This Exercise Can Cause a 7-Fold Surge of Heart Problems
Dr. Mercola mercola Do you dread going to the gym for what feels like hours at a stretch? Or do you avoid working out altogether because you just don’t have the time? Then what I’m about to tell you should be music to your ears: sometimes when it comes to exercise, less is more. It’s [...]
Read More →Senior Israeli officer cancels visit to UK fearing arrest
Middle East Monitor Major-General Doron Almog stands accused of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip during Operation Cast Lead in 2008/9. A senior Israeli officer has cancelled a planned visit to Britain fearing arrest for alleged war crimes. Major-General Doron Almog is the ex-commanding officer of the Israel Defence Forces Southern Command. He was [...]
Read More →Meet the Corporate Front Groups Fighting to Make Sure You Can’t Know What’s in Your Food
By Alexis Baden-Mayer and Ronnie Cummins Alternet Here’s a partial lineup of hired guns and organizations behind the anti-labeling advertising blitz soon to hit the California airwaves. What do a former mouthpiece for tobacco and big oil, a corporate-interest PR flack, and the regional director of a Monsanto-funded tort reform group have in common? They’re [...]
Read More →21 Topics That Will Put You on the DHS Naughty List
Daisy Luther Inalienably Yours If you’re trying to stay off the HOMELAND SECURITY watch list, there are a few topics that you should stay away from in your internet conversations with others. Sure there’s a list of 377 words on the “naughty list” but who can remember 377 words? For your personal safety, I’ve compiled [...]
Read More →US Soldiers Could Go Reptilian with New Camo
Military.com This month, soldiers will begin testing a camouflage pattern that looks more like reptile scales than terrain as part of the field-trial portion of the Army’s camouflage improvement effort. The start of the field evaluation comes five months after Army uniform officials announced the finalists that had emerged from the service’s exhaustive Phase IV [...]
Read More →Armed groups raped, killed women in Houla: Witness
PressTV A witness to the May 25 carnage in the western Syrian town of Houla says armed groups raped women before killing them, a recent report has revealed. “They (armed groups) burned houses and killed people by the families because they were loyal to the (Syrian) government. [They] raped the women and killed the children,” [...]
Read More →Brussels burqa arrest sparks unrest
VOR The Muslim-populated neighbourhoods of Brussels have seen unrest after police detained a 23-year-old Belgian convert to Islam for wearing a burqa, an Islamic women’s garment which is outlawed in Belgium. Officers made 11 arrests after a crowd of some 200 people besieged the police station where she was kept. All 12, including the woman, [...]
Read More →Electric moon jolts the solar wind
eScience With the moon as the most prominent object in the night sky and a major source of an invisible pull that creates ocean tides, many ancient cultures thought it could also affect our health or state of mind — the word “lunacy” has its origin in this belief. Now, a powerful combination of spacecraft [...]
Read More →Man may have served own body part as food at event in Tokyo
TheMainichi A man may have served a part of his body to be eaten at an event he held in Tokyo’s Suginami Ward in May, it has been learned. Ward officials are investigating the incident over a suspected violation of the Food Sanitation Law. The company managing the facility where the event was held described [...]
Read More →‘Human barcode’ could make society more organized, but invades privacy, civil liberties
Meghan Neal NY Daily Would you barcode your baby? Microchip implants have become standard practice for our pets, but have been a tougher sell when it comes to the idea of putting them in people. Science fiction author Elizabeth Moon last week rekindled the debate on whether it’s a good idea to “barcode” infants at [...]
Read More →China arrests security official on suspicion of spying for US
ANI A security ministry official in China has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the US and passing on state secrets, Hong Kong media reports said. The official, who was working as the private secretary for a vice-minister in the security ministry, was arrested earlier this year, the BBC reports. If charges of spying [...]
Read More →Shameless: Florida’s Tea Party Governor Trying to Strip Voting Rights from Thousands
Steven Rosenfeld Alternet Even local Republican election officials don’t believe the voter fraud claims. How low is Florida’s Tea Party Republican governor Rick Scott willing to go to disrupt the right to vote in 2012—particularly for the GOP’s perceived political opponents? Progressive voting rights groups and even county election supervisors from Scott’s own party are [...]
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