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Google Loon: Internet Access for Rural Areas via Balloon

By   /  June 16, 2013  /  Science & Technology, World  /  No Comments

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By Victoria Nicks | Decoded Science Google’s latest far-out (and up) project involves the use of hot air balloons to provide Internet access to rural areas. As ‘flighty’ as the project may sound, Google’s combination of computing power, extensive testing, and a high equipment recovery rate means that Project Loon soars higher with every test. [...]

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Staying Afloat: World’s Low-Lying Communities Plan for Rising Seas

By   /  June 16, 2013  /  Environment, News, World  /  No Comments

Climate Cities

From Bangkok to Miami, cities and coastal areas across the globe are already building or planning defenses to protect millions of people and key infrastructure from more powerful storm surges and other effects of global warming.

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Britain prepared for war in Syria two years before the crisis flared up, France’s former FM says

By   /  June 16, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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By M. Ismael | SANA Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas said that Britain had been preparing gunmen to invade Syria two years before the crisis there flared up in 2011. During a TV show, Dumas said ”I was in Britain two years ago, and I met British officials, some my friends…they admitted that they were [...]

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Iran to Send 4000 Troops to Support Syria’s Assad

By   /  June 16, 2013  /  Breaking News, World  /  No Comments

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RiaN Iran has decided to deploy 4,000 troops to Syria to aid Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces in war against rebels, The Independent reported on Sunday. The decision to send a contingent of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Syria was taken before the June 14 presidential election which brought reformist-backed cleric Hassan Rouhani to power. The [...]

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Coconut Oil Is The Superfood of All Oils

By   /  June 16, 2013  /  Health  /  No Comments

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By April McCarthy | Prevent Disease The health benefits of coconut oil include hair care, skin care, stress relief, maintaining cholesterol levels, weight loss, increased immunity, proper digestion and metabolism, relief from kidney problems, heart diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes, HIV and cancer, dental care, and bone strength. These benefits of oil can be attributed [...]

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5 Awesome Spices to Cook With for a Healthier Life

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By Christina Sarich | Natural Society Cooking your own food is a great way to make sure you know exactly what goes into it, and adding a few health-boosting spices can make a home-cooked meal even more savory. Fortunately many of the spices we use to make our plates a gustatory and olfactory delight are also very beneficial to our [...]

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Nigeria: Candidate for Political Destabilization and “Regime Change”?

By   /  June 16, 2013  /  Politics, World  /  No Comments

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By Adeyinka Makinde | Global Research It is worth reminding, if such reminder is at all necessary, how even in the contemporary circumstances of an omnipresent international security system represented by the United Nations which promotes the ideals of mutual security and co-existence, the conduct of the relations of nations continues to assuredly reflect the elementally [...]

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No Evidence: ‘Obama does a Bush’ to get No-Fly Zone and war in Syria

By   /  June 16, 2013  /  Conflict, World  /  No Comments

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21st Century Wire No evidence of WMDs… and still a call for war? Again? This sounds all too familiar. The Bush Administration did the exact same thing in Iraq. There was no evidence then, other than fabricated sexed-up intelligence. The same is true today. Obama’s famous ‘red line’ on chemical weapons was never red, it was always [...]

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We are all made of comet dust

By   /  June 16, 2013  /  Science & Technology  /  No Comments

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By Robert Matthews | The National Man owes a lot to chunks of rock and ice floating through space. From ancient jewellery to water and possibly even the beginnings of life itself, scientists are discovering that comets have contributed in many ways to the development of life on the planet, Robert Matthews writes Since their discovery [...]

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USA has to make friends with Taliban

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By Sergei Vasilenkov | Pravda.ru In some countries, groups that have always been considered extremist have become a real force to be reckoned with. The Taliban is one of them. Even the U.S. government that is fighting against Taliban is forced to recognize it as a legal organization. This means that the existing issues should [...]

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Hong Kong protesters urge govt. not to extradite US ‘snoopgate’ whistleblower Snowden

By   /  June 16, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

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ANI Protestors in Hong Kong have urged the country’s government not to extradite National Security Agency (NSA)’s contractor Edward Snowden, who blew the lid on America’s internet spying programme popularly known as PRISM. The demonstrators also protested to pressurize their government on forcing the US into changing its surveillance policies, as Snowden had alleged that [...]

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Italy hopes to develop ties with Iran under Rohani’s presidency: Minister

By   /  June 16, 2013  /  News, Politics, World  /  No Comments

Rohani wins the elections

Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino says Rome hopes to promote bilateral relations with Tehran following the victory of Hassan Rohani in Iran’s 11th presidential election.

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