Study Predicts Political, Economic Turmoil If UN's Internet Governance SucceedsALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 14 / U.S. Newswire -- As United Nations (UN) officials meet tomorrow in Tunisia to plot strategies for a new worldwide Internet governance structure, an "Issue Brief" from the 350,000-member National Taxpayers Union (NTU) warns that such schemes could choke political freedoms and soak taxpayers.
"After so many conspiracy hoaxes over the years, there is now a serious, ominous effort to replace the efficient and adaptable non-profit entity guiding the Internet ... (more)
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Tamiflu linked to deaths of 2 teensTOKYO — Two teenage boys who took the antiviral drug Tamiflu exhibited abnormal behavior that led to their deaths, with one jumping in front of an oncoming truck last year and the other falling from the ninth floor of a building earlier this year, health ministry and other sources said Saturday.
The drug in Japan carries a note listing impaired consciousness, abnormal behaviors, hallucination and other psychological and neurological symptoms as possible serious side effects.... (more)
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BYU Forms New Theory About 9/11 Attacks(KUTV) PROVO, Utah A BYU professor has developed a new theory about the terrorist attack in New York on September 11, 2001. He believes planes alone did not bring down the world trade center.
Both towers collapsed in place after the attacks, and later that day, 7 World Trade Center, which was never hit by a plane, fell in less than seven seconds.
BYU professor Steven E. Jones says that planes alone did not bring down the towers.
The images are seared... (more)
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'Gravity tractor' to deflect Earth-bound asteroidsNASA scientists have come up with a surprisingly simple yet effective way to deflect an Earth-bound asteroid – park a large spacecraft close by and let gravity do the work.
Previous suggestions have focused on deflecting an incoming asteroid with nuclear explosions. But NASA experts believe a "gravity tractor" should be able to perform the same feat by creating an invisible towline to tug the rock off its deadly course.
"Most people think of the Hollywood trea... (more)
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Patent issued for anti-gravity deviceWASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. patent office has reportedly granted a patent for an anti-gravity device -- breaking its rule to reject inventions that defy the laws of physics.
The journal Nature said patent 6,960,975 was granted Nov. 1 to Boris Volfson of Huntington, Ind., for a space vehicle propelled by a superconducting shield that alters the curvature of space-time outside the craft in a way that counteracts gravity.
One of the main theoretical arguments ... (more)
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Are sea birds becoming too dumb to survive?The global decline in seabird populations is of growing concern to ecologists, and now researchers have discovered a new cause – some may be becoming too stupid to survive.
Climate change may be the root of the trouble. New environmental conditions lead fish to migrate, leaving the birds that feed on them malnourished. The new research shows that lack of a specific nutrient in red-legged kittiwakes damages their cognitive abilities and could leave them too daft to find food.... (more)
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Weather terror 2: Russia and the rogueshanks to readers (and you know who you are) who supplied new links to valuable information, we find there are more players in the game of weather terror and control than the US with its HAARP system. One prime rival as you might expect is our old Cold War enemy, Russia. And perhaps it is no coincidence that Katrina as well as Ivan are both Russian names.
From the blog of Scott Stevens, a real-life, truth-telling NBC weatherman in Idaho, comes his lead story The Tsunami that was Ka... (more)
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Brave New World of Tesla TechnologyBy Sara Summers & Vic Taylor - [In our October 2005 issue of AFV, we brought our readers startling news about weather manipulation. Now, by popular demand, our writers have complied a “how it is done” article. Please keep in mind that while the authors are not scientists, they have worked hard to bring you the information currently available.]
A "new" kind of electromagnetic (EM) wave began development and testing over 30 years ago (originally discovered by Nikola Tesl... (more)
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BT: Don't worry about 'RFID Luddites'The 'one man and his dog' organisations that are opposed to RFID are not worth worrying about, according to BT
BT has claimed that companies interested in deploying RFID shouldn't be put off by protests, as there are always people who resist new technology.
Speaking at the first day of the RFID Futures conference in London, Ian Neild, disruptive futurist at BT Research Labs, said that the anti-RFID lobby wasn't anything to worry about and wouldn't impact the rollout... (more)
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Satellite Spots 'Glowing' OceanFor hundreds of years, ship captains in the Indian Ocean have been writing of nighttime voyages through eerie stretches of water -- areas where the surface of the ocean glowed so brightly that sailors could read books on deck at midnight. These milky waters were said to cover thousands of square miles.
Marine biologists used to ignore these kinds of reports. Now they don't. A group of satellite photos has changed their minds.
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The rootkit of all evil?Sony is in trouble but we might be the ones who lose out in the end, says technology commentator Bill Thompson.
Sony BMG, the record company part of the multinational corporation that makes laptops, TVs, movies and many other things, is in trouble this week thanks to a copy protection scheme it has used on a number of its CDs.
The software, called Extended Copy Protection or XCP, hides itself on your hard drive using techniques normally reserved for viruses, worms ... (more)
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Mystery signal jams garage doorsOTTAWA, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- A mysterious and powerful radio signal is interfering with electronic garage door openers around Canada's capital.
J.P. Cleroux of Ram Overhead Door Systems told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. the problem began last weekend.
"It affects a 25-mile radius. That's huge," said Cleroux.
Cleroux believes the culprit may be the U.S. Embassy. The new state-of-the-art Land Mobile Radio System uses the 390 megahertz frequency that is al... (more)
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Fuel's paradise? Power source that turns physics on its head· Scientist says device disproves quantum theory
· Opponents claim idea is result of wrong maths
It seems too good to be true: a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste. If that does not sound radical enough, how about this: the principle behind the source turns modern physics on its head.
Randell Mills, a Harvard University medic who also studied elec... (more)
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Fireball Sightings: Earth is orbiting through a swarm of space debris that may be producing an unusual number of nighttime fireballs"I thought some wise guy was shining a spotlight at me," says Josh Bowers of New Germany, Pennsylvania. "Then I realized what it was: a fireball in the southern sky. I was doing some backyard astronomy around 9 p.m. on Halloween (Oct. 31, 2005), and this meteor was so bright it made me lose my night vision."
Bowers wasn't the only one who saw the fireball. Lots of people were outdoors Trick or Treating. They saw what Bowers saw ... and more. Before the night was over, reports of m... (more)
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Experts dismiss scare over bird fluAt a time when headlines trumpet the potential dangers of "bird flu," Gary Butcher is the man of the hour.
Butcher has been an extension veterinarian at the University of Florida's College of Veterinary Medicine since 1988. He was trained as a veterinarian specializing in avian diseases, and has a Ph.D. in poultry virology.
As the only poultry veterinarian in the state, Butcher fields phone calls and e-mails about avian flu every day.
Lately, he's bee... (more)
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Flash seen in sky possibly a meteor?Dana Coleman was anxious to know what was behind the "extraordinary bright light" seen last night in Richmond and as far away as Goochland and Dinwiddie counties.
"It was really, really strange," Coleman said, minutes after the sighting.
Coleman lives near Libbie and Grove avenues. She and three friends were chatting outside about 9:25 p.m. when "the whole backyard suddenly illuminated."
She said the bright blue light moved south with an orange and wh... (more)
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U.S. Military Wants to Own the WeatherThe one-two hurricane punch from Katrina and Wilma along with predictions of more severe weather in the future has scientists pondering ways to save lives, protect property and possibly even control the weather.
While efforts to tame storms have so far been clouded by failure, some researchers aren’t willing to give up the fight. And even if changing the weather proves overly challenging, residents and disaster officials can do a better job planning and reacting.
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Congress Poised To Give Immunity To Unsafe VaccinesCongress Poised To Rush Through Sweeping Immunity For Possibly Unsafe Vaccines And Other Drugs
Americans Likely To Become Human Guinea Pigs
On October 17, 2005, a new Biodefense bill will be introduced in the U.S. Senate and is expected to be pushed through the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, without hearings.
THE BILL WOULD WIPE OUT BOTH REGULATORY AND LEGAL SAFEGUARDS AGAINST CERTAIN UNSAFE VACCINES, DRUGS AND ... (more)
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Most Offspring Died When Mother Rats Ate GM SoyThe Russian scientist planned a simple experiment to see if eating genetically modified (GM) soy might influence offspring. What she got, however, was an astounding result that may threaten a multi-billion dollar industry.
Irina Ermakova, a leading scientist at the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), added GM soy flour (5-7 grams) to the diet of female rats. Other females were fed non-GM soy or no soy at all. The exper... (more)
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Ease pain by taking a good look at yourselfSome patients suffering chronic pain in their limbs have found an unlikely source of relief – mirrors. Researchers say the drug-free treatment works on people with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and repetitive strain injury (RSI) because it tricks the brain into correcting its distorted image of the body.
CRPS occurs in about one-third of people who fracture their wrists: they suffer unexplained persistent pain in their hand, arm or shoulder once the supportive plaste... (more)
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AIDS Gel on a Faster Track: Merck, Bristol to License Drugs Free for Use in Poor CountriesNEW YORK, Oct. 31 -- New research in monkeys suggests a combination of AIDS drugs applied as a vaginal gel might prevent infection with HIV, and two major drug companies said Monday they would license promising compounds at no charge so that such a product can be created.
A paper due for publication this week in the journal Nature found that a combination of three drugs applied topically in monkeys prevented infection with a virus similar to the human immunodeficiency virus, which... (more)
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Scientists aim to beat flu with genetically modified chickensTHE long-term threat of an avian flu pandemic could be greatly reduced by a project to produce genetically modified chickens that can resist lethal strains of the virus.
British scientists are genetically engineering chickens to protect them against the H5N1 virus that has devastated poultry farms in the Far East, with a view to replacing stocks with birds that are not susceptible to influenza.
The technique should also offer protection against many other strains of... (more)
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Europe´s first pyramid discovered in bosniaBosnia's daily Dnevni Avaz reported about "a sensational discovery" of "the first European pyramid" in the central town of Visoko, about 20 miles north of Sarajevo.
Excavations at a hill site above the town have been going on for several months and initial analyses "have confirmed the original claim that this is Europe's first pyramid and a monumental building, similar in dimensions to the Egyptian pyramids."
The artefact is said to be around 10,000 years old.
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Strange lights reported all across stateResidents across California and people as far east as Las Vegas reported seeing strange lights in the sky late Wednesday, according to Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central coast.
Base command staff at Vandenberg, Travis and Edwards Air Force Bases said there were no military aircraft in the sky that would have caused the lights. The Air Force bases also said there were no test missile launches Wednesday. Such tests have, in the past, resulted in light patterns that can be seen... (more)
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