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Unidentified Respiratory Virus Likely to Hit Kids Across Country
September 7th, 2014Via: ABC: A respiratory illness that has already sickened more than a thousand children in 10 states is likely to become a nationwide problem, doctors say. The disease hasn’t been officially identified but officials suspect a rare respiratory virus called human enterovirus 68. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the virus […]
NIH Scientist Martin Rogers Found Dead
September 6th, 2014Via: NBC: About two weeks after he went missing, police announced an NIH scientist has been found dead in his car. Martin John Rogers, 54, left his Gaithersburg home around 7:30 a.m. on Aug. 21 to go to work. As he was leaving, he told his wife of 25 years that he was going to […]
Experimental Ebola Drug Cured 100% of Monkeys Tested
August 30th, 2014Via: USA Today: In what scientists are calling a “monumental achievement,” an experimental medication called ZMapp — given on a compassionate basis to a handful of Ebola victims in the current outbreak — cured 100% of monkeys treated in a Canadian study, researchers announced Friday. ZMapp, made by Mapp Biopharmaceuticals of San Diego, is in […]
Top AIDS Researchers Killed in Malaysia Airlines Crash
July 18th, 2014Utopia, Series 2 Episode 1, 14 July 2014, Channel4, Britain: “We have to plant a bomb on board the plane and we have to kill all of them.” Utopia is probably the best show I’ve ever seen on TV. The first two episodes from series 2 were recently broadcast in Britain. Most people outside of […]
U.S. Marines Test Robotic Mule at RIMPAC, Hawaii
July 14th, 2014That thing is loud. Pretty effective for announcing their presence. Via: BBC: US marines have tested a new robotic mule at the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise in Hawaii. The Legged Squad Support System (LS3) is operated by a sensor strapped to a human foot. Military footage shows Lance Corporal Brandon Dieckmann fitting the […]
NSA Targets Tor Administrators and People Searching for Privacy Tools
July 3rd, 2014More: NSA Targets the Privacy-Conscious Via: ndr.de: The investigation discloses the following: Two servers in Germany – in Berlin and Nuremberg – are under surveillance by the NSA. Merely searching the web for the privacy-enhancing software tools outlined in the XKeyscore rules causes the NSA to mark and track the IP address of the person […]
South Africa: Riot Control Drone Can Fire a Variety of Ammunition to Subdue Unruly Crowds
June 18th, 2014“Payload capacity of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is 40 kg” 40KG? Via: Defense Web: South African company Desert Wolf yesterday unveiled its Skunk riot control drone at the IFSEC security exhibition outside Johannesburg. Armed with four paintball guns, it can fire a variety of ammunition to subdue unruly crowds. The Skunk is designed to […]
Coincidence: Las Vegas Shooter Jerad Miller Interviewed by NBC News During Bundy Standoff
June 9th, 2014Imagine that. Here’s how the clip ran back in April. Via: NBC: Related: Dad of Female Las Vegas Shooter Begged Her Not to Marry Jerad Miller
Las Vegas: Police Officers Killed in Ambush Shooting
June 9th, 2014Interesting Timing: Holder Announces Task Force on ‘Homegrown’ Terrorists Via: Los Angeles Times: The task force will chiefly comprise leaders from the FBI, the Justice Department’s National Security Division and U.S. Attorneys. Called the Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee, it is a recreation of a task force formed by former Atty. Gen. Janet Reno after the […]
Why Was the FBI Investigating Michael Hastings’ Reporting on Bowe Bergdahl?
June 6th, 2014Via: Vice: Three years into the disappearance of Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan, Michael Hastings — the journalist whose reporting cost General Stanley McChrystal his job — wrote a Rolling Stone story on the missing soldier, a piece which the magazine called “the definitive first account of Bowe Bergdahl.” Hastings, who died in a car accident […]
