Metals from copper to silver hit record highs

Rowena Mason Telegraph The red base metal, used in electronics and wiring, hit $9,550 per tonne on the London Metal Exchange, having crossed the symbolic $9,000 per tonne mark earlier this month. Metals were strong across the entire commodities sector, with palladium reaching new nine-year highs, silver at fresh 30-year peaks and gold trading near [...]

Why focus on health freedom? Because our future is worth protecting, says Health Ranger

Mike Adams NaturalNews We’ve been covering health freedom topics with great intensity lately, and that has taken away from our typical coverage of natural cures, herbal remedies, medicinal foods and so on. Some people are asking why we’ve shifted our focus, and I want to answer those questions with clarity and determination. It’s one thing [...]

Feds, Police Enforce Mandatory Blood Tests At Florida Checkpoints

Steve Watson & Paul Watson Prisonplanet.com In a shocking, but not unprecedented, turn of events drivers in Florida will be mandated to allow police to jab a needle in their arm and extract blood at DUI checkpoints should they refuse to submit to breath tests. At what have been described as “no refusal” checkpoints, judges [...]

Coming Home Homeless: The New Homeless Among Veterans

Bob Woodruff and Ian Cameron ABC News Jose Pagan is a decorated veteran who survived two tours of duty in Iraq as a road clearance specialist. Just three days after leaving the military he was homeless and living on the streets of the Bronx. Jose says being homeless after his service is something he never [...]

Skype Banned in China in State-Run Carrier Crackdown

Jenara Nerenberg FastCompany.com Skype received a booting from China today, the same day the company announced the addition of video calling to its iPhone app (and iPad and iPod Touch). The ban says that only China Telecom and China Unicom are allowed to operate VoIP services in the country–all private carriers are now deemed illegal. [...]

Brazil to replace oil rigs with ‘underwater cities’

Robin Yapp Telegraph Petrobras plans to turn science fiction into reality to extract oil from the vast pre-salt oil fields discovered off the south east coast of Brazil. The plan is to construct ‘cities’ more than 2,000 metres under water, containing machines, giant pieces of equipment and robots that could inspect the systems being used [...]

Winter Coldest Since 1683 And Maybe In 1,000 Years

  Steve Hughes Daily Star BRITAIN’S winter is the coldest since 1683 and close to being the chilliest in nearly 1,000 years. Latest figures reveal that the average temperature since December 1 has been a perishing -1C. That makes it the second coldest since records began in 1659. The chilliest on record was 1683/84, when [...]

Europe to ban hundreds of herbal remedies

Jeremy Laurance The Independent Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year under what campaigners say is a “discriminatory and disproportionate” European law. With four months to go before the EU-wide ban is implemented, thousands of patients face the loss of herbal remedies that have been used in the [...]

Swede told he had cancer and forced to have penis amputated following a YEAR of misdiagnosis

Daily Mail An elderly Swedish man has had to have his penis amputated after doctors misdiagnosed his condition. Rather than being the urinary tract infection doctors had thought, he had contracted cancer, and medics had missed the signs for over a YEAR. As the disease had been undetected for so long, the cancer had taken [...]

Terrorist Watch List: One tip now enough to put name in database, officials say

Ellen Nakashima The Washington Post A year after a Nigerian man allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, officials say they have made it easier to add individuals’ names to a terrorist watch list and improved the government’s ability to thwart an attack in the United States. The failure to put Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab [...]