Humanity will need two Earths to sustain itself in just twenty years
At humanity’s present rate of consumption, by 2030 we’ll need the resources of two Earths just to survive long-term. There are really two options: start building another Earth, or drastically change our lifestyles. Which one is supposed to be easier? According to the latest “Living Planet” report from the World Wildlife Fund, Earth’s 6.8 billion [...]
Read More →Blacks, whites and Asians have different ancestors – and did not come from Africa, claims scientist
Geographer claims the races evolved from different ancestors. A public claim by a fellow of the prestigious Royal Geographic Society that humans did not all come from Africa — and that blacks, whites and Asians have different ancestors — has been dismissed by world experts as “dangerous”, “wrong” and “racist”. In a paper widely trumpeted [...]
Read More →Tax investigation could land Pope with €8bn bill
European Commission to investigate exemption allowing the Vatican to avoid paying £2bn a year levy on 100,000 properties Eight billion euros worth of tax breaks pocketed by the Catholic Church in Italy could be in breach of European law and may have to be repaid, it has emerged. The development is the latest blow to [...]
Read More →Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for 9/11 investigation (w/ video)
Mahmoud fuelled his claims that the US government was behind the Sept 11 attack on America and demanded to ‘know the truth of what happened’ during his visit to Lebanon. Speaking at a late night rally, he said: “I announce that the formation of an independent and neutral team to examine the facts and discover [...]
Read More →Half of wi-fi networks can be hacked in seconds
Nearly half of home wi-fi networks can be hacked in less than five seconds, according to a study carried out across UK cities. Of the 40,000 networks identified in the six cities, just under 20,000 had no password or the most basic form of security encryption, the research for card protection and insurance company CPP [...]
Read More →Where on Earth do these extraterrestrial toadstool trees grow?
The Socotra archipelago is an isolated island chain in the Indian Ocean. One-third of the flora on Socotra grows nowhere else on the planet, including these curious dragon’s blood trees (Dracaena cinnabari).Socotra, which is part of Yemen and 250 miles south of the Arabian Peninsula, built its first and only airport in 1999. Prior to [...]
Read More →Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons
Exclusive: Secret apartheid-era papers give first official evidence of Israeli nuclear weapons The secret military agreement signed by Shimon Peres, now president of Israel, and P W Botha of South Africa. Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the [...]
Read More →USA Supplied Israel with Sarin, Plutonium and Depleted Uranium on Plane Which Crashed in Europe (Video)
Read More →Ghosts of the future: First giant structures of the universe
Astronomers using the South Pole Telescope report that they have discovered the most massive galaxy cluster yet seen at a distance of 7 billion light-years. The cluster (designated SPT-CL J0546-5345) weighs in at around 800 trillion Suns, and holds hundreds of galaxies. An infrared/optical representative-color image of a massive galaxy cluster located 7 billion light-years [...]
Read More →First life-friendly exoplanet may not exist
Last month, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of the first alien world that could host life on its surface. Now a second team can find no evidence of the planet, casting doubt on its existence. The planet, dubbed Gliese 581 g, was found to orbit a dim, red dwarf star every 37 days, [...]
Read More →Cannabis should be sold in shops alongside beer and cigarettes, doctors’ journal says
An editorial in the British Medical Journal suggested that the sale of cannabis should be licensed like alcohol because banning it had not worked. Banning cannabis had increased drug-related violence because enforcement made “the illicit market a richer prize for criminal groups to fight over”. An 18-fold increase in the anti-drugs budget in the US [...]
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