A Billion Times More Powerful Than Atom Bomb: NASA Tracks Chelyabinsk Meteor Plume As It Circles Around the World in Four Days

Atmospheric physicist Nick Gorkavyi missed witnessing an event of the century last winter when a meteor exploded over his hometown of Chelyabinsk, Russia. From Greenbelt, Md., however, NASA's Gorkavyi and colleagues witnessed a never-before-seen view of the atmospheric aftermath of the explosion. A meteor weighing 10,000 metric tons exploded 14 miles above Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013.



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Digging Up The Real Mona Lisa

Archeologists are digging out the tombs of quite a few people in order to find out who modeled for the famous Mona Lisa painting. Art connoisseurs are so hungry for this "important" information that they are eager to desecrate the graves of the deceased to find out. They found eight women buried under the Saint Ursula convent and they think one of them may be Lisa del Giocondo who might be the real Mona Lisa. She retired and died there after her husband's death.



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Rand Paul: The President Doesn't Get To Write Legislation, It's Illegal And Unconstitutional -FAUX NEWS

The Obamacare Nightmare! Rand Paul on Obamacare, Benghazi, and Clinton running for President



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CNN Raises Alarm Over Cruz' Eligibility

Reports 'natural-born citizen' question 'dogging' senator WND CNN, which like other legacy media outlets largely has dealt with questions about Barack Obama’s eligibility under the Constitution to be president by ignoring the question, suddenly is concerned over the same question about a conservative, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. In a video story, Wolf Blitzer and Athena Jones discuss their doubts. After confirming that several constitutional law experts believe Cruz would be eligible to be president, they point out the firebrand who has challenged the Internal Revenue Service and Obama’s political appointees “wasn’t born in the United States.” They report his birth in Canada to a U.S.



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Where Was Hillary The Night Ambassador Was Killed?

By Ron Ewart August 14, 2013 NewsWithViews.com "Several of us were in the lobby of the hospital, waiting for the shuttle to arrive to take us to our separate destinations. It appeared it was going to be a long wait, maybe several hours. There was a wide assortment of military types in the room, from Navy Seals, Marines, Airmen and Vietnam Vets, all in uniform. There were many medals hanging neatly on all of the chests, as evidence of previous encounters with the enemy.



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Obamacare Consequences- Businesses, Unions, Colleges Cite Obamacare For Workers' Cut Hours (Video Reports)

By Susan Duclos According to the news report below, businesses, unions and colleges are all citing Obamacare as the reason they are being forced to cut workers' hours to 29 hours or less. The White House is denying any systematic evidence, but the employers say different. Lisa Myers reported on an NBC News, "We spoke to almost 20 small businesses or other entities around the country. Almost all said that because of the new law they’d be cutting back hours for some employees." NBC “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt reports, "Some workers who thought it meant they would finally get some health insurance are instead getting hit with a double whammy: no insurance and a pay cut." Since the passage of the health care law, businesses have said they would implement these cuts and others preemptively did so, many saying the choice was, being forced to close their businesses because they could not afford to provide coverage for all employees working 30 hours or more, or cutting those employees hours in order to stay in business.



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Egypt and Obama: 5 Stunning Pictures Banned by the Mainstream Media

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Beware! The Chinese Are Coming...

Meet Your New Boss: Buying Large Employers Will Enable China To Dominate 1000s Of U.S. Communities Are you ready for a future where China will employ millions of American workers and dominate thousands of small communities all over the United States? Such a future would be unimaginable to many Americans, but the truth is that it is already starting to happen. Chinese acquisition of U.S.



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La. Sinkhole Area Shaking, Watch Official Flyover Video 8-13-2013

Louisiana's nearly 30-acre historic chemical-spewing sinkhole area, again closer to Lake Fubar, is undergoing unusual seismic activity on Tuesday, according to the University of Memphis helicorders, as viewed in the graph above. It appears another sinkhole is possibly forming in that area. Here's the latest official flyover of Louisiana's historic "sinkhole" where part of a 1-mile by 3-mile salt dome is collapsing in Assumption Parish. Photo Credit: University of Memphis, Flying Cuttlefish Video Credits: Assumption Parish, YouTube



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Fukushima Reinforces Worst Fears for Japanese - Video

The control room at Chernobyl's Reactor No. 4 is shown here. Reactor design, wind patterns, communication and other factors can cause differences in the severity of nuclear accidents. Photograph by Gerd Ludwig, National Geographic Published on Aug 8, 2013 How are the Japanese people reacting to the news of the continuing contamination leak and what does it mean for Japan's energy policy?



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Fukushima: Uncontainable

Japan's apocalypse continues. Emergency conditions persist. No end in sight looms. Fukushima's radioactive discharges can't be stopped.



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National Call to Take Back America If You Can Find It

Saturday, August 10th, 2013 Revolutionary Metaphysics – by Yukon Jack GeoEngineering Exposed Gentlemen, it is time to start your engines and prepare to let loose the dogs of war. Gentlemen it is time to stop being gentlemen and time to become lions in defense of your nation. The nation I am referring to is not the usurping corporation called The United States of America, I am talking about your nation, the nation that doesn’t exist anymore because it was usurped by tyrants. The nation I am thinking has the same ideals of the founders, things haven’t changed, liberty is still liberty and tyranny still tyranny, the wheel has come full circle.



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Pirate Bay Launches Anti-Censorship Browser

The team running the Pirate Bay (TPB) - one of the web's largest file-sharing sites - has launched a special PirateBrowser that allows users "to circumvent censorship that certain countries impose onto their citizens." The launch comes as TPB celebrates 10 years of harboring 'pirated' and other online content. READ MORE:http://on.rt.com/1ogeg1



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Galveston Police Brutality Caught On Cam, Man Sues Galveston (Video)

By Susan Duclos A La Marque man has filed a lawsuit against the City of Galveston after he said he was badly beaten by police officers in March, using the dash cam video as his proof of police brutality, shown in the video below. The video shows multiple police officers beating on one man on the ground at the beach, kicking him in the face and punching him while his head was under water. The victim,Reginald Davis, says "I thought I was going to die. My head was underwater.



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Open season on Christians in Egypt

Egypt is one of the places in the world where it is not safe to pronounce yourself a follower of Jesus Christ. Raymond Ibrahim reports that This anti-Christian fury is far from sated and has taken on genocidal proportions. Days after the overthrow of Morsi, the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Muhammad Badie, was first to attack by name Coptic Pope Tawadros for supporting the popular June 30 Revolution, which saw tens of millions of Egyptians take to the streets. After Badie’s demonization of the Copts, assaults on Christians began in earnest.



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388 Yr Old Bonsai Survives Hiroshima Atomic Blast

This incredible White Pine bonsai tree has been in training since 1625. It is 388 years old. It was in Hiroshima in 1945 and survived the atomic blast there. Read the incredible full story here



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School Bus Beating: Boys Face Judge

These three hooligan's attitude in court "mumbling" and the comment made, "Consequences juss consequences is all I juss say" goes to show the Thug Natue of these 'Youths'. I am sure that comment referred to the beating of the white kid snitching on them and not their being in court! -Cont Three boys accused of beating another student on a school bus faced a Pinellas County judge Tuesday morning.



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Futuristic 'Hyperloop' Designs Revealed: Could 800 Mile Per Hour Concept Work? (+Renderings)

Kind of crazy but pretty genius inventor Elon Musk (who is in control of both SpaceX and Tesla Motors) published designs for the so-called Hyperloop on Monday. The system could propel people through space at speeds up to 800 miles per hour. Musk says he's too busy to design it but published the plans for people to see and build on themselves. He got mad when he found out the exorbitant cost of the potential California high speed rail (which isn't that high speed) and started designing the Hyperloop.



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Unsealed Court-Settlement Documents Reveal Banks Stole $trillions' Worth Of Houses

Boingboing.net Cory Doctorow Aug 12, 2013 Back in 2012, the major US banks settled a federal mortgage-fraud lawsuit for $95,000,000. The suit was filed by Lynn Szymoniak, a white-collar fraud specialist, whose own house had been fraudulently foreclosed-upon. When the feds settled with the banks, the evidence detailing the scope of their fraud was sealed, but as of last week, those docs are unsealed, and Szymoniak is shouting them from the hills. The banks precipitated the subprime crash by "securitizing" mortgages -- turning mortgages into bonds that could be sold to people looking for investment income -- and the securitization process involved transferring title for homes several times over.



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Mid-Atlantic Survival Extravaganza In Maryland This Weekend!

The Mid-Atlantic Emergency Preparedness & Survival Expo is coming to Hagerstown, Maryland this weekend, August 17th and 18th, and Beforeitsnews will be there! We ask that anyone and everyone who is interested in learning more about what you can do to help ensure the survival of you and your family in crisis situations to attend this expo where the featured guest speakers will include Jay Blevins from National Geographics Doomsday Preppers. There will be an above ground survival shelter for you to tour and countless exhibitors and speakers on various subjects such as medical survival needs as shared in the story below. Beforeitsnews will also be giving away 6 free tickets to this event to three different interested parties so if you'd like to attend the event and live in the Mid-Atlantic area, please email contact@beforeitsnews and tell us a bit about yourself, if you live in the area or could make it to the expo and why you'd like 2 free tickets.



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