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Monday, 17 November 2014

Magnetic field of ancient meteorite holds clues to solar system formation

© MIT Paleomagnetism LaboratoryMagnified image of the section of the Semarkona meteorite used in this study. Chondrules are millimeter sized, light-colored objects. By analyzing a meteorite that crash-landed in India eight decades ago, researchers have discovered the first experimental evidence suggesting that our solar system's protoplanetary disk was shaped by an intense magnetic field which propelled massive amounts of gas into the sun over the...

Anglo-Saxon cemetery unearthed in England

© Cambridge News The skeletons were found on land at Burwell Road in Exning, alongside a spear, a glass bowl, gold plated brooches, a cloak pin, and a dagger, some of which is thought to have come from as early as 7AD.The dig was carried out by Archaeological Solutions on behalf of Persimmon Homes, who have outline permission to build 120 homes on the site.Andrew Peachey, post excavation manager for Archaeological Solutions, said: "The focus of...

Climatologist: 30-Year cold spell will strike earth, has already begun

With nasty cold fronts thrusting an icy and early winter across the continental U.S. - along with last winter described by USA Today as "one of the snowiest, coldest, most miserable on record" - climatologist John L. Casey thinks the weather pattern is here to stay for decades to come.In fact, Casey, a former space shuttle engineer and NASA consultant, is out with the provocative book "Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell,"...

U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria only create more enemies around the world

© AFP Photo / Lucas Jackson Anti-IS airstrikes play into the hands of extremists as radicalized Muslims across the globe are view the West as a big foe they want to fight against, Dan Glazebrook, political writer and journalist, told RT.RT: Dan Glazebrook: I think to defeat them would really require a serious alliance. There is already an existing alliance, which is putting up an amazing job of defending Syria in particular against the forces...

The economic death knell that is Obamacare

Did you know that some Americans are being hit with health insurance rate increases of more than 500 percent?Taking advantage of "the stupidity of the American voter", the Democrats succeeded in ramming through one of the worst pieces of legislation that has ever come before Congress.The full implementation of Obamacare has been repeatedly delayed, but now we are finally starting to see the true horror of this terrible law. Thanks to Obamacare,...

How a former director of Russia's FSB sees the current and past U.S. foreign policy towards Russia

"The sobering up of the Ukrainians will be harsh and painful" In an interview for Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev, explained how Russian analysts were predicting the development of the situation in Ukraine a year ago. And he also gave an assessment of the role of the United States and NATO in the events in eastern Ukraine, explained why these events are a continuation of Zbigniew Brzezinski's...

Sexualizing children: Chicago schools teach 5th graders anal sex and how to put on a condom

© Screenshot/Waters ElementarySlide from Waters Elementary School's Sexual Health Education curriculum for Grade 5 Parents at an elite, magnet elementary school in Chicago were "horrified" when they saw the "obscene" sexual education materials their fifth graders would be learning. The curriculum included condom demonstrations and discussions of anal sex.Andrew Jackson Language Academy (AJLA) hosted several parent workshops during report card pickup...

Finally! MH17 crash debris retrieved for analysis after 4 months of Kiev stonewalling

© Reuters / Maxim ZmeyevLocal workers carry wreckage from the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 at the site of the plane crash near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo) in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine November 16, 2014. Dutch investigators have begun evacuating debris of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from the crash site in eastern Ukraine. Human rights activists are addressing the UN and OSCE, warning the investigation is being either delayed...

Hyena attack leaves 3 boys injured in Kenya

© kids.britannica.comA hyena. KWS official has vowed to carry out a medical examination on the hyena to ascertain the cause of the attack. Three boys were seriously injured and 5 goats killed after a hyena attached Amalo village in Olenguruone division today.The attacked occurred as the boys were taking their goats to graze in the nearby Greenland field next to Olenguruone town.Speaking in Molo hospital after visiting the victims, Kenya Wildlife...

Farmer killed and woman injured in bear attack at farm in Madavu, India

A wild bear was shot dead by police Monday after it killed a farmer and grievously injured another person at a farm near Madhugiri, a police official said. "We had to shoot the bear dead when it tried to attack other villagers of Chilanahalli as firing gun shots in the air failed to drive it away from the field where it killed farmer Somanna, 36, and grievously injured Thimmanna, 55, earlier in the day," Tumakuru police superintendent Raman Gupta...

Wild boar gores boy to death and injures woman in Vietnam

© Nguyen ChungThe site where a wild boar allegedly attacked a 15-year-old boy in Khanh Hoa Province on Saturday. A wild boar allegedly gored a 15-year-old boy to death and injured another woman in a village in central Vietnam on Saturday.Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, police chief of Khanh Hiep Commune in Khanh Hoa Province, told Thanh Nien the incident may have taken place around 3:30 pm when Nguyen Van Dai, 15, was fishing at a pond in Hon Lay Village.No one...

Western NGO workers live luxuriously while Ebola orphans left to fend for themselves in Liberia

Money spent on funding aid worker's lavish accommodation at the Royal Grand Hotel could be better used to help the country's children who are orphaned due to the virus Western aid agencies are using the plight of Africa's Ebola orphans to fund a lavish lifestyle in $800-a-night hotels and leaving the children to fend for themselves, according to Liberia's development chief.Children who were forced to watch their parents die and were then shunned...

Pepe Escobar on G-20 in Australia: Buffoons vs the Global South

© Reuters / Nacho Doce(L-R) Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Chinese President Xi Jinping and South African President Jacob Zuma join their hands at a group photo session during the 6th BRICS summit in Fortaleza July 15, 2014. Here's the G20 in Australia in a one-liner: a tiny bunch of Anglo-Saxon political buffoons attempts to drown out the Global South.Countries representing...

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.2 - Prince Edward Islands region

© USGS Event Time2014-11-17 16:52:46 UTC2014-11-17 18:52:46 UTC+02:00 at epicenterLocation46.392°S 33.794°E depth=9.4km (5.9mi)Nearby Cities307km (191mi) W of Marion Island, Prince Edward Islands1537km (955mi) SSE of Port Alfred, South Africa1550km (963mi) SSE of Port Elizabeth, South Africa1562km (971mi) SSE of Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa1973km (1226mi) SSE of Maseru, Leso...

Sott Exclusive: The US way of regime change is not lost on the Chinese

© UnknownThough it has a new catchy name, the recent "revolution" in Hong Kong followed a very familiar pattern of US engineered regime change and destabilisation. And the Chinese are well aware of it! It is wellknown to us that Russia knows full well the way of regime change that the empire of chaos uses over and over to ensure their supremacy as the sole super power. This was made clear by Putin in his Valdai speechIncidentally, at the time, our...
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