SANA AMMAN, (SANA) – The Jihadist Salafi Movement in Jordan admitted that the Jordanian authorities arrested two of its members near the Syrian-Jordanian borders while they were on their way back from Daraa city in Syria. The two members, according to the confession of a leader in the movement, participated in the fighting against the…
New study to examine ecological tipping points in hopes of preventing them by Staff Writers Santa Barbara CA (SPX) An urchin barren, pictured, is the result of unchecked population growth among sea urchins, causing destructive and widespread grazing of kelp forests. Credit: Ron H. McPeak/UC Regents. Predation by otters keeps urchin populations in check, allowing…
Official: World Powers Justify Wrong Deeds through Media TEHRAN (FNA)- The world arrogant powers justify their wrong deeds and prepare the ground for attaining their ominous goals with the help of the media, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said on Thursday. The arrogant powers managed to justify their wrong deeds through media and by…
Albacore tuna show traces of radioactive cesium Associated Press LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Oregon State University researchers have found traces of radioactive cesium from last year’s Japanese nuclear reactor disaster in West Coast albacore tuna. The amount is far too small to harm people who eat the fish, the scientists said. Scientists from the university…
Lindela S Figlan http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85114 cc B SYes, I have to be bold and proud of being South African. But I am not proud because our lovely country is in the wrong hands. Our struggle began with the question of land and land remains at the centre of our struggle today. In the old days the…
by Billy Ball An excerpt from Central Prison inmate Chris McBride’s letter to Indy Week, dated July 4, 2012: “Solitary confinement is hell. I agree with the public—it is a form of torture. It is a tiny cell about 6 feet by 8 feet. It has a steel toilet, with a sink…
SOURCE A leading representative of the Greek Orthodox church, Metropolitan Bishop Ambrosios of Kalavryta, shocked the public yesterday by calling the neo-Nazis in the Golden Dawn party the “sweet hope” of the people. Online Greek news server newsit.gr called the statements of the clergyman symptoms of insanity. Many other Greek news servers noticed that Ambrosios…
2012-10-31 Rustenburg – Crime scenes where 34 miners were killed in August were disturbed, the Farlam commission heard on Wednesday. “No blame on your team, but your scene was corrupt?” Ishmael Semenya, for the SA Police Service, asked a crime scene expert. Captain Apollo Mohlaki agreed. “We will hear evidence that paramedics asked that weapons…
$16 trillion of platinum could be extracted from seawater Cecilia Jamasmie Space mining start-up Planetary Resources President, Chris Lewicki, made more than one eyebrow rise Wednesday as he wrote in his blog that about $16 trillion of platinum is waiting to be extracted from our Earth’s oceans. However, he also said that mining asteroids is a…
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By Clancy Cross Are joy and happiness two words for the same thing? We tend to use these words interchangeably, yet they are different in significant ways. Happiness is a good feeling that rises and falls in response to events and occurrences. In this way, happiness is a…
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I like the irony of this song being on the Playboy label….lol http://youtu.be/ii8RqTAMmPI Kinda of a handsome dude for his age …lol http://youtu.be/5Ckxu3BjcKY
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THE JEENYUS CORNER (FITSNews) – It’s painfully evident at this point that the S.C. Department of Revenue (SCDOR) hasn’t been protecting taxpayers’ personal information … even though S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley says there was “nothing” her agency could have done to stop an unprecedented security breach that occurred earlier…
Iranian FM Confers with Myanmarese Counterpart on Massacre of Muslims TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi in a phone conversation with his Myanmarese counterpart U Wunna Maung Lwin on Wednesday expressed Tehran’s concern over the recent brutal attacks against the Muslim minority in Rakhine State. Salehi expressed “Iran’s serious concern” over the recent…
GOP Tool Spreads False Rumors and Panic About Hurricane Sandy Alternet As widespread worries over Hurricane Sandy spread among New York City residents, one obnoxious right-wing Twitter user took the opportunity to spread unsubstantiated rumours about the impact of the storm. Some of the Twitter messages went viral–and news organizations picked them up. BuzzFeed Politics’…
Dogma and Geopolitics 