Is This Humble Plant Capable of Alleviating Most Human Suffering?
Sayer Ji Activist Post Ancient Indians believed that turmeric contained the energy of the Divine Mother. Modern science now confirms that it has therapeutic properties relevant to well over 500 health conditions and may bestow on those who take it protection from many common causes of suffering. The author has personally reviewed the majority of [...]
Read More →Canada Mulls Looser Policy For GMO Food Imports
Omid Ghoreishi The Epoch Times A Canadian government proposal that would allow in low levels of contamination from genetically modified foods from other countries is raising concerns among activist groups. The proposed policy on “low-level presence” (LLP) relates to the unintended presence in low amounts of unapproved genetically modified (GM) material in imported food. “We [...]
Read More →Russia successfully test fires Bulava missiles
NewKerala Russia successfully test launched two intercontinental ballistic missiles Friday, defence officials said Friday. The Bulava missiles were launched from the Borey-class Yury Dolgoruky nuclear-powered submarine in the White Sea and hit designated targets at the Kura test range on Kamchatka, some 6,000 km to the east, said Defence Ministry spokesman colonel Igor Konashenkov. This [...]
Read More →Evidence suggests China already hacking into U.S. drone fleet networks
Robert Johnson BusinessInsider A rash of new clues surrounding the Sykipot computer virus having its way with the U.S. drone fleet suggests the malware originated in China, and explains how it has been used. Mathew J. Schwartz of Information Week reports the virus appears to have been designed with the sole purpose of stealing UAV data [...]
Read More →Syria fires new Russian missiles in exercise as ‘warning to Turkey and NATO’
WorldNewsTribune The regime of President Bashar Assad has displayed its new Russian-origin weapons during a military exercise. Western diplomats said Assad’s military fired new missiles and other weapons acquired from Moscow in late 2011 during an exercise that took place on Dec. 20. They said the new weapons included the P-800 Yakhont cruise missile, which arrived in [...]
Read More →Malaria-immune mosquitoes could compete in the wild
Kate Taylor TG Daily Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute have for the first time managed to engineer the mosquito immune system to block the transmission of malaria. “The immune system of the Anopheles mosquito is capable of killing a large proportion — but not all — of the disease-causing parasites that are [...]
Read More →The Champion of Painkillers
by Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber ProPublica A version of this story ran in the Washington Post. The news about narcotic painkillers is increasingly dire: Overdoses now kill nearly 15,000 people a year – more than heroin and cocaine combined. In some states, the painkiller death toll exceeds that of car crashes. The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has [...]
Read More →S&P Will Give Europe Some Nightmares Over The Holidays
BusinessInsider Last month, S&P sent out a big warning that all the countries in Europe were at risk of a downgrade due to the crisis, and their inability to get a grip on it. Since then everyone’s just been waiting. According to Reuters the announcements will come sometime in January. Said one source: ”In conversations we have had, [...]
Read More →Suicide bombers target security services in Damascus
Al Arabiya Suicide bombers blew up vehicles at two security service bases in the Syrian capital on Friday, state television reported, pointing the finger at al-Qaeda. “Two attacks carried out by suicide bombers in vehicles packed with explosives targeted bases of State Security and another branch of the security services,” the television said after AFP [...]
Read More →Iran starts building a nuclear weapon: US and Israel tighten cooperation
DEBKAfile Iran has embarked on “activities related to possible weaponization,” said American sources Thursday, Dec. 22, thereby accounting for the dramatic reversal of the Obama administration’s wait-and-see attitude on attacking Iran. The change was articulated this week by US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint US Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey. DEBKAfile’s Washington sources [...]
Read More →Iran to Stage Naval Wargames Saturday
FarsNews Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said at a press conference on Thursday that the naval maneuvers dubbed Velayat 90 will start on Saturday and will cover an area stretching from the east of the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Aden. According to Sayyari, this is the [...]
Read More →Pakistan rejects probe of NATO attacks
PressTV Pakistan’s military has rejected a US investigation concluding that mistakes on both sides led to the deadly NATO airstrikes which killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers late last month. “Pakistan’s army does not agree with the findings of the US/NATO inquiry as being reported in the media. The inquiry report is short on facts,” the [...]
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