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JAPAN: How to turn human shit into tastey steak
Post Date: 2011-06-19 10:20:29 by A K A Stone
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Somehow this feels like a Vonnegut plotline: population boom equals food shortage. Solution? Synthesize food from human waste matter. Absurd yes, but Japanese scientists have actually discovered a way to create edible steaks from human feces. Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, has developed steaks based on proteins from human excrement. Tokyo Sewage approached the scientist because of an overabundance of sewage mud. They asked him to explore the possible uses of the sewage and Ikeda found that the mud contained a great deal of protein because of all the bacteria. The researchers then extracted those proteins, combined them with a reaction enhancer and put it in an ...
Obama Gives Netanyahu Ultimatum on Resuming Talks
Post Date: 2011-06-18 09:44:12 by CZ82
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Obama Gives Netanyahu Ultimatum on Resuming Talks June 12, 2011 at 9:47pm by Naked Emperor News Report: US gives Netanyahu ultimatum on resuming talks Israel Radio Reported Sunday that The United States gave Netanyahu an ultimatum on renewing negotiations with the Palestinians. According to the ultimatum, Netanyahu has to decide within a month whether he agrees to accept US President Obama’s proposal and resume talks based on 1967 lines. Washington is pressuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accede to its proposal to resume Israeli-Palestinian peace talks on the basis of U.S. President Barack Obama’s May 19 speech. An Israeli source who spoke recently with senior ...
Rubber Bullets Fly at Anti-Obama Protest In Rio
Post Date: 2011-06-17 12:37:44 by Brian S
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A molotov cocktail was launched in front of the US consulate in Rio de Janeiro late Friday in protest of the arrival of President Barack Obama, the O Globo newspaper in Rio reported. Military police reacted by firing rubber bullets into the gathering of 200 at around 18:30 local time. A CBN news reporter suffered a minor injury from the shots and traffic was blocked. “They came after us with clubs and tear gas and attacked,” according to protestor Thiago Hastenheiter. “They chased us through the streets and started firing rounds of rubber bullets.” Police major Fabio Alessandro of the 13th Batallion of Rio’s military police said that the protestors, all left ...
IMF Cuts U.S. Growth Forecast, Warns Of Crisis
Post Date: 2011-06-17 11:36:47 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for U.S. economic growth on Friday and warned Washington and debt-ridden European countries that they are "playing with fire" unless they take immediate steps to reduce their budget deficits. The IMF, in its regular assessment of global economic prospects, said bigger threats to growth had emerged since its previous report in April, citing the euro zone debt crisis and signs of overheating in emerging market economies. The Washington-based global lender forecast that U.S. gross domestic product would grow a tepid 2.5 percent this year and 2.7 percent in 2012. In its forecast just two months ago, it had expected 2.8 ...
Possible Al-Qaida Hit List Targets Specific Americans (has anyone found the 'list' online yet?)
Post Date: 2011-06-16 20:42:37 by Brian S
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An al-Qaida-linked website has posted a potential hit list of targets that include names and photos of several U.S. officials and business leaders, calling for terrorists to target these Americans in their own homes, NBC New York has learned. The FBI has sent out a new intelligence bulletin to law enforcement agencies, warning that this new web-based threat, while not a specific plot, is very detailed. The bulletin said the list includes leaders "in government, industry and media." The FBI has notified those individuals who are named. NBC New York will not identify them or their companies. The list includes Wall Street firms, political leaders, leaders with think tanks and ...
Chinese President Arrives In Moscow To Boost Cooperation
Post Date: 2011-06-16 20:40:44 by Brian S
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Chinese President Hu Jintao (front) arrives in Moscow, Russia, June 15, 2011. Hu Jintao arrived in Moscow Wednesday for a state visit to Russia to deepen pragmatic cooperation between China and Russia. He will attend the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum during visit. (Xinhua/Rao Aimin) Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Moscow on Wednesday for a state visit aimed at deepening pragmatic cooperation between China and Russia. Hu said in a statement released upon his arrival at the airport that his visit intends to inject fresh impetus into the sustained, healthy and stable growth of the China-Russia strategic partnership of cooperation. In the Russian capital, Hu will meet ...
Republicans Return to Reality
Post Date: 2011-06-16 18:20:48 by jwpegler
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The candidates' second thoughts about Afghanistan and other foreign adventures. First impressions from a presidential debate are always about how things look, how people come across. Tim Pawlenty doesn't really assert, he natters. Rick Santorum is earnest, Michelle Bachmann serious. Mitt Romney knows how he looks in every camera shot from every angle: He is a master of the cutaway shot, when the camera isn't on him. He keeps his posture and maintains a kindly smile, as if he's pleased the other candidate are sharing their nice little thoughts. But the GOP debate in New Hampshire was a big success in two ways. First, there was no obvious candidate from Crazytown, which was ...
Japan: Tepco to build sarcophagus over Fukushima reactor
Post Date: 2011-06-16 16:36:57 by Ferret Mike
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The operator of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant has announced plans to construct a shroud over one of the reactor buildings, a stop-gap measure until a more permanent solution can be found, such as entombing the facility in concrete. A similar concrete sarcophagus was built over the remains of the reactors at the Chernobyl power plant after that facility was destroyed in an accident in April 1986. Tokyo Electric Power Co. will start the construction of a rigid steel frame over the No. 1 reactor on June 27, Yoshikazu Nagai, a spokesman for the company, said. A hydrogen explosion destroyed the walls and roof of the reactor building on March 12, the day after the cooling system was ...
Al-Qaeda Names Zawahiri To Succeed bin Laden
Post Date: 2011-06-16 11:48:03 by Brian S
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DUBAI (AFP) – Al-Qaeda on Thursday named its second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri to succeed slain chief Osama bin Laden and vowed to relentlessly pursue its "jihad' against the United States and Israel. "The general command of Al-Qaeda announces, after consultations, the appointment of Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahiri as head of the group," the jihadist network said in statement posted on an Islamist website. Egyptian Zawahiri, the group's long-time number two, succeeds bin Laden who was killed by US commandos in a May 2 raid in Pakistan. The statement said that under Zawahiri's leadership Al-Qaeda would relentlessly pursue its 'jihad' (holy war) against ...
Great white sharks attracted by AC/DC hits
Post Date: 2011-06-16 07:23:20 by A K A Stone
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SHARKS ENTHUSIASTS HAVE USED fish guts to attract great white sharks for years, but it seems the fearsome creatures may be attracted to something more pleasing to their ears: music from Australian rock band AC/DC. Matt Waller, a tour operator in South Australia's Neptune Bay, has observed that when sharks hear the band's hits, especially Shook Me All Night Long and Back in Black, they are drawn to the source of the music. Matt's research was inspired by dive operators on Guadalupe Island, who discovered playing music underwater for clients also caused changes in shark behaviour. He and his company, Adventure Bay Charters, decided to do some experimenting of their own. Using ...
Turk, Israeli Charged With Organ Trafficking in Kosovo
Post Date: 2011-06-15 19:12:56 by Brian S
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A European Union prosecutor in Kosovo has indicted a Turkish and an Israeli citizen for involvement in illegal trafficking of human organs at a clinic in Pristina. The European Union justice mission in Kosovo announced Monday that Yusuf Sonmez of Turkey and Israel's Moshe Harel were charged last week with trafficking in persons, unlawful medical activity and organized crime. The two are considered fugitives and Interpol has issued warrants for their arrests. The indictments are part of a larger investigation into allegations that an organized criminal group conducted operations in a clinic outside the capital Pristina, transplanting illegally harvested organs. EU prosecutors say ...
Obama Wants Me Dead, Says Kenyan Drug Lord
Post Date: 2011-06-15 15:45:10 by Happy Quanzaa
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Kenyan John Mwau A prominent Kenyan multi-millionaire businessman and politician, John Harun Mwau, who has been labeled a ‘Narcotic Kingpin’ by the American government has claimed that U.S President Barack Obama is seeking to eliminate him on account of his vast business holdings in the United States, valued at about $750 million. Mwau recently spoke to journalists from Kenya’s Sunday Nation newspaper, saying: “The US government knows that I have interests in a chain of businesses, especially in supermarkets. They know that we have been expanding and growing. They want to stop this and have their own people take them over.” Mwau declared that his battle with the ...
Israel’s Jewish Exodus
Post Date: 2011-06-15 13:45:06 by Brian S
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Hard-line Israelis reject the idea of reasonable compromises for peace, arguing that any significant concessions to Palestinian sovereignty would threaten Israel’s security or the Zionist cause, but Lawrence Davidson notes that demographic trends, including a growing Jewish exodus from Israel, could have far worse consequences. By Lawrence Davidson June 15, 2011 If the historical goal of the state of Israel is to provide the world’s Jews a secure national home, a place of refuge in a world of real or potential anti-Semitism, it seems to have failed. It has failed not because this writer says so, but because an increasing number of its own Jewish citizens say so. There have been ...
China And Allies Back Russia Against U.S. Missile Shield
Post Date: 2011-06-15 13:43:26 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - Russia won the backing of China and other members of a regional security body in criticizing U.S. plans for a missile shield, saying on Wednesday it could undermine global security. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a security bloc grouping Russia, China and four ex-Soviet Central Asian states, signed a declaration condemning any unilateral build-up of missile defenses after their leaders met in the Kazakh capital. "The unilateral and unlimited build-up of missile defense by a single state or by a narrow group of states could damage strategic stability and international security," the six members of the SCO said in the declaration. Apart from regional ...
Source: CIA safe house owner in bin Laden raid arrested
Post Date: 2011-06-15 09:32:12 by go65
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Pakistan's intelligence agency has arrested a person who rented a safe house to the CIA before American special forces killed Osama bin Laden, as well as suspected CIA informants, a source familiar with the arrests told CNN Wednesday. A second official confirmed that Pakistan had detained informants who gave information to the CIA before the raid but said he did not know the exact number of people arrested or when it happened. The revelations, first reported by The New York Times, are likely to further strain what has become a rocky relationship between the two countries. Click for Full Text!
Obama Ignores Implications of Hamas-Fatah Government
Post Date: 2011-06-14 18:34:33 by CZ82
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Obama Ignores Implications of Hamas-Fatah Government Jonathan S. Tobin 06.14.2011 - 4:30 PM Last week, the Obama administration resumed its attempt to pressure Israel into agreeing to the 1967 lines as the starting point for future peace talks. This point, like previous disputes with Obama over Jerusalem and settlement freezes, is intended to entice the Palestinians to return to peace talks. But while Washington obsesses over its attempt to hammer the Netanyahu government into submission, few here are paying attention to a much more important story: the way the Hamas-Fatah unity pact is transforming Palestinian politics. As the Jerusalem Post reports today, those who expected Hamas ...
Netanyahu's Trap For America
Post Date: 2011-06-14 14:36:59 by Brian S
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There is no likelihood that the US will do the logical thing and vote for Palestinian statehood in the UN this fall. The US position will remain that peace will only come from the two parties with the US or the Quartet facilitating. But at this point, hasn't that option been totally played out? When the US exercises even a smidgen of even-handedness, as in Obama's recent speech, the pro-Israel fanatics have a cow. They have a cow every time Obama deviates from the hardest Israeli line of the moment. After two and a half years, it is clear this is going nowhere, apart from a consolidation of Israel's grip on the West Bank, the continued humiliation of the American president, and ...
New Egypt? 7,000 civilians jailed since Mubarak fell/Obama Praises Egypt’s Young People for Bringing About Historic Change
Post Date: 2011-06-14 13:07:52 by Happy Quanzaa
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New Egypt? 7K civilians jailed since Mubarak fell By Mohannad Sabry | McClatchy Newspapers CAIRO — Egypt's military rulers told human rights advocates Monday that at least 7,000 civilians have been sentenced to prison terms by military courts since Hosni Mubarak was ousted — an astoundingly high number likely to fuel debate over how much the revolution has changed the country. Advocates said the military promised to review the cases and vacate any improper guilty verdicts and commute the sentences. But the advocates voiced skepticism and demanded more information about civilians in military custody. "This is not the first time they've promised," said Mona ...
Amtrak touts 'international peer review' of high-speed rail plans
Post Date: 2011-06-14 00:56:26 by socalv8
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The national passenger rail service, better known as Amtrak, said Monday that rail companies in Europe and Japan said its plans to build high-speed railways in the Northeast were sound. The foreign opinions, which Amtrak dubbed an "international peer review," comes as Republicans in the House are pushing to plan to privatize rail service in the Northeast. The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has frequently referred to Amtrak as a "Soviet-style operation," but the agency said Monday that "leading European and Japanese high-speed rail operators" found Amtrak's assessment that it can gradually get trains up to 220 miles per ...
Pilot killed after helping 3 passengers make incredible escape as Goodyear blimp plunges to ground in flames
Post Date: 2011-06-13 15:03:13 by Happy Quanzaa
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A Goodyear blimp burst into flames and plunged to earth in a weekend crash in Germany. The pilot was killed but three passengers managed to jump to safety when the airship caught fire as it was coming in to land at the Reichelsheim aerodrome near Friedberg. When the airship was just six metres from the floor, the pilot told his passengers, all journalists, to jump to the ground while he tried to land safely. Once the three had leapt clear of the blimp he took it back up before being it became overwhelmed by flames and crashed to the earth, in a chilling echo of the Hindenburg disaster. Scroll down to see the German news report>i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/06/13/article-2002935-0 ...
Study finds global warming over past 400 years was due to increased Solar activity
Post Date: 2011-06-13 14:35:04 by no gnu taxes
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Apparently previous studies of the sun-climate connection looked at the equatorial polar magnetic field which produces sun spots, but they did not consider the polar magnetic component of the solar dynamo. The polar fields are less strong than the equatorial fields, but it is claimed that the total magnetic fluxes of both fields are comparable. With proxy data they derive an empirical relation between tropospherical temperatures and solar equatorial and polar magnetic fields. The polar field could contribute about 30% as much as the equatorial field. The paper, published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics focused on the period 1844-1960 (but extended at least one ...
German Court Rejects Demjanjuk Extradition Request
Post Date: 2011-06-13 12:46:40 by Brian S
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(JTA) -- A German court denied a request to extradite John Demjanjuk to Spain to stand trial on charges of being an accessory to genocide and crimes against humanity. In denying the extradition request on June 9, the Munich court questioned Spain's jurisdiction in the case and also noted that the evidence presented against Demjanjuk was incomplete. The Supreme Court of Spain had indicted Demjanjuk, 91, in January and requested an international arrest warrant for the former Cleveland-area autoworker. Demjanjuk was accused of being responsible for the deaths of 50 of 155 Spanish prisoners in the German concentration camp Flossenburg. He was charged in Spain under the country's ...
Alleged 'spy' in Egypt is US citizen, IDF paratrooper
Post Date: 2011-06-13 11:12:22 by Brian S
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Ilan Grapel, the alleged Mossad agent arrested on Sunday in Egypt, is an American citizen who served in the IDF Paratrooper’s Brigade during the Second Lebanon War and interned last summer at the Israeli Supreme Court. Grapel, originally from New York, moved to Israel after graduating from John Hopkins University in the US and enlisted in the IDF. He was wounded during fighting against Hezbollah guerillas in the southern Lebanese town of Taibe in August, 2006. In an interview to the New York Daily News in 2006, Irene Grapel said her son decided to enlist in the IDF since he "didn't want a boring life" and craved some adventure before enrolling in graduate school. A ...
Iran Says Israel Should Join NPT, Accept IAEA's Watch: FM
Post Date: 2011-06-13 10:59:14 by Brian S
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TEHRAN, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said Sunday that Israel should join the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and accept the watch and inspection of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) into its nuclear establishments. Addressing the opening ceremony of an international nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran on Sunday, Salehi said Israel is the only obstacle to creating a Middle East free of nuclear weapons. In order to establish stability in the Middle East region, the global community should push Israel to join NPT and make it accept the watch and inspection of IAEA into its nuclear facilities, he said. Israel possesses different kinds ...
Obama and his Jewish supporters
Post Date: 2011-06-13 06:45:35 by CZ82
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Obama and his Jewish supporters Lee DeCovnick Discussing the Obama's Administrations deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, double- dealing duplicitous betrayal of Israel with my Jewish friends has become increasingly hazardous to our friendships. After we dogfight over the "real significance" of Obama's "'67 lines" speech, and the geographic minutia of the defensible borders, I drop the bombshell question, "Why do think Obama hates Jews and the state of Israel." Their response almost always elicits an eye popping, jaw dropping, red- faced righteous indignation, followed by some combination of shouted words and spittle that include, ...
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