April 2011

Italy/Ireland unemployment rising

April 30, 2011

Italy March Unemployment Rate Increases to 8.3% as Recovery Loses Momentum The unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent from a revised 8.2 percent in February, Rome-based national statistics institute Istat said in a preliminary estimate today. Youth unemployment has been pushing up the jobless right. Joblessness among those between the ages of 15 and 24 [...]

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Former Texas Representative “Jim” Solis Admits to Role in Limas Extortion Scheme

April 30, 2011

Former Texas representative Jose Santiago “Jim” Solis, has been convicted of aiding and abetting the extortion by former state district judge Abel Corral Limas, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. At today’s hearing, Solis admitted his part in former Judge Limas’ use of the office of judge of the 404th District Court as [...]

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UPDATE: Explosive Barges In Place

April 30, 2011

The explosive packed vessel that could destroy part of the Birds Point Levee in Mississippi County, Missouri is in place. That barge was moved from Hickman, Kentucky. The Army Corps of Engineers plans to blow up part of the levee to relieve flooding pressure in Cairo and other river towns. It will flood more than [...]

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Greenpeace marine radiation monitoring blocked by Japanese government

April 30, 2011

The Japanese Government has refused to grant Greenpeace permission to carry out independent radiation monitoring within the country’s 12 mile territorial waters, approving only a much more limited programme further out to sea. The organization’s flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, arrived outside Tokyo today, enroute to site of the stricken Fukushima nuclear complex. Greenpeace submitted a [...]

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HSBC under fire over leading role in land deals for Mubarak regime

April 30, 2011

Bank secured more than £450m for property developers now facing corruption charges. HSBC faces accusations that it helped to enrich senior Egyptian political and business figures now at the centre of corruption investigations. The bank’s involvement with controversial Egyptian tycoons has raised questions about the role played by its former chairman, Lord Green, who in [...]

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UPDATE:Feds investigating New Mexico plane crash into lake

April 29, 2011

Investigators have released more information of a New Mexico airplane crash with Idaho ties that has the Drug Enforcement Administration involved. On Sunday, a small Cessna registered to a Caldwell crashed into Heron Lake in New Mexico. Police say that plane was one of five based in a subleased hanger in Prescott, Arizona. All those [...]

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Ubuntu 11.04 ‘Natty Narwhal’ Release

April 29, 2011

What’s new in Ubuntu 11.04? from Canonical Design on Vimeo. >> Ubuntu

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PepsiCo Social Vending [social engineering]

April 29, 2011

>> TECCA

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McDonald’s April 19 Hiring Push Lands 62,000 Employees[Serfs]

April 29, 2011

McDonald’s Corp.’s (MCD) has hired 62,000 full- and part-time employees in conjunction with what it called National Hiring Day on April 19. She says the company received about 1,000,000 applicants as part of the hiring push. >> NASDAQ Phantom Report: McDonald’s employment = 62,000 service;servant, serf low wage dead end jobs. 938,000 unemployed

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Spanish Unemployment Rate Rises to More Than 21% as Inflation Accelerates

April 29, 2011

Spanish unemployment, the highest in Europe, rose more than expected as inflation accelerated and retail sales plunged, undermining the nation’s recovery from its worst recession in six decades. Joblessness rose to 21.3 percent in the first quarter, the National Statistics Institute said today in Madrid, compared with 20.3 percent in the previous three months and [...]

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Convicted RFK assassin says girl manipulated him

April 28, 2011

Convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan was manipulated by a seductive girl in a mind control plot to shoot Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and his bullets did not kill the presidential candidate, lawyers for Sirhan said in new legal papers. The documents filed this week in federal court detail extensive interviews with Sirhan during the past three [...]

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Strontium-89 from Japan found in Big Island milk

April 28, 2011

The state Health Department confirmed that strontium-89 from Japan’s nuclear release was detected in Big Island dairy milk after a nationwide high level of cesium also was found in the same April 4 testing. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency posted the finding Tuesday on its website, saying 1.4 picocuries per liter of strontium were detected [...]

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DARPA Caterpillar Robotics

April 28, 2011

The GoQBot is a soft-bodied silicone robot that’s four inches long and has actuators made of shape-memory alloy coils. This allows it to have a push-off time of less than 250 milliseconds, which is a lot faster than your push-off time, to say the least. DARPA is hoping to figure out how to use these [...]

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Missouri county starts evacuations as Corps decides levee fate

April 28, 2011

A rural Missouri county was evacuating residents on Wednesday from a 130,000-acre area that will be flooded if the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decides to blow up a Mississippi River levee. The Missouri attorney general has filed a federal lawsuit asking a judge to stop the Corps from detonating the levee at Birds Point. [...]

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Drug Cartels In Mexico And Colombia Allegedly Supplied With Weapons From Honduran Military

April 27, 2011

Gun stores on the U.S.-Mexico border have recently been criticized for their firearms ending up in the hands of drug cartels. However, a 2008 diplomatic cable obtained by Wikileaks draws light on another source for the cartels by claiming that the >>Honduran military at that time “lost” several U.S.-supplied military weapons. “The [United States Government] [...]

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Saudi Arabia detains bloggers over protest

April 27, 2011

Authorities in Saudi Arabia have detained two Shi’ite bloggers this week for taking part in demonstrations in the country’s oil-producing Eastern Province, a Shi’ite website and activists said on Wednesday. Shi’ite website, www.rasid.com, said on Wednesday police had stormed the houses of Mustafa al-Mubarak, 26, and Hussein al-Hashem, 25, arrested them and confiscated their computers. [...]

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Microsoft issues phishing alert for Xbox Live

April 27, 2011

Now Microsoft is experiencing its own online problems.Modern Warfare 2 is suffering phishing attacks, it seems. Microsoft today issued a Service Alert for Xbox Live to warn users of a security risk. The alert states that matchmaking has been affected by a phishing attempt inside Infinity Ward’s shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. “Users [...]

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Cocaine-Laden Plane Came from Ariz.

April 27, 2011

Update Investigators have determined that the cocaine-loaded plane that crashed in northern New Mexico’s Heron Lake came from the Prescott, Ariz., area. Lynn Lunsford, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said the starting point for the plane’s flight was determined by backtracking on radar hits from Sunday morning when the plane went down, littering [...]

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William S. Burroughs On Trial for Corrupting Turkish Morals

April 27, 2011

William S. Burroughs died in 1997, but he’s still causing trouble. The Turkish Prime Minister’s Council for Protecting Minors from Explicit Publications has accused Burroughs of “incompliance with moral norms” and “hurting people’s moral feelings.” The Turkish translation of The Soft Machine came out in January, and the Prime Minister’s Council accused it of developing [...]

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Robot Wars

April 27, 2011

>> SBS Dateline

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Great Central U.S. ShakeOut

April 27, 2011

2011 Great Central U.S. ShakeOut on April 28 at 10:15 a.m.! >> shakeout.org Phantom Report: New Madrid Seismic Zone

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New Heat Pump Could Last 10,000 Years

April 27, 2011

The new heat pump consists of many miniature heat pumps as small as one cubic millimeter. To heat a house one needs several thousand of them. They are put together into larger units that can be tall and thin or short and wide… “The most important advantages of the new heat pump is that you [...]

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Kroger Affirms Forecast, Sees Grocery Prices Hikes

April 27, 2011

Kroger Co. says grocery prices are rising slightly, and it is passing along those hikes, but it may benefit from fuel prices going up because the discounts it offers on gasoline could attract more shoppers. He said that some customers are showing with their spending that their personal economic situations have recovered, with sales up [...]

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Camera surveillance which use artificial intelligence to determine human activity

April 27, 2011

A Swedish company in the field of security has developed a new software for camera surveillance which use artificial intelligence to determine the pattern of human activity based on parameters derived from video data. The camera system with the developed VCA is connected to an alarm central which increase the security due to the fact [...]

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Food vs rent & Food Security

April 26, 2011

Food Security: New Threats, New Approaches In a press briefing last week, Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, cautioned that the world’s poor were “one shock away from a full-blown crisis” when it came to food security. Already, food prices are at an all-time high, with the United Nations’ FAO price index rising 25 [...]

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US Dollar, Japan S&P Rating, Yen

April 26, 2011

Japan Debt Outlook Cut to Negative by S&P on Reconstruction Japan’s sovereign-rating outlook was cut to “negative” by Standard & Poor’s as the nation’s reconstruction needs following last month’s earthquake will likely add to what’s already the world’s biggest debt load. The outlook on Japan’s local-currency debt rating, at AA-, the fourth-highest grade, was lowered [...]

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Why Gas Prices Are Nearing Records, When Crude Oil Prices Aren’t

April 26, 2011

The price of gas is very near its record high of $4.11 a gallon, set in August 2008. We’re only 7% below that record.Yet the price of crude oil, while high, isn’t anywhere close to the record of $147 set in August ’08. In fact, the cost of a gallon of oil is 24% lower [...]

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Robots Enter Crippled Japanese Reactor For First Time

April 26, 2011

After pushing their way through the outer doors of reactor buildings Unit 1 and Unit 3 the PackBot pair collected and analyzed air samples. The news was not good. Radiation levels were 49 millisieverts per hour in unit 1; in Unit 3 they reached 57 millisieverts per hour. To put that into perspective, workers [...]

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MIT researchers use genetically modified virus to produce structures that improve solar-cell efficiency by nearly one-third.

April 26, 2011

Researchers at MIT have found a way to make significant improvements to the power-conversion efficiency of solar cells by enlisting the services of tiny viruses to perform detailed assembly work at the microscopic level.. The viruses are used to help improve one particular step in the process of converting sunlight to electricity. In a solar [...]

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