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‘World’s first’ farmer trial over GM crop contamination begins in Australia
from apperspective.net: A landmark legal battle between two farmers over alleged GM contamination has started in the Western Australian Supreme Court. The case is expected to determine GM farmers’ liability if their crops affect neighboring territories. The globally monitored legal battle involves local farmer Steve Marsh (pictured) who sued his neighbor Michael Baxter for negligence…
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Japan-Based Bitcoin Exchange Glitch Unsettles World
from online.wsj.com: Prices of bitcoin have recently fluctuated on factors ranging from government regulation to the virtual currency’s acceptance by real-world retailers. Now add another driver: perceived technical glitches. A leading bitcoin exchange Monday blamed a long-unresolved technical issue for its decision to abruptly halt customer withdrawals last week. Prices of bitcoin were sent reeling…
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Texas Teens Charged In Girl’s Death Linked To Occult
from chron.com: Two teens have been charged with capital murder in the death of a girl whose killing has been linked with the occult. Jose E. Reyes, 17, was arrested on Sunday in the NASA-area slaying, Houston police said on Monday. A 16-year-old boy was arrested on Monday. They were charged in the death of…
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Britain’s Eastern Coast Yields Oldest Human Footprints Outside Africa
from slashdot.com: “They were a British family on a day out — almost a million years ago. Archaeologists announced Friday that they have discovered human footprints in England that are between 800,000 and 1 million years old — the most ancient found outside Africa, and the earliest evidence of human life in northern Europe. A…
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Bitcoin Exchange CEO Charged With Laundering $1 Million Through Silk Road
from wired.com: The CEO of Bitcoin exchanger BitInstant has been arrested and charged with money laundering over allegations that he and another man sold more than $1 million in Bitcoins to buyers and sellers of drugs on the underground drug site Silk Road. Charlie Shrem (pictured), 24, who ran BitInstant out of New York, is…
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Muslims Flee Christian Militias in Central Africa Republic
from goddiscussion.com: Christian militias are brutally attacking Muslims in Bangui with both villages and towns being affected. Whole villages are being deserted as Christians are burning and looting Muslim’s houses and mosques. Now, tens of thousands of Muslims are fleeing the violent areas and into neighboring countries in hopes for safety.
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Concerns over privacy raised in wake of Osaka facial recognition experiment
from apperspective.net: Privacy concerns have been raised over an upcoming surveillance project slated to take place at the Osaka Station. A 2-year experiment that involves monitoring the movements of people arriving at the Osaka train station through a facial recognition system. The test will be conducted by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology,…
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The Amazing Healing Properties of Fermented Foods
from greenmedinfo.com: Between the hard and fast dichotomies of cooked and raw, dead and alive, is this beautiful thing called fermented. A place where many of the digestive challenges associated with raw foods (e.g. enzyme inhibitors, anti-nutrients, lectins) are overcome in favor of not just preserving their benefits (e.g. enzyme activity, vitamin content, life energy),…
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Loch Ness Monster Dead? Lowest Sightings Reported in 90 Years
from hngn.com: Is Nessie dead? Reports suggest the iconic Loch Ness Monster has not been spotted in over a year. This is the first time in about 90 years that there has been such a long absence of sightings, BBC News reported. Gary Campbell, who keeps records of sea monster sightings, said nobody has claimed…
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2/6 – Binge & Purge: Rarities and Discoveries
New & Extremely Rare Species of River Dolphin Discovered in Brazil Giant jellyfish found on Australian beach Rare deep-sea fish found in Toyama Rare lavender crab discovered New species of deep-diving whale discovered Rare iguanas hidden in socks found by UK customs at Heathrow New species of prehistoric spider discovered in China Rare new snowdrop…
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Turkey adopts ‘Orwellian’ internet curbs
from sbs.com.au: Turkish MPs have adopted new internet legislation roundly criticised as a fresh assault by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on freedom of expression, access to information and investigative journalism. The proposals come amid parallel moves by Erdogan to push through contentious judicial reforms as he fights to keep the lid on a deeply…
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New World Next Week: Episode181 – Bankster Suicides, Sochi Circus, Academic Torrents
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode181 – Bankster Suicides, #Sochi Circus, Academic Torrents Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Harvard Economist Is Pulling All His Money From Bank Of America Harvard Economist…
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America Is Not a Christian Nation — and It Never Was
from beliefnet.com: A “Christian” nation with a disturbing history of enslaving people, capturing land that belonged to residents who were here first, levying excessive and increasing taxes, starting wars throughout the globe, turning a blind eye to questionable business practices, relying upon the fine print in contracts to deceive people into doing what they had…
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Sochi 2014 Security Updates
The Sochi Olympic Games and the Threat of a Terrorist Attack. Who is Behind the Caucasus Terrorists? Putin says Boston marathon bombing by Chechen brothers justifies intense Sochi security Putin’s ‘ring of steel’ becomes obvious at Olympics Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/02/04/216915/putins-ring-of-steel-becomes-obvious.html#storylink=cpy Snow cannons to surveillance boxes, here’s the tech at play in Sochi Journalists to…
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Pinched: Salt Supplies Dwindle After Endless Storms
from nbcnews.com: As if traffic snarls, scrubbed flights and power outages weren’t enough misery, the latest bit of winter savagery to hit the Midwest and the East is an extreme shortage of the salt used to clear snow and ice off roadways. Many cities have been forced to ration salt after weeks of above-average snowfall…