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How Zionist lobby shapes UK politics

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PressTV The wealthy Jewish lobby in Britain working under the title of the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) has been tipped as the Conservative Party’s paymaster. The CFI as described by British political analysts is beyond doubt the most well- connected and probably the best funded of all Westminster lobbying groups. It works in support [...]

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Israel planned to nuke Arabs in 1980

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PressTV A newly-released state document in Britain reveals that Israel was prepared to use a nuclear bomb in the event of an armed conflict with Arab neighbors, a report says. The official paper discloses communications between John Robinson, a former British ambassador to Tel Aviv, and the UK Foreign Office, in which the former diplomat [...]

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Living Earth Simulator aims to predict everything that’s happening on our planet

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io9 The Living Earth Simulator is quite possibly the most ambitious computer project ever undertaken. This all-encompassing simulation will collect all the data in the entire world, to predict everything from the next major disease outbreak to the next financial crisis. The Living Earth Simulator could do for our modern world what the Large Hadron [...]

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Researchers: Ancient human remains found in Israel

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Yahoo! Israeli archaeologists said Monday they may have found the earliest evidence yet for the existence of modern man, and if so, it could upset theories of the origin of humans. A Tel Aviv University team excavating a cave in central Israel said teeth found in the cave are about 400,000 years old and resemble [...]

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China preparing for armed conflict ‘in every direction’

By   /  December 31, 2010  /  In Other News  /  No Comments

Telegraph “In the coming five years, our military will push forward preparations for military conflict in every strategic direction,” said Liang Guanglie in an interview published by several state-backed newspapers in China. “We may be living in peaceful times, but we can never forget war, never send the horses south or put the bayonets and [...]

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Genome Hackers

By   /  December 31, 2010  /  Conspiracy  /  No Comments

Forbes The next big privacy battle may be over who has access to your DNA. It is becoming surprisingly easy for someone to test your DNA without permission. Every drop of saliva you leave on a Styrofoam coffee cup or hair follicle that falls to the floor contains DNA that in theory can be tested [...]

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Edzard Ernst: We need less opinion and more scientific research

By   /  December 31, 2010  /  Health  /  No Comments

Independent About three decades ago, the then-minister, Baroness Trumpington, promised that “over the next few years we expect to review some 700 herbal products” and stated “it is right that full proof of efficacy should be demonstrated before a licence is granted”. Since then, much lip service has been paid to the regulation of herbalism, [...]

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Europe to ban hundreds of herbal remedies

By   /  December 30, 2010  /  Health  /  No Comments

Independent Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year under what campaigners say is a “discriminatory and disproportionate” European law. With four months to go before the EU-wide ban is implemented, thousands of patients face the loss of herbal remedies that have been used in the UK for decades. [...]

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Brazil to replace oil rigs with ‘underwater cities’

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Traditional oil rigs will be replaced with “underwater cities” within a decade under ambitious plans being drawn up by Petrobras, Brazil’s state-owned energy group.  The Telegraph Petrobras plans to turn science fiction into reality to extract oil from the vast pre-salt oil fields discovered off the south east coast of Brazil. The plan is to [...]

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Internet groups fear UN could threaten cyberspace

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CTV Officials from 18 countries held an impromptu, late-night meeting earlier this month at the United Nations office in Geneva, and made a decision that rattled Internet technocrats around the world. Autocratic governments like China and Iran attended the meeting, as did several democratic ones. Despite protests by Portugal and the United States, they voted [...]

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Artificial intelligence to transform web: Russian tycoon

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AFP The emergence of artificial intelligence is to transform the Internet industry and social networking over the next decade, Russia’s leading web tycoon said in an interview on Tuesday. The low-profile Yury Milner, chairman in the rapidly expanding Mail.ru Internet firm and CEO of DST Global investment company who built minority stakes in Facebook and [...]

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Coalition to propose automatic charity donations at cash machines

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Guardian Cash machines should automatically give customers an option of donating to charity, the coalition proposes tomorrow in a green paper designed to define the elusive “big society” in Britain. The proposal is one of a series of ideas put forward by the Cabinet Office to shift what the coalition sees as the stubborn British [...]

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