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Japan to sack top nuclear energy officials

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Terra Daily Japan will sack three top energy officials over their handling of the Fukushima atomic disaster and scandals that have fuelled public mistrust in the country’s nuclear policy, the government said Thursday. Banri Kaieda, the minister of economy, trade and industry, told a press conference that he was planning a sweeping staff changes at [...]

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GOA Chief: Super Congress ‘Will Lead Us Into Dictatorship’

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Click the image to see the videos Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Gun Owners of America chief Larry Pratt warns that the new “Super Congress” created by the debt deal will lead America into dictatorship, labeling the move a “coup d’état” by the political class aimed at transforming the entire structure of government in the [...]

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Vista telescope finds 96 star clusters obscured by Milky Way dust

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TG Daily An international team of astronomers has discovered 96 star clusters hidden by dust in the Milky Way galaxy. The new clusters were identified using data from the VISTA infrared survey telescope, which operates under the auspices of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile. “This discovery highlights the potential of VISTA for finding [...]

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Is Gibraltar an Environmental Disaster Waiting to Happen?

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Time (Bay Of Gibraltar) — On the east side, one can see the Rock of Gibraltar, a massive limestone block whose white cliffs rise up to more than 400 meters above the sea. To the west is the Spanish town of Algeciras. In between, some 30 oil tankers and ocean liners are lined up side [...]

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News Channel Misquotes 4 Year Old To Make Him Seem Violent

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CBS affiliate station in Chicago is under fire for misquoting a 4-year-old boy. The news station is accused of deliberately editing the little boys quote to make the child look like a criminal. click image to see the video

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Did Earth once have two Moons?

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io9 The two sides of the Moon look nothing like each other: the near side is flat and low, while the far side is incredibly mountainous. We may now be able to solve this topographical mystery…and it involves a second moon. The current best theory for the origin of the Moon is the “giant impact” [...]

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Strong Solar Activity

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Spaceweather For the third day in a row, active sunspot 1261 has unleashed a strong M-class solar flare. The latest blast at 0357 UT on August 4th registered M9.3 on the Richter Scale of Flares, almost crossing the threshold into X-territory (X-flares are the most powerful kind). The number of energetic protons around Earth has [...]

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UN issues statement condemning Syria’s crackdown on protesters

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Russia Today Click the image to see the video report The UN Security Council condemned the Syrian government for its intensified crackdown against anti-government protesters and for committing widespread human rights violations. All 15 members voted to adopt a presidential statement of condemnation on Wedne The condemnation of the violence in Syria was long in [...]

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Daughter chains blind and deaf elderly father to a tree under scorching sun for four days

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Russia Today A 70-year-old deaf and blind widower from central Russia has been brutally tortured by his close relatives, who literally treated the man like a dog. Weeks ahead of the incident, Mikhail lost his beloved wife who alone was taking care of her disabled husband. Distressed and depressed, the old man was walking around [...]

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