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Spy accused of sexual assault is granted anonymity for trial The MI6 secret service headquarters at Vauxhall Cross in central London Photo: PA By Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent 4:59PM BST 10 Oct 2012 The man, who is believed to work… Read More ›

U.S. Government warns ‘tens of thousands of car owners’ could be affected by counterfeit airbags from China that either fail to deploy, or explode with metal shrapnel

By Ralph Turchiano on October 10, 2012 • ( 2 )

Feds downplay number of vehicles affected, while reports says number is much higher Dozens of vehicle makes and models on list of cars with counterfeit air bags By John Clarke PUBLISHED:15:48 EST, 10 October 2012| UPDATED:17:37 EST, 10 October 2012… Read More ›

Florida governor accidentally gives out PHONE SEX number instead of meningitis hotline… as death toll rises to 12

By Daily Mail Reporter and Reuters Reporter PUBLISHED:17:14 EST, 10 October 2012| UPDATED:17:15 EST, 10 October 2012 Oops: Florida Gov Rick Scott accidentally gave out phone sex number instead of the state’s meningitis hotline Florida Gov Rock Scott sent thousands… Read More ›

Official chided for Senkaku remarks

By Ralph Turchiano on October 10, 2012 • ( 1 )

Enginnering Evil: This Rebukes the prior statement on the compromise with China… https://engineeringevil.com/2012/10/09/japan-may-acknowledge-chinas-claim-to-islets-to-calm-tension/ Kyodo The government has taken a lawmaker in the Cabinet to task for making controversial remarks on the Senkaku Islands, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said Wednesday…. Read More ›

Walmart worker strikes go viral, hitting 28 stores in 12 states

By Ralph Turchiano on October 10, 2012 • ( 2 )

By Stephen C. Webster Wednesday, October 10, 2012 14:16 EDT Topics: Walmart ♦ walmart stores ♦ workers Walmart workers who recently went on strike in Illinois and California appear to have inspired some of their fellow big box employees, and… Read More ›

Spain’s credit rating downgraded to near junk

S&P downgrades Spain’s credit rating Rating agency Standard & Poor’s has downgraded Spain’s credit rating by two notches, warning that the deepening economic recession is limiting the government’s options. <!– remove the whitespace added by escenic before end of tag… Read More ›

Should we decide which breed of humans to create?

By Ralph Turchiano on October 10, 2012 • ( 1 )

by: JULIAN SAVULESCU From: News Limited Network October 09, 201212:58PM Does chance need a helping hand when it comes to our children? Source: Supplied Today it is possible to create designer babies either by testing embryos, using pre-implantation… Read More ›

‘Hacking’ alleged ahead of Bumi showdown

Indonesian backers behind the FTSE 250’s troubled coal group Bumi have stoked tensions prior to Thursday’s board meeting by alleging phones and emails have been hacked. Bumi is investigating ‘potential financial irregularities’ at Bumi Resources By Emma Rowley 5:46PM BST… Read More ›

Chinese nationalists covet Okinawa

By Kelly Olsen National Oct. 10, 2012 – 04:15PM JST BEIJING — In a glass case at Beijing’s Imperial College, an 18th century book with a yellowed title page in bold, black characters is evidence—some Chinese say—that a swathe of modern-day… Read More ›

Francois Hollande ‘shared’ his mistress Valerie Trierweiler with Sarkozy minister

By Ralph Turchiano on October 10, 2012 • ( 1 )

Francois Hollande “shared” his mistress Valerie Trierweiler with a minister from Nicolas Sarkozy’s government in a Jules et Jim-style relationship, a new biography on France’s first lady claims. Supposedly Mr Devedjian hesitated so much that Trierweiler let herself to be… Read More ›

Turkey ‘forces Syrian plane to land in Ankara’

By Ralph Turchiano on October 10, 2012 • ( 1 )

Turkey has forced a Syrian passenger plane to land at Ankara airport, according to state media. Photo: ALAMY 7:22PM BST 10 Oct 2012 State-run TRT television said an Airbus A320 coming from Moscow was intercepted by F16 jets as it… Read More ›

FBI destroyed part of Hunter S. Thompson’s file

By Stephen C. Webster Tuesday, October 9, 2012 16:18 EDT Topics: FBI ♦ Hunter S. Thompson The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) admitted this week that portions of a detailed file on legendary outlaw journalist Hunter S. Thompson were destroyed… Read More ›

Dominique Strauss-Kahn: I was naive to think I could get away with orgies: “You’d be surprised who turned up to them”.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has broken his silence to admit he had been “naïve” to think he could get away with attending orgies, but added: “You’d be surprised who turned up to them”. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, formerly of the IMF Photo: REX <!–… Read More ›

U.S. officer got no reply to requests for more security in Benghazi

Tue, Oct 9 2012 By Susan Cornwell and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. security officer twice asked his State Department superiors for more security agents for the American mission in Benghazi months before an attack that killed the… Read More ›

Senior State Department officials publicly acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday that the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya that killed four Americans, including the ambassador, was not preceded by protests as previously thought.

New vivid account of deadly attack on U.S. embassy in Libya that reveals how security forces attempted to save Americans under fierce fire By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:22:24 EST, 9 October 2012| UPDATED:00:22 EST, 10 October 2012 Senior State Department… Read More ›

Top China delegate pulls out of IMF meet amid islands row

By Lesley WroughtonPosted 2012/10/09 at 11:13 pm EDT TOKYO, Oct. 9, 2012 (Reuters) — The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that China’s central bank governor will not lead the Chinese delegation at the IMF’s semi-annual meeting this week, in… Read More ›

TEPCO couldn’t get battery during Fukushima meltdown; went to hardware store the next day

National Oct. 10, 2012 – 07:15AM JST TOKYO — Recent tapes released have sent ripples across Japan’s news programs showing first-hand Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) handling of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Many were outraged over TEPCO management’s muddled communications… Read More ›

The map that Apple HAS to make blurred: Taiwanese government complains new maps app is revealing military secrets

By Ralph Turchiano on October 9, 2012 • ( 1 )

US bases also appear on the service in high resolution Google has ‘muzzed’ or distorted military installations By Mark Prigg PUBLISHED:14:51 EST, 9 October 2012| UPDATED:15:03 EST, 9 October 2012 After facing huge criticism for blurred maps, Apple has received… Read More ›

Mysterious Algorithm Generates 4% of Stock Trading Activity

Tuesday, 09 October 2012 A single mysterious computer program that placed orders — and then subsequently canceled them — made up 4 percent of all quote traffic in the U.S. stock market last week, according to the top tracker of… Read More ›

Super-sizing the soldier: Is obesity going to pose a huge recruiting problem?: At present, 62 percent of active duty military members over the age of 20 have a body mass index that falls into either the overweight or obese category

By Ralph Turchiano on October 9, 2012 • ( 2 )

Posted By Thomas E. RicksTuesday, October 9, 2012 – 10:22 AM By Jim Gourley Best Defense department of physical fitness and national security Obesity and weight-related health conditions have become a prevalent concern to American policy in the last decade…. Read More ›

Japan may ‘acknowledge’ China’s claim to islets to calm tension

By Ralph Turchiano on October 9, 2012 • ( 1 )

*Engineering Evil: Would like 2nd Confirmation on this claim, before validating it. .This article has now been updated…Please refer to the link https://engineeringevil.com/2012/10/10/official-chided-for-senkaku-remarks/ . Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 Kyodo Japan is considering plans to calm tensions with China by acknowledging that… Read More ›

Could CAPTCHAs get any more annoying? New PC test asks web users to take the ‘correct’ moral stance on civil rights issues

Examples drawn from breaches of United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Users must choose the one answer out of three that shows compassion and empathy By Damien Gayle PUBLISHED:09:06 EST, 9 October 2012| UPDATED:09:06 EST, 9 October 2012 A… Read More ›

We do not need an internet overlord: ITU is holding a meeting in December to decide whether it – and by implication, the United Nations – should take over the internet.

By Ralph Turchiano on October 8, 2012 • ( 1 )

9 October 2012 Chris Berg The internet should be kept free, not turned into a geopolitical plaything controlled by the United Nations, says Chris Berg. At first glance, the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union (ITU) seems benign. The agency helps… Read More ›

Obama campaign ‘may have violated federal election law by allowing foreign donors to funnel in cash via its website’: 68 percent foreign traffic (site was was bought by an Obama bundler in Shanghai, China)

By Toby Harnden In Washington PUBLISHED:17:00 EST, 8 October 2012| UPDATED:17:29 EST, 8 October 2012 A new report on foreign influences in American elections by the conservative Government Accountability Institute (GAI) has raised questions over whether the Obama campaign has… Read More ›

Research on enhanced transmissibility in H5N1 influenza: Should the moratorium end?

Public Release: 9-Oct-2012 Contact: Jim Sliwa jsliwa@asmusa.org 202-942-9297 American Society for Microbiology How can scientists safely conduct avian flu research if the results could potentially threaten, as well as save, millions of lives? In a series of commentaries appearing on… Read More ›

Molotov cocktail for kids: Tunisian children’s magazine publishes deadly recipe

By Ralph Turchiano on October 8, 2012 • ( 1 )

Published: 9 October, 2012, 03:21 Edited: 9 October, 2012, 03:23 A Tunisian children’s magazine “Kaws Kouzah” has recently published a detailed step-by-step instruction of how to make a Molotov cocktail. Now the periodical is facing a lawsuit for endangering kids… Read More ›

Halloween Spending Hikes Reveal Our Fascination With the Macabre

ScienceDaily (Oct. 8, 2012) — In the gloom of the economy, with scary unemployment figures, you might expect consumers to be hiding from Halloween in their darkened homes with the porch lights off. But a recent National Retail Federation survey… Read More ›

Africa can easily grow wheat to ease hunger, price shocks: study

By Ralph Turchiano on October 8, 2012 • ( 1 )

By Alister DoylePosted 2012/10/08 at 8:11 pm EDT OSLO, Oct. 8, 2012 (Reuters) — Wheat production in sub-Saharan Africa is at only 10 to 25 percent of its potential and nations can easily grow more to limit hunger, price shocks… Read More ›

Republican candidate Fuqua endorses death penalty for rebellious children

UPDATES: Republican candidate Fuqua endorses death penalty for rebellious children Posted by Max Brantley on Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:32 AM Remember former Republican legislator Charlie Fuqua, running again for legislature with financial support from the Arkansas Republican Party… Read More ›

Afghanistan ‘sliding towards collapse’

Afghan forces are far from ready to secure a country riddled with violence and corruption, Red Cross and thinktank warn Emma Graham-Harrison in Kabul guardian.co.uk, Monday 8 October 2012 13.39 EDT Afghan security forces at the site of a suicide attack… Read More ›

Selling ‘panic’ on France’s luxury property market as millionaires rush to flee looming tax hikes

More than 400 €1million homes put on the market in Paris since socialist Francois Hollande elected to power France’s super-rich are looking to relocate to ‘wealth-friendly’ countries like Britain Recruitment agency for high-paid banking jobs in London sees increase in… Read More ›

Recession pushes US birth rates to an all-time low

18:25 08 October 2012 by Sara Reardon It’s looking like a bad time to invest in the diaper industry. Birth rates in the US reached an all-time low in 2011. US fertility has been declining steadily since 2008, according… Read More ›

Turkish president says “worst case” unfolding in Syria

By Ralph Turchiano on October 8, 2012 • ( 1 )

3:34pm EDT By Hamdi Istanbullu GUVECCI, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Monday the “worst-case scenarios” were now playing out in Syria and Turkey would do everything necessary to protect itself, as its army fired back for… Read More ›

Russian beacon to track menacing asteroid Apophis

Monday, 08 October 2012 Russia’s space agency wants to send a mission to Apophis, the notorious asteroid which may change its course and eventually collide with Earth. It will plant a radio beacon, which will help track… Read More ›

Obama administration officials say there’s no point crafting detailed sequestration plans

Prepare for the Worst Oct. 7, 2012 – 04:14PM | By THE DEFENSE NEWS STAFF Obama administration officials say there’s no point crafting detailed sequestration plans, given it’s a crisis created by Congress that might never happen. But Pentagon… Read More ›

U.S. military aims to prevent suicides by taking soldiers’ private guns away from them

Pentagon and Congress to back policies encouraging the separation of at-risk soldiers from their private weapons Suicide rate among U.S. military staff rising again in 2012, almost half of those committed with personal firearm Likely to spark opposition from gun… Read More ›

Exclusive: Libya Cable Detailed Threats

By Ralph Turchiano on October 8, 2012 • ( 1 )

Eli Lake Oct 8, 2012 12:00 AM EDT In a dispatch sent the day he was killed, Ambassador Christopher Stevens described how the militias keeping the peace in Benghazi threatened to quit over a political feud. Eli Lake reports…. Read More ›

Debt crisis: ECB board member shuts door on Greek pleas for leniency: it would be illegal and “illogical”

Greece cannot have more time to repay its debt to the European Central Bank because it would be illegal and “illogical”, board member Joerg Asmussen has said, as he shut the door on pleas for leniency from the bank. Last… Read More ›

Greek crisis is ‘like the Weimar Republic’

By Ralph Turchiano on October 7, 2012 • ( 2 )

Greece is plunging into an economic and social crisis as desperate as Germany under the Weimar Republic, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras, has warned in an emotional appeal for leniency. Greece is plunging into an economic crisis as desperate… Read More ›

If Germany were to leave the euro, it would be better off

By Ralph Turchiano on October 7, 2012 • ( 1 )

Another week, another conference about the euro. This time it was in Singapore. Nevertheless, it was Germany that was uppermost in my mind, not least because several Singaporeans asked me why Germany doesn’t leave the euro. A worker walks by… Read More ›

Japan’s top 3 carmakers to halve Chinese output

Business Oct. 08, 2012 – 02:14PM JST( 2 ) TOKYO — Japan’s top three carmakers will halve production in China following a sales slump there sparked by a backlash over a territorial row between Tokyo and Beijing, a report said… Read More ›

Monument to eighth-century Japanese envoy to Tang Dynasty vandalized in Xian amid Senkaku Islands flareup

Monday, Oct. 8, 2012 Kyodo XIAN, China — A stone monument dedicated to an eight-century Japanese envoy to the Tang Dynasty in the ancient Chinese city of Xian has been vandalized with paint, a Kyodo News reporter confirmed Sunday. The… Read More ›

Huawei, ZTE Give China Opportunity to Spy, Report Says: provides “special network services” to an entity the former employee believes is an“elite cyber-warfare unit” within the Chinese army

By Ralph Turchiano on October 7, 2012 • ( 1 )

By Eric Engleman on October 07, 2012 Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. (000063), China’s two largest phone-equipment makers, provide opportunities for Chinese intelligence services to tamper with U.S. telecommunications networks for spying, according to a congressional report to be… Read More ›

Enter Detroit at your own risk: Police issue shocking warning to baseball fans

By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:19:11 EST, 7 October 2012| UPDATED:19:54 EST, 7 October 2012 Police officers in Detroit greeted football fans attending Saturday night’s Tigers game with a shock warning: ‘Enter Detroit at Your Own Risk.’ To protest against plans … Read More ›

Chinese telecom giants Huawei and ZTE pose a security threat to the United States …

By Ralph Turchiano on October 7, 2012 • ( 1 )

China telecom giants threaten US: Congress panel ZTE Executive Vice President, He Shiyou, pictured in February. Chinese telecom giants … By Rob Lever | AFP News – 11 minutes ago Chinese telecom giants Huawei and ZTE pose a security… Read More ›

Reprogramming of Pericyte-Derived Cells of the Adult Human Brain into Induced Neuronal Cells

Reprogramming of somatic cells into neurons provides a new approach toward cell-based therapy of neurodegenerative diseases (Vierbuchen and Wernig, 2011). Previous studies have shown that postnatal astroglia from the mouse cerebral cortex can be directly converted into functional neuronal cells… Read More ›

America’s top export in 2011 was . . . fuel?