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Thursday, 1 March 2012
The haunted bus stop
Mood:  bright
Topic: Paranormal


A LONG-time driver who regularly passes the Dilke Hospital during the night has the shivers after encountering what he believes is a ghost…twice!

Not wishing to be identified in case his employers worry about his state of mind, the man says he is sure there is something supernatural about a figure waiting in the road by the bus stop at the Dilke side of the road – only to vanish when the kind-hearted driver offered him a lift into Cinderford.

Full Story from forest-and-wye-today.co.uk


Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 13:53 CET
Loving a Sex Robot, Insanity or reality?
Mood:  mischievious
Topic: Sex / Relationships

Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 01:01 CET
Updated: Thursday, 1 March 2012 11:09 CET
Nasa identifies new asteroid threat which could hit Earth in 30 years time
Mood:  chatty
Topic: Space


It is 460ft wide and soaring through space - on a possible collision course with Earth.

Nasa has identified a new asteroid threat to our planet and calculated that it could potentially impact on February 5th 2040.

The 2011 AG5 has already attracted the concern of the UN Action Team on near-Earth objects, which has begun discussing ways to divert it.

Full Story from dailymail.co.uk


Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 01:01 CET
Updated: Thursday, 1 March 2012 01:29 CET
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Planet Venus may be slowing down!
Mood:  chatty
Topic: Space


A spacecraft orbiting Venus has revealed that Earth’s cloud-covered neighbour is rotating a little slower than previously measured.

Peering through the dense atmosphere in the infrared, the ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft found surface features were not quite where they should be.

Full Story from phenomenica.com


Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 01:01 CET
Updated: Wednesday, 29 February 2012 02:10 CET
Reading a book really is better the second time round
Mood:  chatty
Topic: Books


Reading a favourite book for a second time often feels like a different experience - now scientists say that it actually IS different.

The habit of watching films or reading books multiple times encourages people to engage with them emotionally.

Full Story from dailymail.co.uk


Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 01:01 CET
Updated: Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:16 CET
Placebos and Distraction, the Power of Pain Relief Without Drugs
Mood:  chatty
Topic: Hypnosis & Psychology


Placebos reduce pain by creating an expectation of relief. Distraction -- say, doing a puzzle -- relieves it by keeping the brain busy. But do they use the same brain processes? Neuromaging suggests they do. When applying a placebo, scientists see activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. That's the part of the brain that controls high-level cognitive functions like working memory and attention -- which is what you use to do that distracting puzzle.

Full Story from sciencedaily.com


Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 01:01 CET
Updated: Wednesday, 29 February 2012 10:51 CET
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
British government considers using nerve agents on their own people
Mood:  d'oh
Topic: Conspiracy / Corruption


British government may use nerve agents on their own people, leading neuroscientists have warned. The agents to be used by police would be banned under an international treaty on chemical weapons, however the government may use a loophole that means it can use the nerve agents against demonstrators within its own borders. Experts have asked the government whether it intends to develop chemical agents that would incapacitate and go beyond the chemical irritants already used such as CS gas.

The experts were commissioned by the Royal Society, to investigate new agents that could be used in the military, however the experts concluded that the government may be prepared to exploit a loophole in the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention which bans the development and use of toxic chemicals and nerve agents in military conflict, but there is exemption for domestic purposes.

The Royal Society group reported that the government had shifted its position from only using irritants such as CS gas to using the type of nerve agents used in hostage situations in Russia. The report says "The development of incapacitating chemical agents, ostensibly for law-enforcement purposes, raises a number of concerns in the context of humanitarian and human-rights law, as well as the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)."

It went on to say, "The UK Government should publish a statement on the reasons for its apparent recent shift in position on the interpretation of the CWC's law enforcement position." The Royal Society group points to a 1992 statement by Douglas Hogg, the then Foreign Office Minister, who indicated that riot-control agents were the only toxic chemicals that the UK considered to be permitted for law-enforcement purposes. But in 2009 ministers gave a less-restrictive definition suggesting the use of "incapacitating" chemical agents would be permitted for law-enforcement purposes as long as they were in the categories and quantities consistent with that permitted purpose."

In a statement, Professor Rod Flower, from Queen Mary University of London, said in the Independent newspaper that, "the insights into the human brain were leading to novel ways of degrading human performance using chemicals."

Why has the British government changed it's position?

The question that must be asked is why the British government suddenly thinks that this kind of urban warfare against its own people is necessary. The riots in London, Manchester and Birmingham in 2011 were difficult to control, but they would have been avoided without the austerity measures put in place by the government after they had to bail out greedy bankers, that have caused mass unemployment, huge national debt and poverty to come back to Britain, in a way that hasn't been seen since the general strikes of the 1970s.

Other world leaders who used chemical agents on their own people include Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussain and Colonel Gadhafi.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.independent.co.uk)

http://beforeitsnews.com)

http://www.sott.net)

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

About the author:

D Holt is currently involved in research in the UK into the mechanisms involved in healing due to meditation, hypnosis and other ''spiritual'' healers and techniques. Previous work has included investigations into effects of meditation on addiction, the effects of sulphites on the digestive system and the use of tartrazine and other additives in the restaurant industry. new blog is now available at http://tinyurl.com/sacredmeditation

Article Source - naturalnews.com


Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 01:01 CET
Updated: Tuesday, 28 February 2012 01:27 CET
Natural tilts in earths axis cause ice ages
Mood:  chatty
Topic: Global Warming


The idea that slight shifts in Earth's axis might have been enough to trigger the ice ages is a century old.

But a Harvard earth sciences Professor Peter Huybers has finally proved it, using computer models to test competing ideas - and finding that earth's tilting axis is the only one that works.

Full Story from dailymail.co.uk


Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 01:01 CET
Updated: Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:26 CET
Elderly should get a job to combat loneliness and help them live longer
Mood:  cheeky
Topic: Longevity


Pensioners should go back to work because loneliness is more deadly than smoking, a senior Downing Street adviser said yesterday.

David Halpern claimed that strong social relationships in then workplace would help people to live longer.

Mr Halpern, who advises the Prime Minister on his ‘big society’ agenda, said that having ‘someone who loves you’ was a powerful predictor of whether an old person would live for a long time.

Full Story from dailymail.co.uk


Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 01:01 CET
Updated: Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:21 CET
Monday, 27 February 2012
Earths Clouds Are Getting Lower, NASA Satellite Finds
Mood:  chatty
Topic: Environment


Earth's clouds got a little lower -- about one percent on average -- during the first decade of this century, finds a new NASA-funded university study based on NASA satellite data. The results have potential implications for future global climate.

Scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand analyzed the first 10 years of global cloud-top height measurements (from March 2000 to February 2010) from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument.

Full Story from sciencedaily.com


Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 01:01 CET
Updated: Monday, 27 February 2012 10:42 CET

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