Nobel Peace Prize brews hostility as winners renounce EU’s award
RT Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa and two other Nobel Peace winners have written to the foundation to protest the decision to award the 2012 prize to the EU. The letter was also signed by Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland, who won the prize for her efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the [...]
Read More →Statin Drugs Linked To Worsening Osteoarthritis Of The Knee
By Sayer Ji, Founder | GreenMed Info New research flies in the face of a new theory that statin drugs, used to lower cholesterol, may be of value in those suffering from osteoarthritis. To the contrary, statin drugs are likely contributing to the epidemic of knee osteoarthritis in exposed populations. Symptomatic knee osteoarthritis is quite [...]
Read More →Kung Fu Expert in China Beats Up Mob of 50 Trying to Evict Him
by WashingtonsBlog To understand the background of the incident – and the plight of Chinese homeowners attempting to resist eviction when the government wants to build something on their land – watch this short video: Now that you’ve got the background, you’re ready for the story from the Telegraph on the Kung Fu hero: When [...]
Read More →We Can’t Shop Our Way To A Better Economy
By Stacy Mitchell | NationOfChange “Over the space of just 20 years a handful of big companies have taken over large swaths of our economy. Our banking system, diversified as recently as the 1990s, is now controlled a handful of big banks…. One-third of everything we buy online now comes from a single company. Many people [...]
Read More →Fukushima worst confirmed, radiated children need evacuation
By Deborah Dupre | Examiner Evidence has been released Friday showing new radiation is leaking at Fukushima’s nuclear power plant as its operator TEPCO disclosed more video recordings of its in-house teleconferences in the early phase of the 2011 catastrophe, showing employees’ tense communications before radioactive water was released into the sea. The UN calling for TEPCO and the [...]
Read More →Iceland Volcano Eruption Caused By Chain Reaction
By Kyle Murphy | The Inquisitr A group of researchers say that the eruptions of Iceland’s volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 were apparently triggered by a chain reaction of expanding magma chambers that descended into the Earth. According to NBC News, after nearly two centuries of dormancy, Eyjafjallajökull (AYA-feeyapla-yurkul) erupted many times over the course of 10 weeks. The [...]
Read More →Bird flu kills 4,000 wild ducks in Russia
AFP | Expatica Around 4,000 wild ducks have been found dead in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, officials said on Friday, blaming H5 bird flu for the mass deaths. “This is the H5 virus, the strain is being confirmed,” a spokeswoman for the Krasnodar region branch of Russian agriculture watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor told AFP. The birds’ remains [...]
Read More →Russian Opposition Activists ‘Trained’ Abroad, Investigators Say
RiaN The Russian opposition activists who were allegedly plotting to orchestrate anti-Kremlin unrest were “trained” abroad, Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said. Markin said the opposition activists were “specially trained outside Russia to organize and carry out mass riots aimed at overthrowing the regime as happened with ‘color revolutions’ in other countries.” In October, Leonid [...]
Read More →Germany Gives Green Light to €44bn Package to Greece
By Andy Dabilis | Greek Reporter Germany’s lawmakers have agreed to forgive some of its loans to Greece. Fears that the country’s default would hurt the whole EU bloc overshadowed an almost a €1bn price tag for Germany. Out of the total 584 MPs 473 voted in favour, with 100 against. Eleven MPs abstained, according to [...]
Read More →Canada recalls diplomats from Israel, West Bank
PTI | ZeeNews Canada’s foreign affairs minister John Baird is temporarily recalling senior diplomats from Israel, the West Bank and the United Nations missions in New York and Geneva to assess the implications of UN General Assembly vote to recognise the Palestinians as a non-member observer state. Baird also said on Thursday that Canada will [...]
Read More →Illinois Senate Defeats Governor’s Sneaky Attempt to Ban Assault Weapons
By Kurt Nimmo | Infowars In Obama’s home state, Illinois, governor Pat Quinn attempted to circumvent the legislature and impose an assault weapons ban on Wednesday. State Sen. Dave Luechtefeld, a Republican from Okawville, led an override that defeated the governor. “Today is a good day for the Second Amendment in Illinois. We have scored [...]
Read More →Sun-Grazing Comets As The Trigger For Electromagnetic Armageddon
By Bruce Dorminey | Forbes Large sun-grazing comets could bring on the sort of global electronics meltdown usually associated with electromagnetic pulse weapons or a full-scale nuclear exchange. Or so says David Eichler, lead author of a forthcoming Astrophysical Journal Letters paper positing that a sun-grazing comet roughly the size of Hale-Bopp (with a nucleus some [...]
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