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on March 16, 2015 in World News

Al Gore at SXSW: We Need to ‘Punish Climate-Change Deniers’

Al Gore at SXSW: We Need to ‘Punish Climate-Change Deniers’ and ‘Put a Price on Carbon’ The South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival is happening now in Austin, Texas. Running from March 9 to 22, it’s a massive film, interactive and music festival that is nearly 20 years old. The festival brings together designers, developers, investors, entrepreneurs and politicians for panels and discussions about technology and innovation. For the third time in the last few years, Al Gore, founder and chairman of the Climate Reality Project, spoke at the festival on Friday. Naturally, his interactive discussion focused on addressing the climate… View Article

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on March 16, 2015 in World News

Intelligence Services, Lobbies and Advertisers Dictate Mainstream Media Content

Intelligence Services, Lobbies and Advertisers Dictate Mainstream Media Content There are many reasons not to trust the mainstream media (MSM). Most, if not all those reasons, have been analyzed by independent news outlets. The MSM is owned by private companies and financed by advertising, both of which have a clear influence on its editorial content and the overall agenda setting. It has also been proven in the past, during the Church Committee, that the CIA, like other intelligence agencies, uses the mainstream media for propaganda purposes by planting stories and using journalism as a cover for agents. The mainstream media’s… View Article

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on March 16, 2015 in World News

NASA’s Orion Engineer Admits They Can’t Get Past Van Allen Radiation Belts

NASA’s Orion Engineer Admits They Can’t Get Past Van Allen Radiation Belts If this does not get the skeptics going wild on the moon debate, we don’t know what will. In the video presentation below, NASA engineer Kelly Smith explains about many of the risks and pitfalls surrounding the new Orion Deep Space Mission to the planet Mars. Surprisingly, chief among Kelly’s concerns is whether or not his spacecraft can successfully pass through the perilous Van Allen Radiation Belts. Such is the prospective danger in fact, that NASA will have to send a dumbie craft first in order to ‘test… View Article

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on March 16, 2015 in World News

Vladimir Putin says Russia was preparing to use nuclear weapons ‘if necessary’

Vladimir Putin says Russia was preparing to use nuclear weapons ‘if necessary’ Blames US for Ukraine crisis Vladimir Putin has said Russia was so fearful of attack at the height of the Ukraine crisis that it was preparing to arm its nuclear weapons, in extraordinary claims aired on state TV on Sunday night. Amid ongoing Russian media speculation that the President was watching the Crimea documentary from his sickbed, Mr Putin’s full interview with Rossiya One provided new insight into his country’s involvement in the annexation of the Black Sea peninsula. In the documentary, which marks a year since the… View Article

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on March 15, 2015 in World News

Clarkson Hints at Quitting BBC

Clarkson Hints at Quitting BBC Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has hinted that his career at the BBC may be over after penning a column for The Sun about dinosaurs in which he alluded to his own fate by writing about their decline and extinction. The TV personality said: “All the dinosaurs died and now, years later, no one mourns their passing. These big imposing creatures have no place in a world that has moved on. “You can start as many campaigns as you like and call on the support of politicians from all sides, but the day must come… View Article

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on March 15, 2015 in World News

The glove that transmits ‘touch’ over the internet

The glove that transmits ‘touch’ over the internet Blind-deaf people are often forced to live in a small and isolated world. But can a new glove open the way for easier communication? Lesley Ogden Evans reports. It’s good to keep in touch – something that Edi Haug and Laura Schwengber know only too well. The pair have been friends since childhood. Within the first year of their friendship, nerve damage inflicted by an inherited genetic condition robbed Haug of his sight and hearing. He was nine. But children are natural innovators. “We started to invent languages and forms of communication… View Article

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on March 15, 2015 in World News

Non-citizens shocked to get voter registration reminder from Elections Canada

Non-citizens shocked to get voter registration reminder from Elections Canada Josue David Balarezo Flores might have been delighted to be urged to vote — if he wasn’t still waiting just to become a permanent resident. Josue David Balarezo Flores would have been thrilled to receive Elections Canada’s voter registration notice — if the Ecuadorian migrant were already a permanent resident, let alone a citizen. The Toronto resident is among a number of spouses being sponsored for permanent resident status who were surprised — and sometimes, humiliated — to get a letter bearing the Canadian government logo earlier this month, reminding… View Article

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on March 15, 2015 in World News

Jewish newspaper calls on Israel to nuke Iran and Germany

Jewish newspaper calls on Israel to nuke Iran and Germany An Israeli publication has suggested that nuclear bombs should be launched at Iran and Germany—wiping out Tehran, Isfahan, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Dresden, and Dortmund. “Twenty to thirty bombs,” Jewish writer Ben-Eliyahu raves, “will get the job done.” Times of Israel. — Right-wing media outlet Israel National News published an opinion piece Tuesday calling on Israel to launch nuclear bombs at Iran and Germany, only days after the outlet came under fire for publishing a piece accusing a war widow of killing her husband over her pro-peace views…. View Article

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