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‘End of the world as we know it’: Kaspersky warns of cyber-terror apocalypse

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Russia Today After his eponymously-named lab discovered Flame, “the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet unleashed,” Eugene Kaspersky believes that the evolving threat of “cyber terrorism” could spell the end of life on Earth as we know it. ­Doomsday scenarios are a common occurrence in 2012, but coming from a steely-eyed realist like Eugene Kaspersky, his [...]

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Last month’s solar flare created a mysterious pulse on Earth that seemed to ‘answer’ sun’s blast

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Rob Waugh Mail Online After an unusually long quiet period, the sun unleashed a solar flare on May 17 this year – but scientists are now puzzling over what happened on Earth. Neutron monitors all round the world lit up in response to the blast for the first time in six years, despite the fact [...]

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Zombie Cannibals: Altering the Food Chain

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Daisy Luther Inalienably Yours What’s for dinner?  It might be you. Welcome to the Zombie Cannibal Apocalypse.  North America has become a cannibalistic free-for-all, and frighteningly, all the would-be Hannibal Lectors are not drug fiends indulging in a little bit of hallucinogenic psychosis. Biting a chunk out of someone seems to be the new throat-punch [...]

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New surveillance cameras will use computer eyes to find ‘pre crimes’

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DailyMail A new generation of computerised ‘Big Brother’ cameras are able to spot if you are a terrorist or a criminal – before you even commit a crime. The devices are installed in places like train stations or public buildings where they scan passers by to see if they are acting suspiciously. Using a range [...]

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EU to introduce internal border control in Schengen zone

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VOR The European Union countries have agreed on the possible introduction of internal border control in the Schengen zone in case of an uncontrolled influx of migrants in the EU. Quoting a European source ITAR-TASS said such a decision had been unanimously adopted at an EU meeting on the interior ministers’ level in Luxemburg. According [...]

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Latin America, Caribbean Projected Climate Damage $100 Billion Yearly

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Argentina's Viedma Glacier is melting at the southern tip

ENS Latin America and the Caribbean face damages of $100 billion every year by 2050 if the global temperature rises just two degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels, finds a new report to be released at the United Nations Rio+20 summit on sustainable development later this month. The two degree Celsius rise is often cited by [...]

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New Tokyo park ‘built from tsunami debris’ proposed

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Danielle Demetriou TheTelegraph A new Tokyo park built from millions of tonnes of debris generated by last year’s earthquake and tsunami disaster has been proposed. The new park would involve filling in a segment of Tokyo Bay with up to 2.5 million cubic metres of tsunami debris to create a large forested space spanning 67 [...]

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More education needed on asteroid threats

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Stuart Gary ABC A report being presented this week to the United Nations suggests politicians, emergency services and the public need to be better educated about the threats posed to Earth by asteroids. The Near Earth Object Media/Risk Communications Working Group report says governments don’t understand the threats or responses needed to deal with an impact event. [...]

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Depopulation by Food while making Profit

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Shenali Waduge AsianTribune Two goals have been set into motion. A group of people feel the only way to bring back balance to the world is if there were fewer people. Thus, they envisage the need to depopulate the world and conclude that the best way to do that is by poisoning the food we [...]

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N.Korean Fighter Jet Sorties Close to S.Korean Border

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Chosun A North Korean SU-25 fighter jet flew unusually close to Seoul on Tuesday when it hovered over the border city of Kaesong. A military source here said the fighter jet crossed over the so-called tactical action line and flew over Kaesong for several minutes before returning. The TAL is an arbitrary line the South [...]

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Japanese Former Diplomat: Fukushima Reactor No.4 Global Security Issue

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PanOrient News The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Number 4 reactor presents a security problem for the entire world, Mitsuhei Murata, Japan’s former ambassador to Switzerland said. Fukushima Daiichi plants are “not under control at all… and the situation with nuclear reactors in Japan is like vehicles being driven without a license,” Mr. Murata told a [...]

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24 Hours For Spain To Break The Euro

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Forbes Spain has put itself on a collision course with Europe’s paymasters, creating a situation that threatens the Euro more than Greece’s debts do. The reasons might not be entirely obvious but, in essence, Spain is telling Europe: humiliate us and the Euro party is well and truly over. Here’s the logic, and emotion, of [...]

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