Thousands Stage Anti-Government Rally in Cairo
Saturday, 02 July 2011 06:48
‘Around 5,000 protesters, including the families of those killed during the revolution, gathered in Liberation Square on Friday. They called for the trial of police officers involved in the killings.
Some urged an end to military trials of civilians while others wanted the resignation of current Minister of Interior Mansour el-Essawy. Protesters accuse the ruling military council of Mubarak-era tactics to crush dissent.’
‘Ea Enki’ – ASCII Code Found in Italian Crop Formation
Saturday, 02 July 2011 07:14
‘Strob (George Costanza) on Circle Chasers Facebook writes: “The Poirino 2011formation contains some coded information. Among other things, the outer rim contains the names ‘Enki Ea,’ coded in ASCII. These are names of a Sumerian god: Lord of the earth, god of water, creator of mankind.”’
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Huge Pro-Gadaffi Rally in Tripoli
Saturday, 02 July 2011 07:20
India Offers Free Cars In Return For Sterilization
Saturday, 02 July 2011 07:30
‘Health officials in the Indian state of Rajasthan are launching a new campaign to try reduce the high population growth in the area.
They are encouraging men and women to volunteer for sterilisation, and in return are offering a car and other prizes for those who come forward. Among the rewards on offer is the Indian-made Tata Nano – the world’s cheapest car.’
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How Does NSA Get Away With Running Top Secret Menwith Hill in the UK?
Saturday, 02 July 2011 07:34
‘North Yorkshire in the UK is known for its undulating and verdurous hillsides, scattered with walkers and sheep poo, cozy country pubs selling ‘real’ ale and Yorkshire bitter, and simple folk who talk funny.
This tranquil and traditional corner of England at its most ‘English’ is the lastplace you would expect to find a $10 billion dollar “star wars” inspired defence shield that houses 33 satellite dishes, enclosed within giant ‘golf balls’ that receive data from four SBIR satellites 24,000 miles above earth.
This almost unbelievable scenario is the situation with Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire, the home of a major US military site that has been shrouded in secrecy during its two-decade construction. It has now been reported as the site for “Echelon”, the top secret US eavesdropping system that intercepts communications from around the world.’
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David Icke – The Fascist Bloodline Network – Trying To Create World War Three
Saturday, 02 July 2011 08:02
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Doctor refuses airport scanner over cancer fear
By Jaya Narain
Last updated at 1:43 AM on 1st July 2011
A hospital consultant was grounded after he refused to go through a ‘naked’ X-ray scanner at an airport, claiming it could give him cancer.
Tony Aguirre expected to be offered a traditional ‘pat-down’ search instead.
But he was not allowed to board the plane from Manchester to Zurich and was escorted out of the airport by police.
Grounded: Dr Antonio Aguirre was patted down by airport security but was not allowed on the plane after he refused to go through the X-ray scanner
Mr Aguirre, an eye specialist at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, said he was treated like a criminal because he was not prepared to accept a ‘radiation assault’.
He said: ‘X-rays are known to cause cancer and I think somebody will get cancer from this body scanner whether it’s me or someone else.’
It is mandatory for passengers to go through the full body scanners at Manchester, Gatwick and Heathrow airports, and staff there have been told that anyone who refuses should not be allowed to board.
The X-ray device scans through clothes, creating an image of the naked body and revealing any hidden objects.
The UK’s Health Protection Agency (HPA) insisted last year that the technology was safe because the exposure levels are so small. It has approved scanners for all passengers including mothers-to-be.
But recent studies have suggested that the ‘backscatter’ X-rays used in scanners could produce 20 times as much radiation as first thought.
Mr Aguirre said: ‘The Government maintains it is just a low dose of radiation.
‘But even if it is a low dose, and not 20 times higher than first calculated, I don’t want it because it is unnecessary. If it was necessary then a greater case could be made by the Government but since it isn’t necessary I decline.’
Mr Aguirre, who is originally from Spain, said the process was demeaning and undignified.
He said: ‘You shouldn’t be forced to expose yourself, and it raises moral and dignity issues.’
He pointed out that passengers in the U.S. may exercise their right to ‘opt out’ of a full body scan.
Mr Aguirre was flying to treat patients in Switzerland, and his wife had to book him another flight to Zurich.
He went from Liverpool where the scanners are not used.
EasyJet in Manchester refused to refund his £58.98 ticket after he was grounded.
Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam was the first airport to implement the scanners in 2007.
The officials analysing the X-rays are usually in a different room and are not supposed to be able to see the passengers being scanned, although they are in touch with security staff.
Various Muslim groups and some Islamic scholars have forbidden Muslim travellers to pass through full body scanners on the grounds that they violate religious laws.
Last year two Muslim women who refused to be scanned on religious grounds were barred from a flight to Pakistan. The Italian government had planned to install full body scanners at all airports and train stations but removed them from airports, calling them ‘slow and ineffective’.
More than 221million passengers passed through airports in the UK during 2009.
US wildfire near major nuclear arms lab
Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:13:49 GMT
The New Mexico wildfire that has so far scorched more than 20,000 hectares (49,000 acres) of land in the southwestern US state, is approaching the major Los Alamos nuclear facility north of the state.
About 13,000 Residents of Los Alamos, a town just outside the laboratory, were evacuated on Monday after the wildfire crossed the nearby Jemez Mountains, the Los Alamos County fire authorities said.
“We’re doing our best to keep it off the lab,” said the county’s fire chief, quoted by state-run BBC on Tuesday.
Los Alamos, one of the top nuclear weapons research facilities in the US, will remain closed until Thursday, as fire fighters struggle to keep the wildfire from approaching its boundary.
Meanwhile, officials at the New Mexico facility announced that the laboratory faced “no immediate threat.”
“No facilities face immediate threat, and all nuclear and hazardous materials are accounted for and protected,” officials said in a statement.
However, Deputy Los Alamos County Fire Chief Mike Thompson warned about damages inflicted on local homes.
“That’s the biggest threat we have right now to homes in the community,” Thompson said.
The fire is at least 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the facility’s Area G, where radioactive waste tanks are stored.
Huge wildfires have charred millions of acres of land in southwestern US states of New Mexico, Arizona and Texas this year.
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How aircraft make rain (and snow): Planes influence local weather when they take off and land
Living near airports might not only lead to residents suffering sleepless nights – they could also have terrible weather, scientists say.
For aircraft increase the chances of snow and rain when they take off and land, an extraordinary study suggests.
Apparently the effects of jet planes punching through clouds are similar to ‘cloud seeding’ operations, where ice crystals are created in the atmosphere to make it rain.
This picture shows the affect a plane can have. The hole was created by an aircraft flying through a super-cooled cloud. This creates ice crystals that in turn affect neighbouring drops of water. This causes the hole to expand and increase the chances of snow or rain
The findings – published in the respected academic journal Science – are based on satellite images of clouds around airports and computer models of cloud behaviour.
The side-effect of flying is likely to be most obvious around the world’s busiest airports, such as Heathrow where more than 1,200 planes land or take off every day.
As an aeroplane passes quickly through a cloud, the air behind the wings and propellers expands and cools rapidly.
These sudden drops in temperature can be enough to freeze droplets of super-cooled water – turning them into a stream of ice crystals.
Scientists have found that aircraft punching through the clouds at take off and landing creates an effect which influences weather around airports
Over time, ice crystals grow and affect neighbouring drops of water – creating a hole in the cloud that expands for several hours and increasing the chances of snow or rain on the ground underneath.
Dr Andrew Heymsfield, of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, said aircraft increased the chances of snow when they punched holes in clouds after taking off and when they created ‘canals’ in clouds when descending.
‘Whether an airplane creates a hole or a canal in the clouds depends on its trajectory,’ he said.
‘When they climb through a super-cooled cloud layer, they can just produce a hole. But when they fly level through the cloud layer, they can produce long canals.’
The side-effect is more likely to affect areas around the world’s busiest airports, such as Heathrow
The study found that super-cooled cloud layers are found with 62 miles of the world’s major airports at least five per cent of the time. The cloud seeding effects are more noticeable closer to the north and south poles.
The researchers looked at 20 satellite images of cloud cover with holes suspended over Texas on one day in January 2007. Some of the holes were visible for more than four hours and grew more than 60 miles long.
The team then looked at flight data from the US Federal Aviation Administration to find out what aircraft had flown in each area, between 4.3 and five miles high, on that day.
They discovered that a range of aircraft can produce holes including jumbo jets, military planes and private single engine jets.
The researchers say it is unlikely that aircraft affect the global climate.
However, it may increase the need to de-ice planes more often in the future, they say.
It’s not the first time scientists have linked aircraft to weather.
Earlier this year, a study concluded that condensation trails – formed when the water vapour from aircraft engines freezes – may be doing more to warm the planet than the greenhouse gases released from aircraft engines.
The clouds trap heat radiating back from the Earth’s surface, German researchers reported in the journal Nature Climate Change.
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