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Greece Passes Austerity Plan, Stocks Climb

By   /  June 29, 2011  /  Economy  /  No Comments

Setyoufree News The Greek parliament approved a five-year austerity plan, despite the violent protests. The austerity measures were approved on Wednesday by 155 votes to 138. Lawmakers voted by a clear margin for the five-year framework of $28 billion in spending cuts, tax rises and state asset sales, Reuters reported. The passing of the bill [...]

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Tripoli bombed but steadfast

By   /  June 29, 2011  /  Conflict, Politics  /  No Comments

By Thierry Meyssan VoltaireNet  An international team of investigators from Voltaire Network is currently in Libya where it visited the bombing sites. With the support of the Libyan authorities, and not withstanding the war conditions, they were able to meet with a number of political leaders and security officials. What they witnessed is diametrically opposed [...]

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The stalemate affecting the American wagers on the turmoil

By   /  June 29, 2011  /  Politics  /  No Comments

VoltaireNet International affairs Editorial: The stalemate affecting the American wagers on the turmoil A state of confusion and disappointment is prevailing over the American and European circles in light of the emergence of signs pointing to the retreat of the turmoil witnessed in the Arab countries under the name of “revolutions”, amid the increasing exposure [...]

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“After You Brother!” Qadaffi Stays And Obama Leaves?

By   /  June 29, 2011  /  Politics  /  No Comments

By Franklin P. Lamb VoltaireNet The 6/27/11 International Criminal Courts (ICC) arrest warrants issued for Muammar Gadhafi, his son Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, and Libya intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanoussi, however pleasing to the “rebels” and NATO, probably won’t have much effect on negotiating a settlement between the two camps and certainly the warrants will not facilitate [...]

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Eurasian snowpack could be an important predictor of winter weather in US

By   /  June 29, 2011  /  Environment  /  No Comments

TerraDaily The findings have new significance for seasonal climate outlooks, which predict whether upcoming seasons will be colder or warmer, or wetter or drier than normal. Every winter, weather forecasters talk about the snow cover in the northern U.S. and into Canada as a factor in how deep the deep-freeze will be in the states. [...]

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A fuel-electric hybrid air car shall fly

By   /  June 29, 2011  /  Science & Technology  /  No Comments

TG Daily Trek Aerospace is one of those laid back Silicon Valley companies people have likely seen an invention of in action, but didn’t know it was developed by them. Trek is known in aerospace circles mostly for its shrouded propeller (“ducted fan”) technology, having developed and flown in 2001 the SoloTrek XFV, a single [...]

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Universe’s Most Distant Quasar Found, Powered by Massive Black Hole

By   /  June 29, 2011  /  Science & Technology  /  No Comments

ScienceDaily This artist’s impression shows how ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, may have looked. This quasar is the most distant yet found and is seen as it was just 770 million years after the Big Bang. This object is [...]

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New Solar Cycle Prediction

By   /  June 29, 2011  /  Science & Technology  /  No Comments

NASA Science An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots. “If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of [...]

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The true story of SV40, the cancer-causing virus hidden in polio vaccines

By   /  June 29, 2011  /  Health  /  No Comments

J. D. Heyes Natural News Poliomylitis, or polio for short, is a disease that has been around since ancient times, and despite the medical advances we have made in the United States in terms of regular and natural health, there is still no cure for this dreaded, disabling disease. An infectious viral affliction that attacks [...]

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NATO airstrike kills 8 Libyan civilians

By   /  June 29, 2011  /  In Other News  /  No Comments

PressTV A NATO warplane has targeted a market in the Libyan town of Tawragha, leaving at least eight civilians dead and several others wounded. Some of the injured are in critical condition, Xinhua reported on Wednesday, citing a local news agency. NATO carried out the airstrike on Tawragha, 300 km east of the Libyan capital, [...]

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Japan’s ‘most dangerous reactor’ severely damaged, could become worse than Fukushima

By   /  June 29, 2011  /  Environment  /  No Comments

By Jonathan Benson Natural News The Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor, located directly over an earthquake fault line near Tsuruga, Japan, lies on the opposite coast of Japan’s crippled Fukushima plant. Last August, a 3.3-ton fuel relay device broke and fell off into the reactor’s inner core, which severed access to its plutonium and uranium fuel [...]

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Green ‘stealth tax to encourage wind farms and nuclear power will hit poor the hardest’

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Daily Mail The carbon floor price, announced in the March Budget,  is intended to encourage investment in low-carbon energy  production like this wind farm A green ‘stealth’ tax to encourage new wind farms and nuclear power plants could push tens of thousands of households into fuel  poverty but do nothing to reduce emissions. The carbon [...]

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