SF News – While Australians do not have a space agency, they are mining experts and are willing to invest to find new ways of scavenging materials; even if that would mean finding their ways into space. Owning some of the world’s major mining companies, Australians are now looking into Moon and other space bodies for resources.
Stop Fundamentalism – The German Bureau of Customs says that Iran is linked to over 75 percent of the illegal weapons trade in the world. Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Arabic language newspaper reported Sunday from the German agency that Iranian regime is quite aggressive in its efforts to acquire materials and techniques for its weapons business.
SF News – Fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico found a two-headed fetus in the uterus of a female adult shark. The specimen that died after it was found was transferred to Michigan State University for examination by biologists.
SF News – A study of regions on our planet that have just recently been inhibited by mankind revealed that human advancement has helped the extinction of over one thousand bird species, says ecologist Richard Duncan of University of Canberra, Australia.
Stop Fundamentalism – Iraqi Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari told Al-Sharqia News Monday that all Kurdish ministers in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government are ready to pullout as soon as the Kurdish region president, Massoud Barzani would call on them to do so.
SF News – NASA’s rover Curiosity sent back some amazing data from the red planet following a drilling done on a rock. The data shows that the planet could have supported life at some point in past. That is about three billion years ago.
Stop Fundamentalism – The Iranian opposition, in a statement today, warned about possibility of another attack on a dissident camp in Iraq, which is occupied by 3100 of its members. A rocket attack on the camp last month killed 7 and injured about one hundred residents.
Stop Fundamentalism – In a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing today, General James Mattis, the US’s head of Central Command in the Middle East said that the current efforts by the west to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb are not working.
Stop Fundamentalism – Iranian regime, in another round of mass-execution spree, hanged 82 prisoners during the past two weeks, says the Iranian opposition.
Stop Fundamentalism – Iran’s head of Nuclear Energy Agency, Fereidoun Abbasi, told the state-run ILNA news agency yesterday that his country plans to replace old centrifuges with 3000 new advance models in a very short period of time.
