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“Zika Virus”: El Salvador Asks Women Not to Get Pregnant Until 2018
January 23rd, 2016Via: Washington Post: The rapid spread of the Zika virus has prompted Latin American governments to urge women not to get pregnant for up to two years, an extraordinary precaution aimed at avoiding birth defects believed to be linked to the mosquito-borne illness. What until recently was a seemingly routine public health problem for countries […]
Neurosurgeon Claims Successful Head Transplant on Monkey
January 20th, 2016Via: Independent: The scientist who claims to be about to carry out the first human head transplant says that he has successfully done the procedure on a monkey. Maverick neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has tested the procedure in experiments on monkeys and human cadavers, he told New Scientist. Dr Canavero says that the success shows that […]
Hillary Clinton’s Private Email Server Contained Information of Special Access Programs
January 20th, 2016Via: NBC: Emails from Hillary Clinton’s home server contained information classified at levels higher than previously known, including a level meant to protect some of the most sensitive U.S. intelligence, according to a document obtained by NBC News. In a letter to lawmakers, the intelligence community’s internal watchdog says some of Clinton’s emails contained information […]
Obama Declares Emergency in Michigan Over Lead-Contaminated Water
January 17th, 2016Via: CBC: U.S. President Barack Obama signed an emergency declaration Saturday that clears the way for federal aid for Flint, Michigan, which is undergoing a drinking water crisis due to lead-contaminated water. … The tap water in Flint, population 99,000, became contaminated after the city switched from the Detroit water system to the Flint River […]
“Here Comes the Biggest Stock Market Crash in a Generation”
January 14th, 2016I’m not posting this because I think it’s going to happen, or not happen. I definitely don’t know. It does, however, contain a remarkable level of doom for such a mainstream source. What he’s saying is obvious and logical, which makes me wonder how applicable it is to this market. Via: Fortune: You don’t have […]
2 Texas Billionaires Bought Up 38,000 Acres of Idaho Land
January 11th, 2016Via: The Olympian: Over the past six years, two Texas billionaire brothers have bought about 38,000 acres of land on the Joseph Plains in Idaho County and apparently have closed access to local residents for hunting and recreation. According to the Idaho County Assessor’s Office, beginning in 2008, Farris and Dan Wilks of Cisco, Texas, […]
Suspect Says He Shot Officer In Name Of Islam…
January 8th, 2016…Using a weapon supposedly stolen from the cops. Fascinating. Via: CBS: Authorities say a Philadelphia police officer is recovering after he was shot several times during an ambush late Thursday night in West Philadelphia. Philadelphia police commissioner Richard Ross says the officer, identified as 33-year-old Jesse Hartnett, was sitting in his patrol car around 11:30 […]
People Hunting Rats with Pet Dogs on Manhattan
January 8th, 2016Via: The Blaze:
Apple Just Bought a Startup that Reads People’s Emotions
January 8th, 2016Via: MarketWatch: Apple Inc. has purchased Emotient Inc., a startup that uses artificial-intelligence technology to read people’s emotions by analyzing facial expressions. It isn’t clear what Apple plans to do with Emotient’s technology, which was primarily sold to advertisers to help assess viewer reactions to their ads.
Missing U.S. Missile Shows Up in Cuba
January 8th, 2016Via: Wall Street Journal: An inert U.S. Hellfire missile sent to Europe for training purposes was wrongly shipped from there to Cuba in 2014, said people familiar with the matter, a loss of sensitive military technology that ranks among the worst-known incidents of its kind. The unintended delivery of the missile to Cuba has confounded […]
