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Rupert Sheldrake stabbed

Bizarre news from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where maverick British biologist Rupert Sheldrake narrowly avoided a potentially fatal attack while presenting at the 10th International Conference on Science and Consciousness. From the Santa Fe New Mexican Rupert Sheldrake of London …

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Hunt for the Death Star

[Nisshin Maru, on the run from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza. Dave Walsh] High drama on the high seas as Greenpeace’s Esperanza and Sea Shepherd’s Steve Irwin close in on the ‘cetacean Death Star’. ‘We are obsessed with stopping the cetacean …

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The Church vs 666

[traffic warden buggy spotted outside San Francisco’s MOMA on 31 December 2007] 666 church motion doomed By Chris Moncrieff, PA The Independent, 10 January 2008 A motion calling for the disestablishment of the Church of England appeared on the House …

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Humpback thanks

This just in from Dave Walsh, our man in the Antarctic – it seems that this is the whales’ way of expressing their appreciation for the efforts of the Esperanza team! “Two days, ago, just after breakfast, the Esperanza was …

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Dedalus Books needs you!

UPDATE 06 March 08 ‘Dedalus is proud to announce that Informa plc through its subsidiary company Routledge Books, an imprint of Taylor & Francis, will sponsor Dedalus for the next two years as part of Informa plc’s corporate responsibility programme. …

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Czech media-jammers face jail

Artists spliced fake nuclear blast into TV weather news Kate Connolly in Berlin Guardian, 4 January, 2008 A group of radical artists who panicked viewers of a Czech TV station by sneaking a nuclear mushroom cloud into its weather report …

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UFO Xmas gift from the MOD

‘Following sustained pressure by a small number of UFO researchers during the last 8 years, the British Ministry of Defence have decided to release all of their UFO files.Gary Anthony, Dave Clarke, and Joe McGonagle have been making full use …

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'Pathological presidential liar or idiot-in-chief?'

“I’m as mad as hell… and I’m not going to take this anymore!” [Network] Further doesn’t often stray into mainstream politics, but I was so impressed by this lengthy, sustained and above all else, deeply angry monologue by MSNBC pundit …

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How America Lost the War on Drugs

“Even by conservative estimates, the War on Drugs now costs the United States $50 billion each year and has overcrowded prisons to the breaking point – all with little discernible impact on the drug trade. A report by the Government …

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Meet the Forgers

Family of forgers fooled art world with array of finely crafted fakes By Cahal Milmo, The Independent: 17 November 2007 When curators at the British Museum were approached in 2005 by an elderly man with a broad Lancashire accent asking …

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Why the new Moon rush?

“Germany recently announced that they possibly, maybe, might launch a robotic spacecraft to the Moon. That now brings to six the number of countries with spacecraft at the Moon in development to go to the Moon… The others are: China, …

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Alien firestarters!

Aliens were responsible for a series of unexplained fires in fridges, TV’s and mobile phones in an Italian village, according to an Italian government report. Canneto di Caronia, in northern Sicily, drew attention three years ago after residents reported everyday …

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