05:36 14.03.2015(updated 05:38 14.03.2015) About three quarters of Chinese believe that their military could best both that of Japan and the United States, according to a recent opinion poll. When asked whether the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) could wrest… Read More ›
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Billion-Dollar Penalty for Bank’s Money Washing
By ADAM KLASFELD MANHATTAN (CN) – Commerzbank must pay $1.45 billion to five state and federal regulators for facilitating Iran and the Sudan’s laundering of money, as well as helping the Japanese optics manufacturer Olympus pull off a… Read More ›
‘Sugar papers’ reveal industry role in 1970s dental program
Public Release: 10-Mar-2015 “they noted that the sugar industry’s current position remains that public health should focus on fluoride toothpaste, dental sealants and other ways to reduce the harm of sugar, rather than reducing consumption. “ University of California –… Read More ›
Geopolitical Situation Most Dangerous Since WWII – Rothschild
18:52 07.03.2015(updated 19:02 07.03.2015) Lord Rothschild characterized the geopolitical situation in the world as the most dangerous since the end of WWII, warning investors about a forthcoming crisis. Lord Rothschild has warned about the dark cloud on the horizon… Read More ›
Millions of modern men found to be descendants of 11 Asian dynastic leaders
Public Release: 9-Mar-2015 University of Leicester researchers discover that many modern men have genetic links to ancient figures such as Genghis Khan University of Leicester Study suggests that millions of modern Asian men are descended from 11 ancient leaders, including… Read More ›
Source: ISIS executes a person who videotaped unidentified aircraft landing brought aid to terrorists
Sunday, 22 February 2015 13:28 Shafaq News / A security source in Diyala said that ISIS terrorists have executed a citizen while trying to videotape an unidentified helicopter landing in one of the northern agricultural villages of Muqdadiyah through ISIS control… Read More ›
Russian Military Unveils Revolutionary Electronic Warfare System
© Flickr/ Dmitry Terekhov MILITARY & INTELLIGENCE 15:31 04.03.2015(updated 15:37 04.03.2015) 9080491 Russia’s new Richag-AV radar and sonar jamming system can be mounted on helicopters, ships and other military equipment to jam potential adversaries’ weapons systems from distances of several… Read More ›
Russian Bombers Interrupt Commercial Flights in Irish Airspace – Transponders were switched off
© Sputnik/ Jakutyn EUROPE 06:35 04.03.2015(updated 11:09 04.03.2015) 3963250 Services of several commercial aircraft were interrupted by two Russian bombers that flew just off the coast of Ireland, according to the Irish Examiner. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Services of several commercial… Read More ›
US spends more on cancer care, saves fewer lives than Western Europe
Public Release: 2-Mar-2015 Dartmouth study finds costly US cancer care may provide less value than previously thought Despite sharp increases in spending on cancer treatment, cancer mortality rates in the United States have decreased only modestly since 1970, Samir Soneji,… Read More ›
Suicide rates increase by 40% in older US adults
PUBLIC RELEASE: 27-FEB-2015 Rates for 40-64 year-olds may be increasing due to financial circumstances, according to American Journal of Preventive Medicine ELSEVIER HEALTH SCIENCES Ann Arbor, MI, February 27, 2015 — Suicide rates for adults between 40 and 64 years… Read More ›
Zombie outbreak? Statistical mechanics reveal the ideal hideout
PUBLIC RELEASE: 27-FEB-2015 To be presented at the 2015 APS March Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, March 5 AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY A team of Cornell University researchers focusing on a fictional zombie outbreak as an approach to disease modeling suggests… Read More ›
IS Jihadists destroy Ancient statues in Iraq
Thursday, 26 February 2015 The Islamic State (IS) group has released a video showing the destruction of statues in Iraq, the BBC reports. The video shows statues being smashed using sledgehammers in what appears to be a museum in… Read More ›
Education ‘experts’ may lack expertise, study finds
Public Release: 20-Feb-2015 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The people most often cited as “education experts” in blogs and news stories may have the backing of influential organizations – but have little background in education and education policy, a new study suggests…. Read More ›
Damascus livid after Turkey’s incursion onto Syrian soil, to salvage its relics and evacuate 40 Turkish soldiers who had been guarding them
Sunday, 22 February 2015 The Syrian government has said a Turkish incursion into the north of the country was an act of “flagrant aggression.” Damascus said it would hold Ankara responsible after they went into Syria to evacuate personnel and… Read More ›
Does dark matter cause mass extinctions and geologic upheavals?
Public Release: 19-Feb-2015 New York University Research by New York University Biology Professor Michael Rampino concludes that Earth’s infrequent but predictable path around and through our Galaxy’s disc may have a direct and significant effect on geological and biological phenomena… Read More ›
New insights into origins of the world’s languages
Public Release: 18-Feb-2015 Study by Berkeley linguists gives evidence that ‘Indo-European’ languages first emerged ca. 6500 years ago Linguists have long agreed that languages from English to Greek to Hindi, known as ‘Indo-European languages’, are the modern descendants of a… Read More ›
A close call of 0.8 light years
Astronomers identify the closest known flyby of a star to our solar system: A dim star that passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago University of Rochester Scholz’s Star during Its Flyby of the Solar System IMAGE: This is… Read More ›
A formula for predicting innovation
Public Release: 14-Feb-2015 By the time she was six years old, Nadya Bliss had already figured out her professional calling. She knew that one day she would be a mathematician. “I’m a geek at heart,” confesses Bliss, now the assistant… Read More ›
Data-storage for eternity, stored in the form of DNA
How can we preserve our knowledge today for the next millennia? Researchers have found a way to store information in the form of DNA, presumably preserving it for nearly an eternity. Scrolls thousands of years old provide us with a… Read More ›
Judge Tosses 16 Kilos of Meth Evidence
By CAMERON LANGFORD CORPUS CHRISTI (CN) – Sixteen kilos of methamphetamine the Border Patrol found in an SUV was struck from the record by a federal judge because the agents didn’t get the driver’s consent to X-ray the vehicle. After… Read More ›
BMJ investigation reveals network of links between public health scientists and sugar industry
Public Release: 11-Feb-2015 BMJ-British Medical Journal Public health scientists and a government committee working on nutritional advice receive funding from the very companies whose products are widely held to be responsible for the obesity crisis, an investigation by The BMJ… Read More ›
Clinton Foundation Donors Found to be Clients of Controversial Swiss Bank
BUSINESS 05:39 11.02.2015(updated 08:10 11.02.2015 As US prosecutors consider filing criminal charges against UK-based HSBC for aiding tax evaders, several major donors to a Clinton-family foundation are revealed to have ties to the bank’s controversial Swiss division. The Bill, Hillary… Read More ›
Chinese Hackers may of used the Anthem Data Breach as a back-door way to spy on U.S. defense officials, corporations and others, according to wire reports.
LOS ANGELES (CN) – Anthem Blue Cross allowed hackers to steal personal information from 80 million customers, a class action claims in Federal Court. Two such class actions were filed in Los Angeles Thursday and another in Birmingham, Ala. Federal… Read More ›
Do cops need college?
Public Release: 5-Feb-2015 Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. — A new study suggests college-educated cops are dissatisfied with the job, have negative views of their supervisors and don’t necessarily favor community policing, a strategy aimed partly at reducing the… Read More ›
Cocaine Suppressed for Language Glitch
Wednesday, February 04, 2015Last Update: 2:40 PM PT CORPUS CHRISTI (CN) – Eight kilos of cocaine the Border Patrol found in a car can’t be used as evidence because the driver didn’t know he could object to the search, a… Read More ›
NBC’s Brian Williams recants Iraq story after soldiers protest
‘I spent much of the weekend thinking I’d gone crazy. I feel terrible about making this mistake By Travis J. Tritten Stars and Stripes Published: February 4, 2015 WASHINGTON — NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday he was… Read More ›
Confidence in government linked to willingness to vaccinate
Public Release: 2-Feb-2015 Study looked at 2009 swine flu vaccine use in United States COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study suggests that confidence in government may play a key role in the public’s willingness to get at least some vaccines…. Read More ›
DoD Says it No Longer Has Exclusive Access to Most Breakthrough Technology
22:50 30.01.2015(updated 08:29 31.01.2015) Spokeswoman for the US Deputy Secretary of Defense says Pentagon no longer has exclusive access to the world’s cutting-edge military technologies. MOSCOW, January 30 (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov — The US Department of Defense no longer has… Read More ›
New Greek Govt Arrives in Residence – Finds No Power, No Wifi password, No Soap
Thursday, 29 January 2015 Things in Greece are bad. So bad, that the outgoing government of Antonis Samaras decided to not only leave the new inhabitants of the official residence of the Greek prime minister, the Maximos Mansion, without… Read More ›
When aid brings conflict, not relief
Public Release: 28-Jan-2015 University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences URBANA, Ill. – Although you might expect that providing aid to impoverished villages in the Philippines could only bring them relief, a University of Illinois study found… Read More ›
US Emergency Services to Depend On Russian Satellites?
18:24 22.01.2015(updated 18:41 22.01.2015) The US Federal Communications Commission is mulling routing 911 emergency location calls through Russia’s GLONASS satellite system. MOSCOW, January 22 (Sputnik) — Russia’s GLONASS precision navigation and timing satellite system may be used in the US… Read More ›
American liberals and conservatives think as if from different cultures
Public Release: 22-Jan-2015 University of Virginia Political conservatives in the United States are somewhat like East Asians in the way they think, categorize and perceive. Liberals in the U.S. could be categorized as extreme Americans in thought, categorization and perception…. Read More ›
What went wrong?
Peer-reviewed pocket-calculator climate model exposes serious errors in complex computer models and reveals that Man’s influence on the climate is negligible Science China Press IMAGE: This graph shows near-term global warming projections (brick-red region) on[0.13, 0.50] K decade-1, compared with observations… Read More ›
Four in 10 American children live in low-income families, new report shows
Public Release: 21-Jan-2015 Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health January 21, 2015 — Four out of every ten American children live in low-income families, according to new research from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia… Read More ›
Truth Matters: DxE Investigators Expose “Humane” Fraud at Whole Foods
Published on Jan 7, 2015 DxE investigators find shocking mistreatment of animals at a “humane” Whole Foods supplier…. and attempt to rescue a little hen named Mei from the brink of death. http://directactioneverywhere.com/
Holder Sets New Rules for Prosecuting Reporters
Thursday, January 15, 2015 WASHINGTON (CN) – Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday revised the Department of Justice’s policies on “questioning, arresting, or charging members of the news media.” In a 3-page Memorandum to all Department Employees, Holder said the… Read More ›
People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened
PUBLIC RELEASE: 15-JAN-2015 ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE Evidence from some wrongful-conviction cases suggests that suspects can be questioned in ways that lead them to falsely believe in and confess to committing crimes they didn’t actually commit. New research provides lab-based… Read More ›
People conform to the norm — even if the norm is a computer
PUBLIC RELEASE: 14-JAN-2015 Researchers explore the effect of journeying through the artificial, virtual world of video gaming Often enough it is human nature to conform. This tendency makes us follow the lead of computers, even if the machines give us… Read More ›
Govt fires employee who skipped work for 24 years – India
IndiaToday.in New Delhi, January 8, 2015 | UPDATED 22:17 IST An executive engineer at the Central Public Works Department was fired on Thursday after being absent from duty for more than 24 years. AK Verma was fired after last appearing… Read More ›
Expressing anger linked with better health in some cultures
Public Release: 7-Jan-2015 Association for Psychological Science In the US and many Western countries, people are urged to manage feelings of anger or suffer its ill effects — but new research with participants from the US and Japan suggests that… Read More ›
Navy Officer Admits He Took Bribes
SAN DIEGO (CN) – A Navy commander on Tuesday pleaded guilty to bribery, including accepting prostitutes and cash to give a defense contractor classified ship schedules and other internal Navy information. Commander Jose Luis Sanchez, 42, is the fifth of… Read More ›
One of America’s most famous lawyers, Alan Dershowitz, is being accused of having sex with an underage girl
Except letters from the Business Insider…. We reached out to Dershowitz for comment and will update this post if we hear back. The entire statement from Cassell and Edwards is included below: Out of respect for the court’s desire to… Read More ›
Prince Andrew named in child sex slave case
JANUARY 05, 2015 5:51AM Palace denies Andrew sex case claim BUCKINGHAM Palace has leapt to the defence of the Duke of York Prince Andrew after it was alleged in an American court he had had sex with an underage ‘sex… Read More ›
Monsanto and others conspired with an Army experiment to secretly poison people with toxic chemicals, a class action claims in City Court.
Requested Repost. Articles will be held at my sister site EVESDRIFT Army Poisoned People in ’50s, Class Claims By JOE HARRIS ST. LOUIS (CN) – Monsanto and others conspired with an Army experiment to secretly poison people with toxic chemicals… Read More ›
Pakistan captures two Indian fishing boats, 12 fishermen detained
IndiaToday.in New Delhi, January 4, 2015 | UPDATED 21:23 IST On December 31 night, Coast Guard intercepted a Pakistani fishing boat allegedly carrying explosives off the coast of Gujarat. )Four days after Coast Guard intercepted a Pakistani fishing boat allegedly… Read More ›
Transport Ministry says AirAsia QZ8501 was not allowed to fly route, airline’s license may be revoked
By Coconuts Jakarta January 3, 2015 / 17:53 WIB The AirAsia plane that crashed off Indonesia was flying on an unauthorised schedule, the country’s transport ministry has said, adding that it has now frozen the airline’s permission to fly the… Read More ›
Pakistan violates ceasefire again, fires on 13 border outposts
IndiaToday.in Jammu, January 1, 2015 | UPDATED 13:13 IST BSF had retaliated effectively to the Pakistani firing.AdTech AdBSF had retaliated effectively to the Pakistani firing.Pakistan rangers violated ceasefire on Thursday again by firing on 13 border outposts in Samba sector,… Read More ›
Radioactive Leak Reported at Ukraine’s Largest Nuclear Plant
Tuesday, 30 December 2014 A radioactive leak has been detected at Ukraine’s Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant, the largest in Europe, a media report says, citing the country’s emergency services. The report claims that levels of radiation are 16 times the… Read More ›
Boom! World’s Richest Add $92B in 2014
Tuesday, 30 December 2014 The 400 richest billionaires in the world added another $92 billion to their names in 2014 and now sit on assets worth $4.1 trillion, but Russia’s super-wealthy have been hit by economic problems resulting from the… Read More ›
Weapons Inventor Says U.S. Ripped Him Off “U.S. Gov’t asked (presumably in jest) whether Mr. Trunk is now required to ‘shoot himself’ since he is in possession of classified information”
By RYAN ABBOTT WASHINGTON (CN) – A man whose stealth technology and weapons inventions put him on the road to a Nobel Prize says the government declassified his patents to reap the rewards. Physicist and engineer Frank Trunk made the… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 