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World’s most sensitive dark matter detector comes up empty

Posted by seumasach on October 31, 2013

Contemporary science claims to be objective but has ideological roots which have led to aberrant thesis such as “dark matter”, evolutionary theory posited on only gradual environmental change and biological systems based on only mechanical or biochemical forces. Issac Newton referred to  electrical forces in the Scholium of his Principia by way of an afterthought which was subsequently, fatefully ignored as the “Enlightenment” shied away from the magical worldview of the Renaissance

And now we might add something concerning a certain most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies; by the force and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract one another at near distances, and cohere, if contiguous; and electric bodies operate to greater distances, as well repelling as attracting the neighboring corpuscles; and light is emitted, reflected, refracted, inflected, and heats bodies; and all sensation is excited, and the members of animal bodies move at the command of the will, namely, by the vibrations of this spirit, mutually propagated along the solid filaments of the nerves, from the outward organs of sense to the brain, and from the brain into the muscles. But these are things that cannot be explained in few words, nor are we furnished with that sufficiency of experiments which is required to an accurate determination and demonstration of the laws by which this electric and elastic spirit operates.

 

CSMonitor

30th October, 2013

A new experiment buried deep underground has proven itself to be the most sensitive dark-matter detector ever built. But the first results from the high-tech instrument have turned up empty in its search for elusive dark matter, scientists announced today (Oct. 30).

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Chief Saudi cleric says fighting in Syria wrong

Posted by seumasach on October 29, 2013

Bandar beat down – Chief Saudi cleric says fighting in Syria wrong

Michael Collins

Agonist

29th October, 2013

“This is all wrong, it’s not obligatory [to fight the Syrian government].  These are feuding factions and one should not go there. I do not advise one to go there.”  Grand Mufti Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, Saudi Arabia

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Chinese gain in US-Saudi slump

Posted by seumasach on October 28, 2013

“The House of Saud also knows very well it is the solid anchor that keeps OPEC tied to the petrodollar system. Without Saudi Arabia the petrodollar is history.”

euronews

23rd October, 2013

Upset at president Barack Obama’s policies on Iran and Syria, members of Saudi Arabia’s ruling family are threatening a rift with the US that could take the alliance between Washington and the kingdom to its lowest point in years.

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Sergey Lavrov at the Royal Institute for International Relations

Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2013

Europe’s role in a time of changes

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It gives me pleasure to speak in one of the most renowned centers of political science in Europe as part of my visit to Brussels made on the invitation of my friend and colleague Didier Reynders. Ever since Belgium was founded it had special relationship with Russia. I have no doubt that Belgians are well familiar with the biography of their first King Leopold who was related to the Russian Royal Family and as a general of the Russian Army fought in battles which took place in Europe in the early 19th century. The archives of the Russian Foreign Ministry include a letter by Alexander I to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg with the expression of his “special benevolence.”

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‘Casualty catastrophe’: cell phones and child brains

Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2013

RT

20th October

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Insurers stop covering for cell phone use, called the next ‘casualty catastrophe’ after tobacco and asbestos; phone manufacturers hit with a class action and personal lawsuits; and the warning deep inside your mobile.

Seek truth from facts with Ellie Marks, whose husband Alan is suing the industry for his brain tumor, ‘cell phone survivor’ Bret Bocook, leading radiation biologist Prof. Dariusz Leszczynski, Microwave News editor Dr. Louis Slesin, Storyleak editor Anthony Gucciardi, and former senior White House adviser Dr. Devra Davis.

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China, gold prices & US default threats

Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2013

F.William Engdahl

RT

21st October, 2013

In the very days when a deep split in the US Congress threatened a US government debt default, the gold price should normally jump through the roof, yet the opposite was the case. It is worth a closer look why.

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Pakistan taps into US rebalance

Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2013

M.K.Bhadrakumar

Indian Punchline

21st October, 2013

Juxtaposing the interview with Wall Street Journal by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on September 27 where he called for a “new beginning” in ties with India with his remarks in London on October 19 calling for a robust intervention by the United States in the Kashmir problem, one doesn’t need much ingenuity to figure out that the Pakistani idiom has dramatically changed in a matter of three weeks.

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US gives up on Central Asian base

Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2013

M.K.Bhadrakumar

Indian Punchline

21st October, 2013

The United States has turned its back on what could have been a thrilling episode in the Great Game in Central Asia. The Pentagon announced on Friday that the US is vacating Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan by July 2014, as demanded by Bishkek.

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Fukushima 2020: Will Japan be able to keep the nuclear situation under control?

Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2013

This article at least gives some insight into the Japanese clean-up operation. I cannot on its feasibility. WHO figures concerning Chernobyl should , of course, be disregarded.

Japan Times

19th October, 2013

Thirty seconds into what may ultimately be regarded as one of the defining speeches of his career, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe slowly raised his hands chest high, then spread them out sideways in a gesture of confidence.

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French Health Agency says reduce RF exposure to vulnerable members of the public

Posted by seumasach on October 18, 2013

IN A MAJOR PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT ON 15 OCTOBER 2013, THE FRENCH AGENCY FOR FOOD, ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH WARNED THE PUBLIC TO REDUCE THEIR EXPOSURE TO MOBILE PHONE RADIATION

EMFields

!6th October, 2013

The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health, ANSES, announced today the results of a two-year review by an expert Working Group of the scientific research on the risks related to exposure to radiofrequency (RF) radiation.

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US pushes for Syria peace talks ‘soon’

Posted by seumasach on October 16, 2013

Jamaica Observer

16th October, 2013

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) — The United States is trying to persuade a key Syrian opposition group to drop its refusal to join planned peace talks, saying its participation is essential, a US official said yesterday.

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