July 15, 2009
A soldier challenging the Presidents’ eligibility for office gets his Afghanistan deployment revoked; view the Presidential pitch over the mound in St. Louis; Ten ways to change your life in 59 seconds; and other obscure news articles…
Bombshell: Orders revoked for soldier challenging prez – A U.S. Army Reserve major from Florida scheduled to report for deployment to Afghanistan within days has had his military orders revoked after arguing he should not be required to serve under a president who has not proven his eligibility for office [read it at World Net Daily] [read MY article about Prez eligibility]
Texas armoring says global financial crisis fuels kidnapping-for-ransom pandemic, demand for protection skyrockets — …requests for bulletproof cars, trucks and SUVs have skyrocketed as a result of kidnappings-for-ransom across the globe [read it at Enhanced Online News]
Ten ways to change your life in 59 seconds – A new self-help book distils evidence from empirical studies in a variety of scientific journals into small nuggets of apparently life-changing advice [read it at Telegraph.co.uk]
View the full video of President Obama’s Pitch – [view it at MLB]
Electronic identification sparks privacy debate — Within an hour, he’d “skimmed” the identifiers of four more of the new, microchipped PASS cards from a distance of 20 feet. Embedding identity documents – passports, drivers licenses, and the like… [read it at Houston Chronicle] [see MY article on the new drivers licenses]
Analysts turn to software for spotting terrorists — The software is meant to help the government find patterns among terrorists – by spotting clues in everything from phone calls to the kind of trail McGrew left on his way to work [read it at NPR]
‘Germany believes Iran could have nuclear bomb within 6 months’ — Iran is capable of assembling an atomic bomb within six months, German intelligence analysts told the German weekly newsmagazine Stern [read it at Haaretz]
Zawahiri: Pakistanis must fight US — Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, has urged Pakistanis to rise up against US forces, which he said had occupied their country [read it at Aljazeera]
UK unemployment – the jobless map of Britain — Watch unemployment spread across Britain since September 2008 [read it at Guardian.co.uk]
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July 13, 2009
My obscure news search nets articles like: the $2.1 million government contract to produce “nano air vehicles” disguised as hummingbirds to spy. Ebola has been detected in pigs, EPA announced the cap-and-trade bill would not “materially effect global carbon concentrations in the atmosphere,” and many more interesting obscure news articles not getting notable review through the media.
Guard RFID’s TotGuard™ System Now Includes “Mother -- Baby Bonding” Using Active RFID — A 2005 study reported that there are approximately 23,000 erroneous infant-mother transfers per year in the United States alone, and that the vast majority are discovered before discharge, “usually through pure luck” [read it at PR Web]
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll – Monday shows that 28% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-six percent (36%) Strongly Disapprove [read it at Rasmussen]
See current and archived swine flu statistics — on this site [read it here]
Microsoft releases preview of Office 2010; Word, Excel and PowerPoint to be Available on web — will soon be releasing free versions of its most popular applications that can be accessed via the World Wide Web [read it at RTT News]
Coming soon: Data mining made easier — New York Times and Pro Publica editors have won a $700,000 grant…for designing an archive …Most all academic, journalistic, or otherwise public-supportive organizations will be able to join [read it at Nieman Watchdog] <— this could directly and immediately cut bloggers out of the information loop
Robotic hummingbird being built by U.S. to spy – a $2.1 million contract to further their work on the Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) — this miniature spy will go unnoticed while spying on you [see video & read it at Gizmodo]
GOP lawmaker wants explanation why justice dismissed Black Panther voter intimidation charges — The case relates to allegations that members of the New Black Panthers interfered with voters trying to enter a Philadelphia polling station on Election Day 2008 [read it at Fox News]
Government officials say RFID makes life easier, privacy advocates worried — Some have already begun calling the practice “Little Brother” in a nod to the Big Brother of George Orwell’s “1984.” (a video is viewable in article as well) [read it at Lehigh Valley Live] [see my article here]
Cap-and-trade bill ineffective — The EPA announced that the Waxman-Markey Bill, the cap-and-trade bill, would not “materially effect global carbon concentrations in the atmosphere.” Why then are Americans being asked to take on $9 trillion ($9,000,000,000,000) worth of spending from 2012-2050 for nothing? [read it at Human Events]
Third largest social networking site sued for invasion of privacy, identity theft — Tagged allegedly tricked many of its users into handing over their lists of email contacts. It then sent fraudulent emails to all the addresses, purporting to be the owner of the contact list [read it at Daily Tech]
Pentagon tests: F-22 has maintenance shortcomings — The United States’ premier fighter jet, the Lockheed Martin F-22, has recently required more than 30 hours of maintenance for every hour in the skies, pushing its hourly cost of flying to more than $44,000, a far higher figure than for the warplane it replaces, confidential Pentagon test results show [read it at Washington Post]
SEC says California IOUs are ‘securities’ under U.S. law — As expected, the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 9 decided that California’s IOUs are “securities” under the agency’s definition. The SEC’s move will not have any effect on the state’s ability to issue the IOUs, because the agency has no jurisdiction over state governments [read it at LA Times]
Concern over Ebola virus in pigs — A form of Ebola virus has been detected in pigs for the first time, raising concerns it could mutate and pose a new risk to humans. only previously been seen in monkeys and humans [read it at BBC.co.uk]
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July 12, 2009
Today brings obscure news including information on new iphone patents. Other topics include a completely automated shipping yard and more…
Apple files for more iphone patents — Future iPhones may have facial recognition, object recognition, and text message filtering capabilities [read it at Information Week]
RFID-based shipping yard reporting success – (RFID – Radio Frequency Identification) The technology, which makes the yard almost an entirely automated operation, has been funded through a $100 million investment in 2008. The technology specifically sees an unmanned system guiding deliveries to the correct area and then removing cargo and placing it in its designated area [see it at RFID news]
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July 10, 2009
Obscure news for today include a study grant for further study on Alzheimers. Other news includes a new computer worm detected, an EPA representative admits in Senate hearings that US action alone won’t impact Co2 levels (we’re downwind from China, who won’t participate. Neither will India)
Alzheimer’s ‘distant cousin’ of mad cow — A researcher at Novato’s Buck Institute for Age Research on Monday received a $1.5 million, four-year federal “Eureka” grant to further study his novel theory that Alzheimer’s Disease affects people in much the same way that mad cow disease acts in cattle [read it at Navato Advance]
Under cyberthreat: defense contractors — The defense industry faces “a near-existential threat from state-sponsored foreign intelligence services” that target sensitive IP, according to a report by the Internet Security Alliance, a nonprofit organization. Northrop Grumman experienced the implications of that threat firsthand recently [read it at Business Week]
Swiss vow to block UBS from handing data to U.S. — UBS has refused a demand from U.S. authorities that it turn over the names of 52,000 American clients, arguing that to do so would be illegal under Swiss banking secrecy laws and would open it to prosecution at home [read it at New York Times]
Trend Micro discovers new ransomware ‘WORM_RANSOM.FD’ — According to Trend Micro security researchers, they have detected a new ransomware that proliferates through an e-mail on the internet [read it at Spamfighter]
Big banks don’t want California’s IOUs — A group of the biggest U.S. banks said they would stop accepting California’s IOUs on July 3, adding pressure on the state to close its $26.3 billion annual budget gap [read it at Wall Street Journal]
EPA admits cap and trade will fail — “I believe that essential parts of the chart are that the U.S. action alone will not impact CO2 levels,” stated Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson at the hearings held by The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee [read it at Heritage]
15 cameras now watching downtown Albany — Fifteen downtown Albany, Georgia, cameras got their first test with the city’s Fourth of July celebration and are now watching the area day and night [read it at WALB 10]
U.S., German intel: Al Qaeda plots multiple attacks on U.S.-, Israel-bound airliners — Western anti-terror agencies have warned that a group of 15-20 al Qaeda terrorists, who were trained in Pakistan and Algeria to hijack and blow up airliners, deployed secretly to at least six European and Middle East countries in early July [read it at Debka]
Administration issues new rules on egg safety — On July 7, the Presidential Administration released a rule to deal with the nation’s egg problem and used the moment to promise a sweeping overhaul of the system to ensure the safety of spinach, lettuce, tomatoes, melons, beef and chicken [read it at NY Times]
State health officials order clinic to stop performing surgeries — State public health officials ordered the Las Vegas Clinica de Mujeres medical clinic to shut down Tuesday because it was performing surgeries without a license [read it at Las Vegas Review Journal]
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July 9, 2009
NRA concerns about the Sotomayer supreme court appointment and other obscure news found today include the cyberattacks on the federal websites theory along with new Rasmussen poll on the President. Read on!
Cyberattacks on federal Web sites may be smokescreen — …some security experts wonder whether there’s more to the attacks than meets the eye. Denial-of-service attacks against public Web sites can be an effective means of distracting network administrators while other, more sensitive computer systems and applications are targeted. DHS has not released any advisories to indicate more serious attacks occurred against federal computer networks or systems, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t taken place, said a former intelligence official who asked to not be named [Read it at NextGov]
President Obama’s czar system concerns some — There are no constitutional requirements that Czars undergo Senate Conformation Hearings and some lawmakers and Washington interest groups are raising concerns that he may be subverting the authority of Congress and concentrating too much power in the presidency [read it at LA Times]
Seoul subway to save millions of dollars with RFID ticketing technology from STMicroelectronics — The world’s first RFID-based scheme for single-journey reusable ticketing in mass transportation has recently gone live in Seoul, South Korea, and is expected to save some 3 billion Won (over US$2.4 million) per year [read it at PR Newswire]
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll — Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove while 32% Strongly Approve of the way the President is performing — giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -5 [read it at Rasmussen]
WHO to recommend countries stop testing all flu cases — “What countries ought to do is tailor down their testing,” he said. “It will ease the burden on labs and make testing less of a chore. It is very hard to keep up.” [read it at Bloomberg]
San Quentin won’t accept new inmates, citing flu — Nearly half the 5,200 inmates in the prison north of San Francisco are being quarantined [read it at Mercury News]
NRA has concerns about Sotomayor as a supreme court member — The NRA – influential with Republicans and some conservative Democrats – said senators should question Sotomayor on her views on the Second Amendment and curbs on the right to bear arms, and threatened to oppose her if her answers were “hostile or evasive.” [read it at RGJ]
Russia, U.S. press “reset” button on strained ties, yet key divergences remain — After three rounds of talks behind closed doors before the presidents met, the two leaders finally inked a document of understanding on nuclear weapon control on the first day of their Moscow summit [read it at xinhuanet]
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July 8, 2009
Obscure news for today include the Resolution text introduced by the House of Representatives to honor Michael Jacksons life. Also, the obscure finds today are: A Chevron pipeline was destroyed and new legislation that will not only regulate how crops are raised and harvested but would have the ability to quarantine geographic areas. Much more. Read on…
Read the Michael Jackson House Resolution — Honoring an American legend and musical icon [read it on this site]
U.S. presses Japan on beef, insurance trade barriers — Japan, which ran a $72.7 billion trade surplus with the United States in 2008, was the number one market for U.S. beef before it banned imports in December 2003, after the first case of mad cow disease was found in the United States [read it at Reuters]
Hong Kong tests RFID for product authentication — A GS1 Hong Kong-led project uses UHF EPC tags to allow consumers to verify that goods purchased at Hong Kong International Airport are not counterfeit [read it at RFID Journal]
John Weibel: Food Safety Enhancement Act gives too much power — The proposed bill HR 2479 gives the FDA the power to quarantine a geographic area [read it at Steamboat Pilot & Today]
Chevron pipe ‘destroyed’ in Niger Delta: militants — Nigerian militants said on Monday they destroyed a Chevron oil pipeline junction in the latest attack on Nigeria’s key money earner since the government offered an amnesty [read it at BBC News]
Ex-Goldman employee charged with computer code theft — The U.S. Justice Department arrested a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. employee and charged him with stealing computer codes related to the firm’s high-speed trading platform [read it at Wall Street Journal]
Fraudulent passport numbers leap — The United Kingdom’s Home Office has admitted that 9,256 fraudulent passports were granted in the last two years [read it at Public Service]
TSA agent arrested after avoiding screening in New Jersey — authorities say she avoided a pre-flight screening and boarded a plane [read it at Kansas City.com]
Man found with bomb — Police arrested a man early Saturday who had a bomb in a backpack that he may have been preuse at a school in the area, officials said [read it at the Post Star]
U.S. Navy reorganizes staff to focus on cyber — A new U.S. Navy staff reorganization is expected to beef up the service’s ability to defend its computer and communications networks, as well as exploit and attack an enemy’s systems, by combining intelligence and information technology operations under a new Fleet Cyber Command (FLTCYBERCOM) [read it at Defense News]
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July 6, 2009
The internet romp today came up with obscure news articles not widely reported like the announcement from the Poles that they have constructed a computer operated by an eye and another article about a new tamper resistant umbilical tag! Read on…
ACORN denies name change but former board members remain convinced of re-branding — Wade Rathke, who founded the organization, announced on his blog that ACORN International, one of many affiliate organizations, had officially changed its name to “Community Organizations International.” [read it at Washington Examiner]
Guard RFID releases first tamper resistant active RFID — Guard RFID Solutions Inc., announced that its leading-edge TotGuard Infant Protection solution now has an active RFID based tamper resistant umbilical tag, with a built-in tamper alert mechanism [read it at MoreRFID]
Tamiflu resistance emerges in flu pandemic – Denmark, Japan and Hong Kong have reported finding Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 viruses [read it at News Scientist]
IMS fails high court drug test — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to state laws aimed at limiting the ability of drugmakers to target individual doctors with sales pitches [read it at Connecticut Post / Bloomberg News]
Humans may contract fatal brain disease from farmed fish — A new U.S. research suggests that humans could contract Creutzfeldt Jakob disease — the human form of “mad cow disease” – from eating farmed fish that are fed byproducts rendered from infected cows [read it at xinhuanet.com]
Chinese Premier stresses maintaining stable economic development — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said China will keep consistent macro-economic policies, promote structural adjustment, develop new growth sectors, improve growth quality and increase people’s livelihood to ensure stable and fast economic growth [read it at xinhuanet.com]
Poles have constructed a computer operated by an eye — … allows a paralyzed person to operate a computer moving his/hers eyes only. This device will be also applied for diagnosis of kids with learning disorder and hearing disorder. It is supposed to be 10 times cheaper than similar solutions of western competitors [read it at NewsPoland.com]
BGIL launches RFID car tracker — Bharatiya Global Infomedia has launched a RFID-based Parking Management System designed to track and manage vehicles in parking areas or gated communities [read it at cxotoday.com]
Closing arguments: No more quotas — The Supreme Court in “Ricci v. DeStefano” dealt a final blow to racially motivated hiring. This is the dawning of post-racial America [read it at Philadelphia Inquirer]
Spouse in Ensign affair sought help in letter to Fox News — Partisanship is now so toxic in the US that rightwing leakers feel compelled to leak sex scandals to their own pet press… In a letter dated five days before Sen. John Ensign’s public confession of an extramarital affair, Doug Hampton pleaded to a national Fox News anchorwoman for help in exposing the senator’s “heinous conduct and pursuit” of Hampton’s wife [read it at the Las Vegas Sun]
RU staff to get free I.D. theft protection — Employees of the Redford Union School District will get six months of fraud alert protection free of charge to guard against possible identity theft made possible when their social security numbers were inadvertently printed on envelopes mailed to their homes [read it at Hometown Life]
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July 5, 2009
Today, while scanning the net, I’ve run across more obscure news. The announcement of three new apple patents; Taiwan citizen reaction to relaxed US beef imports since imposing restrictions because of mad cow; paying for goods at stores with your phone and more. Read on…
Apple files 3 patent on haptic feedback, biometrics and RFID detection — Apple, the iPhone-maker, filed a patent application for developing technology that would present non-visual feedback when a person touches the screen of a laptop… two other patent applications, one for technology use of biometrics to spot fingerprints and the other for a radio-frequency recognition reader, have been submitted by Apple [read it at Top News]
Pay-with-your-phone startup raises $8 million — Bling’s RFID-based mobile payments program, Redi Pay Bling, allows users in the U.S. to pay for goods in stores with their phones [read it at Business Insider] (ed. note: asia is already doing this)
U.S. to Donate Drug to Combat Swine Flu — The United States will donate 420,000 packets of the antiviral drug Tamiflu to the Pan-American Health Organization to help fight the swine flu pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean, federal health officials said Thursday [read it at New York Times]
Activists protest over relaxation of US beef imports — Taiwan has recently come under strong lobbying from the United States to resume imports of all US beef products. Since 2006 Taiwan has only allowed the import of boneless beef from cattle under 30 months old following outbreaks of BSE, or mad cow disease [read it at Radio Taiwan International]
Data mining: how retailers are fighting thieves and fraudsters — From people ‘forgetting’ to pay for goods to employee fraud, stores are using sophisticated software to target and deter shoplifters [read it at Guardian.co.uk]
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July 1, 2009
Obscure news for July 1st includes an article published stating that the US DOD mistakenly transferred intercontinental ballistic missile parts to Taiwan. More great articles given little media attention…
Do you earn more than a teacher? — No one seems to dispute the argument that school teachers are underpaid – but no one outside the education system seem to know how much they make [read it at the Examiner]
GAO: Arms sales program still flawed – In March 2008, the Department of Defense disclosed that it mistakenly transferred intercontinental ballistic missile parts to Taiwan through a U.S. program that sells pre-approved defense articles and services to foreign governments [read it at Military.com]
‘Hacker’s hacker’ from San Francisco pleads guilty in $86 million fraud — A mild-mannered computer geek people once believed could do no wrong admitted Monday to stealing nearly 2 million credit card numbers, which he and others used to rack up more than $86 million in fraudulent charges [read it at Pittsburgh Live]
DOJ opposes antitrust immunity for Continental – According to the Justice Department, Continental and United plan to sell seats on each other’s U.S. flights, combine customer lounges, consolidate operations at airports… [read it at RTTnews]
Tom Davis says he doesn’t want cyber-coordinator job – “For this job to work you’d better get some understandings up front, if you’re the cyber czar and you want to have any clout in this,” Davis said [read it at Federal Computer Week]
China remains spam haven due to ‘bulletproof’ hosting – An overwhelming majority of Web sites promoted through spam are hosted in China at service providers that many times choose to ignore complaints and allow illegal activity, according to research from the University of Alabama [read it at PC World]
Vontae Davis identity theft incident is another reminder for athletes — Identity theft and fraud affected nearly 10 million Americans last year at a cost of more than $48 billion, according to Javelin Strategy & Research [read it at Palm Beach Post]
AF tests missile in launch from Calif. Coast – It’s an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile [read it at Air Force Times]
Unclear what happens to personal info with Clear — Hundreds of thousands of people relinquished their personal information for faster passage through TSA – now the company holding your info is out of business – do you need to worry? [read it at Mercury News]
Pro-Iranian regime hackers invade U.S. computers — Hackers posted a caustic message telling the U.S. President to mind his own business and stop talking about the disputed Iranian election on a U.S. university home page on June 24. Attempts to access the Oregon University System’s Web site were automatically redirected to another page… [read it at Enterprise Security Today]
Drowning of the Mississippi Delta due to insufficient sediment supply and global sea-level rise – LSU researchers have concluded that Coastal restoration projects doomed to fail . Even under best-case scenarios for building massive engineering projects to restore Louisiana’s dying coastline, the Mississippi River can not possibly feed enough sediment into the marshes to prevent ongoing catastrophic land loss, two Louisiana State University (LSU) geologists conclude [read it at nature.com]
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June 30, 2009
Todays obscure news goes all over the board. From lead in lip gloss to the discovery of where the brain action site for alcohol’s is. Read on and enjoy!
76% say government likely to waste stimulus money — Forty-five percent (45%) of Americans believe the rest of the new government spending authorized in the stimulus plan should be cancelled right away, but 36% disagree [read it at Rasmussen Reports]
State health officials warn of lead in Target lip gloss — Indiana state health officials warn Hoosiers that elevated lead levels have been found in products sold at Target stores [read it at Kokomo Perspective]
DEWALT recalls framing nailers due to serious injury hazard — DEWALT D51825 and D51850 Framing Nailers have been recalled due to improperly assembled bump action triggers which could cause the nailer to malfunction and cause serious injury to users or bystanders [read it at U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission]
Veterans Benefits reference guide now available — The latest edition is a 164–page handbook which rovides the latest information on important changes in eligibility for VA medical care and benefits [see it at VA.gov]
Samsung pushes for AM OLED phones — Samsung is pushing for sales of models with the screens, a technology the company believes will give it an edge in the market due to the thinner display, clearer images and reduced power consumption [read it at Korea Times]
Tune-up your finances — Here are stories, interviews and tools designed to help you keep your portfolio running smoothly for years to come [read it at BankRate.com]
Site for alcohol’s action in the brain discovered — A new study by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies brings us closer to understanding how alcohol alters the way brain cells work [read it at Science Daily]
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June 29, 2009
On todays’ daily obscure news for June 29, include articles of a New York building being evacuated for a huge crack, a man adjusts sprinklers to flood a police department and much more…
Cap and Trade passes House — See how your Representative voted.
Your government representatives – See how much they earn.
Swine flu found at Argentinean pig farm — The find emerges as Argentina is undergoing a human swine flu epidemic [read it at Redorbit.com]
Identity theft takes an effort to stop — The Federal Trade Commission estimates as many as 9 million identity theft cases are reported each year [read it at Chippewa.com]
Man arrested for online gaming piracy in Hong Kong — Hong Kong customs officers have shut down a pirated online gaming operation, arresting a 34-year-old man and seizing seven Internet servers and five computers worth HK$77,000 (US$ 9,935) from an apartment [read it at idg.no]
Inquiry to focus on flights’ sensor malfunctions — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it has begun an investigation into two recent incidents involving Airbus A330s, the same kind of plane as the one operated by Air France that crashed over the Atlantic Ocean [read it at the New York Times]
Pa. man monkeys with sprinkler, floods police HQ [read it at Philly.com]
Over 2.7 billion vulnerable programs installed on U.S. computers – Reputed Danish vulnerability intelligence provider Secunia has recently released version 1.5 of its free Personal Software Inspector (PSI) application. Statistics gathered by the software reveal frightening numbers, such as 2,720,800,000 vulnerable programs being installed on U.S. computers [read it at softpedia.com]
Little Italy building evacuated after 20-foot crack discovered — Authorities evacuated a five-story Little Italy building in New York City the evening of June 24, fearing a giant bottom-to-top crack in its facade could be a prelude to disaster [read it at New York Post]
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June 27, 2009
June 27 brings interestingly obscure news from all over. Read on!
Cap and Trade Bill passes House — was your voice heard? – Forty-four democrats and eight republicans jumped the party line vote, while three chose not to vote at all on this important Bill. See how YOUR Representative voted [read it at the Examiner]
Swine flu virus update — Swine flu incidents of deaths and confirmed cases from all around the world might surprise you. Although billions of dollars has been authorized for pandemic preparedness here in this country, our own CDC has scaled back to only reporting our national statistics on a weekly basis [read worldwide stats on this site]
Only 17% rate government a wiser spender than private business — By a 62%-17% margin, Americans believe that private businesses spend money more wisely and carefully than government [read it at Rasmussen]
‘Proof’ of Kenyan birth twice scrubbed by eBay — But seller of ‘Obama’s birth certificate’ dodges administrators to post 3rd time — An eBay seller calling himself “colmado_naranja” who previously promised to deliver a certified copy of President Obama’s actual birth certificate – from a hospital in Mombasa, Kenya – has twice had his listing removed from the popular auction website [read it at World Net Daily]
New York City swine flu case tally could be as high as 500,000, CDC says – New research estimates that half a million New Yorkers have been infected by swine flu – casting doubts on the city’s claim that transmission of the H1N1 virus has declined [read it at New York Daily News]
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