Archive for the 'World' Category
Earth’s Magnetic Field Changes Climate
• February, 2009Earth’s Magnetic Field Changes Climate Jan. 13, 2009 The Earth’s climate has been significantly affected by the planet’s magnetic field, according to a Danish study published Monday that is unlikely to challenge the notion that human emissions are largely responsible for global warming. “Our results show a strong correlation between the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field and the amount of precipitation in the tropics,” one of the two Danish geophysicists behind the study, Mads Faurschou Knudsen of the geology department at Aarhus University in…
Antarctica’s 15-Million Year-Old Lake -A Living Bio Lab?
• February, 2009Antarctica’s 15-Million Year-Old Lake -A Living Bio Lab? Casey Kazan. Researchers have thawed ice estimated to be perhaps a million years old or more from above Lake Vostok, an ancient lake that lies hidden more than two miles beneath the frozen surface of Antarctica using novel genomic techniques to determine how tiny, living “time capsules” survived the ages in total darkness, in freezing cold, and without food and energy from the sun.
Israel ‘admits’ using white phosphorus munitions
• January, 2009Israel ‘admits’ using white phosphorus munitions Martin Fletcher in Jerusalem January 21, 2009 The Israeli military came close to acknowledging for the first time yesterday its use of white phosphorus munitions during the war in Gaza… The Israeli military came close to acknowledging for the first time yesterday its use of white phosphorus munitions during the war in Gaza, but continued to insist that it did not breach international law. As fresh evidence emerged of Gazan civilians being burned by phosphorus, Avital Leibovich, the army…
95% of music downloads illegal despite boom
• January, 200995% of music downloads illegal despite boom By Robert Dex, Press Association Friday, 16 January 2009 The digital music business is booming but 95 per cent of downloads are still illegal and not paid for, according to a report published today. Making money from digital music is “the biggest challenge for music companies” at the moment, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s (IFPI) Digital Music Report. It reveals that the digital music business has grown for six years in succession. In 2008,…
Infants stabbed at Belgian creche
• January, 2009Infants stabbed at Belgian creche Friday, 23 January 2009 <<Editors notE>> UPDATE: It’s funny how they call this person “man” in this case when the guy was just 20 years old (officially “adult”). Either way, I guess he was a bit of a walking time bomb, waiting to go off while not being able to handle this world anymore and choosing for this savage outcry for help. (and I say this without wanting to sympathize here…) Two pre-school children and an adult have been killed…
Facts melted by global warming
• January, 2009Facts melted by ‘global warming’ Christopher Booker 31 Dec 2008 Last weekend, that heroically diligent US meteorologist Anthony Watts noticed that something very odd had happened to the daily updated graph on the official Nansen website that shows how much sea-ice there is in the Arctic. Without explanation, as he reported on his Watts Up With That website, half a million square kilometres of ice simply vanished overnight.
You Are Being Lied to About Pirates
• January, 2009You Are Being Lied to About Pirates Johann Hari Columnist, London Independent Posted January 4, 2009 Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy – backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China – is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains. They will soon be fighting Somalian ships and even chasing the pirates…
Ron Paul on Israël vs Hamas in Gaza
• January, 2009Ron Paul on Israël vs Hamas in Gaza .::. <<video>> <<Editors notE>> Seriously… this guy should’ve been elected for president in the hope he could pinpoint the real issues here… no offense towards Obama… but it was an unfair battle either way… plus he was white… n who wants a white president these days after what Bush has “accomplished” ;)
The Truth About Diet Soda
• January, 2009The Truth About Diet Soda 2008 Men’s Health. Posted Tue, Dec 23, 2008 The Truth About Diet Soda We talk a lot about ”watching what we eat,” but if you never gave a thought to what you ate and instead watched only what you drank, you could probably cut 450 calories a day out of your life. (Yes, nearly a pound of fat loss a week!) That’s what a study from the University of North Carolina found. Americans today drink about 192 gallons of liquid…
Coca Cola hits back over Fanta high pesticide level claims
• January, 2009Coca Cola hits back over Fanta high pesticide level claims By Aislinn Simpson Last Updated: 11:27AM GMT 05 Jan 2009 Soft drink manufacturer Coca Cola has hit back at claims that its Fanta range contains pesticides at up to 300 times the level found in bottled or tap water. The multinational said the “minuscule” amounts of the chemicals were well within accepted limits and the orange and lemon products were safe to drink. Researchers in Spain tested 102 cans and bottles of fizzy drink bought…
Sprayed Aerosols Could Ease Climate Woes
• January, 2009Sprayed Aerosols Could Ease Climate Woes Irene Klotz, Discovery News Dec. 29, 2008 It won’t solve global warming, but a group of scientists are calling for a focused research program to investigate ways to seed the atmosphere with chemicals that would let the heat out — literally. Geoengineering is not a new concept. Governments have changed how and where water flows, filled in lakes and other wetlands for construction, even attempted to control the weather. A project to counter climate change, however, would take geoengineering…
US police could get ‘pain beam’ weapons
• January, 2009US police could get ‘pain beam’ weapons The research arm of the US Department of Justice is working on two portable non-lethal weapons that inflict pain from a distance using beams of laser light or microwaves, with the intention of putting them into the hands of police to subdue suspects. The two devices under development by the civilian National Institute of Justice both build on knowledge gained from the Pentagon’s controversial Active Denial System (ADS) – first demonstrated in public last year, which uses a…
Israël Vs. Hamas
• January, 2009Israël Vs. Hamaz La Cinyc 04/01/2009 Today… Israël started to move in their ground-troops in order to “make Gaza a safer place” … Their goal would be: “Destroying all bases and “launch platforms” Hamaz uses for their rockets” Now… I might be naïve and have a backwards vision on warfare, the world, Israël and so on but… If you follow Israël’s logic and would like to make Gaza a better place to live in, wouldn’t it be better NOT to move in the troops… If…