Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Oakland cemetery installs Jonestown victims memorial

Four granite plaques embedded on a raised concrete slab in Oakland's Evergreen Cemetery now bear the names in alphabetical order -- including that of the Rev. Jim Jones -- of all 918 people who died in the Jonestown tragedy in the jungles of Guyana on Nov. 18, 1978, believed to be the largest mass suicide in history.
Full article: http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_18035360

Ohio witness observes two 'car-sized UFO's'!!

A Cheviot, OH, witness reports a silent, slow-moving, football-shaped UFO the "size of a car" passed overhead "about 150 feet above the house" just as it was getting dark on May 9, 2011, while a second, similar-shaped UFO appeared nearby, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Full article: http://www.examiner.com/ufo-in-national/two-ufos-size-of-a-car-low-over-cheviot-ohio

Supposed 'UFO' off coast of Victoria, Canada a U.S. government radar

If you were at the waterfront on Tuesday, you may have seen a strange vessel with a white globe on top moving through Juan de Fuca Strait.  It’s a sea-based radar vessel, operated by the U.S. Missile Defence Agency, heading to a shipyard in Seattle for maintenance and upgrades.
Full article: http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/Mystery+Victoria+Unidentified+Floating+Object+solved+story+photos/4759884/story.html

According to the Journal of Consumer Research ads can trigger false memories in our brains!

One way advertisers convince us to buy something is to remind us that we’ve enjoyed their product before. Unfortunately, we can have fond memories of a product that we’ve never even had. Or that doesn’t even exist.
Full article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=ads-convince-consumers-of-nonexiste-11-05-10

Monday, May 9, 2011

Neurologist believes he has the answer to why people think they are having a near-death-experience

Gillian MacKenzie remembers feeling worried for her unborn child, as the world around her fell into darkness, save for a dot of brilliant light.  She was somehow aware that her delivery had gone wrong and she was losing a lot of blood, but there was comfort in the light.
Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1385027/Revealed-The-truth-near-death-experiences.html


Scottish bioethics professor claims that homeopathy is 'ethically unacceptable'

A bioethics expert from the University of Abertay Dundee has denounced the public funding of homeopathy at a time where Scotland’s health budget is under unprecedented pressure. Speaking in the esteemed journal 'Bioethics', Dr Kevin Smith says that Homeopathy is ‘ethically unacceptable’ and should be ‘actively rejected’ by healthcare and education providers.
Full article: http://www.abertay.ac.uk/about/news/newsarchive/2011/name,7890,en.html

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Saturday, May 7, 2011

According to many in medical field Morgellons disease is misdiagnosed  case of mass hysteria?

It all started in August 2007, on a family holiday in New England. Paul had been watching Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix with his wife and two sons, and he had started to itch. His legs, his arms, his torso – it was everywhere. It must be fleas in the seat, he decided.
Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/may/07/morgellons-mysterious-illness

Friday, May 6, 2011

Rising Asian economy creates more UFO sightings, including aliens using land line phones to contact humans!

Everybody from fund managers to jet-setting diplomats is talking about the world's center of gravity shifting to Asia. Now, extraterrestrials appear to be taking notice, too.  Trackers in Colorado at the Mutual UFO Network, one of the oldest unidentified-flying-object research organizations in this world, say that since the slump of the Western banking system in 2008, UFO sightings among Asia's fast-growing economies have accelerated. Suspicious UFOs have shut down airports in China, buzzed resorts in Borneo and lit up the night sky in Myanmar.
Full article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703778104576286712292054004.html

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Opponents of Iranian president Ahmadinejad arrested for claims that he and his staff are using sorcery and spirits to stay in power!

Close allies of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been accused of using supernatural powers to further his policies amid an increasingly bitter power struggle between him and the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.  Several people said to be close to the president and his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, have been arrested in recent days and charged with being "magicians" and invoking djinns (spirits).
Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/05/ahmadinejad-allies-charged-with-sorcery

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Acupuncture almost kills South Korea's former president Roh Tae-woo!

Former South Korean president Roh Tae-woo was admitted to hospital with a bad cough and ended up on the operating table to remove an acupuncture needle from his right lung.  Local media reports said Roh, 78, was released from Seoul National University Hospital Monday after surgery to remove the 6.5 cm needle.
Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110504/od_nm/us_korea_roh

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

UK's Wiltshire area gets first crop circle of season!

The unseasonably warm spring weather has not only brought forward many summer flowers - it has sparked the usual round of crop circles.  An elaborate 100ft circle which appeared overnight has caused a stir after it was found in a field of oil seed rape near Silbury Hill, Wiltshire.
Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1383035/First-crop-circle-season-appears-historic-Wiltshire-field.html

Monday, May 2, 2011

Osama Bin Laden is dead!  Or is he?  Conspiracy theories started almost as soon as death announcement

It’s not hard to imagine why the announcement sounds suspicious: A decade-long search for an international terrorist ends with his body dumped at sea, with no photos, film or other documentation provided.  President Barack Obama's announcement on Sunday night that United States forces had killed Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden leaves a lot for conspiracy theorists to chew on.
Full article: http://www.livescience.com/13982-osama-bin-laden-death-conspiracy-theories.html

Sunday, May 1, 2011

New archeological theory tries to solve mysteries of Easter Island...

 A scientific battle over the fate of Easter Island's natives is ready to erupt this summer with the publication of a book challenging the notion that their Neolithic society committed ecological suicide.
Full article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/has-the-mystery-of-easter-island-finally-been-solved-2274075.html