Security experts say new electronic voting machines can be hacked By The Christian Science Monitor Saturday, October 27, 2012 6:46 EDT Rapid advances in the development of cyberweapons and malicious software mean that electronic-voting machines used in the 2012 election… Read More ›
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Honeywell under investigation for Chinese-made parts in US warplanes
– The Pentagon repeatedly waived laws banning Chinese-built components on US weapons to keep the $392bn F-35 fighter Sensors and magnets for F-35 fighter jet were made in China • Pentagon issued waivers to ban on Chinese-made components Reuters in… 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 ›
2.5m people will have to take out a loan just to afford central heating this Christmas (U.K.)
Shocking figures revealed as winter fuel costs are hiked by up to £120 Simon Read Monday, 9 December 2013 Some 2.5 million people will have to borrow money to heat their homes this Christmas. The shock statistics are published as… 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 ›
Crack our ‘military-grade’ email encryption and we’ll give you 5% of our firm
Hungarian startup tries novel bug-testing system By Iain Thomson Posted in Security, 5th November 2013 00:03 GMT Vulnerability testing is commonplace these days, and a lucrative business for some, but a Hungarian biz is offering an unusual prize for anyone… Read More ›
Obesity expands amid federal anti-obesity campaign
Posted By Neil Munro On 4:40 PM 11/01/2013 The national obesity rate has expanded since 2012, even as federal regulators and first lady Michelle Obama exhort the nation to slim down, eat less and exercise. The adult obesity rate… Read More ›
US to become worlds top oil producer in 2014, break ‘commodity curse’ stereotype
Published time: October 11, 2013 14:11 AFP Photo / Robyn Beck The IEA says the US will overtake Russia as the biggest oil producer next year, citing the ‘shale revolution’ that has reshaped the global energy market. Some experts believe… Read More ›
Flouride Rule in Prescott, Ariz., Spurs Lawsuit ( was to accept each day up to 195,000 gallons of effluent which could contain fluoride of up to 100 mg/L )
By TIM HULL ShareThis (CN) – An Arizona town’s new fluoride standards for effluent could kill a local business that reclaims silicon wafers for the semiconductor industry, it claims in Federal Court. Pure Wafer says that the city of… Read More ›
Desperation Mode: Yunanistan (Greece) to Sell Expired Food to citizens
Tuesday, 27 August 2013 In just a few years we’ve seen the country of Yunanistan (Greece) go from being a popular tourist destination in one of the world’s largest economic regions, to being on the brink of complete and utter… Read More ›
Cashier asleep with finger on keyboard launched a €222,222,222 transaction
Employee told industrial tribunal that he had intended to transfer €62.40 from a retired employee’s account Tony Paterson Tuesday, 11 June 2013 It was every bank manager’s nightmare come true: a German bank employee nodded off at his computer terminal… Read More ›
Coming to your local supermarket soon: Chicken à la maggots
Tom Bawden Wednesday, 29 May 2013 “Our chicken, pork and fish dishes are fed only the finest protein-rich maggots that have been reared on a diet of cow and pig excrement, washed down with a wee dram of whisky.”… Read More ›
Health Research Video Commentary 15 APR 2013 – Yes they are returning
Topics: 1. Why Chewing Gum can Make you fat 2. Why you may hate working out 3. The Monsanto Protection act HR933
Online medical company sues woman for defamation after she posted a negative review on eBay
Amy Nicholls ordered $175 microscope light from Ohio-based Med Express It arrived with $1.40 postage due, so she posted negative feedback on site Firm offered a refund and when she refused, it sued for damaging business Lawyers acting for Ms… Read More ›
Cypriot president withdrew $21m days before Bank Seized Accounts : Treason
Monday, 01 April 2013 News that the Cypriot President’s family moved 21 million euros to London days before the bank accounts of his people were looted as part of the bailout deal serves as another reminder that while the media… Read More ›
New Russian rocket battery poor man’s deterrent
© Photo: ru.wikipedia.org/ConcernAgat/cc-by-sa 3.0 How do you deter aggression by a big international bully if you are a small third-world country? North Korea has chosen nukes. Russian military engineers have proposed an alternative option. They have developed container versions of… Read More ›
Wal-Mart Evades Suit Over Exploding Toy
ST. LOUIS (CN) – A man who picked up a malfunctioning battery-operated toy, only to have it explode in his hands, cannot sue Wal-Mart, the 8th Circuit ruled. Jon Sommervold sued the retailer over the 2008 injury because he had… Read More ›
Greeks’ purchasing power halved
Thursday, 07 February 2013 The purchasing power of Greeks has been halved, shows the survey of the Hellenic Confederation of Professionals, Craftsmen & Merchants (GSEVEE). According to survey results, 8 out of 10 Greeks have limited their shopping to… Read More ›
300-million-year-old UFO tooth-wheel found in Russian city of Vladivostok
Yulia Zamanskaya Jan 19, 2013 20:55 Moscow Time © Photo: en.wikipedia.org Lighting the fire during a cold winter evening a resident of Vladivostok found a rail-shaped metal detail which was pressed in one of the pieces of coal that the… Read More ›
Making Millions Is Easy if You Cheat, SEC Says
LOS ANGELES (CN) – An L.A.-area investment adviser cherry-picked trades to scoop up $2 million for himself, while losing $4.4 million for his customers, the SEC claims in court. The SEC sued Aletheia Research and Management… Read More ›
Drugs giant Novartis warns jobs may go overseas: said bringing a drug to an NHS trust, securing clinical trials and getting approval, is inefficient and takes too long
The Government must tackle the red-tape and research hold-ups hampering Britain’s pharmaceutical industry or risk seeing jobs and investment disappear overseas, one of the industry’s leading companies has warned. Novartis global finance director Jon Symonds said that while the UK… Read More ›
Here’s a Look at the World’s ‘First Smart Restaurant,’ Kitchen-Free and Run by Robots : Bye Bye Many Fast Food Jobs
November 16, 2012 // 6:12 pm // By: Dominique Zamora Earlier this year, we caught wind of a young robotics company out of San Francisco that had created its very own burger making machine. Just insert tomatoes, pickles, onions, lettuce,… Read More ›
McDonald’s to give away 200,000 free burgers: “initiative was to reinforce the importance of starting the day with a wholesome breakfast”
The Star/Asia News Network Saturday, Nov 17, 2012 PETALING JAYA – They say eat breakfast like a king and McDonald’s Malaysia has decided to celebrate the most important meal of the day by giving away over 200,000 free Egg McMuffin… Read More ›
Health Research Report Video 10 NOV 2012
Sugar Boost Self Control when used as a Mouth Rinse Green Tea EGCG inhibits starch breakdown Caffiene improves recognition of positive words
Modern alchemy leaches gold from water
28Oct2012 SAINT-PIERRE-LES-NEMOURS, France (AFP) A small French start-up company is selling a technology with a hint of alchemy: turning water into gold. It does so by extracting from industrial waste water the last traces of any rare — and increasingly… Read More ›
The Military Is Building Integrated Hybrid Living-Nonliving Robotic Organisms
Geoffrey Ingersoll|Oct. 16, 2012, 12:41 PM|1,624|7 In a request released Sept. 14 of this year, the Office Of Naval Research sought to find proposals for “Synthetic Biology Tools for Sensing and Bioprocessing” — essentially hybrid, organic inorganic “sensing” robots. But… Read More ›
Molotov cocktail for kids: Tunisian children’s magazine publishes deadly recipe
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 ›
America’s top export in 2011 was . . . fuel?
Re-Posted for filing By Brad Plumer, Published: December 31, 2011 Fuel is now the top U.S. export. The Associated Press reports that America is on pace to ship out more gasoline, diesel and jet fuel than anything else in… Read More ›
National Bank of Canada foreclosing Americans’ homes over credit card debt
By Stephen C. Webster Friday, October 5, 2012 13:15 EDT Topics: California ♦ credit card debt ♦ National Bank of Canada The National Bank of Canada is attempting to foreclose upon hundreds of American families’ homes in California over old… Read More ›
Japanese insurers stop offering riot coverage in China
By Adam Westlake / October 5, 2012 / While the widespread anti-Japanese protests have subsided in China, large Japanese insurance companies are no longer offering coverage against riots to businesses with operations in the country. As the diplomatic tensions remain… Read More ›
Montreal water treatment plants dumping as much as 90 times the critical amount of estrogen products into the river
2008 study post for filing Contact: Sylvain-Jacques Desjardins sylvain-jacques.desjardins@umontreal.ca 514-343-7593 University of Montreal ‘Estrogen flooding our rivers,’ Université de Montréal study The Montreal water treatment plant dumps 90 times the critical amount of certain estrogen products into the river. It… Read More ›
Taxman’s ‘underhand’ ploy to charge larger fines (UK)
The taxman is “cynically” delaying informing businesses that they have been late to file their Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax submissions in order to increase the size of penalty payments, according to an accountancy firm. HMRC said penalties are… Read More ›
Documentary Evidence Reveals Motives of Pharmaceutical “Seeding” Trials
Re-Post for filing 2008 Clinical studies that are designed by pharmaceutical companies to promote use of their drugs are called “seeding” trials. While much has been written about the marketing tactics of the pharmaceutical industry, seeding trials have not been… Read More ›
Farmers accuse Madagascar mining company of killing bees
By Agence France-Presse Tuesday, September 18, 2012 15:07 EDT Topics: Ambatovy ♦ madagascar ♦ pesticides A swath of farmland around a giant nickel and cobalt mine in Madagascar has been contaminated by pesticides that have wiped out local bee populations,… Read More ›
California telecom companies push bill to quash oversight on Internet regulation
By American Independent Monday, September 10, 2012 15:00 EDT Topics: CPUC ♦ Verizon By Siddhartha Mahanta California could be the latest state to enact a law that dramatically curbs regulatory oversight of telecommunications services in the state, handing a significant… Read More ›
Feeding cattle byproduct of ethanol production causes E. coli 0157 to spike
K-State researchers findings on E. coli MANHATTAN, KAN. — Ethanol plants and livestock producers have created a symbiotic relationship. Cattle producers feed their livestock distiller’s grains, a byproduct of the ethanol distilling process, giving ethanol producers have an added… Read More ›
In the laboratory, green tea proves a powerful medicine against severe sepsis
MANHASSET, NY – A major component of green tea could prove the perfect elixir for severe sepsis, an abnormal immune system response to a bacterial infection. In a new laboratory study, Haichao Wang, PhD, of The Feinstein Institute… Read More ›
Drug company funding of drug trials greatly influences outcome – 35x Better Outcome if Funded by the Drug Company
Contact: Wallace Ravven wravven@pubaff.ucsf.edu 415-476-2557 University of California – San Francisco Drug company funding of drug trials greatly influences outcome In head-to-head trials of two drugs, the one deemed better appears to depend largely on who is funding the study,… Read More ›
FDA Says No to Dying Patients Seeking Access to Experimental Drugs or Treatments
An important new bill addresses this situation. Action Alert! On July 25, famed civil rights attorney Jonathan Emord will be hosting a briefing on Capitol Hill about the FDA’s refusal to allow terminally ill patients access to experimental treatments. In… Read More ›
Fizzical harm: Drinking sugary drinks doesn’t just pile on the pounds – it changes your body so it’s harder to lose weight
By Rob Waugh Drinking sugary drinks for just a month alters body chemistry More difficult to lose weight Body grows to ‘prefer’ sugar to digesting own fat Drinking sugared fizzy drinks for just a month changes the body permanently so… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 