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Monday, 25 May 2015

Pathological blindness: The secret country again wages war on its own people

JohnPilger.com      Australia has again declared war on its Indigenous people, reminiscent of the brutality that brought universal condemnation on apartheid South Africa. Aboriginal people are to be driven from homelands where their communities have lived for thousands of years. In Western Australia, where mining companies make billion dollar profits exploiting Aboriginal land, the state government says it can no longer afford...

Fighter jets scramble following at least 6 reports of threats to passenger planes inbound to the United States

Air France Flight 22, from Charles De Gaulle Airport, was escorted by fighter jets to JFK airport after an anonymous threat was made against the flight.      At least six flights were impacted by threats at airports in New York, New Jersey and Boston today, according to airlines and law enforcement. JFK Airport: An Air France plane was escorted to JFK Airport in New York City this morning after an anonymous threat was made...

StingRay - the cellphone tracking tech police won't talk about

© Noah MacMillan      There were some very bad vibes in downtown St. Louis on the night of October 28, 2013. The Cardinals had just lost Game 5 in the World Series, and the Rams had a pathetic showing against the Seahawks at Edward Jones Stadium. The streets were jammed bumper to bumper with disgruntled fans trying to make it home, and so Brandon Pavelich and Julia Fischer — two college friends on a kinda-sorta first date —...

139 graves, signs of torture found in Malaysia human trafficking camps

© Reuters / Damir Sagolj Forensic policemen carry body bags with human remains found at the site of human trafficking camps in the jungle close the Thailand border after they brought them to a police camp near Wang Kelian in northern Malaysia May 25, 2015      A total of 139 graves have been found in Malaysia in more than two dozen human trafficking camps believed to have been used by gangs smuggling migrants across the Thai...

Galapagos volcano erupts for first time in 30 years

© Photo: EPA The eruption of Wolf volcano, at Isabela island, Galapagos, on 25 May 2015.      A volcano in the Galapagos Islands erupted for the first time in more than 30 years on Monday, spilling streams of bright orange lava and raising fears for the world's only colony of pink iguanas. The Galapagos National Park warned on Twitter that Isabela Island, where Wolf Volcano erupted at dawn, holds "the world's only population"...

Humans could download brains on to a computer and live forever

© Photo: (c) alengo Once computer engineers have worked out how to make a circuit board as complex as the human mind we will be able to download ourselves onto computers.      Humans could download their brain on to a computer and live forever inside a machine, a Cambridge neuroscientist has claimed. Dr Hannah Critchlow said that if a computer could be built to recreate the 100 trillion connections in the brain their it would...

Humans 'will become God-like cyborgs within 200 years'

© Photo: PA Within 200 years the wealthiest humans will become cyborgs, part man part machine.      Wealthy humans are likely become cyborgs within 200 years as they gradually merge with technology like computers and smart phones, a historian has claimed. Yuval Noah Harari, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said the amalgamation of man and machine will be the 'biggest evolution in biology' since the emergence...

Trekky dream: Chinese millionaire erects $160 million Starship Enterprise HQ

© AFP Photo / STR This photo taken on May 16, 2015 shows the NetDragon Websoft headquarters building with the iconic circular contours and tubular features of the USS Enterprise, from the US television and film series Star Trek, in Fuzhou, in eastern China's Fujian province.      An eccentric Chinese millionaire and apparently one of the biggest fans of the legendary franchise has built his company HQs in the shape of the ,...

Lake Mead water level drops drastically after earthquake

© LakeMeadNRA      Following our exposure of the plunge in Lake Mead water levels post Friday's earthquake, officials were quick to point out that the drop was "due to erroneous meter readings" - which in itself is odd given we have not seen such an aberration before in the measurements. The data today shows a super surge in the Lake Mead water level - which, even more mysteriously, indicates from pre-earthquake to now, the...

Acts of kindness spread easily in social networks just by observing people's generosity

Kindness and generosity elevates all our morals      Acts of kindness can spread surprisingly easily between people — just by observing someone else being generous. They activate parts of the brain involved in motivating action and of social engagement, a new study finds. In turn we are also more likely to 'pay it forward'. Scientists call this the 'moral elevation' effect. The first evidence from the lab of this effect was...
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