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Monday, 11 May 2015

The Bin Laden raid was a work of fiction, and Barack Obama should immediately resign

Where's wally?      Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in modern American history. It turns out that much of what the American public was told about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden was a blatant lie. According to Hersh, Osama bin Laden had been captured by Pakistan all the way back in 2006, and he was being held by the ISI as a prisoner at the Abbottabad...

Near miss with gigantic asteroid coming this Thursday

© wattsupwiththat.com      The reports that a colossal one mile wide asteroid will brush past the Earth this Thursday, with a closest approach of 3 million kilometres - far too close for comfort, with a rock that big. According to The ; The gigantic missile thought to measure almost a mile across will brush closer than previous monsters which have sparked a global panic. Worried astronomers warned 1999 FN53, which is an eighth...

Egyptian mummies' height reveals incest

© Wikimedia Commons Above is the mummified head of Egyptian pharaoh King Ahmose I, whose parents and grandparents were probably both sets of siblings.      The height of the pharaohs who ruled ancient Egypt supports historical records that they might have married their sisters and cousins, says new research into 259 mummies. It's known from historical sources that incestuous marriages were common among the ancient Egyptian royalty....

Woman fired for uninstalling app on company phone that tracked her 24 hrs a day

© Reuters / Alessia Pierdomenico      A California woman has sued her former employer, which fired her shortly after she disabled a GPS tracking feature on her company iPhone. The app was used to monitor employees even on their personal time, the lawsuit alleged. Myrna Arias has claimed that her boss, John Stubits, at money transfer service Intermex in Bakersfield boasted about monitoring employees' locations while they were...

Ceres' white spots multiply in latest Dawn photos

© NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/Montage by Tom Ruen Where there were two, now there are 10! Ceres photographed on May 3 and 4 by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft show multiple white spots inside the 57-mile-wide crater located in the asteroid’s northern hemisphere.      We don't know exactly what those mysterious white spots on Ceres are yet, but we're getting closer to an explanation. Literally. The latest images from the Dawn spacecraft...

War threat against Russia and China rises as U.S. economy declines

© Unknown      Paul Craig Roberts, Keynote Address to the Annual Conference of the Financial West Group, New Orleans, May 7, 2015 The defining events of our time are the collapse of the Soviet Union, 9/11, jobs offshoring, and financial deregulation. In these events we find the basis of our foreign policy problems and our economic problems. The United States has always had a good opinion of itself, but with the Soviet collapse...

Our personal microbiome has unique fingerprints that could be used to identify us, no human DNA required

© Eric Franzosa Four microbial features inferred from metagenomic sequencing collectively distinguish the starred individual from the population (?1 features are not detected in each other individual).      A new study shows that the microbial communities we carry in and on our bodies -- known as the human microbiome -- have the potential to uniquely identify individuals, much like a fingerprint. Harvard T.H. Chan School of...

Man kills four people and self in Swiss domestic shooting

© REUTERS/RUBEN SPRICH Sawdust covers the street in front of a house in Wuerenlingen, Switzerland May 10, 2015.      A gunman killed three relatives and a neighbor in a late-night rampage in a Swiss village before turning his weapon on himself, local police said on Sunday. The presumed killer, a 36-year-old Swiss national who was separated from his wife and the couple's three children, shot dead his father-in-law, mother-in-law...

Australia: Mandatory vaccines and the secret treaty

     "There is never a decay of organized religion. When one church falls, another is built. During the 20th century, the new church was Science—in particular, Medical Science. It was constructed to extract the maximum amount of compliance from the population. This is what all orthodox churches do. So in addition to the countless numbers of diagnoses and drugs, there was the element of mind control: 'Follow our orders. We know...

Mainstream press goes quiet on deaths and hospitalizations of babies vaccinated in Simojovel, Mexico

     The indigenous municipality of Simojovel, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico reported the death of two babies after the administration of vaccines against hepatitis B (HepB), tuberculosis (BCG), and rotavirus. Within hours of receiving the vaccines, 37 babies out of a total of 52 vaccinated had adverse reactions; some began to convulse with the tragic result of two dead and 37 hospitalized, 13 of whom reported to be in critical...

"Welcome to Sweden. Gay since 1944": Singing sailor to scare off Russian submarines

© bsmart.se/SPAS The Singing Sailor Underwater Defence System.      Sweden hit international headlines in October last year when it launched the biggest military underwater operation in recent years after it spotted a foreign submarine in Swedish waters. The vessel was widely thought to be Russian, although the Swedish military was unable to confirm where it came from - or indeed locate it. The country's ability to defend itself...

Blue whale found decaying on Hunt's Island off Newfoundland's southwest coast

© Norm Strickland A dead blue whale has washed up on the southwest part of Hunt's Island.      A dead blue whale has washed up on the southwest part of Hunt's Island. Too often, scenes of dead whales are seen around shores. This whale, believed by locals to be a giant blue whale, has died and will soon begin to decay on the southwest part of Hunt's Island. The temperature in Burgeo is still fairly cold and it is not composing...

Reading the writing on the wall: Former pro-American Eastern and Central European countries turn toward Russia

     Once Washington's steadfast allies, some European countries are now "at risk" of drifting into the Kremlin's fold, Dalibor Rohac, a Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, emphasized. "At the time, these [Eastern and Central European] countries were counted amongst the most staunchly pro-American members of NATO—and also among the boldest economic reformers on the continent, cutting their...

Eighty people forced to evacuate homes due to wildfire near Prince George, BC

© John Tymofichuk      Homes are being evacuated in small lakeside communities near Prince George as firefighters battle a wildfire. The evacuation order covers about 80 people living on Norman Lake, Little Bobtail Lake and Naltesby Lake, while residents to the north and west are under an evacuation alert. The wildfire is burning 50 km southwest of Prince George and was last estimated to cover 2,500 hectares. As of Sunday night,...

Scientists find volcanic activity can be induced by external noise

© Reuters / Sergio Candia      Volcanoes are considered chaotic systems. They are difficult to model because the geophysical and chemical parameters in volcanic eruptions exhibit high levels of uncertainty. Now, Dmitri V. Alexandrov and colleagues from the Ural Federal University in Ekaterinburg, in the Russian Federation, have further extended an eruption model—previously developed by other scientists—to the friction force...

Scientists find volcanic activity can be induced by external noises

© Reuters / Sergio Candia      Volcanoes are considered chaotic systems. They are difficult to model because the geophysical and chemical parameters in volcanic eruptions exhibit high levels of uncertainty. Now, Dmitri V. Alexandrov and colleagues from the Ural Federal University in Ekaterinburg, in the Russian Federation, have further extended an eruption model—previously developed by other scientists—to the friction force...

In Convicting Jeff Sterling, CIA Revealed More Than It Accused Him of Revealing

Some Americans have heard of New York Times reporter and book author James Risen and his refusal to expose a source. But, because most reports on that matter scrupulously avoided the subject of what it was Risen had reported, relatively few people can tell you. In fact, Risen reported (in a book, as the New York Times obeyed a government request to keep it quiet) that back in the year 2000 the CIA gave nuclear weapons plans to...

Real News: George Zimmerman Suffers Gunshot Wound In Orlando

BREAKING: Attorney: George Zimmerman not seriously injured after bullet hit his vehicle in Florida. — The Associated Press (@AP) May 11, 2015   George Zimmerman, who was acquitted in the 2013 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, has, according to WESH Orlando, been shot in Orlando, Florida.    The shooting involved two men and happened on Lake Mary Boulevard, police said. Officers at the scene said it appeared Zimmerman suffered...

White House Denies It Fabricated bin Laden Killing, Says Hersh Report "Riddled With Inaccuracies And Falsehoods"

If anyone expected the Obama administration to admit that, as Seymour Hersch alleged last night, it had openly lied and fabricated the entire account of Osama bin Laden killing - perhaps the most defining narrative of Obama's entire first term, we have some bad news: it won't. Instead, as AP reports, the White House has decided to continue its reality challenged ways and has dismissed as "untrue" Hersh's entire 10K plus word report on what...

Wi-Fi is making your child ill

© GEOFF PUGH Dr Erica Mallery-Blythe discusses the effects of Wi-Fi radiation with a class of schoolchildren      Six years ago, Dr Erica Mallery-Blythe moved to the country, stopped carrying a mobile phone and sacrificed a successful career in emergency medicine to focus on a new medical interest - radiation emitted by Wi-Fi, mobiles and other wireless devices. She is now one of the country's few professional advisers on medical...
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