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Gender-Bender Chemicals are Turning Boys Into Girls

Joshuah — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:04:18 +0000

The government of Denmark has released a 326-page report affirming that endocrine disrupting chemicals are probably continuing to the birth of fewer males and the "feminization" of existing ones. The report centers on chemicals like PVC, flame retardants, phthalates, dioxins, PCBs and bisphenol-A, all of which mimic the action of estrogen in the body. The [...]

Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely

Joshuah — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:04:17 +0000

More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments. Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez, a former [...]

Walgreens: no new Medicaid patients as of April 16

Joshuah — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:04:16 +0000

Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state won’t take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition — the latest development in an ongoing dispute over Medicaid reimbursement. The company, which operates 121 stores in the state, will continue filling Medicaid prescriptions for current patients. In a news release, Walgreens said [...]

More Charges for Man Accused of Christmas Eve Murder of Salvation Army Major Philip Wise

Joshuah — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:04:15 +0000

More charges for the man accused of killing Salvation Army Major Philip Wise. After more than eight hours of questioning, Laquan Fitzpatrick, 19, faces burglary and robbery charges in addition to capital murder. He reportedly confessed to committing a residential burglary November 17th plus robbing a Radio Shack two days after Thanksgiving. Little Rock [...]

New York State Tax Refunds Put On Hold

Joshuah — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:04:14 +0000

For hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers, the check won’t be in the mail — at least not on time. New York State has stopped paying tax refunds and won’t start again until next month. The tax refund delay is part of a bigger cash crunch. Message to New Yorkers: don’t start spending your tax refund money [...]

Arkansas Man Arrested In Salvation Army Murder

Joshuah — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:04:09 +0000

I’d like to see the face of this Laquan Javaris Fitzpatrick. A 19-year-old man has been arrested and charged with capital murder in connection with the Christmas Eve shooting death of a Salvation Army major in North Little Rock. Officers arrested Laquan Javaris Fitzpatrick on Tuesday at a home in Helena-West Helena, Ark. North Little Rock [...]

US Vice President Joseph Biden: ‘”I also see myself as a Zionist"

Joshuah — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:03:39 +0000

US Vice President Joseph Biden First Visiting Foreign Dignitary to Lay Wreath at Tomb of Theodor Herzl, the founder of the political movement we have come to know as Zionism. US Vice President Joe Biden, with wife Dr. Jill Biden, lay a wreath at the tomb of [...]

Magnitude 4.4 quake rattles Los Angeles

Joshuah — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:03:37 +0000

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck near Los Angeles on Tuesday, awakening residents but causing no apparent damage in the second largest U.S. city, the U.S. Geological Survey and witnesses said. Police at the epicenter of Pico Rivera, 11 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, said there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage from the [...]

Obama Aides See ‘Extended Period’ of Unemployment

Joshuah — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:03:32 +0000

U.S. employers won’t hire enough workers this year to lower the jobless rate much below the level of 9.7 percent reached in February, three Obama administration economic officials said today. The proportion of Americans who can’t find work is likely to “remain elevated for an extended period,” Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, White House budget director [...]

European Parliament Rips Global IP Accord

Joshuah — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:16:03 +0000

The European Parliament delivered a political blow to Hollywood and the Obama administration, voting Wednesday 663 to 13 in opposition to a proposed and secret intellectual property agreement being negotiated by the European Union, United States and a handful of others. Wednesday’s developments concerning the Anti-Counterfeiting and Trade Agreement are substantial because the European Union’s 27 [...]

Violence Mars Greek Protest

Joshuah — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:15:55 +0000

Flights were grounded and trains suspended amid a nationwide general strike Thursday, as Greek police fought running street battles with anarchist youths in fresh and violent signs of anger at the government’s austerity plans. Unions called a strike to protest wage and benefit cuts being put in place to trim Greece’s swollen budget deficit as the [...]

Thailand braces for massive political protests

Joshuah — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:15:54 +0000

Thailand braced for anti-government demonstrations that began Friday and were expected to peak over the weekend with as many as 150,000 protesters on the streets. In anticipation, the government has mobilized 50,000 security forces, said acting spokesman Panitan Wattanayakorn. The mass rallies are expected to be peaceful but Army spokesman Col. Sansern Kaewkumnerd said that crowd-control measures [...]

Brain scan can read people’s thoughts

Joshuah — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:15:54 +0000

A scan of brain activity can effectively read a person’s mind, researchers said Thursday. British scientists from University College London found they could differentiate brain activity linked to different memories and thereby identify thought patterns by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The evidence suggests researchers can tell which memory of a past event a person is [...]

CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella

Joshuah — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:15:52 +0000

As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries. With permission from the patients, [...]

US mulls ‘black box’ as mandatory for all new vehicles

Joshuah — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:15:48 +0000

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chief David Strickland told a congressional hearing on Thursday that the regulator is considering whether to make “black boxes” mandatory for all new vehicles. [ID:nN11246251] The devices can capture data on speed, braking effort and other details which can be vital in reconstructing accidents. Toyota has recalled more than 8 million vehicles [...]

Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest

Joshuah — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:15:45 +0000

Josh Gerstein over at Politico sent Threat Level his piece underscoring once again President Barack Obama is not the civil-liberties Knight In Shining Armor many were expecting. Gerstein posts a televised interview of Obama and John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted. The nation’s chief executive extols the virtues of mandatory DNA testing of Americans upon arrest, [...]

Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest

Joshuah — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:15:45 +0000

Drudge Virus Warning Blasted as Latest Free Speech Incursion

Joshuah — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:15:45 +0000

The unusual e-mail sent to Senate staffers this week warning them not to visit The Drudge Report for fear of a virus has some critics crying foul, suggesting the missive is the latest attempt by Democrats to stifle dissent in the media. The Drudge Report, a popular Web site which aggregates news links, often trumpets [...]

Drudge Virus Warning Blasted as Latest Free Speech Incursion

Joshuah — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:15:44 +0000

Chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth says Devil is in the Vatican

Joshuah — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:15:44 +0000

Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that “the Devil is at work inside the Vatican”, according to the Holy See’s chief exorcist. Father Gabriele Amorth, 85, who has been the Vatican’s chief exorcist for 25 years and says he has dealt with 70,000 cases of demonic possession, said that the consequences [...]