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Pentagon in global propaganda drive, The Guardian The Pentagon is to spend $300m (£170m) planting pro-US messages in media outlets around the world, including those of its allies, without disclosing the US government as their source. The aim is to …

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Indigo kids "can see the future"

Parents insist their `Indigo children’ can see the future, The Orange County Register LA HABRA, Calif. – It was a typical kids’ birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese. Pizza, games and noise. But when Carolyn Kaufman was getting her daughter, …

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Rat brains and fighter planes

“It sounds like science fiction: a brain nurtured in a Petri dish learns to pilot a fighter plane as scientists develop a new breed of “living” computer. But in groundbreaking experiments in a Florida laboratory that is exactly what is …

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Ratanapuri Rinpoche faces probe

Boy hailed as a modern Buddha ‘has been fasting for six months’ By Justin Huggler, The Independent Published: 02 December 2005 Scientists in Nepal are planning to examine claims by a 15-year-old boy, hailed by pilgrims from across the country …

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Sonic Youth Repellent

What’s the Buzz? Rowdy Teenagers Don’t Want to Hear It By SARAH LYALL in the New York Times, via Barry Journal BARRY, Wales – Though he did not know it at the time, the idea came to Howard Stapleton when …

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Koko settles out of court

Koko, the signing gorilla with a nipple fetish settles out of court, reports Court TV Two women who claimed they were pressured to show their breasts to Koko, the famous gorilla who communicates with humans through sign language, have dropped …

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Scientology's (once) Secret Bunker

Situated about 200km East of Albuquerque, New Mexico lies the small town of Trementina. And deep inside a mesa not far from here, engraved into stainless steel tablets encased which are then in titanium capsules, are the complete works of …

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Oldest map fragment found

(OK, this is old, but nowt compared to the apparent 4800-yr-old “Moon map” of the Knowth passage mound in Ireland…) From the Daily Telegraph The oldest map of anywhere in the western world, dating from about 500 BC, has been …

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US grants antigravity patent

Antigravity craft slips past patent officers By Philip Ball, in Nature 438, 139 (10 November 2005) ‘Impossible’ device gets seal of approval. The US patent office has granted a patent on a design for an antigravity device — breaking its …

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US Govt loosens its grip on Steven Kurtz

At last some good news in the bizarre and frightening case of Steven Kurtz. Kurtz is an artist and professor at the University of Buffalo in New York State. In May 2004 he was arrested on grounds of being a …

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USO off the Andamans?

“Strange underwater sound and a burst of electromagnetic waves – a new military weapon system or a new type of extraterrestrial UFO?” asks India Daily It happened in Andaman beach areas. The fishing boats in the region observed it. It …

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Curse of the Iceman

The death of a molecular biologist, Tom Loy, is the seventh to be connected with a Stone Age cadaver found entombed in an alpine glacier in 1991. Kathy Marks reports Published: 05 November 2005 When the 5,300-year-old body of a …

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