Journey to the Center of the Earth
Posted on 14. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Business & Finance, Politics, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan
Miles below the ocean floor lies enough oil to power the U.S. for more than a decade—and perhaps our best shot at energy independence.
From the window of a helicopter 1,500 feet above the Gulf of Mexico, oil platforms look like Tinkertoys in a swimming pool. Dozens dot the horizon stretching south from New Orleans and [...]
Skulls And Spears: Vikings Found In Dorset
Posted on 13. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan
Fifty skulls found in a burial pit in Dorset probably belonged to Vikings who had been slaughtered by our Anglo-Saxon ancestors, archaeologists have revealed.
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Tests showed they ate a high protein diet, which is comparable with other sites uncovered in Sweden.
Injuries to the jaw and head had been [...]
Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet?
Posted on 07. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Feedback, Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Free Speech, Science and Technology
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The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence.
McConnell’s not dangerous because he knows anything about SQL injection hacks, but because he knows about social engineering. He’s the nice-seeming guy who’s willing and able to use fear-mongering [...]
Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin,
Posted on 07. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Opinion, Religion, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn’t taken a friend’s advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old’s biology lessons.
Mule’s precocious daughter Elizabeth excels at science and has been studying tarantulas since she was 5. But she watched Elizabeth’s excitement turn to confusion when they reached the [...]
U.S. Tightening Missile Shield Towards China and Russia
Posted on 06. Mar, 2010 by Nathaniel Bacon in Europe News, Science and Technology
So far this year the United States has succeeded in inflaming tensions with China and indefinitely holding up a new strategic arms reduction treaty with Russia through its relentless pursuit of global interceptor deployments.
On January 29 the White House confirmed the completion of nearly $6.5 billion weapons transfer to Taiwan which includes 200 advanced Patriot [...]
Voluntary, Involuntary is the choice really yours?
Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Health, Rob Belatucadros, Science and Technology
London, England (LifeNews.com) — A British “ethicist” says doctors in England are already killing patients even though the British House of Lords [...]
‘beewolves’ used and found antibiotics first, study shows
Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Health, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan
A humble wasp learned how to use sophisticated antibiotics millions of years before the invention of penicillin, research has shown.
Digger wasps of the family Philanthus, also known as “beewolves”, harness beneficial bacteria to manufacture a cocktail of drugs that protect its larvae from infection.
Scientists who made the discovery believe it could assist the development of [...]
Massive head of pharaoh unearthed. .
Posted on 28. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Real History, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan
The head of Amenhotep III, which alone is about the height of a person, was found in the ruins of the pharaoh’s mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor.
The Egyptian-European expedition under the guidance of German-Armenian archaeologist Hourig Sourouzian has been excavating the temple near the famous seated colossi of Memnon for the last [...]
Oil, gas, gold, copper, etc., Oh My!
Posted on 13. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Business & Finance, Commentary, Science and Technology
This discovery comes from an incredibly deep well of information in the writings of Ezili Danto (Marguerite Laurent), in her article, Part 2, Oil in Haiti as the economic reasons for the US/UN occupation, written in January. Danto�s opening line links to Part 1 of the story from her website, and contains a cache of [...]
Ancient Greenland Gene Map Has a Surprise
Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by Rob Belatucadros in Rob Belatucadros, Science and Technology, Top Stories
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have sequenced the DNA from four frozen hairs of a Greenlander who died 4,000 years ago in a study they say takes genetic technology into several new realms.
Surprisingly, the long-dead man appears to have originated in Siberia and is unrelated to modern Greenlanders, Morten Rasmussen of the University of Copenhagen and [...]
2 Billion Stimulus Dollars And 6000 Jobs… Made in China
Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Economy, Politics, Science and Technology
Israeli Scientists Show DNA Evidence Can be Fabricated
Posted on 06. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Hidden Crimes, Israel & Jewish Issues, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan
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(NaturalNews) Scientists from the Tel Aviv, Israel-based company Nucleix have demonstrated that it is possible to create fake DNA samples and plant them as evidence at a crime scene, in a paper published in the journal Forensic Science: International Genetics.
“You can just engineer a crime scene,” said lead researcher and Nucleix co-founder Dan Frumkin. “Any [...]
CO2 Emissions Irrelevant in Earth’s Climate
Posted on 14. Jan, 2010 by Rob Belatucadros in Politics, Rob Belatucadros, Science and Technology, Top Stories
For years now, we have been told that science is dedicatedly attempting to find out how the Earth’s Climate works. With all possible seriousness, the most publically vocal of these scientists, those working for the UN’s IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), have for the last several years blamed the warming they “found” on Carbon [...]
Fear of violence grows in mountaintop mining fight
Posted on 14. Jan, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Events, Opinion, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan
— It was the slap heard ’round the coalfields: Cordelia Ruth Tucker, wearing the fluorescent-striped shirt of a miner, strode past West Virginia state troopers and into a stream of marchers protesting mountaintop removal mining to deliver an audible smack.
The 54-year-old Rock Creek woman isn’t talking as she awaits trial on a battery charge. Her [...]
TB-Infected Man on ‘No Board List’ Flies Into SFO
Posted on 13. Jan, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Health, Hidden Crimes, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan
Over the weekend, a man on the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention’s “do not board” list, with a steaming case of tuberculosis, managed to fly from Philadelphia to SFO. Should his fellow passengers be worried? Not so, says US Airways spokesman Morgan Durant.
“We’re pleased to hear from CDC that there is little to no [...]
New Study Finds Poo Bacteria in Your Soda
Posted on 12. Jan, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Feedback, Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Health, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan
A new study has found that a little less than half of sodas poured from fountains in the Roanoke, Virginia area are contaminated with coliform bacteria, an indicator of fecal contamination.
According to the work, published in the International Journal of Food Microbiology, 48 percent of the 90 regular sodas, diet sodas, and waters the researchers [...]
New Jersey Lawmakers Pass Medical Marijuana Bill
Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Feedback, Health, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan
TRENTON — The New Jersey Legislature approved a measure on Monday that would make the state the 14th in the nation, but one of the few on the East Coast, to legalize the use of marijuana to help patients with chronic illnesses.
The measure — which would allow patients diagnosed with severe illnesses like cancer, AIDS, [...]
Body Scanner Waves and its effect on DNA
Posted on 08. Jan, 2010 by Nathaniel Bacon in Health, Science and Technology
GREAT THINGS ARE EXPECTED OF TERAHERTZ WAVES, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. Terahertz waves pass through non-conducting materials such as clothes, paper, wood and brick so cameras sensitive to them can peer inside, into living rooms and “frisk” people at a distance.
The way terahertz waves [...]
Whats Hidden That The Law Allows
Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Business & Finance, Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Health, Politics, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan
Of the 84,000 chemicals in commercial use in the United States — from flame retardants in furniture to household cleaners — nearly 20 percent are secret, according to the Environmental Protection Agency,
Government officials, scientists and environmental groups say that manufacturers have exploited weaknesses in the law to claim secrecy for an ever-increasing number of chemicals. [...]
Cell phone to help illegal immigrants could launch by summer
Posted on 31. Dec, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Education, Feedback, Immigration, Science and Technology
“The people that are against this technology are better off protesting in front of Walmart,” Stalbaum said.
The cell phone tool can help point people in the direction they need to go to find water, or even a U.S. Border Patrol station, if someone needs help. The cell phone application is similar to the one found [...]
Scientists crack gene code of common cancers
Posted on 27. Dec, 2009 by John Fife in Health, Science and Technology
The maps have exposed the DNA mutations that lead to skin and lung cancers, in a discovery scientists said could transform the way these diseases are diagnosed and treated in coming years.
All cancers are caused by damage to genes — mutations in DNA — that can be triggered by environmental factors such as tobacco smoke, [...]
Howard Schmidt Appointed Federal Cybersecurity Coordinator
Posted on 23. Dec, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Politics, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan
The announcement came Tuesday from Washington that Schmidt had been appointed by President Obama to head federal cybersecurity. His new government responsibilities will take him from the classes he taught at ISU all the way to the nation’s capital.
Jon Holmes, ISU CyberCorps student: “It’s a pretty exciting feeling having someone that’s been in the classes [...]
China says it can’t see reaching agreement on climate pact
Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Business & Finance, Economy, Politics, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan
COPENHAGEN — China has told participants in the U.N.-sponsored climate talks that it cannot envision reaching an immediate, operational accord out of the negotiations here, according to an official involved in the talks. Chinese officials conveyed this message early Thursday, the official added. It remains unclear what China would be willing to embrace instead [...]
African Leaders’ Climate Message Unheard At Home
Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Economy, Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan, Top Stories
Africa contributes the least to global warming, but stands to suffer the most. That is the case African leaders are making at U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen, where they walked out of negotiations to make sure their point is heard. They are seeking a higher reduction in emissions by the industrialized world and more financial [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE IS NATURAL: 100 REASONS WHY
Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Events, Feedback, Health, Science and Technology
HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made:
1) There is “no real scientific proof” that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from man’s activity. 2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than 0.00022 percent of [...]
Gaps in DNA databanks have led to tragedy
Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Events, Hidden Crimes, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan
During what police say was a 20-year killing spree in Milwaukee, Walter Ellis left his DNA behind all along the way – everywhere but the one place where it might have saved a life.
Ellis should have given a DNA sample to the state crime databank during a prison stint in the early part of this [...]
Controversy over remains of the world’s most famous leader
Posted on 11. Dec, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Europe News, Science and Technology
Russia’s intelligence service FSB has denied claims by an American scientist that skull fragments in its archive are not those of Adolf Hitler.
The scientist recently conducted a DNA test and concluded that the skull belonged to a woman.
The controversy surrounding Adolf Hitler’s skull fragments is a little embarrassing for the Russian secret service. In 2000 [...]
Light Mystery in Norway’s Sky
Posted on 11. Dec, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia’s new nuclear-capable missile suffered another failed test launch, the defence ministry said Thursday, solving the mystery of a spectacular plume of white light that appeared over Norway.
The Bulava missile was test-fired from the submarine Dmitry Donskoi in the White Sea early Wednesday but failed at the third stage, the defence ministry [...]
Professor Creates the . . .’Transborder Immigrant Tool’
Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Education, Hidden Crimes, Immigration, Science and Technology
A UC San Diego professor said he has developed a cell phone tool that may help guide illegal immigrants safely across the border.
Similar to the way hungry drivers can find a restaurant through the global positioning system devices in their cars and cell phones, illegal immigrants soon may be able to plot their ways across [...]
Al Gore to Cancel Talk at Copenhagen
Posted on 04. Dec, 2009 by Rob Belatucadros in Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Israel & Jewish Issues, Politics, Rob Belatucadros, Science and Technology, Top Stories
Al Gore’s scheduled December 16th speech with the auspicious title “Climate Conclusion” has been canceled amid the scandal of Climategate. About 3,000 Danes had tickets for the Berlinske Media event that was announced in August. Al Gore has been the poster child for Global Warming, but has been under scrutiny from scientists who argue against [...]
Q&A with Jesse Ventura
Posted on 04. Dec, 2009 by Rob Belatucadros in 9/11, Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Israel & Jewish Issues, Politics, Real History, Rob Belatucadros, Science and Technology, Top Stories
What attracted you to “Conspiracy Theory?”
First of all, during my heyday of wrestling when we started flying all over the country, you spend a lot of hours in airports and on planes. You can call me an expert on the murder of John Kennedy. I read everything I could on his assassination. I found it [...]
H.R.515/S.232 bills Prohibit Importing Radioactive Waste
Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Health, Politics, Science and Technology
The United States of America is the only country in the world that has said they would take Radioactive Waste from other countires to dispose of in the state of Utah.
99% from Italy, waste from Brazil and even Mexico was mentioned today on CSPAN. While a few Representatives agreed to pass H.R. 515, many [...]
Culture of old Europe highlights a refinement of its visual language
Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Arts/Entertainment, Nathaniel Bacon, Science and Technology
Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade.
For 1,500 years, starting earlier than 5000 B.C., they farmed and built [...]
Local physician: HIV/AIDS cure getting little publicity
Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Health, Opinion, Science and Technology
Dr. Awadhesh Gupta said medical ‘politics’ could be reason
According to Gupta, who has been practicing medicine in the South Baldwin area since 1997, the cure was first reported in early 2008 by a group of physicians from Germany at the annual conference on “Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections” in Boston. The New England Journal of Medicine, [...]
Scientists have developed ‘Test Tube Pork/Bacon’
Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Health, Science and Technology
Scientists in the Netherlands have created pig in a test tube. Debate has already started on whether it will save the world, or just throw vegetarians into a quandary. They could be the new front-runners for a million-dollar prize offered by a major animal rights group. The implications of this breakthrough in “in vitro [...]
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