Posted on July 12, 2010 thetruthbehindthescenes.wordpress.com paranormal.about Models of airplanes thousands of years old… vast works of art that can only be seen from the air… ancient texts that describe aerial battles. Are they proof that ancient civilizations mastered powered flight? Flight has been the dream of humankind since they watched in awe as birds soared effortlessly through the sky. But, according to accepted history, it wasn’t until the 1780s that two Frenchmen achieved lighter-than-air flight when they were lifted into the air in a hot air balloon near Paris. Then powered, heavier-than-air flight became the goal. And although it was … Continue reading Could Ancient Man Fly?

I don’t know how, but homeopathy really does work More of a mystery is why scientists continue to debunk it despite mounting evidence that homeopathy is effective Rachel Roberts guardian.co.uk, Thursday 15 July 2010 11.30 BST Article history I was a dedicated scientist about to begin a PhD in neuroscience when, out of the blue, homeopathy bit me on the proverbial bottom. Science had been my passion since I began studying biology with Mr Hopkinson at the age of 11, and by the age of 21, when I attended the dinner party that altered the course of my life, I … Continue reading homeopathy really does work?

Warning: you are about to be dazzled by a flash minister If Mandelson’s memoirs only now tell the truth, how does the media deal with political reporting that often proves bogus? Mark Lawson guardian.co.uk, Thursday 15 July 2010 21.00 BST Article history There’s a certain kind of movie, of which The Usual Suspects is the exemplar, in which a closing revelation shows everything that we have just seen to be an illusion: the events never happened and all the dialogue meant something else. The publication this week of Peter Mandelson’s memoirs – with, appropriately, a film-derived title, The Third Man … Continue reading Warning: Mandelson telling the truth

Thursday 15 July 2010 by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report Jay Bybee. (Photo: U.S. Government) Jay Bybee, the former head of the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) who signed two infamous August 2002 legal memos which gave CIA interrogators the green light to torture “war on terror” prisoners, told a congressional committee that more than a half-dozen of the tactics detainees were subjected to were not “authorized” by the DOJ. In a closed-door interview May 26 with members of the House Judiciary Committee, Bybee, now a Ninth Circuit Appeals Court … Continue reading Author of Torture Memos Admits Some Techniques Were Not Approved By DOJ

by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: geishaboy500, marttj) We live at a time that might be appropriately called the age of the disappearing intellectual, a disappearance that marks with disgrace a particularly dangerous period in American history. While there are plenty of talking heads spewing lies, insults and nonsense in the various media, it would be wrong to suggest that these right-wing populist are intellectuals. They are neither knowledgeable nor self-reflective, but largely ideological hacks catering to the worst … Continue reading The Disappearing Intellectual in the Age of Economic Darwinism

No Dominion: The Lonely, Dangerous Fight Against Christian Supremacists Inside the Armed Forces by: Matthew Harwood, t r u t h o u t | Report Mikey Weinstein. (Photo: Steve Most) In his fight against British imperialism, Mahatma Gandhi described the life cycle of successful civil disobedience: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mikey Weinstein, the 55-year-old founder of the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), likes to quote it, knowing full well he’s crossed the line into a bloody-knuckle brawl. Over the past year, Weinstein and his … Continue reading One Mans fight against growing Christian Supremacism in the US Military

In 2004, Mr Samodurov demonstrated against an earlier trial Two men who organised a controversial art exhibition in Moscow in 2007 have been found guilty by a Russian court of inciting hatred. Andrei Yerofeyev and Yuri Samodurov had set up the Forbidden Art exhibition at the Sakharov Museum in Moscow. The show provoked condemnation from the Russian Orthodox Church, among others, for artworks that included a depiction of Jesus Christ with the head of Mickey Mouse. Both men were ordered to pay a fine. The exhibition featured several images of Jesus Christ. In one painting of the crucifixion, the head … Continue reading Russians convicted and fined over Forbidden Art show

By Dr Riffat Hassan Dr Riffat Hassan is professor emerita of the University of Louisville, Kentucky. There is little doubt that to Iqbal a woman’s most important role is that of a mother. He likened motherhood to prophethood in Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (Mysteries of Selflessness): Motherhood is mercy, being linked/By close affinity to Prophethood/And her compassion is the Prophet’s own/For mothers shape the way that men shall go/Maturer, by the grace of Motherhood/The character of nations is; the lines/That score that brow determine our estate. (Translation by A J Arberry). In according the highest respect to motherhood Iqbal is in keeping with … Continue reading Iqbal’s view of an ideal Muslim woman