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Waves of anger: Japan tsunami victim aid spent on whalers, officials and fighter pilots

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A man walks past the destroyed Kadonowaki elementary school after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki

RT Ishinomaki, where 30 thousand residents lost their homes. A quarter of Japan’s tsunami relief fund has been spent on unrelated projects, including renovating a government office and subsiding whaling. The revelations have ignited outcry as more than 320,000 tsunami victims remain displaced. The expenditure was identified after the publication of an independent government-backed audit [...]

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Only Global Banks Will Benefit From A Cyber-Attack On The U.S.

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By Brandon Smith | Activist Post When it comes to national crises and man-made disasters, America as a society has a tendency towards selective blindness. If we were to truly think critically instead of reactively with hyperemotional conclusions, we might ask ourselves a few important questions. In the wake of 9/11, we did not investigate [...]

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Presidential election monitors under threat of arrest in Iowa

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RT Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz is offering election monitors with the UN an ultimatum: stay far away from the voting booths on November 6 or face the consequences. Sec. Schultz lashed out at international auditors from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe this week, insisting that any monitors from the United [...]

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Poland found explosives on wreckage of president’s plane

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Poland found explosives on wreckage of president's plane

BTA Polish forensic experts have found traces of explosives on the wreckage of the plane that crashed in Russia in 2010 and killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others, the daily Rzeczpospolita reported 30 October 2012 without citing sources. Traces of TNT and nitroglycerin were found on up to 30 seats inside the plane, the [...]

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Netanyahu Says Strike on Iran Would be Welcomed by Arabs

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Israeli PM Netanyahu

Al Manar “A military strike on Iran and neutralizing its nuclear threat would benefit the Arab states in the Middle East and ease tension throughout the region,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview published Tuesday in the French Magazine Paris Match. “Five minutes after [an attack], contrary to what the skeptics say, [...]

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Icelanders warned of major earthquake

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IceNews Authorities in Iceland have warned the country’s residents that a major earthquake may be looming. The alert came via the Icelandic Civil Protection Department just hours after substantial tremors – the biggest in two decades – were recorded 20 kms (12 miles) off the northern coastline of the small island nation. Amundi Gunnarsson, who heads [...]

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Saudi Arabia Funding Mossad Anti-Iran Operations

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EuropeanPhoenix An article posted by a former CBS News producer Barry Lando claims that none other than Saudi Arabia helps fund Israeli Mossad operations against Iran. “A Strange Alliance: Are the Saudis Bankrolling Israel’s Mossad?” appears on his blog. Lando’s source is named only as “a friend, with good sources in the Israeli government.” He wrote, “The [...]

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Mother claims she has a `devil’ baby

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Mother claims she has a `devil' baby

PTI | AsianAge In a bizarre claim, a Columbian mother has said that her one-month old son is `the devil’ who breathes fire and has already started walking. Ana Feria Santos, 28, gave birth to her son last month in the town of Lorica, near the Caribbean coast, but says her joy quickly turned to [...]

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China proposes four-point plan to end Syrian crisis

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Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi

PTI | ZeeNews China on Wednesday proposed a four-point plan to visiting UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to end the civil war in Syria, appealing to all parties to agree to a ceasefire and begin political transition at an early date. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi made the proposals during his talks with [...]

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Neanderthals ‘learned to make jewellery and tools from modern humans’

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ANI Neanderthals learned how to make jewellery and sophisticated tools from the ancestors of modern humans, a new study suggests. New high precision radiocarbon dating shows that a cultural exchange may have taken place between modern humans and Neanderthals in France and Spain more than 40,000 years ago, the Daily Mail reported. The findings have [...]

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How the brain measures time

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ANI In a new study, researchers have found a small population of neurons that is involved in measuring time, which is a process that has traditionally been difficult to study in the lab. In the study, researchers at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) developed a task in which monkeys could [...]

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Hurricane Sandy Spills Toxic Sewage In New York City

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By H. Scott English | Inquisitr Hurricane Sandy tore threw New York leaving pure disaster in its wake.  Experts are saying that she also left a trail of raw sewage and industrial waste in the waterways surrounding New York City. The chemical and sewage exposures could cause untold health problems for city residents if not handled properly. [...]

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