New plane-ly bizarre behavior? China counts 12 cases so far this year of people trying to open airplane doors

© Reuters/Xavier Larossa      BEIJING — Chinese air travelers have tried opening emergency doors without authorization 12 times in barely four months on planes that were taxiing or at a standstill, and one man was put on trial in the country's first such legal case, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said Monday. There is no immediate explanation for the apparent spike in the behavior this year, although Chinese are...

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Canada's Harper Government pathocrates cites hate crime laws when asked about its 'zero tolerance' for Israel boycotters

Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney and RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson appear together at a House of Commons committee last week. Has the minister directed the RCMP to pursue hate crimes against BDS advocates? (The Canadian Press)      The Harper government is signalling its intention to use hate crime laws against Canadian advocacy groups that encourage boycotts of Israel. Such a move could target a range of civil society...

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Great game update: What's Washington doin' in Central Asia now?

     Since the time the CIA financed and trained more than one hundred thousand Mujahideen Islamic Jihadists, including a fanatical Saudi named Osama bin Laden, to wage a decade-long proxy war against forces of the Soviet Army in Afghanistan, Washington has been obsessed with the idea of penetrating deep into Central Asia in order to drive a wedge between China and Russia. Early attempts in the wake of the post-2001 US forces'...

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Story unravels: NBC News confirms Obama lied about Bin Laden raid

     Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Samuel Hersh claimed yesterday that the Obama administration lied to the American people about certain aspects aspects of the 2011 raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. According to Hersh, the United States did not act alone when Navy SEALs were sent to capture or kill the world's most wanted terrorist. The real story, according to the report, is that members of Pakistani intelligence...

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Mysterious stone circle discovered on Dartmoor could be older than Stonehenge

© www.mirror.co.uk Bronze Age Britain: Dartmoor was home to an astonishing ancient community.      Archaeologists have discovered a massive ancient stone circle on Dartmoor which could be older than Stonehenge. The mysterious ruined structure is the first circle to be found on the moor for more than a century and is evidence the area was home to an advanced ancient civilisation. Although the 30 stones fell down an estimated...

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America's Achilles' Heel and Russia's indomitable spirit

Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at the victory Day Parade.      Last Saturday, a massive Victory Parade was held in Moscow commemorating the 70-year anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany to the Red Army and the erection of the Soviet flag atop the Reichstag in Berlin. There were a few unusual aspects to this parade, which I would like to point out, because they conflict with the western official propaganda narrative....

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Scientists image gravity waves through atmosphere

© Hanli Liu, NCAR A model simulation illustrates how gravity waves kicked off by a cyclone east of Australia build as they travel toward space.      Whether it's a drunk camper diving carelessly into a river, or a mass of air rising over a mountain, the rule is the same: What goes up must come down. With respect to the latter, the rising and falling of air also generates gravity waves. While such atmospheric changes usually...

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'We the people' need to circle the wagons: The government is on the warpath

"The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them." ― Mark Twain © www.softpedia.com/      How many Americans have actually bothered to read the Constitution, let alone the first ten amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights (a quick...

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Immune system genes may change with the season

© photoclicks/iStockphoto Genes suppressing inflammation are more active in the Australian summer, while those promoting inflammation are more active in winter.      Our mood, metabolism and sex lives are dependent on the seasons, and now it seems, so is our immune system. In a study published today, British and German researchers find almost a quarter of human genes are more or less active depending on the season. The researchers...

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Ilan Pappe on western 'awakening' and what it means for Palestine and Israel

© Palestinechronicle.com      Ilan Pappe has lately published a new book of dialogues with Noam Chomsky, and edited by Frank Barat, called On Palestine. Pappe is the director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies and the author of many books, notably The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Born in Israel 60 years ago, he left the University of Haifa in 2007 to take up a position at the University of Exeter in England after...

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