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Who was Yasser Arafat? - Truthloader
Nine years on from his death, the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remains one of the most controversial, and undoubtedly the most famous figure in Palestinian history. For many people remains... -
The greatest threat to the world, hangover free alcohol and NSA fallout - Truthloader
This week we look at the differing views on what constitutes the greatest threat to global security, John McCain demanding the head of NSA chief General Keith Alexander and David Nutt's quest for a... -
Billions of Earths, Mach 6 spy planes and rock paper scissors robot - Truthloader
This week on 90 second science: A team of scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, say there may be as many as two billion life-sustaining planets orbiting stars like our own, and up...- CC
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Lockheed Martin announces SR-72 Mach-6 spyplane - Truthloader Investigates
Lockheed Martin have announced plans to build a new hypersonic unmanned spy plane. The SR-72 will fly at Mach-6 thanks to jet and ramjet hybrid technologies -- double the speed of the legendary SR-...- CC
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'Billions' of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way - Truthloader Investigates
A team led by by Erik Petigura at the University of California, Berkeley, say there may be up to two billion planets, oribiting stars like our own, capable of supporting life as we know it in the M...- CC
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Robot never loses at rock, paper, scissors - Truthloader Investigates
Janken, a Japanese robot designed by the University of Tokyo's Ishikawa Oku Laboratory, NEVER loses at rock, paper, scissors. It may seem like witchcraft but the robot hand is actually just incredi...- CC
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Afghan army torture prisoner as US forces look on - Truthloader
Investigative reporter Matthieu Aikins has uncovered video from Aghanistan showing Afghan National Army members repeatedly whipping a prisoner as US forces look on. He obtained the video whilst wor...- CC
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Spy bosses from MI5, MI6 and GCHQ questioned - Truthloader
The heads of the UK's three main spy agencies are appearing in front of a committee of MPs to face questioning on their activities. It's the first time that the director of GCHQ Sir Iain Lobban; th... -
Private prisons: How US corporations make money out of locking you up
Today the US is home to 5% of the world's population but a quarter of the world's prisoners. It also has the highest rate of youth imprisonment and on any given day there are more than 70,000 youth...- CC
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Russian nationalists attack immigrants on St Petersburg metro - Truthloader
A group of Russian nationalists on the St Petersburg metro have launched a vicious attack on immigrants riding the subway. It's thought to have been a racially motivated attack and happened shortly... -
Anonymous Million Mask March 2013 highlights - Truthloader #MillionMaskMarch
On November 5th 2013 activists around the world loosely affiliated as Anonymous launched the Million Mask March to protest against government corruption, corporatism, NSA spying and the Big Brother... -
Anonymous Million Mask March London 2013 - Truthloader LIVE
Remember, remember the 5th of November. Today was the Million Mask March, a global protest held by Anonymous. Laura went down to the London march between Trafalgar Square and the Houses of Parliame... -
Man sets wife on fire at petrol station - shocking video - Truthloader
CCTV filmed at a gas station in Clarksville, Georgia, shows a man accidentally setting his wife on fire after sparking his cigarette lighter at the petrol pumps. Austin Dawkins, 37, is now facing c...- CC
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Banksy, men with beards, Guantanamo torture and your comments - Truthloader
This week Truthloader's Monday show takes a look at a new report which claims medics at Guantanamo Bay and other detention centres helped torture terror suspects. We also head to Germany for the 20...- CC
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Solar system twin, space shuttle crashes and dark matter - Truthloader
This week in Truthloader's science in 90 seconds, we take a look at KOI-351, a star some 2,500 light years away which harbours a complicated 'full' solar system very similar to our own. We also tak...- CC
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'Twin' solar system discovered - Truthloader Investigates
Scientists at the German Space Agency (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und- Raumfahrt or DLR) have discovered the first fully formed solar system outside our own. KOA-351, some 2,500 light years away, h...- CC
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Dream Chaser space taxi crashes on first glide attempt - Truthloader Investigates
The Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser, a mini shuttle designed to transport up to seven astronauts to the International Space Station, made its first glide attempt on October 26. The craft was automatical...- CC
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Closing in on dark matter - Truthloader Investigates
The team behind LUX, the most sensitive dark matter detecting array in the world, say they are closing in on the mysterious dark matter, a substance estimated to make up a quarter of the weight of ...- CC
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Is the NSA spying on you? - A Truthloader Interactive Quiz
Can you avoid the NSA? Will they get their dirty mitts on your private information or metadata? Take the Truthloader interactive quiz and see if you can stay clear of PRISM and the National Securit... -
Is China taking over the world? - Truthloader
As China gets richer and richer, it's buying up more and more of the world's natural resources -- in particular those found in developing countries where it offers aid, loans and investment in retu...- CC
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Saudi whips and beats victim for looking at his wife - Truthloader
A man in Saudi Arabia has been filmed whipping an Asian man repeatedly with a belt and punching him in the face over and over again. The victim is accused of looking at and attempting to speak to t...- CC
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NSA spy on Spain, Sly Stallone does some art and your comments - Truthloader
On this week's Monday show Truthloader takes a look at the latest from the NSA phone monitoring scandal, controversy over a red bull wakeskating stunt at the UNESCO listed Banaue rice paddys in th...- CC
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NSA and GCHQ spying: Politicians fearmongering again - Truthloader
The NSA, GCHQ and other government intelligence agencies have been at the root of a diplomatic crisis between some close Western allies. Germany and France are demanding high level talks with the U...- CC
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1000 exoplanets, baldness cures, and trees full of gold - Truthloader Investigates
This week on 90 second science, we take a look at the latest slew of exoplanet confirmations, which take the total to over 1000. We also look at a potential cure for baldness, and the discovery tha...- CC
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Over 1000 exoplanets confirmed - Truthloader Investigates
A slew of new exoplanets discovered by the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) has taken the number of confirmed planets outside our solar system to 1010, 12 of which may be habitable, with over 3...- CC
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Trees absorb gold - a revolution in mining? Truthloader Investigates
A team in Australia have discovered a potentially revolutionary way of prospecting for gold. The leaves of certain plants, in particular eucalyptus, absorb tiny amounts of the metal from hidden sea...- CC
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A cure for baldness? Human hair grown in a lab - Truthloader Investigates
Scientists from the University of Durham, in the UK, and Columbia University Medical Centre in the US have successfully grown human hair in the lab for the first time. Human hair cells tend to regr...- CC
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The Edward Snowden of banking? The story of Hervé Falciani - Truthloader
In 2008 Hervé Falciani walked out of HSBC in Geneva, where he worked as a computer specialist, with the account details of up to 130,000 of the bank's clients. Since then the data has been used to...- CC
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Manufacturing consent - how Edward Bernays hacked democracy (part one) - Truthloader
Democracy and freedom are the two shining lights of Western ideology but like any system it can be manipulated, subverted, compromised and broken. One hack of the democratic system is known as "the...- CC
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Machine guns fired on Tibet mine protesters - Truthloader
Chinese police and paramilitary forces have fired machine guns on a group of Tibetan protesters. The group had been peacefully demonstrating for three days after the arrival of hundreds of miners w...- CC