A paramilitary policeman stands guard next to flags ahead of the opening ceremony of the National People’s Congress (NPC) at Tiananmen Square in Beijing March 5, 2013. AFP Tuesday, Mar 19, 2013 BEIJING – Authorities in China are hunting a… Read More ›
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Cyprus rescue in chaos as MPs reject bail-out
Nation could face bankruptcy within weeks after terms of £10bn package are voted down Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, Nathalie Savaricas Tuesday, 19 March 2013 Cyprus stood on the brink of bankruptcy tonight after its parliamentarians voted down a bailout deal that would… Read More ›
Securities arbitration lawyers cannot access regulatory records on the oversight of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, a federal judge ruled
SEC Doesn’t Have to Give Lawyer Group the Goods By WILLIAM DOTINGA WASHINGTON (CN) – Securities arbitration lawyers cannot access regulatory records on the oversight of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, a federal judge ruled. The Public… Read More ›
Pharaoh jinx: Egyptian preacher warns of TV ‘magicians’
Mar 18, 2013 17:41 Moscow Time © Photo: ru.wikipedia.org A prominent Islamic preacher has warned Egyptians against watching TV news, saying they were broadcast by “Pharaoh’s magicians.” In this week’s sermon, Safwat Hegazy condemned Egyptian dailies and magazines that had… Read More ›
Nowhere to run or hide from America’s ‘financial Nazism’
EEV: There is some hidden irony here 😉 – Max Keiser, the host of RT’s ‘Keiser Report,’ is a former stockbroker, the inventor of virtual specialist technology and co-founder of the Hollywood Stock Exchange. – Published time: March 15,… Read More ›
Obama couldn’t eat at Hill meeting without food ‘taster’
March 14, 2013 WASHINGTON — Following President Obama’s lunch meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill, Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins described the food served and said the president was not able to eat since his “taster” was not present…. Read More ›
Turkey: Italian archaeologists find Gate to the Underworld
In the ancient city of Hieropolis, in Phrygia 15 March, 19:46 (ANSAmed) – ANKARA, MARCH 14 – An Italian archaeological mission has found the historical Gate to the Underworld of the ancient Phrygian city of Hierapolis. The announcement was… Read More ›
Man who set fire in U.S. nuclear sub gets 17-year sentence: “caused as much as $500 million in damages “
Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:41 GMT Reuters By Sarah Mahoney PORTLAND, Maine, March 15 (Reuters) – A civilian painter who twice set fires on a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine last year so that he could get out of work early… Read More ›
Friend or foe: Babies choose sides early
Contact: Basil Waugh basil.waugh@ubc.ca 604-822-2048 University of British Columbia Babies have a dark side under their cute exteriors, according to University of British Columbia-led study that finds infants as young as nine months embrace those who pick on individuals who… Read More ›
Denied the chance to cheat or steal, people turn to violent video games
EEV: Oh, Really? Contact: Brad Bushman Bushman.20@osu.edu 614-688-8779 Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study suggests that people get frustrated when they are offered the opportunity to cheat or steal and that chance is then taken away… Read More ›
The Bermuda Triangle of Space: The High-Energy South Atlantic Anomaly Threatens Satellites
<!—-> Mar. 12, 2013 – 06:16PM | By JIM HODGES | Much fanfare accompanied the Sept. 25, 2010, launch of the Air Force’s Space Based Space Surveillance satellite. The $833 million craft was finally going up to do its job:… Read More ›
Saudi Arabia may stop public beheadings… due to a shortage of swordsmen
The Gulf kingdom beheaded 69 people in 2012, says Human Rights Watch Rape, murder, armed robbery and drug trafficking all punishable by death By Sarah Johnson PUBLISHED: 04:13 EST, 11 March 2013 | UPDATED: 06:24 EST, 11 March 2013 … Read More ›
Bizarre Complaint Against L.A.-Area School
By MATT REYNOLDS SAN BERNARDINO (CN) – A Los Angeles-area school district refused to discipline an elementary teacher who stuck a “long object” up a boy’s rectum while telling him “good boys don’t cry,” the mother… Read More ›
Russia admits no new life form found in Antarctic lake
By Agence France-Presse Saturday, March 9, 2013 14:18 EDT Russian scientists on Saturday dismissed initial reports that they had found a wholly new type of bacteria in a mysterious subglacial lake in Antarctica. Sergei Bulat of the genetics laboratory… Read More ›
Unknown class of bacteria found under ice crust of Antarctic lake
Update: https://engineeringevil.com/2013/03/10/russia-admits-no-new-life-form-found-in-antarctic-lake/ Mar 7, 2013 16:17 Moscow Time © Photo: ru.wikipedia.org Tests of water samples from Antarctica’s Lake Vostok have yielded a completely new class of bacteria, a Russian scientist has told reporters. The frozen samples were brought up from… Read More ›
Cancer: “epidemic” among anti-US Latin American leaders?
EEV: Interesting to see how it is seen from the other side. John Robles Mar 8, 2013 01:26 Moscow Time Photo: EPA Before his death during many public speeches Hugo Chavez called cases of cancer among presidents throughout Latin America… 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 ›
Chinese general who threatened US with nuclear strike is Pentagon’s guest of honor
Published time: March 06, 2013 01:39 AFP Photo A Chinese general who once threatened to nuke the US is visiting Washington this week as part of a military exchange program with the Pentagon. The Pentagon’s collaboration with Major Gen…. Read More ›
How Dare You Be Quiet in Class? “peaceful protests are against district policy,”
By JOE HARRIS (CN) – A Florida student sued her high school, claiming it tried to bully her into abstaining from an anti-bullying Day of Silence, and suspended her for keeping her mouth shut. Amber Hatcher sued the DeSoto County… Read More ›
US calls on UN to bar drunken diplomats from budget negotiations
05 Mar 2013 UNITED NATIONS (AFP) The United States called for drunk diplomats to be barred from United Nations’ budget negotiations. Annual talks on how much the global body spends have become increasingly tense as western nations call for spending cuts…. Read More ›
Mars has Front-Row Seat for 2014 Comet
Comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1), discovered in January and now inbound from the Oort Cloud, promises to put on a spectacular show in October 2014 — for the spacecraft on and around Mars. . We’re just a couple weeks away… Read More ›
Mars Could Be Hit By Comet C/2013 A1 With Billion-Megaton Impact / Will show brighter than a full moon
Huffington Post UK | By Michael Rundle Posted: 04/03/2013 09:53 GMT | Updated: 04/03/2013 10:12 GMT Mars could be hit by a comet with the power of a billion megatons in 2014, astronomers have said. The comet C/2013 A1 was discovered earlier… Read More ›
Mars could be hit by comet next year – ” solar system may be left without Mars / collision is very likely “
– Mar 4, 2013 21:37 Moscow Time Margarita Bogatova, Alexei Lyakhov © Photo: SXC.hu The solar system may be left without Mars as experts predict that comet C/2013 A1 measured at about 50 km in diameter will hit the planet… Read More ›
Obama taps Walmart Foundation chief to lead budget office : Burwell, a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations
By Stephen C. Webster Sunday, March 3, 2013 20:22 EST President Barack Obama will nominate on Monday Sylvia Matthews Burwell, current chair of the Walmart Foundation, to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a senior official told CNN on… Read More ›
Face values: Ability to recognize emotions in others impaired by AIDS
Contact: Hilary Glover hilary.glover@biomedcentral.com 44-020-319-22370 BioMed Central People with HIV are less able to recognise facial emotion than non-infected people finds a study published in the launch edition of BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Psychology. Reduction in their ability… Read More ›
Unidentifed Object Impacted Russian Meteorite
EEV: Attempting to find a non biased video in regards to the topic.
FedEx delivered 7 lbs. of marijuana to the wrong house, then told the dopers where to go to pick it up, a single mom and her young daughters claim in court
World-Class Screw-up at FedEx, Mom Says By KEVIN KOENINGER PLYMOUTH, Mass. (CN) – FedEx delivered 7 lbs. of marijuana to the wrong house, then told the dopers where to go to pick it up, a single… Read More ›
John Kerry: Americans have the right to be stupid
Tuesday, 26 February 2013 ‘In America, you have a right to be stupid, if you want to be… and we tolerate that,’ Kerry said to a packed Internet cafe in Berlin. Kerry stopped in Berlin as part of his nine-country… Read More ›
Bank of England mulls negative interest rates
Deputy Governor floats plan that could mean new charges for customers Ben Chu Tuesday, 26 February 2013 People across Britain could see their savings hit or face new charges on their current accounts after a senior official at the Bank… Read More ›
Bristol-Myers Squibb need not face claims related to 24 New Jersey residents who died after alleged exposure to toxic substances from the pharmaceutical giant
Bristol-Myers Fends Off Suit Over Toxic Deaths By ROSE BOUBOUSHIAN (CN) – Bristol-Myers Squibb need not face claims related to 24 New Jersey residents who died after alleged exposure to toxic substances from the pharmaceutical giant, a federal judge ruled…. Read More ›
Wanted: Students to take cocaine – University asks for volunteers to take drugs for study
The email specifies that potential participants must be: ‘Fit and well, have no past medical history and not be users of recreational drugs’ Rob Williams Friday, 22 February 2013 A prestigious London university has asked for volunteers to take part… Read More ›
The ‘leftover’ women: China defines official age for females being left on the shelf as 27
Millions of women say they have been thrown on the scrap heap Chinese government worries that unmarried men could cause social havoc By Peter Simpson PUBLISHED: 09:04 EST, 21 February 2013 | UPDATED: 09:13 EST, 21 February 2013 The derogatory… Read More ›
Mayor of small city was ‘too stupid and uneducated’ to know his $100k salary was illegal, his lawyer argues
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 20:21 EST, 21 February 2013 | UPDATED: 20:26 EST, 21 February 2013 The former mayor of Bell, California, was too stupid and uneducated to know his $100,000 salary for the part-time city job was … Read More ›
Egypt wants extradition of former PM
Feb 21, 2013 20:36 Moscow Time Photo: EPA Egypt’s Prosecutor-General Office has requested that the Interpol arrest and extradite Egypt’s former prime minister and presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, news reports said on Thursday. The decision comes two days after Shafiq… Read More ›
One in ten of us has done no exercise in a decade and abandons trying altogether aged 56
Twenty-one per cent say the last time they were physically active was at school, college and university The typical Brit has given up doing any form of exercise by the age of 56 Report carried out by charity British Heart … Read More ›
Iran confiscates Buddha statues in crackdown on ‘cultural invasion’
Officials reportedly seizing statues from shops in Tehran to stop the promotion of Buddhism Associated Press in Tehran guardian.co.uk, Sunday 17 February 2013 08.32 EST A Buddha statue in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photograph: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images Buddha statues have… Read More ›
Ultranationalist politician suggests 10-tonne meteorite was in fact a new American weapon
Hundreds hurt in Russia after meteorite falls to Earth Howard Amos in Moscow The Guardian, Friday 15 February 2013 15.53 EST Galina Zaglumyonova was woken in her flat in central Chelyabinsk by an enormous explosion that blew in the balcony… Read More ›
England’s dire record on language learning laid bare in international study ( Can you spot the spelling Error ? )
EEV: We all make silly mistakes, but this one is just so Ironic I can’t resist ( Obviously a Typo ) . Please be Kind to the Independent. They are one of the best publications out there. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/englands-dire-record-on-language-learning-laid-bare-in-international-study-8497038.html
Meteorite hits Russian Urals: Fireball explosion wreaks havoc, up to 500 injured
Published: 15 February, 2013, 08:36 Edited: 15 February, 2013, 13:07 Russia’s Urals region has been rocked by a meteorite explosion in the stratosphere. The impact wave damaged several buildings, and blew out thousands of windows amid frigid winter weather. Hundreds… Read More ›
Meteorite crash in Russia: UFO fears spark panic in the Urals (VIDEO, PHOTOS) Update ? Military Claims Intercepted the Meteor ?
EEV: Raw Footage Linked Here: https://engineeringevil.com/2013/02/14/russian-meteor-raw-footage/ Published: 15 February, 2013, 08:36 Edited: 15 February, 2013, A series of explosions in the skies of Russia’s Urals region, reportedly caused by a meteor shower, has sparked panic in three major cities. Witnesses… Read More ›
Saint Valentine: Egyptian Salafists say it’s a sin
Anyone in red or giving heart-shaped balloons is going to hell 14 February, 18:23 (ANSAmed) – CAIRO, FEBRUARY 14 – Saint Valentine’s is a Christian feast and therefore ”haram”, a sin, according to Egypt’s main Salafist movements. Jamaa Islamiya and… Read More ›
Facial Structure May Predict Endorsement of Racial Prejudice
February 13, 2013 For Immediate Release Contact: Anna Mikulak Association for Psychological Science 202.293.9300 amikulak@psychologicalscience.org The structure of a man’s face may indicate his tendency to express racially prejudiced beliefs, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of… Read More ›
Satire: How Europeans see the US
EEV: Alright I will link the other NON PC one also… Monday, 11 February 2013 http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/22687/55/
Satire: How Americans see Europe
EEV: I am a Proud U.S. Citizen, but I can’t help but laugh at this. Monday, 11 February 2013 http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/22686/55/
An arachnophobe’s worst nightmare? It’s ‘raining spiders’ in Brazil
‘Social spider’ species is known for its ‘sheet webs’ James Legge Saturday 09 February 2013 In scenes which will haunt anyone with an aversion our eight-legged friends, hundreds of spiders have begun dangling from telegraph poles in the southern Brazilian… Read More ›
Horse meat found in British supermarkets ‘may be donkey’
John Lichfield Sunday, 10 February 2013 A law banning horses from Romanian roads may be responsible for the surge in the fraudulent sale of horse meat on the European beef market, a French politician said today. Horse-drawn carts were… Read More ›
Ex-White House doctor: Chris Christie yelled at me over the phone over health concerns
By Arturo Garcia Friday, February 8, 2013 14:49 EST The former White House physician who said she was concerned over New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s (R) health should he become president suggested on Thursday that Christie called and lashed… Read More ›
New health guidelines: no birthday cake candles allowed for Australian children
Posted By Caroline May On 5:29 PM 02/07/2013 @ 5:29 PM In DC Exclusives,DC Exclusives – Blurb,Uncategorized,World | No Comments New child-care guidelines from Australian health officials will make blowing out candles on birthday cakes a thing of the past… Read More ›
‘Close’ encounters of the asteroid kind: 130,000 ton asteroid to make closest ever fly-by of Earth: “within 32,000km of earth”
2012 DA14 asteroid pass within 32,000km of earth, inside the orbit of communication satellites Rob Williams Monday, 4 February 2013 A chunk of space rock 50 metres wide, weighing 130,000 tonnes and travelling at 17,400mph is set to make its… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 