Hormuz Strait closure bill backed by more than half of Iranian MPs
RT Just over half of Iran’s parliament has backed a draft law to block the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to close the Gulf to oil tankers in retaliation against European sanctions. Lawmaker Javad Karimi Qodoosi, who drafted the document, said 150 of parliament’s 290 members had signed the bill, describing the strait as “the world’s [...]
Read More →US Building Secret Missile Defense Site in Qatar
Al Manar US is building a missile defense radar station at a secret site in Qatar, and organizing its biggest-ever minesweeping exercises in the Persian Gulf, Wall Street Journal quoted US officials as saying on Tuesday. The report said that construction was due to be completed this month. The radar site is part of a [...]
Read More →Tiny ‘Firefly’ Satellite Will Study Lightning and Thunderstorms
National Science Foundation The Epoch Times Imagine a fully-instrumented satellite the size of a half-gallon milk carton. Then imagine that milk carton whirling in space, catching never-before-seen glimpses of processes thought to be linked to lightning. The little satellite that could is a CubeSat called Firefly, and it’s on a countdown to launch next year. [...]
Read More →NZ Scientists Raise Alert on Central North Island Volcano
CRI New Zealand scientists have raised their alert status on a large volcano in the center of the North Island after it was shaken by a series of small earthquakes. The government’s GeoNet seismic monitoring agency Friday raised its six-level volcanic alert around Mount Tongariro from Level 0 to Level 1, meaning the volcano has [...]
Read More →North Korean military leader may have been killed in gun battle
Mario A. | Setyoufree News It seems that illness was not the real reason of sudden replacement of N.Korea´s army chief Ri Yong-ho. Supposedly a removed army chief didn´t want to go quietly and based on The Chonsun report it came to a conflict between him and Vice Marshal Choe Ryong-hae. A gunbattle broke out when the North [...]
Read More →Russia says Assad ready to step down in ‘civilized manner,’ Syria denies
Al Arabiya Russian ambassador to France Aleksandr Orlov has said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is ready to step down but ‘in civilized manner,’ but the claims were dismissed by the Syrian state television as “baseless.” The Russian diplomat said that during a meeting in Geneva by the Syria Action Group on June 30, a [...]
Read More →Radiation dosage website abandoned due to opposition from Fukushima Pref.
TheMainichi The National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) developed a radiation dosage website for Fukushima Prefecture residents following the March 2011 nuclear accident but was forced to drop it due to opposition from the prefectural government, which warned the website would stir up fears, the Mainichi Shimbun has learned. Experts have expressed concern about the [...]
Read More →Russia starts building moon spaceship
NewKerala Aiming to create the first base on the surface of the moon, Russia has started building a spacecraft for manned lunar missions with the first test scheduled for 2015, the project developer said. “Work has already started. The unmanned tests are scheduled in 2015, the first manned mission is planned in 2018,” Xinhua quoted [...]
Read More →ATF Boss Threatens Whistleblowers
Infowars On July 9, 2012, ATF Acting Director Todd Jones told potential whistleblowers they will face “consequences” if they don’t “respect the chain of command” and ask permission to release information damaging to the agency. “Choices and consequences means simply that if you make poor choices, that if you don’t abide by the rules, that [...]
Read More →Woman Pulls Gun To Prevent Smart Meter Installation
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars Homeowners reject unconstitutional intrusion A Harris County woman pulled a gun on a CenterPoint Energy worker to prevent the installation of a smart meter in a confrontation that highlights concerns about the devices being used to spy on Americans’ energy use, as well as possible health impacts. 55-year-old Thelma Taormina has [...]
Read More →Russian research project offers ‘immortality’ to billionaires
Rob Waugh Mail Online Russian research project offers ‘immortality’ to billionaires – by transplanting their brains into robot bodies A Russian entrepreneur who heads a hi-tech research project called ‘Avatar’ has contacted billionaires to offer them immortality. Itskov claims he will personally oversee their immortality process, in exchange for an undisclosed fee. Itskov, a media [...]
Read More →Minnesota Town Bans Signs in Yards Unless They’re Pro-War
David Swanson War Is A Crime At a festival called Peacestock in Wisconsin last weekend, I met a woman who lives in Little Falls, Minnesota. That city had forced her to take down signs in her own yard, signs that said “Occupy Wall Street,” “Back the 99 Percent” and “Boycott Monsanto.” But Robin Hensel noticed [...]
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