Photo EPA/ITAR-TASS MOSCOW, September 2. (Itar-Tass) – “Russia’s Foreign Ministry recommends Russian citizens to refrain from international trips, especially to countries with extradition treaties with the US, if said citizens have grounded suspicions that American law enforcements are interested in… Read More ›
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NSA Targeted French Foreign Ministry
‘Success Story’ Espionage by the US on France has already strained relations between the two countries, threatening a trans-Atlantic trade agreement. Now a document seen by SPIEGEL reveals that the NSA also spied on the French Foreign Ministry. America’s National… Read More ›
China confirms plans for first Moon visit later this year / First a rover, next a taikonaut, then a colony
By Iain Thomson, 31st August 2013 China has confirmed it is on track to land a rover on the Moon later this year to scoot across the surface analyzing dust and rock samples. “Chang’e-3 has officially entered its launch stage, following its… Read More ›
Flu vaccine backfires in pigs / vaccinated against H1N2 influenza were more vulnerable to the rarer H1N1 strain
Antibodies against one strain increase risk of infection with another. Beth Mole 28 August 2013 Pigs vaccinated against H1N2 influenza were more vulnerable to the rarer H1N1 strain. Andy Rouse/Photoshot Preventing seasonal sniffles may be more complicated than researchers suspected…. Read More ›
David Cameron vows to continue to defend Gibraltar in the ongoing diplomatic row with Spain over the tiny territory as chief minister warns of “huge escalation” in the standoff
David Cameron vows to defend Gibraltar . Mr Cameron met Fabian Picardo, Gibraltar’s chief minister, in Downing Street on Friday. Photo: LEWIS WHYLD/AFP By Fiona Govan, Madrid 3:21PM BST 30 Aug 2013 Gibraltar’s chief minister has warned that Spain’s bid… Read More ›
Oral nutritional supplements demonstrate significant health and cost benefits
Contact: Kim Modory 847-938-4696 Fleishman-Hillard, Inc. Analysis of more than 1 million adult hospital cases revealed 21 percent reduction in length of hospital stay and cost with nutritional intervention ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Aug. 30, 2013 – Abbott (NYSE: ABT) A… Read More ›
1 in 4 has alarmingly few intestinal bacteria
Contact: Oluf Pedersen oluf@sund.ku.dk 45-52-39-56-50 University of Copenhagen All people have trillions of bacteria living in their intestines. If you place them on a scale, they weigh around 1.5 kg. Previously, a major part of these ‘blind passengers’ were unknown,… Read More ›
Existence of new element confirmed
Contact: Dirk Rudolph Dirk.Rudolph@nuclear.lu.se 46-462-227-633 Lund University An international team of researchers, led by physicists from Lund University, have confirmed the existence of what is considered a new element with atomic number 115. The experiment was conducted at the GSI… Read More ›
Long-term memory in the cortex
Contact: Mazahir T. Hasan mazahir.t.hasan@gmail.com 49-304-505-39176 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ‘Where’ and ‘how’ memories are encoded in a nervous system is one of the most challenging questions in biological research. The formation and recall of associative memories is essential for an independent life…. Read More ›
Cancerous cells from donor kidney linked to recipient skin cancer
Patients that receive kidney transplants have an increased risk of an invasive form of skin cancer. It is unclear if donor tissue contributes to cancer formation. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Philippe Ratajczak and colleagues… Read More ›
StarLink resurfaces: GM corn banned decade ago found in Saudi Arabia
Published time: August 27, 2013 21:14 Edited time: August 29, 2013 AFP Photo / Paul J. Richards The Saudi Arabian food chain has been widely contaminated with GM ingredients, according to a new study. The findings include controversial StarLink maize… Read More ›
Brain-to-brain breakthrough in mind control experiment
Two minds with but a single thought as University of Washington researcher controls colleague’s hand movements LAST UPDATED AT 13:48 ON Wed 28 Aug 2013 SCIENTISTS have achieved human mind control for the first time in an experiment at… Read More ›
It’s personal: Obamas carried $120,000 student loan debt for decades
10:53 PM 08/27/2013 Robby Soave Reporter, The Daily Caller For President Obama, the student loan crisis is personal. The Obamas had not repaid all of their $120,000 student loan debts until his election to the Senate in… Read More ›
Syria: US calls on UN to withdraw experts, mission senseless
Wsj, there was already definitive proof of chemical weapons use 28 August, 10:09 (ANSAmed) – NEW YORK, AUGUST 28 – The UN mission in Syria is meaningless, as there was already definitive proof of chemical weapons use, US… Read More ›
1-in-5 U.S.children have a mental disorder to the extent that the child has difficulty functioning
Psychiatrists: 1-in-5 U.S.children have a mental disorder Published: Aug. 27, 2013 at 12:21 AM DALLAS, Aug. 27 (UPI) –DALLAS, Aug. 27 (UPI) — Twenty percent of U.S. children experience a mental disorder to the extent that the child has difficulty… Read More ›
Saudi takes keys away from more rogue women drivers
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation – Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:15 AM Author: Lisa AndersonMore news from our correspondents Female driver Azza Al Shmasani displays a note that she says was placed on her car by an unknown person in Saudi… Read More ›
China rules out talks with Japan on disputed Diaoyus
Wednesday, 28 August, 2013 [Updated: 5:28AM] A Japan Coast Guard vessel patrols off the disputed Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. Photo: Reuters China sees no reason to hold talks with Japan over their dispute about ownership of… Read More ›
Aso compares Senkakus dispute to Falklands
Politics Aug. 28, 2013 – 06:45AM JST ( 27 ) TOKYO/BEIJING — Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso, who doubles as deputy prime minister, said Tuesday that the government must make clear its intent to defend the Senkaku islands or risk… Read More ›
Russian-Ukrainian volunteer corps going to Syria to fight (“Window to Russia”, Russia)
Sergey Razumovsky © Screenshot: YouTube Plans are in the works to send a Russian-Ukrainian volunteer corps to Syria to help its leadership with the struggle against the rebels. Several thousand people have already signed up. This came in a statement… Read More ›
Painting of Vladimir Putin in women’s underwear seized by Russian police for breaking unspecified laws
Picture displayed in St Petersburg gallery portrayed president in tight-fitting slip brushing Dmitry Medvedev’s hair Reuters in St Petersburg theguardian.com, Tuesday 27 August 2013 14.26 EDT Vladimir Putin in his work attire. Photograph: Itar-Tass/Barcroft Media Russian police seized a… Read More ›
China orders all the nation’s journalists to take Marxism classes
Tuesday, 27 August, 2013, 6:05pm News›China Insider Class struggle Patrick Boehler patrick.boehler@scmp.com China has ordered its entire press corps back to school in an effort to shore up ideological unity. The nation’s 307,000 reporters, producers and editors will soon have… Read More ›
Two teaspoons of pesticide wipe out insects on 10-mile stretch of river
Minister demands curb on pesticide sale after it wipes out insects on 10-mile stretch of river Two teaspoons of an insecticide poured down a kitchen sink has been held responsible for wiping out insect life on a 10-mile stretch… Read More ›
Guards have to escort Chicago kids to new schools as they cross gang boundaries
Safe Passage program hires protection hires for Chicago Public Schools as students cross gang boundaries No incidents of trouble reported on its first day today Parents are skeptic over whether the program will continue to protect kids By Associated Press… Read More ›
Kurdish leader – It’s not Assad, West tries to Frame Him
EEV: Still no proof of who launched the chemical attack. If anybody has any direct links to evidence of whom is at fault, please link. Monday, 26 August 2013 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would not be “so stupid” as to… Read More ›
Japan could be ‘main player’ if Asia conflicts break out: defense minister
By Harumi Ozawa Politics Aug. 27, 2013 – 02:01PM JST ( 6 ) TOKYO — Japan could be a key participant if conflict breaks out in Asia, the defense minister said Monday, warning China is seeking to exploit difficulties… Read More ›
U.S. Army sergeant receives Medal of Honor at White House ceremony
EEV: Deserves acknowledgement Source: Reuters – Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:42 PM Author: Reuters By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Honor on Monday to Army Staff Sergeant Ty Carter,… Read More ›
Israeli army placed on high alert
Photo: Flickr.com/kudumomo/cc-by In a live interview on Press TV, Voice of Russia regular contributor and the owner of the Stop NATO website Rick Rozoff, citing multiple sources, stated that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been placed on high alert…. Read More ›
Codename ‘Apalachee’
The servers for the EU mission to the United Nations in New York are located on the 26th floor. The NSA obtained a floor plan of the offices in the autumn of 2012. How America Spies on Europe and… Read More ›
Nepotism is giving way to elite breeding
Source: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 04:29 PM Author: Edward Hadas Graduates set next to the Chinese flag during a graduation ceremony at Fudan University in Shanghai June 28, 2013 REUTERS/Aly Song (The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The… Read More ›
As the West considers action against the ruling Assad regime in Syria, we must take note of a chilling warning from 1914
By Peter McKay PUBLISHED: 17:12 EST, 25 August 2013 | UPDATED: 17:12 EST, 25 August 2013 As the centenary of the 1914-1918 Great War approaches, historian Christopher Clark points out that conflict’s eerie, modern relevance. ‘The assassination of… Read More ›
Libyan Intelligence: Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi Involved in U.S. Consulate in Benghazi Attack
EEV: Article just re-surfaced from Jun 26 2013 – – – By Raymond Ibrahim on June 26, 2013 in From The Arab World, Islam According to a Libyan intelligence document, the Muslim Brotherhood, including Egyptian President Morsi, were involved in… Read More ›
Japan Scrambles Jets After Russian Bomber Breaches Airspace
Aug. 22, 2013 – 10:54AM | By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | TOKYO — Japan scrambled fighter jets Thursday after a pair of Russian bombers briefly intruded into the country’s airspace, officials said. The two Tu-95 planes breached airspace near the isle… Read More ›
Russia: Chemical attack in Syria, yet another set up by Foreign Forces and Al Qaeda
Friday, 23 August 2013 The fearsome trio US, UK and France reacted with a fury dished out by their media over an alleged chemical attack in Syria, the problem is, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, these countries reacted before… Read More ›
Snowden tricked NSA – and they don’t know how he did it
Published time: August 24, 2013 17:48 View of the National Security Agency (NSA) in the Washington suburb of Fort Meade, Maryland (AFP Photo) While collecting data Edward Snowden was able to evade all safeguards at the NSA, leaving the… Read More ›
Woman takes on Yakuza godfather over protection racket
Restaurant owner in Nagoya is seeking £120,000 from crime boss in landmark case Paul Gallagher The Observer, Saturday 24 August 2013 07.23 EDT Kenichi Shinoda, the boss of the Yamaguchi-gumi, photographed as he left jail in 2011. Photograph:… Read More ›
Muslim Brotherhood leader Gomaa Amin is in hiding in London
The new spiritual leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is living in hiding in London in fear of state-sponsored assassination, it can be disclosed. Mohammed Badie, 70, the Muslim Brotherhood’s previous spiritual leader, was arrested last Tuesday morning in Cairo. Photo:… Read More ›
NSA officers ‘spy on love interests’
The spying has been given the codename ‘LOVEINT’ LOVEINT has been going on for at least the past decade This revelation is the latest in a summer of disclosures about how far the US government spy program reaches By Ryan… Read More ›
Department of Homeland Security Employee Promotes Race War in Spare Time, Advocates Mass Murder of Whites
Don Terry on August 21, 2013, By day, Ayo Kimathi works for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a small business specialist in a unit that buys such items as handcuffs, ammunition and guns. Off-duty, he calls himself “the… Read More ›
NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies
• Top-secret files show first evidence of financial relationship • Prism companies include Google and Yahoo, says NSA • Costs were incurred after 2011 Fisa court ruling Ewen MacAskill in New York The Guardian, Thursday 22 August 2013… Read More ›
Internet Companies Paid Millions for Spying Activity
By NICK DIVITO (CN) – The National Security Agency paid millions of dollars to Internet companies like Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Facebook to cover costs of its PRISM surveillance program, according to secret documents obtained by The Guardian and… Read More ›
8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
EEV: RE-posted at Request Republished from alternet.org By Bruce E. Levine Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and… Read More ›
Study adds lung damage to harmful effects of arsenic / lung damage comparable to decades of smoking
Contact: John Easton john.easton@uchospitals.edu 773-795-5225 University of Chicago Medical Center A new study confirms that exposure to low to moderate amounts of arsenic in drinking water can impair lung function. Doses of about 120 parts per billion of arsenic in… Read More ›
Art preserves skills despite onset of vascular dementia in ‘remarkable’ case of a Canadian sculptor
Contact: Susan Yellin s_yellin@rogers.com 416-789-4567 St. Michael’s Hospital TORONTO, Aug. 22, 2013—The ability to draw spontaneously as well as from memory may be preserved in the brains of artists long after the deleterious effects of vascular dementia have diminished their… Read More ›
A virus changes its stripes / human outbreak of eastern equine encephalitis
Contact: Jim Kelly jpkelly@utmb.edu 409-772-8791 University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Outbreak in Panama brought Latin America’s first human cases of eastern equine encephalitis In the summer of 2010, the eastern Panamanian province of Darien experienced a phenomenon that… Read More ›
Novel Chinese herbal medicine JSK improves spinal cord injury outcomes in rats
Contact: Daphne Watrin d.watrin@iospress.nl 31-206-883-355 IOS Press Findings published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience Amsterdam, NL, August 19, 2013 – A new study published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience demonstrates that Chinese herbal medicine Ji-Sui-Kang (JSK), given systemically for three… Read More ›
High BPA levels in children associated with higher risk of obesity and abnormal waist circumference
Contact: Mary F. Masson mfmasson@umich.edu 734-764-2220 University of Michigan Health System Effects of chemical used in products for kids like baby bottles, plastic toys examined in study published in Pediatrics Ann Arbor, Mich. — Children who have higher levels of… Read More ›
Eli Lilly ‘concerned’ by China bribery allegations
23 Aug 2013 SHANGHAI (AFP) US drugmaker Eli Lilly said it was “deeply concerned” about allegations it bribed Chinese doctors to prescribe its products, the latest accusations of malpractice by foreign firms in the country. A former Eli Lilly sales manager… Read More ›
The average American household is now earning LESS income than it did at the end of the Great Recession
Race, age, and geographic location all factor into how badly households have been hit by post-recession money woes Only householders aged 65-74 saw an increase in average income By Ap Reporter and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 16:04 EST, 22 August… Read More ›
Exclusive: Edward Snowden leaks reveal UK’s secret Middle-East internet surveillance base
EEV: Base has been Compromised Data-gathering operation is part of a £1bn web project still being assembled by GCHQ Duncan Campbell, Oliver Wright, James Cusick, Kim Sengupta Thursday, 22 August 2013 Britain runs a secret internet-monitoring station… Read More ›
10 American Foods That Are Banned in Other Countries
DNA / July 10, 2013 / : EEV: Re-Post Americans are slowly waking up to the sad fact that much of the food sold in the US is far inferior to the same foods sold in other nations. In… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 