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Bin Laden not buried at sea, body moved on CIA plane to US

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Osama Bin Laden The body of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was not buried at sea, according to leaked emails of intelligence firm Stratfor, as revealed by WikiLeaks. Stratfor’s vice-president for intelligence, Fred Burton, believes the body was “bound for Dover, [Delaware] on [a] CIA plane” and then “onward to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Bethesda [Maryland],” an email says. The... 

McCain calls for US strike on Syria without UN mandate

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Who needs diplomacy, or international law? Not former presidential candidate (R-AZ) John McCain, who became the first senator to publicly call for a US-led military strike on Syria in order to halt the nearly year-long conflict there. Taking the Senate floor, McCain said there will be no UN mandate for the air strikes he deems the only way to stop the violence – but that a mandate isn’t necessary.... 

NASA’s Cassini mission detects oxygen on Saturn’s Dione

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The spotted atmosphere contains a very thin layer of oxygen ions equivalent to conditions 480 kilometers above Earth. Scientists say they have discovered a faint oxygen atmosphere around Saturn’s icy moon Dione which is 5 trillion times less dense than the air at Earth’s surface. Dione’s atmosphere was detected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn since... 

Obama threatens Iran with military attack over N-energy case

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US President Barack Obama The United States has once again threatened Iran with a military strike over the country’s nuclear energy program while warning Israel of the unintended consequences of attacking the Islamic Republic. In an interview with Atlantic magazine on Friday, US President Barack Obama said the US is “not taking any option off the table” in order to stop Iran’s nuclear energy... 

Stone Age Tools found on East Coast prove the first Americans came from Europe

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How Europeans first reached America: The migration route mapped out Tools belonging to stone age hunters found on U.S. east coast prove the first Americans came from Europe NOT Asia. America was first discovered by Stone Age hunters from Europe, according to new archaeological evidence. Across six locations on the U.S. east coast, several dozen stone tools have been found. After close analysis it was... 

US congressional nominee: Holocaust "blackest lie" in history

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American Republican congressional hopeful Arthur Jones A US Republican congressional hopeful has emphasized that “Holocaust never happened” and that such an event amounts to “the blackest lie in history.” Arthur Jones, who hopes to challenge Democrat Dan Lipinski in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District, noted that the claim of killing millions of Jews and other people by Nazis during... 

US "Trespass Bill" will make protest illegal

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Just when you thought the government couldn’t ruin the First Amendment any further: The House of Representatives approved a bill on Monday that outlaws protests in instances where some government officials are nearby, whether or not you even know it. The US House of Representatives voted 388-to-3 in favor of H.R. 347 late Monday, a bill which is being dubbed the Federal Restricted Buildings and... 

Wyoming Prepares "Doomsday Bill" For Martial Law Scenario

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State representatives in Wyoming have advanced a “doomsday” bill that when passed will launch a study into what the state should do in the event of an economic collapse, martial law style scenario. Wyoming House Bill 85 is essentially a state continuity of government plan that would study the impacts of the collapse of the dollar and the states ability to quickly set up an alternative currency. The... 

Train derails in southeastern Canada, killing three

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A Via Rail Canada train A train derails in southeastern Canada, killing at least three people. A train carrying 77 passengers has derailed in southeastern Canada, leaving at least three people dead and causing minor damage to several nearby buildings. The incident occurred after two train cars came off the tracks in the city of Burlington on late Sunday. Via Rail Canada, state-controlled corporation,... 

Hepatitis C kills more in US than HIV

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Hepatitis C virus reconstruction Studies show that deaths from hepatitis C (HCV) infection among US adults outnumber AIDS fatalities. And while greedy pharmaceutical giants advertise new drugs that cost a fortune, Oxford dons claim success in developing anti-HCV vaccine. ­Hepatitis C virus, or HCV, causes serious liver infection which can eventually lead to fatal liver scarring (cirrhosis) and liver... 

The great Gibson Guitar raid: Months later, still no charges filed

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“They…come in with weapons, they seized a half-million dollars worth of property, they shut our factory down, and they have not charged us with anything,” says Gibson Guitars CEO Henry Juszkiewicz, referring to the August 2011 raid on his Nashville and Memphis factories by agents from the Departments of Homeland Security and Fish & Wildlife. The feds raided Gibson for using... 

NIE report shows US knows Iran not after nuclear weapon

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama are to meet in Washington on March 5 to discuss Iran’s nuclear program. Despite the recent US and Israeli hype created around Iran’s nuclear program, a report by American intelligence agencies indicates that Tehran is not seeking to build nuclear weapons. The most recent report on Iran’s nuclear program “represents the... 

Study says fasting may help protect brain

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Fasting a day or two a week may protect the brain against degenerative diseases like Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s, according to a study by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Baltimore, USA. Meeting of the AAAS: “Reducing calorie consumption could help the brain, but simply reducing food intake may not be the best way to enable this protection. It’s probably better to alternate... 

America's crusade utterly utopian - Pat Buchanan

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Pat Buchanan Islamic wars have brought questionable benefit to the US over the last 20 years, former US presidential advisor Pat Buchanan, author of Suicide of a Superpower, shared with RT. ­A new war in the Middle East will be a disaster for the US and for the world economy, he says. “I opposed the Desert Storm operation in 1991 cleaning Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait because, I said, ‘This would... 

Prince of Monaco in hospital after booze fight

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Princess Caroline of Hanover's son Pierre Casiraghi (left) A brutal fight over vodka and Russian beauties has spilled royal blood: a brawl in a New York club has landed Monaco’s Prince Pierre Casiraghi in hospital. The punch-up took place on February 18 at Manhattan’s trendy Double Seven nightclub, yet media learned about it only two days later. According to an eye-witness report to the New... 
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