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Mind over Matter: Secrets of human aura revealed by Russian scientists

The Other US Eco Disaster: Mountain Top Removal (Part 1)

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Grain Drain: Food rots as poor starve across India

Mercola - The Ultimate Food Betrayal: How Big Biotech Rigged the Research on GM Foods

Mercola - "The research, which was funded by the biotech industry and conducted by four staunch proponents of GM foods, other findings around the world that show how people avoid genetically modified organisms (GMOs) when given a choice.

The controversial article was nonetheless given the Journal's prestigious Award for Excellence for the Most Outstanding Paper of 2004. It is often cited by biotech advocates as proof that people are embracing GM foods."

Mercola - The Cancer-Preventing Vitamin Your Doctor Is Likely Completely Clueless About

Mercola - "Vitamin K, just like vitamin D, is crucial for preventing cancer, osteoporosis, and heart disease, and nearly everyone is deficient."

The Telegraph - Nasa scientists braced for 'solar tsunami' to hit earth

The Telegraph - "This eruption is directed right at us," said Leon Golub, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

"It's the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time."

Scientists have warned that a really big solar eruption could destroy satellites and wreck power and communications grids around the globe if it happened today.

Food banks to save EU when money runs out?

Three planets Venus, Mars, and Saturn form triangle in western sky late July 2010

Something for you to look out for beautiful x

Ride to Hell: Car escapes forest fire inferno!

'AIDS gel a $200 Bln failure'

BBC News - Penis photo posters seized by police in Lewes

BBC News - "However, from what we've seen, if this is a self-portrait, the artist won't be in a hurry to be identified."

BBC News - Mother's heartbeat 'synchronises with foetus'

BBC News - "The heartbeats of a mother and her unborn foetus synchronise when she breathes rhythmically, researchers have said."

Censorship in the AIDS debate Part 1

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Bloomberg - Pfizer Broke the Law by Promoting Drugs for Unapproved Uses

Old news, but still relevant.

Bloomberg - "For this new felony, Pfizer paid the largest criminal fine in U.S. history: $1.19 billion. On the same day, it paid $1 billion to settle civil cases involving the off-label promotion of Bextra and three other drugs with the U.S. and 49 states."

NASA - A Puzzling Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere

NASA - "July 15, 2010: NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet's atmosphere. High above Earth's surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed and now is rebounding again. Thermosphere (atmosphere, 200px)Layers of Earth's upper atmosphere. Credit: John Emmert/NRL. [larger image]

"This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years," says John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). "It's a Space Age record."

The collapse happened during the deep solar minimum of 2008-2009—a fact which comes as little surprise to researchers. The thermosphere always cools and contracts when solar activity is low. In this case, however, the magnitude of the collapse was two to three times greater than low solar activity could explain."

Wet Flashmob! RT reporter soaked in water gun fight

Thought you'd like this one Terri :-)

Disease Dissent: HIV/AIDS theory, therapy challenged

I've heard they use green tea to combat AIDS in South Africa and I've often heard that the HIV to AIDS theory is wrong. There's certainly been strong dissent against it, ever since it was first postulated.

Agent Orange still haunting the US

Very disturbing video about the effects of Monsanto's Agent Orange.

BBC News - Hampshire workmen paint white lines around dead badger

This is just too funny. :-)

BBC News - Living 'costs at least £14,400' for a single person

BBC News - "A single person in the UK needs a gross income of at least £14,400 in 2010 to live to an acceptable standard, a charity says.

And a couple with two children need £29,200 for a minimum acceptable standard of living, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said."

US president is the Wizard of Oz. But who stands behind the curtain?

Interesting analysis of the oligarchy that rules America.

BBC News - UK health system is top on 'efficiency', says report

For the country with the world's most expensive medical treatment (US), this is kind of embarrassing.

BBC News - "The US came last in the overall rankings, which also included data from Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and New Zealand."

BBC News - Loss of bees could be 'a blow to UK economy'

BBC News - "If bees and other pollinators were to disappear completely, the cost to the UK economy could be up to £440m per year, scientists have warned.

This amounts to about 13% of the country's income from farming.

In a bid to save the declining insects, up to £10m has been invested in nine projects that will explore threats to pollinators.

The Insect Pollinators Initiative will look at different aspects of the insects' decline."

Giant 80 Meter Wide Sinkhole Opens in China

The Telegraph - Nasa warns solar flares from 'huge space storm' will cause devastation

The Telegraph - "Britain could face widespread power blackouts and be left without critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit by a once-in-a-generation “space storm”, Nasa has warned."

'US Army sent 'hardcore' neo-Nazi troops to Iraq and Afghanistan'

What's wrong with the sun? - space - 14 June 2010 - New Scientist

The Sun is behaving very strangely of late.

Are there any reasonable explanations for spectacular sinkholes in China?

The Telegraph - "After the spectacular picture of a sinkhole in Guatemala caused by tropical storm Agatha, the Chinese internet has been abuzz with reports of large numbers of the eerily circular formations suddenly appearing across China."

Radiohead frontman: Music industry on verge of collapse

In an interview for a new high school textbook called The Rax Active Citizen Toolkit, which aims to inspire youngsters to become more politically literate, Yorke claims the music industry is on the verge of a major crisis and could collapse completely within "months".

Coming to Earth soon: Nasty solar storms - CSMonitor.com

"The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity," said Richard Fisher, head of NASA's Heliophysics Division. "At the same time, our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms. The intersection of these two issues is what we're getting together to discuss."

Yahoo - More Active Sun Means Nasty Solar Storms Ahead

Yahoo - "People of the 21st century rely on high-tech systems for the basics of daily life. But smart power grids, GPS navigation, air travel, financial services and emergency radio communications can all be knocked out by intense solar activity."

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"Thanks to the decades long conflict in Colombia, it's estimated that 4 million people have been displaced. Making it the second largest displaced population in the world. Many of them are union leaders and others activists from the left. Yesterday, some of these refugees came to the White House to remind the US that their policies and practices in Colombia have not gone unnoticed. Policies that ignore the atrocities of corporations in search of minerals and resources. Alyona talks with RT Correspondent Jihan Hafiz who is following the story."

Earthquake off Indonesia's Aceh triggers tsunami alert

"An earthquake of magnitude 7.4 has struck offshore near the Indonesian island of Sumatra, near Aceh province.

The quake struck 214km (133 miles) south of Aceh's capital of Banda Aceh, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

A local tsunami alert was issued and later lifted by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

The site is very near that of 2004's 9.2 magnitude earthquake. About 220,000 people were killed in the Indian Ocean tsunami the quake triggered."

Jersey Royal potato crop threatened by drought

"A drought is threatening to significantly cut this year's Jersey Royal potato crop, growers have warned.

The first yield could be cut by 50% following the worst drought on the Channel island in 34 years, the Jersey Royal Company told The Grocer magazine."

High food costs plague India | detnews.com | The Detroit News

"Food inflation that has been stuck in the double digits for a year has had a deep impact on school lunches, family meals and holy offerings.

Anger with high prices erupted into protests last week that disrupted flights, trains and traffic."

Did Philip K. Dick Disclose the Matrix in 1977?

Mad, bad and interesting to know. Philip k Dick

'Bee rustlers' sting Japanese apiarists

"The price of honeybees has doubled in recent years after a ban on imports. Police suspect a gang of specialist thieves is stealing honeybees to order."

Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe

A further indicator of the coming food shortages.

"In the UK alone, honeybee pollination is valued at £200m. Mankind has been managing and transporting bees for centuries to pollinate food and produce honey, nature's natural sweetener and antiseptic. Their extinction would mean not only a colourless, meatless diet of cereals and rice, and cottonless clothes, but a landscape without orchards, allotments and meadows of wildflowers – and the collapse of the food chain that sustains wild birds and animals."

Cost of nuts in supermarkets set to soar

Food prices will be going up rapidly over the coming months. There is a perfect storm of economic, social, environmental and political events occurring that will see your weekly shopping bill soar.

Stock up while you can.

Gordon Brown 'mortified' by his 'bigoted woman' slur

Yep, if there's one sure way of winning hearts and minds, it's by calling honest questioners of your policies 'bigots'. This is the dumb ass that's our Prime Minister?

India opposition parties strike over high food prices

"Food prices in India have risen by as much as 20% over the past year."

Egyptian restaurants hold 'meat strike' as prices soar

"The price of meat in Egypt has risen so quickly over the last few months that restaurants removed it from their menus during a one-day protest."

Central Chile struck by magnitude 6.1 earthquake

"An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 has struck central Chile in the same region that was badly damaged in a powerful quake on 27 February."

Illegal banana gin 'kills 80' in Uganda

"Some 80 people have died in Uganda after drinking illegal home-made banana gin laced with methanol, a health official says."

Alzheimer's drugs cause brain damage and actually worsen memory loss

"Big Pharma drugs that are being used on humans right now and promoted as potential treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD) could cause the very brain damage and memory loss they are supposed to treat. That's the conclusion of University of California at San Diego (UCSD) scientists who just published their groundbreaking findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."

Potentially Lethal Airborne Fungus May Spread to California

"A strain of potentially lethal airborne fungus recently discovered in Oregon may soon spread to California and other neighboring areas, scientists warn.

Several people in Oregon have died after being infected with the new VGIIc genotype of Cryptococcus gattii. In the 21 Pacific Northwest cases analyzed by researchers, the strain has a death rate of about 25 percent."

Potentially deadly fungus spreading in US, Canada

"WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - A potentially deadly strain of fungus is spreading among animals and people in the northwestern United States and the Canadian province of British Columbia, researchers reported on Thursday."

China holds national day of mourning for quake dead