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30,000 Drones Over America – Weaponized Police State

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Bill, HR 658 30,000 Drones To Police America Since 02/10/2012 we find the corrupt US Congress has approved (and President Obama has signed) a law funding 30,000 DEVIL DRONE UNMANNED AIRCRAFT for use inside America’s boundaries at the behest of the Department of Homeland Security. Bill, HR 658, the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety [...]

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You’re The Drive: Digital Data Can Now Be Stored In DNA

By   /  May 28, 2012  /  Science & Technology, World  /  No Comments

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Carl Franzen TPMIdeaLab Forget saving files to flash drives and cloud servers. Now, digital information can be stored in the DNA of living organisms, thanks to a breakthrough discovery by researchers at Stanford University in California. A trio of scientists successfully demonstrated the ability to flip the direction of DNA molecules in sample E.coli bacteria [...]

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Forecasting Solar Storms

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Forecasting Solar storms

EQReporter U-M Professor Tamas Gombosi discusses the impact of solar flares on satellite functions and US infrastructure, and the work of U-M researchers in forecasting solar storms to aid in preventative measures. According to Gombosi, we are heading into Solar Maximum — the period of greatest solar activity that happens once every 11 years. During [...]

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Computer program can read human expressions better than humans can

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Computer program can read human expressions

io9 Can you tell the difference between a genuine smile and one masking frustration? We aren’t always conscious of the expressions we make in certain situations, which puts us at a disadvantage to computer programs that understand our facial expressions better than we do. Ehsan Hoque, a graduate student in MIT’s Affective Computing Group, led [...]

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Vatican leakers say cardinals among plotters in scandal

By   /  May 28, 2012  /  Conspiracy, World  /  No Comments

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YahooNews The worst crisis in Pope Benedict’s pontificate deepened on Monday when Italian media said at least one cardinal was among those suspected of leaking sensitive documents as part of a power struggle at the top of the Church. The scandal exploded last week when within a few days the pope’s butler was arrested for leaking [...]

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Argentina hit by 2 strong earthquakes

By   /  May 28, 2012  /  Environment  /  No Comments

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Mario A. Setyoufree News The region of Santiago del Estero in Argentina was hit by two strong earthquakes USGS reports. The first one with magnitude 6.7 shaked the ground at 05:07:23 UTC.     Recorded depth of the epicenter was 588 km while the second earthquake (aftershock) appeared later at 11:50:56 UTC with recorded depth [...]

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New computer virus hits Iran, West Bank in unprecedented cyberattack

By   /  May 28, 2012  /  World  /  No Comments

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Haaretz Internet security company Kaspersky Lab announced on Monday that it had uncovered a ‘cyber-espionage worm’ designed to collect and delete sensitive information, primarily in Middle Eastern countries. Kaspersky called the malware, named “Flame,” the “most sophisticated cyber-weapon yet unleashed.” It said the bug had infected computers in Iran, the West Bank, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, [...]

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Forty ancient sites discovered in Iraq

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Forty ancient sites discovered in Iraq

DailyStar Teams of Iraqi archaeologists have discovered 40 ancient sites in the country’s south from the Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian periods, an Iraqi antiquities official said on Monday. “Teams, which have been working since 2010, were able to discover 40 archaeological sites belonging to the Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian periods,” Amer al-Zaidi, the head of [...]

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Oil jumps on Iran tensions, weaker USD

By   /  May 28, 2012  /  Economy, World  /  No Comments

Oil jumps on Iran tensions, weaker USD

TheNews Oil prices rose on Monday as major crude producer Iran and Western powers failed to reach agreement over Tehran’s nuclear programme and as the dollar weakened against the euro, analysts said. New York’s main contract, West Texas Intermediate crude for delivery in July gained $1.01 to $91.87 a barrel. Brent North Sea crude for [...]

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Contaminated mushrooms from Chernobyl in Zurich, Switzerland

By   /  May 28, 2012  /  Environment  /  1 Comment

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Mario A. Setyoufree News A food testing lab in Zurich, Switzerland recently ran numerous tests on various foods from Fukushima for possible contamination. They claim they did not found no radiation-contaminated items, but they discovered a highly contaminated mashrooms from Chernobyl instead. Chemist Rolf Etter from the Suiss lab said that this discovery is even [...]

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Youth unemployment on the rise

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VOR The growth of unemployment among young people is more dangerous than any economic crisis. Such is the opinion of experts who have studied the report of the International Labor Organization, which shows that youth unemployment is currently at a record high of 12.7%. More than 70 million men and women, aged 24 or younger, [...]

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New drug destroys human cancer stem cells without affecting healthy ones

By   /  May 28, 2012  /  Health  /  1 Comment

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TopNews A study led by an Indian origin scientist has discovered a drug that successfully kills cancer stem cells in the human while avoiding the toxic side-effects of conventional cancer treatments. Unlike chemotherapy and radiation, the drug – thioridazine – appears to have no effect on normal stem cells, according to the scientists at McMaster [...]

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