Author: mediahitman

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN Countries often issue travel advisories warning citizens of danger abroad: war, for instance, or a terrorist threat or an outbreak of disease. The Russian Foreign Ministry posted advice of a somewhat different nature on Monday, cautioning people wanted by the United States not to visit nations that have an extradition treaty with it. “Warning for Russian citizens traveling internationally,” the Foreign Ministry bulletin said. “Recently, detentions of Russian citizens in various countries

Read More

Madison Ruppert Activist Post The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has routinely accessed an AT&T database of Americans’ phone records spanning over 25 years, according to a newly-published 27-page PowerPoint presentation. image credit: PowerPoint presentation obtained by Drew Hendricks, published by The New York Times This comes after it was revealed that the DEA has used NSA surveillance to investigate Americans and that the NSA has collected all U.S. phone records from Verizon. The DEA practice, known as the “Hemisphere Project” reportedly involved a tight-knit relationship between the agency and the company. The government reportedly paid AT&T employees to give…

Read More

By Liz Goodwin Eighteen-year-olds headed off to college for the first time this fall were mostly born in 1995—the year Yahoo was founded—and have never known life without the internet. In the series “Born Digital,” Yahoo News will explore the ways the college experience is being transformed by this new generation: from how undergrads nab jobs and internships to the way they interact with professors and even how they date. Researchers who have mined survey data on college freshmen and high school seniors that goes back to the 1970s

Read More

A growing initiative by some schools across the country has students and parents up in arms: the school are measuring students at an annual weigh-in, and sending reports home telling parents whether their child’s body mass index is healthy or dangerous. Hope Green, who has two school-aged children in upstate New York, said children are placed under too much stress at school.

Read More

Obama’s battle to get congressional approval for a military strike on Syria moved a step closer Tuesday, with leaders of both parties in Congress announcing that the United States should respond to Syrian President Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons. US President Barack Obama convinced leaders of both Democrats and Republicans in Congress to support his request for the authorization of a military strike on Syria. After a meeting with more than a dozen senior lawmakers this week, members of both parties went public, praising Obama’s plan and pledging a ‘yes’ vote on the operation against the Syrian government.

Read More

An astonishing photograph of John Kerry having a cozy and intimate dinner with Bashar al-Assad has emerged at the moment the U.S Secretary of State is making the case to bomb the Syrian dictator’s country and remove him from power. Kerry, who compared Assad to Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein yesterday, is pictured around a small table with his wife Teresa Heinz and the Assads in 2009.

Read More

The German special prosecutors’ office that investigates Nazi war crimes said Tuesday it is recommending charges against dozens of alleged former Auschwitz guards, opening the possibility of a new wave of trials almost 70 years after the end of World War II. Federal prosecutor Kurt Schrimm, the head of the office in Ludwigsburg, said an investigation of 49 suspects turned up enough evidence to recommend that state prosecutors pursue charges of accessory to murder against 30 people in Germany who were stationed at the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Read More

The NSA’s spy program allegedly targeted the communications of the Brazilian and Mexican presidents, US journalist Glenn Greenwald, who first published secrets leaked by Edward Snowden, has reported. It’s not clear whether the spying still goes on. Guardian reporter Greenwald, who lives in Rio de Janeiro, told Globo’s news program ‘Fantastico’ that a document dated June 2012 shows that Mexican President’s emails were being read through a month before Enrique Pena Nieto was elected. In his communications the then-presidential candidate indicated who he would like to appoint to some government posts.

Read More

dailymail.co.uk Police in Michigan have broken up a shocking ‘drug-fueled orgy’ being hosted at a secretive Masonic Lodge – and this wasn’t the first time it’s happened, authorities warn. Officers were called to the prominent building in downtown Battle Creek, Michigan – which sits across a park from police headquarters – about 2.15am Sunday. They found five women dancing on stage naked.

Read More

June 22, 1999 Scientists have known for the past two decades that many wild and agricultural plants launch an immune-like chemical defense when attacked by insects. That chemical resistance response can make the plant a poorer food for the insect and it may send out an aromatic SOS that hails the insect’s natural enemies. In a recent study of tomato plants, beet armyworms and parasitic wasps, Jennifer Thaler, a UC Davis postdoctoral fellow, found that wasps on tomato plants whose defense systems had been artificially stimulated killed twice as many caterpillars as did wasps on untreated plants.

Read More

Many US servicemen are against the looming strike on Syria, Republican Congressman Justin Amash said on Twitter, in an attempt to counter the idea that the country might be overwhelmingly in favor of military action. Amash made his comments after President Barack Obama’s statement, in which he all but promised a strike in retaliation for the supposed use of chemical agents by the Syrian government.

Read More

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange on Monday marked 1,000 days of confinement, mostly spent under house arrest. Since June 2012, Assange has been holed up in a room five meters wide, in London’s Ecuadorian Embassy, where he is reportedly working 17 hours a day. “We see the escalating war against those who commit the act of journalism. This is escalating from month to month,” WikiLeaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson told RT. “The argument is this: that Bradley Manning was the first whistleblower in US history

Read More

At least three chemical attacks were staged in Syria between April and August, a declassified French intelligence report claims, while President Bashar Assad said it was “illogical” for the government to launch a chemical weapons strike. The declassified nine-page French intelligence report, issued by the country’s external and military services, suggests government forces loyal to President Assad were behind the attack, which took place on August 21 in eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus.

Read More

Scientists from Conservation International have discovered a new species of shark living in the waters of Indonesia. Unlike other sharks, however, this species has an unusual way of getting around; it walks. This ambulating aquatic creature uses its fins to gently glide across the sea floor on its belly as it searches for food and a place to rest. The newly discovered shark, called the epaulette shark (Hemiscyllium halmahera), is one of nine walking sharks found all over the world.

Read More