Scott Walker campaign fundraising email said his re-election would be a better gift to children than toys or election gadgets President Obama’s 2012 campaign pioneered the idea of a political donation ‘gift registry’ for birthdays, weddings and anniversaries Conservatives spoofed… Read More ›
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Washington Post op-ed: Repeal presidential term limits
Posted By Tim Cavanaugh On 10:36 AM 11/29/2013 In | No Comments As President Obama faces a small revolt within his own party, a Washington Post op-ed is calling for the United States to end presidential term limits and allow… Read More ›
REVEALED: How YOU PAY extra for iPHONES – even if you DON’T HAVE ONE: We pay an Apple tax whether or not we own an Apple product
Everyone is paying for unsold 5Cs right now By Andrew Orlowski 29th November 2013 12:03 GMT Special Report Apple’s secret deals with mobile operators are squeezing smaller companies out of the market and driving up costs even for those who don’t… Read More ›
WHO apologises for claiming half of Greek HIV infections are self-inflicted
WHO blames ‘gross editing error’ for report claiming half of new cases are acquired deliberately by people trying to claim benefits Associated Press theguardian.com, Tuesday 26 November 2013 09.53 EST A drug user gives a blood sample for a HIV… Read More ›
Report: Half of new HIV cases in Greece from 2009-2011 self-inflicted to get benefits
Posted By Caroline May On 1:30 PM 11/25/2013 In | A case study contained within a lengthy World Health Organization report reviewing the health inequities among European countries says Greeks may be contracting HIV intentionally in order to go on… Read More ›
2 Saudi men arrested for offering free hugs
November 24, 2013 09:24 Still from YouTube video showing Bandr Swed during his ‘Free Hugs’ campaign / Saudi Free B.H Two Saudis have been detained in the country’s capital for offering free hugs to passers-by. The local police arrested… Read More ›
Harvard students don’t know the capital of Canada
Friday, 22 November 2013 Harvard students are asked who is the capital of Canada? This sort of question is typically answered by someone who has gone through the third grade in Europe (excluding UK), but students at Harvard (supposedly greatest… Read More ›
The big male nose
New study explains why men’s noses are bigger than women’s By: Richard C. Lewis | 2013.11.18 | 11:26 AM Male noses grow disproportionately larger than female noses beginning at puberty, a University of Iowa study has found. The reason: Males… Read More ›
Boredom research has now become more interesting
Researchers identify fifth type of tedium – apathetic boredom Being bored has just become a little more nuanced, with the addition of a fifth type of boredom by which to describe this emotion. The finding has been published in Springer’s… Read More ›
Reclusive heiress Huguette Clark’s estate sues New York hospital and doctor ‘for failing to discharge her for 20 years in order to extract gifts’
Dr Henry Singman and Beth Israel Medical Center were less dedicated to Huguette Clark’s welfare than their own, says the new lawsuit Clark died at Beth Israel aged 104 in 2011, leaving no close relatives and a roughly $300 million … Read More ›
Parents Fined For Not Sending Ritz Crackers In Kids’ Lunches
It’s quite possible that the single stupidest school lunch policy on the planet comes courtesy of a strange interpretation of the Manitoba Government’s Early Learning and Child Care lunch regulations (an earlier version of this article incorrectly pointed at… Read More ›
US veteran of Korean war has been held in North Korea since last month
Family of Merrill Newman, 85, from Palo Alto, California, disclose he was taken off aircraft leaving the country without explanation. Associated Press in San Jose theguardian.com, Thursday 21 November 2013 03.40 EST Merrill Newman, 85, a retired finance executive… Read More ›
Ancient humans ‘rampantly interbred’ with Neanderthals and a mystery species in Lord Of The Rings-style world of different creatures
Genome analysis of Neanderthal and human-like group called Denisovans It reveals ancient bedfellows may have included ‘mystery human ancestor’ Has been likened to Lord Of The Rings world of creatures which interbred By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 17:13 EST, 19 … Read More ›
In-Q-Tel 2000-2011 Tax Returns – The CIA’s venture capital firm
November 18, 2013 The following tax returns for the CIA’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, Inc. were collected from a number of sources including Bulk.Resource.Org. The returns span from tax year 2000-2011. A ZIP archive containing the returns from all years… Read More ›
Sun will ‘flip upside down’ within weeks, says Nasa
The sun’s magnetic field will reverse polarity at some point in the coming weeks, sending ripples to the edge of interstellar space. Tomas Jivanda Friday, 15 November 2013 The sun is set to “flip upside down” within weeks as its… Read More ›
‘Spy in bag’ Gareth Williams did not get into holdall alone, say experts
Gareth Williams, the MI6 spy, was not alone when he was locked in a holdall in the bath of his Pimlico flat, claim experts who contradict police conclusions By Hayley Dixon 11:50AM GMT 17 Nov 2013 Experts who tried and… Read More ›
SoCal Woman Screwed Nuns Out of $285,000
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) – A jury Tuesday convicted a Southern California woman of defrauding an order of nuns of $285,000: promising to buy a house for elderly and ill nuns with it, but spending it on lingerie,… Read More ›
Russian lawmaker wants to ban US Dollar
Thursday, 14 November 2013 Predicting the imminent collapse of the U.S. dollar, a Russian lawmaker submitted a bill to the country’s parliament on Wednesday that would ban the use or possession of the American currency. Mikhail Degtyarev, the lawmaker… Read More ›
Police set to rule out foul play in ‘spy in a bag’ mystery
Scotland Yard expected to conclude MI6 spy Gareth Williams likely to have climbed in to hold all himself MI6 spy Gareth Williams’s body was found in a similar North Face bag By Tom Whitehead, Security Editor 10:00PM GMT 12 Nov… Read More ›
Scientists Baffled By Lack Of Sunspots
Monday, 11 November 2013 Something is up with the sun. Scientists say that solar activity is stranger than in a century or more, with the sun producing barely half the number of sunspots as expected and its magnetic poles oddly… Read More ›
Sweden closes four prisons as number of inmates plummets
Decline partly put down to strong focus on rehabilitation and more lenient sentences for some offences Richard Orange in Malmö theguardian.com, Monday 11 November 2013 11.33 EST Prison numbers in Sweden, which have been falling by around 1% a… Read More ›
Security researcher Cédric ‘Sid’ Blancher dead at 37
Skydiving accident claims Wifitap author By Richard Chirgwin Posted in Security, 12th November 2013 00:59 GMT Security researcher Cédric “Sid” Blancher has reportedly been killed in a skydiving accident in France. At the time of writing, details of the accident remain sketchy…. Read More ›
China offers $100,000 aid to typhoon-ravaged Philippines
Tuesday, 12 November, 2013, 4:34am News›Asia DISASTER Staff reporters and agencies US and Japan send rescue teams China, the world’s second largest economy, has offered US$100,000 in aid to the Philippines in the wake of Super Typhoon Haiyan. It is the… Read More ›
U.S. Media Consumption to Rise to 15.5 Hours a Day – Per Person – by 2015
New study issued by SDSC researcher with USC Marshall School of Business A new study by a researcher at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, says that by 2015, the sum of media… Read More ›
US school basketball coach fired over posting Facebook photo of fiancé holding her breast – but he is allowed to keep job at same school
Laraine Cook was dismissed as Pocatello girls’ basketball coach shortly after this photo of her and boyfriend Tom Harrison was posted on Facebook Laraine Cook coach was sacked from an Idaho high school on grounds that image was ‘immoral’ Tomas… Read More ›
Obama’s tech expert too busy fixing website to testify
Source: Reuters – Fri, 8 Nov 2013 02:19 AM Author: Reuters (Recasts with Park asking for delay due to work on website) WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) – The chief technology officer for the White House is willing to testify to… Read More ›
Father sues child shrink after she labels him an unfit parent for not taking his son to McDonald’s
New York attorney David Schorr, 43, says his son Max demanded to go to McDonald’s recently and ‘threw a tantrum’ when he said no He says he refused because the boy had been eating ‘too much junk food’ The boy… Read More ›
Next DEVASTATING Chelyabinsk METEOR STRIKE ‘7x as likely’ as thought / NASA’s checked its space rock maths and it’s not good news
By Iain Thomson 6th November 2013 23:03 GMT NASA has revealed new research on the Chelyabinsk meteorite that exploded over Russia in February, and the findings aren’t good: not only does it look like the astronomic models about the… Read More ›
One-tonne satellite will fall back to Earth in an unknown location
1 / 1 GOCE in orbit. ESA /AOES Medialab The spacecraft has been mapping the Earth’s gravity but ran out of fuel a month ago and has been losing altitude ever since Thursday 07 November 2013 A one-tonne satellite… Read More ›
Obama Secret Service Agent: “Things are much worse than Americans can even imagine”
Wednesday, 06 November 2013 You may have your suspicions about what’s going on behind closed doors at the White House. But according to one of US President Obama’s former body guards it’s much worse than Americans can even imagine…. Read More ›
Thousands of celebrities including Tom Hanks, LeBron James and Donald Trump left exposed after limo firm to the stars is hacked
By James Nye PUBLISHED: 02:10 EST, 5 November 2013 | UPDATED: 10:52 EST, 5 November 2013 An Internet security firm says a limousine software company has been hacked, exposing credit card numbers and potentially embarrassing details about close to… Read More ›
BT Vancouver: Elementary School Bans Touching
Many parents in Aldergrove are outraged with news an elementary school has banned kindergarten students from touching each other at recess
David Cameron security breached by BBC3 Revolution Will Be Televised pranksters
Duo behind the satirical series say politicians are terrified of coming face-to-face with public Adam Sherwin Monday, 4 November 2013 Politicians are terrified of coming face-to-face with the public, the duo behind the BBC3 satirical series The Revolution Will Be… Read More ›
‘I’m really good at killing people’: New book claims President Obama bragged to aides about using drone strikes
Claim comes from new book ‘Double Down: Game Change 2012’ about Obama’s re-election campaign Obama Administration has not commented on the report Remark was made while discussing drone strikes with aides President won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 By … Read More ›
Forget your jumper, this thermoelectric wristband can heat or cool your entire body
A wrist-mounted heat-sink reacts to ambient and skin temperatures, pumping out “thermal pulses” to maintain overall body temperature James Vincent Friday 01 November 2013 The Wristify prototype consists of a custom heat-sink strapped to a fake Rolex wristband. Wristify/MIT Heating… Read More ›
Chinese architect defends ‘phallic’ £154m skyscraper
Critics say the new People’s Daily headquarters in Beijing resembles a super-sized phallus but its designer argues that “unexpected interpretations” are part of architecture’s beauty The new office building of People’s Daily newspaper Photo: REX FEATURES By Tom Phillips,… Read More ›
How a war game brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster
Former classified documents show how close the Soviet Union came to launching an attack in 1983 Jamie Doward The Observer, Saturday 2 November 2013 12.43 EDT Prime minister Margaret Thatcher was alarmed by intelligence reports about the Soviet Union’s reaction…. Read More ›
Moral in the morning, but dishonest in the afternoon
Contact: Anna Mikulak amikulak@psychologicalscience.org 202-293-9300 Association for Psychological Science Our ability to exhibit self-control to avoid cheating or lying is significantly reduced over the course of a day, making us more likely to be dishonest in the afternoon than… Read More ›
Hunan introduces party-pooping austerity measures
PUBLISHED : Friday, 01 November, 2013, 3:47pm UPDATED : Friday, 01 November, 2013, 6:35pm Olivia Rosenman olivia.rosenman@scmp.com Preparations are made for wedding banquet Foshan, Guangdong province Photo: Chinasmack The southern Chinese province of… Read More ›
Texan man jailed for keeping overdue library study guide
The 19 year-old had the text book out for over three years Kashmira Gander Friday, 1 November 2013 An American man was jailed for not returning a library book. Jory Enck, a 19-year-old from the southern state of Texas, was… Read More ›
‘Noxious odor’ that hospitalized eight students turned out to be six-grader’s AXE body spray
By Ashley Collman PUBLISHED: 08:56 EST, 1 November 2013 | UPDATED: 08:57 EST, 1 November 2013 Let this be a lesson to young men: Any more than a spritz of AXE body spray and you’re more likely to actually… Read More ›
U.S.A. Warns ‘Homeland Stupidity’ Parodist / “The NSA: The only part of government that actually listens.”
By ELIZABETH WARMERDAM ShareThis BALTIMORE (CN) – The Department of Homeland Security and National Security Agency threatened to sue a novelty store owner who sells “Department of Homeland Stupidity” coffee cups and T-shirts with the slogan: “The NSA: The… Read More ›
Did the NSA even spy on the POPE? U.S. spies accused of intercepting phone calls during conclave as he was elected head of Catholic church
US security services ‘targeted Francis in run up to and during conclave’ Claims NSA intercepted phone calls made to and from priests’ residence Other leading bishops and cardinals ‘also being monitored by US spies’ By Hannah Roberts PUBLISHED: 14:58 EST,… Read More ›
Number of Secret Inventions Grew Last Year / Gov’t can take whatever technology it wants from a U.S. company and hide it
There were 139 new “secrecy orders” granted on patent applications during Fiscal Year 2013, according to new data released under the Freedom of Information Act by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951,… Read More ›
Are you of the Pemberley Darcys? Same ‘elite’ surnames have been at Oxbridge since the Norman Conquest /”social mobility is not much better than it was in medieval times”
Names like Darcy, Mandeville and Neville have attended elite universities for 27 generations Tom Mendelsohn Wednesday, 30 October 2013 The same elite names have dominated Oxbridge as far back as the Norman Conquest– and there’s no sign that they’re about… Read More ›
Britney Spears’ music proves to be the best weapon against raging pirates
Collage “Voice of Russia” Britney Spears’ music proved to be a powerful weapon against attacks from Somali pirates as Rachel Owens, a merchant navy officer on huge super tankers, said in interview with Breitbart TV. “Her songs have been… Read More ›
Spain and France’s intelligence agencies carried out collection of phone records and shared them with NSA, agency says
NSA spy row: France and Spain ‘shared phone data’ with US By Raf Sanchez, Peter Foster in Washington 8:35PM GMT 29 Oct 2013 European intelligence agencies and not American spies were responsible for the mass collection of phone records which… Read More ›
Undercover police to be banned from having sexual relationships with targets (U.K.)
New rules will stop undercover officers having intimate relationships with people they are investigating, following concern over series of cases Mark Kennedy, a former Scotland Yard officer, is alleged to have slept with a number of women whose activities he… Read More ›
Scientists discover ‘Lost World’ of unknown creatures in Australia
Monday, 28 October 2013 On the second day of a four-day trek to Cape Melville a team led by Dr Conrad Hoskin, from James Cook University, and Dr Tim Laman, from Harvard University, discovered a “bizarre” looking leaf-tailed gecko, a… Read More ›
Europe should be grateful for spying, say U.S. lawmakers
World Oct. 28, 2013 – 07:00AM JST WASHINGTON — Europeans should be grateful for U.S. spying operations because they keep them safe, U.S. lawmakers said Sunday, urging allies to improve their own intelligence and oversight efforts. House Intelligence Committee Chairman… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 