20th November, 2013
Britain faces a timebomb as the cost of living crisis forces more people into crippling debt they will not be able to repay, according to a major study published today.
£1,430,000,000,000 (that’s £1.43 trillion): Britain’s personal debt timebomb
Posted by seumasach on November 22, 2013
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Before the Pharaohs: The evidence for advanced civilisation in Egypt’s mysterious prehistory
Posted by seumasach on November 22, 2013
18th November, 2013
There is no other place on Earth like Egypt’s Giza Plateau. Anyone with even a slight interest in history and civilisation is aware of this fact. For on this plateau there stands the Great Pyramids and their sculpted guardian, the Great Sphinx.
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John F. Kennedy’s vision of peace
Posted by seumasach on November 22, 2013
On the 50th anniversary of JFK’s death, his nephew recalls the fallen president’s attempts to halt the war machine
Robert F.Kennedy Jr.
20th November, 2013
On November 22nd, 1963, my uncle, president John F. Kennedy, went to Dallas intending to condemn as “nonsense” the right-wing notion that “peace is a sign of weakness.” He meant to argue that the best way to demonstrate American strength was not by using destructive weapons and threats but by being a nation that “practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice,” striving toward peace instead of “aggressive ambitions.” Despite the Cold War rhetoric of his campaign, JFK’s greatest ambition as president was to break the militaristic ideology that has dominated our country since World War II. He told his close friend Ben Bradlee that he wanted the epitaph “He kept the peace,” and said to another friend, William Walton, “I am almost a ‘peace at any price’ president.” Hugh Sidey, a journalist and friend, wrote that the governing aspect of JFK’s leadership was “a total revulsion” of war. Nevertheless, as James W. Douglass argues in his book JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, JFK’s presidency would be a continuous struggle with his own military and intelligence agencies, which engaged in incessant schemes to trap him into escalating the Cold War into a hot one. His first major confrontation with the Pentagon, the Bay of Pigs catastrophe, came only three months into his presidency and would set the course for the next 1,000 days.
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US Senate agrees to delay vote on new Iran sanctions
Posted by seumasach on November 20, 2013
20th November, 2013
The upper house of the US Congress has acceded to the White House’s request to delay a vote on additional sanctions against Iran, as the Islamic Republic and six other countries are set to resume their nuclear negotiations in the Swiss city of Geneva.
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Ancient city discovered beneath biblical-era ruins in Israel
Posted by seumasach on November 19, 2013
18th November, 2013
Archaeologists have unearthed traces of a previously unknown, 14th-century Canaanite city buried underneath the ruins of another city in Israel.
The traces include an Egyptian amulet of Amenhotep III and several pottery vessels from the Late Bronze Age unearthed at the site of Gezer, an ancient Canaanite city.
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Scowcroft, Brzezinski urge Iran accord
Posted by seumasach on November 19, 2013
Jim Lobe
19th November, 2013
WASHINGTON – Two pillars of the US foreign policy establishment urged Congress on Monday to forgo any new sanctions legislation directed against Iran, warning that it will risk “undermining or even shutting down” ongoing negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program.
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Study links autism and gastrointestinal problems
Posted by seumasach on November 18, 2013
Children Who Have Autism Far More Likely to Have Tummy Troubles
6th November, 2013
Children with autism experience gastrointestinal (GI) upsets such as constipation, diarrhea and sensitivity to foods six-to-eight times more often than do children who are developing typically, and those symptoms are related to behavioral problems, including social withdrawal, irritability and repetitive behaviors, a new study by researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute has found.
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Fury at Glasgow woman’s Bedroom Tax eviction
Posted by seumasach on November 17, 2013
15th November, 2013
A woman from Glasgow has become the first in Scotland to be evicted due to the Bedroom Tax after falling behind with her rent.
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Digital Dementia – Guidelines for educators regarding technology use in school settings
Posted by seumasach on November 17, 2013
Chris Rowan
10th September, 2013
Mounting research indicates unrestricted use of technology (cell phones, internet, TV) by children is resulting in negative impact on physical and mental health, social wellbeing, and academic performance, suggesting a cautionary approach toward the use of technology in school settings.
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Did ancient Egyptians trade nicotine and cocaine with the New World?
Posted by seumasach on November 14, 2013
“You shall understand (that which perhaps you will scarce think credible) that about 3,000 years ago, or somewhat more, the navigation of the world (especially for remote voyages) was greater than at this day. Do not think with yourselves, that I know not how much it is increased with you, within these threescore years; I know it well, and yet I say, greater then than now; whether it was, that the example of the ark, that saved the remnant of men from the universal deluge, gave men confi- dence to venture upon the waters, or what it was; but such is the truth. The Phoenicians, and especially the Tyrians, had great fleets; so had the Carthaginians their colony, which is yet farther west. Toward the east the shipping of Egypt, and of Palestine, was likewise great. China also, and the great At- lantis (that you call America), which have now but junks and canoes, abounded then in tall ships. This island (as appeareth by faithful registers of those times) had then 1,500 strong ships, of great content. Of all this there is with you sparing memory, or none; but we have large knowledge thereof.
The New Atlantis- Francis Bacon
14th November, 2013
It has long been said that Christopher Columbus was not the first foreigner to step foot in the Americas by the time he reached there in 1492.
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Will Egypt form an alliance with Russia ?
Posted by seumasach on November 13, 2013
12th November, 2013
Should Washington’s decision to interrupt it’s financial aid to Egypt, following General Al-Sissi’scoup d’état, be interpreted as the application of the law banning financial support to political regimes having ascended to power by violating the constitution, or as a consequences of it’s failing economy. This is the question that Thierry Messan had raised in our columns [1]. If the second hypothesis is correct, then the interruption of U.S. subsidies is comparable to the end of the USSR’s subsidies to its allies, which foreshadowed the fall of the Berlin wall, followed by the collapse of the USSR and the triumph of the United-States.
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