Month: April 2014
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Iran, India and Afghanistan to Sign Sea Trade Pact
from stratrisks.com: A pact that would connect India to Afghanistan through a southern Iranian port is set to be signed by the three countries, Afghan and Indian officials said. The draft pact centers on Chabahar Port, which would allow India and Afghanistan to conduct trade and access Central Asia’s vast energy resources, has been reviewed…
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Breaking News!: Media Outlets Report That ‘Heaven Is For Real’!
from newshounds.us: Fox News isn’t, officially, a religious network, but their promotion of round voyages to heaven (White and Christian – just like Fox!), angel priests, and angels who cure cancer is right up there with those networks who, like Fox, peddle a gospel based on fantasy. But of all the heavenly day trippers, Fox…
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Republicans Kiss Votes from Women Goodbye
from washingtonpost.com: This was not the way Republican leaders had planned to observe Equal Pay Day. On the eve of Tuesday’s commemoration — the day symbolizing how far into 2014 women must work to catch up to the wages men earned in 2013 — a small newspaper in Louisiana, the Ouachita Citizen, reported that its…
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Botanists Baffled By Rapid Growth of ‘Space Cherry’
from ajw.asahi.com: A tree grown from a cherry pit that traveled in space five years ago with astronaut Koichi Wakata, now commander of the International Space Station, has bloomed far ahead of what is normal–to the astonishment of botanists. Cherry trees typically take about a decade from the time they sprout from seeds to bloom.…
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Infected meat could reach UK’s plates, inspectors warn
Fears expressed over shakeup in rules that shifts responsibility for checking quality shifts to food companies. from theguardian.co.uk: Food inspectors have issued a grim warning that more infected animals could enter the food chain because of a shakeup in the inspection process which, they say, means some of the millions of animals they reject each…
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Dems, Repubs Both Trot Out Women to Prove They’re Not Sexist
from thewire.com: In attempts to prove they’re not sexist, both parties are inviting their female leaders to speak out about how happy they are. Republicans have been accused of waging a war on women, but the White House has been under scrutiny lately for paying its female employees less than men. President Obama says he’s…
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Greystone Denies Its ‘Mercenaries’ Are In Ukraine
from abcnews.go.com: The Russian government today claimed there are more than 100 American “mercenaries” from a defense contracting company disguised as Ukrainian troops in the embattled former Soviet nation, a claim the American firm and top U.S. officials deny. The Russian Foreign Ministry made the allegation in a statement today that accused Ukrainian military forces…
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Water Crisis Not Over After West Virginia Chemical Spill
from hereandnow.wbur.org: It’s been called one of the most serious episodes of drinking water contamination in U.S. history. Four months after thousands of gallons of the coal-washing chemical MCHM spilled from an unregulated above-ground storage tank into the Elk River, many people in and around Charleston, West Virginia, are still using bottled water. Water bans…
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#Heartbleed Bug: Passwords, Credit Cards, Sensitive Data at Risk
from ibnlive.in.com: Passwords, credit cards and other sensitive data are at risk after security researchers discovered a problem with an encryption technology used to securely transmit email, e-commerce transactions, social networking posts and other Web traffic. Security researchers say the threat, known as Heartbleed, is serious, partly because it remained undiscovered for more two years.…
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Peaches Geldof “Non-Suspicious, But Unexplained, Sudden Death” At 25
from stuff.co.nz: Police searching Peaches Geldof’s house in the wake of her sudden death have found no evidence of hard drugs, no suicide note, and no visible signs of injury, British media reported. Model and media personality Peaches Geldof, the second daughter of Irish singer Bob Geldof and member of a talented, troubled family who…
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Australia defends new security deal with Japan
from channelnewsasia.com: Closer defence ties between Japan and Australia should not raise concerns in regional superpower China, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Tuesday. Canberra and Tokyo struck a major agreement Monday to enhance trade and security ties, elevating the bilateral relationship to a new level. Abbott told ABC radio Australia he was taking no sides…
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Skype TX Promising Pro-Level Broadcast Service
from theregister.co.uk: TV journalists weary of trying to gather acceptable audio from Skype, your time to celebrate is now: Microsoft is rolling out a high-quality service designed for the broadcast market. If it does what it says on the box, Skype TX (transmitter, geddit?) will stick Microsoft’s elbows in the ribs of the expensive platforms…
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Starbucks Sorry for Louisiana Barista’s Demonic Emblems on Catholic’s Coffee
from nydailynews.com: It was one hell of a coffee. Starbucks has been forced to apologize after a barista wrote out the mark of the devil in caramel syrup on a Catholic teacher’s cup of joe. Megan Pinion said she was stunned Sunday when the Mall of Louisiana outlet served up her two drinks – complete…
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Are Secret, Dangerous Ingredients In Your Food?
from washingtonpost.com: Food manufacturers are routinely exploiting a “legal loophole” that allows them to use new chemicals in their products, based on their own safety studies, without ever notifying the Food and Drug Administration, according to a new report by an environmental and consumer advocacy group.
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Denial of Reality As Ukraine Heats Up
from thenews.com.pk: The crisis over Ukraine has provided a fresh opportunity to President Barack Obama’s domestic detractors to assail him for ‘failing to lead’ and to deploy American power to force the Russian president to retreat. Much of this criticism shows willful ignorance of the limits of US power in a transformed international environment where no single state…