Lots of news today, including SpaceShipOne, Bono, and Kyoto. Post your comments.
- SpaceShipOne makes it to the target altitude on it’s first flight in the attempt at the X Prize. More here too.
- The U.S. buys a whole town for anti-terror training. I await the conspiracy theorists when they realise the town is in New Mexico.
- Protest flotilla to intercept plutonium shipment in the Channel.
- North Korea says it has turned plutonium from spent fuel rods into nuclear weapons.
- Kyrgyzstan has foiled a plot to sell a large quantity of plutonium on the black market.
- Are there pterodactyls flying around America? There are reports from British Columbia,Rhode Island and now Illinois.
- A road through jungles that have swallowed both Scots and American expiditions is blasted as a threat to global biodiversity.
- TDG’s favourite world stateman, Bono, urges us all to “get real” on African problems.
- Give us this day our daily bread – 23,000 years ago.
- Good news for one beautiful endangered species, as cheetahs are successfully bred in Spanish captivity. I love reporting good news, it makes me smile.
- Greenhouse gas levels are rising over Antartica.
- Scientists find earliest evidence yet of early humans in North-East Asia – almost 340,000 years earlier than previously thought.
- Hackers attack Al Qaeda-linked websites. Sorta gives the lie to the official line that all those hackers are anti-American anarchists.
- Monks and priests get into a fistfight at the tomb of Jesus. Now I can be accused of printing Christian-bashing stories again…
- Bible texts on silver amulets dated to First Temple period.
- A seven year old girl revered as a living goddess has made a rare public appearance.
- Members of a support group for those who have had Near Death Experiences state their case.
- DNA tests may finally solve the mysterious death of a French King’s lover.
- The annual meeting of CITES begins next week, but is it as endangered as the animals it is supposed to protect?
- Operation Truth, the website ran by US veterans of Iraq, reports on the untold story of war’s casualties.
- Life found on a frozen Norwegian island chosen for it’s similiarity to Mars.
- The infamous Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft is still not ready to fly after $19 billion and 20 years.
- We are all related to a man who lived in Asia 3,500 years ago.
- What is Red Mercury? Is it a powerful nuclear explosive or a total hoax?
- European arms makers are using loopholes in the law to sell arms to blacklisted regimes.
- For those with strong stomachs, there is now a Wiccan Barbie. If you burn her at the stake is that a Barbie-Q?
- Humboldt area crop circle gives off bad vibe.
- Hot off the newsfeeds- The Russian Government has approved the Kyoto Protocol at long last.
Quote of the Day:
“There are seven sins in the world: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.”
Mohandas Gandhi
