Engineering Evil

by Reuters|21 February 2013 Queen Alexandra wearing the Koh-i-Noor in her coronation crown (left) and a copy of the new cut of the Koh-i-Noor. Amritsar, India – British Prime Minister David Cameron says a giant diamond his country forced India… Read More ›

North Korea warns top American commander in South Korea of ‘miserable destruction’ ahead of war drills

North Korea’s Pak Rim Su sent a rare direct message to U.S. general U.S. military preparing for routine joint drills with South Korea Message warned of ‘miserable destruction’ if ‘reckless’ drills go ahead Strong words come after North conducted nuclear… Read More ›

Oceana Study Reveals Seafood Fraud Nationwide; Dangerous and Contaminated food in the Chain ( Everywhere )

February 21, 2013 From 2010 to 2012, Oceana conducted one of the largest seafood fraud investigations in the world to date, collecting more than 1,200 seafood samples from 674 retail outlets in 21 states to determine if they were honestly labeled…. Read More ›

Fish mislabeling widespread in U.S. and 84% of ‘white tuna’ is a species which causes distressing gastrointestinal side effects

59 percent of fish sold as ‘tuna’ in restaurants and grocery stores is not actually tuna Fish sold as ‘white tuna’ is usually escolar which causes prolonged, oily, anal leakage when eaten in quantities more than six ounces By Daily… Read More ›

Revealed: How Then Governor Goodluck Jonathan Gave Obaigbena $1 Million From Bayelsa’s Poverty Alleviation Funds For Beyonce And Jay Z’s Visit To Nigeria

Posted: February 20, 2013 – 22:55 Posted by siteadmin caption: Beyonce and Jayzee in Nigeria in October 2006 By SaharaReporters, New York SaharaReporters has uncovered a document indicating that a million dollars of Bayelsa State’s poverty alleviation fund was… Read More ›

Will new fed guidelines force companies to hire more employees with criminal pasts?

Published February 23, 2013 | FoxNews.com Employers could be pressured to hire more workers with a criminal background under recent guidelines issued by the federal government. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s guidelines warn businesses about rejecting minority applicants who… Read More ›

Egypt insists food supply secure as wheat imports dive : selling bread (less than 1 U.S. cent / loaf ) since last overthrow

By Yasmine Saleh and Sarah McFarlanePosted 2013/02/24 at 10:59 am EST CAIRO/LONDON, Feb. 24, 2013 (Reuters) — Egypt’s wheat imports are sharply down this year as it endures economic and political crisis, but state and private buyers insist they still… Read More ›

Beef to the rich, horsemeat to the poor? “We can’t just throw away good food” – Germany’s Minister

By Ralph Turchiano on February 23, 2013 • ( 1 )

Feb 24, 2013 00:36 Moscow Time Photo: EPA Horsemeat-tainted food should be given to the poor, Germany’s development minister Dirk Niebel suggested. The opposition dismissed the idea as absurd, but a priest said it should be considered, although horsemeat may… Read More ›

Macedonia to jail individuals producing or selling GM Foods

By Ralph Turchiano on February 23, 2013

Saturday, 23 February 2013 While the Serb Government has promised to find and punish individuals and organizations repsonsible for spreading false stories natural milk was poisonous in order for the population to favor the import of GM milk, Macedonia went… Read More ›

At least six tanks leaking at US nuclear waste site

23 Feb 2013 LOS ANGELES (AFP) At least six underground tanks containing nuclear waste in the northwestern US state of Washington are leaking, but there is no imminent threat to public health, a spokeswoman said Friday. The US Energy Department… Read More ›

Tory MP warned of powerful paedophile ring 30 years ago

New evidence supports claim former backbencher’s life was threatened Friday, 22 February 2013 A burly veteran of scores of amateur boxing bouts, the Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens was best known during his bustling 16-year career in Parliament as a pugnacious… Read More ›

FBI agents caught sexting and dating drug dealers

By Ralph Turchiano on February 22, 2013 • ( 1 )

Dating drug dealers, harassing ex-boyfriends with naked pictures, and pointing guns at pet dogs: these were just a few of the offences committed recently by serving FBI agents, according to internal documents. Egyptian state security thanked the US for ‘training… Read More ›

Papal resignation linked to inquiry into ‘Vatican gay officials’, says paper

Pope’s staff decline to confirm or deny La Repubblica claims linking ‘Vatileaks’ affair and discovery of ‘blackmailed gay clergy’ John Hooper in Rome The Guardian, Thursday 21 February 2013 The Vatican is awhirl with rumours about the pope’s decision… Read More ›

China slams Abe over comments in Washington Post

Feb. 22, 2013 – 04:10PM JST BEIJING — China on Friday slammed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for telling a U.S. newspaper that Beijing had a “deeply ingrained” need to challenge its neighbors over territory. Abe, visiting the United States… Read More ›

Epicenter of Gulf Oil Spill Says BP Hasn’t Paid It 1 Cent

By SABRINA CANFIELD NEW ORLEANS (CN) – Plaquemines Parish, the “epicenter” of the BP oil spill, sued the company in Federal Court, claiming BP has not paid a single one of its claims for damages arising from… Read More ›

The ‘leftover’ women: China defines official age for females being left on the shelf as 27

Millions of women say they have been thrown on the scrap heap Chinese government worries that unmarried men could cause social havoc By Peter Simpson PUBLISHED: 09:04 EST, 21 February 2013 | UPDATED: 09:13 EST, 21 February 2013 The derogatory… Read More ›

Court Scoffs at Light Sentence for CEO’s Fraud

By Ralph Turchiano on February 21, 2013 • ( 1 )

By KEVIN KOENINGER CINCINNATI (CN) – The seven-day sentence given to a former CEO whose money-laundering scheme cost investors more $18 million was as “unreasonably low,” the 6th Circuit ruled. Michael Peppel was president, CEO… Read More ›

OMEGA-3s Inhibit Breast Cancer Tumour Growth, U of G Study Finds

February 21, 2013 – News Release A lifelong diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids can inhibit growth of breast cancer tumours by 30 per cent, according to new research from the University of Guelph. The study, published recently in the… Read More ›

Mushroom-supplemented soybean extract shows therapeutic promise for advanced prostate cancer

By Ralph Turchiano on February 21, 2013 • ( 1 )

February 20, 2013 (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — A natural, nontoxic product called genistein-combined polysaccharide, or GCP, which is commercially available in health stores, could help lengthen the life expectancy of certain prostate cancer patients, UC Davis researchers have found. Paramita Ghosh… Read More ›

Study: Resveratrol shows promise to protect hearing, cognition

By Ralph Turchiano on February 21, 2013 • ( 9 )

Contact: Krista Hopson khopson1@hfhs.org 313-874-7207 Henry Ford Health System DETROIT – Resveratrol, a substance found in red grapes and red wine, may have the potential to protect against hearing and cognitive decline, according to a published laboratory study from Henry… Read More ›

Increasing evidence links high glycemic index foods and dairy products to acne

By Ralph Turchiano on February 21, 2013 • ( 1 )

Contact: Eileen Leahy andjrnlmedia@elsevier.com 732-238-3628 Elsevier Health Sciences Medical nutrition therapy can play an important role, according to Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics report Philadelphia, PA, February 20, 2013 – A study published in the Journal of… Read More ›

Organic tomatoes accumulate more vitamin C, sugars than conventionally grown fruit

Contact: Souri Somphanith onepress@plos.org 41-562-412-17199 Public Library of Science Biochemical properties of organic tomatoes may be different because of stressful growth conditions Tomatoes grown on organic farms accumulate higher concentrations of sugars, vitamin C and compounds associated with oxidative stress… Read More ›

Omega-3 lipid emulsions markedly protect brain after stroke in mouse study – DHA

Contact: Karin Eskenazi ket2116@columbia.edu 212-342-0508 Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY (February 20, 2013) — Triglyceride lipid emulsions rich in an omega-3 fatty acid injected within a few hours of an ischemic stroke can decrease the amount of damaged… Read More ›

Study advances LSUHSC research, shows fish oil component reduces brain damage in newborns – DHA

Contact: Leslie Capo lcapo@lsuhsc.edu 504-568-4806 Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans, LA – Research conducted by a team of scientists from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Dr. Nicolas Bazan, Boyd Professor and Director of the… Read More ›

Is There a Link Between Coffee Drinking and Mortality?

Contact: Vicki Cohn, (914) 740-2156, vcohn@liebertpub.com New Rochelle, NY, February 19, 2013–A large study of nearly half a million older adults followed for about 12 years revealed a clear trend: as coffee drinking increased, the risk of death decreased. Study… Read More ›

Fibromyalgia prevalence at 2.1 percent of general German population

Contact: Dawn Peters sciencenewsroom@wiley.com 781-388-8408 Wiley Study suggests fibromyalgia is a spectrum disorder Researchers have determined that fibromyalgia prevalence is 2.1% of the general population in Germany. Results appearing in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley on… Read More ›

Caffeine linked to low birth weight babies

Contact: Dr. Hilary Glover hilary.glover@biomedcentral.com 44-020-319-22370 BioMed Central Maternal nutrition is important to a developing embryo and to the health of the child later in life. Supplementing the diet with specific vitamins is known to increase health of the foetus… Read More ›

Walking again after spinal injury ( sprinting, climbing up stairs, and avoiding obstacles after a couple of weeks of neurorehabilitation )

Contact: Hillary Sanctuary hillary.sanctuary@epfl.ch 41-797-034-809 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne In the lab, rats with severe spinal cord injury are learning to walk—and run—again. Last June in the journal Science, Grégoire Courtine, of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),… Read More ›

South Korea calls for development of nuclear weapons

US ambassador responds that it would be a “huge mistake.” A South Korean protester sprays on a North Korean national flag during a rally a day after North Korea announced they conducted a third nuclear test on Feb. 13,… Read More ›

Just say don’t: Doctors question routine tests and treatments

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:00 GMT Reuters By Sharon Begley NEW YORK, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Now there are 135. That’s how many medical tests, treatments and other procedures – many used for decades – physicians have now identified as… Read More ›

British tourists ‘tortured’ in Dubai

Anger grows over trial of three young Londoners who face death penalty after drug confessions that they say were extracted by electric shocks and gun threats Loveday Morris Wednesday, 20 February 2013 Three British men have claimed they were beaten… Read More ›

Stanford University raises $1 Billion in Donations

By Ralph Turchiano on February 20, 2013

Wednesday, 20 February 2013 Stanford University has set a new record for college fundraising, becoming the first school to collect more than $1 billion in a single year, according to a report released Wednesday. . For the eighth straight year,… Read More ›

Overkill in Honolulu

By Ralph Turchiano on February 20, 2013

By PURNA NEMANI HONOLULU (CN) – Dozens of Honolulu and Hawaii police used a battering ram in a pointless attack on a house, armed with a bogus affidavit from a helicopter pilot who claimed that backyard bamboo was… Read More ›

Almost one-third of chemotherapy used “off-label”

4:44pm EST By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – About one-third of chemotherapies are used to fight cancers that drug regulators never approved them to treat, says a new study. Chemotherapies – drugs that kill rapidly dividing cells… Read More ›

Anti-austerity strike to bring Greece to a standstill

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:36 GMT Reuters By Renee Maltezou ATHENS, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Greek workers walk off the job on Wednesday in a nationwide anti-austerity strike that will disrupt transport, shut public schools and tax offices and leave… Read More ›

Human intelligence is declining according to Stanford geneticist

Published: 18 February, 2013, 23:56 Edited: 18 February, 2013, 23:56 Ever can’t help but think you’re surrounded by idiots? A leading scientist at Stanford University thinks he has the answer, and the bad news is things aren’t likely to get… Read More ›

Man-made chemicals cited in health scourges -UN report : “a global threat that needs to be resolved,”

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:59 GMT Reuters * Childhood cancers, male sperm count cited * Action said needed to avert global threat * Product labels may not identify components By Robert Evans GENEVA, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Man-made chemicals in… Read More ›

Security group suspects Chinese military is behind hacking attacks : Unit 61398

Reuters – 1 hr 55 mins ago BEIJING (Reuters) – A secretive Chinese military unit is believed to be behind a prolific series of hacking attacks, a U.S. computer security company said, contradicting claims by China’s government that it is not involved… Read More ›

Egypt to start rationing subsidised fuel in July

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:22 GMT Reuters CAIRO, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Egypt will implement its delayed plans to ration subsidised fuel through a system of smart cards at the beginning of July, the country’s minister of petroleum and mineral… Read More ›

Panorama set to reveal new details on how Iraq war began

Adam Sherwin Monday, 18 February 2013 The BBC will revisit one of the greatest crises in its history when it broadcasts a controversial new Panorama investigation which promises to reveal fresh information about the intelligence deployed by the Blair… Read More ›

Was he murdered? Mystery death of American engineer working in Singapore on cutting-edge military technology ‘who had deep misgivings about his work’

By Ralph Turchiano on February 18, 2013 • ( 1 )

Shane Todd, an American working on an 18-month assignment in Singapore, was found hanged in his apartment in June 2012 Family claims he was murdered and Singapore police refuse to accept help from FBI Todds also recovered hard drive with… Read More ›

A solution to sinusitis from the sea

Contact: Karen Bidewell press.office@ncl.ac.uk 44-019-122-27850 Newcastle University A team of scientists and surgeons from Newcastle are developing a new nasal spray from a marine microbe to help clear chronic sinusitis. They are using an enzyme isolated from a marine bacterium… Read More ›

Food labelling underestimating calorie content of some foods, scientists say ( News has become Automated !!!? )