TEPCO has found a record 1.9 million becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances at its No.2 reactor. Also radioactive cesium was detected in deeper groundwater at No.4 unit’s well, as fears grow of a new leak into the ocean.
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In Israel not everyone is allowed to donate blood. This is to make screening the blood easier and more productive, as every infected sample goes straight to the bin. So they want to minimize the amount of infected blood that is donated. Therefore they restrict donators who are in high risk groups. Here is a partial list of who is allowed and who is not allowed to donate blood in Israel.
By Richard Schiffman Liberal bias in the media pales in comparison to what you’ll find in your standard-issue Bibles, according to Conservapedia.com, a kind of Wikipedia for the religious right. The King James Bible, not to mention more recent translations like the New International Version (NIV), are veritable primers of progressive agitprop, complains Andy Schlafly, the founder of Conservapedia.com. (His mother, Phyllis, is an activist best known for her opposition to feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment.)
By Cheryl K. Chumley The White House is apparently turning to guilt to drive Americans toward Obamacare. First lady Michelle Obama told “Keeping it Real with Reverend Al Sharpton” that children owe it to their mothers to enroll in Obamacare.
By Kyle VanHemert All Google wants for Christmas is a bunch of scary ass robots. Clearly, the big ticket items under the tree are Big Dog and the rest of the Boston Dynamics nightmare menagerie. But if Larry and Sergey are still looking for a stocking stuffer, this freaky balancing cube might be just the thing.
Security experts in the United States have figured out how hackers can remotely access without being detected the built-in webcams installed in millions of Apple computers, but law enforcement agencies already have that exploit in their toolbox of tricks. Researchers at John Hopkins University revealed their findings in a paper published by the school this month, iSeeYou: Disabling the MacBook Webcam Indicator LED
Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands and several other EU countries were named among “third party partners” in the NSA-led global signal intelligence program, a new leak submitted by journalist Glenn Greenwald to Danish TV reveals. According to the document, obtained by Swedish TV program ‘Mission: Investigate’, that has been probing Sweden’s participation in global spying operations
It’s shaping up to be another multi-billion dollar year for Facebook, but don’t expect the social networking site to pay it forward: according to a new analysis, the website will pay no taxes this year and will instead likely receive a federal refund. That’s according to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), who on Tuesday this week released the 2013 edition of his annual “Wastebook” report detailing instances of what he considers unnecessary government spending.
The quest to reduce smartphone thefts in the United States is taking a new turn in California, where two state officials plan to introduce legislation mandating “kill switches” in all phones. On Thursday, Democratic State Senator Mark Leno and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon announced their intention to introduce a bill requiring all smartphones sold in California to feature technology that would render them inoperable if stolen.
A man threatening to set himself on fire in a car outside the New South Wales Parliament in Sydney prompted an evacuation of the building. Several hours into the standoff police managed to seize the car and detain the suspect. The building was put on lockdown after the man parked his car at the front gate around noon local time. While the security operation was underway, the police warned the public to stay away from the area.
A former head of the Central Intelligence Agency has said that anyone thinking about granting NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden amnesty is out of their mind and that Snowden should be “hanged” if he is ever convicted of treason. James Woolsey, who served as director of the intelligence agency from 1993 to 1995, and former Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff General Hugh Shelton told Fox News the prospect of giving Snowden legal immunity would be a serious mistake.
Police in Texas may now obtain a search warrant based on “a prediction of a future crime,” according to a dissenting judge on the state’s criminal appeals court. The ruling by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals came last week, ending a controversial case in which police searched a house before obtaining a warrant but were still able to present the confiscated evidence during a trial.
A review board established by the White House to investigate the National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance operations believes that the NSA should make drastic changes to its bulk phone data collection program. More than 40 recommendations are included in the 308-page report released by the White House on Wednesday afternoon
By Perry Chiaramonte When the last bullet-producing lead smelter closes its doors on Dec. 31, it will mark a major victory for those who say lead-based ammunition pollutes the environment, but others warn ‘green’ bullets will cost more, drive up copper prices and do little to help conservation The bid to ban lead bullets, seen by some as harmful to the environment, started slowly more than a decade ago. But with two dozen states
zA Swedish court has sentenced a 28-year-old to a $650,000 fine, a suspended jail term and 160 hours of community work for uploading over 500 movies to a torrent tracker. The man has to pay the damages for uploading a bad-quality, pre-release film. The Västmanland District Court said the unnamed Swedish Internet pirate was guilty of sharing 518 movies and TV shows on BitTorrent tracker SweBit
The value of the cryptocurrency has crashed to $550, less than half the $1,200 trading level last week, after BTC China – the world’s largest bitcoin exchange – halted deposits in Chinese yuan. The ban followed a decision by YeePay, a third-party payment provider, that said on Wednesday it would no longer accept yuan deposits, while it’ll keep on processing withdrawals, Bloomberg News reports.
India has announced a freeze on duty free alcohol in tit-for-tat tactics over a high-profile diplomat spat with the US. The scandal began when an Indian official complained of a humiliating arrest and strip-search including “cavity searches” in New York. Devyani Khobragade, a deputy consul general at the Indian Consulate in New York, was arrested in the US
Employers would no longer have the right to attain a prospective employee’s credit report, or to deny a job applicant based on credit status, under a bill introduced Tuesday in the US Senate. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and six other senators proposed the Equal Employment for All Act, which would aim to end the ability of employers to run credit checks on possible employees, currently a common practice.