The number of public sector workers on low wages doubles to more than one million, with women and part-time staff disproportionately affected by squeeze on incomes Nigel Morris Monday, 9 December 2013 The biggest drop in living standards since the… Read More ›
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IG finds some not-so-intelligent conduct in the intelligence community
Intelligence community appears to be endemic with fraud i.e. Two owners, who were the only employees of a subcontracting firm, mischarged 1,691 hours to the government for time running “a business for horse saddle padding,” according to the IG report… Read More ›
FDA’s Manure Proposal: What’s the Big Stink About? BYE BYE Large Organic Farming?
If you’ve caught wind of the controversy around proposed laws on food safety, then you know that a lot of folks are knee-deep in talks about manure. Black gold – as farmers have been known to call it – manure makes… Read More ›
NSA Claims Call Spying Reports Are False
1 November 2013 Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 08:13:57 +0100 Subject: update From: <xxxxx[at]gmail.com> To: Cryptome <cryptome[at]earthlink.net> In a letter to Dutch Parliament of October 31st [0], the Dutch Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (Ronald Plasterk)… Read More ›
Goldman Sachs rogue trader to be jailed seven years AFTER concealing an unauthorized $8.3 billion trading deal / For a whole 9 months
Matthew Taylor, 35, was sentenced Friday to nine months for wire fraud in 2007 U.S. District Judge William Pauley questioned why it took Goldman and the government so long to bring the misconduct to light Taylor had admitted in a… Read More ›
New Yellow Sea naval drills seen as warning message
PUBLISHED : Friday, 06 December, 2013, 1:24pm UPDATED : Saturday, 07 December, 2013, 3:33am Minnie Chan minnie.chan@scmp.com A ship gun fires during last month’s exercises. Photo: SCMP The PLA Navy launched eight days… Read More ›
Russian diplomats accused of $1.5m fraud in US – but immunity prevents arrests
The accused and a number of unnamed co-conspirators gamed the system to the tune of $1.5m, say US law enforcement officials Nikhil Kumar Friday, 6 December 2013 In November 2010, Nailya Babaeva, a Russian citizen in the US, allegedly… Read More ›
Britain’s poor ‘will die before they retire’ if pension reforms aren’t matched by health improvements
Stark disparity in healthy life expectancy ‘must be tackled’ for pension age to be raised fairly Charlie Cooper Friday, 6 December 2013 Thousands of Britain’s poorest people “will be dead before they can retire” if sweeping pension reforms are not… Read More ›
China pulls out of UN process over territorial dispute with Philippines
• Move underscores China’s tough geopolitical stance in region • Territorial claims continue to dominate visit by Joe Biden Paul Lewis in Washington theguardian.com, Friday 6 December 2013 13.25 EST Fallout over China’s territorial claims has become the… Read More ›
CIA Cleared on Answer to Telepathy FOIA Demand
By HEATHER JOHNSON SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) – The CIA properly handled a man’s demand for records on his 1966 interrogation regarding telepathy and espionage, a federal judge ruled. Phillip Mosier had sued the agency in San Francisco under… Read More ›
US Agency new logo…. an Evil Octopus
Friday, 06 December 2013 Billions of dollars annually are being used to fund operations conducted by the United States intelligence community, the likes of which allow the government to eavesdrop on emails, listen to world leaders’ phone calls… Read More ›
Probiotic therapy alleviates autism-like behaviors in mice
Contact: Deborah Williams-Hedges mr@caltech.edu 626-395-3227 California Institute of Technology Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is diagnosed when individuals exhibit characteristic behaviors that include repetitive actions, decreased social interactions, and impaired communication. Curiously, many individuals with ASD also suffer from gastrointestinal (GI)… Read More ›
British intelligence agents in Russia instructed to find Snowden – Canadian NGO
© Photo: Voice of Russia The British intelligence MI-6 station in Moscow was given the task to locate a former CIA agent Edward Snowden who was granted temporary political asylum in Russia, states Center for the Study of Globalization, a… Read More ›
House subcommittee: Obamacare’s $300 billion Medicare Advantage raid will hurt seniors next year
Posted By Patrick Howley On 10:38 PM 12/04/2013 In | Obamacare “raided” $300 billion for Medicare Advantage and seniors will begin feeling the cuts next year, according to an analysis Tuesday by the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee…. Read More ›
7 things that surprise Japanese people working in offices overseas
By Rachel Tackett Lifestyle Dec. 05, 2013 – 06:20AM JST ( 24 ) TOKYO — Here’s a collection of seven observations that Japanese people made while doing business in foreign countries. 1. The lack of overtime In Germany and Spain,… Read More ›
Icelandic Govt to forgive each household $32,600 worth of debt
Wednesday, 04 December 2013 Wouldn’t everyone want to call Iceland their home? Iceland’s government has announced that it will be writing off up to 24,000 euros ($32,600) of every household’s mortgage, fulfilling its election promise, despite overwhelming criticism from international… Read More ›
ALEC calls for penalties on ‘freerider’ homeowners in assault on clean energy ( Charge you for generating your own energy )
• Documents reveal conservative group’s anti-green agenda • Strategy to charge people who install their own solar panels • Environmentalists accuse Alec of protecting utility firms’ profits • ALEC facing funding crisis after exodus of big donors Suzanne Goldenberg… Read More ›
World’s oldest DNA is recovered from a 400,000-year-old thigh bone – and provides a new jigsaw piece in the history of evolution
Scientist reconstructed the mitochondrial genome from two grams of bone They found early humans shared a common ancestor with the Denisovans This was suprising as early humans were thought to share a common ancestor with Neanderthals due to similar skeletal… Read More ›
‘Your mother loved you very much and wanted to keep you’: Judge’s remarkable message to baby girl of woman who was forced to have caesarean
Judge Roderick Newton, who ruled that the baby born to sedated mother be put up for adoption, tells child her mother wanted to keep her Girl was born to mother, who has bipolar disorder, by court-ordered caesarean 15 months ago… Read More ›
High Fructose Corn Syrup and interesting ways to create pandemics. Part 1
This is to open up an honest debate into the scientific rationale to why High Fructose Corn Syrup may have been a mistake. This is only part 1 of my collection of publically available unedited studies on the subject. Please… Read More ›
Food poverty in UK has reached level of ‘public health emergency’, warn experts
The Government may be covering up the extent to which austerity and welfare cuts are adding to the problem Charlie Cooper Wednesday, 4 December 2013 Hunger in Britain has reached the level of a “public health emergency” and the Government… Read More ›
Truck carrying radioactive material stolen in Mexico
UN’s atomic watchdog says truck was taking cobalt-60 from a hospital to a radioactive waste storage centre when it was stolen Reuters in Vienna theguardian.com, Wednesday 4 December 2013 09.11 EST The IAEA has warned that the radioactive… Read More ›
Tiny old Britain? It’s only good for study and travel, says China’s state media
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 03 December, 2013, 5:03pm Daniel Ren ren.wei@scmp.com The British prime minister meets Shanghai Mayor Yang Xiong. He is leading a 100-strong business delegation. Photo: AP As British Prime Minister David Cameron launched a charm offensive at Shanghai… Read More ›
Should the Big Six be nationalised? In 4 years they increased their average profit per household more than ten-fold
It’s an unthinkable idea. It bucks the Thatcherite consensus. The markets would hate it. And yet … Tom Bawden Tuesday, 3 December 2013 When Ofgem head Andrew Wright identified a “deep mistrust of anything the energy companies do or say”… Read More ›
On the matter of shooting down Amazon delivery drones with shotguns
It won’t be there. But if it was, no, you couldn’t shoot it down By Lewis Page Posted in Bootnotes, 3rd December 2013 13:27 GMT So no, there will not be an electric quadcopter delivery drone delivering your Cyber… Read More ›
Desperation for money pushes Turks to sell their kidneys
Adverts apparently link to an organ trafficking ring which carries out illegal kidney removals, transplants. Middle East Online Worth up to $73,000 ISTANBUL – Turkish police have launched an investigation into online adverts posted by people allegedly so… Read More ›
Syrian opposition fighters seize 12 nuns from Christian village
Mother superior says nuns abducted from convent have been taken with three other women to town held by rebels Associated Press in Damascus theguardian.com, Tuesday 3 December 2013 09.04 EST A Syrian nun lights candles in the church… Read More ›
Over 700,000 people on US watch list: and once you get on, there’s no way off
Published time: December 02, 2013 20:59 A US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent checks the identification and boarding pass of a passenger as she passes through security in the terminal at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia… Read More ›
‘Memories’ pass between generations
By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News Behaviour can be affected by events in previous generations which have been passed on through a form of genetic memory, animal studies suggest. Experiments showed that a traumatic event could… Read More ›
How long before YOU are eating frankenfish: It grows at terrifying speed and could wipe out other species. The GM super salmon muscling its way onto your plate
GM salmon which grow twice as fast as wild fish have been developed Eggs given go-ahead in Canada while meat to be approved for sale in US If they escape from farms they could breed and wipe out wild fish… Read More ›
‘Modern slavery’: Intl delegation decries migrant rights abuses in Qatar
Published time: December 02, 2013 12:16 Workers in Doha, Qatar. (AFP Photo / Goh Chai Hin) Qatar has made no progress in abolishing laws that effectively force foreign workers into slavery, an international delegation has said. A worker’s rights… Read More ›
Police Devise App to Curb Far-Right Music ( Germany )
German police have developed a Shazam-like smartphone app that allows them to identify far-right rock songs by playing just a brief sample. It could make it harder for neo-Nazis to lure under-18s with music, which is seen as a “gateway drug” into the… Read More ›
Obamacare website-maker runs failed Army Human Terrain System program
Posted By Patrick Howley On 9:32 PM 12/01/2013 In | The company that earned the no-bid contract to build the failed Obamacare website also runs the Army’s disastrous Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan, which has been accused of… Read More ›
40,000 protest Mexico leader on inauguration anniversary
Monday Dec 02, 2013 | Agence France Presse A man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask takes part in a protest against Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, on the first anniversary of his goverment in Mexico City on December 1, 2013… Read More ›
Revealed: Australian spy agency offered to share data about ordinary citizens
• Secret 5-Eyes document shows surveillance partners discussing what information they can pool about their citizens • DSD indicated it could provide material without some privacy restraints imposed by other countries such as Canada • Medical, legal or religious information… Read More ›
‘Revolution!’ Thousands pour in for pro-EU rally in Ukraine, storm govt buildings
Published time: December 01, 2013 10:09 Thousands of demonstrators chanting ‘Revolution!’ have flocked into ‘Maidan’ square in Kiev despite a court-imposed ban on rallies. The protesters have reportedly taken several government buildings. Follow RT’s LIVE UPDATES on protests in Kiev…. Read More ›
Financial Stability Board Global Shadow Banking Monitoring Report 2013 (OFIs grew to $71 trillion )
December 1, 2013 The following report was released November 14, 2013 by the Financial Stability Board, an international organization that includes representatives from the G-20 nations, European Central Bank, European Commission, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation… Read More ›
Thai PM safely leaves police complex stormed by protesters
Reuters Sunday, Dec 01, 2013 BANGKOK – Anti-government protesters broke into the compound of a police sports club on Sunday where Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra had been during the morning, but she was able to leave the premises and… Read More ›
Obama depicted as messiah in book for young schoolchildren
Photo: EPA A book for young schoolchildren, titled “Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope” is now widely discussed on the Web, although the book was written as early as before the November 2008 election that brought Obama to… Read More ›
Woman has child taken from her womb by social services
Exclusive: Essex social services have obtained a court order against a woman that allowed her to be forcibly sedated and for her child to be taken from her womb by caesarean section The case has developed into an international legal… Read More ›
Murdoch’s ex-wife wrote of ‘warm feelings’ as it emerges that tycoon banned former PM from summit after he said ‘It’s me or Tony’
Intimate note by Wendi Deng fuels Murdoch and Blair’s feud Ex-PM banned from summit after tycoon said: ‘It’s me or Tony’ Blair and Murdoch, once allies, now have a ‘terminal’ rift, claim sources By Simon Walters PUBLISHED: 17:12 EST, 30 … Read More ›
Engineering Evil 