George Tsunis should have Googled ‘Norway’ before his Senate hearing. Right about now Obama is wishing he hadn’t nominated George Tsunis to be the next ambassador to Norway. Why? Partly because he doesn’t know really basic things about Norway… Read More ›
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Dwarf Planet in Our asteroid belt may have more fresh water than is present on all of Earth
Dwarf planet Ceres is located in the main asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, as illustrated in this artist’s conception. January 22, 2014 Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water… Read More ›
Revealed: Two armed officers took unannounced breaks just MINUTES before a shooter opened fire in LAX in November
Two armed officers didn’t tell their dispatcher that they were going on breaks, new details from the investigation reveal Paul Ciana walked into LAX’s Terminal 3 minutes later and took an assault rifle out of his bag and started firing,… Read More ›
US Army Studying Replacing Thousands of Grunts with Robots
Jan. 20, 2014 – 04:21PM | By PAUL McLEARY A US soldier drops an unmanned ground vehicle over a wall during an exercise at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., in 2010. (US Army) WASHINGTON — The postwar, sequestration-era US Army is… Read More ›
Harsh wind hits Norwegian bay so suddenly that thousands of fish are flash-frozen
– The huge shoal of herring were swimming too close to the surface when the water suddenly froze around them, completely stopping them in their tracks and creating the incredible sight. – The incredible image was captured from the tiny… Read More ›
Is a mini ice age on the way? Scientists warn the Sun has ‘gone to sleep’ and say it could cause temperatures to plunge
2013 was due to be year of the ‘solar maximum’ Researchers say solar activity is at a fraction of what they expect Conditions ‘very similar’ a time in 1645 when a mini ice age hit By Mark Prigg UPDATED: 19:13… Read More ›
‘Vegetarians are rapists’: Shocking Facebook posts of U.S. diplomat and his embassy worker wife expelled in slave maid row deepen rift with India
Wayne May and his wife Alicia Muller May were effectively deported last week by Indian authorities The move was apparently in retaliation for the U.S. expulsion of Indian envoy Devyani Khobragade in December But the outrageous comments have only just… Read More ›
Fun With Genetic Engineering: Why Letting Students Tinker With Microorganisms Is Good For Education And Society
Posted: 01/14/2014 1:26 pm By Charles Gersbach, Assistant Professor, and Tom Katsouleas, Dean, Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering Elaborate competitions to build the best robot or design cages to protect falling eggs have been a rite of passage for… Read More ›
Who owns the Moon?
Friday, 10 January 2014 A planetary scientist has said there is a case for developing a United Nations treaty about the moon, which currently states it cannot be owned. No one legally owns the moon but there is a case… Read More ›
Could LSD cut crime? Psychedelic drugs prevent criminals from re-offending, claims study
LSD could help reform criminals under community correction supervision Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, conducted the research Previous studies suggest the drugs could be used to treat alcohol addiction… Read More ›
Christie’s Bridge Scandal Denials Haven’t Placated Feds
– He said that the controversy made him lose two nights of sleep, even though the revelations only have been public for one day – “This can’t have anything to do with politics,” Christie said. “I don’t even know this… Read More ›
From Hollywood stars demanding cocaine to waterboarding terror suspects: The CIA’s top lawyer tells all in a new book about his three decades at the intelligence agency
John Rizzo, the former CIA acting attorney general, has written a book about his 33 years at the nation’s top spy agency He was nominated to be the General Counsel in 2007 by President Bush but it was denied because… Read More ›
New high-tech bullet GROWS in mid-air, so you can’t miss your target [VIDEO]
Posted By Giuseppe Macri On 6:24 PM 01/07/2014 Advanced Ballistics Concepts has invented a new high-tech bullet engineered to greatly increase accuracy, which is set to debut at the Las Vegas SHOT show next week. The Mi-Bullet, or multiple impact… Read More ›
Apocalyptic supervolcanoes can suddenly explode ‘with no outside cause’
Published time: January 06, 2014 19:22 Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.(AFP Photo / Karen Bleier) Natural disasters, Science Scientists have discovered what causes cataclysm-inducing supervolcanoes to erupt, and the answer offers little reassurance. Their eruptions are caused by magma… Read More ›
Time travellers outsmart the NSA
No sign of them on the Internet – yet By Richard Chirgwin 6th January 2014 04:01 GMT If there are time travellers around, they’re being careful not to leave their fingerprints on the Internet. That’s the conclusion in a paper… Read More ›
Kim Jong-Un killed his ‘scum’ uncle by stripping him naked, throwing him into a cage and leaving him to be eaten alive by a pack of 120 starving dogs
A pack of 120 starving dogs were set on Jang Song Thaek and five aides Kim Jong-Un and 300 officials watched horrific execution Punishment, called ‘quan jue’, or execution by dogs, lasted an hour Uncle was accused of treachery and… Read More ›
Customs officials explain why they destroyed musician’s prized flutes
– claiming that they were “agricultural products.” – as they could have been carrying “exotic plant pathogens.” By Scott Kaufman Thursday, January 2, 2014 23:19 EST Thursday afternoon, U.S. customs officials responded to its employees’ destruction of 11 rare flutes… Read More ›
Our Safari through TOR – Espionage, Assasination, and Private Armies
EEV: Nothing Special Here . Just posting up a few Common easy to find TOR posts, for our Non TOR users. Often the media makes solicitations for subversive dealings appear unusual or uncommon, but they are not. I will post web page… Read More ›
What U.S. Politicians Have a “Chinese Dream” ?
EEV: While I am highly respectful of how the Chinese People. I am concerned as a U.S. Citizen how our leaders are folding so easy to the Chinese government’s increasing dominance. The subtle play of words from the Peoples Daily of our U.S. politicians China’s Dream is a… Read More ›
The thrifty terrorists: Receipts reveal how al-Qaida records every expense down to 60 cents for cake and a $1.60 pot of mustard
The extremists left more than 100 receipts in a building occupied by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb in Timbuktu earlier this year They assiduously tracked their cash flow, recording purchases as small as a single light bulb The often tiny… Read More ›
DNC sends email defending Obama from impeachment possibility
Posted By Patrick Howley On 7:11 PM 12/28/2013 The Democratic National Committee (DNC) sent out a paranoid email Saturday evening urging supporters to vote for Democrats so that Republicans can’t impeach President Obama. The email, subject line “Impeachment,” was sent… Read More ›
Man admits spitting at bus interchange, but claims it was only once
AsiaOne, Lianhe Wanbao Saturday, Dec 28, 2013 SINGAPORE – The odd-job worker accused of spitting at two women at a bus interchange has admitted to spitting at one woman once, but is claiming trial to the other five of the… Read More ›
Young users see Facebook as ‘dead and buried’
A study of how teenagers use social media has found that Facebook is “not just on the slide, it is basically dead and buried”, but that the network is morphing into a tool for keeping in touch with older family… Read More ›
Austria to conduct search for secret Nazi nuclear weapon laboratory hidden underneath concentration camp complex
Readings at site of Gusen camp near St Georgen show elevated levels of uranium – indications of subterranean implosions seven decades ago 15 miles of tunnels lie under Gusen, a sub-camp of Mauthausen where tens of thousands of people were… Read More ›
A dog could run China’s banking system, says former statistics bureau spokesman
Yao Jingyuan predicts economic growth in 2014, but has harsh words for China’s banks PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 24 December, 2013, 7:10pm Jeremy Blum jeremy.blum@scmp.com Yao Jingyuan. Photo: Xinhua The former chief economist and spokesman of China’s National Bureau of Statistics… Read More ›
Was ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ really communist propaganda? FBI investigated classic Christmas film because it portrayed banker Mr Potter as greedy and evil
FBI informants claimed the movie was a vessel for communist messages Claimed screenwriters Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich associated with known communists Report was part of 2,000 page document compiled about communist ‘influence’ in Hollywood By Michael Zennie PUBLISHED: 21:40… Read More ›
FTC Shelves New Caller ID Spoofing Rules
– By calling through the Internet, telemarketers can use software to mask and change the name and number seen on caller ID. Telemarketers also can now program the autodialers to falsify caller ID. By JON CHOWN WASHINGTON (CN)… Read More ›
Road project in Iceland delayed to protect ‘hidden’ elves
In a survey conducted by the University of Iceland in 2007, 62 per cent of those asked thought it was at least possible that the critters exist. A road project has been stopped until the country’s Supreme Court rules on… Read More ›
Chinese police detain three after toxic parcels kill one, sicken nine – methyl fluoroacetate
PUBLISHED : Monday, 23 December, 2013, 4:48am Mandy Zuo mandy.zuo@scmp.com Packages pile up at YTO Express’ sorting centre. A parcel transported by the company’s truck has leaked toxic chemical. Police in Shandong province detained three suspects after parcels tainted by… Read More ›
U.S. slaps sanctions on 4 senior members of yakuza gang
Crime Dec. 20, 2013 – 11:55AM JST – The sanctions freeze any U.S. assets the four mobsters may have and prohibit U.S. citizens from doing business with them.
Russian military to train combat engineers for Afghan army
Photo: RIA Novosti The Russian military will train combat engineers for the Afghan army to ensure safe and efficient mine sweeping in the war-torn Central Asian country, Russia’s defense minister said Wednesday. “We are working on the creation of… Read More ›
Britain faces backlash for splashing millions in aid on wealthy China
MPs and public demand David Cameron’s government to explain £27 million worth of funding to a country that can afford sending rover to the moon PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 17 December, 2013, 10:08am UPDATED : Tuesday, 17 December, 2013, 10:19am Peter… Read More ›
Kiss and yell: Italian protester charged with sexual assault after kissing riot police officer
The photograph of Nina De Chiffre subsequently went viral on social media and was hailed as a symbol of peaceful protest in the country Rob Williams Monday, 16 December 2013 An Italian student protester has been charged with sexual assault… Read More ›
Is laughter really the best medicine?
Contact: Stephanie Burns sburns@bmj.com 44-020-738-36920 BMJ-British Medical Journal Food for thought: Laughter and MIRTH (methodical investigation of risibility, therapeutic and harmful): Narrative synthesis Laughter may not be the best medicine after all and can even be harmful to some patients,… Read More ›
Should your surname carry a health warning?
Contact: Stephanie Burns sburns@bmj.com 44-020-738-36920 BMJ-British Medical Journal Research: The Brady Bunch? New evidence for nominative determinism in patients’ health: Retrospective, population based cohort study Patients named Brady could be at an increased risk of requiring a pacemaker compared with… Read More ›
South African ‘interpreter’ fake-signed anti-white song, also accused of murder [VIDEO]
EEV: Would like second confirmation on the validity of the claim. As much as the claim is repugnant, the facts must be sorted. This is about the sub culture of hate, and not about ethnicity or race. A man passing himself off… Read More ›
Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram
A ten-dimensional theory of gravity makes the same predictions as standard quantum physics in fewer dimensions. Ron Cowen 10 December 2013 At a black hole, Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity apparently clashes with quantum physics, but that conflict could be… Read More ›
Dozens of G20 diplomats had computers hacked after clicking on an attachment labelled ‘To see naked pictures of Carla Bruni click here’
Security breach was first discovered at the G20 summit in Paris in 2011 Message sent to those attending including finance ministers The former supermodel became President Nicolas Sarkozy’s third wife She was well known for taking her clothes off in… Read More ›
Death of global web: Internet will end in 2014 – Kaspersky Lab
Collage: Voice of Russia The Internet as a global network may cease to exist in 2014, giving way to dozens of national webs with limited access to foreign web resources, Alexander Gostev, an expert at the Kaspersky Laboratory, told reporters…. Read More ›
Nature trumps nurture in exam success: GCSE results are ‘mainly determined by genes,’ says landmark study of twins
Conclusion that teachers are less important than biology sparks outrage, as researchers call for national curriculum to be abandoned in favour of personalised lesson plans Richard Garner Wednesday, 11 December 2013 Genetics has a more powerful influence on pupils’ GCSE… Read More ›
Yellowstone supervolcano a ‘much larger system’ than scientists had thought
Experts say new findings don’t necessarily increase the ‘Yellowstone hazard’ – despite claims it could be due a catastrophic eruption Adam Withnall Wednesday, 11 December 2013 The supervolcano hidden beneath Yellowstone National Park in the US is even more enormous… Read More ›
Sign language translator at Nelson Mandela’s memorial was a FAKE: South Africa’s deaf federation confirms his movements had ‘no meaning’
Standing on stage during televised event at the FNB stadium Some members of the deaf community took to Twitter to express outrage By Jill Reilly PUBLISHED: 06:12 EST, 11 December 2013 | UPDATED: 09:08 EST, 11 December 2013 An… Read More ›
Disabled man banned from Walmart for life for trying to price match
Joe Cantrell used to shop twice a day at his favorite Arizona Walmart He scoured circulars for lower prices that he thought Walmart would match He instead was cuffed and served a notice banning him from all Walmart, as well… Read More ›
Global Warming -135.8 below zero in Antarctica
Tuesday, 10 December 2013 Feeling chilly? Here’s cold comfort: You could be in East Antarctica which new data says set a record for “soul-crushing” cold. Try 135.8 degrees Fahrenheit below zero; that’s 93.2 degrees below zero Celsius, which sounds… Read More ›
‘Smashed teeth £900. Broken limbs £1,800’: Russian rent-a-killer website still running despite official claims it had been banned
EEV: As of this posting it is up… Current screen shot – Translated through Bing “We offer several options for contract killings: – Death from natural causes or an accident. The best way to take the life of this man,… Read More ›
Japan agency offers travel for your teddy bear
Travel Dec. 07, 2013 – 06:12AM JST Tour operator Sonoe Azuma holds a stuffed toy during a visit to a station in Tokyo, on October 4, 2013 Tokyo (AFP) — Unable to get to that must-see tourist site but can’t… Read More ›
CIA Cleared on Answer to Telepathy FOIA Demand
By HEATHER JOHNSON SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) – The CIA properly handled a man’s demand for records on his 1966 interrogation regarding telepathy and espionage, a federal judge ruled. Phillip Mosier had sued the agency in San Francisco under… Read More ›
US Agency new logo…. an Evil Octopus
Friday, 06 December 2013 Billions of dollars annually are being used to fund operations conducted by the United States intelligence community, the likes of which allow the government to eavesdrop on emails, listen to world leaders’ phone calls… Read More ›
Delta kicked 50 passengers off flight the Sunday after Thanksgiving so it could charter a plane for the Florida Gators basketball team
The full flight from Gainesville, Florida, was canceled, even though passengers could see their plane sitting on the tarmac The Delta plane that the Florida Gators’ chartered to get to Storrs, Connecticut, for a game had been grounded with mechanical… Read More ›
Widow Says Death Spurred Employer Profits: Claims Bristol-Myers Squibb had a $6 million life insurance policy on her husband
By LORRAINE BAILEY CHICAGO (CN) – After her husband died, Bristol-Myers Squibb slipped up and accidentally informed his widow that it had taken out a $6 million life insurance policy on the rank-and-file worker, without an insurable interest in… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 