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The Devolving Universe

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The natural tendency of matter and of all energy is toward greater disorder — not toward greater order or complexity as evolution would teach. The only way this tendency can be overcome is if there is a directing code and mechanism. For example, when a seed develops into a tree it does so only because there is a pre-existing energy converting mechanism and code (genetic program) in the seed... 

Fukushima emergency workers likely to face long term health issues

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A fresh fire Wednesday engulfed a reactor in Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, with fears that the emergency workers could face long term health issues. The Japanese emperor said he was “deeply worried” as two strong tremors hit the country Wednesday. The fresh fire broke out at reactor no. 4 in Fukushima atomic power plant where three of the total six reactors were... 

Polls show American public not sold on Libya intervention

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A day after the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution authorizing all measures necessary short of a ground invasion to protect Libyan civilians from Muammar Gadhafi, a compilation of recent polls shows the war-weary American public is not eager for the United States to embark on an intervention there. President Barack Obama is due to speak about Libya sometime this afternoon prior to his departure... 

Almost half of U.S. faces spring flooding: NOAA

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Almost half the United States – the North Central region, the Midwest and the Northeast – faces a high risk of spring flooding over the next two weeks, government forecasters said on Thursday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in its spring forecast that the stage was set for potential widespread, record flooding, particularly in the North Central United States for... 

Strauss-Kahn and Le Pen Might Defeat Sarkozy in Vote, Poll Shows

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Marine Le Pen might defeat President Nicolas Sarkozy if a French election were held now, a poll showed. Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund and a Socialist Party member, would win 33 percent in the first round, according to the Ipsos-LogicaBusiness Consulting poll for Le Monde and Europe 1 radio. Le Pen, leader of the National Front party,... 

Meat prices skyrocket

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Natural disasters, market fluctuations, prices soaring for gas and grain: these are world events that don’t just make it onto your T.V. screen. They’re affecting what’s on your dinner table. Several factors are at work that have meat prices on the rise. Watch the video to see how one local market is dealing with the soaring prices. Source  Read More »

Japan earthquake and tsunami: Earth's day length shortened as axis tilted by 25cm

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Devastation: The earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan on Friday was a once-in-a-millennium event, scientists say. The earthquake that struck Japan on Friday was so powerful that it actually moved the whole planet by 25cm, experts say. According to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology the 9.0 magnitude ‘quake was so powerful it shifted the axis around which the... 

Tsunami warning extended to New Zealand

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Civil Defence has issued a marine tsunami warning for New Zealand after a magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck Japan early tonight, NZ time, but says it does not expect it to pose a threat for people on land. A wave of up to 1 metre may reach the coasts of the central and northern North Island from about 6.30am tomorrow, but the first arrival was expected to coincide with a low tide. The Pacific Tsunami... 

Scientists discover "zombie ants" in Brazil

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A zombie ant infected with the parasitic fungus bites the neck of one of its dead fellows, mistaking it for a leaf vein. ‘Zombie ants’ may sound like the title of an Ed Wood movie, but, according to National Geographic, they are quite real. Oddly, there’s nothing very zombie-like about the actual ants. It’s only when a particular fungus takes over the ant’s brain that... 

60 killed in major tsunami after 8.9 Japan quake

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Part of houses swallowed by tsunami burn in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture (state) after Japan was struck by a strong earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday, March 11, 2011. A ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded slammed Japan’s eastern coast Friday, killing at least 60 people as it swept away boats, cars and homes while widespread fires burned out of control.... 

March Mega Quake Warning Issued For United States

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A new report released today in the Kremlin prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Institute of Physics of the Earth, in Moscow, is warning that the America’s are in danger of suffering a mega-quake of catastrophic proportions during the next fortnight (14 days) with a specific emphasis being placed on the United States, Mexico, Central America and South American west coast regions along with the... 

Million dead fish swamp L.A. area marina

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Some of the dead fish at King Harbor Marina in Redondo Beach, Calif., are seen Tuesday. The fish were a foot thick in areas, one official said. ‘Seals are gorging themselves’ while leftovers are removed, dumped in bins. Sardines and other small fish in the hundreds of thousands washed up dead overnight in the harbor area of Redondo Beach, Calif., just south of Los Angeles, puzzling authorities... 

Economists Urge Obama Not to 'Overreact' to High Food Prices

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March 4: President Obama gestures while speaking at Miami Central Senior High School in Miami. Leading advocates for the world’s poorest and hungriest are urging President Obama not to “overreact” to recent spikes in food prices, particularly by imposing export bans on U.S. agricultural products. In its February report, the World Bank noted “sharp increases” in the global prices of wheat,... 

Human Era Warned Is Ending After Singularity Attacks America

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A grim top-secret report written for President Medvedev by Scientist-Researcher Tatiana Sannikova of the Institute of Numerical Mathematics warns that the United States is currently under attacked by our world’s first known “singularity” thus meaning that the “era of human beings is over.” The term “singularity”, as used by Sannikova in her report, was coined by the Professor of Mathematics... 

CNN: Are whites racially oppressed?

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White marchers gather at Glenn Beck rally this summer. Were they driven by racial fears or patriotic sentiment? They marched on Washington to reclaim civil rights. They complained of voter intimidation at the polls. They called for ethnic studies programs to promote racial pride. They are, some say, the new face of racial oppression in this nation — and their faces are white. “We went from... 
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