Also charged were Leonard Glenn Francis, the CEO of defense contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd And John Bertrand Beliveau II, a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service – NCIS By James Nye PUBLISHED: 00:20 EST, 22 October… Read More ›
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unconstitutionally tries to mine protected attorney-client and financial data, Claimed in court
Agency Data-Mining Case Shifts to California By JAMIE ROSS ShareThis (CN) – A company’s claim that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unconstitutionally tries to mine protected attorney-client and financial data should be argued in a pending California case, a federal… Read More ›
Women with extreme PMS will now be deemed ‘mentally ill’ following controversial revision of health manual
By Sadie Whitelocks PUBLISHED: 16:45 EST, 21 October 2013 | UPDATED: 17:04 EST, 21 October 2013 Women who suffer from consistently severe mood swings during their menstrual periods are now being diagnosed with mental illness. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), … Read More ›
U.S. Army says only two brigades fully trained due to budget cuts ( That is only 7,000 to 10,000 soldiers )
Source: Reuters – Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:44 PM Author: Reuters * Spending reductions this year fell heavily on training dollars * Top Army leaders appeal for greater budget certainty By David Alexander WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Two years… Read More ›
Singapore firm barred from U.S. contracts over bribery case -( Navy ) Three charged in case, including Navy officer
Source: Reuters – Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:06 AM Author: Reuters * Three charged in case, including Navy officer * Captain of U.S. amphibious assault ship relieved of duty * Travel, prostitutes and Lady Gaga tickets WASHINGTON, Oct 21… Read More ›
Children’s medicines contain banned additives linked to hyperactivity
Charlie Cooper Tuesday, 22 October 2013 Some of the most popular children’s medicines contain E numbers that have been withdrawn from food and drink products because of links to hyperactivity in children. Products from leading brands such as Calpol… Read More ›
Fructose: the poison index
A ruling on fructose boosts the powerful sugar industry, either by incompetence or collusion, but is based on pseudoscience Robert Lustig The Guardian, Monday 21 October 2013 16.00 EDT Fizzy drinks can have a ‘serum fructose concentration of six… Read More ›
Scientists REFUSE to release a list of 1,500 outdated Los Angeles homes, offices, and factories at risk of collapse from an earthquake / For fear of being sued
Scientists refuse to pass on details they collected on unsafe buildings Non-reinforced concrete structures are a deadly trap during major quakes Separate list by LA Times shows Capitol Records building, Pantages Theater, and Avalon nightclub among dangerous buildings Scientists confirm… Read More ›
New study shows 6 million youth out of school and work as 49 states see INCREASE in families living in poverty
15 per cent of those aged 16 to 24 who have neither desk nor job, according to report by the The Opportunity Nation coalition Idle young adults are missing out on a window to build skills they will need later… Read More ›
China to restrict satellite TV stations to one foreign programme to push “morality-building”
Source: Reuters – Mon, 21 Oct 2013 03:18 AM Author: Reuters SHANGHAI, Oct 21 (Reuters) – China will allow satellite television stations to buy the right to broadcast only one foreign programme each year from 2014 as part of… Read More ›
US spy agency snooped on French citizens: Report ( code-named “US-985D” )
AFP Monday, Oct 21, 2013 PARIS – The US National Security Agency (NSA) secretly recorded millions of phone calls made in France, daily Le Monde reported on Monday, citing documents from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. The spy agency taped… Read More ›
How foreign authors are willing to bow to China’s censors
Foreign writers who allow their books to be altered find results can be frustrating and time-consuming but extremely profitable PUBLISHED : Monday, 21 October, 2013, 4:09am UPDATED : Monday, 21 October, 2013, 8:41am The New York… Read More ›
How China Fights: Lessons From the 1962 Sino-Indian War ( Oct 20th, 1962 Anniversary )
EEV: Historical Re-Post Oct 29, 2012 1:00 AM EDT China gave India a “lesson” in 1962. Study it now. The rest of the world may have forgotten the anniversary, but a neglected border war that took place 50 years ago… Read More ›
China and The Art of (losing) War
Benjamin CarlsonOctober 20, 2013 06:05 Follow @bfcarlson For centuries, China’s leaders have relied on Sun Tzu’s masterpiece of strategy. The result? Tragedy, weakness and defeat to inferior forces. These traditional Russian Matryoshka dolls feature Chinese leaders since the overthrow of… Read More ›
Whom is benefiting economically from NSA spying ( A moderator question ) ?
EEV: It is highly evident that individuals are benefiting from using the U.S. Governments spy network to gain an unfair advantage in the investment markets. The NSA spying is alluding to being used more as a personal tool of enrichment… Read More ›
Kenya will tag rhino horns with microchips: suck it, poachers!
Posted October 19, 2013 – 19:35 by Emory Kale The Kenyan Wildlife Services (KWS) is going all 2013 on poachers’ asses by making rhino horn 100% traceable. Now that’s what you call disruptive technology that really makes a difference. –… Read More ›
All Chinese journalists ordered to censor supportive stances toward Japan
Kyodo Oct 20, 2013 BEIJING – China’s Communist Party has begun ordering all Chinese journalists not to take supportive stances toward Japan when writing about territorial and historical issues between the two countries, participants of a mandatory training program revealed… Read More ›
Let’s play God: The scientific experiments that might save the world (or destroy it…)
Fake volcanoes, giant space mirrors, oceans of iron filings… One of these ideas might save our planet from the worst effects of global warming – or destroy it. Memphis Barker reports on the rise of geoengineering – and the rift… Read More ›
One in three women remove wedding rings fearing they will ‘damage employment prospects’
A third of women remove rings when it isn’t necessarily normal to do so Of those, 35% remove them at work and 29% at job interviews 22% do so when out socialising More than half who ditch ring when socialising… Read More ›
166th Health Research Report Synopsis 19 OCT 2013
166 Health Research Report WHITE PAPER /ROUGH COPY 166th Issue Date 19 OCT 2013 Compiled By Ralph Turchiano http://www.vit.bz www.youtube.com/vhfilm http://www.engineeringevil.com http://www.healthresearchreport.me In this issue: Reversing walking corpse syndrome: Cotard’s Syndrome trigger found – and… Read More ›
George Osborne: ‘Second-rate Britain’ needs to be more like China
Chancellor dismisses suggestions that China has a ‘sweatshop’ economy and wishes Britain would be more like the communist country Lewis Smith Friday, 18 October 2013 Britain is no longer great, is defeatist and unambitious and needs to be more like… Read More ›
Obesity experts appalled by EU move to approve health claim for fructose / high-fructose corn syrup is a healthy alternative
Food firms using fructose will be able to boast of health benefits despite fruit sugar being implicated in soaring US obesity levels Sarah Boseley, health editor The Guardian, Thursday 17 October 2013 16.27 EDT Fructose, the sugar found in fruit, is… Read More ›
Obamacare woes widen as insurers get wrong data and experts say website built on ten-year-old technology will need to be constantly fixed and then totally overhauled
Technology experts say the flaws could do lasting damage Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius criticized for declining to testify before an oversight panel Administration officials blame problems on an unexpectedly high volume of 14.6 million visitors in its… Read More ›
Blank check: The U.S. government borrowed $328billion on the first day after a debt deal without a debt ceiling was agreed upon
The new debt deal has no debt ceiling, giving the federal government a blank check until February The previous one day borrowing record was $238billion By Ryan Gorman PUBLISHED: 23:27 EST, 18 October 2013 | UPDATED: 23:27 EST, 18 October… Read More ›
House panel nixes Grayson’s request for Syria intelligence / No access to why Obama wanted to attack Syria
By JOSH GERSTEIN | 10/18/13 1:51 AM EDT In a highly unusual move, the House Intelligence Committee voted this week to deny an outspoken Florida lawmaker access to classified information supporting President Barack Obama’s call for a military strike in… Read More ›
Researchers advance toward engineering ‘wildly new genome’
Contact: David Cameron david_cameron@hms.harvard.edu 617-432-0441 Harvard Medical School In two parallel projects, researchers have created new genomes inside the bacterium E. coli in ways that test the limits of genetic reprogramming and open new possibilities for increasing flexibility, productivity and… Read More ›
Light to moderate alcohol leads to good cheer at Danish high-school parties
Contact: Marie Eliasen, M.Sc. mae@niph.dk 45-6550-7777 (Denmark) University of Southern Denmark Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research Many people, especially young adults, engage in high-risk drinking because of the belief it will lead to positive mood effects such as cheerfulness. A… Read More ›
Compound derived from vegetables shields rodents from lethal radiation doses
Contact: Karen Mallet km463@georgetown.edu Georgetown University Medical Center WASHINGTON — Georgetown University Medical Center researchers say a compound derived from cruciferous vegetable such as cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli protected rats and mice from lethal doses of radiation. Their study, published… Read More ›
Why the Germans can’t help being rude: Historic divisions mean they are used to being surrounded by enemies
EEV: ??? Germans like ‘stability and structure’ because of nation’s fractured past Respected German institute produce video showing the difference between them and their foreign counterparts By Hayley O’keeffe PUBLISHED: 23:40 EST, 17 October 2013 | UPDATED: 07:20… Read More ›
Prisons now over 99 per cent full – official ( U.K. )
Prisons in England and Wales are virtually full, official figures show. Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: ‘Cramming ever greater numbers of people into overcrowded prisons with fewer staff and less time out of cell is no… Read More ›
Leaky security could scuttle global ship-tracking system / Nuke-carrying Iranian ghost ships could be on the USA’s radar right now
By Phil Muncaster 17th October 2013 06:28 GMT Security researchers have found a major flaw in the Automatic Identification System (AIS), a mandatory tracking system for ships, which could leave the 400,000 vessels currently using it globally wide open to… Read More ›
Reversing walking corpse syndrome: Cotard’s Syndrome trigger found – and it’s a household cold sore cream ( Acyclovir )
Drug commonly used to treat cold sores and herpes and renal failure has been linked to syndrome that leads people to believe they are dead Heather Saul Friday, 18 October 2013 Pharmacologists have discovered one of the mechanisms that triggers… Read More ›
Walmart fires employee for coming to the aid of woman being assaulted by her boyfriend in the parking lot
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 00:36 EST, 18 October 2013 | UPDATED: 00:59 EST, 18 October 2013 Kristopher Oswald says he was doing the right thing when he jumped to the aid of a woman being assaulted in the… Read More ›
Students’ right to wear American flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo heads to federal appeals court
Published time: October 17, 2013 23:48 Edited time: October 18, 2013 00:25 Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP A federal appeals court is considering whether administrators of a school marred by racial tension and gang activity went too far when they sent… Read More ›
400-Meter-Wide Asteroid Could Hit Earth in 2032
400-Meter-Wide Asteroid Could Hit Earth in 2032 © Fotolia/ Paul Fleet 15:27 17/10/2013 MOSCOW, October 17 (RIA Novosti) – Ukrainian astronomers have discovered a large asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032, though the impact risk is minimal, according to… Read More ›
Breaking: Radioactivity level spikes 6,500 times higher at Fukushima well than readings taken on Wednesday
Published time: October 18, 2013 02:08 Fukushima Governor Yuhei sato (orange helmet) inspects the contaminated water tanks at Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture on October 15, 2013. (AFP… Read More ›
Perfectly preserved 1.8 million-year-old skull ‘could re-write history of human evolution’
Palaeontologists believe finds could re-write early history of human evolution Steve Connor Thursday, 17 October 2013 Scientists have revealed one of the most dramatic discoveries in human origins with a perfectly preserved fossilised skull of an ape-like man who… Read More ›
China openly tries to destablize U.S. bond market : Xinhua ” US Treasury bonds may no longer be safe investment.”
China welcomes US debt agreement, but Xinhua pours scorn on politicians But Xinhua commentary says the deal will only prolong the fuse of the ‘debt bomb’ and delay ‘bankruptcy’ of global confidence in America PUBLISHED : Thursday, 17 October, 2013,… Read More ›
China holds two bloggers as it expands crackdown on rumors
Sui-Lee Wee Reuters Thursday, Oct 17, 2013 BEIJING – Police in China have arrested an influential blogger and are holding a cartoonist in a widening crackdown on online “rumour-mongering”, friends and a lawyer for one of them said on Thursday…. Read More ›
New and more virulent strain of HIV is spreading rapidly through Russia, claim scientists
The HIV subtype 02_AG/A is spreading rapidly and is now thought to account for more than 50 per cent of new HIV infections in Siberia It is thought to be the most virulent subtype of the virus in Russia Infections… Read More ›
1 in 2000 Britons may carry ‘mad cow’ prion protein
19:39 16 October 2013 by Debora MacKenzie “We were all supposed to die of mad cow disease!” People who accuse public health agencies of crying wolf are fond of citing the discovery, in 1996, that a cattle disease widespread… Read More ›
Social mobility report: Work ‘may be no route out of poverty’
Alan Milburn is producing a series of reports on social mobility for the coalition For millions of families, work no longer pays enough to provide a route out of poverty, the government’s social mobility tsar is expected to warn…. Read More ›
Current Black Market Prices for People and Organs
EEV: This list helps brings the reality of human exploitation a little closer to home. These are generalized estimates, based on few sources. Click dollar figure to see original post and source information. Last update: October 9, 2013. TRANSPLANT PRICE… Read More ›
If the police are allowed to lie and cheat, we are heading for anarchy ( U.K. )
The Andrew Mitchell case is not isolated, and there are grounds for a Royal Commission Few who spend time in British courts wait long before coming across cases where the police have misrepresented, or made up, or suppressed evidence Photo: Getty… Read More ›
Ew! Injectable antibiotic ( VOLUNTARY ) recall prompted by floating bits of hair, cotton and metal inside drug vials
The FDA announced a recall of cefepime, an intravenous drug used for pneumonia, urinary tract, skin, and abdominal infections The visible particles in the drug, which was distributed nationwide, can cause blood clots, strokes, and heart attacks, among other catastrophic … Read More ›
School suspends special needs student for drawing picture of cartoon bomb from favorite video game despite agreeing that teenager posed no threat to classmates
Rhett Parham, 13, got in trouble over sketch of favorite video game Mother claims South Carolina school was worried about what other parents would think By Jessica Jerreat PUBLISHED: 17:31 EST, 16 October 2013 | UPDATED: 18:09 EST, 16 October… Read More ›
China’s rich get richer despite slowing economy: Forbes
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2013 AFP SHANGHAI – China’s 400 richest people became US$150 billion (S$186.64 billion) wealthier this year, Forbes magazine said Wednesday, despite a slowdown in the world’s second largest economy. The vast increase – an… Read More ›
Mentally ill tied to trees and left to die in Somalia
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation – Mon, 7 Oct 2013 01:28 PM Author: Emma BathaMore news from our correspondents Men walk on a beach in front of a building destroyed during a war in Mogadishu June 27, 2012. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic … Read More ›
British spies ‘hid activities from MPs’
Former Labour minister accuses spies of ignoring MPs over surveillance Nick Brown says there is ‘uncanny’ similarity between GCHQ programmes exposed by Edward Snowden and bill’s proposals Rowena Mason, political correspondent The Guardian, Tuesday 15 October 2013 Former… Read More ›
Live streamed videos of abuse and pay-per-view child rape among ‘disturbing’ cybercrime trends, Europol report reveals
Almost half of world’s websites dealing in commercial child sexual abuse material have their servers located in US Paul Gallagher Wednesday, 16 October 2013 Organised criminal networks are getting away with a “disturbing” and increasing trend of pay-per-view child rape… Read More ›
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