Published: 11 Aug 2013 at 12.49 Online news: Computer Chinese Internet celebrities have been told to “promote virtues” by a leading official, state media said Sunday, after a singer sparked a free speech debate by venting about bombing government offices…. Read More ›
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White House presses for team of ‘nudge’ experts to sway American behavior
By Cheryl K. Chumley – The Washington Times Tuesday, July 30, 2013 The White House has kicked off several federal projects aimed at influencing how Americans react to certain policy reforms, going so far as to solicit behavior… Read More ›
Government launches program to Modify the Behavior of bureaucrats and citizens through clinical experimentation
Federal ‘nudge squad’ led by 20-something wunderkind gears up to change Americans’ behaviors – for our own good By David Martosko In Washington PUBLISHED: 14:00 EST, 30 July 2013 | UPDATED: 14:06 EST, 30 July 2013 Maya Shankar is… Read More ›
UK phone hacking scandal: arrests spread beyond Murdoch papers / Britain’s political elite by revealing close relations between ruling politicians and newspaper editors and owners.
Photo: EPA Police arrested four former editors from the Sunday Mirror tabloid on Thursday – the first journalists from a newspaper outside Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp to be detained in a phone hacking scandal that shocked Britain. Shares in Trinity… Read More ›
U.S. to give security services access to citizens’ financial data
Mar 14, 2013 05:58 Moscow Time The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has announced plans to allow special services access to financial data of all citizens who have accounts in the U.S.. This applies to both Americans and… Read More ›
California Seizes Guns as Owners Lose Right to Keep Arms
By Michael B. Marois and James Nash – Mar 12, 2013 Wearing bulletproof vests and carrying 40-caliber Glock pistols, nine California Justice Department agents assembled outside a ranch-style house in a suburb east of Los Angeles. They were looking for… Read More ›
School Confiscates Cupcakes Decorated with Toy Soldiers
Mar 7, 2013 By Todd Starnes A Michigan elementary school is defending its decision to confiscate a third-graders batch of homemade cupcakes because the birthday treats were decorated with plastic green Army soldiers. Casey Fountain told Fox News that the… Read More ›
Wal-Mart’s Nude Child Photo Policy Hits 9th : Lost Custody of daughters over photos developed at Wal Mart
By TIM HULL (CN) – A couple who briefly lost custody of their children after developing bath-time photos told the 9th Circuit that Wal-Mart should have disclosed its “unsuitable print policy.” Lisa and A.J. Demaree say they photographed their daughters,… Read More ›
Standard & Poor’s Sued by U.S. for Fake Ratings
By BARBARA LEONARD (CN) – Standard & Poor’s inflated its ratings of mortgage-backed securities, ignoring the inherent credit risks that brought the financial sector to its knees in 2008, the U.S. government says in Federal Court. Filed late… Read More ›
In a bizarre lawsuit, six people claim police ran an “unethical clinical trial,” getting them high on illegal drugs
EEV: It sounds unbelievable until you read the police testimony towards the bottom Cops Gave Out Dope for Experiment, Six Say By IULIA FILIP MINNEAPOLIS (CN) – In a bizarre lawsuit, six people claim police ran an “unethical clinical trial,”… Read More ›
University of Michigan ‘Catfished’ its own players to teach them dangers of social media (and, guess what, they received ‘wholly inappropriate’ replies)
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 14:20 EST, 1 February 2013 | UPDATED: 16:51 EST, 1 February 2013 The University of Michigan has revealed it ‘catfished’ its own athletes to teach them the dangers of social media. Michigan athletics director David… Read More ›
Forced contraception of Jewish Ethopian women is tip of global iceberg
A report claims Israel pressured women to reduce its poor black population. Reproductive rights need defending across the world Lisa Hallgarten guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 30 January 2013 06.58 EST The hands of an Ethiopian Jewish woman during ‘Sigd’ prayers in… Read More ›
Poison the well: Chinese city fails to report huge toxic leak, cuts off water to 1 million ” Residents were not notified of the spill for days “
Published: 6 January, 2013, 18:31 Edited: 6 January, 2013, 18:31 Authorities have cut off the water supply of over 1 million people in a northern Chinese city due to an industrial leak. Residents were not notified of the spill for… Read More ›
California judge rules assault wasn’t rape because woman wasn’t married
By: David Ferguson A California appeals court has overturned the rape conviction of a man charged with raping a sleeping woman, basing the decision on an 1872 law that does not protect unmarried women the same protections as those who… Read More ›
MontCo school suspends 6-year-old for pretend gunshot
December 29, 2012 | 8:00 pm Matt Connolly Examiner Staff Writer The Washington Examiner A Montgomery County elementary school student was suspended for a pretend gunshot a week after Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy… Read More ›
New York newspaper draws fire after publishing names and addresses of gun permit holders
World Dec. 27, 2012 – 03:10PM JST ( 8 ) NEW YORK — A New York newspaper has sparked outrage by publishing a detailed map with thousands of names and addresses of gun permit holders in the wake of the… Read More ›
BBC shuts down Thorn Tree travel forum on Lonely Planet website over ‘uncomfortable themes’
BBC strongly denied speculation discussions concerned paedophilia Andrew Johnson Wednesday 26 December 2012 The message that currently greets visitors on the Thorn Tree forum web page The commercial arm of the BBC has shut down its hugely popular forum for… Read More ›
News Corp. Hacked Computers in U.S. Ad Wars, Dial Soap Says: ” “Mr. Carlucci threatened to fire any News employee (‘concerned about doing the right thing’)”
DETROIT (CN) – Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. used Al Capone’s tactics and computer hacking to monopolize the market for promotions in 40,000 retail stores, and coupon inserts in “scores of newspapers nationwide,” the maker of Dial Soap claims in a… Read More ›
Maybe it’s time for a little human enhancement – Morally enhancing drugs added to our Water Supply
Sam de Brito Published: December 23, 2012 – 3:00AM ‘There’s something in the water.” That’s what we say when we observe a bunch of locals behaving in the same, odd way, but maybe it’s also the answer to… Read More ›
Sheldon Adelson Made Them Sterile, Security Guards Say
By NICK DIVITO LAS VEGAS (CN) – Two security guards for casino mogul Sheldon Adelson claim in court that they became sterile after being required to use an X-ray machine to inspect the billionaire’s daily mail. Vincent Burlingame… Read More ›
Judge overrules mother over cancer treatment for boy, 7: She just wanted another Expert Opinion
Doctor said highly likely that Neon Roberts would die withiin relatively short period’ without further surgery, but mother wanted more expert advice Brian Farmer Tuesday, 18 December 2012 A High Court judge today said a seven-year-old boy at the centre… Read More ›
Scotland Yard investigating allegations senior politicians abused children in the 1980s and used ‘connections’ to escape justice
Metropolitan Police’s child abuse investigation team have interviewed several adults who claim that they were sexually assaulted as children by MPs in a paedophile ring Martin Hickman Wednesday, 12 December 2012 Scotland Yard detectives are looking into allegations that senior… Read More ›
Politician threatens the Daily Telegraph if it exposes political corruption
The minister and a warning to the Telegraph before expenses story Maria Miller’s advisers warned The Daily Telegraph to consider the minister’s role in implementing the Leveson Report before this newspaper published details of her expenses. Maria Miller Photo: EPA By… Read More ›
Hollande accused of interfering with partner’s defamation case
French President’s letter defending Valerie Trierweiler in ‘love triangle’ law suit sparks fury Anne Penketh Monday, 10 December 2012 Valérie Trierweiler, the journalist partner of the French President, François Hollande, was back in the headlines today when a libel suit… Read More ›
Personhood: Causality of Modern Medicine
John Geyman Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine Posted: 12/06/2012 1:38 pm Even as we marvel at the latest advances in medical technology in this country, a dire and unacceptable consequence of these… Read More ›
Free statins with fast food could neutralize heart risk, scientists say
2010 report posted for filing Contact: Sam Wong sam.wong@imperial.ac.uk 44-020-759-42198 Imperial College London Fast food outlets could provide statin drugs free of charge so that customers can neutralize the heart disease dangers of fatty food, researchers at Imperial College London… Read More ›
Egyptian high court on Wednesday sentenced to death US pastor Terry Jones for burning copies of the Koran
Egypt: Court sentences Terry Jones to death over burnt Koran Death penalty also for 6 Copts in U.S. over anti-Mohammed film 28 November, 14:01 (ANSAmed) – Cairo, November 28 – An Egyptian high court on Wednesday sentenced to death US… Read More ›
Egyptian Christians sentenced to death for Islam film
A Cairo court on Wednesday sentenced to death seven Egyptian Christians tried in absentia for participating in an anti-Islam video that was released on the Internet in September and prompted violent protests in Muslim countries. “The seven accused persons were… Read More ›
Morsi decree makes him Egypt’s ‘new pharaoh’ say critics
‘A major blow to the revolution’ says ElBaradei as president hands himself sweeping new powers LAST UPDATED AT 10:05 ON Fri 23 Nov 2012 EGYPTIAN reformists who risked their lives to overthrow the Hosni Mubarak regime last year have reacted… Read More ›
Human Obedience: The Myth of Blind Conformity – followership, results from identifying with authorities who represent vicious acts as virtuous
“Decent people participate in horrific acts not because they become passive, mindless functionaries who do not know what they are doing, but rather because they come to believe — typically under the influence of those in authority — that what… Read More ›
Prisoners to get the vote regardless, Government human rights adviser says: European Court overrules British Sovereignty
Prisoners will get the vote regardless of David Cameron’s concerns, according to a Government human rights adviser. Lord Lester, a leading member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights as well as the Bill of Rights Commission, told The Daily… Read More ›
Kuwait detains Twitter users for insulting emir
By Agence France-Presse Sunday, November 18, 2012 20:44 EST Kuwait’s public prosecution on Sunday ordered the detention of four Twitter users for 10 days for allegedly insulting the ruler of the oil-rich Gulf state, a rights group said. The four… Read More ›
Paris wants to ban old cars – Old being pre-1997
Paris wants to ban old carsDebate over proposal to ban pre-1997 cars from city centre. Sun, Nov 18, 2012 Reuters PARIS: Some of the most famous cars in French motoring history would be banned from Paris under a law intended… Read More ›
Attorneys: Obama’s ‘secret’ cyber security law may allow ‘military deployment within the U.S.’
By Stephen C. Webster Thursday, November 15, 2012 11:54 EST The White House on Wednesday receieved a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request (PDF link) from two attorneys with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), demanding that President Barack Obama… Read More ›
U.S. Copyright Surveillance Machine About To Be Switched On, Promises of Transparency Already Broken
The “Copyright Alert System” – an elaborate combination of surveillance, warnings, punishments, and “education” directed at customers of most major U.S. Internet service providers – is poised to launch in the next few weeks, as has been widely reported. The… Read More ›
Kosovo Prime Minister owns Harem with 52 slaves
*Engineering Evil: Wow, I would really like double confirmation on this. Tuesday, 13 November 2012 A Ukraining woman who managed to escape from what she called “World’s hell hole” gave an interview with details about Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hasim Thaci… Read More ›
A huge database containing the personal details of around eight million schoolchildren is being created without parents’ knowledge, it emerged today.
Warning over secret database featuring 8m children A new database created by Capita features the personal details of 8m schoolchildren, it has emerged. Photo: PA <!– remove the whitespace added by escenic before end of tag –> By Graeme Paton,… Read More ›
Court to consider whether soldiers have ‘right to life’
Britain’s highest court is to debate whether soldiers in battle are entitled to the right to life under human rights legislation. Private Phillip Hewett died with 2 other soldiers when their armoured Land-Rover vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb…. Read More ›
Photographic evidence of men abusing boys in care homes ‘deliberately destroyed’ : North Wales paedophile scandal
8 Nov 2012 23:00 A worker at a council where two investigations were carried out into abuse says victim’s photos were ordered to be destroyed. Revelations: Sian Griffiths Channel 4 Photographs of men abusing boys in the North Wales… Read More ›
Fears for civil liberties as Apple patents technology that could remotely disable protesters’ smartphones
Technology would broadcast a signal to automatically shut down smartphone features, or even the entire phone Apple claims it would most likely be used to prevent copyright theft or to guarantee privacy in sensitive areas Civil liberties campaigners fear it… Read More ›
USA Leads the pack as world’s most indebted country
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Ohio Vote Challenged Already
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CN) – A voter wants Secretary of State Jon Husted enjoined from using Election Systems & Software voting machines today, claiming a “back door” in its hardware will allow tampering with results, in Federal Court…. Read More ›
Can Judge Set Abortion for Mentally Disabled?
By NICK DIVITO CARSON CITY, Nev. (CN) – A Washoe County judge says he has the authority to order an abortion for a mentally disabled and epileptic woman, against the wishes of her Catholic parents. The 32-year-old… Read More ›
Kuwait warns against unlicensed protest planned for Sunday
Kuwait said on Saturday it had not issued a permit to allow a planned protest against new voting rules and the prime minister warned police would use force if the nation was under threat. Kuwait outlawed unauthorized gatherings of more… Read More ›
The Saudis are bulldozing Islam’s heritage. Why the silence from the Muslim world?
By Damian ThompsonWorldLast updated: November 2nd, 2012 Modern Mecca, courtesy of the House of Saud (Photo: AFP/Getty) From Saturday’s Daily Telegraph Imagine that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem – the traditional site of the crucifixion… Read More ›
Armed Forces on stand-by to man prisons in case of strike
British service personnel are on standby to step in for prison and probation officers amid fears of an illegal strike by trade unions over the privatisation of prisons, the Daily Telegraph can disclose. A Ministry of Justice spokesman said last… Read More ›
New Jersey kicks out Sandy volunteers because they aren’t unionized
Published: 2 November, 2012, 19:07 Edited: 2 November, 2012, 19:07 Utility workers from across the US are descending on the Northeastern states left ravaged by Superstorm Sandy, but some volunteers making the trek are being told they can’t pitch… Read More ›
Barclays traders rigged American electricity prices to boost their own profits and bragged about it in damning e-mails
Critics said the expletive-ridden correspondence provides further evidence of the ‘rotten culture of casino banking’ that built up under Bob Diamond Bank faces $470million fine for allegedly manipulating energy market in US By James Salmon PUBLISHED:21:09 EST, 1 November 2012|… Read More ›
Pakistani couple kill daughter who talked to a boy
A Pakistani couple killed their teenage daughter by pouring acid on her face and body after they caught her talking to a boy, police and a doctor said on Thursday. The parents of the 16-year-old confessed to police in Kotli,… Read More ›
Canada lawmakers ban masks at protests
By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, October 31, 2012 21:23 EDT Topics: black bloc ♦ Blake Richards ♦ massive student protests OTTAWA — Parliament passed a ban on wearing masks at riots that punishes violations with up to 10 years behind bars… Read More ›
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