Archive | September, 2009

Tripping Up Trump

Posted on 30 September 2009

trump_logoTripping Up Trump is a fresh energised movement standing up for the people and environment threatened by Donald Trump’s development in Aberdeenshire.

This real life story is no longer just about whether you agree or not with the controversial housing and golf complex. This is now about the human rights of the local people threatened by Donald Trump’s aggressive use of power. Trump is pushing to use compulsory purchase to clear families from their land, not for a school, or a hospital, but for his profit.

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Startling evidence of a Stone Age structure in the Solent.

Posted on 30 September 2009

underwaterDIVING almost blind in the Solent’s murky waters, the team of maritime detectives could just make out the shape of a wooden plank protruding from the muddy seabed.

While it might have been dismissed as underwater junk by the untrained eye, the archaeologists soon realised they had discovered a vital clue to a lost civilisation.

The timber was not isolated. In fact they found another 23 pieces of all shapes and sizes intersecting throughout the underwater cliff off Bouldnor, on the north coast of the Isle of Wight.

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Americans threatened with jail time, huge fines for refusing to buy health insurance

Posted on 29 September 2009

There’s a popular video circulating on the ‘net right now about how to escape handcuffs without using a key. Americans are watching the video to bone up on essential skills that will soon be needed for health care reform, it seems, since the new laws that are about to be put in place call for Americans to be arrested and thrown in jail if they refuse to buy health insurance.

This has now been confirmed by Tom Barthold, the Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. And it’s not merely about jail time; it’s also about the $25,000 fine that could be levied by the IRS against individuals who refuse to buy health insurance.

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Montana Town Occupied By Private Paramilitary Security Force

Posted on 29 September 2009

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A private security force whose biggest role is helping the U.S. government to “combat terrorism” is now patrolling the streets of a town in Montana, acting as law enforcement but accountable to nobody and operating completely outside the limitations of the U.S. constitution in a chilling throwback to the brownshirts of Nazi Germany.

According to Two Rivers Authority officials, having the private security force patrol the streets was not part of the contract. “I have no idea. I really don’t because that’s not been a part of any of the discussions we’ve had with any of them,” Two Rivers Authority’s Al Peterson told KULR 8 News. Peterson said that patrolling the streets was on the “wishlist” of APF’s Captain Michael.

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Treasure visited by 10,500 people

Posted on 29 September 2009

_46460217_008016646-1A display of the UK’s largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure has attracted 10,500 visitors in three days.

Some of the 1,300 gold and silver items went on show at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on Friday.

The artefacts, which may date to the 7th Century, were discovered by Terry Herbert, 55, using a metal detector in a farmer’s field in Staffordshire.

The display will be at the museum until 13 October and will then be taken to the British Museum for valuation along with the rest of the items.

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Scandinavians are descended from Stone Age immigrants

Posted on 28 September 2009

Today’s Scandinavians are not descended from the people who came to Scandinavia at the conclusion of the last ice age but, apparently, from a population that arrived later, concurrently with the introduction of agriculture. This is one conclusion of a new study straddling the borderline between genetics and archaeology, which involved Swedish researchers and which has now been published in the journal Current Biology.

Rare coins find excites experts

Posted on 28 September 2009

Four silver coins dating from Norman England have been found in Gloucestershire.

Poland to enforce chemical castration of paedophiles

Posted on 27 September 2009

Poland is to become the first EU country to impose chemical castration on convicted paedophiles.

Legislation is being pushed through the country’s parliament to make the procedure compulsory for all sex criminals who pose a risk to others.

The method involves giving convicted paedophiles drugs which take away their sexual urges.

Calls for the introduction of chemical castration have arisen following a recent incest case that shocked the country.

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Male breast cancer patients blame water at Marine base

Posted on 27 September 2009

The sick men are Marines, or sons of Marines. All 20 of them were based at or lived at Camp Lejeune, the U.S. Marine Corps’ training base in North Carolina, between the 1960s and the 1980s.

They all have had breast cancer, a disease that strikes fewer than 2,000 men in the United States a year, compared with about 200,000 women. Each has had part of his chest removed as part of his treatment, along with chemotherapy, radiation or both.

And they blame their time at Camp Lejeune, where government records show drinking water was contaminated with high levels of toxic chemicals for three decades, for their illnesses.

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More news on the Anglo-Saxon treasure hoard discovery

Posted on 27 September 2009

“The two most striking features of the Hoard are that it is unbalanced and it is of exceptionally high quality. Unbalanced because of what we don’t find. There is absolutely nothing feminine. There are no dress fittings, brooches or pendants. These are the gold objects most commonly found from the Anglo-Saxon era. The vast majority of items in the Hoard are martial – war gear, especially sword fittings.

“The quantity of gold is amazing but, more importantly, the craftsmanship is consummate. This was the very best that the Anglo-Saxon metalworkers could do, and they were very good. Tiny garnets were cut to shape and set in a mass of cells to give a rich, glowing effect; it is stunning. Its origins are clearly the very highest-levels of Saxon aristocracy or royalty. It belonged to the elite.

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Military Police Kidnap G20 Protester, Shove Him Into Unmarked Car

Posted on 25 September 2009

It’s a shocking scene that wouldn’t have looked out of place on the streets of Nazi Germany or Maoist China in humanity’s darkest historical period – a protester is shoved into an unmarked car by military thugs and driven away to whatever Godforsaken fate awaits him. And yet this is America in 2009, where the First Amendment is now officially a criminal offense and people who dare exercise it are attacked and abducted by military police in broad daylight.

Protesters scream “what the fuck is wrong with you” as the Sedan disappears into a cloud of tear gas.

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From the Horse’s Mouth: Lisbon Treaty Insider Admits It Destroys Democracy

Posted on 25 September 2009

A leading Labour Party European Union insider and former member of the European Convention’s 13-strong presidium has finally confessed that the treaty breaches fundamental democratic principles and makes EU leaders unaccountable.

Huge Anglo-Saxon gold hoard found

Posted on 24 September 2009

The UK’s largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure has been discovered buried beneath a field in Staffordshire.

Vikings ‘were warned to avoid Scotland’

Posted on 23 September 2009

Scotland is full of dangerous natives who speak an incomprehensible language and the is weather awful. That was the verdict of a series of 13th century Viking travel guides that warned voyagers to visit at their peril.

The Oldest Lunar Calendar on Earth

Posted on 23 September 2009

The Oldest Lunar Calendars and Earliest Constellations have been identified in cave art found in France and Germany. The astronomer-priests of these late Upper Paleolithic Cultures understood mathematical sets, and the interplay between the moon annual cycle, ecliptic, solstice and seasonal changes on earth.

Archaeologists find suspected Trojan war-era couple

Posted on 23 September 2009

ANKARA (Reuters) – Archaeologists in the ancient city of Troy in Turkey have found the remains of a man and a woman believed to have died in 1,200 B.C., the time of the legendary war chronicled by Homer, a leading German professor said on Tuesday.

Kirkleatham Museum to display jewels from Cleveland grave of Anglo-Saxon princess

Posted on 23 September 2009

An “unparalleled” hoard of gold jewellery found next to the body of an Anglo-Saxon princess in a secret Teesside Royal burial field will be revealed to the public with a £275,000 Lottery-funded display.

Huge California study concludes soda consumption undeniably linked to obesity

Posted on 23 September 2009

Thanks to a new California study, soda companies can no longer hide behind the defense of uncertainty when it comes to links between soda consumption and obesity. This massive study questioned the soda consumption habits of 43,000 adults and 4,000 adolescents and concluded this: Drinking one or more sodas a day increases your chances of obesity by 27 percent. A whopping 62% of adults who drink at least one soda each day are overweight or obese.

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Viking Treasures go on display at Yorkshire Museum

Posted on 23 September 2009

The most fabulous Viking hoard discovered in the United Kingdom in 150 years has been unveiled to the public at the Yorkshire Museum.

The treasure was discovered in 2007 in a field in North Yorkshire, and will be on show for a limited run of six weeks before the Museums closes for refurbishment on 2 November.

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JRR Tolkien trained as British spy

Posted on 18 September 2009

The novelist JRR Tolkien secretly trained as a Government spy in the run up to the Second World War, new documents have disclosed.



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