Morality is modified in the lab
BBC Scientists have shown they can change people’s moral judgements by disrupting a specific area of the brain with magnetic pulses. They identified a region of the brain just above and behind the right ear which appears to control morality. And by using magnetic pulses to block cell activity they impaired volunteers’ notion of right [...]
Read More →Report: Swiss Bank Refuses to Release Gold
Money News By Julie Crawshaw A client of a major Swiss bank was recently refused access to his physical gold and had to hire attorneys and threaten to expose the bank publicly before finally getting it back in his own hands, according to Jim Rickards of Omnis. “My inference is that that gold was not [...]
Read More →Israel: Next Gaza war will be extensive
PressTV Israeli army chief Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi Israeli army chief Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi has proclaimed that the next ‘big’ Israel onslaught on the Gaza Strip will determine the victor, reports say. “The next round (of fighting) will be extensive and it should end in such a way where there is no doubt as to which [...]
Read More →UN climate summit introduces new draft
PressTV The United Nation’s climate talks regarding future emission commitments have resulted in the proposal of a new package. After days of negotiating in Mexico, where the talks took place, on Friday, the envoys decided on a new draft agreement, with Russia and Japan opposed to continuing the Kyoto Protocol. This new draft requires poorer [...]
Read More →Royal car attack: Cameron calls for ‘full force of law’
The Guardian David Cameron today promised the full force of the law would be used on the “mob” who attacked a car carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, and smashed property in central London last night, while student leaders hit back, claiming protesters had suffered police brutality. Mark Bergfeld, of the Education Activist Network, [...]
Read More →On your marks, get set, grovel! The secret dirty deal struck to secure the Olympics
Daily Mail There was something rather un-British about all that grovelling to Fifa last week. That, at least, appears to be the new national consensus after even the combined charms of Prince William, David Cameron and David Beckham failed to land England the World Cup. We are not, we now realise, the kind of people [...]
Read More →Sonic Screwdriver Could Produce Ultrasonic Force Fields To Manipulate Objects
PopSci A real-life sonic screwdriver could use ultrasonic waves to apply forces to objects, according to researchers in the UK. Bruce Drinkwater, the professor who proposes this idea, says that in theory, ultrasonic waves can be rotated at high speeds to create force fields that would act like a real screwdriver. Drinkwater, a professor at [...]
Read More →Ex-WikiLeaker Explains His Spinoff Group, OpenLeaks
Forbes Former WikiLeaks staffer Daniel Domscheit-Berg has always considered Julian Assange’s whistle-blowing site a two-pipe operation: One pipe takes submissions in from anonymous leakers, another publishes them out to an uncensorable web site. But since defecting from WikiLeaks in September and watching the global controversy build around the secret-spilling organization, he’s taking a different approach [...]
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