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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Crew starts one-year space mission

Russian-U.S. crew arrives safely at the International Space Station for the start of a ground-breaking year-long stay. Paul Chapman reports.





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Rangers protect three of the last remaining northern white rhinos in the world

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There is only one northern white male rhinoceros left on the planet. Its home is 200km north of Nairobi in Kenya, at Ol Pejeta Conservancy.


Joining Sudan, the male, are two female northern white rhinos. Together, they are three of the last five remaining northern white rhinos in the world.

The subspecies are on the verge of extinction, suffering greatly since poaching surged in the 1960s. According to The Guardian, a rhino's horn can sell at prices upward of $75,000 per kilo (2.2 US pounds), leaving them under great threat.



So what is the solution? Unfortunately we lost the only other two males in 2014. In an end-of-the-world-like crisis, the future of the subspecies lies on Sudan. A team of conservationists and scientists are turning to artificial fertilization techniques in a desperate attempt to save the species. Sex cell samples will be collected and stored, while scientists run appropriate tests before they can attempt to use a southern white rhino as a surrogate Read more...


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Armed militants hold prosecutor hostage in Turkey

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Members of a leftist group in Turkey have taken a chief prosecutor hostage in his office inside a court house in Istanbul.


State-run media outlets have identified the prosecutor as Mehmet Selim Kiraz, who investigated the death of Berkin Elvan, a teenager who was hit by a police gas canister fired during nationwide anti-government protests in 2013. The armed militants, who are threatening to kill the prosecutor, are reportedly demanding the arrest of the police officer who shot the teenager.


A video showing an armed militant holding a gun to the prosecutor's head surfaced during the siege



It's not clear how the assailants were able to get the weapons through court-house security. Special forces have entered the building, which has since been evacuated. Police have formed a negotiation team to speak with the assailants, however a local reporter on the scene says the militants have signaled that they will fight to the end. Read more...


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5 ways to support black-owned businesses

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Black-owned businesses need your support


In 2011, it was reported that by 2015, black buying power in the U.S. could reach $1.1 trillion. But that money doesn't always go back to the black community. If that's one of your priorities, giving back to black-owned businesses is a great way support black entrepreneurs.



However, unless you live in Columbus, Montgomery or Atlanta, Georgia (the top three cities for black-owned businesses), it requires a little more effort to find and support these kinds of initiatives


From shopping online to trying out different apps, here are five ways you can support black-owned businesses. Read more...


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Opposition candidate leads Nigerian election results

Nigerian opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari continues to lead as a majority of the country's votes are counted. Julie Noce reports.





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Solar plane stops in China

Solar Impulse 2 stops over in China's Chonqing, completing the fifth leg in its bid to become the first solar powered plane to travel around the globe. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).





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China launches first "new generation" satellite for BeiDou GPS

BEIJING: China has successfully launched a new-generation satellite into space for its indigenous BeiDou navigation system, a rival to America's Global Positioning System (GPS). Launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan last night, the satellite was boosted by a Long March-3C carrier rocket developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. It is the 17th satellite for the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). The launch marked the beginning of expanding the regional BDS to global coverage. The latest satellite will be tasked with testing a new type of navigation signalling and inter-satellite links, providing a basis to start building the global network, state-run Xinhua news agency reported today. An independent aircraft was installed on the carrier rocket, marking the first time China has used such technology in blasting off spacecraft into medium to high orbit. The independent aircraft, dubbed a "shuttle bus in space", can send one or more spacecraft into different orbits in space. China launched the first BDS satellite in 2000 in order to create a new GPS system which is already operational in China, Pakistan and some other countries. BeiDou is the Chinese equivalent of the United States NAVSTAR Global Positioning System and Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System. The new GPS was aimed at reducing dependence on US GPS specially for defence related operations. The BDS began providing positioning, navigation, timing and short message services to civilian users in China and surrounding areas in the Asia-Pacific in December 2012. The system has been gradually put into use in extended sectors including transportation, weather forecasting, the marine fishing industry, forestry and telecommunications. The new satellite was developed by the Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites. http://ift.tt/1xSD8XD



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Truth Behind Israeli Spying on Iran Nuke Talks

http://ift.tt/1OSYadM 31.03.2015 Author: Gordon Duff Recent revelations of Israeli spying on the Iran nuclear talks are far more "spin" than story. Israel's American spy network, elected members of the American senate, grown fat on cash from Afghan poppies and the whorehouses of Macao, are the real source of the leaks intended to sabotage talks and push the world to the brink of war. The story was "spun" and "contained" to accuse unnamed Israeli agents "not in custody" to protect the real spies, "bought and paid for" American lawmakers and State Department officials that are easy to find, easy to prove guilty but who may well actually be "above the law." Key members of America's government, not only officials elected with "Adelson cash" but those appointed during the Bush years to strategic positions, are able to sabotage programs and policies and, often as not as we seen in the Ukraine, become directly involved in criminal conspiracies as well. Discerning real "American policy" from what is reported by the controlled press, often misquoting or systematically misinterpreting position statements, is a daunting task. Espionage is only a part of it and Israel, though the biggest player in paying off American officials is not the only one, they are simply the most effective. When combining this level of clandestine penetration with overt control of all media, anyone resisting lives under the threat of being declared a "conspiracy theorist," death to any public figure in America, or so it is believed. Yes, Israel was using espionage to try to scuttle the Iran nuclear deal, but the spies were all members of the US government, long on the Mossad payroll. The WSJ/Murdoch Tale The Wall Street Journal story, published Tuesday, March 24, 2015, is as is now continually the case with Rupert Murdoch's media empire, part of the espionage itself and hardly investigative journalism. Murdoch's personal ties to Israeli intelligence have long been established. Murdoch, as a leader of London's Jewish community and an avid Likudist and Israeli citizen, has an intimate knowledge of espionage as brought to light during the News of the World scandal that rocked Britain. When Murdoch runs a story "exposing" Israel, he is covering something far more serious, in this case, protecting an intelligence asset or "assets." These assets are members of the American congress, Senator's Bob Corker, Bob Menendez (recently indicted), Lindsay Graham and John McCain. This quartet has full and unfettered access because of seniority, to highly classified intelligence regarding US foreign policy and, in particular, the Iran negotiations. They are briefed in closed chambers and sworn to secrecy under penalty of law. They have, however, systematically violated these laws, this confidence and their oath of loyalty to both the United States and its constitution as well. They are, in fact, paid agents of Israel, run through a "handler" much the same as Jonathan Pollard and Robert Hansen, the notorious spies destined to die in American prisons. They share something else as well. They have the same handler. Here is how it works: Heads of state are far more "hands on" than anyone guessed. Netanyahu had long been an intelligence agent when he took over the Likud party in 1993. Since the 1980s, he had been on CIA, FBI and DIA watch lists as an espionage agent working for both Israel and the Soviet Union. When he became Prime Minister in 1996, he became "the perfect spy," above the law. A few months after 9/11, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu walked into an FBI sting. As part of an agreement to avoid prosecution for espionage, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice agreed to allow the FBI to conduct surveillance on members of the Bush (43) National Security Council. One member, a Middle East specialist brought in by Paul Wolfowitz was a cooperating witness and wore a "wire" during meetings that to the 2004 arrest of staffers of Wolfowitz in what is called "the AIPAC spy scandal," named such as several of those involved, indicted and "persons of interest" were employees of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. The Sting As with today's Israeli spy scandal, the real breadth and depth is never to be made public as the results of such revelations would have global consequences, not only from a security standpoint, but politically as well. Back in 2001, as the Christian/Zionist ultra-nationalists were taking control of Washington, Netanyahu came for one of his regular "off the books" visits. Netanyahu shuttles informally in and out of the United States as though he were an airline employee, official visits, addressing the UN or lecturing the president, unofficial ones, meeting business partners, picking up "tidbits." During this meeting, one Netanyahu attended with Rice and Wolfowitz, the FBI was the "uninvited stranger in the room," a position usually occupied by Netanyahu. A senior national security staffer, assumed to be "one of the gang" transmitted an interchange involving the handoff of vital nuclear weapons data to Netanyahu to an FBI surveillance van nearby. Evil as a Religion The FBI was faced with a dilemma, pretend nothing happened or take the recording, and witness debriefing, to Attorney General John Ashcroft, a man known to be deeply involved in an apocalypse cult tasked by god with bringing about the nuclear destruction of earth in order to fulfill "end times prophesies." Ashcroft, Cheney, Bush and Rumsfeld belong to what had been an obscure heretical cult that originated in the most backward part of America in the 19th century. Those who pushed for a continuation of the real Israeli spy ring, one reaching into the oval office, were transferred, demoted, some were blackmailed and others were murdered. Survivors live in fear and silence, hoping to keep their families safe and to be allow to live as long "as allowed." The "Dominionists," as they are called share many beliefs with the Latter Day Saints and Freemasonry, including a "layered worship" where only certain initiates are told their deities are either Luciferian or pre-Judaic entities whose bloodlust parallels many Aztec beliefs. We continually return to the same questions. Why would so many work in union to destabilize the world? This is where conventional analysis fails as it is never able to address the root causes or address the belief systems that bring the mosaic into focus. If you are unwilling to ask "why," and seek salient answers then there will be no solution possible. As with any crime, espionage and false flag terrorism require the same components; means, motive and opportunity. The unwillingness to accept that evil exists, that those who seek power for the sake of power alone are hardly seeking a "heavenly reward," has doomed us all. When trillions of dollars are stolen as recently revealed in an article on New Eastern Outlook by author Christof Lehman is the rational fear of poverty? What actions by Netanyahu and his Likudists have enhanced the security of Israel, now increasingly a pariah state? For decades many if not most have accepted and forgiven Israel's transgressions and inhumanity as a "natural" result of 5000 years of persecution at the hands, not just of Nazi Germany but Egypt and Babylon but its own people as well. A visit to Israel brings this into focus quickly, the relationship between victim and victimizer becomes interchangeable and, were it not for the Palestinians, those that still cling to life in the camps, Israeli's like their American cousins, would likely turn on each other. We are seeing this now. Consider this hypothesis: For many, the powerful, the few, poverty, ignorance and human suffering is an end in itself. Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He's a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today , especially for the online magazine "New Eastern Outlook".



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Landmark ruling for same-sex couples in Japan

The Tokyo district of Shibuya has ruled that from April 1, same-sex relationships will be officially recognized, giving gay couples small but unprecedented privileges.





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French president arrives in Berlin for Franco-German consultations

German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives French President Francois Hollande with military honours in Berlin ahead of Franco-German meetings. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).





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Search operations continue in French Alps after Germanwings crash

Operations continue in the French Alps as rescuers search the Germanwings crash site for the the second black box and remaining bodies. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).





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Day breaks in Lausanne as deadline on Iran nuclear deal approaches

Iran and western powers push for nuclear deal before the midnight deadline. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).





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Pressure on at Iran nuclear talks ahead of midnight deadline

The pressure is on at talks in Switzerland to find a preliminary deal on the Iranian nuclear issue. Tehran is in negotiations with senior officials from the US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China. The countries have a self-imposed deadline of midnight on Tuesday for an agreement. Diplomats are worried that if there is no progress in overcoming differences this week the opportunity for a deal may be lost. The talks are aimed at limiting Iran's nuclear capacity so it cannot build an atomic bomb, in exchange for the easing of international sanctions. But there are different views on what nuclear enrichment should be allowed and how fast sanctions can be eased. Reihaneh Mazaheri, euronews' correspondent in Lausanne, reported: "Iran and the delegates from the six world powers began their meetings this morning, the last day of the talks, at 7 o'clock. "It is now a matter of waiting to see whether the fundamental disagreements can be resolved and whether this will be a decisive day in the history of Iranian nuclear talks."



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This organic, wheat-based kitty litter caused a nuclear waste leak

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If you're trying to stabilize nuclear waste, don't use organic kitty litter.


That's the take-away of a 277-page report, just released by the Department of Energy (DOE), on a radioactive leak that occurred at the underground Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) east of Carlsbad, New Mexico, on Feb. 14, 2014.


Investigators confirmed that a 55-gallon metal drum of nuclear waste burst open after it was packed with the wrong kind of cat litter, as had been suspected since last year



Kitty litter isn't just used to absorb urine; it's long been used for industrial purposes, too. Traditional cat litter is usually made from inorganic silicates that can stabilize nitrate salts found in nuclear waste, James Conca explained in Forbes last year. Read more...


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