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Heavy rains in China; 4 killed, 500,000 people affected

By   /  May 23, 2013  /  Environment, News, World  /  No Comments

Heavy rains in China

PTI | ZeeNews Four persons were killed in a rainstorm that has lashed south China for days and affected lives of nearly half a million residents, local flood control authorities said on Thursday. According to the provincial flood prevention centre, the rain that started in Guangdong Province on Sunday, has wrecked havoc in 184 counties [...]

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H7N9 Flu: Shutting Bird Markets ‘Crucial’

By   /  May 21, 2013  /  Health, World  /  No Comments

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By Michael Smith | Med Page Today Quick action by the Chinese government to close live poultry markets might have stalled the H7N9 influenza outbreak before it really got rolling, experts suggested. “In Shanghai, on April 6, they closed the poultry markets and there have been no more cases in Shanghai since that time,” according to [...]

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Huge sinkhole in China kills five

By   /  May 21, 2013  /  Environment, News, World  /  No Comments

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The Peninsula Five people died when a 10 metre wide sinkhole opened up at the gates of an industrial estate in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese boom town neighbouring Hong Kong, local authorities said Tuesday. The Shenzhen Longgang district government said on its verified page on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, that five people had [...]

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New Rice Contamination Reported in China

By   /  May 21, 2013  /  Environment, World  /  No Comments

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AP | The Epoch Times Authorities are investigating rice mills in southern China following tests that found almost half of the staple grain in one of the country’s largest cities was contaminated with a toxic metal. The mills in Hunan province’s Youxian county were ordered to suspend business and recall their products after samples showed [...]

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Chinese hackers resume cyber attacks on U.S. companies, government agencies

By   /  May 20, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

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ANI Chinese hackers have resumed attacks on America three months after hackers, who worked for a cyber unit of China’s People’s Liberation Army, went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies. The hackers appear to have resumed their attacks using different techniques, according to computer industry [...]

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Some of the Sheep Are No Longer Asleep

By   /  May 18, 2013  /  In Other News, News, World  /  No Comments

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By Dave Hodges | thecommonsenseshow The world is finally beginning to wake up to the global tyranny that is threatening all of humanity. In the past two months I have heard from people that I have not heard from or seen for 10-20 years. I have heard from former players, students, friends and neighbors. 

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Science Confirms Turmeric As Effective As 14 Drugs

By   /  May 14, 2013  /  Health, News, World  /  No Comments

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By Sayer Ji, Founder | GreenMed Info Turmeric is one the most thoroughly researched plants in existence today.  Its medicinal properties and components (primarily curcumin) have been the subject of over 5600 peer-reviewed and published biomedical studies. In fact, our five-year long research project on this sacred plant has revealed over 600 potential preventive and [...]

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Bottled Water in China Worse Than Tap Water

By   /  May 12, 2013  /  Health, News, World  /  No Comments

Bottled water from China

Chinese media recently exposed quality issues in the bottled water industry, saying its regulation levels are from the Soviet era.

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Bird flu toll rises to 33 in China

By   /  May 12, 2013  /  Health, News, World  /  No Comments

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Zee News The toll due to the H7N9 avian influenza in China has risen to 33, with the death of an 83-year-old woman in Shanghai, officials said Saturday. The woman surnamed Jiang died Friday evening at a hospital in Shanghai, a month after her infection was confirmed, Xinhua cited the Shanghai Municipal Health and Family [...]

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The Mind vs. Brain Debate (What is Consciousness?)

By   /  May 10, 2013  /  News, Science & Technology, World  /  No Comments

The Mind vs. Brain Debate What is Consciousness

By Dylan Charles | Waking Times The mind vs. brain debate has been going on since before Aristotle. He and Plato argued that the soul housed intelligence or wisdom and that it could not be placed within the physical body. In a well-described version of dualism, Descartes identifies mind with the consciousness and self-awareness of [...]

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The Extinction of Animal and Plant Species

By   /  May 9, 2013  /  Environment, News, World  /  No Comments

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By Rebecca Sato | Dailygalaxy via Global Research  Should we be alarmed at the current massive die-offs being noted in the animal and plant kingdoms? After all, new species arise and old species die off all the time. Its just nature taking its course, right? Not necessarily. The Earth is now entering the sixth mass [...]

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U.S. Military Communications Should Not Be Running over Chinese Satellites

By   /  May 7, 2013  /  In Other News, News, World  /  No Comments

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By Dean Cheng | The Foundry News has leaked that U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) uses China’s APSTAR-7 satellite for transmitting some of its communications, which means some American military communications are passing through Chinese satellites. There are probably two reasons for this. In the first place, the U.S. military is a massive bandwidth user. The various teleconferences, [...]

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