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Signs of new activity at North Korea's nuclear test site

By Jennifer Rizzo

Activity is ramping up at North Korea's nuclear test site, a sign that the country is preparing for a test, according to analysis of…

Lady Gaga cancels Indonesian gig over Islamist threats Pop icon Lady Gaga and her management have decided to cancel her show in Indonesia after Islamists threatened to bring “chaos” on the singer if she dares enter the country. The decision was announced just a week before the scheduled tour date. Java : Indonesian Islamic hardliners chanting "go to hell Lady Gaga" stage a protest against US pop diva Lady Gaga's upcoming Jakarta concert, outside the US embassy in Jakarta on May 25, 2012.…

Study: Social media and the Internet allowed young Arab women to play a central role in the Arab Spring

Over the course of 2011's momentous Arab Spring uprisings, young women in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen used social media and cyberactivism to carve out central roles in the revolutionary struggles under way in ...

Extreme poverty: 2.8 million children in the U.S. live on $2 per day

February 27, 2012 By Jared Wadley

(PhysOrg.com) -- One in five households with children in poverty are surviving on the cash equivalent of a half gallon of milk per person per day in a given month.

Social welfare cuts ultimately come with heavy price, researchers say

May 24, 2012

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10 million years needed to recover from mass extinction

May 27, 2012

It took some 10 million years for Earth to recover from the greatest mass extinction of all time, latest research has revealed.…

Stunning image of smallest possible five-ringed structure May 27, 2012 Stunning image of smallest possible 5 rings Enlarge Olympicene radical AFM Laplace filtered. The black bar corresponds to 0.5 nm. Credit: IBM Research - Zurich, University of Warwick, Royal Society of Chemistry Scientists have created and imaged the smallest possible five-ringed structure – about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair – and you'll probably recognise its shape.…

UFO sighting by RAF pilot captured on radar left government's chief scientist 'convinced' by evidence

By Chris Hanlon

PUBLISHED: 18:12 GMT, 27 May 2012 | UPDATED: 18:38 GMT, 27 May…

Naked man shot dead by police as he chewed victim's face off by side of freeway

By Christine Show

PUBLISHED: 04:56 GMT, 27 May 2012 | UPDATED: 20:57 GMT, 27 May 2012…

Fukushima Daiichi’s wUnit 4 Spent-Fuel Pool Up Close

Wall Street Journal

Phred Dvorak

May 27, 2012

[...] the pool, an 11-meter deep well [...] stretches between floors…

Great Blog here by Craig Andreesen!!

Obama Eligibility: Identifying the Real Fools By Craig Andresen on May 21, 2012 at 8:53…

WOW, the Zombie's are out !

what do you think about this weird story.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/26/naked-man-eating-victims-face-killed-miami_n_1548359.html?ncid=webmail2

A revolution is part of the political world. A revolutionary’s approach is through politics. His understanding is that the structure of society is enough to change the human being.

A rebel, as I use the term, is a spiritual phenomenon. His approach is absolutely individual. His vision is if you want to change society you have to change the individual. Society in itself does not exist. It is only a word, like “crowd”.  Society is a collective name; just a name with no reality, no…

The basic fallacy of love is that you always have to love a specific person. This is one of the most significant things about all human being. There love is always for somebody. The moment you address your love, you destroy it. It is like saying I will only breath for you. And when you are not there, how can I breathe? Love should be like breathing. It should just be a quality to you. Wherever you are or whosoever you are with. Even if you are alone, love goes on overflowing you. It is not a…

The government beast to the people: sleep now, little child. Everything is going to be alright. Mommy and I are not going to let anyone hurt you.

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The Western media is keeping mainstream Western consciousness in a state of sleep. It is doing this in order to suppress public awareness of…

While the global elite are still clinging to the hope that the euro single currency can survive a Greek exit that now looks inevitable, some members of the financial aristocracy have already given up on the entire eurozone altogether.…

The national unemployment rates gets lots of attention, and lately more attention has been paid to the workforce participation rate since more Americans have given up looking for a job, but we can also see that an astounding 100 million Americans don't have jobs ... According to the April jobs report, the number of jobless American stood at 100.9 million. – Business Insider

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We're going through a rough patch but things will be all right.…

The dollar’s death by a thousand cuts just sustained a major blow courtesy the samurai as Kyodo News announced Saturday that Yen-Yuan direct trading will begin in June. Coincidence that Jim Sinclair predicted 6 months ago that the US dollar would suffer a major set-back in June 2012?

From Kyodo:

Japan and China are expected to start direct trading of their currencies as early as in June as part of efforts to boost bilateral trade and investment, financial sources in China…