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UN Warns Pesticides Cause 200,000 Deaths A Year
UN report says pesticides are having ‘catastrophic impacts’ on human health and environment while failing to end hunger.
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Human Trafficking in India Has Risen By 25% With 20,000 Cases in 2016
Human trafficking is still on the rise in India as 20,000 women and children are lured into modern-day slavery, a rise of nearly 25 percent since the previous year.
New NASA Experiment Shows Potatoes Can Grow in Mars-Like Conditions
Scientists at NASA and the International Potato Center (CIP) in Lima, Peru, have successfully grown tubers in an experiment that recreates the extreme conditions on the surface of Mars, in a NASA-backed project called “Potatoes on Mars.”
NASA Discovers Entire New Solar System With Earth-Like Planets Capable of Supporting Life
NASA announced a remarkable, groundbreaking new find in a press conference on Wednesday: an entire new solar system filled with planets similar to Earth and could potentially support life. Researchers revealed that they have made perhaps the most promising exoplanet discovery ever, finding seven planets that are in orbit around a relatively nearby star,
The Petrodollar: The Real Motive Behind Provocation of War With Iran
United States foreign policy has changed very little over the past several decades, regardless of which political party is in control of each House of Congress, or which figurehead is currently residing in the White House. Iran was the final country listed in the “7 countries in 5 years” revealed by General Wesley Clark as targets for U.S. military intervention since 2001.
2016 Is 3rd Consecutive Year To Break Global Temperature Records As ‘Hottest Year Ever’
NASA and the NOAA have jointly confirmed that 2016 was the hottest year in recorded history, ever since mankind began recordkeeping in 1880. The record was previously held by 2015, and prior to that, by 2014. At the end of October, Arctic ice was at its second-lowest point since we started keeping track.
Amid Fevered “Fake News” Hysteria, Mainstream Media Demonstrates How To Fake News Like a Pro With Fake Aleppo Coverage (VIDEO)
The Western corporate media’s increasingly hysterical denunciations of the Syrian “regime” (never referred to as a legitimate sovereign government), along with allies Russia and Iran, for alleged atrocities in the retaking of Aleppo, painting democratically elected President Bashar al-Assad as a “brutal dictator” who “butchers his own people”, is a measure of the disillusionment and bitterness within the Western neo-liberal power elite over this strategic reversal in the drive to overthrow the sovereign government of President al-Assad.
‘Brightest Supernova Ever’ Was Actually a Black Hole Violently Shredding a Star
An incredibly luminous outburst that astronomers had previously classified as possibly the brightest supernova ever actually might have been caused by the explosive death of a star torn apart by a giant black hole, a new study finds.
Extinction-Level Superflares May Blast Earth’s Nearest Exoplanet Proxima b
The recent discovery of a planet around the star closest to Earth’s sun has raised hopes that life might exist around the sun’s nearest neighbor, but researchers now find that Read More…
South Sudan: The Latest Failed US Intervention Descends Into Violent Chaos
Faced with the dire U.N. warning of a possible genocide, the United States was set this week to finally embrace an arms embargo against South Sudan to cut back the Read More…
Gang Rapes, Abductions, Mass Murder, & Horrific Human Rights Atrocities Target Ethnic Groups and Foreigners in South Sudan As World’s Youngest Country on Brink of Genocide
The U.N. advisor on the prevention of genocide, Adama Dieng, issued a dire warning last month that the fledgling new country of South Sudan is “on the brink” of a genocide comparable to what happened in Rwanda over two decades ago.
“White Helmet” “Save Aleppo” Protest Proves How Easy It Is to Dress up Actors As “War Victims”
By Tony Cartalucci Originally published on Land Destroyer, October 3, 2016. Recent protests held across North America and Europe staged by supporters of armed militants in Syria have staged scenes in Read More…
Newly Discovered Closest Planet to Solar System Is Potentially Habitable
Proxima b is a rocky, terrestrial planet with a surface (not a ball of gas, like Jupiter), a minimum mass of 1.3 Earth masses, and in a close orbit of approximately 11.2 days with Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun.
CLINTON CASH: New documentary exposes blatant pay-to-play schemes under corrupt Clinton State Department (VIDEO)
An explosive new documentary based on Peter Schweizer’s bestselling book of the same name, Clinton Cash, details how Bill and Hillary Clinton used their positions of power and influence to raise millions for themselves and billions for their “charitable” foundation.
China’s Futuristic “Straddling” Bus May Have Been Illegally Funded Scam (VIDEO)
A futuristic street-straddling bus that allows regular traffic to pass underneath made its first road test in Qinhuangdao, Hebei province, on Tuesday, August 2, 2016.