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Mount Etna Erupts For Fifteenth Time This Year

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Irish Weather Online The Mount Etna volcano in Sicily, Italy, erupted for the fifteenth time this year late on Wednesday. Throughout 2011, activity at Sicily’s Mount Etna has been characterised by paroxysms: short, violent bursts of activity. Each event has included volcanic tremors, ash emissions, and lava flows centered around the New Southeast Crater, just [...]

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‘Magic Mushroom’ Drug May Improve Personality Long Term

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MedPage Today Many individuals who took a single dose of psilocybin — the active ingredient in what the drug culture calls “magic mushrooms” — showed alterations in personality characteristics, largely for the better, that persisted for more than a year, a prospective scientific study showed. Participants who reported “mystical experiences” during the hallucinogen sessions tended [...]

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Could cyber attackers cut off the power grid? The US says new ‘connected’ equipment is at risk – and ‘there have been intrusions’

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Daily Mail Utilities such as water supplies and the power grid face a rising number of cyber break-ins by attackers using sophisticated attacks. Acting DHS Deputy Undersecretary Greg Schaffer said that industries are increasingly vulnerable to hackers and foreign agents due to ‘connected’ equipment – and ‘there have been intrusions.’ Earlier this month, security researchers [...]

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‘NATO destabilizing situation on Kosovo border’

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Russia Today With NATO and KFOR troops bulldozing a barricade built by ethnic Serbs in Kosovo on the border with Serbia, says political analyst Aleksandar Pavic, the military alliance has gone from a peacekeeping force to a party to the conflict. “NATO is now definitely acting as an occupying force,” argued the Belgrade-based political analyst. [...]

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Police Device Used To Steal Your Cell Phone Data During Traffic Stop

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AOL You may have heard about the Cellebrite cell phone extraction device (UFED) in the news lately. It gives law enforcement officials the ability to access all the information on your cell phone within a few short minutes. When it became known that Michigan State Police had been using the tool to access cell phones [...]

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Obama: $3.4 Billion for ‘Smart’ Power Grid

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Washington times President Obama on Tuesday announced a $3.4 billion federal investment to modernize the country’s outdated power grid. The money will go to 100 projects in 49 states to add automated substations, digital transformers, electric meters in homes and other high-tech equipment to create a “smart” grid. “We’re going to create an energy superhighway,” [...]

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A new democratic revolution is sweeping northern Europe – Nigel Farage

By   /  September 30, 2011  /  Politics, World  /  1 Comment

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europarl European Parliament, Strasbourg – 28 September 2011 Speaker: Nigel Farage MEP, UKIP, Co-President of the EFD Group in the European Parliament (Europe of Freedom and Democracy) Debate: State of the Union address by the President of the Commission, José Manuel Barroso Speech Transcript: Mr Barroso, You told us this morning that the European Union [...]

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Fmr. Clinton Adviser: ‘Very Possible’ Obama Will Bow Out of Presidential Race – For Now

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Grant M. Dahl CNS News In an interview with conservative radio icon Sean Hannity, former President Clinton adviser and campaign manager Dick Morris stated that, after speaking with a Democratic strategist, he thinks it is “very possible” that President Obama might acquiesce to requests from the Democratic leadership in Congress and bow out of the [...]

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FBI Plot to Blow Up Pentagon and Capitol with Model Planes

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Kurt Nimmo Infowars The homegrown terror narrative took a bizarre turn this week when the government arrested an American on charges he planned to blow up the Pentagon and the U.S. capitol with a model airplane. Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen from Ashland, Massachusetts, was duped into thinking a harmless substance provided by the FBI [...]

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The Myth of American Freedom

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Andrew P. Napolitano LewRockwell.com Click Image Here is Judge Napolitano’s closing argument yesterday on his FreedomWatch. What if the Constitution were written not to limit government, but to expand it? What if the Constitution didn’t fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence, but betrayed it? What if the Constitution actually permitted the government to [...]

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Listeria does not grow on cantaloupes: Why the ‘deadliest food outbreak’ of the decade is yet another food scare campaign

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Ethan A. Huff Natural news Disease outbreaks associated with the US food supply have become an all-too-common occurrence these days, with at least six major outbreaks having been reported just this year alone. And with the most recent listeria outbreak affecting Colorado-sourced cantaloupes, where at least 13 people have died and 70 others have been [...]

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Has Bill Gates come up with a safe, clean way to harness nuclear power?

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Independent.co.uk Move over Monty Burns, Bill Gates is coming. Not content with creating the software empire that we all love to hate today, the Microsoft billionaire is intent on turning the seemingly Simpsons-esque world of the established nuclear industry upside down as well, and in so doing, like any revolutionary, earning the enmity of those [...]

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