Buying a Car a Little Harder Now: Terror Check Required For Financing
If you’re in the market for a car, be prepared to prove you are not a terrorist.The federal government’s Red Flags Rule mandates that auto dealers, banks, credit unions and other “creditors” and “financial institutions” take additional steps to prevent identity theft and fraud, beginning Jan. 1. Included in the list of so-called creditors is [...]
Read More →Pot growers portrayed as terror threat
What were they smoking? Federal, state and local officials carrying out a counter-terrorism drill in Northern California Wednesday played out a scenario in which local marijuana growers set off bombs and took over the Shasta Dam, the nation’s second largest, to free an imprisoned comrade.According to an account in the Redding (Calif.) Record Searchlight, the [...]
Read More →Dollar to Become World’s ‘Weakest Currency,’ JPMorgan Predicts
The dollar may fall below 75 yen next year as it becomes the world’s “weakest currency” due to the Federal Reserve’s monetary-easing program, according to JPMorgan & Chase Co. The U.S. central bank, along with those in Japan and Europe, will keep interest rates at record lows in 2011 as they seek to boost economic [...]
Read More →Obama to give George Bush, Sr. the presidential Medal of Freedom
Former President George H.W. Bush is among 15 people selected to be awarded the presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Wednesday night. The Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor, is awarded for “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant [...]
Read More →The annals of weather warfare
Did you know there was an abandoned Nazi weather station on the coast of present-day Canada? Until 1981, almost nobody did. My morning began with the fascinating story of Kurt, a forgotten Nazi weather station installed on the coast of Labrador during World War II that was only rediscovered in 1981. From a long [...]
Read More →Native Americans visited Europe 1000 years ago
Five centuries before Columbus reached the Americas, Vikings briefly settled on the northern tip of Newfoundland. Now the DNA of four Icelandic families reveals it wasn’t just Europeans traveling to the Americas…at least one Native American went back with them. Eleven modern Icelanders carry an unusual variant of mitochondrial DNA known as C1e. This particular [...]
Read More →Surprise Link Between Weird Quantum Phenomena: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Sets Limits on Einstein’s ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’
ScienceDaily (Nov. 19, 2010) — Researchers have uncovered a fundamental link between the two defining properties of quantum physics. The result is being heralded as a dramatic breakthrough in our basic understanding of quantum mechanics and provides new clues to researchers seeking to understand the foundations of quantum theory. The result addresses the question of [...]
Read More →Enigma of Missing Stars in Local Group of Galaxies May Be Solved
ScienceDaily (Nov. 19, 2010) — In the local group of galaxies that also includes the Andromeda Nebula and our Milky Way, there are about 100 billion stars. According to astronomers’ calculations, there should be many more. Now, physicists from the University of Bonn and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland may have found an [...]
Read More →Mental Illness Affects 1 in 5 Americans
Nov. 18, 2010 — Nearly one in five adult Americans has experienced mental illness in the past year, according to a new government survey, with women, the unemployed, and young adults more likely than others to be affected. Among those one in five — representing 45 million Americans — the survey found that nearly 20%, [...]
Read More →GPS addict? It may be eroding your brain
Jean Snyder says she isn’t afraid of spiders, snakes or even dentists. But she is scared of one little thing: a GPS breakdown. Snyder’s 2005 Honda Odyssey is equipped with GPS, and for the last five years, Snyder hasn’t looked at a map, noticed landmarks or even tried new routes to get from point A [...]
Read More →TSA forces cancer survivor to show prosthetic breast
A longtime Charlotte, N.C., flight attendant and cancer survivor told a local television station that she was forced to show her prosthetic breast during a pat-down. Cathy Bossi, who works for U.S. Airways, said she received the pat-down after declining to do the full-body scan because of radiation concerns. The TSA screener “put her full [...]
Read More →Americans should stop the TSA’s pat down of our rights
The report of an encounter between the Transportation Security Administration and a man named John Tyner inside the San Diego Airport went viral last week. Tyner refused to comply with the TSA’s new “enhanced” pat down, decided instead to leave the airport, and was threatened by a TSA agent with a $10,000 civil suit for [...]
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