Satellite Wars: China unveils ‘cheaper’ answer to GPS
RT China’s rapidly-expanding rival to GPS, called BeiDou, has become available to customers across Asia-Pacific for the first time. It aims to claim a fifth of the satellite services market in the region in just three years. Previously, the satellite constellation was only used by the country’s military and government services. Now, it is being [...]
Read More →Oil sanctions boost agriculture in Iran
Fars News Iran’s agricultural exports have experienced an eye-catching growth in the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 20-November 21) irrespective of the much hyped about sanctions imposed by the US and its western allies against the country, the Iranian Custom’s Office reported on Saturday. Iran’s pistachio exports weighed 74,000 tons and [...]
Read More →USS John Stennis enters Persian Gulf
VOR The American aircraft carrier USS John Stennis has passed the Strait of Hormuz and entered the Persian Gulf after patrolling the Arabian Sea together with a guided missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay, the US Navy reports. The warship is currently docked in Saudi Arabia’s port of Jebel Ali. On December 28, the USS John [...]
Read More →Syria jihadists declare holy war on Hezbollah
JN1 While the civil war in Syria continues to rage, nearly 2 years into the bloody conflict an al-Qaeda linked Syrian rebel group seems to be gaining some popular support. The ravages of war suffered by the civilians in the embattled country have elevated the profile of Jabhat al-Nusra after the disparate rebel groups took [...]
Read More →Fluctuating environment may have driven human evolution
eScience A series of rapid environmental changes in East Africa roughly 2 million years ago may be responsible for driving human evolution, according to researchers at Penn State and Rutgers University. “The landscape early humans were inhabiting transitioned rapidly back and forth between a closed woodland and an open grassland about five to six times [...]
Read More →Cholera Spreads in Cuba After Hurricane Sandy
ENS-Newswire A rise in cholera cases in the Cuban capital Havana is being traced back to parts of the country hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy, the worst natural disaster to strike Cuba in half a century. The Cuban government is saying little about reported cases of cholera. But doctors who have recorded new cases of [...]
Read More →1,742 Reports of Adverse Events After Children Received This Vaccine
By Christina England | VacTruth Last week, VacTruth reported details of the 1,271 page confidential GlaxoSmithKline document, regarding their six-in-one vaccine. More confidential papers have recently been leaked to the press. The Belgian website Initiative Citoyeene reported both leaked documents. The latest confidential document concerns the Prevenar 13 vaccine, a pneumococcal vaccine manufactured by Pfizer (now merged [...]
Read More →U.S. and Israel allegedly launch cyberoffensive at Iran
The Globe and Mail Iran reported a spree of new cyberattacks Tuesday, saying foreign enemy hackers tried in recent months to disrupt computer systems at a power plant and other industries in a strategically important southern coastal province as well as a Culture Ministry information centre. Accounts of the attacks in the official media did [...]
Read More →US Navy sailors sue Japan for lying about Fukushima radiation
RT American sailors have filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government for allegedly lying about the health risks they faced while assisting in rescue efforts after last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster. Crewmembers from the USS Ronald Reagan filed a lawsuit in Federal Court in San Diego, California this week in an attempt to hold Japan [...]
Read More →Giant flux ropes observed in Venus’s magnetized ionosphere
ANI Scientists have detected a new state of Venus’s ionosphere. Observations from NASA’s Pioneer Venus orbiter, which reached Venus in 1978, suggested that Venus’s ionosphere had two states: a magnetized state with a large- scale horizontal magnetic field and an unmagnetized state with no large-scale magnetic field but with numerous small-scale thin magnetic structures known [...]
Read More →US to reach $16.4 trillion debt ceiling Dec 31
By Jamie Williamson | TopNews The US federal government will reach its debt limit of $16.4 trillion Dec 31, which is the amount the US federal government is allowed to borrow, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Wednesday. In a letter to congressional leaders Wednesday amid the last-ditch efforts of US lawmakers to avoid the looming [...]
Read More →More than half of Britons want country to pull out of EU
ANI Britain is becoming a more Eurosceptic country, with a majority saying that they would vote to leave the EU. A poll has revealed that 51 percent of Britons want to get out of Europe, as compared to just 40 percent who want to stay in. The survey represents a massive turnaround on a decade [...]
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