 Sand (@maguimaya)08/09/11 11:17 @Carlos_S01 @Rosadelalma @felipecalderon ¿Nadie ha pensado en campañas verdes? carteles+cartas+volantes+banderines=basura/ coladeras tapadas |
jueves, 8 de septiembre de 2011
@maguimaya, 08/09/11 11:17
miércoles, 7 de septiembre de 2011
martes, 6 de septiembre de 2011
@BreakingScience, 06/09/11 13:29
 Science News (@BreakingScience)06/09/11 13:29 Our galaxy might hold thousands of ticking 'time bombs' http://t.co/yTTgwuk via http://t.co/BJ7xwo9 |
lunes, 5 de septiembre de 2011
BBC NEWS | Americas | US military pondered love not war
BBC NEWS | Americas | US military pondered love not war: US military pondered love not war
US Air Force B-52 bomber
The unconventional proposals were made by the US Air Force
The US military investigated building a "gay bomb", which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible" to each other, government papers say.
Other weapons that never saw the light of day include one to make soldiers obvious by their bad breath.
The US defence department considered various non-lethal chemicals meant to disrupt enemy discipline and morale.
The 1994 plans were for a six-year project costing $7.5m, but they were never pursued.
The US Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, sought Pentagon funding for research into what it called "harassing, annoying and 'bad guy'-identifying chemicals".
The plans were obtained under the US Freedom of Information by the Sunshine Project, a group which monitors research into chemical and biological weapons.
'Who? Me?'
The plan for a so-called "love bomb" envisaged an aphrodisiac chemical that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among troops, causing what the military called a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale.
Scientists also reportedly considered a "sting me/attack me" chemical weapon to attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats towards enemy troops.
A substance to make the skin unbearably sensitive to sunlight was also pondered.
Another idea was to develop a chemical causing "severe and lasting halitosis", so that enemy forces would be obvious even when they tried to blend in with civilians.
In a variation on that idea, researchers pondered a "Who? Me?" bomb, which would simulate flatulence in enemy ranks.
Indeed, a "Who? Me?" device had been under consideration since 1945, the government papers say.
However, researchers concluded that the premise for such a device was fatally flawed because "people in many areas of the world do not find faecal odour offensive, since they smell it on a regular basis".
Captain Dan McSweeney of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate at the Pentagon said the defence department receives "literally hundreds" of project ideas, but that "none of the systems described in that [1994] proposal have been developed".
He told the BBC: "It's important to point out that only those proposals which are deemed appropriate, based on stringent human effects, legal, and international treaty reviews are considered for development or acquisition."
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US Air Force B-52 bomber
The unconventional proposals were made by the US Air Force
The US military investigated building a "gay bomb", which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible" to each other, government papers say.
Other weapons that never saw the light of day include one to make soldiers obvious by their bad breath.
The US defence department considered various non-lethal chemicals meant to disrupt enemy discipline and morale.
The 1994 plans were for a six-year project costing $7.5m, but they were never pursued.
The US Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, sought Pentagon funding for research into what it called "harassing, annoying and 'bad guy'-identifying chemicals".
The plans were obtained under the US Freedom of Information by the Sunshine Project, a group which monitors research into chemical and biological weapons.
'Who? Me?'
The plan for a so-called "love bomb" envisaged an aphrodisiac chemical that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among troops, causing what the military called a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale.
Scientists also reportedly considered a "sting me/attack me" chemical weapon to attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats towards enemy troops.
A substance to make the skin unbearably sensitive to sunlight was also pondered.
Another idea was to develop a chemical causing "severe and lasting halitosis", so that enemy forces would be obvious even when they tried to blend in with civilians.
In a variation on that idea, researchers pondered a "Who? Me?" bomb, which would simulate flatulence in enemy ranks.
Indeed, a "Who? Me?" device had been under consideration since 1945, the government papers say.
However, researchers concluded that the premise for such a device was fatally flawed because "people in many areas of the world do not find faecal odour offensive, since they smell it on a regular basis".
Captain Dan McSweeney of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate at the Pentagon said the defence department receives "literally hundreds" of project ideas, but that "none of the systems described in that [1994] proposal have been developed".
He told the BBC: "It's important to point out that only those proposals which are deemed appropriate, based on stringent human effects, legal, and international treaty reviews are considered for development or acquisition."
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@toliro, 05/09/11 09:56
 Victor Hernandez (@toliro)05/09/11 09:56 Este es el email del diputado priista que presentó la iniciativa para dar cárcel a quien insulte a partidos arturo.zamora@congreso.gob.mx |
domingo, 4 de septiembre de 2011
viernes, 2 de septiembre de 2011
@Carlos_S01, 03/08/11 01:58
 Carlos M. Santillán (@Carlos_S01)03/08/11 01:58 @CoUdErMaNn de nada / UNICEF Nigerian PolioVaccine Contaminated w/Sterilizing Agents Scientist Finds | http://t.co/TV9er1W @jacvillalobos |
@doctora, 02/09/11 10:52
 doctora (@doctora)02/09/11 10:52 @alquicarlos @SaludMaterna @chibiyu @Carlos_S01 Link a artículo d ScienceNews en The Lancet 400 abortos/1mill vacunadas http://t.co/OznCcBT |
jueves, 1 de septiembre de 2011
The Return of Cosmos - News from Sky & Telescope - SkyandTelescope.com
The Return of <i>Cosmos</i> - News from Sky & Telescope - SkyandTelescope.com: Way back in 1980, Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan and public television's KCET in Los Angeles teamed up to produce 13 hours of prime-time programming about astronomy. They called the series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, though it's known universally as simply Cosmos.
Carl Sagan
Astronomer Carl Sagan, as seen in a publicity photograph for the Cosmos series.
WCET
It was an audacious undertaking at a time when American audiences were still getting used to cable television and seeing Nova each week. Sagan had been disappointed with news coverage of the historic Viking landings on Mars in 1976, and he finally found backing for doing things his way. The tightly-scripted production, still viewable on Hulu and YouTube, strove (in Sagan's words) to be "engrossing and captivating to a broad, general audience, while simultaneously portraying science accurately and even conveying something of what makes it tick."
With an $6 million budget for filming on 100 locations around the world and an arsenal of state-of-the-art special effects, he largely succeeded. Cosmos was a huge hit: it's been seen by an estimated 700 million viewers worldwide, making it the Public Broadcast System's most successful show of all time.
By then Sagan had become an icon, more celebrity than scientist in the minds of many. But he had a captivating style that helped him propel astronomy to new levels of "cool." He later married Ann Druyan, the show's co-writer, and together they collaborated on other books and the movie adaptation of Contact. Sagan died in 1996, just 62, after a difficult years-long fight with myelodysplasia.
Late last week, word came that a new version of Cosmos is in the works. This time it's the vision of Druyan and her Cosmos Studios, and she'll again be aided by astronomer Steven Soter, a key collaborator for the original show.
But what's really raised eyebrows is the choice of Seth MacFarlane as the new series' director. Best known as the creator of the animated sitcoms like Family Guy, MacFarlane doesn't exactly ooze science cred. But he met Druyan a while back, and they appeared together last year on Real Time With Bill Maher. MacFarlane liked Druyan's concept for an updated version, and he helped her sell the concept to executives at Fox. The 13 episodes of Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey will debut in 2013.
This new journey across space and time will be hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. He's the obvious choice, at least for American audiences. Tyson is an increasingly well-known popularizer of all things astronomical. He directs the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, hosts the PBS series Nova Science Now, and even has a weekly radio show about space called "Star Talk."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist and science-popularizer Neil deGrasse Tyson has been tapped to host the new Cosmos series.
Tyson first met Sagan while considering whether to go to Cornell as an undergraduate. Surprisingly, Sagan gave the wide-eyed teenager a personal tour of his lab. It didn't work — Tyson went to Harvard — but to this day he feels an obligation to carry on Sagan's legacy of educating the public about astronomy.
All that said, the television landscape is light-years from where it was 30 years ago. Series like the History Channel's The Universe, now in its fifth season, and BBC's Wonders of the Universe (starring upstart British particle physicist Brian Cox) will give the retooled Cosmos plenty of competition.
Druyan and MacFarlane promise to "take viewers to other worlds and travel across the universe for a vision of the cosmos on the grandest scale," presenting scientific concepts with "stunning clarity, uniting skepticism and wonder, and weaving rigorous science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience."
That's a tall order in this whiz-bang age of seconds-long sound bites and fleeting attention spans. Let's hope they succeed!
Posted by Kelly Beatty, August 9, 2011
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Carl Sagan
Astronomer Carl Sagan, as seen in a publicity photograph for the Cosmos series.
WCET
It was an audacious undertaking at a time when American audiences were still getting used to cable television and seeing Nova each week. Sagan had been disappointed with news coverage of the historic Viking landings on Mars in 1976, and he finally found backing for doing things his way. The tightly-scripted production, still viewable on Hulu and YouTube, strove (in Sagan's words) to be "engrossing and captivating to a broad, general audience, while simultaneously portraying science accurately and even conveying something of what makes it tick."
With an $6 million budget for filming on 100 locations around the world and an arsenal of state-of-the-art special effects, he largely succeeded. Cosmos was a huge hit: it's been seen by an estimated 700 million viewers worldwide, making it the Public Broadcast System's most successful show of all time.
By then Sagan had become an icon, more celebrity than scientist in the minds of many. But he had a captivating style that helped him propel astronomy to new levels of "cool." He later married Ann Druyan, the show's co-writer, and together they collaborated on other books and the movie adaptation of Contact. Sagan died in 1996, just 62, after a difficult years-long fight with myelodysplasia.
Late last week, word came that a new version of Cosmos is in the works. This time it's the vision of Druyan and her Cosmos Studios, and she'll again be aided by astronomer Steven Soter, a key collaborator for the original show.
But what's really raised eyebrows is the choice of Seth MacFarlane as the new series' director. Best known as the creator of the animated sitcoms like Family Guy, MacFarlane doesn't exactly ooze science cred. But he met Druyan a while back, and they appeared together last year on Real Time With Bill Maher. MacFarlane liked Druyan's concept for an updated version, and he helped her sell the concept to executives at Fox. The 13 episodes of Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey will debut in 2013.
This new journey across space and time will be hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. He's the obvious choice, at least for American audiences. Tyson is an increasingly well-known popularizer of all things astronomical. He directs the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, hosts the PBS series Nova Science Now, and even has a weekly radio show about space called "Star Talk."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist and science-popularizer Neil deGrasse Tyson has been tapped to host the new Cosmos series.
Tyson first met Sagan while considering whether to go to Cornell as an undergraduate. Surprisingly, Sagan gave the wide-eyed teenager a personal tour of his lab. It didn't work — Tyson went to Harvard — but to this day he feels an obligation to carry on Sagan's legacy of educating the public about astronomy.
All that said, the television landscape is light-years from where it was 30 years ago. Series like the History Channel's The Universe, now in its fifth season, and BBC's Wonders of the Universe (starring upstart British particle physicist Brian Cox) will give the retooled Cosmos plenty of competition.
Druyan and MacFarlane promise to "take viewers to other worlds and travel across the universe for a vision of the cosmos on the grandest scale," presenting scientific concepts with "stunning clarity, uniting skepticism and wonder, and weaving rigorous science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience."
That's a tall order in this whiz-bang age of seconds-long sound bites and fleeting attention spans. Let's hope they succeed!
Posted by Kelly Beatty, August 9, 2011
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miércoles, 31 de agosto de 2011
Juicio internacional a Calderón Petition
Juicio internacional a Calder�n Petition
- Y en tu cuenta de Twitter cambia tu avatar por este y RT con HT #JUICIOCALDERON
lunes, 29 de agosto de 2011
@SpaceUpdating, 29/08/11 19:32
 Space Update (@SpaceUpdating)29/08/11 19:32 NASA: Space station may be evacuated by late Nov. http://t.co/MOOAM9p |
@wikileaks, 29/08/11 09:52
 WikiLeaks (@wikileaks)29/08/11 09:52 Pfizer threatens to withdraw drugs from Philippine market if price controls are imposed http://t.co/u5rltKi #wlfind |
domingo, 28 de agosto de 2011
Atentados #TSM y #CasinoRoyale doctrina del shock para imponer #LSN
 @mariodicostanzo: Que opinas de esto:http://t.co/5AluGbu ....muy pr… (cont) http://t.co/Bgu0vWT |
@clatko, 28/08/11 19:34
 Chris Latko クリスラトゥコ (@clatko)28/08/11 19:34 Did you know NASA has free e-books for download? - itsfullofstars: http://t.co/52s4jVa |
@vaxcouncil, 28/08/11 10:00
 Vaccination Council (@vaxcouncil)28/08/11 10:00 Profits, Not Science, Motivate Vaccine Mandates http://t.co/9Nlp6WI #novax #vaccines |
sábado, 27 de agosto de 2011
@Carlos_S01, 28/08/11 01:42
 Carlos M. Santillán (@Carlos_S01)28/08/11 01:42 "@ELBOTE: Himalaya glaciólogo Georg Kaser niega que los glaciares de la cordillera estén desapareciendo http://t.co/Qe7YRPv" #climategate |
viernes, 26 de agosto de 2011
@SPACEdotcom, 26/08/11 12:13
 SPACE.com (@SPACEdotcom)26/08/11 12:13 Comet Double Feature: Comets Elenin & Garradd Now Showing in Night Sky http://t.co/uCBrnw4 |
@cesarzaldivar, 26/08/11 11:39
 Cesar Zaldivar V. (@cesarzaldivar)26/08/11 11:39 La supernova más cercana a la Tierra en 30 años será visible con prismáticos http://t.co/c4AXqO9 vía @publimetromx |
@Bucaner0, 26/08/11 11:37
 Con cero al final (@Bucaner0)26/08/11 11:37 Espectacular Meteorito cae en Cusco #Peru http://t.co/3PvIJ3m |
@RadiarNoticias, 26/08/11 11:26
 Radiar Noticias MX (@RadiarNoticias)26/08/11 11:26 La supernova más cercana a la Tierra en 30 años será visible con prismáticos http://t.co/5lf7Usx |
El Premio Nobel Steitz dice que las farmacéuticas no quieren que la gente se cure
El Premio Nobel Steitz dice que las farmacéuticas no quieren que la gente se cure
El premio Nobel de Química 2009, el estadounidense Thomas Steitz, denunció hoy en Madrid el hecho de que los laboratorios farmacéuticos no investiguen en antibióticos efectivos y añadió que "no quieren que la gente se cure".
Prefieren centrar el negocio en medicamentos que sea necesario tomar durante "toda la vida", dijo Steitz, quien opina que "muchas de las grandes farmacéuticas han cerrado sus investigaciones sobre antibióticos porque estos curan a la gente.
Investigador del Instituto Médico Howard Hughes de la Universidad estadounidense de Yale, Steitz asiste en Madrid al Congreso Internacional de Cristalografía (estudio de la estructura ordenada de los átomos en los cristales de la naturaleza).
En el caso de la tuberculosis, Steitz ha averiguado el funcionamiento que debería seguir un nuevo antibiótico para combatir cepas resistentes a la enfermedad que surgen sobre todo en el sur de África.
El científico comentó en una rueda de prensa que el desarrollo de este medicamento precisa una gran inversión económica y la colaboración de una farmacéutica para avanzar en la investigación.
"Nos resulta muy difícil encontrar una farmacéutica que quiera trabajar con nosotros, porque para estas empresas vender antibióticos en países como Sudáfrica no genera apenas dinero y prefieren invertir en medicamentos para toda la vida".
Por el momento, según Steitz, estos nuevos antibióticos son "sólo un sueño, una esperanza, hasta que alguien esté dispuesto a financiar el trabajo".
Steitz y los españoles Enrique Gutiérrez-Puebla y Martín M. Ripoll, del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), hicieron hoy un llamamiento a los países para que inviertan más en ciencia.
Los científicos creen que la resistencia de las bacterias a los antibióticos hará necesario continuar investigando "indefinidamente".
EFE
jueves, 25 de agosto de 2011
BBC News - African space research: Dreaming of a manned shuttle
BBC News - African space research: Dreaming of a manned shuttle: It would be easy to laugh at Chris Nsamba, founder of the African Space Research Programme.
For a start, his research centre is based in his back garden where there's not much evidence of the type of sophisticated tools and machinery I'd imagine you need for this kind of work. When I was there, most of the engineers were equipped with just sandpaper and paint brushes.
They haven't even started work on the shuttle yet, at the moment it's more of a theoretical project.
I've got a jet engine on order so I'm planning to build a tunnel, put the engine at one end and when I throw a guy in, he'll float
Chris Nsamba
They have begun to build an aircraft though, apparently to test their engineering skills before they begin work on a shuttle which they hope will send a Ugandan cosmonaut into space.
The plane they've built is sandwiched tightly, nose-to-tail, between two single-storey buildings which house Chris and his team. It is painted blue and white and has the Ugandan flag proudly displayed on the side of the cockpit.
It's far from complete, there's still no engine - just a pile of bricks to simulate weight, and a mass of wires hang out underneath.
But it still seems like quite an achievement and if this hadn't been a space programme I'd have been pretty impressed. Chris believes that if his team is successful, this will still be the first aeroplane designed and built in Uganda.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9573163.stm
@SkyShare, 25/08/11 12:01
 SkyShare Network (@SkyShare)25/08/11 12:01 Electric ice a shock to the solar system: Space may be awash with this strange form of water, changing our under... http://t.co/8r2kq1h |
@TweetSmarter, 25/08/11 07:30
 TweetSmarter (@TweetSmarter)25/08/11 07:30 If a fake #Twitter account fools you into thinking it's real, is that artificial intelligence? http://t.co/avwmsVK |
@sexenio, 25/08/11 07:23
 elsexenio (@sexenio)25/08/11 07:23 El Sexenio México Debaten científicos futuro de la evolución humana: Según Steve Jones, genetista d... http://t.co/jR0eQBD clasificados |
@SpaceUpdating, 25/08/11 07:08
| Space Update (@SpaceUpdating) 25/08/11 07:08 Senators say last shuttle flight to station looks like an even better idea now - The Huntsville Times http://t.co/8AWeiGO |
miércoles, 24 de agosto de 2011
Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links - Telegraph
Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links - Telegraph: In an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Mr al-Hasidi admitted that he had recruited "around 25" men from the Derna area in eastern Libya to fight against coalition troops in Iraq. Some of them, he said, are "today are on the front lines in Adjabiya".
Mr al-Hasidi insisted his fighters "are patriots and good Muslims, not terrorists," but added that the "members of al-Qaeda are also good Muslims and are fighting against the invader".
His revelations came even as Idriss Deby Itno, Chad's president, said al-Qaeda had managed to pillage military arsenals in the Libyan rebel zone and acquired arms, "including surface-to-air missiles, which were then smuggled into their sanctuaries".
Mr al-Hasidi admitted he had earlier fought against "the foreign invasion" in Afghanistan, before being "captured in 2002 in Peshwar, in Pakistan". He was later handed over to the US, and then held in Libya before being released in 2008.
US and British government sources said Mr al-Hasidi was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, or LIFG, which killed dozens of Libyan troops in guerrilla attacks around Derna and Benghazi in 1995 and 1996.
Even though the LIFG is not part of the al-Qaeda organisation, the United States military's West Point academy has said the two share an "increasingly co-operative relationship". In 2007, documents captured by allied forces from the town of Sinjar, showed LIFG emmbers made up the second-largest cohort of foreign fighters in Iraq, after Saudi Arabia.
Earlier this month, al-Qaeda issued a call for supporters to back the Libyan rebellion, which it said would lead to the imposition of "the stage of Islam" in the country.
British Islamists have also backed the rebellion, with the former head of the banned al-Muhajiroun proclaiming that the call for "Islam, the Shariah and jihad from Libya" had "shaken the enemies of Islam and the Muslims more than the tsunami that Allah sent against their friends, the Japanese".
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Mr al-Hasidi insisted his fighters "are patriots and good Muslims, not terrorists," but added that the "members of al-Qaeda are also good Muslims and are fighting against the invader".
His revelations came even as Idriss Deby Itno, Chad's president, said al-Qaeda had managed to pillage military arsenals in the Libyan rebel zone and acquired arms, "including surface-to-air missiles, which were then smuggled into their sanctuaries".
Mr al-Hasidi admitted he had earlier fought against "the foreign invasion" in Afghanistan, before being "captured in 2002 in Peshwar, in Pakistan". He was later handed over to the US, and then held in Libya before being released in 2008.
US and British government sources said Mr al-Hasidi was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, or LIFG, which killed dozens of Libyan troops in guerrilla attacks around Derna and Benghazi in 1995 and 1996.
Even though the LIFG is not part of the al-Qaeda organisation, the United States military's West Point academy has said the two share an "increasingly co-operative relationship". In 2007, documents captured by allied forces from the town of Sinjar, showed LIFG emmbers made up the second-largest cohort of foreign fighters in Iraq, after Saudi Arabia.
Earlier this month, al-Qaeda issued a call for supporters to back the Libyan rebellion, which it said would lead to the imposition of "the stage of Islam" in the country.
British Islamists have also backed the rebellion, with the former head of the banned al-Muhajiroun proclaiming that the call for "Islam, the Shariah and jihad from Libya" had "shaken the enemies of Islam and the Muslims more than the tsunami that Allah sent against their friends, the Japanese".
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UN Child Sex Slave Scandals Continue
UN Child Sex Slave Scandals Continue: UN Child Sex Slave Scandals Continue
Wave after wave of child abuse reports pour forward from all over the globe
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
The UN is to investigate itself again after it was revealed by the London Telegraph today that more than twenty different cases of child sex slavery involving UN staff have been reported in southern Sudan.
The Telegraph reports that it has learned of dozens of victims’ accounts claiming that some peacekeeping and civilian staff based in the town are regularly picking up young children in their UN vehicles and forcing them to have sex. The Telegraph states that it is thought that hundreds of children may have been abused.
The UN has up to 10,000 military personnel in the region, of all nationalities and the allegations involve peacekeepers, military police and civilian staff.
The Telegraph also states that the Sudanese government, which is deeply opposed to the deployment of UN troops to Darfur, has evidence of child sex slavery, including video footage of Bangladeshi UN workers allegedly having sex with three young girls.
Stating that such events are ultimately the work of "a few bad apples", a UN spokesperson promised that they will be thoroughly investigated.
Over the past few years, however, there seems to have been a hell of a lot of rotting fruit in the UN barrel.
Last November a BBC Investigation found that children as young as 11 have been subjected to rape and prostitution by United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti and Liberia. A previous BBC investigation in Liberia discovered systematic abuse, involving food being given out to teenage refugees in return for sex. In both instances the UN promised to investigate.
In 2003 the AP reported that UN officials were identified as using a ship charted for 'peacekeepers' to traffick young girls from Thailand to East Timor as prostitutes.
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Wave after wave of child abuse reports pour forward from all over the globe
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
The UN is to investigate itself again after it was revealed by the London Telegraph today that more than twenty different cases of child sex slavery involving UN staff have been reported in southern Sudan.
The Telegraph reports that it has learned of dozens of victims’ accounts claiming that some peacekeeping and civilian staff based in the town are regularly picking up young children in their UN vehicles and forcing them to have sex. The Telegraph states that it is thought that hundreds of children may have been abused.
The UN has up to 10,000 military personnel in the region, of all nationalities and the allegations involve peacekeepers, military police and civilian staff.
The Telegraph also states that the Sudanese government, which is deeply opposed to the deployment of UN troops to Darfur, has evidence of child sex slavery, including video footage of Bangladeshi UN workers allegedly having sex with three young girls.
Stating that such events are ultimately the work of "a few bad apples", a UN spokesperson promised that they will be thoroughly investigated.
Over the past few years, however, there seems to have been a hell of a lot of rotting fruit in the UN barrel.
Last November a BBC Investigation found that children as young as 11 have been subjected to rape and prostitution by United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti and Liberia. A previous BBC investigation in Liberia discovered systematic abuse, involving food being given out to teenage refugees in return for sex. In both instances the UN promised to investigate.
In 2003 the AP reported that UN officials were identified as using a ship charted for 'peacekeepers' to traffick young girls from Thailand to East Timor as prostitutes.
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martes, 23 de agosto de 2011
lunes, 22 de agosto de 2011
@yohanandiaz, 22/08/11 11:06
 Yohanan Díaz Vargas (@yohanandiaz)22/08/11 11:06 URGENTE. Budd Hopnkins falleció debido a la combinación de cáncer de hígado y una neumonía. http://t.co/lhYs0LN |
domingo, 21 de agosto de 2011
BBC News - Loch Ness search for mysterious balloon-like object
BBC News - Loch Ness search for mysterious balloon-like object: The emergency services undertook a night-time search of Loch Ness after reports a balloon-like object had fallen from the sky.
The police, coastguard, lifeboat and an RAF search and rescue helicopter scoured the area but found nothing.
The alarm was raised at 20:00 on Saturday after members of the public said they saw a blue object fall on the south of the Loch, near Dores.
Police thought it might have been a hang glider or microlight.
However, following a three-hour search the emergency services could find "nothing untoward".
Loch Ness RNLI crew member, Vivian Bailey, said: "Speed of arrival on scene was essential and we were able to link our search efforts with those of the Coastguard and RAF, something we practise regularly.
"We believe the reports were based on sightings causing genuine concern and we commend the actions of the members of the public that contacted the emergency services."
The police, coastguard, lifeboat and an RAF search and rescue helicopter scoured the area but found nothing.
The alarm was raised at 20:00 on Saturday after members of the public said they saw a blue object fall on the south of the Loch, near Dores.
Police thought it might have been a hang glider or microlight.
However, following a three-hour search the emergency services could find "nothing untoward".
Loch Ness RNLI crew member, Vivian Bailey, said: "Speed of arrival on scene was essential and we were able to link our search efforts with those of the Coastguard and RAF, something we practise regularly.
"We believe the reports were based on sightings causing genuine concern and we commend the actions of the members of the public that contacted the emergency services."
sábado, 20 de agosto de 2011
jueves, 18 de agosto de 2011
martes, 16 de agosto de 2011
BBC News - Donors help re-open mothballed telescopes searching for ET
BBC News - Donors help re-open mothballed telescopes searching for ET: "Donors help re-open mothballed telescopes searching for ET
By Judith Burns Science reporter, BBC News
Allen Telescope Array The Allen Telescope Array closed in April this year
By Judith Burns Science reporter, BBC News
Allen Telescope Array The Allen Telescope Array closed in April this year
lunes, 15 de agosto de 2011
@el_alexis, 15/08/11 13:36
 Alexis Rebolledo C. (@el_alexis)15/08/11 13:36 ¡Los colores no existen! http://t.co/Y0pK2WT |
@el_alexis, 15/08/11 13:26
| Alexis Rebolledo C. (@el_alexis) 15/08/11 13:26 Premio Nobel de Economía apeló a una invasión alienígena en EEUU para solucionar la crisis y reactivar la economía http://t.co/0gIXz1w uff |
@proamboax, 15/08/11 13:21
 Proyecto Ambulante (@proamboax)15/08/11 13:21 Estallido en Londres: Ensayo de "terrorismo social" para criminalizar las protestas masivas: http://t.co/FqWmmBT #I… http://t.co/FqWmmBT |
domingo, 14 de agosto de 2011
sábado, 13 de agosto de 2011
viernes, 12 de agosto de 2011
jueves, 11 de agosto de 2011
Se Busca
 Carlos A (@_zeroooo)10/08/11 23:05 hola @Planoinforma buscamos a adulto mayor, no ha regresado a su casa en soledad desde hace 5 dias, RT por favor http://yfrog.com/h4xbqlyj |
miércoles, 10 de agosto de 2011
@LaJornada, 10/08/11 14:38
 lajornada (@LaJornada)10/08/11 14:38 Descubren científicos 29 variaciones genéticas de esclerosis múltiple #esclerosismultiple http://lajor.mx/otuv2T |
martes, 9 de agosto de 2011
@fruvkitty, 09/08/11 13:47
 ♥ Hija de Gaia ♥ (@fruvkitty)09/08/11 13:47 "Terribles efectos secundarios": Víctimas de la vacuna contra el Virus del Papiloma Humano http://t.co/q4qjZPV cc @doctora @REDreziztenCIA |
@AGW_IS_A_HOAX, 09/08/11 11:47
 Expose Climate Scam! (@AGW_IS_A_HOAX)09/08/11 11:47 Another Reason Gore Upset: RIP: Chicago Climate Exchange to Shut Down: 'Shutting down as it is ... http://bit.ly/pHrfnP #AGW #Eco #Green |
lunes, 8 de agosto de 2011
@BreakingScience, 08/08/11 11:37
| Science News (@BreakingScience) 08/08/11 11:37 Galactic Technology: MIT Scientist Proposes Using the Milky Way's Supermassive Black H http://bit.ly/o8YmHj via http://topicfire.com/Science |
@250gramos, 08/08/11 11:31
 chaman (@250gramos)08/08/11 11:31 Foto de perfil de #Facebook sirve para identificarte en la calle | : http://t.co/WzJbxA9 |
@Danummac, 08/08/11 09:48
 Dominic (@Danummac)08/08/11 09:48 Explosive Jackie O tapes said to reveal how she believed Lyndon B Johnson & a cabal of Texas tycoons killed John Kennedy http://t.co/xeGHkmI |
@SpaceUpdating, 08/08/11 09:46
| Space Update (@SpaceUpdating) 08/08/11 09:46 Boeing Will Hitch Ride to Space on Atlas V Rockets http://sns.mx/11dIy5 |
domingo, 7 de agosto de 2011
sábado, 6 de agosto de 2011
@AGW_IS_A_HOAX, 06/08/11 09:24
| Expose Climate Scam! (@AGW_IS_A_HOAX) 06/08/11 09:24 Gore laments his failure: 'When you go and talk to any audience about climate, you hear them wa... http://bit.ly/pEvahh #AGW #Eco #Green |
@makiwa, 06/08/11 08:51
 Neil (@makiwa)06/08/11 08:51 POLAR BEAR GATE: Studies show polar bear populations have increased roughly five-fold in the last 50 years. http://t.co/UnoTYfI #cp #auspol |
viernes, 5 de agosto de 2011
jueves, 4 de agosto de 2011
Agua fluye en Marte
 Ciencia y Tecnología (@El_Universo_Hoy)04/08/11 13:27 Observaciones de la nave MRO de la NASA revelan la posible evidencia de agua fluyendo en Marte http://1.usa.gov/nslR9l |
martes, 2 de agosto de 2011
@wakeup2thelies, 01/08/11 19:56
 wakeup2thelies (@wakeup2thelies)01/08/11 19:56 NASA Climate scientist: Alarmist climate models are wrong http://t.co/K5Drs5Y OH! #carbontax #auspol #nasa #climatechange |
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