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Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Uncle Sam's scam: Is Australia that independent?

© Associated Press Photo/G20 Australia, Andrew Taylor U.S. President Barack Obama and Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott.      In an interview with Sputnik, Australian social activists and members of Australia's Labor Party, Susan and Iman Safi, highlighted the problem of media misinformation in the West, Australia's deplorable political dependency on Washington and the role of Russia in global affairs. "Western media, which...

Has a sixth DNA base been discovered?

© Adrian Sanborn, Erez Lieberman Aiden Physics simulation of 5 megabases of DNA forming loops and domains.      Most text books talk of four DNA bases. Later research has shown there to be five. No, wait, cross that out, there could be six. Scientists suggest that the methyl-adenine is the sixth base and that it is medically important. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the main component of genetic material, found in humans and...

Like the canary in a coalmine, birds tell real story of Fukushima

Like a canary in a coalmine, birds are a good indicator of the quality of an environment. A study has found that Fukushima prefecture has not been friendly to our feathered friends since that fateful day four years ago, and things are not getting better. © Charles J. Sharp/Sharp's Photography Barn swallow Farmoor, Oxfordshire.      Using animals as environmental indicators is not a new idea, particularly when it involves studying...

Nepal quake survivors face threat from human traffickers supplying sex trade

© Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters Armed Nepalese police help people in Sindhupalchok district board a helicopter to Kathmandu after last month’s earthquake.      Criminal networks using cover of rescue effort to target poor rural communities in country from which an estimated 15,000 girls are trafficked a year, warn NGOs Tens of thousands of young women from regions devastated by the earthquake in Nepal are being targeted by human...

Italian police 'reveal' what Jesus looked like as a young boy

© The Independent, UK Using the Turin Shroud, the supposed burial cloth of Jesus, police investigators have generated a photo-fit image from the negative facial image on the material.      Detectives claim to have revealed how Jesus Christ looked as a child - based on computer forensics and the world's most famous relic. Using the Turin Shroud, the supposed burial cloth of Jesus, police investigators have generated a photo-fit...

96 percent of Americans expect more civil unrest in U.S. cities this summer

     Are you ready for rioting, looting and mindless violence in major U.S. cities all summer long? According to a brand new poll, 96 percent of all Americans believe that there will be more civil unrest in America this summer. That leaves only 4 percent of people that believe that everything will be just fine. In this day and age, it is virtually impossible to get 96 percent of Americans to agree on anything. So the fact that...

The Dark Empire? We're it

     If you've read any pulp science fiction and fantasy — and I have, though not for decades — you know all about the Dark Empire. The Dark Empire is that distant but mighty star empire which swoops down on the peaceful settlers of the planet Zipperdork 3 and suborns them to its plans for galaxy-wide conquest. Or, in heroic fantasies, the Dark Empire inhabits the chaotic land of Dystopia from which it dispatches hordes of spell-flinging...

Possible threat of eruption at Hakone volcano as 100 volcanic earthquakes recorded

© AFP Photo Anglers fish from a boat floating on Lake Ashinoko in front of Japan's highest peak, Mount Fuji, and other mountains covered with coloured autumn leaves at a Hakone hot spring resort, some 100 kms west of Tokyo      There has been a rise in the number of volcanic earthquakes recorded in Hakone, Japan. The nearby Hakone volcano began belching steaming gas and meteorologists say there is a possible risk of an eruption. There...

The six faces of maternal narcissism

     The disorder of narcissistic parenting creates significant emotional damage to children. If not understood, children raised by narcissistic parents grow up in a state of denial, thinking it is their fault and they are simply not good enough. If good enough, they would have been loved by that parent. While this is a cognitive distortion about self, the myriad of internal messages gleaned from childhood have a haunting effect...

Late night snacking is hurting your health

© Unknown      Could those late night snacks be adding to your waistline and causing harm to your heart? A new study suggests that its better to eat during the daylight hours. Nighttime snackers take note: eating late is harming your health, or so suggests a recent study out of San Diego State University. While the study looked at fruit flies, and not humans, the findings do provide compelling reasons to investigate further...

US and Iranian warships tangle in Gulf of Aden

© Flickr/ Official U.S. Navy Page      A couple of US planes and a navy destroyer approached several Iranian warships in the Gulf of Aden on Monday, Iranian reported, citing a report released by an Iranian TV channel. called the incident "a provocation," citing the fact that the US warship and planes ignored the internationally set 5-mile distance that navy fleets of different countries have to keep from each other. As the US...

Deadly landslide of snow and mud triggered by Nepal earthquake captured by satellite; 200 dead

© USGS/NASA      The small village of Langtang, which was located along a popular trekking route near the base of Mount Langtang, was completely buried by ice and rocks shaken loose by devastating earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25, 2015. At least 200 people died in this disaster. The village was located below a very steep ridge and above the ridge there is a glacier towards the north-west and large snow field right above...

Man sues Florida hospital after his amputated leg was thrown in the trash

© Reuters/Suhaib Salem      A man in Florida is suing a local hospital for emotional distress after his amputated leg ended up in a dumpster with his name tag still attached to it. The lawsuit comes after the family of 56-year-old John Timiriasieff was contacted by detectives to tell them his leg, removed in October at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, had been found. They were investigating whether he had been the victim of...
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