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What triggers a mass extinction?

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ScienceCodex The second-largest mass extinction in Earth’s history coincided with a short but intense ice age during which enormous glaciers grew and sea levels dropped. Although it has long been agreed that the so-called Late Ordovician mass extinction—which occurred about 450 million years ago—was related to climate change, exactly how the climate change produced the [...]

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From the ‘X-Files’ Dept: NASA’s Alien Contact Scenario

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DailyGalaxy Extraterrestrial beings monitoring Earth  might  view changes in our atmosphere as symptomatic of  a self-destructing civilization and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, according to a highly speculative scenario developed last year by scientists at NASA and Penn State University. Shawn Domagal-Goldman of NASA’s Planetary Science Division and [...]

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Iran halts Spain oil export, mulls supply cut to Germany, Italy

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PressTV Tehran has cut oil supply to Spain after halting crude export to Greece as part of its countersanctions against the European Union (EU), mulling oil supply cuts to Germany and Italy now, Press TV reports. Informed sources who asked not to be named, confirmed on Tuesday that the measure is part of Iran’s countersanctions [...]

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Santorum suspends presidential campaign

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RT Rick Santorum, the one-time Republican Party frontrunner in the 2012 presidential election, has officially suspended his campaign. Santorum addressed a crowd Tuesday afternoon from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he formally announced that he would be retiring his quest to seek the GOP’s nomination this election year. He had announced that he would be seeking the [...]

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Iran To Shut Down Internet Permanently; ‘Clean’ National Intranet In Pipeline

By   /  April 10, 2012  /  Police State, World  /  5 Comments

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IBT Millions of Internet users in Iran will be permanently denied access to the World Wide Web and cut off from popular social networking sites and email services, as the government has announced its plans to establish a national Intranet within five months. In a statement released Thursday, Reza Taghipour, the Iranian minister for Information [...]

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US send aircrafts to Gulf before resumption over Tehran’s nuke programme talks

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ANI The United States has reportedly sent Iran a message of intent by despatching two aircraft carriers to the Gulf region. The move came just days before the resumption of negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear programme. According to the Telegraph, in an apparent gesture of reconciliation, Iran has offered to resume talks with the international community [...]

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Le Pen hits out at investment bank Goldman Sachs

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Marine Le Pen, France's National Front head and far right candidate for 2012 French presidential election, delivers a speech during a campaign rally in Lyon

JN1 In an apparent bid to boost her flagging opinion poll ratings ahead of France’s presidential elections, Marine Le Pen has slammed investment bank Goldman Sachs for ‘toppling governments’. Portraying the bank as all-powerful, the far-right leader says that it places its men at the top of euro zone countries. Le Pen has also hit [...]

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Iran says arrests “major terrorist group” linked to Israel

By   /  April 10, 2012  /  Conflict, World  /  1 Comment

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DailyStar Iran said on Tuesday it had identified a “major terrorist group” it said was affiliated to its arch-foe Israel and had arrested some of its members, the official IRNA news agency reported, citing a report by the country’s Intelligence Ministry. “Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced it has identified a major terrorist group from the Zionist [...]

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Belgian far-right emulates the Dutch xenophobic website

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EurActiv Vlaams Belang, a Belgian far-right party, launched a website today (10 April) that invites people to report crimes committed by illegal immigrants, mirroring a similar site in the Netherlands set up by the far-right Freedom Party. The website meldpuntillegaliteit.be created by Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) invites people to file anonymous tips about social security fraud, work [...]

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Treehuggers and Eco-Fascists Join Hands: Global Government Or The World Will End

By   /  April 10, 2012  /  Environment, World  /  No Comments

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Jurriaan Maessen Infowars Recently an international network of Green parties united in the so-called “Global Greens” have stated that global government should be formed sooner rather than later or else the world will be doomed. The core of the network’s activities are to promote “core values” such as “ecological wisdom”. Now the organization has added [...]

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CISPA: Congress Takes Another Run at the Internet

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By Daisy Luther Inalienably Yours Once upon a time there was a bill called SOPA.  Some evil trolls who worked and conducted meetings in a big domed building in Washington DC tried to make a wicked law to allow them to close people’s internet-based businesses and websites whenever they wanted, for the silliest of reasons, much to [...]

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