Scratches to Sketches
Saturday 25 October 2014
Welcome To IANS Live - SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY - NASA captures largest sunspot in two decades
Washington, Oct 25 (IANS) NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has spotted an image of a gigantic sunspot - the largest in last 24 years.
The flare erupted from a particularly large active region dubbed as AR 12192.
http://ianslive.in/index.php?param=news/NASA_captures_largest_sunspot_in_two_decades-450511/SCIENCE%20and%20TECHNOLOGY/36iPad Pro Release Date Delayed to 2015 Due to iPhone 6, Could Apple Outrun Samsung and Microsoft with its Super Tablet? - Crossmap Christian News | Tech & Biz
The iPad Pro remains as a concept or prototype at best, as Apple has never confirmed its existence. "Inside Apple, another project aimed at professionals is an iPad with a jumbo screen, according to two employees who spoke on condition they not be named because the product is not yet finished, nor is it considered official yet," The New York Times reports.
Norway's 'killer robot' technology under fire - The Local
The partially autonomously controlled missiles, or so-called "killer robots", will be used for airborne strikes for its new fighter jets and have the ability to identify targets and make decisions to kill without human interference.
The Norwegian Peace League, for one, believe the technology may violate international law, wanting a parliamentary debate about the move.
Alexander Harang of the Norwegian Peace League (Norges Fredslag) demands discussion . He is also a member for the international "Campaign to stop killer robots".
Norway is one of many countries developing weapons that can operate without human control or surveillance.
Russia-Norway tensions at liberation ceremony - The Local
Yet Solberg also took the opoortunity to renew her criticism of Russia's actions towards Ukraine.
"We are not the ones needing to improve our relationship to Russia. It is Russia needing to improve their relationship to the rest of the world and to respect international law," Solberg said to NTB.
"Russia must abstain from giving more support to the separatist movement and the rebels in parts of Ukraine," Solberg added.
Global warming is a big fat lie and the science behind it is fake: John Coleman : SCIENCE : Tech Times
"The ocean is not rising significantly. The polar ice is increasing, not melting away. Polar bears are increasing in number. Heat waves have actually diminished, not increased. There is not an uptick in the number or strength of storms (in fact, storms are diminishing)," says Coleman. "I have studied this topic seriously for years. It has become a political and environment agenda item, but the science is not valid."
Oh that is so so so great? Means we can continue polluting everywhere?
Swiss Banks Ask U.S. to Amend Proposed Tax Amnesty Deals - Bloomberg
Swiss banks seeking to avoid U.S. prosecution by disclosing how they helped Americans evade taxes asked the Justice Department this week to back off a dozen demands, including that they cooperate with other nations.
Lawyers representing 73 Swiss banks wrote on Oct. 21 to object to terms of a proposed non-prosecution agreement that spells out how banks can achieve amnesty through a disclosure programannounced last year. The 11-page letter says the agreement "presents substantial obstacles" and suggests a wide range of changes to the model accord, including a requirement that banks "cooperate fully" with "any other domestic or foreign law enforcement agency" in any investigation.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-23/swiss-banks-ask-u-s-to-amend-proposed-tax-amnesty-deals.htmlThe deficit will kill the property bubble - FT.com
I have a friend who has been trying to sell a central London flat for eight months. Another has had a large house on the market for six months. They can't understand why these one-time money machines aren't selling. What happened to the hot London housing market, the one in which you could sell any dark noisy mini-Victorian conversion for a million quid?
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e1e05608-5b5c-11e4-a674-00144feab7de.html#ixzz3HBMTrPUk
NSA Analyst Proves GOP Is Stealing Elections | UK Progressive
"When Duniho applied a mathematical model to actual voting results in the largest voting precincts, he saw that only the large precincts suddenly trended towards Mitt Romney in the Arizona primary – and indeed all Republicans in every election since 2008 – by a factor of 8%-10%. The Republican candidate in every race saw an 8-10%. gain in his totals whilst the Democrat lost 8-10%. This is a swing of up to 20 point, enough to win an election unless a candidate was losing very badly.
Since sifting through and decoding massive amounts of data was his work for decades on behalf of the National Security Agency, he wanted to understand why this was ONLY happening in large precincts."
http://www.ukprogressive.co.uk/breaking-retired-nsa-analyst-proves-gop-is-stealing-elections/article20598.htmlPutin’s Coup: How the Russian leader used the Ukraine crisis to consolidate his dictatorship | UK Progressive
Sikorski is formerly a glamorous figure in Brussels who played a leading role in shaping the European Union strategy toward both Russia and Ukraine. European leaders, intimidated by his charisma and outspoken views on Russia, chose not to appoint him as Europe's high representative for foreign affairs earlier this year. Today Sikorski is the hawkish speaker of the Polish parliament, and he says that the West has been so distracted by the crisis in Ukraine it has missed the more important developments further east.
"What is happening now is the full embrace of neo-imperialism," Sikorski says. "They have exploited every post-Soviet and neo-Soviet atavism and made it real because an alarming proportion of the population believes it. This is how they have refueled their regime."
ISIS-- Largest, Richest $2Billion Terror-Based Enterprise: Financial Sophistication Rivaling Wall Street
" Once the groups are on their feet, they are perfectly capable of raising funds through other means, like; kidnapping, oil smuggling, selling women into slavery… According to intelligence official; any outside funding represents a small fraction of ISIS's total annual income… The largest source of cash now is oil smuggling along the Turkish border, with ISIS leaders willing to sell oil for as little as $25 a barrel, a quarter of the going world price. Since other previously lucrative sources, such as; kidnapping for ransom… is not as profitable as it once was."
Ukraine set to vote for pro-Western future - Yahoo!7
His Petro Poroshenko Bloc was forecast to emerge as the biggest party in the 450 seat legislature, although without an absolute majority, meaning he will have to form a coalition, probably with harder-line nationalists.
For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party was not expected to enter parliament, symbolising what Poroshenko, elected president in May with 55 percent of the vote, hopes is an irreversible political shift.
Polls show a majority of Ukrainians support economic and democratic reforms -- especially a crackdown on corruption -- leading eventually to European Union.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/25349489/ukraine-set-to-vote-for-pro-western-future/Alleged Russian intelligence agent caught outside Kyiv claiming to be FSB general (PHOTOS)
"Ukraine's State Security Service (SBU) says on Oct. 23 it apprehended a high-level Russian intelligence agent and a commissioned military officer who has been continuously coordinating separatist activity inside the country since January.
Captured on the outskirts of Kyiv, he was identified as Nikolai Grechishkin of Moscow and was allegedly using journalistic cover as the deputy chief editor of Rossiyskiye Novosti (Russian News), according to an SBU statement released on Oct. 24."
https://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/high-ranking-russian-intelligence-agent-caught-outside-kyiv-claiming-to-be-fsb-general-photos-369280.html
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