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>> MYSTERY
MEAT MACROPHOTOGRAPHY - Yesterday I posted shocking
macrophotography pictures of processed meat products.
Since then, over a quarter of a million people have
viewed the photos in the first 24 hours, and word has
spread all over the internet about these sick, graphic
images of processed meats. I've already received numerous
complaints of people vomiting (I'm not kidding)! More
importantly, however, I've also received many comments
from people who say they are no longer going to eat
processed meat products at all.
>> "REDACTED" STUNS
VENICE - A new film about the
real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl
by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family stunned
the Venice festival, with shocking images that left
some viewers in tears.
>> GLOBAL
WARMING TO RESURRECT EIGHT-MILLION-YEAR-OLD ORGANISMS - An 8-million-year-old
bacterium that was extracted from the oldest known
ice on Earth is now growing in a laboratory, claim
researchers. If confirmed, this means ancient bacteria
and viruses will come back to life as ice melts due to global
warming. This is nothing to worry about, say experts, because
the process has been going on for billions of years and the
bugs are unlikely to cause human disease.
>> THE
KENSINGTON RUNESTONE - It's one of Minnesota's
greatest mysteries. It's something that puts settlers
in America well before Columbus. A Minnesota geologist
thinks the controversial Kensington Runestone is the
real thing and there is evidence that he says backs
up the theory.
TOYOTA & HONDA
HYBRID WAR -
Peter Kessner, a devout environmentalist, bought a
Honda Civic hybrid four years ago to show everyone that
he wants to save the planet. The only problem: no one
noticed, since, other than the hybrid badge on the trunk,
it looked like a regular Civic. So he traded it in for
a Toyota Prius. Suddenly, strangers began stopping him
on the street to ask about his hybrid, with its space-age
styling and miserly mileage.
>> GREEN
CONFESSIONS - Forgotten to recycle
any newspapers or tin cans recently? Feeling guilty
because you neglected to carbon offset your flight
to somewhere, anywhere, outside England this summer?
The Roman Catholic Church is at hand with a new line in “green
confessions” to help eco-sinners to find forgiveness.
>> FOLLOWUP:
U.S. OPPOSITION LEADERS WARN OF POTENTIAL 9/11-LIKE
ATTACK -
The controversy continues with this Warning, and visitors
to and users of 911blogger.com should know that there
are accusations of a hoax and misrepresentation surrounding
this document.
>> ONLY
TEN MINUTES ON A MOBILE COULD TRIGGER CANCER -
Mobile phones can take as little as ten minutes to
trigger changes in the brain associated with cancer,
scientists claimed yesterday.
CHRIST-LIKE
BIN LADEN IMAGE STIRS DEBATE IN AUSTRALIA - Artworks
depicting Osama bin Laden in a Christ-like pose and
a statue of the Virgin Mary covered in a burqa have
caused a stir in Australia after they were showcased
in a prestigious religious art competition.
>> NORTH
POLE ICECAP MELTS AS GLOBAL WARMING INCREASES -
The North Pole is melting for the first time in 55m
years. Researchers have found that the icecap at the
top of the world has turned into a mile-wide patch
of open ocean.
WATER
VAPOR SEEN 'RAINING DOWN' ON YOUNG STAR SYSTEM - NASA's
Spitzer Space Telescope has detected enough water vapor
to fill the oceans on Earth five times inside the collapsing
nest of a forming star system. Astronomers say the
water vapor is pouring down from the system's natal
cloud and smacking into a dusty disk where planets
are thought to form.
>> U.S.
OPPOSITION LEADERS WARN OF POTENTIAL 9/11-LIKE ATTACK -
A group of former government officials along with current
Congressional candidates, authors and activists has
issued an urgent warning that a faction of the US government
allied with Dick Cheney is planning to stage a terror
event or provocation as a pretext for launching military
attacks against Iran and implementing emergency powers
in America.
>>>> SAM
HARRIS: THE SACRIFICE OF REASON - Humanity
has had a long fascination with blood sacrifice. In
fact, it has been by no means uncommon for a child
to be born into this world only to be patiently and
lovingly reared by religious maniacs who believe that
the best way to keep the sun on its course or to ensure
a rich harvest is to lead him by tender hand into a
field or to a mountaintop and bury, butcher, or burn
him alive as offering to an invisible (and almost certainly
fictional) God.
>> GREENWASHING
'ECO-FRIENDLY' COMPANIES -
Finding out which companies are truly eco-friendly
can be tricky. Many are keen to assert a 'green' agenda
by peppering annual reports with buzz words such as
'environmental' and 'sustainable'. But look closer
and you will find these documents often contain much
useful information that can help you to assess how
squeaky clean a company really is.
>> OCEANS
ARE LIKELY TO KEEP RISING 'FOR MANY CENTURIES' - The
report reiterates best estimates that temperatures
will rise by 1.8 to 4.0 Celsius (3 to 7 Fahrenheit)
this century and that sea levels will rise by between
18 and 59 centimetres. But it says ocean levels are
likely to keep rising "for
many centuries" even if greenhouse gases are stabilised,
because water expands as it heats up. The deep oceans will
keep heating up as warmth filters down from the surface.
>> MORE
IRAQIS FLEE AS FIGURE TOPS FOUR MILLION - More than four
million Iraqis have fled their homes because of sectarian
violence, the largest population movement in the Middle
East since Palestinians left the new state of Israel,
the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.
>> GREENHOUSE
GASES FUELED 2006 US WARMTH -Greenhouse
gas emissions -- not El Nino or other natural phenomena
-- pushed US temperatures for 2006 close to a record
high, government climate scientists reported on Tuesday.
PATHOLOGIST:
DOCTOR KILLED BEETHOVEN - Did someone
kill Beethoven? A Viennese pathologist claims the composer's
physician did -- inadvertently overdosing him with
lead in a case of a cure that went wrong.
100-YEAR-OLD
CELEBRATES HER BIRTHDAY BY SMOKING 170,000TH CIGARETTE -
An iron-lunged pensioner has celebrated her 100th birthday
by lighting up her 170,000th cigerette from a candle
on her birthday cake.
>> ASTONISHING
TOWER COLLAPSE SCREAMS "NO NEW NUKES!!" - A
cooling tower at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power plant
has collapsed. A broken 54" pipe there has spewed 350,000
gallons per minute of contaminated, overheated water into
the Earth. "The
river water piping and the series of screens and supports
failed," said a company spokesman. They "fell to
the ground."
>> MOVIE
TO BE MADE ON GAUTAMA BUDDHA'S LIFE - An
historical epic is to be filmed about the life and teachings
of the Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, a South
Asian production team said Monday.
>> U.S. MOST ARMED COUNTRY
WITH 90 GUNS PER 100 PEOPLE - The United States has 90 guns for
every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society
in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.
>> THE
FUTURE OF THE WORKPLACE: NO OFFICE, HEADQUARTERS IN
CYBERSPACE - Imagine a work world with
no commute, no corporate headquarters and perhaps not
even an office in the physical world at all.
STUDY
FINDS VIAGRA INCREASES RELEASE OF 'LOVE HORMONE' -
Researchers have found that Viagra stimulates production
of oxytocin, the so-called "love hormone" or "cuddle
chemical.” It's the first indication of a chemical
mechanism through which impotence drugs may have physical
effects besides increasing blood flow to sexual organs,
says Meyer Jackson, a physiology professor at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
>>
HOW SLEEP WORKS - If you have
ever wondered about why people have to sleep or what causes
dreams, then read on. In this article, you'll find out all
about sleep and what it does for you.
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