Did life on Earth start on Mars? A scientist lays out the evidence

GFP Note: This article presents a 3D point of view but touches on

The Truth - some humans did indeed come to Earth from Mars.

Los Angeles Times - 8/29/13, Deborah Netburn

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Joe Rogan Questions UFOs

Source: OpenMinds.TV - 8/27/13, Alejandro Rojas

Open Minds UFO Radio: Joe Rogan, a comedian and actor, is also a self proclaimed life-long paranormal mystery addict. He has a new show on the Syfy Channel titled Joe Rogan Questions Everything, in which he explores the evidence for various paranormal phenomena. The latest episode was on UFOs and featured Open Minds editor and writer, Jason McClellan. Jason and I talk about the episode, his experience being on the show, and some of the important topics raised by the show.

(GFP Note: To listen to the radio program, click on the link at the top of the story.)

For more on the UFO episode of Joe Rogan Questions Everything, visit his Syfy page at: www.syfy.com/joeroganquestionseverything/episodes

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Element 115 approaching confirmation nearly ten years after its discovery

Source: OpenMinds.TV - 8/28/13, Jason McClellan

Scientists are one step closer to confirming the super-heavy Element 115.

Element 115, temporarily titled Ununpentium. (Credit: Greg Robson)

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ReThink 911 - A New Campaign for 9/11 Truth

Published on Aug 26, 2013

Bulgaria protests are an indictment against corruption

SETimes.com - Tzvetina Borisova for Southeast European Times in Sofia, 26/08/13

A demonstrator waves a Bulgarian national flag during an anti-government protest in Sofia on July 24th. [AFP]

The main reason behind a recent wave of anti-government protests in Bulgaria is a result of corruption and weak public institutions that serve as a democratic facade for a system of governance allowing illegitimate oligarchic, vested interests to control institutional decision-making, according to Transparency International (TI) Bulgaria.

"They [the protesters] are fed up that the country's elites -- in politics but also in business -- are getting away with impunity for corruption," TI wrote in its recent report.

More: SETimes.com

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Turkey’s Hidden Revolution

Slate.com - 8/26/13, Christopher de Bellaigue

Young Turks, like those protesting in Ankara on June 4, don't fit into the country's old ideological categories. Photo by Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images

On Aug. 5 a court in western Turkey handed down life sentences to a score of retired military officers, including the former chief of the general staff, as well as politicians and media figures, for plotting attacks that would have hurled the country into chaos in preparation for a military coup. The trial was widely regarded as flawed, but the verdicts did not provoke big protests in a nation that until a few years ago held the Army in higher esteem than any other institution. A few days later, at the end of Ramadan, the cities emptied as usual and the resorts were packed. Amid the festivities, the decapitation of the country’s former ruling establishment was largely forgotten.

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Tens of thousands of South African workers go on strike over pay

PressTV.ir - 8/26/13

Striking mineworkers gather outside the Anglo-American Platinum mine in Rustenburg, South Africa. (file photo)

On Monday, some 90,000 construction workers in the mining industry stopped work to demand a 13 percent pay increase.

On the same day, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) issued a statement saying, “They cannot ... plead poverty, and must share their super-profits with workers who risk life and limb every day in one of the most dangerous working environments.”

Also, on Monday, South African Transport and Allied Workers' Union spokesman Vincent Masoga issued a statement saying 1,300 aircraft maintenance technicians went on strike to demand a 12 percent wage increase.

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How Mainstream Media Is Distorting What We See

Source: Alternet.org - Marty Kaplan, 8/26/13

Three recent stories that drive home the sorry state of the media.

Money, they say, is the mother’s milk of politics. Also of news, sports and the rest of the entertainment industry. Three recent stories drive that home.

When Reince Priebus pressured Comcast’s NBC to drop a miniseries starring Diane Lane as Hillary Clinton, the hostage that the RNC chairman threatened to snuff was the network’s access to the 2016 presidential primary debates. When the NFL forced Disney’s ESPN to pull out of a documentary about concussions jointly produced with PBS’s Frontline, the league’s leverage was its deal with Disney’s ABC to air Monday Night Football. And when Time Warner’s CNN hired Newt Gingrich for its exhumed edition of Crossfire, its motive wasn’t political journalism in service of democracy; it was stunt casting in service of ratings.