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Thousands of pills filled with powdered human baby flesh discovered by customs officials in South Korea

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dailymail Thousands of pills filled with powdered human flesh have been discovered by customs officials in South Korea, it was revealed today. The capsules are in demand because they are viewed as being a medicinal ‘cure-all’. The grim trade is being run from China where corrupt medical staff are said to be tipping off medical [...]

DARPA’s Plan to Nanochip Soldiers Has a Darker Agenda Behind it 1/2

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DARPA is at it again. This time, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced plans to create nanochips for monitoring troops health on the battlefield. Kate Knibbs at Mobiledia reports the sensors are targeted at preventing illness and disease, the two causes of most troops medical evacuations. What seems like a simple way of [...]

Huge SUNSPOT 1476 poses a threat(Video)

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spaceweather.com BIG SUNSPOT: One of the largest sunspot groups in years rotated over the sun’s northeastern limb this weekend. With a least four dark cores larger than Earth, AR1476 sprawls more than 100,000 km from end to end, and makes an easy target for backyard solar telescopes. Amateur astronomer Alan Friedman sends this picture of [...]

1,200 dead pelicans wash ashore on beach in Peru

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examiner.com A child looks on as a dead pelican lies on Cerro Azul beach in Canete, Lima May 6, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Mariana Bazo It’s that time of year again, that time being whenever it is that unexplained mass animal deaths occur. Wildlife experts were at a loss in early 2011 to explain the mass bird [...]

Chinese military writings reveal cyber, space war plans

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freebeacon.com USAF Satellite/ AP Images BY: Bill Gertz – April 27, 2012 5:00 am China’s People’s Liberation Army is preparing to destroy U.S. computer and network infrastructure in future attacks and knock out satellites with microwave pulses, according to recently translated Chinese military writings. A senior colonel in the General Staff Fourth Department—the cyber warfare [...]

DoD Confirms Russian Troops To Train On U.S. Soil

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prisonplanet.com The Department of Defense has confirmed foreign media reports that Russian troops are set to target terrorists on Americans soil as part of an unprecedented joint drill with the United States which will take place in Colorado next month. As we reported yesterday, Airborne troops from Russia are set to take part in drills [...]

Scientists Stumped By Sun’s Asymmetrically Reversing Magnetic Field

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idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com The Sun’s magnetic field is reversing, South becoming North, as it does approximately every 11 years on a cycle, but this time, something even stranger is going on: The North is moving much faster than the South, and space scientists aren’t sure why. “Right now, there’s an imbalance between the north and the south [...]

Feds to consider biometrics for permanent residents to combat fraud

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canada.com Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is in support of extending biometric ID requirements to permanent residents. He says he would consider amending his current omnibus immigration bill to include such a policy. Photograph by: Postmedia News , National Post OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says he supports extending biometric ID requirements to permanent residents [...]

Weird Weather is Making America Antsy

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livescience.com Is your house driving you buggy? If so, you’re not alone.  A national survey in the U.S. found that 84 percent of American homeowners experienced a pest problem in the last 12 months, which could make this a good year for pest control professionals. Slightly more than half of all homeowners think it’s essential [...]

Russia and China are intensifying cooperation in the military sphere

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ruvr.ru   Russian-Chinese war games “Naval Interaction-2012″ in the Yellow sea has entered its active phase on April 24. 25 warships, 13 aircrafts, 9 helicopters and 2 units of the special forces of the two countries participate in them. Taking into account the number of participating forces and the scenario, these manoeuvres are apparently the [...]