Wednesday, 03 September 2014 Islamist militias in Libya took control of nearly a dozen commercial jetliners last month, and western intelligence agencies recently issued a warning that the jets could be used in terrorist attacks across North Africa. Intelligence reports… Read More ›
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Russian scientists raising funds to rebuild Tesla Tower, satisfy world energy hunger
Published time: July 04, 2014 15:56 Reuters/Sheng Li Two Russian physicists are fundraising to realize their project for wireless energy transmission once proposed by brilliant 20th-century scientist Nikola Tesla. Solar panels and an upgraded Tesla Tower could solve global… Read More ›
Eccentric philanthropist is taking 1,000 homeless New Yorkers out to lunch in the hope it will inspire Wall Street to open its pockets
EEV Note – If you have any love of country left, do not let this happen Article Quotes: – they must sing for their supper – the patriotic ditty Learn from the Good Model Citizen Lei Feng, named after the supposedly… Read More ›
Billionaire Chen Guangbiao invites 1,000 poor Americans to dinner in Central Park
Controversial entrepreneur sets out to change Americans’ perceptions about wealthy Chinese .PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 18 June, 2014, 1:16am Mimi Lau in Guangzhou mimi.lau@scmp.com . // Billionaire Chen Guangbiao invites 1,000 poor Americans to dinner in Central Park | South China… Read More ›
Book: US Stock Market is Rigged
Monday, 31 March 2014 This month marks the fifth anniversary of the current bull market on Wall Street, making it one of the longest and strongest in history. Yet U.S. stock ownership is at a record low and less than… Read More ›
US judge rules Baidu has First Amendment right to block content / Political Censorship is now an editorial freedom
EEV: Political Censorship is now an editorial freedom PUBLISHED : Friday, 28 March, 2014, 11:58pm Reuters in New York The First Amendment protects Baidu’s right to advocate for systems of government other than democracy (in China or elsewhere) just as… 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 ›
Dozens of US nuclear missile officers caught up in drug and cheating scandals
– 11 air force officers are suspected of illegal drug use, and 34 officers have been implicated in cheating – Missile-launch officers work in part in underground bunkers on bases equipped with nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles. Affected ICBM sites included… Read More ›
NY politician steps down after women employees claim he asked them to dress as sexy elves, took them to strip clubs and even sent oral sex video
Gabryszak, 62, stepped down after accusations of taking staffers to massage parlors and telling them about trips to strip clubs Jamie L. Campbell, 24, says she received a video of him ‘appearing to be receiving a sex act’ Annalise C…. Read More ›
Michael Bloomberg ‘spent $650 million of own money’ as New York mayor
– ” The mayor’s free-spending ways are also being felt in London, where he has been cultivating political leaders and the cultural elite and is expected to spend much of his post-mayoral time “ Outgoing mayor spent vast amounts of personal… Read More ›
Doctors Sue United Healthcare for Bad Faith
BROOKLYN (CN) – A 22,000-member physicians’ group sued United Healthcare Insurance, claiming the money-grubbing, multibillion-dollar insurance company is illegally terminating them from its Medicare network on Jan. 1 to cut its losses from reduced federal payments under the Affordable Care… Read More ›
Russian diplomats accused of $1.5m fraud in US – but immunity prevents arrests
The accused and a number of unnamed co-conspirators gamed the system to the tune of $1.5m, say US law enforcement officials Nikhil Kumar Friday, 6 December 2013 In November 2010, Nailya Babaeva, a Russian citizen in the US, allegedly… Read More ›
Media Smoke and Mirror game at the expense of a child?
EEV: Commentary Rarely do I comment on events; However, when it involves children I do. Recently an article was run titled “ Boy, 7, born with rare cancer loses his insurance because of Obamacare…leaving his parents needing $50,000 to pay… Read More ›
NY Schools Plan Called Threat to Privacy / Giving student data to a private company for storage
By MARLENE KENNEDY ShareThis ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) – New York’s plan to turn over massive amounts of student data to a private company for online storage violates privacy laws and could expose the information to hacking, a dozen parents… 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 ›
De Blasio ‘Needs To Explain Himself’ Over Cuba Honeymoon, Sandinista Support / Which he is proud of
The story of a Cambridge-raised Sandinista supporter who married a former lesbian and rose through the political ranks to become mayor of America’s largest city Bill De Blasio is a political insider who worked on campaigns of Bill and Hillary… Read More ›
Soros backs push for Hillary Clinton for US presidency
Billionaire adds his influence to unofficial Ready for Hillary campaign to back moves for her to run for the White House in 2016 PUBLISHED : Friday, 25 October, 2013, 9:07pm UPDATED : Friday, 25 October, 2013, 9:07pm Reuters in Washington… Read More ›
Billionaire scam artist who swindled $22m from clients asks for more lenient late-night curfew so he can visit opera
Alberto Vilar, 73, was found guilty of stealing $22million from his clients Con artist used ill-gotten gains to fund donations to New York operas He was jailed for nine years in 2010 but has been released pending an appeal Vilar… Read More ›
It’s ILLEGAL for federal employees on furlough to check their work email during the government shutdown
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 16:04 EST, 1 October 2013 | UPDATED: 16:37 EST, 1 October 2013 Federal employees who have been furloughed could lose their jobs if they check their work email during the government shutdown. The prohibition… Read More ›
College enrolment down by a half million students in 2012 with older students the most turned off further studies
Half a million fewer students enrolled in colleges in 2012 than 2011 Biggest drop is in mature students ages 25 and older However, there has been an increase in the number of Hispanics enrolling Hispanics account for 17 percent of… Read More ›
Quinn campaign tells students: skip school to work for us
By SALLY GOLDENBERG Last Updated: 4:18 AM, August 30, 2013 Posted: 1:03 AM, August 30, 2013 EXCLUSIVE Christine Quinn’s mayoral campaign is encouraging her interns to skip the first days of school so they’ll be available for the critical… Read More ›
Codename ‘Apalachee’
The servers for the EU mission to the United Nations in New York are located on the 26th floor. The NSA obtained a floor plan of the offices in the autumn of 2012. How America Spies on Europe and… Read More ›
DoD training manual suggests Founding Fathers followed ‘extremist ideology’
Published time: August 25, 2013 11:41 A man is arrested during the Occupy Wall Street protest September 17, 2012 on the one year anniversary of the movement in New York.(AFP Photo / Stan Honda) A Department of Defense training… Read More ›
US spy agency broke encryption on UN communications – report
© Collage: Voice of Russia The US National Security Agency broke the encryption securing the United Nations’ internal video conferencing at its New York headquarters, German news weekly Der Spiegel reported Sunday, citing secret NSA documents. 0The move provided the… Read More ›
Cyberspy Network
EEV: I can only specualte why Guccifer’s PDF, as well as other major sources of Intel Compromise are so openly exposed. I am counting on this data being obsolete, or ineffective as the whole world has it by now. Why they would release the… Read More ›
NSA gets burned by a sysadmin, decides to burn 90% of its sysadmins
Need to end planet-wide-snooping leaks? That’ll do the trick, thinks US spymaster By Jasper Hamill 9th August 2013 11:23 GMT The NSA has announced its brainwave to end further leaks about its secret operations by disaffected employees: it… Read More ›
Syrian sharia committee issues fatwa against croissants
Posted By Charles Rollet On 4:03 PM 07/31/2013 In World | No Comments While the croissant-doughnut or “cronut” is all the rage in New York, some in Syria have pushed back against the famous French component of the trendy new… Read More ›
Dominque Strauss Kahn to face trial for pimping / in connection with an alleged prostitution ring at a Lille hotel
French former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will face trial on pimping charges along with 12 others in connection with an alleged prostitution ring at a Lille hotel, the local prosecutors’ office said on Friday. Dominique Strauss-Kahn was answering questions in… Read More ›
New theory uncovers cancer’s deep evolutionary roots / Cancer is realated to embryo development
Contact: Skip Derra skip.derra@asu.edu 480-965-4823 Arizona State University Tracing cancer back to the dawn of multicellularity could explain its mysterious properties and transform therapy TEMPE, Ariz. — A new way to look at cancer — by tracing its deep… Read More ›
‘YOU WORTHLESS LITTLE S***’: Photographer blasted as ‘poor, miserable social climber’ by wealthy Chilean couple who kept nanny ‘as slave’ after he requested payment for his work
Email came from Micky Hurley, 35 – a New York socialite from a prominent Chilean families who called the photographer ‘lower class’ By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 23:31 EST, 21 June 2013 | UPDATED: 23:31 EST, 21 June 2013 … Read More ›
We’ll be uploading our entire MINDS to computers by 2045 and our bodies will be replaced by machines within 90 years, Google expert claims
Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, believes we will be able to upload our entire brains to computers within the next 32 years – an event known as singularity Our ‘fragile’ human body parts will be replaced by machines… Read More ›
I have watched Barack Obama transform into the security president
During his 10 years as the Observer’s correspondent in America, Paul Harris has seen a new toughness from the once fiery campaigner Paul Harris in New York The Observer, Saturday 15 June 2013 11.11 EDT Barack Obama giving… Read More ›
We want to put a KILL SWITCH into your PHONE, say Feds
The only good mobe is a dead mobe By Bill Ray Posted in Security, 14th June 2013 11:44 GMT Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup/Recovery US law enforcement is calling for a mandatory kill switch on all mobiles, enabling the shut… Read More ›
Study links chemicals widely found in plastics and processed food to elevated blood pressure in children and teens
Contact: Lorinda Klein lorindaann.klein@nyumc.org 212-404-3533 NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine Data from nearly 3,000 children shows dietary exposure to certain plastics may play a hidden role in epidemic increases in childhood hypertension NEW YORK,… Read More ›
Study suggests US children born outside the United States have lower risk of allergic disease
Contact: Richard Bory rbory@chpnet.org 212-523-6069 The JAMA Network Journals A study by Jonathan I. Silverberg, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., of St. Luke’s—Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, and colleagues suggests children living the in the United States but born outside… Read More ›
Is the White House Correspondents’ dinner being dumbed down? Tom Brokaw blasts low-brow guest-list of latest ‘nerd prom’
By Meghan Keneally PUBLISHED: 23:18 EST, 26 April 2013 | UPDATED: 23:47 EST, 26 April 2013 The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is an annual tradition where Washington’s political elite and the journalists that cover them commune for some laughs, but… Read More ›
Chinese National who had his Merecedes Car-Jacked by Boston Bombers did not recognize the suspects in a ‘drive-by lineup,’
‘Girls, the marvels of the Mercedes ML 350 and whether anyone still listens to CDs’: Terrified car-jacking victim reveals the light-hearted jokes of Boston bombers A Chinese internet entrepreneur has spoken about being held against his will by the Boston … Read More ›
Bloomberg: New Yorkers will ‘never know where our cameras are’
Published time: April 26, 2013 22:49 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg visits the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative on April 23, 2013 in New York City. (AFP Photo / John Moore) New York City police officials intend to expand the… Read More ›
U.S. sues Novartis over kickbacks, 2nd case this week : The $10,000 Dinner for 3
Source: Reuters – Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:44 PM Author: Reuters * Second civil fraud lawsuit by U.S. in four days * U.S. says Novartis sought to boost sales of drugs * Dinners held at pricey Chicago, D.C. restaurants *… Read More ›
They talked about girls, credit limits and whether anyone listens to CDs any more: Boston carjack victim breaks silence over harrowing 90 minutes with bomb suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
EEV: Article quote ” Danny’s refusal at giving his full Chinese name is telling of his humility, wary of attracting too much attention “ Chinese entrepreneur known only as Danny recalls night of terror that sparked 9,000-strong manhunt Steve Anderson… Read More ›
How the rich got RICHER during the economic recovery – while the other 93 percent became worse off
Average net worth of households in the upper 7 percent rose by an estimated 28 percent Households in the lower 93 percent dropped by 4 percent Reason found: Affluent households typically own stocks and other financial holdings that increased in… Read More ›
The United States charged six politicians with fraud, extortion and conspiracy
Six Politicos Charged With Bribes & Extortion WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CN) – In a lurid indictment, the United States charged six politicians with fraud, extortion and conspiracy, in the plan to run a Democratic state senator for mayor… Read More ›
How Low Can a TV Show Go?
By ROBERT KAHN MANHATTAN (CN) – ABC TV filmed a man dying in a hospital, and a doctor telling his family he had died, and broadcast it all on the show “NY Med” without telling the family or… Read More ›
New York town bans unrelated roommates from living together after neighbor complains about man shacking up with his fiancee and two friends
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:16 EST, 1 March 2013 | UPDATED: 12:11 EST, 1 March 2013 A town in upstate New York has has banned unrelated roommates from living together, in a move that has outraged some residents who… 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 ›
EPA plays legal games to prevent banning of allegedly poisonous Chlorpyrifos
Pesiticide Foes Will Try to Work It Out With EPA By JUNE WILLIAMS SEATTLE (CN) – A 9th Circuit hearing over a pesticide that allegedly poisons farm workers and children ended with environmentalists agreeing to mediation. Chlorpyrifos is an insecticide… Read More ›
20 hours of TV a week almost halves sperm count
Contact: Stephanie Burns sburns@bmjgroup.com 44-020-738-36920 BMJ-British Medical Journal But 15 or more hours a week of moderate to vigorous exercise improves it Healthy young men who watch TV for more than 20 hours a week have almost half the sperm… Read More ›
Mayor Bloomberg: ‘Look at the ass on her’
11:53 AM 01/28/2013 Caroline May / Political Reporter New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg had his eyes less on the evils of guns and big gulps at a Christmas party last month than on the assets of a female party guest…. Read More ›
FDA approves recombinant flu vaccine : Was rejected in 2009, arguing that there was insufficient evidence that the vaccine was safe
17 Jan 2013 | 19:49 GMT | Posted by Heidi Ledford | The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first seasonal flu vaccine comprised of recombinant proteins, rather than inactivated or weakened virus. The 16 January approval… Read More ›
H. pylori isn’t a major cause of death and may protect against stroke and some cancers
Contact: Lorinda Klein lorindaann.klein@nyumc.org 212-404-3533 NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine Disappearing bacterium may protect against stroke New York (January 9, 2013) — A new study by NYU School of Medicine researchers reveals that an… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 