Concern is growing that the United Kingdom’s Liverpool Care Pathway, intended to ease the comfort of patients whose death is inevitable, is being misused to railroad elderly patients onto a path toward early death.

Fascism marches on – the UK Government has reintroduced measures would allow politicians to block web sites with no democratic process.

Pharmaceutical companies are now holding the bag, as millions of doses of the vaccine are rotting on shelves or being discarded as hazardous waste. Or are they?

Two mortuary workers were detained and two senior hospital staff were sacked in eastern China after the bodies of at least 21 infants and foetuses were found in a river.

A study found out that antibiotic-resistant superbugs, also known as methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), was caused by the widespread use of synthetic antibiotic drugs which began in the 1960s.

Originally native to southern Mexico and now cultivated in many tropical countries, the papaya plant has been touted by traditional healers for centuries as a source of powerful medicine.

A microbe has been found that can break down anything that contains cellulose and turn it into ethanol.

Our ability to think has long been considered central to what makes us human. Now research suggests that our bodies and their relationship with the environment govern even our most abstract thoughts.

Wishing to dispose of the empty plastic container, and failing to spot a recycling bin nearby, an estimated 30 million Americans asked themselves how bad throwing away a single bottle of water could really be.

Lawmakers in New York State are debating whether or not to introduce a tax on sugary soft drinks. Now that’s a great idea that kills two birds with one stone.

Many industries are still kicking around intact despite generations of rapid evolution. Look at the funeral business for example. Leslie Bradford says we should have murdered it off twenty years ago.

The heart of Venus may belong to Earth. Our planet could be tugging on the core of Venus, exerting control over its spin.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized Canada for excluding aboriginal leaders and three northern nations — Iceland, Finland and Sweden — from the gathering.

People who are trying to embrace the natural lifestyle that includes eating organic foods comment that it’s too darned expensive. Sure, one can find ways to save and still commit to natural products.

In the U.S., herbal supplements are regulated as foods, not drugs , which means they don’t undergo the same types of rigorous testing and medical trials such as a prescription-based asthma drug/pharmaceutical.

The phrase “holding the edge” refers to a key concept in yoga where one either retracts or adapts to the pain during a difficult and painful posture. This concept of holding the edge applies to most other areas of our lives, even our food lives.

For busy women of all ages, five foods boast high scores in essential nutrients — iron, calcium, magnesium, vitamin K, folate, vitamin D, and omega-3 fatty acids, in particular.

Everyone has a few tricks for beating the blues—things you do when you’re feeling down to try to boost your mood. It turns out, however, that several of the most popular strategies don’t actually work very well in the long-term.

A garden expert discusses the American lawn culture, and why it desperately needs to change.

Over the past several decades, parents have done so much to keep their children clean and free of germs whether just the garden type or the virulent strains of flu viruses, unknowingly fueling an industry eager to feed on these fears.

While scientists may regard penicillin or vaccinations as the greatest medical breakthroughs of all, Jack Sim claims toilets have done more for our health.

Erod holds onto the bars of his cot and smiles, oblivious to his own amazing survival story 10 weeks after being left to die in a mound of stinking garbage following Haiti’s earthquake.

The owner of Venezuela’s only remaining TV channel that takes a critical line against President Hugo Chavez was arrested Thursday, raising concerns the government is pursuing a widening crackdown to silence opponents.

Neptune may have polished off a super-Earth that once roamed the outer solar system and stolen its moon to boot.

The European Commission has just approved growing genetically modified crops for the first time in 12 years.

When the time came for chemical ecologist Walter Leal to test whether humans make a natural odor that attracts mosquitoes, Leal himself was the first to volunteer.

A new study links (for the first time) thyroid disease with human exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a chemical used in industrial and consumer goods, including nonstick cookware and stain- and water-resistant coatings for carpets and fabrics.

A group of scientists had gathered to debate on the “many worlds” theory of parallel universes, and perhaps find the right measure for the multiverse.

A different type of human may have existed alongside Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, according to a new find in Siberia.

Blasts of lava and ash shot out of a volcano in southern Iceland on Monday and small tremors rocked the ground, a surge in activity that raised fears of a larger explosion at the nearby Katla volcano.

If 2012 marks the start of the apocalypse, it will be our own fault, not nature’s or God’s.

More people die from polluted water every year than from all forms of violence, including war, the U.N. said in a report that highlights the need for clean drinking water.

One of the most surprising results of a research conducted on the North and South poles was the discovery of 235 identical species that lived on these opposite sides of the world.

While obesity puts people at risk for a whole host of chronic illnesses, including heart disease, there’s at least one situation in which extra pounds appear to provide a health advantage.

Moonwater. Look it up. You won’t find it. It’s not in the dictionary. That’s because we thought, until recently, that the Moon was just about the driest place in the solar system.

Regardless of our feelings about America’s new Health Act, most of us can simply choose to be more healthy.

A replica of the historic Cuban slave ship Amistad, which was taken over by the Africans aboard in 1839, is visiting Cuba, where academics and community leaders have begun to publicly debate the problem of racial discrimination that has not been stomped out in Cuban society.

Evidence has been found that govt. agencies are cutting deals with Internet security certificate authorities to decode encrypted data.

A recent copy of ACTA (International Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) being secretly negotiated has been leaked.

America has long committed horrific atrocities in Indonesia and little has changed. A journalist trying to expose the US role in Indonesia’s death squads is now under scrutiny of the country’s military.

Is Wikileaks really what it pretends to be?

Sophisticated cyber attacks against Google and US companies have been traced to the Chinese government.

Some of the few positive aspects of the Health Act will start this year.

Peace-Mom Cindy Sheehan has setup a camp in Washington to focus her attention on Obama and ending the U.S. wars for oil and profit.

Michael Moore on the new Health Act and what it really means for Americans.

The trillions of dollars of social security paid in by Americans is gone and in its place are IOUs that are backed by only more debt.

The PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT has passed despite overwhelming opposition from the American people.

More than 62% of personal bankruptcies in the U.S. are due to medical costs and 78% of those filing for bankruptcy from medical bills had health insurance.

America needs a national health care program but not one run by the crap-heads in Washington and their corporation crime bosses. But then again, the passage of the health care bill could start the revolution America needs so maybe it is a good thing if it passes.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service makes it easy for criminals to steal taxpayers private data and refuses to employ even the most basic security precautions.

It isn’t just the U.S. that supports evil military dictatorships and death squads in Latin America, Canada also backs anti-democracy movements.

The govt. of Switzerland is considering banning violent video games outright and has already passed a resolution banning their sales to children.

The Catholic Church continues to show its underbelly of evil as its pedophile priests continue to be exposed around the world.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has become anti-American and anti-democracy.

The US has randomly kidnapped, tortured and murdered innocent people at Guantanamo Bay and the victim’s families are not giving up their pursuit of justice.

Dr. Larry Dossey’s must-read essay on America’s policy of torture and the role of the medical community.

Were the UFO sightings at Trout Lake, Washington being covered up?

Was the first widely reported ‘alien’ abduction staged by the US military?

A U.S.-backed proposal to ban the international trade of polar bear skins, teeth and claws was defeated Thursday at a U.N. wildlife meeting over concerns it would hurt indigenous economies and arguments the practice didn’t pose a significant threat to the animals.

In the middle of a terrifying desert north of Tibet, Chinese archaeologists have excavated an extraordinary cemetery. Its inhabitants died almost 4,000 years ago, yet their bodies have been well preserved by the dry air.

The failure of conventional medicine based on the obsolete mechanistic model has prompted the search for better sciences for life, and the revival of an ancient paradigm of holistic theory of health and organic medicine.

35 years after Nixon started the war on drugs, we have over one million non-violent drug offenders living behind bars. The War on Drugs has become the longest and most costly war in American history, the question has become, how much more can the country endure?

A Canberra woman has given a tearful account of how the Church of Scientology coerced her to have two abortions, as a fresh attempt was being made for a Senate inquiry into the organisation.

Insect societies, a study suggests, operate like a single “superorganism” in terms of their physiology and life cycle.

A radar experiment aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar spacecraft has identified thick deposits of water-ice near the Moon’s north pole.

The origin of the Moon is still a mystery to scientists. One possible scenario includes a natural nuclear reactor running amok on ancient Earth.

The NIA believes it will be impossible for the U.S. to have a balanced budget ever again.

A new study of a 2005 earthquake in Chile supports the surprising hypothesis that pregnant women who experience earthquakes during the first trimester of their pregnancies have increased risk of premature birth and slightly smaller babies.

Eleven volunteers from Russia, Europe and China have been selected to prepare for a simulation flight to Mars. Six of them will be chosen and isolated for 520 days to test how the human mind can cope with such stress.

Glyphosate resistant weeds may spell the end of patented herbicide tolerant crops, but can farmers exit the transgenic treadmill that’s very profitable for Monsanto?

Newly reported observations of gas flows on the solar surface may explain why the sun recently had such an extended case of the doldrums.

In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.

Wind power has made incredible inroads into the U.S. energy system thanks to big, efficient machines standing hundreds of feet tall. But the future of wind power may be underground.

Seismologists envision a ‘Quake Catchers’ network of volunteers using their computers to precisely map tremors.

World-leading Physicist says aliens “could exist in forms we can’t conceive.”

A vast and rapidly expanding array of engineered nano-products floods the consumer market unregulated as evidence of toxicities accumulate.

Politicians are releasing fantastic amounts of hot air jet-setting around the planet in order to debate the alleged threat of global warming. But what about all the other things killing humans?

In keeping options viable for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and avoiding dangerous levels of warming, planting more trees, just could possibly make things worse.

Rain forests power atmospheric circulation that bring rain to continental land masses from the oceans; new theory explains why losing forests will cause catastrophic desertification

The drug — a bacterial product first isolated in soil from Easter Island — rescued learning and memory deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s.

The first Sunday of March was a sad day for supercentenarians: Two of the 10 oldest people in the world died within a 24-hour span.

Immanuel Velikovsky concluded from his extensive interdisciplinary research that the planet Venus was remembered from the time of the dawn of civilization as a brilliant cometary body.

The genius who authored “The Island of Dr. Moreau” and “War of the Worlds” got an unusual invitation from an inventor who wanted to design a device for travel in the fourth dimension, the way it was suggested in the author’s book “Time Machine”.

Not only do traditions throughout the world share a belief that prayers may in some way help (or invoke help from) deceased ancestors, many cultures throughout history have believed that prayer can bring about changes in the physical circumstances of the living.

A hip Los Angeles restaurant has been busted by the team behind the Academy Award-winning documentary “The Cove” for allegedly serving endangered whale meat.

The Devil is lurking in the very heart of the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican’s chief exorcist claimed.

A new book explores the many benefits of a healthy vegan diet.

Guatemala and El Salvador continue to struggle with the legacy of the CIA’s terrorist war against democracy in their countries.

If science can identify techniques for reliably producing psychic abilities (termed ‘psi’) then PR executives will soon be pumping millions into pumping adverts directly into our minds.

Two years after receiving its first deposits, a “doomsday” seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world’s most diverse repository of crop seeds, the vault’s operators announced.

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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita’s work as a consultant with the CIA has earned him the name ‘The New Nostradamus’. Know the modern prophet to find out what to expect in the future.

Thousands of bodies are already cryonically frozen, waiting for faster computers and medical advances that will undo their cause of death.

While astronomers scour the skies for signs of life in outer space, biologists are exploring an enormous living world buried below the surface of the Earth.

Lower levels of oxygen in the Earth’s oceans, particularly off the United States’ Pacific Northwest coast, could be another sign of fundamental changes linked to global climate change.

In the war against drugs, as in all wars, it’s the foot soldiers who bite the dust. This, while a staggering amount of more than $300 billion a year is in play, corroding the upper echelons of all governments including our own.

In a 5-year study, meditating cardiac patients were almost 50% less likely to be affected by risk of heart attack, comparable to those that take powerful new drugs.

US media is little more than a social engineering machine, as the continued lies about Afghanistan demonstrate.

Is something eerie over Lake Erie?

Renowned Buddhist monk, Matthieu Ricard, gives a lesson in how to learn and cultivate the skill of being happy.

Humans on Mars and beyond, and protecting the Earth from asteroids… A new nuclear propulsion system to be used in spacecrafts is set to be developed in Russia.

UFO night watching is as dangerous as playing with a Ouija board in a badly haunted house. Inter-dimensional doors will open that we may not be able to close again and that “what follows us home” afterwards might be more than we are ever prepared to deal with.

Patients in need of a transplant know they could face a dangerously long wait. But now scientists may have some good news on the horizon – as human organs in the future may simply be printed out.

Many of the notable philosophers and intellectuals of ancient Greece, such as Plato, Aristotle and Sophocles, were initiated at Eleusis. But just what is, or was, Eleusis?

George Monbiot writes about Canada’s role in World Peace and whether this country will remain as a century-long peace-keeper or become a threat instead.

Bigu is a state of being in which one does not need to eat food for extended periods of time. Nourishment from food is replaced by life-force energy.

Yan Xin Qigong is is an advanced, anciently derived, Chinese meditation method that has been refined and modernized by Dr. Yan Xin.

Those conspiring to control & destroy life on Earth will be gathering to discuss their progress at Bio 2010 in Chicago this May.

Operation Phoenix is one of America’s most glaring historical examples of military crimes against humanity.

The diary of Viet Cong physician Dang Thuy Tram has been made into a movie – one everyone should see.

As predicted nearly 30 years ago, climate change is causing the Arctic to release massive amounts of methane and Co2.

Arrest warrants are being sought for all of the Israelis who were behind the murder of Palestinian Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh.

The powers-that-be fear the American people and are diligently trying to derail democracy movements.

The ever-present fog of energetic gamma rays permeating the universe isn’t created by what astronomers expected.

The Feb. 27 magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile may have shortened the length of each Earth day.

New technology involving the use of calves’ heart valves is allowing surgeons at one of Russia’s main medical centers for heart disease to be more successful than ever.

The image of notorious Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who was said to take baths filled with the blood of virgins to regain her youth, may have some scientific basis after all.

Astrophysicists analyzing infrared images captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope found a 10 to 16 million years old star whose dust cloud may coalesce and become a rocky planet like earth.

As Congress debates legislation to make the US Federal Reserve less secretive, Republican Ron Paul said the Bank loaned Iraq billions of dollars to buy US weapons in the 1980s.

Dim lights can make it seem as if no one is watching, triggering moral transgressions in many people, a new study suggests.

Francisco Roche-Cruz’s life of hard knocks ended on a rainy afternoon in December when he was struck by a car in downtown Olympia.