June 2011

Fukushima children test positive for internal radiation exposure

June 30, 2011

Trace amounts of radioactive substances have been found in urine samples taken from children from Fukushima city, raising concerns that residents have been exposed internally to radiation from the stricken nuclear power plant 37 miles (60km) away. Tests were conducted in May on 10 children, aged between 6 and 16, by a Japanese civic group [...]

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Obama Counterterrorism Plan Focuses on Threat ‘From Within’

June 30, 2011

Zarate, now a senior adviser with the Center for Strategic & International Studies, a policy institute in Washington, said the greater emphasis on countering the threat of homegrown terrorists may be useful. He said it should not distract from the threat from groups beyond the core of al-Qaeda metastasizing and launching attacks outside the U.S. [...]

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Army tests ‘microgrids’

June 30, 2011

The Army plans to install microgrids in Afghanistan as part of its mission to reduce its energy-related vulnerability in the field. A three-month experiment will deploy a system designed to use fuel more efficiency and pave the way solar and wind power in the field, the Army said earlier this week. The microgrids the Army [...]

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Bacteria From Dutch Poultry Linked to Superbugs in People

June 30, 2011

Bacteria on raw poultry meat in the Netherlands may be a source of superbugs in people, according to a study that suggests the use of antibiotics in food animals is causing life-saving drugs to lose their potency. Multidrug-resistant bacteria were found in 80 percent of raw chicken bought from grocery stores in the southern Netherlands. [...]

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Los Alamos: scientists are called in to check for radiation

June 29, 2011

In case the fire was to close in, firefighters were ready to use foam to ensure that nothing would be released into the environment, he said. He told CNN: ‘We feel very comfortable that material is secure.’ Scientists were called in to check the atmosphere around the Los Alamos Laboratory for radioactive particles – as [...]

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France air-dropped weapons to Libyan rebels

June 29, 2011

Light arms and ammunition were sent to Berber tribal fighters in the Nafusa mountains in early June, it said. Earlier, a report in Le Figaro newspaper said the arms included rocket launchers and anti-tank missiles. France, a leading force in the Nato operation in Libya, did not inform its allies about the move, Le Figaro [...]

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U.S. cost of war at least $3.7 trillion

June 29, 2011

Staggering as it is, that figure grossly underestimates the total cost of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan [Libya + Yemen] to the U.S. Treasury and ignores more imposing costs yet to come, according to a study released on Wednesday. The final bill will run at least $3.7 trillion and could reach as high as [...]

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New San Francisco bridge built in China to be shipped to US

June 28, 2011

Next month, four enormous steel skeletons, the last of the 12 segments of the bridge, will be shipped 6,500 miles from Shanghai to San Francisco before being assembled on site. The bridge, which will connect San Francisco to Oakland on the other side of the bay, is a sign of how China has moved on [...]

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Google report reveals British government web snooping

June 28, 2011

The dominant search engine’s Transparency Report shows that in the six months to last December, British intelligence agencies, police and other government bodies asked it to hand over data 1,162 times. In raw numbers of requests, the United States topped the international table of 26 developed countries, with 4,601, but when population size was taken [...]

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NATO PSYOPS for Gadhafi forces transmitted by USAF EC-130J June 25. 2011

June 27, 2011

NATO PSYOPS for Gadhafi forces transmitted by USAF EC-130J June 25. 2011 (mp3) NATO with a message for Libyan army / Gadhafi forces! USAF Command Solo EC-130J #01-1935 as STEEL 74 with PSYOPS message on Libyan GMMRA frequency 10404.0 kHz Message was picked up with Icom R-8500 with long wire and balun on 25th of [...]

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Fire Threatens Los Alamos, Supercomputing Lab

June 27, 2011

As of Monday afternoon, the voluntary evacuation of Los Alamos had been changed to mandatory, and the lab reported that the fire had reached its property. “A one-acre spot fire was reported in Water Canyon, within Technical Area 49, on the Lab’s southwestern boundary,” the lab reported. Operations at Los Alamos Natioal Labs are spread [...]

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‘Super WiFi’ white space trials begin in Cambridge

June 27, 2011

The tests will use ‘white spaces’ in the radio spectrum. These areas that are not required for TV broadcasts, The Cambridge trial is similar to a white space trial in the remote Isle of Bute, off the west coast of Scotland, but will focus on machine to machine communication as well as rural broadband and [...]

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‘Robots can save America’, says Obama

June 27, 2011

President Obama has announced an ambitious plan to revitalise the economic health of the USA by deploying a mighty nationwide task force of robots. In a speech delivered on Friday launching the National Robotics Initiative – part of the wider Advanced Manufacturing Initiative – the President sought to boost US efforts in automation and robotics. [...]

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Lab-Grown Blood Vessels Used in Patients

June 27, 2011

Blood vessels grown in a laboratory were safely implanted in three kidney disease patients, enabling them to have regular dialysis without relying on traditional shunts that caused complications and failed, researchers said. The foot-long vessels were engineered from donor skin cells, grown on sheets and rolled around temporary supports to form a cylindrical shape, according [...]

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CIA Report: United States Account Balance – Negative $561 Billion

June 26, 2011

Phantom Report: Thanks to Kevin Hayden >> Truth is Treason   Source: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) The Central Intelligence Agency often reports interesting tidbits in their online publication, The World Factbook.  A reader sent me a link pointing towards the “current account balance” of all the countries in the world.  The entry records a country’s net [...]

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Flood berm bursts at Nebraska nuclear plant

June 26, 2011

A water-filled berm protecting a nuclear power plant in Nebraska from rising floodwaters collapsed Sunday, according to a spokesman, who said the plant remains secure. Some sort of machinery came in contact with the berm, puncturing it and causing the berm to deflate, said Mike Jones, a spokesman for the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD), [...]

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Weaker Economies Will Probably Exit The Euro

June 26, 2011

George Soros said at a panel discussion in Vienna today that “We are on the verge of an economic collapse which starts, let’s say, in Greece, but it could easily spread.” He also explained how the crisis will probably end, according to >>Bloomberg: it’s “probably inevitable” that a mechanism will have to be put in [...]

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Experimental Acoustic Ground Cloak in Air

June 26, 2011

We present the design, fabrication, and performance analysis for a class of two-dimensional acoustic cloaking coatings in air. Our approach takes advantage of transformation acoustics and linear coordinate transformations that result in shells which are homogeneous, broadband, and compact. The required material parameters are highly anisotropic; however, we show that they are easily achievable in [...]

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World Bank wants anti-graft lessons on school curriculum in poor countries

June 25, 2011

Tackling corruption should be put on the curriculum for every school child in the world’s poorest countries, according to the World Bank’s anti-graft chief, Leonard McCarthy. “We want to develop a practical manual that the authorities can use, and a curriculum for school children,” he told the Observer. “You need to find a way to [...]

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Power shortages force Japanese car firms into weekly shutdowns

June 25, 2011

Japanese car companies will stop working on Thursdays and Fridays next month and transfer shifts to weekends in a move that industry executives hope will relieve the pressure on Japan’s faltering electricity supply. A cut in peak demand during the week is expected to help Japanese electricity suppliers as they wrestle with the loss of [...]

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Super spy camera surveillance network to fight crime

June 25, 2011

In the ultimate Big Brother crime-fighting tool, the super network of cameras in public spaces would be used to weed out troublemakers and serious offenders by electronically scouring databases of potentially thousands of facial features for a match. Experts behind an Australian-first trial of the technology in Queensland expect it to lead to a sophisticated [...]

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Top U.S. admiral admits we are trying to kill Qaddafi

June 25, 2011

The top U.S. admiral involved in the Libya war admitted to a U.S. congressman that NATO forces are trying to kill Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi. The same admiral also said he anticipated the need for ground troops in Libya after Qaddafi falls, according to the lawmaker. House Armed Services Committee member Mike Turner (R-OH) told [...]

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Nigel Farages tries to make Barroso see sense on the Greek Economy

June 24, 2011
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Italy bank shares dive on credit rating alert

June 24, 2011

Moody’s report, published late on Thursday, put 16 Italian banks and two government institutions on review for a possible mark-down. Shares in the country’s biggest bank, Unicredit, lost more than 8%. Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s second-largest bank, and Monte Paschi also dropped. Trading was suspended in some banks. Other factors weighing on bank shares included fears [...]

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Nevada passes law giving self-driving cars the OK

June 24, 2011

Assembly Bill No. 511 permits the Nevada Department of Transportation to create rules and regulations for using self-driving cars like the ones Google is working on. The law requires the Nevada DOT to designate areas where the autonomous vehicles can be tested. The self-driving vehicles use artificial intelligence, sensors, and GPS coordinates. The “driver” programs [...]

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Gen. David H. Petraeus suggests interrogation policy for emergencies

June 24, 2011

Gen. David H. Petraeus, President Obama’s choice to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, told senators Thursday that the U.S. should consider a policy for using special interrogation techniques when a detainee is withholding information that is immediately needed to save lives. In the vast majority of cases, Petraeus said, the “humane” [...]

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China opens string of spy schools

June 24, 2011

The new schools aim to transform and modernise the Chinese intelligence services, producing spies who are trained in the latest methods of data collection and analysis. Each school will recruit around 30 to 50 carefully-selected existing undergraduates each year. The move echoes similar efforts by Western intelligence agencies, including MI5, to improve their analytical capabilities [...]

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Hackers break into Arizona police computers

June 23, 2011

Computer hackers who previously broke into a U.S. Senate server and brought down the CIA web site struck an Arizona police web site on Thursday, releasing dozens of internal documents over the Internet. Lulz Security, saying it opposed a tough anti-immigration law in Arizona, said it was releasing documents that related to border control and [...]

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Billion-dollar pledges for Central America security

June 23, 2011

The World Bank unveiled Wednesday a billion-dollar bid to support security measures in Central America, as the United States and Inter-American Development Bank upped their funding in the region as well. The new monies come amid an upsurge in drug-related killings in Central America, a region the United Nations says is now the world’s most [...]

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