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Italian Town Prints Its Own Currency to Fight Austerity Measures

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Time If you’re a small-town mayor unhappy with your national government, there’s one thing you can do: declare independence and start issuing currency with your face on it. Just ask the mayor (or should we say, prince?) of Filettino, Italy. Italy is right in the middle of the larger sovereign debt crisis going on in [...]

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Chinese Warship Confronts Indian Navy Vessel In The South China Sea

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Business Insider via StratRisks An unnamed Chinese warship allegedly challenged an Indian navy vessel as it left a Vietnam port on July 22. According to the Financial Times, the Chinese craft insisted the Indian amphibious assault vehicle, the INS Airavat explain its presence in Chinese waters. Indian officials claim the ship was 45 miles off the [...]

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Chinese Scientists Plan to Pull an Asteroid into Orbit Around Earth

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Clay Dillow Popsci Last week Chinese scientists wanted to divert an asteroid away from Earth. This week, they want to pull one into orbit around the Earth. What’s possible objections could anyone have to this idea? The notion stems from a phenomenon the researchers from Tsinghua University in Beijing noticed from time to time with [...]

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WikiLeaks cable: U.S. troops handcuffed, shot Iraqi children in raid

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David Ferguson The Raw Story According to a diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks, U.S. troops massacred an Iraqi family in the town of Ishaqi in 2006, handcuffing and then shooting 11 people in the head including a woman in her 70′s and five children ages five and under. McClatchy is reporting that the soldiers then [...]

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New evidence of a massive oil slick near Deepwater Horizon site

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David Edwards The Raw Story A California nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of wildlife has discovered what seems to be a massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico near the area of the original Deepwater Horizon spill. In a flight over the Gulf Tuesday, OnWingsOfCare.org founder and pilot Dr. Bonny Schumaker [...]

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Tomb found at Stonehenge quarry site

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PressTV Archeologists say they might have discovered the tomb of the original builders of Stonehenge during excavations at the Carn Menyn site in Wales. The site in the Preseli Hills is where the bluestones used to construct the first stone phase of the world-famous Stonehenge were quarried in 2300BCE, the state-funded BBC reported. Archeologists are [...]

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Gaddafi: We will be victorious

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PressTV Fugitive Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, in a new audio message, has called on his loyalists to rebel against colonizers, saying they will be ‘victorious.’ In a message, broadcast on TV channels on Thursday, Gaddafi urged Tripoli citizens to rebel against foreign forces. He said that all the tribes loyal to him are fully armed [...]

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Appeals Court Rules It Is Not Illegal To Film Police

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Paul Joseph Watson Infowars Despite the mass hoax still being promulgated by both the mainstream media and local authorities across America, the First Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that it is not illegal for citizens to videotape police officers when they are on public duty. “The filming of government officials while on duty is [...]

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Ron Paul: CIA Chooses Dictators Around the World

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Paul Joseph Watson Infowars Speaking about his contention that the CIA had orchestrated a “coup” in America against the government, Congressman Ron Paul told the Alex Jones Show that the Agency was also behind the choosing of dictators around the world. “For the CIA to really be running the show….the CIA is involved in war, [...]

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Skeptical on Syria: ‘Media reports framed & manipulated’

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Russia Today A London-based human rights group claims around five hundred people have been killed in Syria during Ramadan, the majority of them, civilians. Another group of activists released a report, suggesting dozens of people, including children, have been tortured to death behind bars for taking part in the anti-regime uprising. James Corbett, who’s an [...]

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Scare tactics begin: UN warns of Asian bird flu resurgence

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Ethan A. Huff Natural News Autumn is upon us, which means flu season and all of its corresponding scare campaigns are once again starting to propagate in full force. New reports from the Associated Press (AP) claim that the H5N1 avian flu virus, which afflicted 63 countries during its peak spread in 2006, is once [...]

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Space Agencies Set Roadmap for Manned Mars Mission

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Space.com Representatives of 10 space agencies from around the world met in Japan Tuesday (Aug. 30) to advance plans for getting humanity to Mars by the mid-2030s. The space agencies have been working together for the past year as part of the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG), with the goal of developing a long-range [...]

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