Israel reinforces Syria frontier as bloodshed spirals
AFP | Al Arabiya Israel on Thursday ramped up security along its ceasefire line with Syria in the occupied Golan Heights as fighting between rebels and President Bashar al-Assad’s regime intensified, Israeli security sources said. With the clashes spreading across the Syrian side of the strategic plateau, Israeli troops were put on “very high” alert, [...]
Read More →Pentagon’s 30,000-pound bunker-buster ‘superbomb’ ready for use
RT The biggest conventional bomb ever developed is ready to wreak destruction upon the enemies of the US, after Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said its record-breaking bunker-buster has become operational after years of testing. “If it needed to go today, we would be ready to do that,” said Donley. “We continue to do testing on the [...]
Read More →Reverse-Engineered Irises Look So Real, They Fool Eye-Scanners
By Kim Zetter | Threat Level Remember that scene in Minority Report when the spider robots stalk Tom Cruise to his apartment and scan his iris to identify him? Things could have turned out so much better for Cruise had he been wearing a pair of contact lenses embossed with an image of someone else’s iris. New [...]
Read More →Mysterious Brain Of Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet has one of the most extraordinary brains on Earth!
Read More →British spyware used to target Bahraini activists
European Phoenix Bloomberg reported today that security researchers have identified FinFisher spyware – “one of the world’s best-known and elusive cyber weapons” – in malicious emails sent to Bahraini pro-democracy activists, including a naturalized U.S. citizen who owns gas stations in Alabama, a London-based human rights activist and a British-born economist in Bahrain. Analysis of [...]
Read More →New-found solar system looks like our own
Astronomers have discovered the first exoplanetary system to look like our own solar system, with regularly-aligned planets.
Read More →Compound likely to regenerate vision in humans
By IANS | Top News An improved version of a newly discovered chemical may enable people with degenerative blindness to see again, says a study. The approach could eventually help those with retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disease and the most commonly inherited form of blindness, as well as age-related muscular degeneration, the commonest cause of [...]
Read More →Canadian researchers discovered a 25km-wide meteorite crater
By Canadian Press | National Post Canadian researchers say they’ve discovered a 25-kilometre-wide meteorite crater in the western Arctic. University of Saskatchewan professor Brian Pratt and Keith Dewing of the Geological Survey of Canada made the discovery while exploring Victoria Island in a helicopter two years ago. At the time, they were doing map work [...]
Read More →‘Banksters’ could face criminal sanctions under EU rate fixing rules
Benjamin Fox | EUobserver Bankers caught fixing the inter-bank lending rate Libor could in future face criminal charges after the European Commission announced plans on Wednesday (25 July) to widen the scope of the ongoing legislation on Market Abuse to include rate fixing. Unveiling the proposals, which have been added to the Market Abuse legislation [...]
Read More →Antarctic ice melts into hidden ‘Grand Canyon’
RT A mile-deep rift valley that could rival the dramatic chasms of America’s Grand Canyon has been found hiding beneath the ice in West Antarctica. UK scientists behind the discovery believe it is contributing to ice loss. The steep walls of the Ferrigno Rift plunge nearly 1.5 kilometers down at its deepest point. Being about [...]
Read More →Some Fukushima workers may have been illegally recruited
AjwAsahi Subcontracted staff at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are working for as little as 30 percent of the daily rates paid by Tokyo Electric Power Co. on short-term, sometimes illegal contracts. Nine out of ten of the some 3,000 workers on the ground at Fukushima are employed by the brood of contractors and [...]
Read More →From Nomadic Tribesmen to Nazi Icons: Who Were the Aryans?
Malcolm Jack | Heritage Key The word “Aryan” has become inseparable from poisonous Nazi doctrine over the last century, in which it became a term for describing a supposed master race of non-Jewish Caucasians, usually having Nordic features. It’s ironic when you consider “Aryan” was originally a perfectly innocent ethno-linguistic term for an ancient cultural [...]
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