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A soldier waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her alphabet.

In 2007, the most comprehensive report to date on global warming, issued by the respected United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made a shocking claim: The Himalayan glaciers could melt away as soon as 2035.

From Cordis News:

Researchers have discovered how old and damaged mother cells are able to produce healthy new daughter cells, a process which has been a mystery to scientists until now. The ground-breaking research was partly funded by the EU and is published in the journal Cell.

The team’s results revealed how yeast cells use a conveyor belt mechanism to offload damaged proteins into the mother cells before dividing into new cells, a process known as mitosis.

‘This ensures that the daughter cell is born without age-related damage,’ said lead researcher Professor Thomas Nyström from the department of cell and molecular biology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Professor Nyström’s research team has published many previous studies of cell ageing, but the new research is the key piece of the…

From PhysOrg.com:

A mound strewn with dinosaur bones is seen October 2009 in Zhucheng, in northeast China’s Shandong province. Paleontologists in China have uncovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, state media reported, in an area said to be the world’s largest grouping of fossilised bones belonging to the ancient animals.

Archaeologists in China have uncovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, state media reported, in an area said to be the world’s largest grouping of fossilised bones belonging to the ancient animals.

The footprints, believed to be more than 100 million years old, were discovered after a three-month excavation at a gully in Zhucheng in the eastern province of Shandong, the Xinhua news agency reported.
The prints range from 10 to 80 centimetres (four to 32 inches) in length, and belonged to at least six…

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Nick P. at Black Sun Gazette

Special thanks to Bulldogger for showing me the way to the rabbit hole.

Many readers of Black Sun Gazette are doubtless familiar with Alex Jones, the Austin, TX-based radio show host and film maker. I have long struggled with what to make of Alex Jones. On the one hand, he provides people with difficult to find information about the frightening truth of the American government’s lurch toward police state and global empire. On the other, he is a frothing at the mouth crypto-fascist who seems to do little more than lead people down blind alleys and arguably does more to…

John Pavlus writes on io9.com:

Science fiction has long played with the idea of projecting unified personalities/minds/”souls” into different bodies. The premise is baked into the plots of stories like Avatar and Caprica. But how would it work in the real world?

That’s what the science of “embodied cognition” is all about. The basic idea in this new(ish) research area (which overlaps with cognitive psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, and others) is this: Your mind is defined by your physical form. Not just in terms of “the mind is what the brain does”-we all are pretty down with that already. This takes it further to encompass the whole enchilada: your mind-your “I”-is a function of a cephalized, bipedal, plantigrade, bilaterally symmetrical body between 1.5 and 2 meters tall with two arms terminating in five-fingered…

Steve Elliott writes on New Junkie Post:

A remarkable scenario played out in the American media recently, and beyond the import of the story itself is the quantum shift in public perception that it illustrates.

A pro-cannabis group based in Colorado called for a nationwide boycott of coffee giant Starbucks after activists spotted a Starbucks logo on the website of a virulently extremist anti-drug organization. After intense negative publicity ensued, Starbucks actually felt moved to issue a denial.

Once Mason Tvert of Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recation (SAFER) called for the boycott, it took only a couple days until Starbucks denied funding the Colorado Drug Investigators Association (CDIA). Starbucks further said they officially took no position on the marijuana issue, one way or the other.

That doesn’t sound so remarkable until you realize that the…

Ken Eakins writes via Sittingnow.co.uk:

DO WANT … on Verizon!

4chan site owner m00t has posted to the 4chan blog, and Twitter, that Verizon wireless, are blocking both in and outbound web-traffic to 4chan.

Unlike a recent scare involving AT&T last year, m00t believes that this time it’s for realsies, from the 4chan blog:

Over the past 72 hours, we’ve been receiving reports from Verizon Wireless customers having difficulty accessing the image boards. After investigating, we found that Verizon is dropping traffic to/from boards.4chan.org, only on port 80 (HTTP). No other subdomain/IP/port is affected, which leads us to believe this block is intentional. A call was placed to their support staff last night, and we were told that the ticket would not be looked at until Monday at the earliest, and: “You’ll need the…

peninsuladailynews – Sorrow lies buried in the basement of the Tibbals Building on Water Street, said the Port Angeles star of Mystic Radio.Robin Alexis said that the halls of the former brothel — now a popular hotel and restaurant — echo with the cr…

Stefan Sirucek writes on Huffington Post:

Ahh sweet Earl Grey Revolution! Sarah Palin knew that speech like the back of her hand. The Q&A answers, however, were on the front of her hand.

Or so it appeared. During the Q&A following her speech at the Tea Party Convention, Ms. Palin appeared to read from her hand in answering.

The following image was caught by some sharp-eyed Twitter users, notably @jryanlaw

UPDATE: Closer inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, during a speech in which she mocked President Obama for his use of a teleprompter, reveals several notes written on her left hand. The words “Energy”, “Tax” and “Lift American Spirits” are clearly visible. There’s also what appears to read as “Budget cuts” with the word Budget crossed out.

Aaron Cynic writes at Diatribe:

Though we definitely can act it, most Americans aren’t stupid, even football proves that. It takes a decent amount of brainpower to remember statistics, history, game strategy and betting strategy. Unfortunately, it’s so much misappropriated focus. We’ll spend countless hours, dollars and energy on this one game, then we’ll spend the same on March Madness, the World Series, the Stanley Cup and varried playoffs. In between, we’ll throw an equal amount of time and talent into Hallmark holidays and celebrity awards shows.

Richard C. Hoagland writes on Enterprise Mission:

The scientific evidence behind this growing set of suspicions — that the Spiral somehow caused the Russian missile to fail — lies in the extraordinary geometric structure that Enterprise has discovered within the too-perfect, too-concentric “shell-like rings” … making up the Spiral — A key part of this “impossible” geometry consisted of four, exactly 90-degree darkened “reticle-like” divisions of the Spiral … precisely separating it into four radiating quadrants ….

Geometric behavior simply inconceivable for any “randomly rotating … fuel-spewing third-stage rocket ….” This “too-too-regular-geometry …” can only be explained by the presence of —

Some kind of energy-induced, standing-wave-pattern in the Spiral …. Creating — Narrow, uniform-width concentric striations … ordered in an underlying medium (the leaking third-stage fuel?) by an external “forcing 3-D energy pattern” —

Then, it hit me: “Chladni Figures!”

etaiwannews – The Navy said Monday the unidentified object spotted under water near its top base last week was not a Chinese submarine or a sea mammal.A newspaper reported Sunday that an anti-submarine helicopter found a submarine within Taiwanese terr…

Via AFP via Google News:

RIYADH — A 12-year-old Saudi girl unexpectedly gave up her petition for divorce from an 80-year-old man her father forced her to marry in exchange for a dowry, Saudi media reported Tuesday.

Despite support from human rights lawyers and child welfare advocates, the girl and her mother, who originally sought the divorce, withdrew the case Monday in a court in Buraidah, in Al-Qasim province, newspapers said.

The girl told the court that her marriage to the man was done with her agreement, according to Okaz newspaper. “I agree to the marriage. I have no objection. This is in filial respect to my father and obedience to his wish,” she said.

Saleh al-Dabibi, a lawyer supplied by a charity group to help the girl, said her mother did not inform…

From Nick P. at Black Sun Gazette:

We’re going on two years of the global economic crisis that has rocked our society to its foundations. All the conventional wisdom of the post-war era about the eradication of social inequality and class conflict under the auspices of continual capitalist development has been exposed as a propagandist deception.

Any illusions that people had in the ability of capitalism to solve the world’s problems has rapidly evaporated. Even as conditions worsen, the contradictions of our system are laid bare.

Full Article at Black Sun Gazette

google – Kalli Biswokarma was tortured by neighbours in her village in Nepal for two days and forced to eat human waste before she finally gave in and confessed to practising witchcraft.Those who beat, punched and kicked the 47-year-old mother of one a…

Here are just three (3) of the reports that have been submitted to MUFON recently, concerning UFO sightings in and near Honiton, Great Britain.

Please note the photograph (case # 21804).  The disc shaped object looks oddly like a flying mushroom.  It seems lately that UFOs of all shapes and sizes, even those like “flying carpets” have been seen.

I myself, have seen something that looked a lot like pontoons lashed together, including multiple objects that looked like rectangular pieces of card board, or sheets of plywood.

Honiton, Great Britain seems to be a hotspot for UFOs lately.  It is a terrible shame that the M.O.D. no longer investigates sightings.  Imagine that…

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MUFON Case # 21804
Submitted Date:    2010-02-07 11:40 GMT
Event Date:    2010-01-27 00:00 GMT
Location: Honiton, GB
Longitude:    -2.0
Latitude:    54.0
Shape:    Disc
Summary: Vacation snap, Honiton England

Report:
While vacationing with my family in England we went to the town of Honiton, we ventured up Roundball hill which over looked the town, we took some photos and when we got back home we looked at one and saw a strange object in one of them, we didn’t see it at the time and have no idea what it is?
Photo

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MUFON Case # 21782
Submitted Date:    2010-02-05 13:56 GMT
Event Date:    2010-02-02 20:30 GMT
Location: Honiton, GB
Longitude:    -2.0
Latitude:    54.0
Shape:    Bullet/Missile,Cylinder,Sphere,Star-like
Duration:    00:18:00
Summary: Bright lights Rounball Hill, Honiton

Report:
We were walking home from Tesco when we saw some strange light at the top of Roundball Hill it was a blueish colour we thought it was just a torch light but then it shoot up and hovered for a while then it split into two and circled the top of the hill and clashed back together and pulsated an orange colour then shot straight up out of sight.

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MUFON Case # 21769
Reporting Date: 02/05/2010
Event Date:  02/02/2010
Location: Honiton, GB
Longitude:    -2.0
Latitude:    54.0
Summary: Bright lights Rounball Hill, Honiton

Report:
I was out in my garden looking up to Roundball hill (clearly visible over my fence) when i saw a blue light come down on it at slow speed i was baffled for a minute an just assumed it was a Chinese lantern or firework but then it shoot back up and split into two on was more of a green colour they then hovered there for about 3 minutes then started circling then both clashed and they shoot straight up and that’s when they vanished.

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Is, or was there a secret underground military installation under or near Pond Mountain, North Carolina?  That might explain some of the unusual sightings in and around North Carolina.

Report is “as is”, but original report can be viewed by clicking on case number.

MUFON Case # 21803
Reporting Date:    02/07/2010
Event Date:    6/15/1976
Location: Pond Mountain, NC
Longitude:    -76.5163
Latitude:    34.7313
Shape:    Other
Duration:    03:00:00
Summary:    We never figured out what it was…

Report:
These incidents happened between 1976 and 1978.

During my childhood, my family and friends traveled to nearby Pond Mountain every Saturday evening in the summer months to view a strange situation that nobody has ever been able to explain. Pond Mountain is one of the tallest peaks in the Appalachian Mountains and is very secluded.

My friends father was a preacher and he commonly held outdoor sermons in a field near Pond Mountain. The congregation spotted red lights, off in the distance, rising into space every 3 minutes.

We would go to this field every Saturday night and sit in a field atop a knoll just off of the dirt road and watched the red lights rise vertically high into the night sky. They couldn’t have been cars or vehicles driving up a mountain because the lights continued to rise up into the stars until they dimly faded out of sight. The lights would launch every three minutes (to the second) and would continue to do so for hours. There was no noise associated with these lights…they were just small red lights rising into space.

Upon returning home after one night of viewing, I was riding in a car with my friend. We topped a hill on the way back home and a huge glowing green light came out of nowhere and blinded my friends father to the point where he had to stop the car. We didn’t hear any noises with the lights and the lights disappeared as quickly as they appeared. Everyone was visibly shaken and my friends father turned to ask if we had seen the bright light. Our hearts were pounding as we told him we had witnessed it as well. We sat and discussed what it could have possibly been (swamp gas, hunters spot lights, helicopters) but couldn’t agree on what it might have been. We never returned again…as we felt endangered.

I left the area upon graduating high school and returned 20 years later. I was telling one of my childhood friends of the sightings and he had something to add. He explained that he had witnessed those same lights and returned several times during daylight hours to investigate. He told me of a brick outhouse looking building just off the road in the woods near the area where we used to view the strange lights. He said he watched two U.S. government vehicles park near this small structure and the individuals would enter the outhouse and not come out for a full day. He suspected it was an elevator shaft leading to an underground facility.

After hearing what my friend had to say, I suspected it may have been a top secret military project…but I don’t know.

Maybe you can combine this with other stories and conclude what this mystery was/is.

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Nearly 2ft of snow fell on Washington today with President Barack Obama dubbing the whiteout ‘Snowmageddon’.

Arapahoe County will become the first law enforcement agency in Colorado to begin identifying criminals, missing children and seniors using biometric analysis of the human iris.