Tuesday 16 September 2014

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Tesla will now be allowed to sell directly to you in Massachusetts - The Washington Post

"The highest court in Massachusetts has ruled that Tesla should be able to sell its electric cars directly to consumers like you and me. That's a big win for billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who's been waging a multi-state battle for the right to sell the vehicles — and make their technology more commonplace. But the ruling also highlights a growing divide between states, one that will tell us a lot more about the value of electric vehicle technology in the years to come and its potential to change how we travel, how we use energy and even how we design our future cities."



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Leonard Cohen: Popular Problems – exclusive album stream | Music | theguardian.com

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Evacuations around Philippines' Mount Mayon volcano - CNN.com

"(CNN) -- Thousands of people are being evacuated from the area around an active volcano in the Philippines after the country's seismology agency issued an alert saying a hazardous eruption could happen "within weeks."



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Richest Jailed Putin Foe Says Ukraine Fears Sparked Prosecution - Bloomberg

""The Kremlin didn't want to see a difference between the radical opposition at Maidan and the financially sustainable opposition in Moscow," Fetisov said in written replies to questions delivered through a lawyer. "It preferred to take precautions so it didn't get burned."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-21/richest-jailed-putin-foe-says-ukraine-fears-sparked-prosecution.html



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The Effect of Russia's Court System(s) on INTERPOL | Estlund Law, P.A. - JDSupra

"Recent news from Russia appears to confirm that Russian authorities continue to use the courts for political purposes.  The Wall Street journal reported in June that Russian authorities filed criminal fraud charges against three supporters of opposition candidate Alexei Navalny.  "



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Russian oligarchies run amuk?

"This is a watershed. Western leaders had mainly chosen to disregard Putin's encouragement of a system which had progressively led to the capture of the Russian state by oligarchic interests. Commercial and political considerations in leading Western countries prevailed over voices inside and outside Russia warning of the dangers posed by a lawless system to its citizens as well as neighboring countries and the wider world.

Britain is a good case in point. Despite the virtual breakdown of its political relationship with Russia after the "polonium murder" of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, London's lawyers, bankers, accountants and PR consultants happily lined up to work for the Putin system. Law firms enjoyed particularly rich pickings servicing Russia's ruling class in the English courts."


http://www.themoscowtimes.com/mobile/opinion/article/kick-russias-corrupt-elite-out-of-englands-courts/507101.html



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Vladimir Putin goes rogue: Ukraine, NATO, nuclear weapons — and a very dangerous new reality - Salon.com

"On Aug. 22, a convoy of more than 200 white-painted trucks carrying, according to the Russian government, humanitarian aid trundled into war-ravaged eastern Ukraine, suddenly and without permission from Ukrainian authorities, through a border post under the control of pro-Russian rebels.  There were suspicions that the vehicles were really transporting Russian troops and materiel, but humanitarian aid (mostly food and water) was, in fact, reported the BBC, the cargo.  Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko nevertheless quickly denounced Russia's dispatch of the trucks as a "direct invasion," the United States demanded Russia withdraw the convoy, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel decried the affair as "a dangerous escalation."



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Russian colonel Zhirinovsky threatens “total annihilation” of Baltics & Poland | EUROMAIDAN PRESS | News and Opinion from Across Ukraine

"On the show, Zhirinovsky, who is known for his controversial statements, threatened and suggested launching pre-emptive strikes against the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, as well as Poland. He justified the remarks by suggesting that Russia "cannot allow" peripheral nations' missile defenses and air forces to be within striking distance of Russia, and that Russia should seek to destroy them 'a half hour before they launch.'"



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The Zhirinovsky Threat | Foreign Affairs

"In the ongoing drama of what Russia is to be, state or empire, democracy or autocracy, Vladimir Zhirinovsky has shouldered his way to center stage with a bellicose, attention-grabbing performance. Some Russian and Western observers have quickly concluded that this ultranationalist is a bit player, thrust forward less by his own devices than by the inadequacies of Russian reformers in the December parliamentary elections. Yet it would be dangerous to dismiss Zhirinovsky, with his rash, outlandish statements to the press, as a self-destructive clown. His writings and the statements by key ideologues of his Liberal Democratic Party, as well as his electioneering skills, make him a potent threat to Russian democracy. Postelection surveys indicate voters support his ideas, and not just as a protest against economic conditions."



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In Crimea's Local Elections, Pro-Russians Run Strong - Businessweek

"People were queuing for several hours at a polling station in a leafy suburb of Sevastopol on Sunday morning, as residents of Crimea voted for the first time since the Ukrainian peninsula was annexed by Russia in March. The man in charge, Igor Leukhov, told Bloomberg Businessweek that the turnout was pretty remarkable, albeit not as huge as during the referendum on separating from Ukraine, which was hastily organized after the Russian takeover. By 5 p.m., people still had to join a sizable line before getting a chance to vote."

Like big brother is really watching you go to the polls and ...



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NATO Chief Warns Moscow: No More Stealth Invasions - The Daily Beast

"On Monday, NATO Commander Gen. Philip Breedlove had a not-so-subtle message for Russia: it will consider stealth and unofficial invasions to be a trigger for war.

Europe knows these stealth invasions all too well. Russia first sent teams of special operations forces wearing uniforms without insignia in February into Crimea and then later into eastern Ukraine to work with Russian minorities inside the country to begin an insurrection. Ukraine's military has been fighting these "little green men" ever since. But until recently, Russia has not even acknowledged sending anyone into the country."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/15/nato-chief-warns-moscow-no-more-stealth-invasions.html



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NATO could have trouble combatting Putin’s military strategy | The Great Debate

"Since Russian troops seized Ukraine's strategic Crimean peninsula in late February, and separatists backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin began waging a bloody insurgency in the country's east, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has walked a fine line.

The transatlantic military alliance has sent hundreds of troops to Ukraine to train alongside Kiev's forces. But at a major summit in early September, NATO declined to offer Ukraine membership. The alliance doesn't really want to go to war over Ukraine."

The temptation may be too great? 

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/09/15/how-nato-could-defend-against-a-russian-invasion/



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U.S. tax evasion and money-laundering sting nabs Canadians - Yahoo News Canada

"A contingent of so-called "corrupt clients" from Canada have been caught in the net of a massive fraud investigation by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney, a source close to the investigation told CBC.

CBC News reported Wednesday that two Canadians, along with four others, were indicted in the U.S. for their alleged role in a $500-million international fraud. According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney and the FBI, the fraud involved artificially inflating stock prices and helping more than 100 "corrupt" U.S. clients evade taxes and launder money offshore."

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/u-tax-evasion-money-laundering-143959379.html



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Corruption Currents: From Luxury Watches to ‘State Secrets’ - Risk & Compliance - WSJ

"Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was placed under house arrest as a judge continues to investigate allegations of corruption, money laundering and drug-smuggling. His lawyers filed a motion to remove the judge due to bias. (Jamaica Observer)

Canadians were nabbed in a U.S. money-laundering probe. (CBC)"

http://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2014/09/15/corruption-currents-from-luxury-watches-to-state-secrets/



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New Sanctions Against Russia Could Deal Big Blow To ExxonMobil and BP

"On Friday, the United States and the European Union imposed a new round of sanctions on Russia in response to Moscow's intervention in eastern Ukraine and following its annexation of the Crimean peninsula in March. The goal is to clamp down further on the Russian economy but it will significantly affect the drilling plans of western oil giants ExxonMobil and BP."


http://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/New-Sanctions-Against-Russia-Could-Deal-Big-Blow-To-ExxonMobil.html



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Estonia Kidnapping Claim Puts NATO on the Hot Seat - Businessweek

"In what has become an almost daily escalation in Russia's confrontation with its neighbors, Estonia is reporting that one of its security officers was abducted at gunpoint near the border with Russia and taken into custody by Russian agents. Russia, on the other hand claims that the officer, identified as Eston Kohver, was on an undercover mission inside Russian territory and that he was arrested, not abducted—the difference being a matter of a few hundred feet, it seems, raising the question of whether Kohver was in Estonia or Russia."



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Russian billionaire placed under house arrest - Businessweek

Economic war internal to before the civil war shooting and purge starts? First, Russia attacks its own "kulaks"? 

Big oil is falling apart accelerated by global environmental demands. 

"Rosneft is run by Igor Sechin, a powerful longtime assistant of President Vladimir Putin.

Sechin, who has been placed on the U.S. and the EU sanctions lists over the Ukrainian crisis, was seen as the mastermind behind the 2003 arrest of Russia's then-richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Khodorkovsky's Yukos oil company was broken into pieces and sold in dubious auctions with Rosneft seizing the most lucrative elements."

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2014-09-16/russian-billionaire-placed-under-house-arrest



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Russia is like the monkey with its hand in the jar?

"Within hours of announcements in Washington and Brussels last week that sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine would be stepped up, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would consider how to retaliate.

Moscow has proven once that it can act. In August, Russia banned food imports from Western countries worth $9 billion annually.

Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said Tuesday that retaliatory measures should not go beyond the agricultural sector, but other more hawkish voices have called for Moscow to be bolder.

The Moscow Times looked at some of the options that may have landed on Putin's desk, ranging from the plausible to the fanciful.  "

Russia can do lots of things, but it needs to think first about how much it hurts Russia to retaliate when Russia itself it in the wrong. Monkey with its hand in the jar?


http://www.themoscowtimes.com/mobile/business/507261.html



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Rosneft financing woes

"Sanctions-hit oil company Rosneft will be able to apply for money from a state wealth fund, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said Tuesday, adding that the government had "on the whole" approved the company's investment program.

Rosneft's access to Western money has been restricted by the sanctions imposed in response to Moscow's role in the Ukrainian conflict. Rosneft has asked the government for $42 billion support from a fund earmarked for Russian pensions to help it weather the sanctions.

Dvorkovich said that Rosneft had yet to apply formally for help from the National Wealth Fund and that it must define the projects for which it needs money from the fund."


http://www.themoscowtimes.com/mobile/business/article/russian-government-considers-saving-rosneft-through-state-fund/507145.html



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ITAR-TASS: World - Canada imposes new sanctions on Russia

"The individuals affected by the sanctions are: Russian deputy defense ministers Army General Dmitry Bulgakov and Colonel-General Yury Sadovenko, first deputy chief of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, Central Military District Troops Commander Colonel-General Nikolai Bogdanovsky and Russian Ground Forces Commander Colonel-General Oleg Salyukov."




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Russia removing Jemilev books from Crimea bookshops | Europe | Worldbulletin News

"Officers from the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) are examining Crimean bookshops and seizing some black-listed books. Among them is a book of Crimean historian Gulnara Bekirova about Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Jemilev.

"Mustafa Jemilev: Crimean Tatar voice not heard for decades", issued in 2014, is being confiscated by the authorities, the head of Crimean Tatar Mejlis (Parliament) Refat Chubarov wrote on Facebook."

Censorship? Lets all get a copy and distribute it worldwide? 

http://www.worldbulletin.net/haber/143506/russia-removing-jemilev-books-from-crimea-bookshops



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Russian FSB surrounds Crimean Tatar parliament-UPDATED | Europe | Worldbulletin News

"Russian FSB officers have surrounded the Crimean Tatar Mejlis (Parliament) building, the representative-executive body of Crimean Tatars in Simferopol announced on September 16.

Masked, armed FSB officers and policemen who have encircled the Mejlis building in Simferopol have as yet refused to comment on the situation, claiming that they are not authorized to comment.

"I came to work shortly after 9.30 a.m. but the building was blocked by armed people in balaclavas and uniforms," Dilyaver Akiev, head of the secretariat of the assembly, or Mejlis, said by phone.

"They are not letting anyone in or out, they are assisted by regular police and the FSB (Federal Security Service) is carrying out searches inside," he said from Crimea's provincial capital Simferopol."

Will this be the start of a new purge?

http://www.worldbulletin.net/world/144484/russian-fsb-surrounds-crimean-tatar-parliament-updated



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Henning Mankell on living with cancer: there are days full of darkness | Life and style | The Guardian

Mankell is presently my favourite author... 

"Now in September it is eight months since I was diagnosed with cancer. On a rainy evening when the warm summer is over, I decide it's time to take a closer look at how things stand. Where am I now, with regard to my cancer and my treatment? How have I coped with what has happened? How do I feel? Both in my body and in my emotional awareness – in what some might call my soul.

I have written before about my treatment, about my reactions and, not least, about my great admiration for all the staff I have met at the Sahlgrenska Hospital. Nothing has happened to change my opinions. If I had to be stricken with cancer, I'm pleased it happened in Sweden."

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/sep/16/henning-mankell-wallander-author-cancer-days-of-darkness



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BBC News - Parents unaware of dangers faced by children on smartphones

"Many parents are out of touch with the dangers faced by their children on tablets and smartphones, according to a poll by BBC Learning.

Almost one in five children said they had seen something on their devices that had upset them, twice the number parents had thought.

A separate study found that just over 20% of parents do not monitor what their children are doing online.

The research was commissioned as part of Safer Internet Day.

While 90% of the parents surveyed by the BBC in England said they had spoken to their children about staying safe online when using a tablet or a smartphone, most said they allowed their children to use them unsupervised."

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26121434



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Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent - NYTimes.com

When Steve Jobs was running Apple, he was known to call journalists to either pat them on the back for a recent article or, more often than not, explain how they got it wrong. I was on the receiving end of a few of those calls. But nothing shocked me more than something Mr. Jobs said to me in late 2010 after he had finished chewing me out for something I had written about an iPad shortcoming.

"So, your kids must love the iPad?" I asked Mr. Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company's first tablet was just hitting the shelves. "They haven't used it," he told me. "We limit how much technology our kids use at home."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/fashion/steve-jobs-apple-was-a-low-tech-parent.html?_r=1



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Pope Francis warns 'piecemeal' World War III has begun

You should not ignore this comment... 

"Pope Francis said on Saturday the spate of conflicts around the globe today were effectively a "piecemeal" Third World War, condemning the arms trade and "plotters of terrorism" sowing death and destruction.

"Humanity needs to weep and this is the time to weep," Francis said in the homily of a Mass during a visit to Italy's largest war memorial, a large, Fascist-era monument where more than 100,000 soldiers who died in World War One are buried."

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101997996



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Record Apple iPhone preorders likely the envy of Samsung: Expert

"In the first 24 hours of preordering, Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus orders hit a record 4 million, the kind of demand that Apple's biggest competitor Samsung likely envies, despite its recent advertisements mocking the tech giant, according to one expert.

That compares with 2 million iPhone 5 orders made within 24 hours after preordering began, according to the company."

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102001385



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August Cartoon Caption Winner! | EE Times

"Congratulations to "zeeglen" for submitting the winning caption for our August cartoon, which was frankly a nightmare given the enormous amount of egg-cellent entries."

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1323788



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How to Make Holes in Things | EE Times

"There are many different ways to make holes in things. Most of them involve drilling or cutting in some way, but there are other techniques. Years ago, the husband of a friend of my wife came to me for help. He was a civil engineer, but also very gifted mechanically, and he had a roomful of lathes, milling machines, and the like. He wanted help to build a spark erosion machine. This works by repeatedly bringing a shaped metal electrode onto a workpiece. Every time this happens there is a spark between the electrode and the workpiece. The electrode is immediately withdrawn and then brought down onto the workpiece again, and again, and again. Each spark erodes a tiny part of the workpiece. If you do this fast enough and long enough, you will slowly but surely erode the workpiece away."



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Apple, Samsung in 20nm Race | EE Times

"The shrink from 28nm to 20nm obviously reduces the transistor size, but with double the transistor count, the A8 could have come closer to the same size as the A7. Apple likely improved the packing of its 64-bit Cyclone CPU core, and some of the additional transistors could have come in the form of more cache memory, which is denser than logic used for CPUs and GPUs.

Apple devoted those extra billion transistors to improving CPU performance by up to 25% and speeding up GPU performance by up to 50%. At the same time, Apple is claiming power savings that allow it to sustain performance, while other processors start to thermally throttle performance."

http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1323929



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Scotland the Brave

"Indeed, capital spending per person has been consistently higher in Scotland than in the U.K. as a whole for over a decade, a trend that has sped up since 2010 as the Scottish Government elected to cut capital spending less than the rest of the U.K..

The decision to protect capital spending, which traditionally gets a higher economic bang for your buck, in the midst of a downturn is one that Westminster has (belatedly) conceded would have been sensible policy. As such, the Scottish Government's actions reflect the positive influence that devolution might have on the U.K. as a whole.


http://www.businessinsider.com/stiglitz-ignores-the-oil-problem-for-an-independent-scotland-2014-9?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=emailshare



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UK IS GREATEST IDEA EVER INVENTED ... Scottish independence: Eddie Izzard and Bob Geldof lead Trafalgar Square rally supporting union | City A.M.

And so say all of us here in Canada and the Commonwealth ...

"An estimated 10,000 Londoners gathered in Trafalgar Square yesterday evening in a last-ditch bid to urge Scotland to vote No to independence in Thursday's referendum. 
 
Musician and campaigner Sir Bob Geldof made a surprise appearance at the event, hosted by comedian Eddie Izzard and broadcaster Dan Snow. Geldof said that he wanted to tell Scots: "We're all fed up of Westminster too", but that the UK was the "greatest idea ever invented". "

http://www.cityam.com/1410829168/london-scotland-just-say-no?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Email&utm_campaign=140916%20-%20CMU



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Massive Flight Cancellations as Air France Pilots Go on Strike | TIME

"Air France announced last week a plan to move much of its operations in Europe to the company's cheaper subsidiary, Transavia, and base some flights out of foreign countries to save approximately $1.3 billion, the Associated Press reports. Pilots claim the airline is moving jobs outside of France in order to pursue cheaper taxes and cheaper labor."



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The Global Problem With Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment | TIME

"We've heard the overdiagnosis argument in the U.S. before, especially surrounding breast cancer; in 2009, the United States Preventive Services Task Force recommended against annual breast cancer screening starting at age 40 and instead advised women get mammograms starting at age 50.

Now, two new studies published Monday in the medical journal The BMJ highlight the global problem with overtreatment in both breast cancer and heart disease."

http://time.com/3379349/overdiagnosis-and-overtreatment/?xid=newsletter-brief



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