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“Super volcano”, global danger, lurks near Pompeii

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A dog lies on the ground in Pompeii, the famous city next to Naples which was destroyed in AD 79 by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius July 17, 2008.

Reuters | Sott.net Across the bay of Naples from Pompeii, where thousands were incinerated by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, lies a hidden “super volcano” that could kill millions in a catastrophe many times worse, scientists say. The boiling mud and sulphurous steam holes of the area west of Naples known as the Campi Flegrei or [...]

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Did a Supernova Shockwave Create Our Solar System? New Finding Says “Yes”

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Supernova Shockwave

Daily Galaxy For decades it has been thought that a shock wave from a supernova explosion triggered the formation of our Solar System. According to this theory, the shock wave also injected material from the exploding star into a cloud of dust and gas, and the newly polluted cloud collapsed to form the Sun and [...]

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Spain And Italy Are Toast Unless Germany Allows The ECB To Print Trillions Of Euros

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By Michael Snyder | BLN The financial chess game in Europe is still being played out, but in the end it is going to boil down to one very fundamental decision.  Is Germany going to allow the ECB to print up trillions of euros and use those euros to buy up the sovereign debt of troubled [...]

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Report: America’s Plan for Attack on Iran

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By Maayana Miskin | INN United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was in Israel this week to talk with Israeli leaders about Iran’s nuclear program. Now the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot is reporting that Panetta shared America’s contingency plan in case talks with Iran fail to halt its nuclear program. Panetta may have shared the plan to assuage [...]

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Syrian Army Clears Aleppo, Homs of Terrorists

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Al Manar Syrian troops have killed at least 40 insurgents in the restive city of Homs as military operations to secure the region continue. Many others were also injured in the operation in al-Hamidieh district of the city on Friday, Syrian Sham radio reported. In the meantime, three reinforcement teams are being sent to Aleppo [...]

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Chinese Authorities Cover Up Deadly Tick Bite Epidemic

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By Fang Xiao | The Epoch Times A deadly tick-borne disease has struck Xinyang City in central China’s Henan Province. The hospital is overcrowded with patients, but local authorities are trying to conceal the outbreak and death toll. Media workers have urged city authorities to disclose details of the epidemic. A tick-bitten villager named Ye [...]

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Scientists probe link between magnetic polarity reversal and mantle processes

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TerraDaily Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered that variations in the long-term reversal rate of the Earth’s magnetic field may be caused by changes in heat flow from the Earth’s core into the base of the overlying mantle. The Earth is made up of a solid inner core, surrounded by a liquid outer [...]

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Dumped Human Embryos Came From Medical Academy

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RiaN Four barrels with hundreds of human embryos, dumped in a Urals forest, belong to the Urals State Medical Academy, a local police spokesman said on Friday. Police spokesman Valery Gorelykh said it was yet unclear who was responsible for the dumping, but their actions will “constitute an administrative offense of violating medical waste disposal [...]

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Trigger-happy police and racial profiling in the US

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Police-Brutality

By John Robles | VOR There exists what many call “an epidemic of brutality” in the United States, an epidemic that seems to have diseased police departments nationwide. The case being investigated now is gross misconduct in Seattle, Washington. Although after every instance of police brutality or police murder they claim these are “isolated incidents”, that is [...]

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Palm trees once grew on Antarctica

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ANI Antarctica had a subtropical climate, suggest scientists who have pulled up proof that palm trees once grew there. Study of pollen and spores and the remains of tiny creatures have given a climatic picture of the early Eocene period, about 53 million years ago. The early Eocene was a period of atmospheric CO2 concentrations [...]

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5 Reasons Why NYU’s Expansion Plan Reeks of 1% Greed

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By Laura Gottesdiener | Alternet The expansion is a classic too-big-to-fail project — and you or your kids may be picking up the $5 billion tab. It looks like historic Greenwich Village might be getting a loud, expensive, corporate makeover—and you or your kids may pick up the billion-dollar bill. Last Wednesday, the New York [...]

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Most dangerous drug in the world can block free will, wipe memory – Was it involved in Batman shooting?

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Brugmansia x candida

Ethan A. Huff | Natural News The borrachero tree, which is marked by beautiful white and yellow blossoms that droop ever so innocuously from the plant’s slender branches, holds a secret that few people outside northern South America know about. The tree’s seeds, flowers, and pollen possess hallucinogenic chemical substances that, when inhaled or consumed, [...]

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