Algae might seem easy to ignore, but they are the ultimate source of all organic matter that marine animals depend upon. Humans are increasingly dependent on algae, too, to suck up climate-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and sink it… Read More ›
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Research Paves Way for Development of Cyborg Moth ‘Biobots’
Matt Shipman | News Services | 919.515.6386 Dr. Alper Bozkurt | 919.515.7349 Release Date: 08.20.14 North Carolina State University researchers have developed methods for electronically manipulating the flight muscles of moths and for monitoring the electrical signals moths use to… Read More ›
New home for an ‘evolutionary misfit’
Hallucigenia Reconstruction Worm-like creature with legs and spikes finds its place in the evolutionary tree of life One of the most bizarre-looking fossils ever found – a worm-like creature with legs, spikes and a head difficult to distinguish from its… Read More ›
‘Prepare for Chinese invasion’, says Jacqui Lambie
DAVID CROWE | The Australian | August 20, 2014 12:00AM AUSTRALIA must build missile systems and defence shields to prepare for an invasion from China even if it costs $60 billion a year, Palmer United Party senator Jacqui Lambie has… Read More ›
Enemies Stand Helpless Against BrahMos Missile – BrahMos Aerospace Chief / 3x faster than the Tomahawk cruise missile
“export the BrahMos only to friendly nations, determined by the governments of India and Russia” Enemies Stand Helpless Against BrahMos Missile – BrahMos Aerospace Chief MOSCOW, August 20 (RIA Novosti) – A supersonic cruise missile BrahMos, developed jointly by… Read More ›
Chinese Troops Enter Disputed India Territory
Chinese troops have advanced in recent days into disputed territory claimed by India, echoing a similar incursion last year that raised tensions between the two rival giants, official sources said on Tuesday (Aug 19). Chinese troops twice crossed over… Read More ›
UN Unable to Verify Kiev’s Allegations About Hitting Russian Military Column in Ukraine
UNITED NATIONS, August 15 (RIA Novosti) – After Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said his forces hit Russian vehicles inside Ukraine, the United Nations on Friday said it couldn’t verify the reports but they show a need to resolve the conflict… Read More ›
US Secretly Ships 300 Tanks to Norway
US cargo ship USNS PFC Dewayne T. Williams arrived in the small Norwegian village of Namdalseid on August 10, bringing 300 heavy tanks, armored personnel carriers and landing crafts, the local Adresseavisen newspaper reported. The cargo will include third-generation main… Read More ›
Is China wrong to benefit from Iraq?
(People’s Daily Online) 08:48, August 13, 2014 After announcing airstrikes against militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in northern Iraq, U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview with the New York Times that China… Read More ›
Filmmaker Crosses US-Mexico Border dressed as Osama Bin Laden
A flamethrowing American conservative activist raised eyebrows in the U.S. on Monday by releasing a video of himself crossing the Rio Grande River from Mexico into Texas, dressed as the late al-Qaeda terror mastermind Osama bin Laden. Guerrilla documentarian James… Read More ›
US Salaries Down 23% Since 2008
U.S. jobs pay an average 23% less today than they did before the 2008 recession, according to a new report released on Monday by the United States Conference of Mayors. In total, the report found $93 billion in lost wages…. Read More ›
Russia Forces US Submarine Out of Boundary Waters
Russian Anti-Submarine Destroyer “Vice-Admiral Kulakov” © Photo Press office of Russian Northern Fleet 17:37 09/08/2014 MOSCOW, August 9 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Northern Fleet’s anti-submarine forces have detected and forced out a US submarine from Russian boundary waters, a… Read More ›
BREAKING – IS to Declare Beginning of ‘Jihad Against America’
By: Anthony Kimery, Editor-in-Chief 08/08/2014 ( 4:40pm) The Islamic State, formally the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has yet to publish an official response to the US’s military strikes against it in Iraq, but sources close to the IS… Read More ›
People Fall for NYTimes’ Fake Hacking Story of 1.2B Stolen Passwords
Friday, 08 August 2014 On August 5th, the NY Times published a story titled “Russian Hackers Amass Over a Billion Internet Passwords ” which was, in fact, a “Native Advertising” venture between this once respected newspaper and a relatively new… Read More ›
FACTBOX: Russia’s Imports from Countries that Imposed Sanctions
MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Wednesday, banning for a year imports of agricultural and food products from countries that imposed sanctions on Russia. The government is expected to announce the complete “black… Read More ›
Chinese ships sail in disputed waters after Japan warning ” fears grow over a potential military clash “
→National Aug. 07, 2014 – 06:30AM JST ( 25 ) TOKYO — Chinese coast guard ships sailed into waters off Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea on Wednesday, officials said, after Tokyo’s annual defense paper warned over China’s “dangerous… Read More ›
Islamic State Seizes Control Over Iraq’s Largest Dam
Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Stand Guard in the Northern Iraq city of Mosul 23:51 03/08/2014 MOSCOW, August 3 (RIA Novosti) – The Islamic State militants have seized control of Iraq’s biggest dam, an… Read More ›
US Health Agency Holds Patent on Ebola Strain Virus
Sunday, 03 August 2014 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control owns a patent on a particular strain of Ebola known as “EboBun.” It’s patent No. CA2741523A1 and it was awarded in 2010. You can view it here. Patent applicants are… Read More ›
Ebola antibody treatment, produced in plants, protects monkeys from lethal disease: Even 48 hours after exposure
“antiviral compound prevents Ebola virus infection with limited to no morbidity in treated animals at any point of treatment following infection by this lethal virus” CNO: Re-Posting at request from October 15, 2012 Contact: Caree Vander Linden caree.vanderlinden@us.army.mil US Army Medical… Read More ›
Islamic State orders total cover-up for women
In this July 29, 2014 photo, militants parade in Beiji, some 250 kilometers north of the capital, Baghdad, Iraq. (AP) LATEST STORIES IN MIDDLE-EAST Arab News BEIRUT: The Islamic State has imposed a strict dress code for women in eastern… Read More ›
Scientist underlines threat of inevitable ‘solar super-storms’
Public Release: 31-Jul-2014 In this month’s issue of Physics World, Ashley Dale from the University of Bristol warns of the “catastrophic” and “long-lasting” impacts of “solar super-storms” and the dangers we face if the threat continues to go unnoticed. Dale,… Read More ›
Chinese hackers’ stole data on Israel’s Iron Dome missile shield
Group linked to PLA accused of stealing documents on Iron Dome shield . PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 30 July, 2014, 9:50pm Reuters in Vienna Three Israeli defence contractors behind the Iron Dome missile shield and related systems were robbed of hundreds… Read More ›
Why the Islamic State has no sympathy for Hamas
An Islamic State fighter gestures as he takes part in a military parade along the streets of Syria’s northern Raqqa province, June 30, 2014. Most of today’s Salafist jihadist movements have no interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for the time… Read More ›
After Iraqi Army Crumbles, Maliki Turns to State TV for Help
NDTV After Iraqi Army Crumbles, Maliki Turns to State TV for Help July 28, 2014 18:20 IST Baghdad: State television is working overtime to persuade Iraqis to help Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki confront an al Qaeda offshoot that has… Read More ›
Obama failed to stop the Islamic State when he had the chance
By Marc A. Thiessen July 28 From Europe to the Middle East, we have seen how disaster follows U.S. retreat and disengagement from the world. But the one area where President Obama seemed to be leaning forward was drone strikes…. Read More ›
6th Circuit Court: Ex-Judge Wade McCree’s conduct ‘reprehensible’ but immune from lawsuit
8:29 PM, July 22, 2014 | Disgraced former Wayne County Circuit Judge Wade McCree, shown in May 2013, who had an affair with a woman while presiding over her child custody case, got some good news from a federal appeals… Read More ›
Longest and most powerful military parade of Islamic State with hundreds of Tanks and Convoys
EEV: Pay close attention to the military hardware. The Second Video is for Adults Only, Extremely Graphic but gives a glimpse of what the residents of these countries are enduring. ( The Dream Catcher hanging from the rear view mirror is… Read More ›
Video: Massive explosion as ISIS destroys Jonah’s Tomb in Mosul
Published on Jul 25, 2014 Militants from Islamic State (formerly ISIS) destroyed the Shrine of Yunus (Tomb of Jonah) Mosque in Mosul on Thursday, July 24, residents of the Iraqi city said. News reports quoting residents said that they were… Read More ›
Pesticide linked to 3 generations of disease
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 24-Jul-2014 Methoxychlor causes epigenetic changes PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University researchers say ancestral exposures to the pesticide methoxychlor may lead to adult onset kidney disease, ovarian disease and obesity in future generations. “What your great-grandmother was… Read More ›
Alarm Clock Brazil announces dengue fever emergency in GM mosquito trials region
Sustainable Pulse Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:13 CDT Civil society groups today expressed alarm at an increase in dengue incidence, leading to an emergency decree, in a town in Brazil where releases of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes are taking place…. Read More ›
Brazil to Fight Dengue with GM Mosquitos
// // // © RIA Novosti. Oleg Lastochkin 09:01 24/07/2014 MOSCOW, July 23 (RIA Novosti) – Brazil is going to raise a swarm of genetically modified mosquitos to fight dengue, an acute tropical disease that affects over 50 million people… Read More ›
China to face widespread flight delays due to three-week ‘military exercises’
PLA exercises thought to be cause of weeks of disruption in Shanghai, Nanjing and elsewhere PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 22 July, 2014, 5:03pm Twelve mainland airports, many of them among the busiest, will be hit by widespread delays until the middle… Read More ›
Chase Shareholder Can’t Sue Jamie Dimon
By ADAM KLASFELD MANHATTAN (CN) – A JPMorgan Chase shareholder jumped the gun in filing a derivative lawsuit against CEO Jamie Dimon in connection with “six recent, high-profile settlements with government agencies and private litigants arising out of allegations of… Read More ›
Ukraine’s anti-aircraft missile system dispatched to Donetsk Wednesday
EEV: Requires second source confirmation The aircraft at an altitude of over 10,000 meters could be shot down only with the weapons of the S-300 or Buk (Beech) missile systems MOSCOW, July 17. /ITAR-TASS/. Ukraine’s armed forces dispatched the Buk… Read More ›
Report: Was Putin’s plane the real Target that brought down Malaysian Airliner?
Friday, 18 July 2014 Malaysian Airlines MH17 plane was travelling almost the same route as Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s jet shortly before the crash that killed 295, Interfax news agency reports citing sources. “I can say that Putin’s plane… Read More ›
BRICS sets up own Bank to counter IMF
Tuesday, 15 July 2014 The group of emerging economies signed the long-anticipated document to create the $100 bn BRICS Development Bank and a reserve currency pool worth over another $100 bn. Both will counter the influence of US based… Read More ›
Ukraine shells Russian town killing 1 and injuring 2
Moscow sees ‘consequences’ after Ukrainian shell kills 1, injures 2 Sunday, 13 July 2014 An artillery shell from Ukraine has hit a private house in the Rostov region of Russia, killing a citizen and leaving two more injured. The Russian… Read More ›
Record levels of solar ultraviolet measured in South America ( UV index of 43 )
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 8-Jul-2014 A team of researchers in the U.S. and Germany has measured the highest level of ultraviolet radiation ever recorded on the Earth’s surface. The extraordinary UV fluxes, observed in the Bolivian Andes only 1,500 miles from… Read More ›
Russian Air Force Boosts Presence in Arctic
Russian Air Force Boosts Presence in Arctic | Defense | RIA Novosti Tu-95MS strategic bomber © RIA Novosti. Iliya Pitalev 16:37 10/07/2014 MOSCOW, July 10 (RIA Novosti) – Russian long-range aviation bases are increasing their presence in the Arctic, the… Read More ›
Germany to CIA Chief: Get Out!
Thursday, 10 July 2014 Germany has asked the CIA station chief in the country to leave the country at once, an unusual move that is a very public expression of anger over repeated cases of U.S. spying in the country…. Read More ›
Mexico’s cartel-fighting vigilantes get closer to the Texas border
Ioan GrilloJuly 8, 2014 00:32 Armed residents are taking on the feared Zetas cartel in Tamaulipas state. One desperate town’s mayor applauds them. Armed residents are forming vigilante forces to fight cartels closer and closer to Mexico’s US border…. Read More ›
Another Guilty Plea in Navy Corruption Ring
SAN DIEGO (CN) – A retired Navy lieutenant commander pleaded guilty to federal charges of overcharging the Navy for port services for U.S. ships and using some of the money “to treat Navy officials to lavish dinners, cocktails and entertainment,”… Read More ›
Dreadful mushroom-cloud of lightning looks like nuclear burst
Requested….Clipped Photos – Dreadful mushroom-cloud of lightning looks like nuclear burst – July 06, 2014
Intelligence expert Schmidt-Eenboom: ‘It’s a huge scandal’
According to German media, an employee of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the United States. Intelligence expert Schmidt-Eenboom tells DW why this case is outrageous. Intelligence expert Schmidt-Eenboom: ‘It’s a huge scandal’… Read More ›
19th Century Math Tactic Gets a Makeover—and Yields Answers Up to 200 Times Faster
Simulation data showing significantly faster reduction in solution error for the new Scheduled Relaxation Jacobi (SRJ) method as compared to the classical Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel iterative methods.The equation that is being solved here is the two-dimensional Laplace equation on a 128×128 grid. A… Read More ›
Mm-Mmm, Don’t! Campbell’s Soup Says
By KEVIN LESSMILLER DOTHAN, Ala. (CN) – Campbell’s Soup sued a food processor, a distributor and a grocer, claiming it hired the processor to destroy unusable food or feed it to farm animals, but the processor diverted it and sold… Read More ›
BNP Paribas Fined $8.8 Billion
MANHATTAN (CN) – The French bank BNP Paribas on Monday agreed to pay $8.8 billion for conspiring to process transactions through the U.S. financial system for Sudanese, Iranian and Cuban entities subject to U.S. economic sanctions. – BNP Paribas agreed… Read More ›
Russia sends fighter jets to help Iraq
Sunday, 29 June 2014 The first ten Russian Sukhoi fighter jets arrived in Iraq on Saturday, the country’s Defense Ministry said. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is hoping the jets will make a key difference in the fight against ISIS…. Read More ›
4 absurdly harmless acts now criminalized by Thailand’s military rulers
In junta-run Bangkok, even sandwiches can be interpreted as threats to the state. Thailand book reading protest – EEV Note: That is George Orwell’s 1984 He was later arrested. (Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/AFP/Getty Images) BANGKOK — One month ago, after Thailand’s army… Read More ›
Egypt sentences man to 6 years in prison for ‘Liking’ Christian Facebook post
Thursday, 26 June 2014 An Egyptian man was convicted and sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison along with a fine of $840 dollars for violating Egypt’s blasphemy laws, which make illegal any criticism of the Islamic religion. The International… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 