blog.

Iranian Activist, Studying Molecular Genetic Technology, Shot to Death in Texas

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:58:02 +0100

A Texas medical student well-known in her community as an Iranian activist was mysteriously shot and killed in her car, just yards from her home. Gelareh Bagherzadeh, 30, was driving through her Houston townhouse complex around midnight on Monday when she was shot dead through her car window. "When officers arrived, they found a vehicle had run into a garage door at ...

Sleep Locks In Bad Memories, Emotions (Video)

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:57:51 +0100

Sleeping after a traumatic event might lock in bad memories and emotions, a new study has found. Researchers from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst asked more than 100 healthy adults to rate their emotional responses to a series of images, some depicting unsettling scenes. Twelve hours later, they rated the images again. The difference: Half of the subjects slept during ...

Wikimedia CEO says ’Corporate Desire for Internet and Media Control’ a "conspiracy theory" (Video)

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:57:41 +0100

"Wikipedia is deliberately blacking out its English-language website. It’s joined a 24-hour protest against anti-piracy bills making their way through U.S. Congress. For more insight, RT talks to John Davies, the Chief Executive of Wikimedia UK, which is the umbrella foundation in charge of Wikipedia." Video from: YouTube.com

Good heavens! Oldest-known astrologer’s board discovered

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:57:31 +0100

A research team has discovered what may be the oldest astrologer’s board, engraved with zodiac signs and used to determine a person’s horoscope. Dating back more than 2,000 years, the board was discovered in Croatia, in a cave overlooking the Adriatic Sea. The surviving portion of the board consists of 30 ivory fragments engraved with signs of the zodiac. Researchers spent ...

The Secret Behind SOPA

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:49:42 +0100

The secret behind SOPA, the so-called anti-piracy bill which is today the target of an unprecedented backlash with Wikileaks and other major websites ‘going dark’ to protest the legislation, has nothing to do with piracy or copyright theft – it’s about the formal effort to mimic Communist China’s system of Internet censorship. But don’t take our word for it, listen ...

For Rent: (One of the Cradles) of Human Civilization

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:40:24 +0100

In a move bound to leave many Greeks and scholars aghast, Greece’s culture ministry said Tuesday it will open up some of the debt-stricken country’s most-cherished archaeological sites to advertising firms and other ventures. The ministry says the move is a common-sense way of helping "facilitate" access to the country’s ancient Greek ruins, and money generated would fund the upkeep and monitoring of sites. The first site to be opened would be the Acropolis. Archaeologists, however, have for decades slammed such an initiative as sacrilege.

FBI Making Arrests In A Brand New Chapter Of The Hedge Fund Insider Trading Scandal

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:40:12 +0100

Seven people have been charged in a wide reaching insider trading probe that has been brewing since 2010. Of those seven, three people have been arrested, one surrendered, and three others have not been arrested as they cooperated with authorities, according to the FBI. It all went down this morning, and here’s how the arrests started: A WSJ report said ...

Mars rocks fall on Morocco

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:40:02 +0100

Scientists are confirming a recent and rare invasion from Mars: meteorite chunks from the red planet that fell in Morocco last July. iThis is only the fifth time scientists have confirmed chemically Martian meteorites that people witnessed falling. Scientists are confirming a recent and rare invasion from Mars- meteorite chunks that fell from the red planet over Morocco last summer. Photo: AP ...

SOPA: Sites go dark as part of anti-piracy law protests

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:39:46 +0100

Thousands of internet sites are taking part in a "blackout" protest against anti-piracy laws being discussed by US lawmakers. The Wikipedia encyclopedia and blogging service WordPress are among the highest profile pages to remove material.

Scientists Set to Drill to Buried Antarctic Lake

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:39:35 +0100

A team of four British engineers recently returned from a 10-day trip to a desolate, windswept plain in Antarctica, setting the stage for a project that could uncover previously unknown life that has been cut off from the world for millennia.

Countries consider time out on the ’leap second’

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:39:23 +0100

It’s high noon for the humble leap second. After ten years of talks, governments are headed for a showdown vote this week on an issue that pits technological precision against nature’s whims. The United States, France and others are pushing for countries at a U.N. telecom meeting to abolish the leap second, which for 40 years has kept computers in sync with ...

IMF Seeks $500B Boost to Lending Resources (This money comes from countries already in debt to the IMF!)

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:39:11 +0100

The International Monetary Fund is proposing to raise its lending capacity by $500 billion to insulate the global economy against any worsening of Europe’s debt crisis, according to a person familiar with the talks. The Washington-based lender currently has about $385 billion available to lend and wants to lift that to $885 billion after identifying the potential for a $1 ...

The Story of Broke Response

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:04:49 +0100

Prof. Art Carden responds to "The Story of Broke", a recent video by the creators of "The Story of Stuff." In "The Story of Broke," Annie Leonard claims that the government isn’t actually broke. Rather, the government just wastes resources on the wrong things like subsidies to the dinosaur economy and war. She claims that the government should change its ...

Radioactive Iodine in Rainwater: Canadian Public was in the Dark

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:04:37 +0100

After the Fukushima nuclear accident, Canadian health officials assured a nervous public that virtually no radioactive fallout had drifted to Canada. But last March, a Health Canada monitoring station in Calgary detected an average of 8.18 becquerels per litre of radioactive iodine (an isotope released by the nuclear accident) in rainwater, the data shows. The level easily exceeded the Canadian ...

Dr. King family’s civil trial verdict: US government assassinated Martin

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:27:24 +0100

Dr. Martin Luther King’s family and his personal friend and attorney, William F. Pepper, won a civil trial that found US government agencies guilty in the wrongful death of Martin Luther King. The 1999 trial is the only ever conducted on the assassination of Dr. King. The US government has never presented any evidence subject to challenge that substantiates their claim that Mr. Ray assassinated Dr. King. US corporate media did not cover the trial, interview the King family, and textbooks omit this information.

Herbal Bliss with Kratom

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:27:10 +0100

We all need to relax and zone out more often but sometimes it’s difficult to quiet the mind and let go. In those times, we can turn to herbal remedies. Unfortunately, our governments have and continue to ban plants and herbal remedies! Yes, it is unbelievable, agrifying, semi-laughable but true. Thankfully, there is a highly effective plant that has not ...

Dodged a Bullet: SOPA Shelved Indefinitely, Obama Succumbs to Pressure, Issues Official Veto Threat (Whew!)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:27:00 +0100

Sponsored primarily by purported free speech advocates that include democrats and republicans alike, the SOPA would have fundamentally transformed the internet as we know it today. As Daisy Luther writes at Inalienably Yours, the bill was nothing short of a direct attack against the first Amendment and the right to free speech...

Private Bradley Manning may face full military court martial

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:26:48 +0100

The presiding officer at Private Bradley Manning’s pre-trial hearing has found “reasonable grounds exist” for the soldier to face a full U.S. military court martial, which could begin within three to four months. Manning, accused of leaking thousands of sensitive and embarrassing government documents, could face a sentence of life in prison over what government officials claim is one of ...

Israeli source describes attack of Iranian nuclear scientist by "well trained" Mossad agents

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:26:32 +0100

"What is seen in espionage films as a simple operation is a result of hard work, many months of intelligence gathering and a well trained team," an unnamed Israeli source described the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist and Natanz official Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan [left] in Tehran to The UK Sunday Times this week. According to the London-based newspaper, Mossad agents ...

TSA To Test Body Scanner Operators For Radiation Exposure

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:26:19 +0100

Following reports of cancer clusters at Boston-Logan Airport, the TSA is set to test its naked body scanner operators for radiation exposure, but still refuses to test the actual machines that thousands of Americans are forced to pass through each day. The tests follow apparent efforts by the TSA to cover-up a “cluster” of cancer cases amongst scanner operators at ...

NASA in legal battle with veteran astronauts (Video)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:25:59 +0100

"NASA and some of its most famous astronauts are locked in a legal battle over collectables acquired during their space missions. Commander Jim Lovell and his crew of Apollo 13 successfully wrestled their damaged spacecraft home in 1970. But, recently Lovell attempted to sell a checklist used in the expedition, and unsuspectingly fetching more than $300 000 for it, attracted opposition from ...

Romanian protests enter fourth day

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:25:45 +0100

Thousands of Romanians have gathered in the capital, Bucharest, and in large cities across the country for a fourth consecutive day of growing protests. The marches started out against a controversial healthcare reform bill and widened to include anger over government austerity measures. Police have fired tear gas to disperse the crowds, and dozens of people have been arrested in ...

Internet addiction can cause physical damage to the brain, just like drugs, say researchers

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:56:56 +0100

Internet addiction disrupts nerve wiring in the brains of teenagers, a study has found - causing a level of brain damage normally seen in heavy substance abusers. Brain scans showed significant damage to white matter in the brain, proving, the researchers claim, that ’behavioural’ addictions can cause physical brain damage in the same way as drug addictions.

Brains in a Vat

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:56:44 +0100

A new scientific development conjures up sci-fi images of Rutger Hauer’s android in Blade Runner – lab-cultured eyes, brain parts, and glands. Yoshiki Sasai and his team at Riken’s Organogenesis and Neurogenesis Group have developed a neoteric cell culture technique for growing embryonic stem cells in fluid 3-D assemblages.

Researchers unveil new nano-data technology (Video)

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:56:32 +0100

"Researchers at IBM have created the world’s smallest magnetic digital-storage device, using just 12 atoms to hold a single data bit of information. The discovery could lead to a new class of memory chips that would make smaller, more energy efficient computers." Video from: YouTube.com

Iran says CIA behind nuclear scientist’s killing

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:56:20 +0100

Iran said Saturday it has evidence that the United States was behind the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist this week in Tehran, state media reported. Nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was killed in a Tehran bomb blast on January 11. Image: Source Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was killed in a brazen daylight assassination Wednesday when two assailants on a motorcycle attached a ...

Why Some People Live to 110

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:56:09 +0100

People who live 110 years or longer have as many disease-associated genes as those in the general population, but they may also be blessed with protective genes that help them live so long, researchers report. The team of U.S. scientists noted that supercentenarians, as they are called, are extremely rare, with only one per 5 million people in developed nations. There ...

Universal Flu Vaccine Could Be Available by 2013

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:33:11 +0100

Annual flu shots might soon become a thing of the past, and threats such as avian and swine flu might disappear with them as a vaccine touted as the "holy grail" of flu treatment could be ready for human trials next year. That’s earlier than the National Institutes of Health estimated in 2010, when they said a universal vaccine could ...

One Full Year of Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:33:01 +0100

As far as I am concerned, the year 2011 proved that we do not only live in interesting times, but a truly exciting age in which game-changing technological breakthroughs may allow us to overcome the challenges facing our civilization. A number of technologies made this year exciting, but some stand out more than others. A prime example of a radical ...

NASA Calls Cold Fusion (LENR) a Game Changer

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:32:51 +0100

A two-minute, non-technical video clip on Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR), previously called "cold fusion", has been uploaded to the NASA technology gateway website. It features senior research scientist at NASA Langley, Joseph Zawodny describing the new world that is possible from the Ni and H fusion science presently emerging.

Eurozone Crisis: Talks Between Greece And Bondholders Break Down

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:06:41 +0100

Talks between the Greek government and its private sector creditors appeared to be on the verge of breaking down on Friday, as the Institute of International Finance (IIF), which is negotiating on the behalf of bondholders, said that it was taking "a pause for reflection." Eurozone leaders, Greece and the IIF agreed on a 50% "haircut" on private sector holdings ...

The Euro Circus Continues: S&P downgrades France, Italy, Spain, 6 others

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:03:06 +0100

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has downgraded the government debt of France, Austria, Italy and Spain, but maintained Germany’s at the coveted "AAA" level. The cuts, which eliminated France and Austria’s triple-A status, deal a heavy blow to the currency union’s ability to fight off a worsening debt crisis. In total, S&P cut its ratings on nine eurozone countries. France and Austria both dropped one notch to AA+. Italy was lowered by two notches to BBB+ from A, and Spain fell to A from AA-. Portugal and Cyprus also dropped two notches. The agency also cut ratings on Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia. The downgrades come as crucial talks on cutting Greece’s massive debt pile appeared close to collapse Friday.

GlaxoSmithKline’s eugenics vaccine experiments leaves over 14 babies dead in Argentina

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:55:24 +0100

GlaxoSmithKline Argentina Laboratories Company was fined 400,000 pesos by Judge Marcelo Aguinsky following a report issued by the National Administration of Medicine, Food and Technology (ANMAT in Spanish) for irregularities during lab vaccine trials conducted between 2007 and 2008 that allegedly killed 14 babies.Likewise, two doctors -Héctor Abate, and Miguel Tregnaghi- were fined with 300,000 pesos each for irregularities during ...

Friday the 13th to Occur 3 Times, 13 Weeks Apart

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:55:12 +0100

It’s not just the Mayan calendar that’s raising 2012 worries-our own calendar is stoking fear, too. This year, there are three Friday the 13ths, compared to the usual two. That last happened in 2009. What’s even stranger is that exactly 13 weeks pass between the first and second occurrence, and between the second and third: The first is today, followed ...

It doesn’t get more clear than this: Schools are Prisons!

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:11:32 +0100

Schools are being turned into prisons as children are subjected to increasingly sophisticated surveillance and security measures, according to a report. Researchers found the widespread use of CCTV, ID cards, electronic registration systems, fob-controlled gates and fingerprint technology as schools attempt to crackdown on troublemakers.Staff at one comprehensive patrolled corridors and playgrounds with radios to make sure children behaved at lunchtimes, while teachers at a private school used technology to spy on children’s computer and internet use.Researchers suggested that the sheer scale of surveillance was fuelling paranoia among many pupils.According to the report, children at an all-girls’ secondary school claimed that voyeuristic cameras could be used to monitor them in changing rooms and toilets.The conclusions, in a study by Hull University, come amid growing concerns over a rise in the use of surveillance techniques in schools.

The United Nations on-going plan for global gun control

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:11:19 +0100

The UN Doomsday Treaty NRA News’ investigative reporter Ginny Simone takes a look at the global gun control goals of the United Nations. By pushing for a binding international treaty aimed at superseding the U.S. Constitution, the United Nations is committed to rendering Americans’ Second Amendment rights to own a firearm meaningless. Simone interviews past and current U.N. officials and politicians ...

Foreign sabotage suspected in Phobos-Grunt meltdown

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:11:08 +0100

The head of the Russian space agency has hinted that foreign sabotage might be to blame for the malfunction of the country’s Martian space probe, Phobos-Grunt. Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin told Russian newspaper Izvestia (in Russian, translation by Google Translate) that he had no complete explanation for the frequent failures of the agency’s space projects, but he suggested Russia might ...

Phobos-Grunt may crash into Indian Ocean, Russians say

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:10:58 +0100

A doomed Russian Mars probe that’s been stuck in Earth orbit for two months may finally come crashing down on Jan. 15 over the Indian Ocean, Russian space officials say. The 14.5-ton Phobos-Grunt spacecraft should fall back to Earth sometime between Jan. 14 and Jan. 16, Russia’s Federal Space Agency, known as Roscosmos, announced in a statement on Jan. 11. ...

Phobos-Grunt, the Toxic Russian Space Probe Plunges to Earth January 15th

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:10:49 +0100

French sky watcher Thierry Legault captured the stricken Russian probe Phobos-Grunt flying overhead from a French observatory at Nice. His video - captured on January 1 - shows the probe moving backwards, pulled into position by the friction of our atmosphere. His video has also offered the first explanation of why the probe failed. ’It shows that Phobos-Grunt is moving ...

RFID-enabled watch offers contactless MasterCard payments (Step One - Implantable Next?)

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:10:40 +0100

Watch2Pay devices include prepaid MasterCard PayPass technology to let consumers pay for purchases with a swipe of their watch anywhere PayPass is accepted. Contactless credit cards have been around for several years already through the likes of RFID-enabled offerings such as MasterCard PayPass and VISA PayWave. What we hadn’t seen until recently, however, is a wrist watch offering similar capabilities. ...

Portuguese Government looks for Masons among politicians

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:10:29 +0100

Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, gave the Ministry of Internal Administration (equivalent to MSW) guidelines for the obligations of persons holding high positions in government to disclose whether they belong to Masonic lodges. Informed the Lisbon daily "Diario de Noticias’, guidance on the verification link politics with Freemasonry were included in the government report on the matter so-called Ongoing. ...

Japan to open robot farm in tsunami disaster zone

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:10:18 +0100

A futuristic farm with robot operators is to open in Japan on land swamped by the March 11 tsunami as part of an experimental government project. The project, masterminded by the Ministry of Agriculture, will involve unmanned tractors working the fields of the farm on a disaster zone site spanning 600 acres. Robots will then box produce grown on the farm, including ...

Inside the Obamas’ secret Alice In Wonderland-themed Halloween party at White House that was kept under wraps for TWO years

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:10:02 +0100

The first pictures of the infamous Alice in Wonderland Halloween party at the White House emerged today - just hours it was revealed the Obama administration kept the 2009 celebration under wraps for two years. The pictures will likely add to the embarrassment for the administration as the Obamas have been highly criticized for hosting a lavish Halloween party- with ...

Bomb kills Iranian nuclear expert

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:09:52 +0100

Iranian media say a bomb blast in Tehran has killed a university professor who also worked as a scientist on Iran’s nuclear program. Photo: Graphic The Fars news agency said two unidentified people on a motorcycle planted the bomb under the car of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, killing him and his driver on Wednesday. The report said a passerby was wounded by ...

McDonalds Restaurants to Spray Robbers With "Synthetic DNA"

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:23:20 +0100

McDonald’s restaurants are ’fighting back against thieves’ by blasting suspected robbers with an invisible DNA spray as they attempt to flee. Each outlet keeps the details of its distribution a close secret, but one McDonald’s restaurant in The Netherlands installed above the main door an orange device which was electronically linked to a panic alarm system. Staff could activate the device in an emergency.

Twins born five years apart

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:23:09 +0100

Reception class pupil Reuben Blake went back to school today, but his twin sister will have to wait another five years until she is old enough. That is because, despite the fact the brother and sister were conceived from the same batch of embryos, they were born five years apart to parents Simon and Jody Blake.

Forget Mayan 2012 prediction, expert says the world ends in 500 million years (Solar influence)

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:22:59 +0100

Are you sweating over recent dire predictions that the end of the world is upon us? Relax, because according to one expert, we have at least 500 million years to worry about the problem. .A Solar Filament on the Sun Image Credit: Earth-orbiting TRACE satellite, NASA Colin Goldblatt is confidently making plans for late December, despite the fact the Mayan calendar runs out ...

Proof that Your Own Thoughts and Beliefs Can Cause Self-Healing

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:22:49 +0100

If you are struggling with any major health concern, it is important to realize that your mind can sometimes be your own worst enemy, or it could be the main reason for treating a problem. Increasingly, it is being recognized that a ‘mind over matter’ approach can actually produce noticeable results in your health.

Syria: Assad blames conspiracy for chaos (Video)

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:22:40 +0100

President Assad accuses "foreign conspirators" of efforts to destabilize the situation in Syria. Addressing the nation, he claimed that the international community’s aim to cause "psychological collapse" has failed and the victory is near. Video from: YouTube.com Also tune into: Pepe Escobar - Hour 1 - Invasion of Libya, Arab Spring & R2P Pepe Escobar - Hour 2 - Spoils of Libya, Iran & ...

Smolensk Probe: Polish military prosecutor shoots self after news conference (Video)

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:22:32 +0100

A Polish military prosecutor shot himself in the head Monday after cutting short a news conference in what appeared to be a dramatic protest in a turf war between Poland’s civilian and military prosecution services. Mikolaj Przybyl was taken to hospital in the western city of Poznan after reporters heard a gunshot and hurried back to find him lying slumped on ...

20 tons of herring wash up on Norway coast

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 23:04:03 +0100

An estimated 20 tons of dead herring fish mysteriously washed up on the cost of Norway and then disappeared. The fish remains turned up on Norway’s northern coast on New Year’s Eve, and officials are still looking to explain just how and why they showed up.

Rare moon rock samples found in Australia

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 23:03:48 +0100

Scientists in Australia discovered the mineral, which was named after the Sea of Tranquillity, in rocks at six sites scattered across the west of the country. Two other minerals, armalcolite and pyroxferroite, were found on earth within a decade of the moon landing. "This was essentially the last mineral which was sort of uniquely lunar that had been found in ...

Woman skipper selected for ’100 Year Starship’ project

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:04:16 +0100

The Pentagon’s think tank has selected the group that will manage its "100 Year Starship" project to explore what it would take for a multigenerational mission beyond the solar system, and sources say the leader will be Mae Jemison, who became the first black woman in space in 1992. "Together we’ll be working towards an organization that will last 100 years and produce a viable interstellar technology, with benefits for all humankind."

File-sharing group says Sweden has recognized it as a religious community

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:04:03 +0100

According to documents provided by spiritual leader Isak Gerson, 20, his Church of Kopimism received that approval in late December. The public authority responsible for such decisions was closed for the day and couldn’t be reached to confirm the approval, which comes amid a global crackdown on file-sharing websites often used to illegally download movies, TV shows and music.

Enduring mystery: Who leaked climate scientists’ emails?

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:03:53 +0100

For two years, the mystery has endured: who set out to undercut climate scientists by publishing more than 1,000 of their private e-mails on the Internet? The original e-mails, released in 2009 on the eve of a high-stakes United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen, sowed doubts about the scientists’ research and integrity and galvanized skeptics who challenge the scientific consensus that ...

Alien hunters: Searching for life

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:03:44 +0100

The hunt for signals from intelligent extraterrestrials has been in full swing for half a century. But the effort’s flagship facility recently came to a grinding halt. The first of a two-part series on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) takes a look at the facility and what it means for Seti’s future.

Unwell Hawking misses 70th birthday celebrations

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:03:35 +0100

British scientist Stephen Hawking has had to miss a symposium to mark his 70th birthday because of ill health. Professor Hawking was discharged from hospital only on Friday, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, told the event. A recorded speech was played to the symposium, at the university, instead. In it, Prof Hawking, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease aged ...

Victim identified in Queen’s estate murder mystery

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:03:22 +0100

British police investigating the murder of a young woman, whose body was discovered on the Queen’s Sandringham Estate last week, formally identified the victim as 17-year-old Alisa Dmitrijeva [left]. The Latvian teenager’s body, which may have lain undiscovered for months, was found last Sunday by a dog walker in the tiny village of Anmer, near to the royal residence in the ...

Japan plans to scrap nuke plants after 40 years

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:01:43 +0100

Japan says it will soon require atomic reactors to be shut down after 40 years of use to improve safety following the nuclear crisis set off by last year’s tsunami. Concern about aging reactors has been growing because the three units at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in northeastern Japan that went into meltdown following the tsunami in March were built starting ...

Ex-head of NATO’s 2nd-largest army accused of "forming and directing a terrorist group"

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:01:33 +0100

A former military chief was jailed Friday, accused of leading a terrorist organization and plotting to bring down Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, his lawyer said. Gen. Ilker Basbug was arrested and placed in a prison near Istanbul overnight after seven hours of questioning by prosecutors investigating allegations that the military funded dozens of websites aimed at discrediting ...

Lagos Dissents Under IMF Hegemony - Nigeria: The Next Front for AFRICOM

Fri, 6 Jan 2012 19:34:33 +0100

On a recent trip to West Africa, the newlyappointed managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde ordered the governments of Nigeria, Guinea, Cameroon, Ghana and Chad to relinquish vital fuel subsidies. Much to the dismay of the population of these nations, the prices of fuel and transport have near tripled over night without notice, causing widespread violence on ...

OHSU creates world’s first primate chimeric offspring

Fri, 6 Jan 2012 19:34:21 +0100

Three chimeric monkeys created by scientists at Oregon Health and Science University represent a stepping stone for understanding stem cells and their differences species to species. Monkeys Roku, Hex and Chimero are called chimeric, or genetically mixed, because they are comprised of tissue coming from two different embryos of stem cells. The impactful findings, which are to be published in ...

How governments have tried to block Tor [28C3]

Fri, 6 Jan 2012 13:45:09 +0100

torproject.org Iran blocked Tor handshakes using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) in January 2011 and September 2011. Bluecoat tested out a Tor handshake filter in Syria in June 2011. China has been harvesting and blocking IP addresses for both public Tor relays and private Tor bridges for years. Roger Dingledine and Jacob Appelbaum will talk about how exactly these governments are doing the ...

Pendulum Waves - Simple Harmonic (and non-harmonic) Motion

Fri, 6 Jan 2012 13:44:58 +0100

What it shows: Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and random motion. One might call this kinetic art and the choreography of the dance of the pendulums is stunning! Aliasing and quantum revival can also be shown. How it works: The period of one complete cycle of the dance ...

Grey Alien depicted on Canadian $20 Silver Commemorative Canoe Coin

Fri, 6 Jan 2012 13:44:34 +0100

The story, as told by the artist Jason Bouwman The canoe has become as much a part of the Canadian visual lexicon as the Canada goose, the beaver and the maple leaf. This design shows a young person enjoying a recreational outing. The boy breaks from paddling to dip his hand in the water ...and touches the past - the reflection ...

Stone Age Temple in Orkney 800 years older than Stonehenge

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:33:12 +0100

A 5000-year-old temple in Orkney could be more important than Stonehenge, according to archaeologists. The site, known as the Ness of Brodgar, was investigated by BBC2 documentary A History of Ancient Britain, with presenter Neil Oliver describing it as ‘the discovery of a lifetime’. So far the remains of 14 Stone Age buildings have been excavated, but thermal geophysics technology has revealed that there are 100 altogether, forming a kind of temple precinct. Until now Stonehenge was considered to have been the centre of Neolithic culture, but that title may now go to the Orkney site, which contains Britain’s earliest known wall paintings.

The "black hole" of Britain - Top Secret military base experimentation causing strange effects?

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:32:59 +0100

Villagers in Hampshire, near the world-famous Watership Down hill, fear they have become the latest victims of a ‘black hole’ mystery which has hit other parts of Britain. One family, the Smiths, were baffled when their heating, shower, doorbell and even their cars’ remote door locks refused to work and they discovered similar problems were being experienced by their neighbours in ...

Generation OS13: The new culture of resistance

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:32:47 +0100

Generation OS13 is an explosive insight into the attack on civil liberties occurring in western democracies and how artists, musicians, journalists and authors encourage the peoples right to resist against Banker occupation. Examining economic dictatorships, puppet regimes, tax havens, tax dodgers, and the debt based money system the film explains why ’you can not count on the law makers to ...

The Rosslyn Bones

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:32:35 +0100

Is the Tale of the Murdered Apprentice More Than Just a Legend? Photographic pioneer and artist Louis Daguerre’s 1824 painting, The Interior of Rosslyn Chapel, shows two workmen crouching by the base of a pillar, with three Templar Knights nearby. One workman is staring intently at some bones they have found beneath the flagstones. For a bizarre example of life imitating art, ...

Lucknow Residents Scared Sleep Will Turn Them to Stone

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:32:23 +0100

There are plenty of reasons why we sometimes struggle to sleep, but being scared of turning into stone overnight is rarely one of them. That fear, however, kept dozens of people awake in Lucknow and other parts of India’s most populous state this week. It all started with a message late Monday, claiming that anyone who slept that night would ...

The Ancient "Doctrine of Signatures" Suppressed By The Establishment

Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:48:51 +0100

The Doctrine of Signatures is profound ancient wisdom that is purposely being suppressed. It states that every fruit and vegetable has a certain pattern that resembles a body organ, and that this pattern acts as a signal or sign as to that fruit or vegetable’s benefit to us. Modern science confirms that the ancient "Doctrine of Signatures" is astoundingly accurate. ...

Obama Signs Defense Bill Despite "Serious Reservations" (Yeah, Right)

Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:48:35 +0100

Indefinite military detention of Americans became the law of the land Saturday, as President Barack Obama signed a defense bill that codified that authority, even as he said he would not use it. The National Defense Authorization Act states how the military is to be funded, but also includes a number of controversial provisions on arresting and holding suspected terrorists, which ...

Will Lord Obama Send Americans to Gitmo? Ray McGovern Reports (Video)

Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:48:22 +0100

Though the 9/11 attacks occurred more than a decade ago, Congress continues to exploit them to pass evermore draconian laws on "terrorism," with the Senate now empowering the military to arrest people on U.S. soil and hold them without trial, a serious threat to American liberties, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

Texas airport explosives found: US military man charged (Video)

Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:48:12 +0100

A member of the US military has been charged with trying to take explosives onto a plane at a Texas airport, says the FBI. Thirty year-old Trey Scott Atwater was detained at a security checkpoint at Midland International airport, as he tried to board a flight on Saturday. He was carrying explosives in military-grade wrapping, say detectives. The suspect had been visiting relatives ...

Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship

Mon, 2 Jan 2012 13:43:20 +0100

Computer hackers plan to take the internet beyond the reach of censors by putting their own communication satellites into orbit. The scheme was outlined at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. The project’s organisers said the Hackerspace Global Grid will also involve developing a grid of ground stations to track and communicate with the satellites. Longer term they hope to help put an amateur astronaut on the moon.

Are you a Martian?

Mon, 2 Jan 2012 13:43:08 +0100

Are we all Martians? According to many planetary scientists, it’s conceivable that all life on Earth is descended from organisms that originated on Mars and were carried here aboard meteorites. If that’s the case, an instrument being developed by researchers at MIT and Harvard could provide the clinching evidence.

Dead blackbirds fall AGAIN in Arkansas town

Mon, 2 Jan 2012 13:42:57 +0100

Thousands of dead blackbirds rained down on a town in central Arkansas last New Year’s Eve after revelers set off fireworks that spooked them from their roost, and officials were reporting a similar occurrence Saturday as 2012 approached. Police in Beebe said dozens of blackbirds had fallen dead, prompting officers to ban residents from shooting fireworks Saturday night. It wasn’t ...

Europe ushers in New Year with worries over economic future

Mon, 2 Jan 2012 13:42:46 +0100

Europe has ushered in the New Year amid warnings from European leaders there are tough tasks ahead to save the euro currency and overcome the deepest economic crisis in decades. Europeans woke with a hangover from 2011, when their continent plunged into its deepest economic crisis in decades. Government leaders struggled to sound optimistic for the new year, with French ...

Evacuations after Massive Landslide in Trondheim, Norway

Mon, 2 Jan 2012 13:42:36 +0100

Dozens of people fled from a rural area bordering Norway’s third largest city on Sunday because of a massive landslide but no casualties have been reported, police said, cited by AFP. "We have evacuated many farms," regional police operation leader Tore Kyllo told AFP after the landslide struck just south of Trondheim in central Norway. The river of muddy black sludge stretching ...

Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:10:30 +0100

Mycologist Paul Stamets studies the mycelium -- and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world.

2012 New York Time Ball feature September 11 Flight 77 Inscription on Pyramid Crystal Triangles

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:00:18 +0100

One of the 288 new Waterford crystals, featuring this year’s ’Let There Be Friendship design and inscribed with a tribute to those killed on American Airlines Flight 77 on September 11, 2001, is displayed during a press preview in New York December 27, 2011. The crystals will be affixed to the New Year’s Eve Ball atop One Times Square and watched by the thousands who are expected to pack Times Square on New Year’s Eve to watch the annual ball ...

Time Balls

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:59:32 +0100

A time ball is a large painted wooden or metal ball that drops at a predetermined time, principally to enable sailors to check their marine chronometers from their boats offshore. Accurate timekeeping is one way of enabling mariners to determine their longitude at sea. Time ball stations set their clocks according to transit observations of the positions of the sun and ...

Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball Gets Its Annual Makeover

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:59:19 +0100

The Times Square ball drop has been the highlight of New Year’s celebrations in New York City for more than a hundred years. Since New Year’s Eve 2000, the iconic ball has been created by Waterford Crystal, and the company will ring in 2012 with a new crystal design theme to mark the "Year of Friendship." The updated ball, which ...

"Giant Soldier" Pictured At Kim Jong Il’s Funeral In North Korea

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:59:04 +0100

Amid the sombre images of tens of thousands of North Koreans lining the streets to mourn the death of former leader Kim Jong Il, a startling sight has emerged. A close-up of the back row of a line of soldiers in the Kumsusan Memorial Palace yesterday shows a man standing literally head and shoulders above the rest. The soldier, who ...

Fukushima ’criminal event’, calls for investigation (Video)

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:00:17 +0100

Fukushima investigation reveals failings Japanese government delayed giving information to the public, according to interim report into the disaster Photograph: Ken Shimizu/AFP/Getty Images Japan’s response to the nuclear crisis that followed the tsunami in March was confused and riddled with problems , a report has revealed. The disturbing picture of harried workers and government officials scrambling to respond to the problems at the Fukushima ...

Irish soldiers who fought Hitler hide their medals

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:00:06 +0100

Paddy Reid - whose father and uncle both fought the Japanese at the battle of Kohima Ridge - recalls a post-war childhood in Dublin spent "moving from one slum to another". "My father was blacklisted and away all the time, picking turnips or whatever work he could get. It’s still painful to remember. We were treated as outcasts."

How CNET/CBS Interactive ignited and fueled the "Phenomena of Internet Piracy" to control the Internet

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:18:37 +0100

The history of CNET/CBS Interactive promoting Piracy software is staggering. Over 1,000 different software offerings, Several hundred instances of mentioning copyright infringing uses, often with known copyrighted songs or famous band names. Although some of these pages are ten years old, you must remember that CNET has been distributing LimeWire software since at least February 2001."

Top Scientific Discoveries of 2011

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:18:22 +0100

From emotional honeybees to particles flying faster than Einstein’s theory of relativity ought to allow, 2011 abounded in findings that posed new questions and expanded frontiers of possibility.

End of Nations: Canada, the US and the "Security Perimeter" (Video)

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:14:23 +0100

"American President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Harper have unveiled a new border security agreement that has received scant attention in the American media. However, far from being a new arrangement, what this accord represents is only the latest in a chain of usurpations of national sovereignty. " Video from: YouTube.com GlobalResearchTV.ca

Preparing to Attack Iran with Nuclear Weapons: "No Option can be taken off the Table."

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:14:13 +0100

The World is at a Dangerous Crossroads. America’s is on a War Path. World War III is no longer an abstract concept The US and its allies are preparing to launch a nuclear war directed against Iran with devastating consequences. This military adventure in the real sense of the word threatens the future of humanity. The Pentagon’s global military design is one ...

Euro is ’irreversible’ and ’permanent’, says ECB chief

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:54:22 +0100

The euro is "irreversible" and will overcome the crisis, European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi said in his first appearance in front of the European Parliament’s economics committee on Monday (19 December), while making the case for austerity and fiscal discipline. The Fed’s mandate is different, it is also geared on growth and jobs. We are much more restricted to monetary ...

Ethiopia jails Swedish journalists on terror charges

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:54:11 +0100

Two Swedish journalists have been jailed for 11 years in Ethiopia for entering the country illegally and supporting terrorism. Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson were detained in July after they were captured in Ethiopia with rebels from the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF). The men were found guilty of the charges last week. They say they were just doing their jobs as journalists.

Iran rejects NY judge’s finding that Tehran is liable in Sept. 11 attacks

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:54:02 +0100

Iran has rejected a New York judge’s finding that Tehran is liable in the Sept. 11 attacks along with the Taliban and al-Qaida. According to state TV, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman referred to last week’s judgment as "clumsy scenario-making" by the U.S. The spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, repeated Iran’s insistence that al-Qaida has no presence in the country. On Thursday, Judge George Daniels in ...

Alien Nativity Causing A Scene in Portland, Oregon (Video)

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:12:40 +0100

A Portland artist has created an odd twist on nativity scenes - one that replaces the three wise men with four aliens and also includes Santa Claus as a shaman, topped with an antlered deer’s skull. Artist Matt Henderson tells KGW-TV that his exhibit is called "alien nativity." Read More: bostonherald.com Video from: YouTube.com/SheilaAliens Video from: YouTube.com

Archaeologists discover ancient clay seal in Jerusalem

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:12:29 +0100

A rare clay seal found under Jerusalem’s Old City appears to be linked to religious rituals practiced at the Jewish Temple 2,000 years ago. The coin-sized seal found near the Jewish holy site at the Western Wall bears two Aramaic words meaning "pure for God." [The seal] dates from between the 1st century B.C. to 70 A.D. -- the year Roman forces ...

Was that Santa up there? No, Soyuz rocket debris (Video)

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:12:12 +0100

Dec. 24. 2011 A mysterious streak of light in the night sky baffled many Europeans on Christmas Eve, with speculation running wild as to whether it was a meteor, a comet or space junk. Videos captured in Germany, Switzerland, France and Belgium show the blaze of light passing across the sky more slowly than a typical shooting star, and with greater brightness ...

Dutch TV Hosts Eat Their Own Flesh On Air (Video)

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:12:02 +0100

Eating human flesh? You can’t do that on television! Unless it’s Dutch TV and you and your co-host just go for it. Sorry, Fear Factor, but with these two around you’re going to have to kick the gross factor up a notch. On their Dutch television show Proefkonijnen, which translates as Test Rabbits, hosts Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno try to ...

Earth Must Have Another Moon, Say Astronomers

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:48:54 +0100

Scientists studying satellites orbiting the planet have come to an astounding conclusion: Earth has multiple moons at any given time, the MIT Technology Review reported. Mikael Granvik, along with colleagues at the University of Hawaii, first discovered a mysterious body orbiting the Earth in 2006. The object -- or RH120 as it was known -- turned out to be a tiny asteroid just a few meters across. Moreover, it was a natural satellite just like our moon.

DIY: Ancient Building Comes with Assembly Instructions (Gallery)

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:48:40 +0100

Italian archeologists have unearthed the remains of a Greek temple-like structure dating back to 6th century B.C. They also found details on how to build it. Much like the instruction booklets of the Swedish home furnishings company, IKEA, various sections of the elaborate structure were inscribed with coded symbols showing how the pieces slotted together.

Appeals Court Tosses Obama Birthplace Challenge

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:48:27 +0100

The so-called birther movement was dealt another legal blow Thursday when a federal appeals court tossed out a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship and his eligibility to serve as commander in chief.

Manning did not harm security, argues his lawyer in WikiLeaks pre-trial

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:48:18 +0100

Bradley Manning did no harm to the U.S. military and should have the most serious charges against him dropped, his lawyer argued as he closed the case for the soldier’s defence. Manning’s lawyer David Coombs accused prosecutors of overreaching in bringing 22 criminal charges against the 24-year-old. Private Manning is accused of downloading more than 700,000 classified or confidential files from ...

18th Century Giant Should Be Buried

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:48:03 +0100

The skeleton of an 18th-century celebrity nicknamed the ’Irish Giant’ should be removed from a museum and buried at sea in keeping with his last wishes, two experts have argued, reviving a debate about the ethics of handling human remains. Writing in the British Medical Journal, medical ethicist Len Doyal and legal researcher Thomas Muinzer said there is no good scientific ...

Brown Eyed Girls’ Video "Sixth Sense" or How the Elite Controls Opposition

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:45:28 +0100

Backed by big money and millions of fans, the Korean pop music industry (K-Pop) has taken over the airwaves of Asia and the world. Although groups such as Brown Eyed Girls do not sing in English, they definitely bring to the masses the same Illuminati symbolism pushed by pop stars in the Western world. This is a true manifesto of ...

Scientists discover ’new metal type’ at Earth’s core

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:45:16 +0100

Under extreme pressures and temperatures, one of the main materials of the Earth’s interior has exhibited a never-before-seen transition. Iron oxide was subjected to conditions similar to those at the depth where the Earth’s innermost two layers meet. At 1,650C and 690,000 times sea-level pressure, the metal changed the degree to which it conducted electricity.

2 Earth-size planets spotted around distant star, boosting chances of finding life

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:45:01 +0100

Scientists have found two Earth-sized planets orbiting a star outside the solar system, an encouraging sign for prospects of finding life elsewhere. This illustration provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows artist’s renderings of planets Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f compared with Venus and the Earth. They’re the smallest planets found so far outside the solar system. Scientists are seeking Earth-sized planets ...

Philippines declares calamity as storm death toll nears 1,000

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:44:50 +0100

The national disaster agency said 957 were killed and 49 missing on Mindanao after Typhoon Washi triggered the slides. Most of the casualties were in the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan and tens of thousands remain homeless, many sheltering in evacuation centres.

Winter solstice: celebrating the shortest day of the year

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:44:38 +0100

While some may not think it a cause for celebration, the solstice is a day of deep historical and cultural significance. In earlier civilizations, the winter solstice was among the biggest festive events of the year. Scandinavia’s Norsemen called the festivities Yule. The Roman Empire’s solstice festival of Saturnalia was one of the most significant events in its calendar...

The Effect of Fluoride on the Pineal Gland

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:44:28 +0100

Although the extrapolation of results from animal studies to the human situation is difficult, this project may identify a potential health risk to humans. Therefore, the results will either affirm the safety of the extensive use of fluoride in dentistry or suggest that harmful effects on human health have already occurred: either way, this investigation is worthwhile.

Turin Shroud ’was created by flash of supernatural light’: It couldn’t be a medieval forgery, say scientists

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:44:09 +0100

The image on the Turin Shroud could not be the work of medieval forgers but was instead caused by a supernatural ‘flash of light’, according to scientists. Italian researchers have found evidence that casts doubt on claims that the relic - said to be the burial cloth of Jesus - is a fake and they suggest that it could, after ...

Government Wants Scientists to Keep Lab-Made Super Virus Strain Secret (Video)

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:43:59 +0100

Amid concern over lab-bred bird flu, US says full details of research shouldn’t be published "The new strain of bird flu could wipe out millions of people at a time" Image:DailyMail.co.uk The U.S. government paid scientists to figure out how the deadly bird flu virus might mutate to become a bigger threat to people — and two labs succeeded in creating ...

Christmas and the ancient winter festivals of light around the world

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:55:18 +0100

These days many people understand that "Christmas" represents the continuation and remake of the very ancient observation of the winter solstice, the time of year when the sun "dies" and is "reborn" or "resurrected," as the daylight hours decrease to their shortest point and then begin to increase again. This important solstice time has been observed most notably on December ...

European Stability Mechanism = Debt Slavery

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:34:55 +0100

The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) is a permanent rescue funding programme to succeed the temporary European Financial Stability Facility and European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism in the 17-member Eurozone. The ESM is due to be launched as soon as Member States representing 90% of the capital commitments have ratified it, which is expected in July 2012.

Mysterious "white web" found growing on nuclear waste

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:58:28 +0100

This is as fascinating as it is unsettling. Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site - a nuclear reservation in South Carolina - have identified a strange, cob-web like "growth" (their word, not ours) on the racks of the facility’s spent nuclear fuel assemblies. According to a report filed by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, "the growth, which ...

Apples Fall From The Sky in England

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:58:15 +0100

Stunned motorists were forced to brake sharply to avoid the falling fruit, believed to be swept up by a vortex caused by freak weather conditions in Coventry. An avalanche of more than 100 apples rained down over a main road in Keresley, Coventry on Monday night. The street was left littered with apples after they pelted car windscreens and bonnets just after ...

The Trillion-Dollar Lawsuit That Could End Financial Tyranny

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:58:06 +0100

It could be the biggest, most explosive story in modern history. We are just starting to put the pieces together and understand what is going on in the occult financial geopolitical scene, and how a 117-nation alliance is working to free the Earth from financial tyranny.

50 dead as oil rig capsizes and sinks off Russia

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:57:56 +0100

At least 50 Russian crew were dead or missing today after an oil rig capsized and sank as it was being towed in a storm. Fourteen workers were rescued from the stricken rig in the icy Sea of Okhotsk 200 kilometres (125 miles) off Russia’s remote eastern island of Sakhalin. An icebreaker and tugboat recovered four bodies from the water while ...

Egypt’s richest Library set on Fire

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:57:44 +0100

The 213-year-old Egyptian maps and historical manuscripts -- described as "irreplaceable" -- were destroyed after a library in Cairo was set ablaze during the clashes, Egyptian officials said Sunday. A fire that engulfed the building of the historic Egyptian Scientific Institute on Saturday morning has been extinguished. The extent of the damage has not yet been determined. The fire started ...

The House of Rothschild - Money’s Prophets & The World’s Banker

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:13:53 +0100

The history of the Rothschild’s and The Secret History of the International Bond Market - War Wealth Politics and Power. The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money’s Prophets: 1798-1848 The House of Rothschild: Volume 2: The World’s Banker: 1849-1999 In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the ...

Caffeine-Induced Psychosis

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:08:19 +0100

When I first heard about caffeine-induced psychosis, I laughed but a few days later when I drank too much coffee and felt crazed and then strung out, it wasn’t so funny anymore. The western world (but not excluding the east) loves caffeine in every form, especially coffee. Have you noticed that coffee is available for free in most offices and ...

Families fight to find infants stolen in Spain by the Catholic Church

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:26:54 +0100

Luis Vega is on a mission to meet every man born in Madrid, Spain on Nov. 20, 1977. That’s the day doctors told him that his baby son was stillborn, but he and his wife, Ines, believe their child was in fact stolen from the hospital. "We have a son somewhere out there," Luis Vega said. The Vega family isn’t alone in believing their child was stolen. This year, more than a thousand families have come forward with claims that they were victims of baby trafficking committed by a variety of networks from the 1940s until as recently as the early 1990s.

Czechs mourn late President Vaclav Havel

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:22:59 +0100

Braving the freezing cold, Czechs waited patiently Monday to bid a personal farewell to former President Vaclav Havel, who led the peaceful revolution that toppled the communist regime in 1989.

Indefinite Detention: Political Washington Abolishes Due Process Protections

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:22:50 +0100

Human misery is growing. So is public anger. Rage across America and Europe reflect it. Gerald Celente explains the stakes, saying: "When people lose everything and have nothing else to lose, they lose it." Image: Source Draconian police state provisions were enacted to contain them. Hundreds of secret Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) camps may hold them. Martial law may authorize it, claiming ...

Tears for a tyrant: North Koreans mourn death of Kim Jong Il

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:22:38 +0100

Millions of wailing North Koreans today poured on to the streets in a highly orchestrated display of public mourning after the death of the country’s dictator Kim Jong Il. Prostrating themselves on the ground and sobbing dramatically, the Communist state’s repressed population gathered in towns and villages to mark the passing of a tyrant who had impoverished his nation and caused ...

Scientists Demonstrate Innovative Learning Method - Learn "Matrix-Style"

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:56:10 +0100

New research published today in the journal Science suggests it may be possible to use brain technology to learn to play a piano, reduce mental stress or hit a curve ball with little or no conscious effort. It’s the kind of thing seen in Hollywood’s "Matrix" franchise. Think of a person watching a computer screen and having his or her brain patterns modified to match those of a high-performing athlete or modified to recuperate from an accident or disease. Though preliminary, researchers say such possibilities may exist in the future.

Thousands of birds make crash landing in Utah

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:55:58 +0100

Thousands of birds died on impact after apparently mistaking a Wal-Mart parking lot and other areas of southern Utah for bodies of water and plummeting to the ground in what one wildlife expert called the worst downing she’s ever seen. Crews went to work cleaning up the dead birds and rescuing the survivors after the creatures crash-landed in the St. George ...

Giant plumes of methane bubbling to surface of Arctic Ocean

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:55:48 +0100

Russian scientists have discovered hundreds of plumes of methane gas, some 1,000 meters in diameter, bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean. Scientists are concerned that as the Arctic Shelf recedes, the unprecedented levels of gas released could greatly accelerate global climate change. Image: Source Igor Semiletov of the Russian Academy of Sciences tells the UK’s Independent that the plumes of ...

Celestial ’Snow Angel’ Dazzles in Hubble Telescope Photo

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:55:38 +0100

Just in time for the holidays, the Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a spectacular view of a star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy that looks like a snow angel in deep space. This region, called Sharples 2-106 (or S106 for short) is located nearly 2,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation of Cygnus (The Swan). The nebula is ...

Nine bloody years on, U.S. Says War Over In Iraq

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:55:27 +0100

Almost nine years after the first American tanks began massing on the Iraq border, the Pentagon declared an official end to its mission here, closing a troubled conflict that helped reshape American politics and left a bitter legacy of anti-American sentiment across the Muslim world.

9/11 verdict is ’US propaganda for waging war on Iran’

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:55:16 +0100

"On Thursday, families of victims of the September 11th 2001 attacks won a default judgment against Iran, the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and Lebanon-based Hezbollah. According to the lawsuit, people in Iran -- including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei- provided support to the terrorists who went on to attack civilians on US soil. But analysts say it’s nothing but a cover-up, with Iran as ...

’Carlos the Jackal’ is sentenced to life again

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:55:02 +0100

"Carlos the Jackal," once among the world’s most wanted fugitives, has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a series of fatal bombings in the 1980s, a French court said. The 62-year-old, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, was on trial for his role in the attacks on two trains, a train station and a newspaper office ...

New billboard depicts Virgin Mary holding a pregnancy test

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:34:44 +0100

A controversial new billboard shows the Virgin Mary holding a pregnancy test with a "positive" reading. Controversial billboard shows the Virgin Mary with a home pregnancy test. The billboard, called "Mary is in the pink," was purchased by the St. Matthews-in-the-City Church in Auckland, New Zealand. The church says the billboard featuring the revered religious figure aimed to "avoid the sentimental [and] ...

A Shoe Heard Round the World (three years since the "shoeing" of Bush)

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:23:52 +0100

Muntadhar al-Zaidi is the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush at a Baghdad press conference on December 14th, 2008. I interviewed him in Beirut. I asked why he did it. He said "I was exposing the occupation with my pen, however I didn’t think my pen was reaching the world, I don’t think the world read my writings, ...

’The Protester’ named TIME’s person of the year

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:23:40 +0100

Time magazine announced on Wednesday that an unnamed, collective "protester" was its person of the year for 2011 after a year that saw successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt as well as protests in Syria, Yemen, Spain, Russia and beyond.

Confirmed: Fukushima disaster contaminated ocean with 50 million times normal radiation, leaks still ongoing

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:23:31 +0100

The mainstream media has said absolutely nothing about this development, continuing its pattern of downplaying news involving Fukushima, radiation or the flawed structure of nuclear power plants. This is hardly surprising, given that many of the largest media outlets (such as NBC and MSNBC) are owned by corporations such as General Electric, the designer of many of the world’s nuclear ...

Piers Corbyn: Delusion & Fraud: Global warming nonsense lobby to collapse (Video)

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:23:22 +0100

"Canada has pulled out of the 1997 anti-global warming Kyoto protocol, saying the treaty is ’not working’. The departure comes a day after further climate talks in South Africa led to a new agreement, which is set to replace Kyoto by 2015. Piers Corbyn, the founder of the Weather Action Foundation, hopes Canada withdrawal will lead to the collapse of ...

40 Members of Congress Protest U.S. ‘Indefinite Detention’ Bill

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:23:11 +0100

40 members of Congress have sent an urgent letter to House and Senate Armed Services Committee leaders protesting provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that would legalize indefinite detention of American citizens without trial, as the revised version of the bill heads for a final vote on Thursday.

Police find body at Liege attacker’s home

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:22:59 +0100

A police source said: ’The cleaner had been working in a neighbour’s home. It appears that Amrani had invited her into his own flat to discuss the possibility of cleaning his flat. ’There were signs of a struggle, and it may be that Amrani had tried to rape her. Whatever happened, she was undoubtedly his first murder victim on Tuesday morning.’ Cedric ...

Liege attacker profile: Belgian killer Nordine Amrani (33) a known criminal

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:54:46 +0100

The 33-year-old Amrani was well known to the police before he went on the rampage in the eastern Belgian city of Liege, opening fire on a square packed with children and Christmas shoppers, killing three people and wounding another 75. He had previously been convicted for drug dealing and illegal arms possession, as well as for holding stolen goods and ...

"God Particle" Found? Search for the Higgs Boson Narrows

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:54:35 +0100

Physics has a well-deserved reputation for being horrendously complicated, but sometimes it’s the simplest questions that lead to truly profound insights. When Einstein asked himself, "What would happen if you could ride on a beam of light?" for example, the answer led him to the Special Theory of Relativity. For the past few decades, particle physicists have been wrestling with ...

’UFO’ filmed above protesters in Moscow (Gov’t Surveillance Drone)

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:47:31 +0100

An ’unidentified flying object’ has been spotted above Moscow during an anti-government protest. Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters in the Russian capital’s Bolotnaya Square witnessed the ’UFO’ hover above them on Saturday. Confused onlookers among the 25,000-strong crowd filmed the strange object on their phones (video below) while some climbed trees in an attempt to get a closer look. The apparently silent object had ...

I refuse to let you force my children to walk behind a hearse!

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:03:29 +0100

That night he lay in bed "feeling nauseous and gripped with fear". He couldn’t sleep and try as he might he could not think of a way to keep a roof over his family’s head. He couldn’t see a way out. "My heart was pounding so hard I could hear it in my chest, my mind actively replaying the scene ...

Two people killed and 15 injured in hand grenade explosion in Belgian city of Liege

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:28:30 +0100

Three men armed with hand grenades and guns attacked a bus stop in eastern Belgium on Tuesday, killing two people and wounding at least 10. At least two of the assailants are thought to be on the run after the attack in Liege and police are telling residents to remain in their homes or seek shelter in shops or public buildings. ...

Pakistan President Has ’Mini Stroke’

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:28:12 +0100

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari suffered a "mini-stroke" that led to his ongoing hospitalization in Dubai.Zardari’s trip to Dubai last week has led to speculation - denied by the government - that he is losing his grip on power. Questions about the president’s future come as Pakistan is navigating a rough patch in relations with its most important ally, the ...

The Military And Those Strange Threats To Obama

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:28:02 +0100

Small, bad things seem to (almost) happen to Obama; they get little sustained attention from reporters or the public. But there’s something odd about them, and they’re worrisome for the White House. Of course, the corporate media will dismiss it as nothing at all. Yet there’s a disturbing military/security thread running through it all—and as we approach the 50th anniversary ...

Bankers & bosses drive EU down Great Depression road (Video)

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:27:50 +0100

"The blame game continues in Europe over who’s responsible for the high level split over a new EU fiscal agreement. The British Prime Minister, who slapped a firm "No" on the deal, said it lacked sufficient financial safeguards for the UK. But European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, says Britain itself made compromise impossible by making demands that threatened the ...

The Great Chinese-Iranian Stealth Reconnaissance Drone Theft Caper

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:27:41 +0100

Why Serving In The American Armed Forces Just Became Much More Dangerous, Thanks to Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich. The national insecurity stakes just went up once again. Being in the armed forces of any country, at any time, has always been a hazardous occupation. But thanks to the gross incompetence, malfeasance and short sightedness of our current and former ...

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:25:41 +0100

Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children’s advocates, and industry insiders, the film focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world. Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children’s marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids.

Out-of-body experience: Master of illusion

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:57:37 +0100

It is not every day that you are separated from your body and then stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife. But such experiences are routine in the lab of Henrik Ehrsson, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, who uses illusions to probe, stretch and displace people’s sense of self. Out-of-body experiences are just part of Ehrsson’s repertoire.The storeroom in his lab is stuffed with mannequins of various sizes, disembodied dolls’ heads, fake hands, cameras, knives and hammers. It looks like a serial killer’s basement. "The other neuroscientists think we’re a little crazy," Ehrsson admits.

The Rosslyn Chapel Bones: Buried Skeletons

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:57:25 +0100

Colin Glynne-Percy, director of the Rosslyn Chapel Trust, said: “During excavation works to install a new heating system in the chapel, archaeologists found a number of bones just beneath the slabs. Below that, they came across a second skeleton that was fully intact.”The archaeological team has now released the first pictures of the skeletons in their resting place. Tests are ...

The Mystery of Carole Myers

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:57:15 +0100

When she was found dead at 41, Carole Myers left a statement saying she had suffered Satantic child abuse at the hands of her parents. But did she? Over the coming weeks there came questions. They were told the nameless "next of kin" had emptied Carole’s flat and driven off in her car. Officials kept mentioning a "psychiatrist friend" who ...

Britain chooses isolation over new EU treaty

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:57:05 +0100

After the deed was done, some leaders didn’t want to shake his hand. French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked right by him, as if he wasn’t there. David Cameron, the British prime minister, had become Europe’s outcast. His sin? Rejecting an invitation to join 26 European partners in a tighter financial alliance to save the euro, making Britain odd man out at a ...

Palestinians are an "invented people", says US Presidential hopeful Gingrich

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:56:53 +0100

The US Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has declared that the Palestinians are an "invented" people who want to destroy Israel. The Jewish Channel, a cable TV station, posted online its interview with the former US House speaker , who has risen to the top of Republican nomination candidates to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama in the November 2012 election. Gingrich differed ...

Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:56:43 +0100

As the unmanned aircraft circled 2 miles overhead the next morning, sophisticated sensors under the nose helped pinpoint the three suspects and showed they were unarmed. Police rushed in and made the first known arrests of U.S. citizens with help from a Predator, the spy drone that has helped revolutionize modern warfare.

Strange (and timely?) Reemergence of Missing FBI Agent in Iran (Video)

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 22:45:07 0100

The family of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished years ago in Iran, issued a plea to his kidnappers Friday and, for the first time, released a hostage video they received from his unidentified captors. The video was accompanied by a demand that the U.S. release prisoners, but officials said the United States is not holding anyone matching the names on the list. It’s possible some of them may have been held by the Pakistani government at one point, but officials say the demand doesn’t offer any indication of who might be holding Levinson and there’s been no more communication about it.

Meteor Crater Helps Unlock Planetary History

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 22:44:17 +0100

The Barringer meteorite crater - known popularly as "Meteor Crater" - near Winslow, Ariz., was formed some 50,000 years ago in the flat-lying sedimentary rocks of the Southern Colorado Plateau in Arizona. Now, scientists are using the crater to study mysteries near and far. This out-of-the-blue geological feature is considered a prime example of a young, well-preserved and well-documented simple impact ...

Study shows some cereals pack more sugar than cookies

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 22:44:05 +0100

Popular brands of cereal contain so much sugar that parents might as well be serving kids dessert for breakfast, a new U.S. report suggests. The Environmental Working Group reviewed 84 brands that are sold in the U.S. Of those, 44 contained more sugar than three Chips Ahoy cookies, the consumer group said.

Iran airs footage of downed US drone (Video)

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 22:43:53 +0100

Iran has released video footage of the most advanced US reconnaissance drone which was downed by the Iranian Army in the eastern part of the Islamic Republic earlier this week.The aircraft had crossed into Iran’s airspace over the border with neighboring Afghanistan.

Remains of 274 US troops dumped in landfill: report

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 22:43:38 +0100

The US Air Force dumped the cremated, partial remains of at least 274 troops in a landfill before halting the secretive practice in 2008, the Washington Post reported Thursday. The procedure was never formally authorized or disclosed to senior Pentagon officials, who conducted a review of the cremation policies of Dover Air Base -- the main point of entry for US ...

Explosion Hits Syrian Pipeline - Conflicting Reports (Video)

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 22:43:27 +0100

A major Syrian pipeline carrying oil to a refinery in restive Homs province was blown up Thursday in an attack the state-run news agency blamed on "saboteurs" as activists reported fresh violence from the government crackdown on a popular uprising. The blast caused no casualties but sent a plume of black smoke into the sky. A government official said the blast ...

Mars rover Opportunity finds ’most powerful’ water clue

Thu, 8 Dec 2011 19:15:59 +0100

Nasa’s Mars rover Opportunity has found slivers of a bright material that looks very much like it is gypsum (calcium sulphate). If confirmed, it would be the most unambiguous signal of water activity yet found on Mars by this mission, which manages to keep on rolling. "To me, this is the single most powerful piece of evidence for liquid water at Mars ...

Atheists Who Go to Church: Doing It for the Children

Thu, 8 Dec 2011 19:15:33 +0100

He probably won’t get down on his knees, but that fellow sitting near you during the Sunday church service just might be an atheist. And a scientist. A new study out of Rice University has found that 17 percent - about one out of five scientists who describe themselves as either atheists or agnostics - actually go to church, ...

Russian scientists to attempt clone of woolly mammoth

Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:49:19 +0100

Scientists from Russia and Japan are undertaking a Jurassic Park-style experiment in an effort to bring the woolly mammoth out of extinction. The scientists claim that a thigh bone found in August contains remarkably well-preserved marrow cells, which could form the starting point of the experiment.

Chinese 2,485 year tree ring study shows shows natural cycles control climate, temps may cool til 2068

Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:49:00 +0100

A blockbuster Chinese study of Tibetan tree rings by Lui et al 2011 shows, with detail, that the modern era is a dog-standard normal climate when compared to the last 2,500 years. The temperature, the rate of change - it’s all been seen before. Nothing about the current period is "abnormal", indeed the current warming period in Tibet can be ...

Antarctic’s hidden world revealed

Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:48:50 +0100

Ever wondered what Antarctica would look like without all that ice? Scientists have produced the most detailed map yet of the White Continent’s underbelly - its rock bed. Called simply BEDMAP, this startling view of the landscape beneath the ice incorporates decades of survey data acquired by planes, satellites, ships and even people on dog-drawn sleds. It is remarkable to ...

Gun company ownership is being centralized by Freedom Group and Cerberus

Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:48:40 +0100

Cerberus Capital Management could cut off all gun and ammunition sales in the US. Many Americans are totally unaware that Cerberus has for the past decade acquired nearly every gun and ammunition maker in the United States and consolidated them into a holding company called The Freedom Group. There has been some rumors that George Soros is connected or even owns ...

Are Psychopaths "Brain Damaged"?

Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:48:26 +0100

We all have a ghoulish fascination with the Hannibal Lecters of this world. That’s because many of the most-publicized stories about psychopaths can be quickly banged into a Hollywood script. One of the most absorbing accounts that I’ve come across recently, however, was in an advance reading copy of a book by Paul J. Zak, due in May, called The ...

Afghan bombs kill 78 in two days (Video)

Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:48:16 +0100

A roadside mine killed 19 civilians and injured another five when it exploded in the southern Afghan province of Helmand on Wednesday, the provincial government said. The blast came a day after rare sectarian attacks in three Afghan cities killed 59 people, and refocused attention on the fragile Afghan security situation.

Mysterious Planet-Size Object Spotted Near Mercury?

Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:47:54 +0100

In the footage, one sees a huge spurt of plasma and other solar ejecta washing over Mercury; peculiarly, the material seems to flare up as it hits another nearby object, too. "It’s cylindrical on either side and has a shape in the middle. It definitely looks like a ship to me, and very obviously, it’s cloaked," YouTube-user siniXster said in ...

Experts stumped by ancient Jerusalem markings

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:33:25 +0100

Mysterious stone carvings made thousands of years ago and recently uncovered in an excavation underneath Jerusalem have archaeologists stumped. Israeli diggers who uncovered a complex of rooms carved into the bedrock in the oldest section of the city recently found the markings: Three "V" shapes cut next to each other into the limestone floor of one of the rooms, about 2 ...

Clothing Giant H&M Defends ‘Perfect’ Virtual Models

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:33:14 +0100

Visiting the H&M website is not the only virtual experience to be had by H&M customers who choose to order the company’s clothes online instead of inside one of their 2,300 global retail stores. Also "completely virtual" are the models at the center of H&M’s swimsuit and lingerie online campaigns, the Swedish-based retailer confirmed. Clothing Giant H&M Defends ‘Perfect’ Virtual Models (ABC ...

Rare albino snail makes an appearance in New Zealand

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:33:05 +0100

Hikers were stunned when they stumbled upon a rare albino snail in New Zealand. Typically, snails blend in with their surroundings - but a group of hikers in New Zealand stumbled upon one mollusc that prefers to stand out. A pure white albino snail is a rare occurance in nature (Image: Maria Brooks) Earlier this month, hikers were stunned when they discovered ...

Regrets of the Dying

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:32:55 +0100

For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some ...

Kepler 22-b: Earth-like planet confirmed

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 07:29:33 +0100

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of an Earth-like planet in the "habitable zone" around a star not unlike our own. The planet, Kepler 22-b, lies about 600 light-years away and is about 2.4 times the size of Earth, and has a temperature of about 22C. It is the closest confirmed planet yet to one like ours - an "Earth 2.0".

Eurozone crisis: New EU treaty ’may not be needed’

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 07:29:17 +0100

Success boys. More control achieved! Tougher rules to tackle the eurozone debt crisis can be achieved without changing EU treaties, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy says. In a leaked report for a crucial EU summit beginning on Thursday, he offers a fast-track "fiscal compact" that does not need lengthy ratification by parliaments or national referendums. Germany and France are pushing ...

Hu Jintao tells China navy: Prepare for warfare

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 07:29:04 +0100

China’s navy should speed up its development and prepare for warfare, President Hu Jintao has said. He told military personnel they should "make extended preparations for warfare". China is locked in territorial disputes with several other nations in the South China Sea. Political tension is also growing with the US, which is seeking to boost its presence in the region. ...

Schoolchildren in Spain can’t even afford to take a s**t

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 07:28:24 +0100

The northeastern region has been ordered to rein in its deficit and has embarked on a series of stringent austerity cuts. The latest edict issued by the region’s ministry of education instructs state schools to cut "excessive consumption" of toilet roll among pupils and limit the quota to a maximum of 25 metres per child per month. This most recent ...

Fukushima 45 ton radioactive water leak poisons ocean (Video)

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 07:28:13 +0100

"About 45 tons of radioactive water has reportedly leaked out of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, that was badly damaged in March’s earthquake and tsunami. Some of the toxic water may have found its way into the ocean during the weekend." Video from: YouTube.com While this leak is not on the scale of previous ones, how will this affect Japanese marine ...

Oldest Writing and Skeleton discovered in Romania?

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 07:28:02 +0100

In the year 1961 in Romania had been found some written clay tablets, which proved to be the first in the world. In 1999, a study by the "Sarmizegetusa Regia" revealed that the Dacian fortresses found in the Ortie Mountains (Munii Ortie) are now only a small part of a huge 200 square km city, hidden beneath earth’s surface - ...

Dumpster Diving To Survive

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 07:27:51 +0100

Welcome to one of many paradoxes that surround modern food. In some senses, America might appear to be groaning with stuff to eat. Some 34% of adults are classified as obese, and portion sizes are infamously large. But the US, like the rest of the west, also has a popular culture that venerates being thin, and a diet industry where ...

All Take No Give: UK/US post 9-11 extradition injustice (Video)

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 07:27:40 +0100

"British MPs are staging a debate seeking the urgent renegotiation of what they see as a biased extradition treaty with the US. Agreed in the chaotic aftermath of 9-11, it allows Washington to demand the extradition of any UK Citizen - without evidence of any crime - and Britain is bound to comply." Video from: YouTube.com

TEPCO: Radioactive water may have leaked into sea

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 07:27:27 +0100

As much as 45,000 liters (11,870 gallons) of highly radioactive water leaked from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear station at the weekend and some may have reached the sea, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. The leakage shows the company known as Tepco is still struggling to control the disaster nine months after an earthquake and tsunami wrecked the plant. The water ...

Franken-Food Additives Poisoning the Masses

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 13:25:18 +0100

Our ancestors used salt to preserve meats and fish, added herbs and spices to sharpen the flavor of foods, preserved fruit with sugar, and pickled cucumbers in vinegar. They also had their own gardens, raised their own livestock, ate local and in season. However, they were not eating the Franken-foods of today, including genetically modified food, chemically preserved food, flavor “enhanced” food, sugar filled food, fortified food and hormone injected food.

Targeting Norway’s Oil Norway’s Oil Money - Did they think, that the Elite wouldn`t target this kind of money?

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 13:25:07 +0100

The Norwegian Bilderberger Scam. "If you live in Norway remember: You have all this money, you are not in financial crises as your government tells you and you should look out for vultures circling the skies. And there’s an explanation called : Oil. Did you know that Norway is one of the strongest economies in the world? People in Norway ...

Putin prepares the Russian empire to strike back

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 13:24:57 +0100

As prime minister for the past four years, Vladimir Putin never really went away. But his looming reincarnation as the all-powerful, executive president of Russia – the country’s "paramount leader" in Chinese parlance – poses a stark challenge for which the US, Britain and other beleaguered western powers seem ill-prepared. As president, potentially until 2024, Putin has one overriding objective: ...

Toads could be used to predict earthquakes

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 13:24:47 +0100

Animals could be used to predict earthquakes because certain species are able to sense chemical changes in groundwater immediately before seismic activity, a study suggests. Experts began investigating the theory after a colony of toads was observed abandoning a pond in L’Aquila, Italy, in 2009, days before the devastating earthquake. They believe that stressed rocks in the Earth’s crust release charged particles ...

Astronomers Discover 18 Huge New Alien Planets

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 13:24:36 +0100

Astronomers have found 18 new alien planets, all of them Jupiter-size gas giants that circle stars bigger than our sun, a new study reports. The discoveries increase the number of known planets orbiting massive stars by 50 percent. The exoplanet bounty should also help astronomers better understand how giant planets form and grow in nascent alien solar systems, researchers said.

PROTECT IP / SOPA Act Breaks the Internet

Sun, 4 Dec 2011 03:10:32 +0100

The video discusses the Senate version of the PROTECT IP Act, but the House bill that was introduced TODAY is much much worse. It’ll give the government new powers to block Americans’ access websites that corporations don’t like. The bill would criminalize posting all sorts of standard web content -- music playing in the background of videos, footage of people ...

New WikiLeaks ’spy files’ show global surveillance industry

Fri, 2 Dec 2011 23:37:45 +0100

"The whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has begun releasing sensational information on the multi billion dollar global spying industry. The database contains hundreds of documents shining a light on the methods being used by secret services all over the world." "The Wikileaks files reveal the activities of about 160 companies in 25 countries which develop technologies to allow the tracking and monitoring of individuals by their mobile phones, email and Internet browsing histories."

NAACP: Troy Davis’ sister has died

Fri, 2 Dec 2011 23:37:33 +0100

Martina Davis-Correia, the sister of late cause celebre death row inmate Troy Davis, has died, NAACP senior communications associate Derek Turner confirmed. Amnesty International issued a statement Thursday night hailing Martina-Correia as a "Hero of the Human Rights Movement."

’Indefinite Detention’ Bill Passes Senate 93-7

Fri, 2 Dec 2011 23:37:21 +0100

The Senate last night codified into law the power of the U.S. military to indefinitely detain an American citizen with no charge, no trial and no oversight whatsoever with the passage of S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act.One amendment that would have specifically blocked the measures from being used against U.S. citizens was voted down and the final bill ...

The Broken Window Fallacy (Video)

Fri, 2 Dec 2011 23:37:09 +0100

Video from: YouTube.com Shovel ready "A project is considered shovel ready if it has advanced to the stage that laborers may immediately be employed to start work. The term is used in reference to projects which are candidates for economic stimulus spending: money put into a shovel ready project will have a more immediate impact on the economy than money spent on ...

Senate backs military custody of terror suspects

Fri, 2 Dec 2011 23:36:57 +0100

Ignoring a presidential veto threat, the Democratic-controlled Senate moved methodically Thursday to complete a massive defense bill that would deny suspected terrorists, even U.S. citizens seized within the nation’s borders, the right to trial and subject them to indefinite detention. The Senate rejected an effort by Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein to limit a military custody requirement for suspects to ...

A second Iranian nuclear facility has exploded, as diplomatic tensions rise between the West and Tehran

Thu, 1 Dec 2011 09:38:43 +0100

An Iranian nuclear facility has been hit by a huge explosion, the second such blast in a month, prompting speculation that Tehran’s military and atomic sites are under attack. Satellite imagery seen by The Times confirmed that a blast that rocked the city of Isfahan on Monday struck the uranium enrichment facility there, despite denials by Tehran.

US police chiefs head to Israel for antiterror training - funded by the ADL

Thu, 1 Dec 2011 09:38:31 +0100

Police chiefs from Newton, Framingham, and Belmont headed off last weekend for a weeklong counterterrorism seminar in Israel, funded by the Anti-Defamation League. They are joining a dozen other senior law enforcement officials from the Northeast to network and get first-hand advice from Israeli security experts. Though there have been no successful terror plots carried out in Massachusetts since the ...

Tallest Solar Tower Set for Arizona

Thu, 1 Dec 2011 09:38:21 +0100

In the western desert state of Arizona, a company called EnviroMission is planning to build a new solar tower, the first of its kind, an ambitious new way to produce energy with heat from the sun. When completed in 2015, the tower, located in La Paz County, will be the tallest structure in the United States, and the second tallest in ...

Researchers: Chimps may have the ability to understand language too - humans just get more practice

Thu, 1 Dec 2011 09:38:09 +0100

What separates man from the apes? Scientists have always thought that one of the basic differences between us and our closest evolutionary cousins, chimpanzees, has been the ability to perceive and process speech. But that might not be the case. Scientists now suspect that a ’common ancestor’ of chimps and humans evolved with the capacity for speech - and the human ...

Britain: Iran will face ’serious consequences’ over embassy attack

Thu, 1 Dec 2011 09:37:57 +0100

The British Foreign secretary has warned Iran it faces "serious consequences" over the attack on the British embassy in Tehran. Hundreds of protesters surged onto two compounds this afternoon, putting the safety of staff at risk and causing "extensive damage" to property. "Clearly there will be other, further, and serious consequences. I will make a statement updating parliament on this tomorrow [Wednesday]."

NATOrious: Pakistan deaths a "deliberate attack, provocation" (Video)

Thu, 1 Dec 2011 09:37:47 +0100

"As the war of words between NATO and Pakistan rages on, Islamabad announced that the recent closure of NATO supply routes to Afghanistan, via its territory, will now be permanent. The already strained relationship was thrown into chaos after a U.S. airstrike targeted a known army base - killing 24 soldiers, close to the Pakistan border. The incident triggered massive ...

’Brinicle’ ice finger of death filmed in Antarctic (Amazing video)

Thu, 1 Dec 2011 09:37:34 +0100

With timelapse cameras, specialists recorded salt water being excluded from the sea ice and sinking. The temperature of this sinking brine, which was well below 0C, caused the water to freeze in an icy sheath around it. Where the so-called "brinicle" met the sea bed, a web of ice formed that froze everything it touched, including sea urchins and starfish.

Get Ready for a New Human Species

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:28:14 +0100

The ability to engineer life is going to spark a revolution that will dwarf the industrial and digital revolutions. Because we can engineer our environment and ourselves, humanity is moving beyond the constraints of Darwinian evolution. If you turned off the electricity in the United States, you would see millions of people die quickly, because they wouldn’t have asthma medications, respirators, insulin, a whole host of things we invented to prevent people from dying. Eventually, we get to the point where evolution is guided by what we’re engineering. That’s a big deal. Today’s plastic surgery is going to seem tame compared to what’s coming.

Wi-Fi kills sperm

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:28:02 +0100

Scientists are questioning if using wi-fi on a laptop to roam the internet could harm a man’s fertility, after lab work suggested ejaculated sperm were significantly damaged after only four hours of exposure. The benchside tests showed sperm were less able to swim and had changes in the genetic code that they carry. Experts stress this does not mean the same would ...

Gumby-like flexible robot crawls in tight spaces

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:27:51 +0100

Harvard scientists have built a new type of flexible robot that is limber enough to wiggle and worm through tight spaces. It’s the latest prototype in the growing field of soft-bodied robots. Researchers are increasingly drawing inspiration from nature to create machines that are more bendable and versatile than those made of metal.

Norwegian Mass Killer Breivik Declared Insane

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:27:39 +0100

Psychiatrists assessing self-confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik have concluded that he is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. They believe he was in a psychotic state both during and after the twin attacks on 22 July that led to the deaths of 77 people and injured 151. Their report must still be reviewed by a panel of forensic psychiatrists. Breivik will still be ...

Archaeologists make new Stonehenge ’sun worship’ find

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:27:27 +0100

Two previously undiscovered pits have been found at Stonehenge which point to it once being used as a place of sun worship before the stones were erected. The pits are positioned on celestial alignment at the site and may have contained stones, posts or fires to mark the rising and setting of the sun. An international archaeological survey team found the pits ...

Age of Terminators comes a step closer: Scientists invent ’e-skin’, may give robots sense of touch

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:27:12 +0100

Scientists have developed a pressure-sensitive electronic skin which could one day be used to restore touch to patients who have prosthetic limbs. The material, dubbed e-skin, is made from semiconductor nanowires made from silicon. A section of the completed e-skin with nanowire circuits. Each dark square represents a single pixel. More sinister, however, is the prospect of the invention lending robots the ability ...

Treason From Within: The Road towards a Police State in America

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:27:02 +0100

There is a shocking piece of legislation working its way through Congress. A Defense Authorization bill for 2012 allows for military detentions of American citizens on American soil. These can be indefinite detentions, with no trial. The American Civil Liberties Union statement (more of an alert) on November 23, 2011 deserves special attention: “The U.S. Senate is considering the unthinkable: changing detention ...

"Unbuilt Washington": Alternative Designs, Proposed Buildings

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:26:45 +0100

"Unbuilt Washington" is the National Building Museum’s best chance at drawing blockbuster crowds in years. Devoted to the might-have-beens in the wastebasket of Washington’s design history, it begins with variations on the basic city plan laid out by Pierre L’Enfant in 1791 and ends with a spectacular sculptural bridge the museum would like to construct in the enormous atrium of ...

Einstein’s brain is now on display at the Mütter Museum

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:26:35 +0100

When Albert Einstein died in 1955, Princeton pathologist Thomas Stoltz Harvey performed the autopsy. Against Einstein’s wishes, and without seeking permission from his family, Harvey preserved the brilliant physicist’s brain and sectioned it into hundreds of thin slices...for science. Now, more than five decades later, a box of 46 brain slides has made its way to the wonderfully weird Mütter Museum ...

Former Irish billionaire’s downfall "caused by fairies"

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:26:24 +0100

According to these locals, it was the decision to move a megalithic burial tomb 20 years ago which led to the fall of his cement, hotels, and insurance empire. The Aughrim Wedge Tomb stood for 4,000 years in the townland after which it is named, two miles outside Ballyconnell, Co Cavan. But when it got in the way of the expansion of ...

SWAT team’s shooting of Marine causes outrage

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:26:13 +0100

Jose Guerena Ortiz was sleeping after an exhausting 12-hour night shift at a copper mine. His wife, Vanessa, had begun breakfast. Their 4-year-old son, Joel, asked to watch cartoons. An ordinary morning was unfolding in the middle-class Tucson neighborhood — until an armored vehicle pulled into the family’s driveway and men wearing heavy body armor and helmets climbed out, weapons ready.

Archaeologist traces Pocahontas wedding site

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:26:02 +0100

Archeologist William Kelso is certain he’s discovered the remains of the oldest Protestant church in the United States, standing between two holes he insists once held wooden posts. In 1614, Pocahontas was "married right here, I guarantee," Kelso told AFP at the Jamestown, Virginia archeological site southeast of the nation’s capital. Near the James River, on May 14, 1607, a group of ...

NATO Gangsters: U.S. plays with fire infuriating nuclear Pakistan (Video)

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:25:53 +0100

NATO admits it’s probably to blame for a deadly helicopter raid on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, that killed up to 28 Pakistani soldiers and injured over a dozen others. Islamabad responded by cutting off the flow of vital NATO supplies to Afghanistan. The incident may deal a serious blow to their already-strained relations over lethal incursions in Pakistani territory. John Rees, ...

Canada moves ahead with High Arctic military centre

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:25:43 +0100

Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised an Arctic warfare training facility in 2007. The facility looks like it will now become reality, but with a few changes to the original plan. The new facility will focus mainly on training for disasters.

EU Slavery: Media hiding truth about debt crisis (Video)

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:25:27 +0100

Video from: YouTube.com For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. "Debtocracy" seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media. By: Aris Chatzistefanou Video from: YouTube.com Greece is been subjected to Economic slavery.... the reason why. A slave in order to work must be feed and accommodated, an economic slave ...

Apocalypse 2012 Back On? Second Mayan Inscription Uncovered

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:18:14 +0100

Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History now says Mayan ruins show a second reference to the apocalypse occurring in 2012 but said that rumors of the world ending late next year were a Western misinterpretation. On Thursday, the institute released a statement saying that the date of the apocalypse had been found on the carved or molded face of a brick at the Comalcalco ruin in the southern part of the country.

The Ultimate JFK Secret: Who is REALLY Buried In Arlington?

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:06:48 +0100

The JFK-Tippit Double Murder "The killing of Officer Tippit is the Rosetta Stone of the JFK assassination" ~Wesley J. Leibeler, Warren Commission counsel THE KEY TO THE GRAIL MYSTERY: On June 26th, 1992, in Chicago, I was invited by Mr. Douglas Carlson to address a closed session of Kennedy assassination researchers at the Third Decade JFK Symposium on my discovery within the Zapruder Film ...

The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:06:27 +0100

I would like to discuss four major and badly understood events – the John F. Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11. I will analyze these deep events as part of a deeper political process linking them, a process that has helped build up repressive power in America at the expense of democracy. In recent years I have been talking about ...

Libyan Rebels Imprison 7000 in "Reign of Terror"

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:06:18 +0100

This was always a civil war, and the victors are not merciful. The detention of 7,000 people in prisons and camps by the anti-Gaddafi forces is not surprising. The conflict in Libya was always much more of a civil war between Libyans than foreign governments pretended or the foreign media reported. The winning anti-Gaddafi militia are not proving merciful. Often they have ...

Medvedev threatens US over missile shield

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:22:06 +0100

Russia’s president has threatened to deploy missiles to target the US missile shield in Europe if Washington fails to give a legal guarantee that it will not be aimed against country’s nuclear forces. The president said he still hoped for a deal with the US on missile defence, but delivered a harsh warning that Moscow would take action if the shield continued to be built without a binding agreement outlining it would not be aimed against Russia.

Bees help in the battle against tuberculosis

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:21:50 +0100

It’s no surprise bees have extraordinary noses, since they can detect pollen from a mile away. Believe it or not, in some airports they are even being used to sniff out explosives and drugs, and as some Christchurch scientists are discovering soon honey bees might be able to add diagnosing tuberculosis to their CVs.

Bionic contact lens ’to project emails before eyes’

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:21:39 +0100

A new generation of contact lenses that project images in front of the eyes is a step closer after successful animal trials, say scientists. The technology could allow wearers to read floating texts and emails or augment their sight with computer-generated images, Terminator-syle. Early tests show the device is safe and feasible, says the University of Washington in Seattle. But there are still ...

Bush, Blair found guilty of war crimes by Malaysia Tribunal (Video)

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:21:28 +0100

A Malaysian tribunal has found former US President George W Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of committing crimes against humanity during the Iraq war. “Bush and Blair are found guilty under the same law that applied to the Nazis after the end of the World War II. So, they are international (war) criminals guilty of Nuremberg ...

Here’s the Risk: "Occupy" ends up doing the bidding of the global elite

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:21:13 +0100

History shows us it is easy for ’grassroots’ campaigns to become co-opted by the very interests they are fighting against. A 21st-century grassroots movement faces many pitfalls. This was as true back in 1968 as it is today. It could be infiltrated by law enforcement and intelligence agencies, or co-opted by a major party. As the state continues to creep ...

Yemen’s president signs deal to hand over power

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:29:12 +0100

After months of unrest that have brought his country to the edge of civil war, Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed an agreement in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to hand over power to his vice president in a deal that leaves him immune from prosecution in the deaths of protesters.

Mystery of Dead Sea Scroll Authors Possibly Solved

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:29:00 +0100

The Dead Sea Scrolls may have been written, at least in part, by a sectarian group called the Essenes, according to nearly 200 textiles discovered in caves at Qumran, in the West Bank, where the religious texts had been stored. Scholars are divided about who authored the Dead Sea Scrolls and how the texts got to Qumran, and so the new ...

BPA levels skyrocket after eating canned soup

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:28:39 +0100

Levels of the hormone-disrupting chemical BPA soared by 1,221 per cent in people who ate canned soup, a new Harvard study reveals. "Very little has been done with cans," lead author Dr. Jennifer Carwile told the Star on Wednesday. "They haven’t been on the radar recently. Now they are." Canada banned Bisphenol-A in polycarbonate plastic baby bottles in 2008 and declared BPA ...

Man catches 881-pound tuna, seized by feds

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:28:28 +0100

A Massachusetts fisherman pulled in an 881-pound tuna this week only to have the federal authorities take it away. Rafael didn’t need a bigger boat, just a better permit. "They said it had to be caught with rod and reel," a frustrated Rafael said. "We didn’t try to hide anything. We did everything by the book. Nobody ever told me ...

Do Me A Favor So You’ll Like Me: The Reverse Psychology of Likeability

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:20:15 +0100

Catch the twist in the title? If you do a person a favor, you would expect that person to like you more. However, the research shows something different. If you do someone a favor, you tend to like that person more as a result. The reason is that we justify our actions to ourselves by assuming that we did the ...

Will appealing to human emotions "save the environment"?

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:20:00 +0100

Climategate 2.0 is now in full swing with a fresh trove of embarrassing emails. Meanwhile conservationists and environmentalists are now looking at marketing, neuroscience and emotional PR to sell their argument: Conservationist Wallace J. Nichols, known for his work protecting sea turtles and the ocean, argues that environmental problems should be addressed using neuroscience and empathy, in addition to the existing facts, ...

Massive Hydrovolcanic Explosion Inevitable at Fukushima

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:19:43 +0100

On November 17, the architect of Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 3, Uehara Haruo, was interviewed in Japan. He warned that a "China Syndrome" situation is inevitable at the plant. Haruo said that considering eight months have passed since the tsunami and the crippling of the nuclear plant without any improvement in the condition of the reactors, it is likely melted fuel has ...

Climategate 2.0: Fresh trove of embarrassing emails

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:19:20 +0100

There was always an element of tragedy in the first "Climategate" emails, as scientists were under pressure to tell a story that the physical evidence couldn’t support - and that the scientists were reluctant to acknowledge in public. The new email archive, already dubbed "Climategate 2.0", is much larger than the first, and provides an abundance of context for those ...

Thomas Jefferson - Freemason?

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:28:27 +0100

Was Thomas Jefferson a Freemason? This question has been asked by Masons and others and not conclusively answered for 200 years. In 1960, Brother William R. Denslow, Masonic scholar and editor of the Transactions of the Missouri Lodge of Research, concluded that Jefferson was not a Mason, saying all claims for his membership are based on association or insinuation, with no proof by records. Jefferson may not have been a card-carrying Mason, but his philosophy and actions certainly paralleled Masonic ideals and practices.

Prostitute tells how she took part in 11 orgies over six years with shamed ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:27:57 +0100

"La bite ...couilles ...baisage" - Dominique Strauss-Kahn A prostitute told how Dominique Strauss-Kahn joined her at 11 orgies over six years, it was revealed in France today. The 30-year-old vice girl named Florence described in lurid detail how the disgraced economist enjoyed having sex with ’every girl in the room’ during the debauched sessions. She said the 62-year-old had ’exceptional energy’, and always ...

Laws of physics "are different" depending on where you are in the universe

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:27:23 +0100

The quasar ULAS J1120+0641: Scientists measured the light from distant quasars for the ’signatures’ of metal atoms in between us and the distant galactic nuclei - they found that the measurements were different from similar ones on Earth The laws of physics may not be as set in stone as previously imagined. One of the laws of nature seems to vary depending ...

CIA Spies Caught in Pizza Hut, Fear Execution in Middle East

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:27:06 +0100

In what reads like a very badly written spy thriller, a story is being released through the mainstrem media that claims over a dozen ’CIA spies’ (who are not actually spies) have been discovered in the Middle East and are probably slated for execution. "In a significant failure for the United States in the Mideast, more than a dozen spies working ...

Child rape coverup: Penn State’s Sandusky Paid $500,000 by Boy’s Charity; "pimped out kids" to rich donors

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:26:46 +0100

A former Penn State defensive coach accused of child rape by multiple victims received nearly $500,000 from the at-risk boys charity that he founded. Now, a radio reporter has told the New England Sports Network (NESN) that Second Mile and Sandusky are targets of an investigation that "pimping" of boys were occurring.

Researchers pinpoint date, rate of Earth’s most extreme extinction

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:26:31 +0100

About 95% of marine life and 70% of terrestrial life became extinct about 250m years ago when continents were all one land mass called Pangea. A new study concludes that extinctions of most marine and terrestrial life took place simultaneously. The trigger was probably a massive release of carbon dioxide from volcanic flows in northern Russia.

US Army tests hypersonic weapon over the Pacific

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:26:16 +0100

The Army on Thursday conducted its first flight test of a new weapon capable of traveling five times the speed of sound. Earlier this year, the Congressional Research Service said in a report the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon is part of the military’s program to develop "prompt global strike" weapons that would allow the U.S. to strike targets anywhere in the ...

NASA Probe Beams Home Best Moon Map Ever

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:26:02 +0100

NASA launched the LRO in 2009 on a $504 million mission to map the moon in unprecedented detail. The spacecraft has also spotted several historic artifacts of moon exploration, including NASA’s Apollo landers and the boot prints left behind by moon-walking astronauts during the manned lunar landings. The new moon map doesn’t cover 100 percent of the moon because persistent shadows ...

Australia probes Obama security slip

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:25:47 +0100

Australian officials were working Sunday to trace how a top-secret dossier containing detailed plans for US President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Australia came to be found in a gutter. The 125-page booklet, classified “In Confidence” and containing the phone numbers and contact details of senior personnel from Australia and the US, was found near parliament on Thursday by a Fairfax ...

"Gaddafi son knows too much, will be silenced" (Video)

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:25:33 +0100

Libya says Gadhafi son to be tried at home Libya’s new leaders said Sunday they will try Moammar Gadhafi’s son at home and not hand him over to the International Criminal Court where he’s charged with crimes against humanity. The government also announced the capture of the toppled regime’s intelligence minister, who is also wanted by the court. Saif Under Wraps: Saif ...

US banks should ’undermine’ Occupy protestors: Lobby Firm Memo

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:25:18 +0100

The Occupy Wall Street movement is a big enough problem for U.S. banks that they should pay for opposition research into the political motives of protesters, said a firm that lobbies for the industry. Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford, a Washington-based firm, proposed the idea in a memo to the American Banking Association, an industry group which said on Saturday that ...

Alleged Cyber Attack on U.S. Water Plant is Propaganda to Curb Internet Freedom

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:25:02 +0100

The Washington Post is reporting that recent damage to an Illinois water treatment plant was a cyber attack by foreign hackers, "Foreign hackers caused a pump at an Illinois water plant to fail last week, according to a preliminary state report." Despite the alarmist title of the article, DHS spokesman Peter Boogaard cautioned "At this time there is no credible ...

More than 20 killed in Cairo clashes

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:24:38 +0100

Egypt’s Health Ministry says 20 people have been killed and more than 1,700 wounded in three days of clashes between police and protesters as security forces continue to fight with pro-democracy activists in nationwide demonstrations.Egyptian police and troops had briefly dispersed the activists Sunday by firing tear gas, birdshot and rubber bullets, but the protesters retook the square later in ...

Do Zionists Control Wall Street? The Shocking Facts!

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:24:24 +0100

Teacher Patricia McAllister was crucified for daring to simply say outloud that Zionists controlled Wall Street while helping in an Occupy Wall Street demo in Los Angeles. She was fired for simply telling the truth. LA talkshow host Bill Handel said on his show just a few days earlier, quote, "My Tribe Controls Wall Street why should I be upset ...

Identifying & Healing Adrenal Gland Fatigue

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:29:27 +0100

Most people are completely unaware of the function of the adrenal glands, located at the top of both kidneys. The adrenal cortex is the outer layer and is responsible for the production of steroid hormones called glucocorticoids, mineralcorticoids, and androgens. The major glucocorticoid produced by the adrenal is cortisol. Cortisol is also known as the stress hormone because the body releases it in order to help cope with stressful situations. It’s also secreted in higher levels during the body’s "fight or flight" response to stress, and is responsible for several stress-related changes in the body. These changes can be a quick burst of energy for survival reasons, heightened memory functions, a burst of increased immunity, lower sensitivity to pain and homeostasis.

Sea salt and baking soda, best all natural remedy for curing radiation exposure and cancer

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:29:03 +0100

If you have been exposed to any form of radiation, either for medical diagnostic purposes (fluoroscopy/mammography/other medical x-ray exams) or in the course of radiotherapy treatment, or if you are otherwise concerned by excessive radiation exposure, overload or poisoning (such as living near a nuclear reactor facility, working with diagnostic radiological equipment/in the nuclear processing industries/uranium mining/uranium or plutonium processing), ...

Male Genital Mutilation (Circumcision) Leads to a Bad and Rough Sex Life

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:28:54 +0100

If a man is circumcised, he faces an increased risk of experiencing delayed orgasm, and his female partner has an increased risk of not feeling sexually fulfilled. This is the clear-cut conclusion of a new Danish research article, which has received international attention. Some 5,000 sexually active men and women were surveyed about their experiences and possible problems with their ...

Germany’s secret plans to derail a British referendum on the EU

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:28:41 +0100

Germany has drawn up secret plans to prevent a British referendum on the overhaul of the European Union amid concerns it could derail the eurozone rescue package, leaked documents obtained by The Daily Telegraph disclose. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is today expected to tell David Cameron that Britain does not need a referendum on EU treaty changes, despite demands ...

Curse of Tutankhamun may have been work of Crowley?

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:28:31 +0100

Six mysterious London deaths famously attributed to the ’Curse of Tutankhamun’ were actually murders by notorious Satanist Aleister Crowley, a historian claims in a new book. Incredible parallels between Crowley and Jack the Ripper have also been discovered during research by historian Mark Beynon. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, London was gripped by the mythical curse of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian ...

Earth Changes - Where Did All The Water Go?

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:28:11 +0100

Bizarre reports of weather extremes continue to come in from all over the world and there is no one anywhere telling the public why we are seeing such violent climate change. Officials are again hitting the global warming button quite hard, but we really do not know what is going on and why. Extreme weather events are hitting human populations ...

Syria dodges armoured vehicle ban by... painting them blue

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:28:00 +0100

Under increasing pressure from the Arab League, Syria promised early November to halt its deadly crackdown on opposition protesters. Part of the deal meant no more of the military’s armoured vehicles on the streets. But instead of getting rid of them, the regime had a better idea: paint them blue.

Breakthrough: This metal is almost as light as air

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:27:50 +0100

Ultra-lightweight materials are an incredibly cool area of materials science, bringing us crazy substances like aerogel. And now, for the first time, scientists have produced a metal that’s so light it can balance on the fluff of a dandelion. Here’s why this material is revolutionary — and how it’s made.

Get Ready for a New Human Species

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:42:48 +0100

If some of the information emerging from the technology, governmental, and academic worlds are any indication, not only is the police state here; the scientific dictatorship is right around the corner. Indeed, if recent comments made by Juan Enriquez are indicative of the coming state merger between technology and genetics, we have much to be concerned about.

The Government, Parliament and military forces of Sweden reported for war crimes in Libya

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:42:24 +0100

The offences include violations of international law, genocide, terrorism, and financing of terrorism. Until March 2011 Libya was a sovereign secular state, ranked by the United Nations as a "High Human Development" country in a global context (HDI ranking 53 out 194, ahead of countries like Russia and Brazil) and the most advanced country on the continent of Africa. As ...

David Wilcock on "The Source Field Investigations"

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:42:13 +0100

Did human extraterrestrials visit Earth -- and predict a Golden Age will culminate in the year 2012, freeing us from evil, fear and doom? Did the founding fathers of America inherit this prophecy -- and encode it directly into the Great Seal of the United States? Why is there a pyramid with an eye inside a glowing triangle? Is Novus Ordo ...

Tom Horn on "The Lost Symbol" - Mayan and Biblical Prophecy 1776 - 2012

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:42:04 +0100

Thomas Horn at the Southwest Radio Bristol Conference 2011 hints at the incredible reasons he wrote the best selling book "Apollyon Rising 2012" and what ancient pagan cultures and founding Freemasons in the United States believed and encoded on the Great Seal and the layout of Capitol Center in Washington DC concerning the coming of a Pagan god in 2012. ...

Ice cavern ’could support life’ on Jupiter’s moon Europa

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:41:51 +0100

Scientists have long suspected that a liquid or slushy ocean exists under Europa’s surface, warmed by the tidal forces of Jupiter’s powerful gravity. Theoretically, a liquid water ocean could provide a suitable habitat for life - but only if it was not too far from the surface. Experts disagree about how thick the layer of covering ice is. The new research, based ...

Amazing: Scientists lock a disk in air with Meissner effect levitation (Video)

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:41:37 +0100

If you want to see something strange, you’ve come to the right place. Using a technology called "quantum trapping," scientists can now make an object levitated in the air above a magnet. More interesting, it’s locked to the magnet so well that its position in the air can be moved and it will stay in place, almost as if it’s ...

World’s most powerful laser could ‘tear apart the vacuum of space’

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:41:26 +0100

Scientists have plans to build a laser so powerful it could boil the fabric of space and, in doing so, possibly reveal extra-dimensions. In today’s installment of potentially catastrophic science experiments, scientists have plans to create a giant laser that can emit a beam with an amount of energy equivalent to all of the power the Earth receives from the sun ...

Honda revamps robot to ’help in nuclear crisis’ (Video)

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:41:16 +0100

Honda’s human-shaped robot can now run faster, balance itself on uneven surfaces, hop on one foot and pour a drink. Some of its technology may even be used to help out with clean-up operations at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.

Obama "projects power" by sending military aircraft, Marines, to Oz

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:41:03 +0100

Signaling a determination to counter a rising China, President Barack Obama vowed Thursday to expand U.S. influence in the Asia-Pacific region and "project power and deter threats to peace" in that part of the world even as he reduces defense spending and winds down two wars. "The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay," he declared ...

Man Confiscates Police Cameras After Finding Them In His Trees

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:40:52 +0100

A B.C. man has seized two surveillance cameras he says RCMP had hidden in trees near his trailer home, and they are full of images from crime scenes and investigations. Dion Nordick [left] of Grand Forks told CBC News on Tuesday he found the motion-activated cameras in June, in trees overlooking the trailer he rents. They are now in his lawyer’s ...

The Lightbulb Conspiracy - Planned Obsolescence

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:40:39 +0100

Once upon a time..... products were made to last. Then, at the beginning of the 1920s, a group of businessmen were struck by the following insight: "A product that refuses to wear out is a tragedy of business" (1928). Thus Planned Obsolescence was born. Shortly after, the first worldwide cartel was set up expressly to reduce the life span of ...

Rosinenbomber: The Notorious Candy Bomber

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:32:32 +0100

In July 1948, 27-year-old Air Force lieutenant Gail Halvorsen was flying food and supplies into West Berlin, which was blockaded by the Soviet Union. One night he encountered a group of hungry children who had gathered near the runway to watch the planes land. "Their clothes were patched...They barely had enough to eat."

The World of Mind Control Through the Eyes of an Artist with 13 Alter Personas

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:32:14 +0100

Kim Noble is a rare occurrence: a trauma-based mind control survivor with over 13 alter personas who don’t know each other but who all paint. She has suffered DID and MPD (dissociative identity disorder and multiple personality disorder) for most of her life, as a result of an extremely traumatic childhood. Each one of her alters paints with a personal ...

Symbols of an Alien Sky - David Talbott

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:31:18 +0100

David Talbott’s film ’Symbols of an Alien Sky’ goes far beyond merely identifying "the celestial provocation" of our true history. Symbols resurrects and confirms the genius of Immanuel Velikovsky. With excruciating attention to detail Talbott rivals the intellectual obsession and integrity of the thousands of ancient chroniclers that are "urging us to remember." The credibility of Symbols is uniquely formidable as it firmly connects the library of the Stone Age to the Modern Age cosmology of leading edge plasma physicists Anthony Peratt , Wal Thornhill and others.

Perfect Storm of Internet Censorship (Video)

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:31:05 +0100

Video from: YouTube.com "In recent weeks the governments of Britain, Israel, the US, Japan, India and China have reported alleged cyber attacks by foreign militaries, hackers, and malicious software like Duqu, a virus similar to the Stuxnet cyber weapon constructed by Israel and the US for use against Iran’s nuclear program. Although the nature and origin of the attacks or even whether ...

First Arabic Crusader Inscription Found

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:30:39 +0100

Israeli archaeologists have discovered the first ever Arabic Crusader inscription, they announced on Monday. The epigraphic evidence emerged from a 800-year-old inscribed marble slab which originally sat in Jaffa’s city wall. The Arabic inscription. Image: Israel Antiquities Authority. Bearing the name of the "Holy Roman Emperor" Frederick II, and the date "1229 of the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus the Messiah," the ...

Nigel Farage: How Dare You Tell the Italian and Greek People What to Do!?

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:27:23 +0100

UK Independece Party leader Nigel Farage MEP disgusted at the puppet governments the EU has now implemented in Italy and Greece. Please listen to our interviews from 2009 with Nigel Farage, Marta Andreasen and David Icke on the corruption on the European Union and the Lisbon Treaty:

Bedside test finds awareness in vegetative brains

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:27:09 +0100

In recent years, scientists have learned that some patients believed to be in a vegetative state actually have some awareness and that they might be able to communicate. Now, a new study suggests a portable brain monitor can detect signs of this, perhaps making it possible someday for doctors to easily double-check the diagnosis at the bedside.

Yet Another Agency Setup? Accused in Georgia militia plot had "no plans"

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:26:55 +0100

An attorney for one of the four Georgia men accused of plotting to attack government agents said the suspects never had specific plans. Attorney Jeff Ertel also questioned the credibility of a confidential government informant at a bond hearing Tuesday. Investigators have accused 73-year-old Frederick Thomas and 67-year-old Dan Roberts of conspiring to obtain an explosive and possessing an unregistered silencer. Authorities ...

Penn State, Second Mile Not the First to be Embroiled in a Sex Abuse Scandal

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:25:52 +0100

Allegations that former Penn State defensive football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually molested young boys and that university administrators did not adequately report the accusations against him have tarnished the once-shiny image of both Sandusky’s Second Mile charity and the university’s stellar Nittany Lions athletics program.

Canadian government spies on advocate for native children

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:25:42 +0100

Why is the federal government spying on Cindy Blackstock? When does a life-long advocate for aboriginal children become an enemy of the state? The answer, it would seem, is when you file a human rights complaint accusing your government of willfully underfunding child welfare services to First Nations children on reserves. Accusing your government, in other words, of racial discrimination. ...

Pope says child porn ’normal’ back in the 70s

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:25:22 +0100

Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn’t considered an "absolute evil" as recently as the 1970s. In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered "normal" by society. "In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in ...

Revisiting Zuckerberg: Extremely Nervous Discussion on Facebook Privacy (Video)

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:25:13 +0100

"Zuckerberg rambles on during video excerpts from the interview, watch the young CEO collapse under intense questioning and sweat over your privacy issues." - 2010 Video from: YouTube.com Revisiting Zuckerberg in light of the death of social networking entrepreneur Ilya Zhitomirskiy. "Diaspora" is suggested to be the ’anti-facebook’ in terms of personal privacy online. Note the image inside the hoodie Zuckerberg ’never ...

Anti-Facebook "Diaspora" social network co-founder dead at 22

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:25:03 +0100

A 22-year-old co-founder of privacy-themed online social network Diaspora died during the weekend, the San Francisco coroner confirmed. Local media reports indicated that Ilya Zhitomirskiy may have committed suicide, but the coroner’s office said it will take several weeks to determine the cause of death. Zhitomirskiy was one of four US college students who launched Diaspora last year in a bid to ...

Miles of mysterious striped network grids discovered in Chinese desert

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:24:54 +0100

Here’s a new geological conundrum courtesy of the Mysterious East: A group of people studying online maps stumbled across a series of strange patterns in the Chinese desert large enough to be seen from space. The unusual white designs appear to have been etched into the ground and their creators clearly don’t lack for ambition: They are over one ...

Jesse Ventura - Mega Ego

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:24:44 +0100

I was pestered by someone called Michael Braverman, connected to the Jesse Ventura ’show’ called Conspiracy Theory, on the totally inappropriately-titled truTV, in which Ventura or the voiceover can rarely go a few sentences without reminding everyone that he is a former Navy Seal. Wow, stands back in amazement - how incredible, a former Navy Seal. I feel fit to ...

Plastic bottles help solve Nigeria’s housing problem

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:24:35 +0100

What a group of activists did was come up with a plan to build a house using those bottles, providing what they say is an environmentally smart strategy of chipping away at a housing shortage in Africa’s most populous nation. Unconvinced? Supporters say those yet to see the structure on the outskirts of the village of Sabon Yelwa can throw stones ...

Doctor turned grisly serial killer in WWII Paris

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:24:22 +0100

It wasn’t until thick black smoke seeped into buildings in a fashionable part of the city that firefighters and police found body parts scattered around an elegant townhouse - setting off a manhunt that led them, eventually, to Marcel Petiot.

Bhopal Disaster victims: Lab rats for Big Pharma (Video)

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:24:12 +0100

"Tens of thousands of Indians were poisoned when toxic gas leaked from a plant owned by a US corporation in 1984. Now they claim they are suffering even more after pharmaceutical companies used the opportunity to try dangerous experimental drugs on them." Video from: YouTube.com

Keep government out of mind-reading business!

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:23:57 +0100

"My thoughts, they roam freely. Who can ever guess them?" So goes an old German folk song. But imagine living in a world where someone can guess your thoughts, or even know them for certain. A world where science can reach into the deep recesses of your brain and pull out information that you thought was private and inaccessible. Would that worry ...

Are police becoming militarized?

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:23:48 +0100

These are miniature armies, stocked with every weapon imaginable -- all at the officer’s disposal. "You make adjustments here and there," he said, "The next thing you know, there are machine guns in the squad cars. There’s a sense among new recruits that police work is about soldiering," my friend lamented. "And we don’t discourage it. In fact, we encourage it ...

Walter Russell - The Leonardo Da Vinci of the 20th Century

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:23:39 +0100

Video from: youtube.com More: walter-russell.de walter-russell.de Walter Bowman Russell (May 19, 1871 – May 19, 1963) was an American artist and mystic known for his achievements as a painter, sculptor, author and builder and less well known as a natural philosopher and for his unified theory in physics and cosmogony. He posited that the universe was founded on a unifying principle of rhythmic ...

Magnesium Deficiency: The Source of Most Modern Chronic Illness?

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:23:21 +0100

To be in good health is a true blessing, and without proper nutrition a foundation for health cannot be built. I found this out the hard way. For several years I experienced severe fatigue daily, along with muscle spasms, weak teeth, shortness of breath, anxiety and generally not feeling well. I started to conduct research on the unpleasant assortment of ...

Out Of The Ashes Of The Collapse Of The Eurozone Will A "United States Of Europe" Arise?

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:45:32 +0100

All over Europe, headlines are declaring that the eurozone is on the verge of collapse. Many people falsely assume that this will mean the end of the euro and a return to national currencies. Unfortunately, that is not going to be the case at all. Instead, this is going to be yet another example of how the elite attempt to bring order out of chaos. The European elite have no intention on giving up on a united Europe. Rather, they hope to be able to bring to life a new "United States of Europe" out of the ashes of the existing eurozone. Over the coming months we will see widespread panic and fear all across Europe. The euro will likely sink like a rock and there will probably be huge financial problems in Europe and all around the globe. But for the European elite, a great crisis like this represents a golden opportunity to tear down the existing structures and build new ones. The solution that the European elite will be pushing will not be to go back to the way that Europe used to be. Instead, they will be pushing the idea of a much more tightly integrated Europe really hard.

Penn State Students Support Child Molester Enabler Joe Paterno

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:45:18 +0100

Here‘s how (some) Penn State students reacted to the firing of Coach Joe Paterno. If you didn‘t already know, Paterno was fired because he found out his assistant coach was molesting children back in 2002 and didn‘t do anything about it. All of this is so sickening.

Riddle of the radiation sweeping across Europe: UN nuclear agency mystified by soaring levels

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:45:02 +0100

Ed comment: Despite continued problems at Fukushima the IAEA says that the source of the increased levels of radioactive iodine-131 all over Europe is unknown - resorts to blaming cosmic radiation. Very low levels of radioactive iodine-131 have been detected throughout Europe, but the particles are not believed to pose a public health risk, the U.N.nuclear agency said on Friday. NASA ...

Silvio Berlusconi resigns as PM

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:44:52 +0100

Silvio Berlusconi has resigned as prime minister of Italy, after dominating the country‘s politics for 17 years. President Giorgio Napolitano is likely to appoint technocrat Mario Monti as his successor. Mr Berlusconi lost his majority amid an acute debt crisis that threatens the eurozone. He promised to go once MPs had approved new austerity measures. Crowds celebrated outside the presidential ...

Sarkozy called Israeli PM Netanyahu ‘liar‘

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:44:40 +0100

French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "liar" in remarks to US President Barack Obama overheard by journalists. "I can‘t stand him any more, he‘s a liar," Mr Sarkozy said in French. "You may be sick of him, but me, I have to deal with him every day," Mr Obama replied. The exchange at the G20 ...

The Queen‘s hidden cousins: banished to an asylum in 1941

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:44:31 +0100

The date was 29 July, 1981, Prince Charles and Lady Di’s wedding day, and as the Queen arrived at St Paul’s Cathedral and waved to the crowds, two women in late middle-age, in shapeless, baggy dresses, shuffled with clumsy gait up to the television and waved and saluted back to her, unable to articulate speech but making excited noises.It was ...

Sandusky "Victim 1" called hero for speaking out

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:44:19 +0100

The grand jury presentment accusing former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky of being a sexual predator of young boys from a youth charity he helped found is a graphic telling of repeated serial assaults on victimized children. In the presentment, "Victim 1" first came into contact with Sandusky via The Second Mile, a charity for disadvantaged youth. At about age ...

Scientists find evidence of a mystery fifth giant planet that was ejected from the solar system

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:44:09 +0100

The consensus among astronomers is that the solar system has always had four giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. But now it’s claimed that it’s much more likely to have been home to a mystery fifth giant planet that got knocked out. Computer simulations by David Nesvorny at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, show that it ...

Penn State to Probe Sex-Abuse Scandal

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:43:57 +0100

Penn State University, mired in a child sex-abuse scandal on campus, named a trustee to lead an investigation into the events and faces a possible downgrade of its debt rating by Moody‘s Investors Service. The school yesterday appointed Merck & Co. Chief Executive Officer Ken Frazier to head the committee investigating the scandal and placed on leave Mike McQueary, an assistant ...

"Mystery" Radiation Detected Across Europe

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:43:48 +0100

The hunt is on for the source of low level radiation detected in the atmosphere "across Europe" over the past weeks, nuclear officials said today. Trace amounts of iodine-131, a type of radiation created during the operation of nuclear reactors or in the detonation of a nuclear weapon, were detected as early as three weeks ago by Austrian authorities and ...

Magic Friday: Egypt closes Great Pyramid of Giza following rumours of 11/11/11 rituals

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:43:37 +0100

Egypt’s antiquities authority closed the largest of the Giza pyramids Friday following rumours that groups would try to hold spiritual ceremonies on the site at 11:11 A.M. on Nov. 11, 2011. The authority’s head Mustafa Amin said in a statement Friday that the pyramid of Khufu, also known as Cheops, would be closed to visitors until Saturday morning for "necessary maintenance." The ...

New Greek government takes over with former banker at helm, finance minister unchanged

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:43:25 +0100

Papademos, a former European Central Bank vice-president, leads a government including ministers from three parties. The bitter rivalry of outgoing Prime Minister George Papandreou’s Socialists and the conservatives of Antonis Samaras has been set aside as Greece’s politicians struggle to put the country back on track financially and ensure it can retain its cherished use of the euro.

"NWO chokes world" with fraud and manipulation (Video)

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:43:11 +0100

"And Greece is already welcoming a new Prime Minister - the former vice-president of the European Central Bank, Lucas Papademos, will be sworn in on Friday. It brings to an end days of political wrangling in Athens as main parties struggled to come to an agreement. The new coalition government will have to vote for more austerity measures to release ...

Watery Martian Underground Says New NASA Study

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:42:59 +0100

A new NASA study suggests if life ever existed on Mars, the longest lasting habitats were most likely below the Red Planet’s surface. A new interpretation of years of mineral-mapping data, from more than 350 sites on Mars examined by European and NASA orbiters, suggests Martian environments with abundant liquid water on the surface existed only during short episodes. These episodes ...

17 Idaho National Lab workers exposed to radiation, taken to medical center

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:42:48 +0100

Seventeen Idaho National Laboratory workers were undergoing full-body scans after they were potentially exposed to low-level plutonium radiation Tuesday while cleaning at the nuclear research site, officials said. There was no evidence that radiation was released outside the facility, and there was no risk to the public or the environment, the laboratory said in a statement. The workers underwent initial decontamination ...

Really Bad Idea Alert: Mail Order ChickenPox Pops

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:42:35 +0100

Parents Warned About Mail Order Chicken Pox Lollipops Image: KG-Photography Authorities and doctors are warning parents who want to avoid chicken pox vaccines for their children that a new mail-order scheme to share lollipops licked by children infected with the disease as a way to create immunity in their kids is not only unsafe but illegal. “Can you imagine getting a package in ...

Outrageous North Carolina sterilization program targeted women, young girls, and blacks

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:45:26 -0800

Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in 1967. The state ordered that immediately after giving birth, she should be sterilized. Doctors cut and tied off her fallopian tubes. North Carolina was one of 31 states to have a government run eugenics program. By the 1960s, tens of thousands of Americans were sterilized as a result of these programs.

Magic Friday: Egypt closes Great Pyramid of Giza following rumours of 11/11/11 rituals

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:44:52 -0800

New Greek government takes over with former banker at helm, finance minister unchanged

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:44:37 -0800

"NWO chokes world" with fraud and manipulation (Video)

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:44:24 -0800

Watery Martian Underground Says New NASA Study

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:43:32 -0800