Chinese tourists sail to disputed islands

BEIJING:The first Chinese tour ship to visit disputed South China Sea islands set sail on Sunday, state media reported, a move likely to stoke a long-running territorial row between Beijing and its neighbours. Plans to allow tourists to visit the Paracel Islands is the latest stage in China’s development of the territory, which has previously angered Vietnam and caused concern in Washington Continue reading

China to open disputed islands to tourism: official

China is to open disputed South China Sea islands up to tourism this month, state media reported Sunday, a move likely to inflame a long-running territorial row with its neighbours. The plans to allow tourists to visit the Paracel Islands before the May Day holiday is the latest stage in Beijing’s development of the territory, which has previously angered Vietnam and caused concern in Washington. Vietnam and China have a longstanding territorial row over the Paracel Islands Continue reading

Pennsylvania Libertarian Workshop Part 1: Lou Jasikoff – "Become the Media, Drive Thugs Crazy" – Video




Pennsylvania Libertarian Workshop Part 1: Lou Jasikoff – “Become the Media, Drive Thugs Crazy” The Montgomery County Libertarian Committee (www.MontcoLP.org) presents the Pennsylvania Libertarian Organizational Workshop. February 16, 2013. MC: Ken Krawchuk Continue reading

Eugenics: The End of Humanity with Host Aaron Dykes – Video




Eugenics: The End of Humanity with Host Aaron Dykes Aaron runs down the top news stories of the day, and how Newt Gingrich is a total tool for the establishment Media. Later, Aaron talks about the globalist eugenics plans for the world By: InfoPlanetWars Continue reading

KIRKWALL TEACHING SCROLL MYSTERY – Video




KIRKWALL TEACHING SCROLL MYSTERY Many people people abroad have wondered about the hidden meanings in the Rosslyn Chapel. I went there in the year 2007 as a tourist when the establishment still allowed tourist to take pictures on the inside of the chapel Continue reading

The Alex Jones Show – Thursday, December 20, 2012 (Full Show) – Video




The Alex Jones Show – Thursday, December 20, 2012 (Full Show) www.infowars.com On the Thursday, December 20 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex continues his coverage of the push to harm the Second Amendment following the Sandy Hook massacre. He also talks about the orchestrated effort by the establishment media to propagandize the American public into believing firearms are a grave and serious national security threat Continue reading

Aerospace industry warns on technology and skills race

Leaders in British aerospace and defence have warned that Britain must act now if it wants to seriously compete in the global technology and skills race and not fall behind new emerging powers. Continue reading

bluebird bio Awarded $9.3 Million From the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to Further Gene Therapy …

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– bluebird bio, a leader in the development of innovative gene therapies for severe genetic disorders, announced today that the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has approved an award to the company for $9.3 million for the first round of its new Strategic Partnership Awards initiative. The award is to support a Phase 1/2 study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of LentiGlobin, the companys development-stage program for the treatment of beta-thalassemia, which will be initiated in the United States in 2013 Continue reading

‘Selling the Dream’: Taking on the world with travel posters

Word count: 660 Selling the Dream: Taking on the world with travel posters Peter Alsop tells us how New Zealand first developed a tourism brand and marketed it to the world through travel posters and other tourism publicity the focus of new book Selling the Dream. In the early 1900s, New Zealand could see a prosperous future in tourism but, to win that, needed an initial foothold in a competitive global industry. Continue reading

UNC Health Care taking over High Point Regional Health

The realities of the increasing cost of providing health care have led High Point Regional Health System to be acquired by UNC Health Care System. The systems announced Thursday that UNC Health Care will take on oversight of High Point Regional in early 2013. High Point Regional officials spent seven months pursuing proposals from health care systems in the state Continue reading

2 congressmen want NASA board, 10-year term for leader

WASHINGTON Disappointed with the direction of NASA’s human spaceflight program over the past two decades, two Texas congressmen introduced legislation Thursday aimed at de-politicizing the agency. Rep. John Culberson, a Houston Republican, said the lawmakers were pushing the proposal “today to restore the NASA we know and love.” “The NASA that we know is capable of maintaining that world leadership in space exploration if we would just make them get the politics out of NASA to allow them do what they do best, to let the scientists, the engineers, the astronauts and the professional that have made that agency such an amazing place,” he said at a news conference in front of the U.S Continue reading

A Declaration of Internet Freedom

On Jan. 18 of this year, the Internet went dark. In protest against overreaching copyright legislation that endangered the open architecture of the Internet, online services like Wikipedia and Reddit, along with 115,000 other websites, participated in an Internet-wide “blackout” to educate Internet users about the threat to net freedom. Continue reading

Vietnam and China in row over islands

Vietnam has defended the passage of a maritime law claiming sovereignty over contested islands in the South China Sea after criticism from China. The adoption of the Law on the Sea by the National Assembly on Thursday was “a normal law-making activity”, Foreign Ministry spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi said in a statement on Friday Continue reading

New Collaborative Research Centre in Molecular Biology

01.06.2012 – (idw) Ruprecht-Karls-Universitt Heidelberg How do cells respond to damage and how are disturbances in cellular equilibrium avoided or compensated? These issues are at the heart of a new Collaborative Research Centre funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and ready to be launched at Heidelberg University on 1 July 2012 Continue reading