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Battle Brews Over FBI’s Warrantless GPS Tracking

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Wired An abandoned FBI vehicle-tracking device. Kathy Thomas knew she was under surveillance. The animal rights and environmental activist had been trailed daily by cops over several months, and had even been stopped on occasion by police and FBI agents. But when the surveillance seemed to halt suddenly in mid-2005 after she confronted one of [...]

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Bahrain collective punishment ignored

By   /  May 9, 2011  /  Politics  /  No Comments

Press TV The West has been criticized for turning a blind eye to the ongoing collective punishment of the Bahraini people by the Saudi-baked Manama regime.  “What is going on in Bahrain is very serious. We have the demolition of 20 mosques by the Saudi-backed occupation. We have the demolition of houses, mass sacking of [...]

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‘Al Qaeda in Iraq’ backs Zawahiri to replace Bin Laden as global head of terrorist body

By   /  May 9, 2011  /  Politics, World  /  No Comments

Al Arabiya Osama Bin Laden, left, sits with his adviser and purported successor Ayman Al Zawahiri The Iraq affiliate of Al Qaeda has pledged allegiance to Ayman Al Zawahiri to fill in the vacant position of the network’s top leadership after the killing of Osama Bin Laden, Al Arabiya TV reported on Monday. “I tell [...]

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Swiss researcher proves that natural selective breeding works better than GMOs

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Ethan A. Huff NaturalNews Twenty years of careful research and development on a new apple variety has produced an amazing fruit that New Zealand’s Scoop news states is “sweet, tangy and delicious.” And the most amazing aspect of Swiss orchardist and researcher Markus Kobelt’s new RedLove apple variety is that it was designed to be [...]

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Children’s brains needlessly exposed to cancer-linked radiation

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S. L. Baker NaturalNews Are you a parent? Here’s a simple question to ask yourself: if your youngster receives a bump on the head, would you rather keep an eye on your child for 4 to 6 hours to make sure he or she suffered no serious trauma — or would you prefer that doctors [...]

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NC school district to give away iPod, laptop to children who participate in vaccination contest

By   /  May 9, 2011  /  Health  /  No Comments

Ethan A. Huff NaturalNews The Chapel Hill – Carrboro City School (CHCCS) district in North Carolina has launched a shocking new vaccination contest that offers prize incentives to students who get vaccinated. According to the CHCCS district website, for each vaccine a student receives, he or she will also receive an entry into a drawing [...]

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Kepler May Uncover Numerous Ring Worlds (w/Video)

By   /  May 9, 2011  /  Science & Technology  /  1 Comment

Discovery News In Star Wars Episode II “Attack of the Clones,”  a deadly cat-and-mouse chase between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Boba Fett takes place in a rocky ring encircling the desert planet Geonosis. We don’t have such a planet in our solar system, but rings made of rock or silicates might be common in the Milky [...]

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The universe’s very first black holes might be even older than the Big Bang itself

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io9 Some black holes may be so ancient that they predate the stars themselves, forming instead in the chaotic first moments after the Big Bang. There might even be some black holes out there from the universe before the Big Bang. This is one of those stories with a ton of “ifs” and some fairly [...]

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EU nuclear safety sweep accused of soft-pedalling

By   /  May 9, 2011  /  Environment, Politics  /  No Comments

Nuclear Power Daily Europe on Wednesday will draw up stress-test parameters for a safety sweep of its nuclear power reactors, promised after Japan’s Fukushima No.1 disaster, but already the focus of bitter disputes. For experts stand accused of turning a blind eye to the risk of terror attacks or aircraft accidents — and of being [...]

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Reptile ‘cousins’ shed new light on end-Permian extinction

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Terra Daily The end-Permian extinction, by far the most dramatic biological crisis to affect life on Earth, may not have been as catastrophic for some creatures as previously thought, according to a new study led by the University of Bristol. An international team of researchers studied the parareptiles, a diverse group of bizarre-looking terrestrial vertebrates [...]

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Nato units left 61 African migrants to die of hunger and thirst

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Guardian Boat trying to reach Lampedusa was left to drift in Mediterranean for 16 days, despite alarm being raised. Refugees from Libya reach Lampedusa. A Nato ship failed to rescue a boat in trouble – leaving 61 people on board to die. Dozens of African migrants were left to die in the Mediterranean after a [...]

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Bin Laden dead long before US raid

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Press TV Iran’s intelligence minister says the country has reliable information that former head of the al-Qaeda terrorist group Osama bin Laden died of disease some time ago.  Iran’s Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi “We have accurate information that bin Laden died of illness some time ago,” Heidar Moslehi told reporters on the sidelines of a [...]

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