William Leonard, who oversaw state secrecy under George W Bush, says successive US presidents have abused system Ed Pilkington in New York guardian.co.uk, Friday 15 March 2013 13.26 EDT Leonard said new executive powers had been created without congressional… Read More ›
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Egypt’s Islamists warn giving women some rights could destroy society
Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:59 GMT Reuters * U.N. racing to agree women’s rights declaration by Friday * Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood urges rejection of document * States failed to agree a 2012 women’s rights declaration (Corrects second paragraph to show… Read More ›
Prenatal exposure to pesticide DDT linked to adult high blood pressure
Contact: Michele La Merrill mlamerrill@ucdavis.edu 347-791-1053 University of California – Davis Infant girls exposed to high levels of the pesticide DDT while still inside the womb are three times more likely to develop hypertension when they become adults, according to… Read More ›
US Commander in Afghanistan issues threat advisory after Karzai’s anti-American comments
Mar 14, 2013 21:29 Moscow Time Photo: EPA The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan has been put on heightened alert in connection with bellicose rhetoric by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, local media reported on Thursday. Earlier this week,… Read More ›
U.S. to give security services access to citizens’ financial data
Mar 14, 2013 05:58 Moscow Time The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has announced plans to allow special services access to financial data of all citizens who have accounts in the U.S.. This applies to both Americans and… Read More ›
North Korea threatens to ‘wipe out’ border island
Priyanka Boghani and Geoffrey CainMarch 12, 2013 09:56 SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has threatened to “wipe out” a small South Korean island in the latest escalation of rhetoric on the Korean peninsula. Speaking during a visit to border… 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 ›
Japan cracks seabed ‘ice gas’ in dramatic leap for global energy / radically change the world’s energy outlook.
Japan has extracted natural “ice” gas from methane hydrates beneath the sea off its coasts in a technological coup, opening up a super-resource that could meet the country’s gas needs for the next century and radically change the world’s energy… Read More ›
Afghan president Hamid Karzai Claims US was effectively colluding with the Taliban in maintaining violence to prolong America’s presence in the country.White House rejected as “categorically false”
White House: claims of US collusion with Taliban ‘categorically false’ Obama spokesman rejects Karzai’s criticism of US as Afghan in police uniform kills seven including two American troops Ewen MacAskill in Washington guardian.co.uk, Monday 11 March 2013 15.51 EDT The… Read More ›
School Confiscates Cupcakes Decorated with Toy Soldiers
Mar 7, 2013 By Todd Starnes A Michigan elementary school is defending its decision to confiscate a third-graders batch of homemade cupcakes because the birthday treats were decorated with plastic green Army soldiers. Casey Fountain told Fox News that the… Read More ›
N Korea cuts hotline with Seoul
N Korea scraps peace pacts, cuts hotline with Seoul Mar. 08, 2013 – 01:27PM JST ( 17 ) North Korean soldiers attend a rally in Pyongyang, on March 7, 2013AFP SEOUL — North Korea responded to new U.N. sanctions on… Read More ›
Kraft under pressure over ‘cancer-causing’ yellow food coloring in Macaroni & Cheese after 41,000 sign petition to ban additive
Mothers Lisa Leake and Vani Hari have generated 41,482 signatures on a Change.org petition demanding that Kraft remove two food dyes from its Macaroni & Cheese The two dyes – yellow 5 and yellow 6 – are used only in… 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 ›
N. Korea shows some signs of preparing for war
Kyodo — Mar 07 Some indications of North Korea preparing for a war were observable in the capital Pyongyang on Wednesday, a day after the North threatened to scrap the cease-fire that ended the 1950-1953 Korean War. Some… Read More ›
$36 Billion of Military Hardware Could Be Destroyed in Afghan Pullout
Newsmax Tuesday, March 5, 2013 11:21 AM By: Todd Beamon The Obama White House is cutting $65 billion in the sequester, but it could easily leave or torch 750,000 pieces of major military hardware — worth $36 billion — in… 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 ›
Russia conducts largest nuclear drill in 20 years
Russian nuclear forces conducted a major exercise last month that tested the transport of both strategic and tactical nuclear weapons near Europe, according to United States officials..The exercise raised concerns inside the Pentagon and with the U.S. European Command because… Read More ›
Obama Administration Says President Can Use Lethal Force Against Americans on US Soil
—By Adam Serwer | Tue Mar. 5, 2013 12:55 PM PST Fang Zhe/Xinhua/ZUMAPress Yes, the president does have the authority to use military force against American citizens on US soil—but only in “an extraordinary circumstance,” Attorney General Eric Holder said… Read More ›
Lord of War and Peace: How One Man Became The Biggest Private Arms Merchant in Africa
EEV: Posted by request from our friends at Vocativ Video Really recommend you stay with the video till the bizarre last 10 seconds. Sometimes these small unguarded glimpses reveal mountains. Published on Mar 4, 2013 War is big business. The… Read More ›
N. Korea threatens to scrap armistice accord
AFP Tuesday, Mar 05, 2013 SEOUL – North Korea threatened Tuesday to scrap the armistice which ended the Korean War in 1953, citing US moves to impose sanctions for its nuclear test and tensions over South Korean-US exercises. The threat… 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 ›
Incomes suffer biggest drop in TWENTY years, alarming new figures show
Part of decline was after 2.6 percent surge in December as businesses rushed to pay dividends and bonuses before the new year Consumer spending rose 0.2 percent linked to utilities but decline in goods Savings were the smallest since December… Read More ›
‘Defective’ virus surprisingly plays major role in spread of disease, UCLA life scientists report
Contact: Stuart Wolpert swolpert@support.ucla.edu 310-206-0511 University of California – Los Angeles Defective viruses, thought for decades to be essentially garbage unrelated to the transmission of normal viruses, now appear able to play an important role in the spread of disease,… Read More ›
Mutation altering stability of surface molecule in acid enables H5N1 infection of mammals
Contact: Jim Sliwa jsliwa@asmusa.org 202-942-9297 American Society for Microbiology A single mutation in the H5N1 avian influenza virus that affects the pH at which the hemagglutinin surface protein is activated simultaneously reduces its capacity to infect ducks and enhances its… Read More ›
Eating junk food while pregnant may make your child a junk food addict
Contact: Cody Mooneyhan cmooneyhan@faseb.org 301-634-7104 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology New research in The FASEB Journal shows that eating a junk food diet during pregnancy changes the development of the opioid signaling pathway in the baby’s brain, resulting… Read More ›
Antioxidant improves donated liver survival rate to more than 90 percent
Contact: Dawn Peters sciencenewsroom@wiley.com 781-388-8408 Wiley Researchers from Italy have found that the antioxidant, N-acetylcysteine (NAC), when injected prior to harvesting of the liver, significantly improves graft survival following transplantation. Results published in the February issue of Liver Transplantation, a… Read More ›
US drug prosecutors switch sides to defend accused Colombian traffickers
After working to take down cartels, former officials say America’s ‘war on drugs’ is misguided and the human cost too high Rory Carroll in Los Angeles The Guardian, Wednesday 27 February 2013 11.46 EST Leo Arreguin, right, was a… Read More ›
Contaminated Diet Contributes to Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: Phthalates and BPA * 183mg per Kg of bodyweight per Day!!! *
Phthalates and bisphenol A are synthetic endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Previous studies have linked prenatal exposure to phthalates to male reproductive system abnormalities. Fetal exposure to BPA is linked to hyperactivity, anxiety, and depression in girls. People may exposed to these chemicals… Read More ›
Exclusive: Secret war on enemy within – British terror suspects quietly stripped of citizenship… then killed by drones
Chris Woods, Alice K Ross, Oliver Wright Wednesday, 27 February 2013 The Government has secretly ramped up a controversial programme that strips people of their British citizenship on national security grounds – with two of the men subsequently killed… Read More ›
Russia’s Putin tells army to shape up to face foreign threat
By Alexei AnishchukPosted 2013/02/27 at 10:44 am EST MOSCOW, Feb. 27, 2013 (Reuters) — Vladimir Putin ordered military leaders on Wednesday to make urgent improvements to the armed forces during his new presidential term, saying Russia must thwart attempts by… Read More ›
Facebook pays no income tax
Feb 27, 2013 16:39 Moscow Time Photo: EPA It is known that America is the land of the free and the home of the brave. The only problem that the today’s America is the home of corporations which are free… Read More ›
Symantec discovers 2005 US computer virus attack on Iran nuclear plants
Internet security firm finds early ‘Stuxnet O.5’ version revealing espionage and sabotage virus released under George W Bush Charles Arthur, technology editor guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 26 February 2013 13.19 EST An alleged uranium-enrichment facility near Qom, Iran. Symantec have… 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 ›
Your Medical Records Are Part of a $19 Billion Experiment : Fraudulent billing. Identity theft. Greater expense and inefficiency. Loss of privacy
Posted By ANH-USA On February 26, 2013 @ 2:00 pm Fraudulent billing. Identity theft. Greater expense and inefficiency. Loss of privacy. And campaign donations from the companies benefiting most. Electronic medical records (EMR) came into mainstream consciousness after a hardcore lobbying effort… Read More ›
Fecal microbiota transplantation cures gastrointestinal diseases: 90% cure rate
Contact: Aimee Frank media@gastro.org 301-941-2620 American Gastroenterological Association Stool transplants highly efficient for Clostridium difficile infections and other gastrointestinal conditions — 2nd World Summit ‘Gut Microbiota For Health’ held in Madrid (26 February 2013) Clostridium difficile infections have developed into… Read More ›
‘The country that attacks first will die 27 minutes later’ – Stanislav Petrov
Oksana Zenner Feb 19, 2013 15:58 Moscow Time Stanislav Petrov Photo: RIA Novosti The International Peace Prize ceremony was held in Dresden. Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov became the prize-winner this year. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov prevented the beginning… Read More ›
US Supreme Court throws out challenge to surveillance law
Feb 26, 2013 20:21 Moscow Time Photo: EPA US-based journalists, lawyers and human rights groups cannot challenge a federal law that allows surveillance of some international communications, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in a case touching on government efforts… 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 ›
Fish mislabeling widespread in U.S. and 84% of ‘white tuna’ is a species which causes distressing gastrointestinal side effects
59 percent of fish sold as ‘tuna’ in restaurants and grocery stores is not actually tuna Fish sold as ‘white tuna’ is usually escolar which causes prolonged, oily, anal leakage when eaten in quantities more than six ounces By Daily… Read More ›
Killer robots must be stopped, say campaigners
‘Autonomous weapons’, which could be ready within a decade, pose grave risk to international law, claim activists Tracy McVeigh The Observer, Saturday 23 February 2013 16.52 EST A scene from the 2003 film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Scientists… Read More ›
Will new fed guidelines force companies to hire more employees with criminal pasts?
Published February 23, 2013 | FoxNews.com Employers could be pressured to hire more workers with a criminal background under recent guidelines issued by the federal government. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s guidelines warn businesses about rejecting minority applicants who… Read More ›
Beef to the rich, horsemeat to the poor? “We can’t just throw away good food” – Germany’s Minister
Feb 24, 2013 00:36 Moscow Time Photo: EPA Horsemeat-tainted food should be given to the poor, Germany’s development minister Dirk Niebel suggested. The opposition dismissed the idea as absurd, but a priest said it should be considered, although horsemeat may… Read More ›
Macedonia to jail individuals producing or selling GM Foods
Saturday, 23 February 2013 While the Serb Government has promised to find and punish individuals and organizations repsonsible for spreading false stories natural milk was poisonous in order for the population to favor the import of GM milk, Macedonia went… Read More ›
FBI agents caught sexting and dating drug dealers
Dating drug dealers, harassing ex-boyfriends with naked pictures, and pointing guns at pet dogs: these were just a few of the offences committed recently by serving FBI agents, according to internal documents. Egyptian state security thanked the US for ‘training… Read More ›
China slams Abe over comments in Washington Post
Feb. 22, 2013 – 04:10PM JST BEIJING — China on Friday slammed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for telling a U.S. newspaper that Beijing had a “deeply ingrained” need to challenge its neighbors over territory. Abe, visiting the United States… Read More ›
Court Scoffs at Light Sentence for CEO’s Fraud
By KEVIN KOENINGER CINCINNATI (CN) – The seven-day sentence given to a former CEO whose money-laundering scheme cost investors more $18 million was as “unreasonably low,” the 6th Circuit ruled. Michael Peppel was president, CEO… Read More ›
Omega-3 lipid emulsions markedly protect brain after stroke in mouse study – DHA
Contact: Karin Eskenazi ket2116@columbia.edu 212-342-0508 Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY (February 20, 2013) — Triglyceride lipid emulsions rich in an omega-3 fatty acid injected within a few hours of an ischemic stroke can decrease the amount of damaged… Read More ›
Just say don’t: Doctors question routine tests and treatments
Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:00 GMT Reuters By Sharon Begley NEW YORK, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Now there are 135. That’s how many medical tests, treatments and other procedures – many used for decades – physicians have now identified as… Read More ›
Man-made chemicals cited in health scourges -UN report : “a global threat that needs to be resolved,”
Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:59 GMT Reuters * Childhood cancers, male sperm count cited * Action said needed to avert global threat * Product labels may not identify components By Robert Evans GENEVA, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Man-made chemicals in… Read More ›
Was he murdered? Mystery death of American engineer working in Singapore on cutting-edge military technology ‘who had deep misgivings about his work’
Shane Todd, an American working on an 18-month assignment in Singapore, was found hanged in his apartment in June 2012 Family claims he was murdered and Singapore police refuse to accept help from FBI Todds also recovered hard drive with… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 