Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Pirate Bay continues to expand despite mounting anti-piracy movement...

The Pirate Bay inarguably proved its resilience in 2013, making no less than six domain changes and evading international copyright enforcers. It increased its uploads by 50 percent while maintaining its position as the world’s most popular torrent site.

More than 2.8 million files are now available for download at the BitTorrent site, the overwhelming majority of which are illegally posted music, film, and video game files. What the entertainment industry says is flagrant copyright infringement has made The Pirate Bay - which was founded in Sweden and is commonly referred to as TPB - a prime target for the entertainment industry and internet service providers.

Anti-piracy crusaders have censored the site in many countries, with a firewall in the United Kingdom forcing users to either quit their file-sharing from TPB or find a way around the firewall. The site has also struggled to keep a consistent home, moving six times over the past year. The most recent move shifted TPB’s web address back to Sweden at ThePirateBay.SE.

Combined with these factors was the controversial six-strike policy introduced in the US at the end of 2012. The copyright alert system promised to warn web users accused of downloading files illegally that they would lose internet access if they failed to curtail their activity.

 Yet traffic to TPB nearly doubled over the first half of 2013. A new report from TorrentFreak indicates that the 50 percent increase in uploaded files is simply more evidence showing that TPB has yet to slow down. Full story...

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India: Women and children regularly raped and abused...

Various research and case studies have been conducted on the treatment of women and young girls in India and other south Asian communities, and have illustrated that females are considered subpecies by much of the male populace and are thus prey for sexual predators.

The case of a 23-year-old student who was gang raped on a bus in Delhi last year, brought international outrage and highlighted a serious problem in Indian society. With the spotlight of international scrutiny on the treatment of young girls and women in India, many assumed that it might have acted as a deterrent and bothered the conscience of would-be rapists and unscrupulous individuals in society.

However, such assumptions have proved false as numerous cases of rape and abuse against women and young girls have continued with frequent occurrence, more recently the case of a 21-year-old female who was gang raped by two unrelated gangs in separate incidents on Christmas Eve 2013.

A BBC News report explains that the young woman who was visiting friends in Pondicherry was abducted by three men and raped. After the ordeal she eventually found her friends who she had gone to visit, who tried to console her. However the victim and her friends were then all confronted by another group of men who singled her out and gang-raped her. Full story...

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Sandy Hook police report contains no evidence that mass shooting took place and strengthens notion that it was a fabricated hoax...

The full police investigation into the alleged Sandy Hook mass shooting has finally been released to the public. The release contains thousands of documents including hours of video footage and numerous photographs pertaining to the investigation. As expected the content is heavily redacted which alone raises more questions about the official story. Perhaps even more interesting is the content that hasn’t been redacted which by itself provides more evidence suggesting that this so-called shooting incident is a complete and total fabrication.

First off, the timing of this release is highly suspicious. If the police were looking to release this information at a time when as few people as possible would see the material, this was it. The material was released this past Friday afternoon when many people were getting ready to leave work or were on vacation due to the end of the year holidays. They also chose to release the videos in WMA file format which is one of the larger video file formats you could encode video into. If they wanted as many people as possible to see the video footage they would be compressing these into smaller file formats. Obviously they wanted the opposite to happen.

Some of the non-redacted material is very interesting. For example, there are photos showing the clothing that the supposed shooter Adam Lanza was said to be wearing. According to the official story Lanza was said to have committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. When someone gets shot in the head it typically results in a bloody mess. If you look at these photos there isn’t one speck of blood on any of his clothes. Unless he stripped out of his clothing before killing himself it is impossible to believe that no blood stains would be found. The same can also be said about the photos of the weapons Lanza allegedly used. There is no blood shown on any of them including on the Glock hand gun that he would have most likely used to kill himself. Full story...

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The NSA has nearly complete backdoor access to Apple's iPhone...

The U.S. National Security Agency has the ability to snoop on nearly every communication sent from an Apple iPhone, according to leaked documents shared by security researcher Jacob Appelbaum and German news magazine Der Spiegel.

An NSA program called DROPOUTJEEP allows the agency to intercept SMS messages, access contact lists, locate a phone using cell tower data, and even activate the device’s microphone and camera.

According to leaked documents, the NSA claims a 100 percent success rate when it comes to implanting iOS devices with spyware. The documents suggest that the NSA needs physical access to a device to install the spyware—something the agency has achieved by rerouting shipments of devices purchased online—but a remote version of the exploit is also in the works.

Appelbaum says that presents one of two possibilities:

 “Either [the NSA] have a huge collection of exploits that work against Apple products, meaning they are hoarding information about critical systems that American companies produce, and sabotaging them, or Apple sabotaged it themselves,” Appelbaum said at the Chaos Communication Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Full story...

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Why you shouldn't be afraid of eating fat...

Who here remembers when SnackWells arrived and the low-fat craze started?

Ah, 1992…the beginning of the onslaught of low-fat and non-fat “food” products. Back then, I believed that I could eat as much low-fat or non-fat “food” as I wanted without having to worry about calories. As a person who has always loved sweets and baked things, it was a dream come true! I remember arguing about it with my mother, who insisted that calories still did matter – and warned me that eating a box of fat-free cookies every day was probably going to make me fat.

She was right, as usual.

The low-fat/no-fat craze is partially responsible for our current weight problem here in America.

Why?

Well, so-called experts started telling us that calories didn’t matter – as long as we ate low-fat or non-fat food, we’d be fine. (Calories DO matter, and so does where we get them from. More on that later.)

And – dietary fat improves the taste and texture of food. Take it out, and what is left? Dry cardboard-tasting “cookies”. Full story...

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A.D.H.D. experts re-evaluate study’s zeal for drugs...

Twenty years ago, more than a dozen leaders in child psychiatry received $11 million from the National Institute of Mental Health to study an important question facing families with children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Is the best long-term treatment medication, behavioral therapy or both?

The widely publicized result was not only that medication like Ritalin or Adderall trounced behavioral therapy, but also that combining the two did little beyond what medication could do alone. The finding has become a pillar of pharmaceutical companies’ campaigns to market A.D.H.D. drugs, and is used by insurance companies and school systems to argue against therapies that are usually more expensive than pills.

But in retrospect, even some authors of the study — widely considered the most influential study ever on A.D.H.D. — worry that the results oversold the benefits of drugs, discouraging important home- and school-focused therapy and ultimately distorting the debate over the most effective (and cost-effective) treatments.

The study was structured to emphasize the reduction of impulsivity and inattention symptoms, for which medication is designed to deliver quick results, several of the researchers said in recent interviews. Less emphasis was placed on improving children’s longer-term academic and social skills, which behavioral therapy addresses by teaching children, parents and teachers to create less distracting and more organized learning environments.

 Recent papers have also cast doubt on whether medication’s benefits last as long as those from therapy. Full story...

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Monday, December 30, 2013

Pregnant nurse: I was fired for refusing flu vaccine...

A pregnant nurse tells CNN she was fired from her job after she refused to get a flu shot for fear of miscarrying.

"I'm a healthy person. I take care of my body. For me, the potential risk was not worth it," Dreonna Breton told CNN Sunday. "I'm not gonna be the one percent of people that has a problem."

Breton, 29, worked as a nurse at Horizons Healthcare Services in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when she was told that all employees were required to get a flu shot. The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention advises that all health care professionals get vaccinated annually.

She told her employers that she would not get the vaccine after she explained that there were very limited studies of the effects on pregnant women.

Breton came to the decision with her family after three miscarriages. Full story...

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Religion as a product of psychotropic drug use...

The notion that hallucinogenic drugs played a significant part in the development of religion has been extensively discussed, particularly since the middle of the twentieth century. Various ideas of this type have been collected into what has become known as the entheogen theory. The word entheogen is a neologism coined in 1979 by a group of ethnobotanists (those that study the relationship between people and plants). The literal meaning of entheogen is "that which causes God to be within an individual" and might be considered as a more accurate and academic term for popular terms such as hallucinogen or psychedelic drug. By the term entheogen we understand the use of psychoactive substances for religious or spiritual reasons rather than for purely recreational purposes.

Perhaps one of the first things to consider is whether there is any direct evidence for the entheogenic theory of religion which derives from contemporary science. One famous example that has been widely discussed is the Marsh Chapel experiment. This experiment was run by the Harvard Psilocybin Project in the early 1960s, a research project spearheaded by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert. Leary had traveled to Mexico in 1960, where he had been introduced to the effects of hallucinogenic psilocybin-containing mushrooms and was anxious to explore the implications of the drug for psychological research.

On Good Friday 1962, two groups of students received either psilocybin or niacin (a nonhallucinogenic "control" substance) on a double-blind basis prior to the service in Boston University's Marsh Chapel. Following the service nearly the entire group receiving psilocybin reported having had a profound religious experience, compared to just a few in the control group. This result was therefore judged to have supported the entheogenic potential of hallucinogenic drug use. Interestingly, the experiment has subsequently been repeated under somewhat different and arguably better controlled circumstances and the results were substantially the same. Full story...

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I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on...

Whenever I read comments by politicians defending the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Predator and Reaper program – aka drones – I wish I could ask them a few questions. I'd start with: "How many women and children have you seen incinerated by a Hellfire missile?" And: "How many men have you seen crawl across a field, trying to make it to the nearest compound for help while bleeding out from severed legs?" Or even more pointedly: "How many soldiers have you seen die on the side of a road in Afghanistan because our ever-so-accurate UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] were unable to detect an IED [improvised explosive device] that awaited their convoy?"

Few of these politicians who so brazenly proclaim the benefits of drones have a real clue of what actually goes on. I, on the other hand, have seen these awful sights first hand.

I knew the names of some of the young soldiers I saw bleed to death on the side of a road. I watched dozens of military-aged males die in Afghanistan, in empty fields, along riversides, and some right outside the compound where their family was waiting for them to return home from the mosque.

The US and British militaries insist claim that this is an expert program, but it's curious that they feel the need to deliver faulty information, few or no statistics about civilian deaths and twisted technology reports on the capabilities of our UAVs. These specific incidents are not isolated, and the civilian casualty rate has not changed, despite what our defense representatives might like to tell us. Full story...

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We need to talk about TED...

In our culture, talking about the future is sometimes a polite way of saying things about the present that would otherwise be rude or risky.

But have you ever wondered why so little of the future promised in TED talks actually happens? So much potential and enthusiasm, and so little actual change. Are the ideas wrong? Or is the idea about what ideas can do all by themselves wrong?

I write about entanglements of technology and culture, how technologies enable the making of certain worlds, and at the same time how culture structures how those technologies will evolve, this way or that. It's where philosophy and design intersect.

So the conceptualization of possibilities is something that I take very seriously. That's why I, and many people, think it's way passed time to take a step back and ask some serious questions about the intellectual viability of things like TED.

So my TED talk is not about my work or my new book – the usual spiel – but about TED itself, what it is and why it doesn't work. Full story...

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NSA intercepting laptops ordered online, installing spyware...

With each new story we hear of the NSA’s spying program, things get a little bit crazier—a little more Hollywood, and a lot more galling.

From planting agents in video games like World of Warcraft to a spy satellite adorned with a world-devouring, tentacled octopus (pictured above) the NSA has shown time and again that it’s willing to go to just about any length to gather intelligence on both domestic and foreign citizens.

The latter isn’t problematic beyond diplomatic tension. Spy agencies are, by design, bankrolled to spy on allies and enemies abroad. When it comes to domestic spying, however, we run into problems.

The latest report, this time via Der Spiegel and based on internal NSA documents, reveals that the NSA, in conjunction with the CIA and FBI, has begun intercepting laptops purchased online in order to install (quite literal) spyware and even hardware on the machines. The NSA terms this “interdiction.” Agents divert shipments to secret warehouses, carefully open the packages, install the software and/or hardware, and send them on their way.

According to the report, this operation is carried out by the NSA’s elite hacking unit, or TAO—not to be confused with the much less imposing Taoism—though there are few details on the scope or targets of the program. Full story...

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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Why won't the west call out Saudi Arabia for persecution of democratic activists?

At the memorial for Nelson Mandela, President Barack Obama eulogized the fallen leader:

Like Gandhi, he would lead a resistance movement – a movement that at its start held little prospect of success. Like [Martin Luther] King, he would give potent voice to the claims of the oppressed.

Listening in the crowd sat Prince Murqin bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's second deputy prime minister. Apparently the words were lost on the government His Royal Highness was representing (though it's questionable he even relayed the message), because within the next week, a Saudi judge sentenced democratic activist Omar al-Saeed to 4 years in prison and 300 lashes. His crime: calling for a constitutional monarchy (a government that would likely outlaw such cruel and unusual punishment).

Saeed is a member of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (Acpra), an organization documenting human rights abuses and calling for democratic reform. He is its fourth member to be sentenced to prison this year. In March, co-founders Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani (who I have met in the past, and previously wrote about) and Abdullah al-Hamid were sentenced to prison terms of 10 and 5 years on charges such as "breaking allegiance with the ruler" and running an unlicensed political organization – despite repeated attempts to obtain a license. Full story...

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Woman goes berserk over lack of shark's fins!!!

Australia’s treatment of refugees is 'cruel and mean-spirited’

Sixty years after he left his home and family in London, aged 16, to work on a cattle station in outback Australia — discovering a breed of people with whom he felt “free and at home” – Miller has decried his adopted nation as cruel, intolerant and mean-spirited.

In a scathing essay for a new book in Australia, he says his concerns about what he regards as the inhumanity of his fellow citizens “are forcing me to reconsider what it means to be an Australian”.

Likening Australia’s “cruel and inhumane” treatment of asylum seekers to Britain’s treatment of the Jews fleeing the Nazis for British-ruled Palestine, Miller said his fellow countrymen belonged to a nation of migrants and should feel ashamed of their hypocrisy.

“Sadly, among many refugees and migrants and their children there is an attitude of, 'We’re in! You can shut the door now,’ ” Miller writes. “We enjoy the riches of being one of the world’s most successful multicultural societies. So why don’t we feel betrayed and shamed as Australians and as human beings by the cruel and inhuman treatment our government is meting out to refugees?”

 His bitter assessment was spurred by Australia’s adoption of some of the world’s toughest measures against asylum seekers. In a bid to stem the flow of people arriving in unseaworthy boats from Indonesia, Australia began deporting them this year to detention centres on two remote Pacific islands, and barred any from settling in Australia. Full story...

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Saturday, December 28, 2013

Monster porn: Amazon cracks down on America's latest sex fantasy...

Author Virginia Wade's fiction debut follows a group of women who embark on a week-long camping trip to Mt. Hood National Forest. There, in the shadow of Oregon’s highest mountain, they are kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a mysterious woodland creature. "What the hell is that thing?" asks one protagonist.

“‘It's f---ing Bigfoot,’ hissed Shelly. ‘He's real, for f---'s sake.’ Horror filled her eyes. ‘With a huge c---.’”

The book, with the decidedly un-PG title "Cum For Bigfoot," is just the first of 16 fiction ebooks that Wade (a pen name) has written about the legendary beast sometimes known as Sasquatch, each detailing a series of graphic and often violent sexual encounters between the apelike creature and his female human lovers. Wade has made an exceptional living writing these stories.

It began in December of 2011. A stay-at-home mother from Parker, Colo., Wade had no ambition to be a published author and no real writing experience other than a few attempts at historical romance in the mid-90s. But then, she says, "I got this crazy idea for a story." So she sat down and wrote the entire book — more of a novella, at just 12,000 words — in a matter of weeks. She never even considered trying to sell it to a mainstream publisher. Instead, she went directly to Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing, an online platform for self-publishing with a 70% royalty rate for authors. (The average royalty percentage for authors with mainstream publishers is between 8 and 15%.) Full story...

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Does reading actually change the brain?

After reading a novel, actual changes linger in the brain, at least for a few days, report researchers.

Their findings, that reading a novel may cause changes in resting-state connectivity of the brain that persist, appear in the journal Brain Connectivity.

“Stories shape our lives and in some cases help define a person,” says neuroscientist Gregory Berns, lead author of the study and the director of Emory University’s Center for Neuropolicy. “We want to understand how stories get into your brain, and what they do to it.”

Neurobiological research using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has begun to identify brain networks associated with reading stories. Most previous studies have focused on the cognitive processes involved in short stories, while subjects are actually reading them as they are in the fMRI scanner.

The study focused on the lingering neural effects of reading a narrative. Twenty-one Emory undergraduates participated in the experiment, which was conducted over 19 consecutive days. Full story...

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Houston police donning body cameras...

Over the past few weeks 100 Houston police employees have been given wearable body cameras. The head of their outfit – Charles McClelland – said that, “in trying to be accountable to the public, and being open and transparent, we’re very excited about this” and listed as benefits a lessening of citizen complaints, more convictions in court, better attitudes adjusted on both sides of the camera, and an officer safety enhancement as the video can be used for training purposes. But are body cams a step in the right direction or just the latest attempt to try to maintain authority?

As 90% of police interactions happen away from the area captured by dash cams, McClelland noted that that these body cams will make moot that need. The cost cited for each unit is $2,500 per ($850-1000 for the camera and the rest for storage capacity). Each device can record video and audio for four hours and the data is kept on police servers for 90 days unless needed for court.

But just how easy will it be to obtain that footage? For example, suppose someone claims their rights were violated – will the recording be made public immediately? Will it necessitate a FOIA request? Will it be guarded or go missing? If McClelland and his crew wanted to save taxpayer money and maximize transparency why not upload all raw footage to their existing YouTube channel? Or perhaps make new YouTube channels for each patrol division and have a standard naming convention (ie date-time-badgenumber-videoclip)? Full story...

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Anelka faces FA probe over "sickening" salute...

Footballer Nicolas Anelka could face an FA investigation after he celebrated a goal with a controversial gesture linked to anti-Semitism in France.

After scoring the first of two goals for West Brom against West Ham, the former France international appeared to perform the "quenelle" salute made famous by French comedian Dieudonne.

France's Sports Minister Valerie Fourneyron condemned the striker over the straight-armed salute, which Jewish groups have called "a Nazi salute in reverse".

She wrote on her official Twitter account: "Anelka's gesture is a shocking provocation, sickening. There's no place for anti-Semitism and incitement to hatred on the football field."

The Football Association is aware of the criticism and is looking into the celebration.

 Anelka, 34, used his Twitter account to defend the celebration, explaining that it was simply a tribute to his friend Dieudonne. Full story...

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The meanest of mankind: the brutality of America's fascist police goons...

The American police are not only above the law, but they make up the law as they go along-and then proceed to violate their own "laws" as it suits them. As a category or group the American police are the meanest pricks ever to descend on God's green earth. No group in the world today is meaner. It is not just that the American police are not prosecuted for their routine epidemic criminal behavior. It is not just that they singlehandedly annihilate the vaunted but unenforced "Bill of Rights," making it not worth the paper it is written on. It is not just that they are sorely undereducated and uneducated. It is not just that they are trigger-happy and get away with gunning down innocent people time after time. And it is not just that the Fascist creeps, some of them, are secret illegal members of the NSA and CIA.

Instead, what is most outrageous is that they terrorize the very people they are supposed to serve, and that noone but powerful politicians-unresponsive to the taxpayers and part of the ruling class-have any control over them, which they refuse to exercise for the common welfare.

 The meanness of the American cop defies description. He gets off on redirected aggression. He takes an instant hatred of you upon deciding, without benefit of due process of law, that you are guilty. Their use of force is legendary and infamous. The American police are devoid of humanity and have no compassion whatsoever. They approach their job as one of "law and order" against middle-class and working class belligerents who have pesky rights. It is clear that the police are the masters of the people they are supposed to serve with woefully excessive authority and that the people are powerless against them. Once arbitrarily charged by the coppers with a crime, the American citizen faces a corrupt system of courts and judges and magistrates and prosecutors and jails and prisons that stack the deck against the "defendant.," who is simply railroaded. Unlike in Europe, fines and court costs are not prorated and progressive according to one's ability to pay; the poor are simply discriminated against (in reality, oppressed and devastated), by the injustice system. Especially victimized are minorities like blacks, who disproportionately stock the jails and prisons. The system crushes the poor, and rich men rule the system. Full story...

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Indian woman gang-raped 'twice in one night'

Police have arrested 10 people in India after a 21-year-old woman was gang-raped twice in one night be two apparently unrelated groups of men.

Six of the men arrested have been charged with gang-raping the woman on the evening of December 24, on officer said on Friday. None of the men have appeared in court.

The women said she had been abducted by three men and raped by one of the men over the course of several hours while she was visiting a friend in Karaikal, a port city in Pondicherry state, officer Monika Bharadwaj said.

After nearly three hours of captivity, she was released and called for help only to be singled out and gang-raped by an apparently separate group of seven men. six of whom raped her, as she was being taken to safety.

The arrests were made on Thursday along with a juvenile male who is being detained for not informing the police about the crime.

The BBC reported that two police officers have also been suspended for initially refusing to register the victim's complaint. Full story...

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Friday, December 27, 2013

China vaccines: Authorities probe babies' deaths...

The number of babies who have died in China after being vaccinated against hepatitis B has risen to eight, state news agency Xinhua reports.

A newborn baby died on Monday in a hospital in Sichuan province after being vaccinated on Sunday afternoon.

Chinese health experts are looking into the deaths of several babies who received the vaccination in a government immunisation programme.

Investigators have been sent to the company that produces the vaccines.

The investigation was launched after babies were reported to have died shortly after receiving the hepatitis B vaccine made by BioKangtai, a drug manufacturer in the southern city of Shenzhen.

Four babies reportedly died in the southern province of Guangdong, although one was said to have died from pneumonia, reports the Associated Press (AP) news agency. Full story...

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Think Obama is unpopular? Try Francois Hollande...

Recent US polls give Obama’s approval rating at most and at best around 40%. Most Americans have no confidence in him, his administration and his policies. Not only Republicans and right wingers say that Obama has trashed the American ideal of being a resilient and resourceful people. Critics add up the doleful record of Obama failings. These include $16 trillion of national debt of which more than $5 trillion was added in the last 36 months, a probable real rate of adult unemployment of 16% (compared with administration claims around 8%), constant and huge budget deficits, a wilting housing market, and what the US Army and armed forces-friendly website ning.com calls the most arrogant-ever First Family where Obama’s “Butt ugly Marie-Antoinette snob wife constantly takes luxury vacations while the rest of Americans suffer an unadmitted economic depression”.

Marie-Antoinette is alive and well and operating in her home country of today’s France, in the shape of Francois Hollande’s live-in ladyfriend. She is Valerie Trierweiller inevitably dubbed the Rottweiler First Lady accused by both the right wing UMP and some sections of Hollande’s own Parti Socialiste of encouraging her man’s increasingly curt, flippant and dismissive attitude to France and the real problems of the French.

Opinion polls in France would make Obama shrink further into his cave. Few polls show Hollande scoring even 25% approval ratings. Pollsters in France don’t go back a hundred years when gauging Hollande’s dismal popularity they simply say he is the most unpopular French president since polling of views on the president began in the 1950s, during the 4th Republic.

Since 1956, France has its 5th Republic. Hollande’s 4th Republic presidency is outdated and out of time. Full story...

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A tale of two diplomats...

One diplomat is a 39-year old Indian woman who this week was hauled into a New York City jail, stripped, subjected to a humiliating “full body cavity search,” and charged with a convoluted visa fraud violation which could bring her a 10-year prison sentence.

The other “diplomat” isn’t really a diplomat but an official cover British Secret Intelligence Service (MI-6) working undercover in the British Embassy in Moscow who clearly is afforded more diplomatic protection than the proper Indian diplomat abused by American authorities this week.

Devyani Khobragade, the Indian deputy consul in New York. Michael Easton, a Second Secretary at the British embassy in Moscow. These two diplomatic figures couldn’t be more different. Ms. Khobragade apparently ran afoul of U.S. visa regulations that are as complicated as the U.S. tax code and may have made a simple error in bureaucratic procedural codes which caused this harsh American police state response.

How does this compare to British national Mr. Easton of the British Embassy in Moscow who has a background which strongly suggests he is part and parcel of a group of diplomatic passport-bearing foreign service corps employees who habitually exploit their status to engage in improper behavior with underage children in some of the world’s poorest countries? Full story...

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47% of Indian graduates of 2013 unemployable for any job...

It seems formal education in India is not imparting enough skills to students as nearly half of the graduates of this year were found unemployable for any job, according to a study.

The study identified the key employability trends of 2013 and the most striking one was that a significant proportion of graduates of 2013, nearly 47 per cent, were found unemployable in any sector, given their English language and cognitive skills, said Aspiring Minds, a leading employability solutions company.

Meanwhile according to a survey 8.5 lakh new jobs are expected across various sectors, including FMCG and healthcare.

Of all the respondents in the survey, only 2.59 per cent of them was found employable in functional roles such as accounting, while 15.88 per cent was suitable for employment in sales related roles and 21.37 per cent for roles in the business process outsourcing sector, a report by Aspiring Minds said.

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Lack of English knowledge, poor skills in computer and concepts learning were major deterrents to employability.

Poor knowledge of English and inadequate computer skills dampen employability prospects in smaller towns significantly, the report said, adding that for students residing or studying in smaller towns and cities (tier 2 or tier 3), the maximum gap is observed in English and computer skills. Full story...

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Torrent temptation: EU Parliament, Vatican, Hollywood download pirated content...

Despite global efforts to curb copyright infringement, the temptation to use BitTorrent sites to download free movies and TV shows is too strong for employees in the EU Parliament, the Vatican, the US House of Representatives, and some Hollywood studios.

The new information was revealed by TorrentFreak, which used a tracking outfit called ScanEye to identify those illegally downloading files in some rather surprising places.

The website reported that EU Parliament employees have shown keen interest in downloading pirated movies and TV shows while at work. Dozens of recent “hits” entered from EU Parliament IP addresses on several BitTorrent trackers revealed that employees have downloaded pirated versions of new movies such as ‘Elysium’ and ‘Monsters vs. Aliens.’ They also appear to be fans of classic flicks such as ‘The Ten Commandments,’ as well as popular television shows such as ‘Breaking Bad.’

The same illegal activity also made its way into the Vatican, with movies such as ‘Billy Elliot’ being downloaded along with TV series such as ‘Camp.’

Even some Hollywood studios - including Paramount Pictures - made it on the list, with employees illegally downloading ‘Shame’ and ‘Mad Men.’ Full story...

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There is no such thing as a safe vaccine and there never will be....

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Dr. Humphries also discusses how infants have a developing immune system. A healthy mother’s breast milk offers the most protection during the baby’s first year (as much as 80% protection), largely by supporting intestinal flora. Injecting them with contaminants within the first few months presents both immediate and long term damage to their developing immune systems.

Other immunity disruptions occur from vaccinations. The result of inter-reacting vaccine ingredients cascading through one’s body is often ill health effects hat show up later if not sooner. The facts are that the USA has the largest childhood vaccination schedule, yet ranks higher in infant mortality and poor childhood health than all other developed nations.

This deathbed statement reportedly made by Pasteur is ignored by the medical mafia: “Bernard (Bechamp) was right; the pathogen is nothing; the terrain is everything.” Unfortunately, killing and artificially “protecting” against germs is more profitable. The trade-off for this illusion of immunity is increased auto-immune disease , vaccine injury, permanent disability, and death. Full story...

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World turns away as rebel massacres of Syrian Christians intensify...

The world media is increasingly losing interest in the foreign-fueled war still raging in Syria between the Assad regime and an assortment of Islamist rebel groups backed by the Obama administration, Sunni Arab dictators, and European powers. For embattled Syrian Christians, though — most of whom tried to stay out of the conflict — reports suggest the situation is deteriorating quickly, with over 1,200 documented murders so far, and almost 500,000 forced to flee their homes to escape the escalating violence and ruthless persecution. The real numbers are probably even worse.

Experts say the end goal of many jihadist rebel groups is to eradicate Christianity in Syria as part of the effort to create a fundamentalist Islamic state. Even factions of the Obama-backed “Free Syrian Army,” receiving vast amounts of Western aid under the guise of supporting supposed “moderates,” have been implicated in the anti-Christian atrocities by refugees cited in media reports. Like in Iraq following the U.S. government’s “regime change” operation, the Christian minority in Syria — about 10 percent of the population — could face potential extinction as Western powers continue to shower arms and support on Islamic rebels.

In recent months, ghastly accounts of civilian massacres aimed at Syrian Christian communities in particular have become more frequent and more gruesome. However, despite the apparent surge in anti-Christian savagery often perpetrated by Western-backed jihadist rebels, the establishment press has largely turned away. As The New American has been reporting for years, the prospect of full-blown genocide against Syrian Christians if and when Assad falls is very real — and growing more likely with each passing month. Full story...

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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Fury with MPs is main reason for not voting...

Poll reveals anger, not boredom, lies behind drop in political engagement

Nearly half of Britons say they are angry with politics and politicians, according to a Guardian/ICM poll analysing the disconnect between British people and their democracy.

The research, which explores the reasons behind the precipitous drop in voter turnout – particularly among under-30s – finds that it is anger with the political class and broken promises made by high-profile figures that most rile voters, rather than boredom with Westminster.

Asked for the single word best describing "how or what you instinctively feel" about politics and politicians in general, 47% of respondents answered "angry", against 25% who said they were chiefly "bored".

Negative sentiments vastly outnumber positive, with only 16% reporting feeling "respectful" towards people doing a difficult job, while a vanishingly small proportion of 2% claim to feel "inspired". Full story...

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Almost every passenger on a flight from Dubai to India was found carrying 1kg of gold...

Faced with curbs on gold imports and crash in international prices leaving it cheaper in other countries, gold houses and smugglers are turning to NRIs to bring in the yellow metal legally after paying duty. Any NRI, who has stayed abroad for more than six months, is allowed to bring in 1kg gold.

It was evident last week when almost every passenger on a flight from Dubai to Calicut was found carrying 1kg of gold, totalling up to 80kg (worth about Rs 24 crore). At Chennai airport, 13 passengers brought the legally permitted quantity of gold in the past one week.

"It's not illegal. But the 80kg gold that landed in Calicut surprised us. We soon got information that two smugglers in Dubai and their links in Calicut were behind this operation, offering free tickets to several passengers," said an official. The passengers were mostly Indian labourers in Dubai, used as carriers by people who were otherwise looking at illegal means, he said. "We have started tracing the origin and route of gold after intelligence pointed to the role of smugglers," he said.

Reports from Kerala said passengers from Dubai have brought more than 1,000kg of gold in the last three weeks. People who pay a duty of Rs 2.7 lakh per kg in Dubai still stand to gain at least Rs 75,000 per kg, owing to the price difference in the two countries. Gold dealers in Kerala say most of this gold goes to jewellery makers in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. Full story...

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Belgium's fury over unpaid parking fines by diplomats in Brussels...

Belgium has criticised foreign diplomats for failing to pay parking fines they are incurring in Brussels - the world’s capital of diplomacy.

The city that hosts the European Union and Nato, and more diplomatic missions than anywhere else in the world, has nearly 1,000 outstanding traffic tickets and parking fines.

Emissaries and envoys to the EU and Belgium, who have legal immunity under the Vienna Convention, have angered the country’s foreign ministry by refusing to pay 971 fines over the past three years.

The worst offenders, named by Belgium’s De Tijd newspaper, include Germany, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Slovenia and Cyprus as “bad payers” in the 28 permanent representations of national governments to the EU.

Turkish military officials at Nato are also named as offenders well as diplomats at the embassies of Saudi Arabia and India who have also earned a reputation for binning traffic and parking fines. Full story...

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Vaccine lies: Whooping cough outbreaks being triggered by vaccinated children...

It is a common myth perpetuated by both the entrenched system of monopolistic medicine and the mainstream media that unvaccinated children are the social scourge responsible for triggering outbreaks of rare diseases like pertussis (whooping cough), measles and shingles. But the scientific literature suggests otherwise, showing in many cases that vaccinated children are the ones largely responsible for triggering and spreading disease.

A recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences for instance, found that, despite more than 50 years of population-wide vaccination, cases of whooping cough are on the rise. The culprit? Antigens of Bordetella pertussis that not only are completely ineffective at preventing infection with Bordetella parapertussis, a whooping cough bacterium similar to B. pertussis, but actually promote it by interfering with the body's natural infection clearance protocols.

"[W]e show that aP [whooping cough] vaccination impedes host immunity against B. parapertussis-measured as reduced lung inflammatory and neutrophil responses," wrote the authors. "[W]e conclude that aP vaccination interferes with the optimal clearance of B. parapertussis and enhances the performance of this pathogen. Our data raise the possibility that widespread aP vaccination can create hosts more susceptible to B. parapertussis infection."

In other words, children who are vaccinated for whooping cough actually suffer from decreased immunity and are more susceptible to B. parapertussis infection than their unvaccinated peers. Vaccinated children, in essence, are the carriers of disease when it comes to all these whooping cough outbreaks, infecting other mostly vaccinated children and putting massive strain on local healthcare resources. Full story...

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