G20 protester barred from speaking to press as condition of bail
A man accused of having incited violent protests at the G20 economic summit in Toronto last June has been subjected to what his lawyer describes as “staggering” bail conditions. Not only is he forbidden to attend any public event that expresses political views but he is not even allowed to speak to the press.At the [...]
Read More →N.Korea threatens to attack S.Korea over leaflets
KWANG-TAE KIM Associated Press Writer= SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea renewed its threat Friday to attack South Korea over anti-Pyongyang leaflets being sent into the country, a sign of lingering tension after the sinking of a South Korean warship. Civilian activists regularly use balloons to launch leaflets condemning North Korean leader Kim Jong [...]
Read More →Bisphenol A officially declared toxic by Canada
Canada became the first country in the world yesterday to declare bisphenol A (BPA) to be a toxic substance that poses risks to human health and the environment. The announcement by the Canadian Health and Environment Ministries confirmed the chemical had formally been added Schedule 1 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA 1999). [...]
Read More →Tyrannosaurus Rex was a cannibal, say paleontologists
After analyzing marks and gouges on Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils, paleontologists have concluded that T. Rexes ate other T. Rexes. This cannibalism was likely the result of scavenging rather than active hunting, but researchers aren’t 100% positive. The paleontologists note that the T. Rex was the only large, late Cretaceous carnivore in Western North America that [...]
Read More →Magnetar has magnetic fields that are mysteriously intense
Pulsars, or neutron stars, are the universe’s densest objects other than black holes. Special pulsars known as magnetars can have intense magnetic fields up to a trillion times stronger than our Sun…but one strange magnetar has been hiding its powers. All neutron stars are incredibly dense and incredibly magnetized – they pack the mass of [...]
Read More →Royal Society Humiliated by Global Warming Basic Math Error
Top international experts prove British numbers on carbon dioxide are wrong. Royal Society blunder grossly exaggerates climate impact. German born chemist, Dr Klaus L. E. Kaiser has published evidence that proves the Royal Society (RS), London, has been caught out making schoolboy errors in mathematical calculations over the duration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth’s [...]
Read More →Robot arm punches human to obey Asimov’s rules
Isaac Asimov would probably have been horrified at the experiments under way in a robotics lab in Slovenia. There, a powerful robot has been hitting people over and over again in a bid to induce anything from mild to unbearable pain – in apparent defiance of the late sci-fi sage’s famed first law of robotics, [...]
Read More →5 times we almost nuked ourselves by accident
We spent the Cold War in perpetual fear that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. would start an intentional nuclear conflict. The truth is, we came far closer to blowing ourselves up with nuclear weapons than we ever came to WWIII. Nuclear incidents have a bunch of ominous military code names, like Broken Arrow, Faded Giant or [...]
Read More →The Case Against Fluoride: Toxifying the Tap (w/ video)
Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer Activist Post In July of this year, the United Nations declared access to clean water a human right. The United States was among 41 nations that abstained from supporting the resolution. Since October 15th is Blog for Water Day, a close inspection of a common US practice – fluoridating city water supplies – is in [...]
Read More →Police to return to stop and search based on race
Police will soon be able to use a person’s race as a basis to carry out a stop and search under draft guidance which threatens a row with civil liberties groups. Liberty said the draft proposal ”flies in the face of recommendations in Sir William Macpherson’s Inquiry” into the 1993 murder of black teenager Stephen [...]
Read More →WTC Collapse Under Fresh Scrutiny After Explosive Dust Samples Found
Evidence indicating that the collapse of the World Trade Center was a controlled demolition has been propelled back under the national spotlight following the University of Copenhagen’s announcement that dust obtained from the rubble of the twin towers contains evidence of highly explosive material. The energetic material that was found in the WTC dust by [...]
Read More →Eric Holder To Prosecute Distribution, Possession If Prop. 19 Passes
Attorney General Eric Holder is warning that the federal government will not look the other way, as it has with medical marijuana, if voters next month make California the first state to legalize pot. Marijuana is illegal under federal law, which drug agents will “vigorously enforce” against anyone carrying, growing or selling it, Holder said.The [...]
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