February 2012
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25 alleged Anonymous members arrested...
Tuesday afternoon, the international police organization Interpol announced the arrest of 25 alleged members of Anonymous by officials in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Spain. Shortly after the announcement, Interpol’s website was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack. At the time this story was posted, the website remained unavailable.
Interpol announced that the arrests were...
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Judge Throws out Organic Farmers’ Recent Case...
For years Monsanto has been trying to take out American family farms and dominate the agricultural industry with their genetically modified seeds. Between 1997 and 2010, 144 lawsuits were filed by Monsanto against American family farmers, with an additional 700 being settled out of court. Recently, farmers made a firm decision to institute massive resistance against the biotech corporation...
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First contact... or the start of World War III?...
Not so long ago, an enormous fiery cloud in the skies above Russia could only mean one thing: The beginning of something very very bad indeed.
At the height of the Cold War, a vision like this would set off screams of terror and mass panic, rather than the soft gasps of wonder and awe-struck conversation that can be heard in the YouTube clip of this spectacular phenomenon.
But it’s...
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More bad news: U.S. water bills to triple
First high gas prices, now water. A shocking new report about the nation’s crumbling drinking water system says that Americans should expect their bills to double or triple to cover repairs just to keep their faucets pouring. That means adding up to $900 a year more for water, nearly equal the amount of the newly extended payroll tax cut.
Fixing and expanding underground drinking water...
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Secret £14million Bible in which 'Jesus predicts...
Vatican ‘wants to see’ 1,500-year-old ancient script
Has been hidden by Turkish state for 12 years
Handwritten in gold-lettered Aramaic
A secret Bible in which Jesus is believed to predict the coming of the Prophet Muhammad to Earth has sparked serious interest from the Vatican.
Pope Benedict XVI is claimed to want to see the 1,500-year-old book, which many say is the...
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UN: 1.3 million still homeless from Iraq conflict
BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say more than 1.3 million Iraqis remain homeless after being forced to flee six years ago during widespread sectarian violence that threatened their lives.
United Nations diplomat Claire Bourgeois voiced concerns Sunday that Iraq has not taken enough steps to help the homeless “go back to a dignified life.”
She said squatters should be helped into...
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Man shocked by arrest after daughter draws picture...
Arrested Jessie Sansone was arrested at his daughter’s school after the 4-year-old drew a picture of a gun.
KITCHENER — A Kitchener father is upset that police arrested him at his children’s’ school Wednesday, hauled him down to the station and strip-searched him, all because his four-year-old daughter drew a picture of a gun at school.
“I’m picking up my kids and then, next thing...
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The Colonization Begins: Germany May Send 160 Tax...
Since the European colonial state of southern Bavaria Sachs (formerly known as the insolvent Hellenic Republic) no longer even pretends to be anything less than a pass-thru funding colony of its creditors, said creditors (European banks and various insurance companies) are about to send out the first group of colonial scouts in the form of German tax collectors. Also, since as reported...
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Mysterious Object Falls From The Sky After...
Something strange happened early in the morning on February 22, 2012 in the small village Riashu dos Rokos, Brazil.
A local resident, Jose Mendez tells a loud noise, similar to an explosion was heard and when he went out to see what was happening, he discovered a mysterious object in his yard.
What happened resembles another incident that occurred a few months ago in another part of the...
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Farmer Faces Possible 3-year Prison Term for...
Baraboo, WI—Food sovereignty activists from around North America will meet at this tiny town on March 2 to support Wisconsin dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger and food sovereignty. Hershberger, who has a court hearing that day, is charged with four criminal misdemeanors that could land him in prison for three years with fines of over $10,000. The Wisconsin Department of Agricultural Trade and...
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Vatican ruled by 'omerta' code of silence,...
The Vatican is ruled by a climate of fear and an ‘omerta’ code of silence, a whistle-blower has claimed.
The mole claims to be one of more than 20 people within the Holy See who have leaked sensitive documents to the Italian media in the last few weeks, in an affair that has been compared to the WikiLeaks scandal and dubbed “Vati-leaks”.
The unidentified man,...
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USDA to Give Monsanto’s New GMO Crops Special...
If you thought Monsanto’s lack of testing on their current GMO crops was bad before, prepare to now be blown away by the latest statement by the USDA. Despite links to organ damage and mutated insects, the USDA says that it is changing the rules so that genetically modified seed companies like Monsanto will get ‘speedier regulatory reviews’. With the faster reviews, there will be even...
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Spider Goats, Bullet-proof Skin, Meat from a Petri...
In what appears to be a case of the rich experimenting on their version of life for a transhumanist agenda, the UK Telegraph reports that by sometime in the fall of 2012, we will be happily munching on burgers made from meat grown in a lab. Yes, that’s right.
Pro. Post said his team has successfully replicated the process with cow cells and calf serum, bringing the first artificial burger a...
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What's in Pepper Spray?
W hen seated Occupy UC Davis protesters turned their backs on Lt. John Pike and his UC Davis police squad clad in riot gear on Nov. 18, he had had enough.
Pike aimed a large can of First Defense aerosolized Oleoresin Capsicum at two-dozen occupiers, including student David Buscho and his girlfriend.
“The police officer came up to us and said, ‘If you guys don’t move,...
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Charity shop worker drowned in lake just 3ft deep...
‘Too deep’: Emergency services are pictured here just after they recovered the body from the lake. They had refused to get into the water until specialists arrived because it was ‘too deep’
Drowning Simon Burgess, 41, was just 20ft away from firefighters but inquest hears they refused to save him
Police officer who went in to water was ordered back
Witness...
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Blind man uses sonar to 'see'
A Californian man who has been blind for most of his life can ‘see’ using sound, and is in Australia to help teach the technique to others.
Daniel Kish, who lost his sight to retinal cancer when he was just 13 months old, has dubbed his bat-like technique “flash sonar”.
He uses sounds to detect objects in his environment by sensing echoes from those objects.
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Megaupload founder granted bail by NZ court
Photo: Kim Dotcom was arrested on January 20.
The German founder of file-sharing website Megaupload has been granted bail by a New Zealand court after a month in custody.
Kim Dotcom, who has New Zealand residency, is preparing to fight US extradition hearings over internet-piracy and money-laundering charges.
“I’m relieved to go home and see my family, my three little kids and my...
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Scientists identify steamy 'waterworld' planet
An astronaut attempting to visit recently discovered planet GJ1214b would land in hot water - literally, United States scientists say.
Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics said they have identified a new kind of planet, dominated not by rock, gas or other common materials - but water.
The planet is “a waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere”,...
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Tehran steps into US-Israel Iran row with threat...
Deputy Chief of Iran’s Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hejazi issued a new threat Tuesday, Feb. 21: “Our strategy now is that if we feel our enemies want to endanger Iran’s national interests… we will act without waiting for their actions.” debkafile’s military sources report that an Iranian preemptive attack on Israel has been in the air for some weeks. It became realistic because the dragging...
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A US government program secretly injected people...
The horrors of the nuclear age, in terms of exploding reactors and nuclear bombs, are well known. Behind the well-publicized threat of mass death lies a secret history of nuclear projects being used to destroy individuals. In the late 1940s, United States citizens were injected with plutonium without their knowledge.
In early 1945, Ebb Cade, a worker at the Oak Ridge Nuclear Facility, got into...
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7 year-old branded 'racist' for asking student...
The mother of a seven-year-old boy was told to sign a school form admitting he was racist after he asked another pupil about the colour of his skin. Elliott Dearlove had asked a five-year-old boy in the playground whether he was ‘brown because he was from Africa’. His mother, Hayley White, 29, said she received a phone call last month to say her son had been at the centre of a...
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UK to take major role in making new 'eurodrones'
Plans to build a new generation of “fighter drones” that can wage war by remote control are set to be agreed today by Britain and France. David Cameron and President Nicolas Sarkozy are preparing to put their recent tensions behind them to launch proposals for the pilotless stealth aircraft at a summit in Paris. In a second agreement, they will promise closer co-operation on...
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Israel 'will make own decision' on Iran, says...
ISRAEL will ultimately decide on its own whether to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, its military chief of staff says, as a senior US official arrived for talks on the Islamic Republic.
“Israel is the central guarantor of its own security; this is our role as army, the State of Israel should defend itself,” Lieutenant General Benny Gantz told state-owned Channel One TV.
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Humans Are Done Trading, It's Time For The Rise Of...
We know this from driving cars — human beings can only react so fast.
This fact also applies, obviously, to driving the market. Human beings can still only move so fast, but the financial industry is calling for vehicles that move faster and faster. A group of professors and researchers got together to think out exactly what that means.
Their findings were published in a paper called...
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Revealed: The occult obsessions of Britain's...
Broad interests: Sir Isaac Newton, whose studies included theology and the occult as well as physics, maths and astronomy
He laid the foundations of classical physics and is considered to be one of the greatest scientists of all time.
But Sir Isaac Newton was also deeply interested in the occult and applied a scientific approach to the study of scripture and Jewish mysticism.
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UFO inspired metal boxes still vex experts while...
In a world where people see lots of strange things on the Internet every day, something as interesting and unusual as these strange metal boxes has produced both suspicion and an unruly feeling of disorientation in people who can’t figure out what the boxes are, or where they came from. In turn, those who both viewed and touched a grouping of the boxes at a Florence beach Feb. 15 gave the...
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Dream warriors? U.S. military to research...
Will use hi-tech optics and sound to confuse enemies
Research division is investing $4 million in technology
Aims to cause ‘auditory and visual’ hallucinations
The American military’s technology research division Darpa is to investigate hi tech ‘battlefield illusions’ designed to baffle enemy troops, according to budget figures announced this week.
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Afghan drug war debacle: Blair said smashing opium...
The West is losing the heroin war in Afghanistan – ten years after Tony Blair pledged that wiping out the drug was one of the main reasons for invading the country.
Despite spending £18billion and a conflict which has so far cost the lives of almost 400 British troops, production of the class-A drug by Afghan farmers rose between 2001 and 2011 from just 185 tons to a staggering 5,800...
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Russia is squaring up for a fight with America...
Confirmation that the U.S. and its allies are studying their military options for helping the anti-Assad rebels in Syria is a worrying development on a number of levels, not least of which is the prospect of the West becoming embroiled in a direct confrontation with the Russians.
As I have argued before, I think the West – and that includes Britain – needs to proceed with great caution before...
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NYPD "Stop and Frisks" Hit All-Time High
City police officers stopped and questioned 684,330 people on the street last year.
The number of so-called “stop and frisks” is rising.
City police officers stopped and questioned 684,330 people on the street last year, a record since the NYPD began yearly tallies of the tactic in 2002 and a 14 percent increase over 2010.
It couldn’t be determined how many people were patted...
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Last secret door of Great Pyramid 'to be opened in...
The ‘Micro-Snake’ robot which will explore the interior of the Great Pyramid once the ‘Djedi’ expedition resumes
The secret gates at the heart of the Great Pyramid may be opened for the first time in 2012, a British robot company believes - solving a mystery that has puzzled archaeologists since 1872.
Scoutek UK had already begun exploring behind the gates earlier...
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New Bill to Mandate Flu Vaccine for New Jersey...
Thanks to a new bill currently going through New Jersey legislature, employees working at health care facilities such as general or special hospitals, nursing homes, or home health care agencies may be ‘mandatorily’ required to receive the flu vaccine. The bill, recently approved by the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee, may be voted on this week. Needless to say, this bill is...
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Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in...
In a major victory for public health and what will hopefully lead to other nations taking action, a French court decided today that GMO crops monster Monsanto is guilty of chemically poisoning a French farmer. The grain grower, Paul Francois, says he developed neurological problems such as memory loss and headaches after being exposed to Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller back in 2004. The...
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Tragedy unfolding in Europe – Is U.S. media trying...
“The cold snap in Europe, which began in late January, has killed hundreds and brought deep snow where it hasn’t been seen in decades,” says this article in the Seattle Times.
This should be front page news. Instead, the article doesn’t appear until page eight. And the title, “At least 3 killed in avalanche in Kosovo,” belies the seriousness of the situation. (The print version carries a...
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21st century airships may join Navy fleet
A new generation of British-built airships may be bought by the Royal Navy to resupply ships, following their use by the US Army on the front line in Afghanistan.
Modern-day Zeppelins will take to the sky for the first time since the First World War when the US Army begins using airships in Afghanistan.
But Navy chiefs are now giving serious consideration to purchasing an airship ...
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U.S. admiral says forces prepared to confront Iran...
The top US Navy official in the Gulf said Sunday he takes Iran’s military capabilities seriously but insists his forces are prepared to confront any Iranian aggression in the region.
Vice Adm Mark Fox, commander of the 5th Fleet, told reporters at the naval force’s Bahrain headquarters that the Navy has ‘built a wide range of potential options to give the president’...
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Living with Werewolf Syndrome
As strange as it sounds three sisters are afflicted by one of the strangest condition in the world. The Sangli sisters are suffering from a rare genetic disorder referred to as werewolf syndrome – where they are covered from their head to toe in very thick hair. Named Savita, 23, Monisha, 18, and 16-year-old Savitri Sangli, who live in a small village near Pune, doctors believe they contracted...
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How to Save the Global Economy: Write Off the...
The best way to restart global growth is with debt. We need both more and less of it. Bear with me here.
We need less debt now: Developed-world debt is holding the recovery back. Individuals are cutting what they owe as fast as they can, especially in the United States and Europe, and governments aren’t picking up the difference. After briefly loading up on debt — in part because...
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Drones over U.S. get OK by Congress
Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s … a drone, and it’s watching you. That’s what privacy advocates fear from a bill Congress passed this week to make it easier for the government to fly unmanned spy planes in U.S. airspace.
The FAA Reauthorization Act, which President Obama is expected to sign, also orders the Federal Aviation Administration to develop regulations for the...
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Lincoln Memorial Park Grave Disturbances Could Be...
As first reported by WSVN, bodies at Miami cemetery Lincoln Memorial Park have been robbed and disturbed for what is believed to be use in Santeria rituals.
Miami-Dade Police said suspects broke open several graves and removed the remains, according to an incident report (PDF).
Officers reported seeing bones sitting next to open graves. A forensic examiner collected the remains for further...
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