Topic: NEWS - on December 1, 2007 at 11:42:00 PM CET
Concern over HIV homeopathy role
Doctors and health charities have expressed concern about a conference which will examine the role of homeopathy in treating HIV.
The event includes discussion of what have been described as "healing remedies" for HIV and AIDS.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 1, 2007 at 6:12:00 PM CET
From Lightning Weapons to Flying Cars
Anderson-based Air Buoyant, is developing a one-person flying platform called the VertiPod. Classified as an ultralight aircraft, the propeller-powered VertiPod’s simple controls could spark a transportation revolution.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 1, 2007 at 11:40:00 AM CET
24th Chaos Communication Congress (24C3) - Full steam ahead
The 24th Chaos Communication Congress (24C3) is the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). It takes place at the bcc Berliner Congress Center in Berlin, Germany. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics and attracts a diverse audience of thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians from all around the world. The 24C3s slogan is Volldampf voraus! – the German equivalent of “full steam ahead” – a particular request for talks and projects featuring forward looking hands-on topics.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 1, 2007 at 10:32:00 AM CET
China targeting all 'enemy space vehicles' including GPS satellites
China’s anti-satellite and space warfare program includes plans to destroy or incapacitate 'every enemy space vehicle' that passes over China.
The annual report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, released last week, listed among Beijing's goals that of ensuring that Chinese space weapons are “conducted covertly so China can maintain a positive international image.” China has called for a ban on space weapons at the United Nations.
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Topic: NEWS - on November 17, 2007 at 10:04:00 AM CET
Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything
Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything - Garrett Lisi, 39, who completed his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1999 at the University of California, San Diego.
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Topic: NEWS - on November 11, 2007 at 1:10:00 PM CET
Two guns owned by Mexican folk hero Pancho Villa up for auction
Whether or not Pancho Villa is remembered as an infamous outlaw or a revolutionary hero, everyone agrees that the folk hero of the 1910 Mexican Revolution always carried guns.
Now two of those firearms, and one that belonged to frontierswoman "Calamity Jane," will be up for bidding in an auction beginning Saturday in Fredericksburg.
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Topic: NEWS - on November 7, 2007 at 10:35:00 AM CET
Gisele Bündchen schließt daher Verträge in fast allen Währungen ab - außer in US-Dollar
Mit billigen Dollars will sich das mit Abstand teuerste Model der Welt nicht mehr abspeisen lassen: Die Brasilianerin Gisele Bündchen schließt daher Verträge in fast allen Währungen ab - außer in US-Dollar. Sie folgt damit anderen Superreichen wie dem legendären US-Investor Warren Buffett, der ebenfalls sein Vermögen ins Trockene bringt - und dem ständig fallenden Dollar den Rücken kehrt.
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Topic: NEWS - on November 7, 2007 at 10:08:00 AM CET
Gisele Bundchen doesn’t like the dollar?
The world's richest model has reportedly reacted in her own way to the sliding value of the US dollar - by refusing to be paid in the currency.
Gisele Bündchen is said to be keen to avoid the US currency because of uncertainty over its strength.
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Topic: NEWS - on November 6, 2007 at 11:07:00 AM CET
3,500 Chinese Babies Named “Olympics”
There has been a lot of crazy stuff going on in China in anticipation for the 2008 Olympics. None quite so strange as this story.
Nearly 3,500 children, since the year 2000, have been named after the 2008 Olympics.
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Topic: NEWS - on November 4, 2007 at 12:02:00 PM CET
Colored Toilet Paper
Brighten up your toilet room with some designer toiletpaper from Portuguese paper manufacturer Renova.
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Topic: NEWS - on October 18, 2007 at 1:14:00 PM CEST
Rangliste der Pressefreiheit veröffentlicht
Reporter ohne Grenzen (ROG) veröffentlicht heute zum sechsten Mal die Rangliste der Pressefreiheit. Sie vergleicht die Lage der Medienfreiheit in 169 Ländern. Schlusslichter sind nach wie vor Eritrea, Nordkorea und Turkmenistan. An der Spitze stehen auch in diesem Jahr mit Island, Norwegen und Estland nordeuropäische Länder. Deutschland ist auf Rang 20. Länder wie Malaysia (124.), Ägypten (146.) und Vietnam (162.) haben die Zensur des Internets verschärft und sind abgerutscht.
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Topic: NEWS - on October 14, 2007 at 12:02:00 PM CEST
The TRUTH About Black Helicopters!
Black Helicopters (BH) are not just helicopters with a black paint-job as you may have been told. They are, in fact, autonomous agents -- lifeforms -- created by New World Order (NWO) agencies via nanobiotechnology. Their primary purpose is to spy on the activities of average citizens in order to gather tactical information and discover "subversives" who are not bowing to the will of the Liberati's UN-backed Federal Government. Furthermore, when the NWO Invasion takes place in the not-too-distant future, they will round up citizens for internment in concentration camps or carry out the elimination of the more vocally anti-Liberati.
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