ozhouse.org (For USA readers, Australia has just passed a carbon tax) They are going to bring us back to a pre industrial era. Watch for an explosion in candle sales. You are going to be too afraid to turn on a light switch let alone an air conditioner. Australia was too dumb to say no.
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By The Associated Press Officials said Saturday they believe the latest earthquake activity in northeast Ohio is related to the injection of wastewater into the ground near a fault line, creating enough pressure to cause seismic activity. The brine wastewater comes from drilling operations that use the so-called fracking process to extract gas from underground shale. But Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director Jim Zehringer said during a news teleconference that fracking is not causing the quakes.
By Dateline-Zero Following the Pearl Harbor attack, defending the Pacific coast from Japanese invasion was at the forefront of the California State Guard. The U.S. had entered a new age of fear and worry. It was also an age of inventiveness — particularly when it came to national defense.
ENE-News Breaking News: M7 hits Japan and water leakage at reactor4, Fukushima Diary, Jan. 1, 2012:
“…what if you could go back in time, and take all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better?”
By Roger Marsh Examiner Reports of UFOs filed with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) are off to a healthy start in 2012 in this review of selected cases filed January 1 with MUFON’s international witness reporting database.
By Ian O’Neill Discovery News On Dec. 31, the Gregorian calendar did something terrifying. It flipped from the year “2011” to “2012.” What did we experience as the year came to an end? Global earthquakes? A planetary collision? Weird gravitational effects caused by an alignment with the galactic plain? A comet impact? Global enlightenment?
By Toru Fujioka Bloomberg Japan and China will promote direct trading of the yen and yuan without using dollars and will encourage the development of a market for companies involved in the exchanges, the Japanese government said.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Iranian scientists have produced the nation’s first nuclear fuel rod, a feat of engineering the West has doubted Tehran capable of, the country’s nuclear agency said Sunday. The announcement marks an additional step in Tehran’s efforts to achieve proficiency in the entire nuclear fuel cycle — from exploring uranium ore to producing nuclear fuel — despite U.N. sanctions and measures by the U.S. and others to get it to halt aspects of its atomic work that could provide a possible pathway to weapons production.
Michael Snyder American Dream The most powerful earthquakes in the history of the United States happened along the New Madrid Fault in 1811 and 1812. Those earthquakes were reportedly felt more than 1,000 miles away. Scientists assure us that one day we will once again see very powerful earthquakes along the New Madrid fault. It is only a question of when it will happen. Today, the New Madrid fault zone covers portions of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi.
by Sreeraman Sina Zarrintan, a neurologist from the Tabriz Medical University in Iran, says that the logic behind this proposition is based on the fact that the nose and the genitals are both connected to the same part of the nervous system that controls certain reflexes – the sympathetic nervous system.
Activist Post As the United States edges closer to becoming athird world country; anger, frustration, and cynicism continue to mount in the minds of the American population. Americans are no longer optimisticabout the direction of their country. This pessimism seems warranted as authentic political solutions appear to be in short supply in our corporate state.
By News.com.au An eagle-eyed Reddit contributor was the first to point out the man towering above other mourners as the funeral procession passed through the streets of Pyongyang.
By David Meyer BBC News Computer hackers plan to take the internet beyond the reach of censors by putting their own communication satellites into orbit. The scheme was outlined at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. The project’s organisers said the Hackerspace Global Grid will also involve developing a grid of ground stations to track and communicate with the satellites. Longer term they hope to help put an amateur astronaut on the moon.
By Brad Lepper A new analysis of the rare mitochondrial DNA haplogroup C4c in Native American populations shows that it has a parallel genetic history with the X2a haplogroup thought by some to indicate a connection between early Paleoindians in eastern North America and the Upper Paleolithic Solutrean culture in France and Spain.
By MSNBC The World Health Organization issued a stern warning on Friday to scientists who have engineered a highly pathogenic form of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus , saying their work carries significant risks and must be tightly controlled.
Let’s speak plainly. If you are in the United States or Western Europe, chances are incredibly high that your bank is simply not safe. In other words, your money is at risk. Big time. Let’s review some of the chief concerns:
By Dan Weil News Max White House officials are letting Israel know that there are certain red lines that, if crossed, would trigger an attack on Iran, so there’s no need for Israel to move unilaterally, The Daily Beast reports.