Wednesday, May 29, 2013

In the news, Tuesday, May 28, 2013


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from Business Insider
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

REPORT: Chinese Hackers Stole Plans For Dozens Of Critical US Weapons Systems
Hackers have accessed designs for more than two dozen major U.S. weapons systems, according to a devastating classified report a Pentagon advisor shared with the Washington Post.

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from Center for Media and Public Affairs

A leading media fact-checking organization rates Republicans as less trustworthy than Democrats, according to a new study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) at George Mason University. The study finds that PolitiFact.com has rated Republican claims as false three times as often as Democratic claims during President Obama’s second term. Republicans continue to get worse marks in recent weeks, despite controversies over Obama administration statements on Benghazi, the IRS and the AP.

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Fury as worker at Morrisons is sent home for wearing poppy in memory of murdered soldier Lee Rigby

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from EarthSky

What causes rainbow colors in clouds?
Iridescent clouds – clouds with rainbow colors – happen when especially tiny water droplets or small ice crystals individually scatter light.

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from Forum for Middle East Understanding
(FFMU) (Shoebat.com)  [Information from this site may be questionable.]

Confirmed: Obama’s Brother In Bed With Terrorists
It has been learned that the relationship between President Barack Obama’s half-brother Malik Obama and Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir is much closer than previously thought. Malik is the Executive Secretary of the Islamic Da’wa Organization (IDO) as reported by all major Saudi press.

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from Fox News

10-Year-Old Fights for Her Life Due to "Immoral" Federal Policy

Arizona Family: Mother of 7 Jailed in Mexico on Bogus Charge

House Looking Into Eric Holder Testimony to See If He Lied Under Oath

Amazing! First ever photograph inside a hydrogen atom

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from The Jerusalem Post

PM: Israel's hope for peace not reciprocated
In video address to forum against anti-Semitism, Netanyahu says anti-Semitism "back in fashion.

Livni: Security being used as an excuse not to pursue peace
Justice minister says US can provide assurances that 2-state solution won't harm security.

Steinitz: Syria can use S-300 to hit civilian planes
Weapons sale encourages "support to brutal regime," Seinitz says; Ya'alon says Russian delivery poses threat to Israel.

Liberman: Hezbollah can strike any point in Israel
Former FM warns Iran "running at frantic pace toward atomic bomb"; says "no question that Assad has used chemical weapons.

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from Money Talks News

Ask Stacy: Help! They’re Trying to Reduce My Social Security Payments!

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from Natural Society

3 Powerful Natural Remedies for ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)

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from POLITICO

Obama: 'The Jersey Shore is back in business,' but post-Sandy rebuilding continues
Bridge collapse threatens economy
Interstate 5 important for shipping, tourism

GU office raided in porn inquiry
Music professor’s name linked to investigation of child pornography

Anti-DUI car devices popular in Washington

Colorado marijuana regulations signed into law

Cuba to offer public Internet at salons islandwide

President learns limits of power, influence
Gun control initiatives failed despite big push

EU lifts weapons embargo in Syria
Move could help arm opposition fighters

A solemn day to remember
Veterans, families remember fallen service members
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In brief:  From Wire Reports:

Pilot ejects as F-15 crashes into sea off coast of Okinawa

TOKYO – A U.S. Air Force F-15 fighter crashed off the southern Japan island of Okinawa early Tuesday after the aircraft developed problems in flight. The pilot ejected and was recovered safely.

The F-15, flying out of Kadena Air Base, went down in the Pacific about 70 miles east of Okinawa, the military said in a statement.

Lt. Col. David Honchul, the chief spokesman for the U.S. Forces, Japan, said the pilot was recovered safely after a search by U.S. and Japanese rescue crews. After he ejected from the plane, the pilot remained in contact with the rescuers.

The cause was under investigation. The pilot’s name has not been released.


Another arrested in soldier’s killing

LONDON – British police arrested a 10th suspect Monday in connection with the vicious street killing of a soldier in London, an apparent Islamic extremist attack that has horrified the country and heightened racial tensions.

The 50-year-old man was detained east of London on suspicion of conspiring to murder 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby, Scotland Yard said. Police gave no further information about the suspect’s identity.

Rigby was run over by a vehicle and repeatedly attacked with meat cleavers Wednesday afternoon near his barracks in southeast London.


French soldier stabbed in throat

PARIS – A French soldier was stabbed in the throat in a busy commercial district outside Paris on Saturday, and the government said it was trying to determine if there were any links to the brutal killing of a British soldier by suspected Islamic extremists.

French President Francois Hollande said the identity of the attacker, who escaped, was unknown and cautioned against jumping to conclusions about the assault on the uniformed soldier in the La Defense shopping area. The life of the 23-year-old soldier was not in danger, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

British soldier Lee Rigby was viciously stabbed on a London street in a suspected terrorist attack that has raised fears of potential copycat strikes.


Nieto to form group to find the missing

MEXICO CITY – Responding to anguished families and mothers on a hunger strike, the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto on Monday created an investigative task force to search for thousands of missing Mexicans.

The new effort comes as officials attempt to whittle down a list of more than 26,000 people who were reported missing – many seized by drug traffickers or by state security forces – during the previous six-year government of President Felipe Calderon.

Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said last week he is confident that once the cases are better documented, the number of “disappeared” will be substantially fewer than the 26,121 currently listed.

He said many people listed as missing had in fact migrated to the United States or left home after family disputes.


Mali ready to elect a new president

BAMAKO, Mali – Mali’s government announced on Monday that much-anticipated presidential elections will be held July 28.

The ballot would be the first since a coup in March 2012 ousted Mali’s democratically elected president just months before he was due to step down at the end of his final term in office. The coup plunged the country into chaos, creating an opening which allowed extremist groups allied with al-Qaida to seize Mali’s northern half.
Escaped tiger killed woman, police say

LONDON – When zookeeper Sarah McClay was mauled to death by a Sumatran tiger at an animal park in England, its owner suggested she had violated safety procedures and entered the animal’s pen.

But police said that according to witnesses, the tiger escaped from its pen and attacked 24-year-old McClay on Friday as she was working in a staff area at South Lakes Wild Animal Park in northwestern England. She later died of her injuries at a hospital.


Hotel developer dies at age 94 in Missouri

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Prominent hotel developer and Missouri philanthropist John Q. Hammons has died. He was 94.

His company says Hammons passed away Sunday at the Springfield nursing home where he’d lived after stepping away from the company he led well into his 80s.

After his first business went bust in the 1940s, Hammons built subdivisions in southwest Missouri before purchasing 10 Holiday Inn franchises with a partner in 1958.

He went on to build 200 hotels nationwide, avoiding big cities in favor of college towns and state capitals.


Canadian drugmaker buys Bausch & Lomb

Canadian drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals said Monday that it will pay $8.7 billion to buy Bausch & Lomb, one of the world’s best-known makers of contact lenses, in a massive expansion of Valeant’s smaller ophthalmology business.

Valeant said the cash deal will help it capitalize on increasing demand for contact lenses and other products because of aging populations, growing demand in emerging markets and increasing rates of diabetes. Complications of the complex blood sugar disorder can damage the eyes over time.

Investment firm Warburg Pincus, which leads an investment group that owns Bausch & Lomb, will receive $4.5 billion in cash. The remaining $4.2 billion will be used to repay Bausch & Lomb’s debt.

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Pot sending more kids to ER
Study suggests kids accidently eat marijuana-infused items

Statue of Liberty in 2007
from Wikimedia Commons

Argentina and Chile on alert for volcano

Obesity affects mother, kids
Study suggests surgery changes gene expression

Car bombs target Shiites in Baghdad
Attacks leave 66 dead in Iraq’s capital

Border fee idea contested
Northern lawmakers oppose study of toll

Girl Scouts mull camp sales
Parents, leaders stake out spots on both sides of issue

North Korea puts salary control in hands of citizen supervisors

GE throws its weight behind fracking
U.S. corporate giant invests billions during boom

Repairing a nonissue increases fiscal woes
commentary from the Philadelphia Daily News

Obama takes after Nixon
Mona Charen

Dr. Alisa Hideg

Lightening up
Defeating obesity begins and ends with a healthy diet and lots of exercise

Folate essential for cell function
Anthony L. Komaroff      Universal Uclick

Stem cell therapies remain question mark

Mouthwash doubles as acne treatment
Joe Graedon M.S.

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from Truth Theory
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

from U.S. News and World Report

Who’s Checking the Fact Checkers?
A new study sheds some light on what facts the press most likes to check.

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