WWI. Who, What, Why: Why is 'the hum' such a mystery? 13 June 2011Last updated at 14:49 A village in Durham is the latest place to report a strange vibrating noise - known as "the hum". Why is it such a mystery? According to sufferers, it is as if someone has parked next to your house and left the engine running. The Hum is a mystery low frequency noise, a phenomenon that has been reported across Britain, North America and Australia in the past four decades.
There is a range of theories from farm or factory machinery to conspiracy theories such as flying saucers. And yet, "the hum" remains an unsolved case. Woodland, a village in county Durham, is the latest place to fall victim to the noise. "It sounds like an overhead power line with this constant humming buzz," says Kevin Fail, a 53 year-old bathroom installer who lives in the village.
Continue reading the main story The answer He said that he and his wife hear it in bed, downstairs in the house and outside in the garden, but some residents have heard nothing. Chiarezza sulla massoneria. - Pagina massoneria Chiarezza sulla massoneria Prof. Paolo Franceschetti - 31 dicembre 2007 www.paolofranceschetti.blogspot.com Molto è stato scritto sulla Massoneria, ma pare continui ad esserci molta confusione sull’argomento. Il perché è semplice: la prima caratteristica dell’Ordine è il segreto, ed è inviolabile.
In soldoni, dunque, non la si conosce. La cosa sorprendente è che non la conoscono neanche molti massoni. Premessa. . - l'Ordine della Stella dell'Est per le mogli; - l'Ordine di De Molay per i figli dai 12 anni; - l'Ordine delle figlie di Job e dell'Arcobaleno per le figlie dai 12 anni. è strutturata in modo gerarchico. Non a caso una delle più grandi autorità massoniche Albert Pike ebbe a dichiarare che tutti i massoni di grado inferiore al 32° vengono intenzionalmente ingannati mediante false interpretazioni. Questo è un piccolo esempio. Giuramento e Leggi. Il giuramento presenta implicazioni di non poco conto. Tribunale massonico. Eccolo! Reati. Conclusione.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: 'Doubts' over maid's ... 1 July 2011Last updated at 12:05 Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being held under house arrest in New York The sex assault case against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn appears to be in trouble amid reported concerns over the alleged victim's credibility. Law enforcement officials have told US media the accuser has repeatedly lied since the alleged attack on 14 May. The Guinean-born maid also appeared to have lied about her asylum application, officials reportedly said. Mr Strauss-Kahn is due in court on Friday. His lawyers are expected to ask for his bail conditions to be relaxed. The 62-year-old French politician has been under house arrest in a New York apartment since posting a $6m (£3.7m) cash bail and bond in May. 'Extraordinary boost' He is charged with seven counts including four felony charges - two of criminal sexual acts, one of attempted rape and one of sexual abuse - plus three misdemeanour offences, including unlawful imprisonment.
Continue reading the main story View from France. Belgium 'a boat that will sink anyway' 24 February 2011Last updated at 00:06 By Jonty Bloom The World Tonight A mass striptease took place as a symbolic protest demanding an end to Belgium's political impasse Could Belgium's economic future hang in the balance as it has been without a government for more than 250 days? On the one hand the political impasse does not seem to be doing the country any harm. Taxes are still being collected, rubbish bins are still being emptied and schools remain open.
Figures from the Central Bank show that consumer confidence in the country is strong, reaching a level in February last seen in 2007. So does being without a government really matter? Take Belgium's huge level of government borrowing, currently running at about 100% of the country's annual economic output. That is the third largest amount in the EU and has led to some very worrying comparisons with Spain and Portugal, and even the Irish Republic and Greece.
Belgium's long wait for a government "There is no way out. Language divide. US medical tests in Guatemala 'crime against humanity' 2 October 2010Last updated at 03:14 President Alvaro Colom: '' I was upset and very angry'' US testing that infected hundreds of Guatemalans with gonorrhoea and syphilis more than 60 years ago was a "crime against humanity", Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has said. President Barack Obama has apologised for the medical tests, in which mentally ill patients and prisoners were infected without their consent. Mr Obama told Mr Colom the 1940s-era experiments ran contrary to American values, Guatemala said. The US has promised an investigation. Continue reading the main story We deeply regret that it happened, and we apologise to all the individuals who were affected by such abhorrent research practices” End QuoteStatement from US secretaries of state and health 'Shocking, tragic, reprehensible' Syphilis can cause heart problems, blindness, mental illness and even death, and although the patients were treated it is not known how many recovered.
Unaware. US touts Afghan mineral wealth potential. Wikileaks site unfazed by arrest of US army 'source' 8 June 2010Last updated at 17:41 By Jonathan Fildes Technology reporter, BBC News Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has said that the detention of an alleged confidential source by the US military does not compromise its work. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told BBC News that other potential whistle-blowers should not be put off from sending material to the site. The US has detained US military analyst Bradley Manning on suspicion of leaking classified material to the site. Mr Assange would not confirm whether Mr Manning was a source.
"We endeavour to protect our sources," he told BBC News. "We do not know if Mr Manning is a source, but we understand there are allegations that are being taken seriously so we are naturally inclined to try to defend [him]. " The US army in Iraq has said that Specialist (Spc) Manning was in Kuwait and had been "placed in pre-trial confinement for allegedly releasing classified information". 'Sacred oath' Continue reading the main story “Start Quote. Russia hijacked its own ship. Ynet probe reveals Russian intel used secret agents to arrest the Arctic Sea vessel, thought to have been hijacked by Israel, after getting tip it was violating international accord by carrying 'destabilizing' arms to Syria or Iran A Ynet investigation revealed Wednesday that the hijacking of the Russian vessel 'Arctic Sea' was ordered by the Russian government.
News agencies around the world published reports tying Israel to the hijacking, as the vessel was said to have been carrying arms to the Middle East, and possibly Iran. The Arctic Sea went missing in July while en route from Finland to Algeria. Its disappearance sparked reports of a first incident of piracy in European waters in modern times. Admiral Tarmo Kouts, the European Union's rapporteur on piracy, told Time Magazine he believed the Arctic Sea was intercepted by Israel as it carried a secret cargo of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles and X-500 anti-ship missiles to the Middle East. The Arctic Sea vessel (Photo: AP) Americas | Q&A: CIA jails allegations. Fourteen European states have colluded with the CIA in secret US flights for terror suspects, a report for Europe's human rights watchdog has concluded. The seven-month inquiry was sparked by media allegations that the US intelligence agency ran secret jails abroad for terror suspects.
The US admits to picking up terrorism suspects but denies sending them to other countries to face torture. BBC News examines the investigations, accusations and legal implications of the claims. What have investigators found? Swiss senator Dick Marty has reported to the Council of Europe that 14 European governments have colluded with the CIA over the transport of terror suspects around the world for interrogation - a practice known as "extraordinary rendition". Spain, Turkey, Germany and Cyprus provided "staging posts" for rendition operations, while the UK, Portugal, Ireland and Greece were "stop-off points", the report said. What were the allegations? What is 'extraordinary rendition'? CIA jails in Europe 'confirmed'
A Council of Europe investigator says he has evidence to prove the CIA ran secret jails in Poland and Romania to interrogate "war on terror" suspects. Dick Marty, a Swiss senator, has been investigating CIA operations on behalf of the European human rights body. In his new report, released on Friday, Mr Marty says secret CIA prisons "did exist in Europe from 2003 to 2005, in particular in Poland and Romania". The governments of both countries have strongly denied any involvement. A spokesman for the CIA told the BBC that "the CIA's counter-terror operations have been lawful, effective, closely reviewed, and of benefit to many people - including Europeans - by disrupting plots and saving lives".
Mr Marty says he drew on multiple sources and used his own intelligence methods to investigate the CIA's "extraordinary renditions", the process under which terror suspects were transported around the world for interrogation. Milan trial Mistreatment. UK | UK Politics | UK apology over rendition flights. David Miliband has admitted two US "extraordinary rendition" flights landed on UK territory in 2002.
The foreign secretary said in both cases US planes refuelled on the UK dependent territory of Diego Garcia. He said he was "very sorry" to have to say that previous denials made in "good faith" were now having to be corrected. The renditions - the transport of terror suspects around the world for interrogation - only came to light after a US records search, he said. BBC world affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds said the revelations were "a serious embarrassment for the British government". Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and former Prime Minister Tony Blair made statements in 2005, 2006 and 2007 saying there was no evidence that rendition flights had stopped on UK territory.
Water boarding But he said he would compile a list of all flights in UK territory about which concerns had been expressed to send to the US for "specific assurance" they were not used for rendition. 'Widespread concern' Americas | CIA admits waterboarding inmates. The CIA has for the first time publicly admitted using the controversial method of "waterboarding" on terror suspects. CIA head Michael Hayden told Congress it had only been used on three people, and not for the past five years. He said the technique had been used on high-profile al-Qaeda detainees including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Waterboarding, condemned as torture by rights groups and many governments, is an interrogation method that puts the the detainee in fear of drowning. Mr Hayden was speaking as National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell presented his annual threat assessment.
Congress has been debating banning the use of waterboarding by the CIA. President Bush has threatened to veto such a bill. Kuwaiti-born Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is accused of masterminding the 11 September attacks on the United States. The two other men Mr Hayden said the CIA had also used waterboarding against are also top al-Qaeda suspects, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, both from Saudi Arabia. British Asians 'outsourcing murder' A BBC investigation has uncovered the deadly practice of Britons travelling to India to hire contract killers. Family and business associates, who are lured to the sub-continent, are often the targets. In a country where murder is cheaper and less fraught with risk, the perpetrators of these crimes are rarely brought to justice.
Campaigners in both India and the UK believe this to have claimed the lives of hundreds of victims over several years. These armchair murder plots are hatched in the living rooms of Britain and executed mainly in the rural Indian state of Punjab. 'Foul play' I made the journey to India to investigate these sinister crimes. In a remote village, surrounded by lush green fields, a rickety ox-drawn cart trundles along the dusty lane. It is here that a British woman, who was on holiday with her husband visiting relatives, was killed - the apparent victim of a hit-and-run accident. But her relatives in India suspect foul play. "Her husband wanted to re-marry. 'Simple' Missing. Www.disinformazione.it - Oltre la Verità Ufficiale : migliaia di ...
Science untarnished by 'Climategate,' U.N. says | Green Tech. LONDON--The head of the U.N.'s panel of climate experts rejected accusations of bias on Thursday, saying a "Climategate" row in no way undermined evidence that humans are to blame for global warming. Climate change skeptics have seized on a series of e-mails written by specialists in the field, accusing them of colluding to suppress data which might have undermined their arguments.
The e-mails, some written as long as 13 years ago, were stolen from a British university by unknown hackers and spread rapidly across the Internet. But Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), stood by his panel's 2007 findings, called the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). "This private communication in no way damages the credibility of the AR4 findings," he told Reuters in an e-mail exchange. In one e-mail, confirmed by the university as genuine, a scientist jokingly referred to ways of ensuring papers which doubted established climate science did not appear in the AR4. Pope 'has no UK arrest immunity' Diplomata israelense expulso por Londres é agente secreto. 24 de março de 2010 • 06h42 • atualizado às 07h31 O diplomata israelense expulso por Londres trabalhava na embaixada para o Mossad, o serviço secreto de Israel, e será substituído por outro agente do mesmo organismo, informou a rádio pública.
A Grã-Bretanha anunciou na terça-feira a expulsão de um diplomata israelense, ao indicar que a "responsabilidade" de Israel ficou comprovada no caso do uso de passaportes britânicos falsos por um esquadrão que assassinou, em janeiro, um dirigente do grupo radical palestino Hamas em Dubai. Uma fonte do governo de Israel afirmou que o país não pretende retaliar a medida. "A prioridade agora é acalmar o jogo", disse a fonte. Segundo a rádio pública e o jornal israelense Yediot Aharonot, o diplomata, que de fato era um representante do Mossad na capital britânica, será substituído em breve por outro funcionário do organismo. A rádio também citou um "alto funcionário" do governo israelense, não identificado, que criticou a Grã-Bretanha. UN body to look at meat and climate link. Livestock's Long Shadow calculated meat-related emissions from field to abattoir UN specialists are to look again at the contribution of meat production to climate change, after claims that an earlier report exaggerated the link.
A 2006 report concluded meat production was responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions - more than transport. The report has been cited by people campaigning for a more vegetable-based diet, including Sir Paul McCartney. But a new analysis, presented at a major US science meeting, says the transport comparison was flawed. Sir Paul was one of the figures launching a campaign late last year centred on the slogan "Less meat = less heat". But curbing meat production and consumption would be less beneficial for the climate than has been claimed, said Frank Mitloehner from the University of California at Davis (UCD).
"Smarter animal farming, not less farming, will equal less heat," he told delegates to the American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting in San Francisco. Corporacao politica - A nova ordem - diretores da Alstom detidos na GraBretanha.