NZ Herald / AFP 10 Dec 2013 Two Turkish history students were handed a six-month suspended jail term Monday for giving the Nazi salute at the former Auschwitz death camp, Polish police said. The 22-year-old man and woman were detained on Sunday while taking pictures of each other performing the salute at the gates of…
Phillip Ross International Business Times 8 Dec 2013 The last place you might expect to find drinkable water is underneath the ocean. But that’s exactly where scientists have discovered a number of vast, untapped reservoirs of freshwater. While exploring the ocean floor for pockets of oil and gas, scientists inadvertently came across evidence of massive…
Mia Shanley and Ilze Filks Reuters December 8, 2013 Dr. Fama is with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. One of the three Americans who won this year’s Nobel prize for economics said bloated public deficits on both sides of the Atlantic meant that recession remained a real risk for 2014. Eugene Fama,…
Bill Keller New York Times 7 Dec 2013 IN 2011, the British historian Stephen Ellis published a paper concluding that Nelson Mandela had been a member of the South African Communist Party — indeed, a member of its governing Central Committee. Although Mandela’s African National Congress and the Communist Party were openly allied against apartheid,…
Jonathan DuHamel Tuscon Citizen 4 Dec 2013 German scientists contend that two natural cycles will combine to lower global temperatures throughout the 21st Century. The scientists show that there is an approximate 200-year solar cycle, supported by historical temperature data and proxy data from stalagmites in caves. “The solar activity agrees well with the terrestrial…
… prevarication, sophistry & lies continue … NZ Herald / AP 5 Dec 2013 Negligence was not the cause of the collapse of a third World Trade Center tower several hours after the twin towers were destroyed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a federal appeals court said, absolving a developer and others of responsibility…
Vigilant Citizen 2 Dec 2013 If there was an award for the less Christmas-y Christmas card in the History of the world, I believe that the 2013 Kardashian Christmas card would take the prize. Shot by elite fashion photographer David Lachapelle, the card is a rather grim and depressing summation of the entertainment world –…
Atlas Monitor 4 Dec 2013 The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal hearing the case brought against the state of Israel and retired Israeli army general Amos Yaron, charged with perpetrating war crimes and genocide against Palestinians, delivered a landmark verdict finding the both Israel and Yaron guilty of genocide and Yaron of crimes against humanity. The trial and verdict,…