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Arctic sea ice melt ‘may bring harsh winter to Europe’

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Arctic sea ice : Winter weather : Roads around Newcastle were blocked by deep snow

By Stephen Leahy | The Guardian The record loss of Arctic sea ice this summer may mean a cold winter for the UK and northern Europe. The region has been prone to bad winters after summers with very low sea ice, such as 2011 and 2007, said Jennifer Francis, a researcher at Rutgers University. “We can’t [...]

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Algerian mediator Brahimi warns that Syria conflict could pose global threat

By   /  September 16, 2012  /  Conflict, World  /  1 Comment

Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi

ANI | NewKerala The escalating conflict in Syria has the potential of posing a global threat in the not to distant future, claimed international mediator and Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi after talks with President Bashar-al- Assad here. With the death toll in Syria estimated to be more than 27 000 in the last 18 months, [...]

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Remote-controlled cockroaches to find earthquake victims

By   /  September 16, 2012  /  Science & Technology  /  No Comments

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By Tuan C. Nguyen | Smart Planet The sight of a cockroach doesn’t exactly give people the warm fuzzies. But with their uncanny ability to crawl through tiny cracks, up walls or even upside-down, they could be a big help in locating survivors trapped beneath the rubble in the aftermath of a disaster such as an [...]

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The ugly face of American democracy

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The ugly face of American democracy

By Valentin Zorin | VOR The US has been swept by startling news. The country’s police and security officials have announced that they have unraveled an assassination conspiracy against President Obama. Unlike the March 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, which was committed by a mentally ill assassin, this time law enforcement agencies have thwarted a [...]

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Japan: Disaster alert system fails test / Nearly 250 local govts have trouble receiving ‘emergency reports’

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Crisis management officials

Daily Yomiuri Nearly 250 municipal governments had trouble receiving reports through the J-Alert warning system–a nationwide system for quickly sending information on natural disasters, military attacks and other emergencies–during a drill conducted by the central government last week, The Yomiuri Shimbun has found. Wednesday was the first nationwide test involving all 1,725 municipal governments where [...]

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Spain public debt exceeds €800 billion

By   /  September 16, 2012  /  Economy, Europe  /  No Comments

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Tumbit Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said yesterday how the government would make “important announcements in the next few days” in the area of structural reforms. He also insisted that Europe would not make fresh demands on Spain in exchange for a bailout other than those to which the country has committed itself to [...]

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US, West will burn in fire of Muslims’ wrath: Larijani

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Ali Larijani

PressTV Iran’s Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has denounced the US-made anti-Islam movie that insults Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), warning that the US and the West will burn in the fire of the Muslims’ wrath if they fail to act properly regarding the film. “The West and the US should know that they will burn in the [...]

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Thousands Protest at Japanese Embassy in Beijing

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Beijing Japanese embassy protest

Al Manar Angry demonstrators attempted to storm the Japanese embassy in Beijing Saturday, state media said, as tens of thousands of people across China protested against Japan over a growing territorial dispute. Riot police armed with batons and shields struggled to contain the swelling crowd outside the embassy, where witnesses said at least 2,000 people [...]

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Meet the new breed of Israeli female spies who flirt their way into enemy secrets

By   /  September 16, 2012  /  In Other News  /  No Comments

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ANI Israel’s fearsome secret service has developed a new breed of super-spy – seductive young women who flirt their way into deciphering enemy secrets. And the highly trained agents say that “any means is valid” when it comes to deploying their feminine wiles – though they would draw the line at sleeping with the enemy. The [...]

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Have We Forgotten The Humanitarian Articles Of The Geneva Convention?

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Donna Anderson | Infowars It would be naïve to assume that no country has ever violated the Geneva Convention and it would be suicidal to think that war-time behaviors will change anytime in the near future. But evidence indicates, and witness testimony proves, that the US government is intentionally targeting civilians in Pakistan, including women [...]

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Salafism+CIA: The winning formula to destabilize Russia, the Middle East

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Salafism+CIA

by F. William Engdahl The assassination of the most respected Sufi religious leader in Dagestan, Russia’s volatile Caucasus, comes as Salafist jihadists in Libya murder a US Ambassador who was actually a key player in ousting Gaddafi and bringing the Salafist Muslim Brotherhood and Jihadists into power. Throughout the entire Islamic world today, a wave [...]

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October surprise to “Carterize” Obama

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by Webster G. Tarpley Behind the frenzy unleashed by a defamatory film on Islam, Webster Tarpley scents a machination orchestrated by a Zionist-connected network with the ultimate goal of removing Barack Obama from the White House, increasingly perceived as posing an obstacle to Israel’s unfettered grip on U.S. foreign policy. A regime change, with Netanyahu’s [...]

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