Lost Civilization May Have Existed Beneath the Persian Gulf
Live Science Veiled beneath the Persian Gulf, a once-fertile landmass may have supported some of the earliest humans outside Africa some 75,000 to 100,000 years ago, a new review of research suggests. At its peak, the floodplain now below the Gulf would have been about the size of Great Britain, and then shrank as water [...]
Read More →Homeland Security Recruiting Neighborhood Busybodies as Informants
Crime File News There were the infamous Gestapo, Stazi and Red Guard. They all sought and maintained civilian armies of snitches to help their rogue governments maintain absolute power. These government thugs wanted any information they could use against the victims they selectively targeted. Today we have the Department of Homeland Security that is quickly [...]
Read More →Russia warns Poland on hosting US jets
PressTV Russia has warned Poland against hosting American fighter jets as part of a NATO missile system plan, saying that it would attempt to counter the move. The US has offered to periodically station some of its planes in Poland beginning in 2013. Last month, Poland announced that it will accept the US proposal to [...]
Read More →Ex-EU leaders urge action on Israel
PressTV An illegal Israeli settlement Dozens of former European leaders have called on the European Union to take strong measures against Israel over Tel Aviv’s violation of international law, reports say. A group of 26 diplomats have denounced Israel’s settlement policy in a letter sent to the European Union and the governments of its 27 [...]
Read More →NATO blackmailing Russia with drugs
PressTV NATO is using Afghanistan’s opium as a threat to the Russia to force Moscow into cooperating with the alliance in the Afghan war, a US analyst says. “There is a certain very real blackmail being imposed on Russia that the country is targeted for a kind of an opium war,” Jeff Steinberg from Executive [...]
Read More →New Insights Into Formation of Earth, the Moon, and Mars
Science Daily ScienceDaily (Dec. 10, 2010) — New research reveals that the abundance of so-called highly siderophile, or metal-loving, elements like gold and platinum found in the mantles of Earth, the Moon and Mars were delivered by massive impactors during the final phase of planet formation over 4.5 billion years ago. The predicted sizes of [...]
Read More →Lucky strike gave Earth its gold
New Scientist Prospectors who lost out in the gold rush probably wouldn’t agree but Earth has more gold than it should. The shiny stuff is one of several metals that are puzzlingly common. Now it seems a last-minute bombardment, after Earth formed, may have supplied these extra elements. The planets formed when tiny rocks collided, [...]
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