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Communication With 50 Nuke Missiles Dropped in ICBM Snafu,
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/10/communications-dropped-to-50-nuke-missiles-in-icbm-snafu/



...............It was a “significant disruption of service,” an Air Force official familiar with the incident tells Danger Room. But not unprecedented: “Something similar happened before at other missile fields.”..............mera


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Poolmedia och Riksförbundet Hem och Skola.

Först,
Bolaget där jag jobbar har gett till de i reportaget nämnda kampanjerna i flera år förutom nu i år.
Vi hörde om Poolmedia i fjol och började kika lite på detta och beslöt oss att i år inte ge något mera till deras kampanjer, känns rätt trist nu när man ser via reportaget hur illa ställt det var egentligen.

I år beslöt vi oss istället för att ge endast till Läkare utan gränser där vi själva kunde konstatera att pengarna går till vad som är avsett detta efter att sett deras sista bokslut som dom gärna skickade till oss efter förfrågan.

Jag vill också säga att grundidéen för RHS är bra men helt tydligt så medvetet/omedvetet har dom blivit offer för mindre nogräknade personer, något som tyvärr är allt för vanligt i vår värld.

Så här är länken för att se programmet online på SVT, sändes ursprungligen onsdagen 27/9 2010, rekommenderar att se det,
Hem, skola - och Business,
http://svtplay.se/v/2213268/uppdrag_granskning/del_9_av_16__hem__skola_-_och_business?sb,p103536,1,f,-1

En artikel i ämnet,

3 000 företag lurade att sponsra Hem och Skola,
http://www.driva-eget.se/3-000-foretag-lurade-att-sponsra-hem-och-skola-5122187

3 000 företag lurade att sponsra Hem och Skola



 Närmare 3 000 svenska företag kan känna sig lurade på sponsorpengar. De har blivit uppringda av telemarketingföretaget Pool Media och övertalats att sponsra Hem och Skolas kampanjer mot rökning och mobbning. Men enligt tv-programmet Uppdrag Granskning har 80 procent av pengarna stannat hos Pool Media.

- De har försökt lura oss småföretagarna genom att ge oss dåligt samvete, säger Annika Rosell på Editor Media i Stockholm, som fick ett samtal nyligen.

Hon köper aldrig något på telefon och sa nej när hon fick förslag om att sponsra mobbade barn med 5 000 kr.

- Så ni bryr er inte om mobbade barn, var repliken från Pool Medias säljare, som sa att han ringde från Hem och Skola..

Bilförsäljare Lars Karlsson från Enköping sa däremot ja:

- Det här är ju rent skojeri som borde polisanmälas, sa han i tv-programmet.
 

Han är en av dem som nu känner sig lurad: .

- Jag skickade ju in pengarna för att jag ville stötta skolelever elever inte för att gynna dessa skojare, säger han.

Han är en av de närmare 3 000 företag som finns på Uppdrag Gransknings lista över dem som sponsrat.
 

Från dessa och från kommuner och landsting samlade förbundet under förra året in över 40 miljoner kronor. Säljare från Pool Media ringde upp och sa att pengarna skulle användas för kampen mot mobbning och rökning bland unga.

Men de pengarna hamnade inte hos de lokala Hem och Skola-föreningarna. Uppdrag granskning har tagit del av intern bokföring som avslöjar att 33 miljoner i stället gått till säljbolaget Pool Media. Avtalet mellan Hem och Skola och telemarketingföretaget ger Pool Media 800 kronor av varje skänkt 1000-lapp. Det avtalet löper i ytterligare 27 år. Endast högst 250 kr av varje skänkt tusenlapp får gå till administration för att en insamling ska godkännas av Svensk Insamlingskontroll.

Pool Medias affärsidé är att via telefonförsäljning förmå företag, kommuner och landsting att skänka pengar till olika insamlingsprojekt och värva medlemmar. Insamlingarna för Hem och Skola står för en stor del av Pool Medias omsättning. Resultatet för Polmedia var 19 miljoner för 2009 gjorde koncernen ett resultat på 19 miljoner kronor.

- Vi brukar ta ut hälften i aktieutdelning och plöjer ned hälften i bolaget. Så har vi väl gjort de senaste åren. Har man hållit på i 25 år ska det bli lite över, sa Morgan Falk, Pool Medias grundare och VD, i tv-programmet.

Här kan du se hela programmet och läsa bakgrundsmaterial.
http://svt.se/2.2232/uppdrag_granskning?lid=index_312864&lpos=sajt&from=innehall_ao

Pool Media var i april i år inblandad i en strid mellan Företagarförbundet och utbrytarorganisationen Småföretagarnas riksförbund. Klicka på rubrikerna till höger för att läsa artiklar om detta.
 
Text: Anders Andersson
27 oktober 2010

Sist en kommentar, (nämns i reportaget att utskick sker brevledes 4ggr/år till medlemmarna)
43.000 utskick 4ggr om året med post? (blir en hygglig hög med pengar i porto och tryckeri kostnader)
Nog måste det gå att använda dessa pengar på bättre sätt och använda sig av e-brevs listor eller websida med information, möjligtvis endast skicka brevledes till sådana som inte har möjlighet till annat, målgruppen barn och föräldrar får man anta till största delen har tillgång till dator.


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4-Year-Old Can Be Sued, Judge Rules in Bike Case - NYTimes,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/nyregion/29young.html?_r=1&no_interstitial

Citing cases dating back as far as 1928, a judge has ruled that a young girl accused of running down an elderly woman while racing a bicycle with training wheels on a Manhattan sidewalk two years ago can be sued for negligence..........mera


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Baroness Ashton's new envoys 'playing at James Bond' in £32m of bullet-proof limos,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8100192/Baroness-Ashtons-new-envoys-playing-at-James-Bond-in-32m-of-bullet-proof-limos.html

Baroness Ashton's new envoys 'playing at James Bond' in £32m of bullet-proof limos
By Martin Banks in Brussels
Published: 4:08PM GMT 31 Oct 2010

The EU has been accused of “vanity” after it emerged that the new diplomatic corps headed by Baroness Ashton will spend £32.8m on bullet-proof limousines for some of its 7,000 officials who will enjoy postings in Barbados and even the tiny Pacific island of Vanuatu.


Lady Ashton is the best paid female politician in the Western World and earns a salary of £230,702 a year  Photo: AFP/GETTY

The cost covers the purchase and maintenance of the 150 vehicles for four years with 30 cars being sent to missions in each of five regions around the world, including capitals where there is little or no terrorist threat.

A breakdown of the new European External Action Service (EEAS), which will have a budget of £8bn, shows that the diplomatic postings will include sending 46 officials to Barbados, 57 to Vietnam and 95 to Ukraine.

Even the tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, which has a population of just 230,000, will have six diplomats.

The new EEAS corps, formally launched on 1 December and which includes the EU’s massive aid and development budgets, will dwarf Britain’s Foreign Office, which employs 4,863 diplomats.

Some British embassies and consulates in smaller countries may be closed and their duties passed to the new network of 137 EU embassies. However, some will be posted where there are already British diplomats.

The EU will have 46 diplomats in Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados, nine more than the British embassy on the holiday island, and 32 in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, 13 more than the UK embassy there.

Burkina Faso will have 59, Costa Rica 21, Egypt 90, Vietnam 57, East Timor 20, Djibouti 18, Mauritania 46, Mauritius 39, Namibia 26, Papua New Guinea 27, and Laos 26.

Stephen Booth, of the Open Europe think tank, said, “We were told that the EU’s new foreign service would be 'budget neutral’ but this promise has been broken in its first year. At a time of widespread austerity, taxpayers shouldn’t be asked to pay for the EU’s pretensions to global power status.”

“Why else would the EU send ambassadors to Barbados to parade around in armoured cars other than sheer vanity?”

The EEAS will also have 500 staff at the headquarters at the 645,000 sq ft Capital, or Triangle, building in the EU quarter in Brussels, costing £10.5m a year in rent, and at international organisations in Paris, Vienna, Rome and Strasbourg.

More than 100 of the diplomats will be paid more than William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, who earns £134,565 a year.

The latest details of the largesse of Lady Ashton’s new diplomatic corps come in the wake of the Government’s deficit-reduction drive and David Cameron battles to try to keep the EU budget rise at 2.9 per cent for 2011, rather than the six per cent that has been proposed. Even a 2.9 per cent rise will see the Treasury pay an extra £430 million.

As the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, Lady Ashton is the best paid female politician in the Western World and earns a salary of £230,702 a year.

The EEAS was created under the Lisbon Treaty. Governments were originally promised it would be “budget neutral” but its running costs have overrun by £29 million to £339 million.

Marta Andreasen, a Ukip MEP, said: “The vanity of the EEAS knows no limits. They are playing at being James Bond with these armoured limos. British embassies are closed and downgraded, and our international voice is being drowned out by career Eurocrats in comfort postings. Worse still this is all done with the connivance of the Foreign Office”.

Timothy Kirkhope, a Tory MEP, said: “Baroness Ashton now faces the most significant challenge: keeping the costs and powers of the service down in the face of an army of bureaucrats who will seek to extend them.”

On the decision to order the £200,000 limousines, an EEAS spokesman said: “Baroness Ashton believes it is impossible to put a figure on safety and we will prioritise these vehicles to areas where we feel there is a necessity.”

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Imaginary cows and non-existant lemon groves 'cost EU taxpayers £1.2bn',
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8100453/Imaginary-cows-and-non-existant-lemon-groves-cost-EU-taxpayers-1.2bn.html

Imaginary cows and non-existant lemon groves 'cost EU taxpayers £1.2bn'
By Martin Banks in Brussels
Published: 6:26PM GMT 31 Oct 2010

Imaginary cows and non-existant lemon groves are among the fraudulent claims for European Union funding that have cost taxpayers £1.2bn in the last year, a new report shows.


In one case, thousands of pounds was paid out to livestock owners in Slovenia for 'non-existent' cattle  Photo: GETTY

The number of “irregular payments” last year doubled and are now costing taxpayers £3.3 million a day.

According to the European Commission’s Fight Against Fraud report irregularities and fraud in the Common Agricultural Policy, which accounts for half the EU budget, cost £108.5m, up 23 per cent.

However, the worst area for fraud in 2009 was “cohesion policy”, where funds go to Europe’s poorest regions and which takes up more than one third of the whole EU budget.

Suspected fraud and irregularities here cost £1.06bn last year, an increase of 109 per cent on the previous year. About two-thirds of alleged EU fraud concerns six countries: Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Italy, Poland and Spain.

Fraudulent use of EU cash includes claims for a lemon and orange grove orchard that did not actually exist on the Italian island of Sicily.

In another case, thousands of pounds was paid out to livestock owners in Slovenia for “non-existent” cattle.

UK Independence Party MEP Marta Andreasen, who was sacked from her job as the European Commission’s chief accountant after she blew the whistle on the state of the EU’s accounts, said, “Why does the EU allow this situation to continue?

“Simple: the EU uses funding from the budget to buy support for the EU project.”

A European Commission spokesman said, “We take the issue of fraud very seriously and have made considerable efforts to improve the system for finding and dealing with it.”

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Coconuts removed from trees in preparation for Barack Obama's India trip,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/8109295/Coconuts-removed-from-trees-in-preparation-for-Barack-Obamas-India-trip.html

India is preparing for Barack Obama's first visit to the country by removing coconuts from palm trees in Mumbai to protect the US president................mera



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34 warships sent from US for Obama visit,
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/34-warships-sent-from-us-for-obama-visit-64459

................He will also be protected by a fleet of 34 warships, including an aircraft carrier, which will patrol the sea lanes off the Mumbai coast during his two-day stay there beginning Saturday. The measure has been taken as Mumbai attack in 2008 took place from the sea..............mera







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34 warships sent from US for Obama visit,
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/34-warships-sent-from-us-for-obama-visit-64459

................He will also be protected by a fleet of 34 warships, including an aircraft carrier, which will patrol the sea lanes off the Mumbai coast during his two-day stay there beginning Saturday. The measure has been taken as Mumbai attack in 2008 took place from the sea..............mera

AFP No, Pentagon says, Obama will not be guarded by 34 ships,
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jnvgjuZmmmbXI-QwUkdw1UrxCzgQ?docId=CNG.e6845d9c6b2c4020d697d067ff57e4ad.431

Fighter planes, ships to cover Obama,
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4538065

Man får tro på den man vill


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Morgan Stanley financial adviser escapes felony charges for hit-and-run 'because it could jeopardise his job',
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327323/Morgan-Stanley-financial-adviser-escapes-felony-charges-hit-run-jeopardise-job.html

Morgan Stanley financial adviser escapes felony charges for hit-and-run 'because it could jeopardise his job'
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 10:21 PM on 6th November 2010

A financial manager for wealthy clients will not face charges for a hit-and-run because it could jeopardise his job, it has been revealed.



Martin Joel Erzinger, 52, was set to face felony charges for running over a doctor who he hit from behind in his 2010 Mercedes Benz, and then speeding off.

But now he will simply face two misdemeanour traffic charges from the July 3 incident in Eagle, Colorado.

His victim, Dr Steven Milo, 34, is meanwhile facing 'a lifetime of pain' from his injuries.

But prosecutors claim the decision is theirs to make.

'Justice in this case includes restitution and the ability to pay it,' said District Attorney Mark Hurlbert.

He said Erzinger, a private wealth manager who manages more than $1billion in assets at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Denver, is willing to take responsibility and pay restitution.

'Felony convictions have some pretty serious job implications for someone in Mr. Erzinger's profession, and that entered into it,' he said.

'When you're talking about restitution, you don't want to take away his ability to pay.'

Dr Milo is a physician living in New York City with his wife and two children, where he is still recovering from his injuries, court records show.

He suffered spinal cord injuries, bleeding from his brain and damage to his knee and scapula, according to court documents.

Over the past six weeks he has suffered 'disabling' spinal headaches and faces multiple surgeries for a herniated disc and plastic surgery to fix the scars he suffered in the accident.

'He will have lifetime pain,' his lawyer Harold Haddon told the court.

'His ability to deal with the physical challenges of his profession - liver transplant surgery - has been seriously jeopardised.'

Dr Milo told Hurlbert that the case 'has always been about responsibility, not money'.

'Mr Erzinger struck me, fled and left me for dead on the highway,' he wrote. 'Neither his financial prominence nor my financial situation should be factors in your prosecution of this case.'

But the prosecutor insisted that the case is, in part, about the money. 'The money has never been a priority for them. It is for us,' he said.

Dr Milo was bicycling eastbound on Highway 6 near Eagle when Erzinger allegedly hit him with the black 2010 Mercedes Benz sedan he was driving.

Erzinger fled the scene and was arrested later, police say. He drove until he reached a Pizza Hut parking lot, where he stopped and  called Mercedes auto assistance to report the damage to his vehicle.

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Ingen artikel än, men ikväll vår tid kommer NASA med ett stort astrobiologiskt avslöjande.
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/item/19381-nasa-to-announce/

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Studien som kopplade vaccinationer till autism var inte helt sanningsenlig:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/05/autism.vaccines/?hpt=T1

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'Israel tested Stuxnet virus on Dimona plant' - The Jerusalm Post,
http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?ID=203777&R=R1

............According to the Times, Stuxnet was developed by the US and Israel, with help from the Germans and the British, who may not have known the part they played. Former president George W. Bush reportedly authorized the program in January 2009, and President Barack Obama, with Israel's encouragement, ordered that it be accelerated.........mera

Stuxnet Worm Used Against Iran Was Tested in Israel - The New York Times,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html

.........By the accounts of a number of computer scientists, nuclear enrichment experts and former officials, the covert race to create Stuxnet was a joint project between the Americans and the Israelis, with some help, knowing or unknowing, from the Germans and the British...........mera

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Blir lätt "komiskt"/"tragiskt?" eller i varje fall minst sagt dålig "timing" med artikeln nedan i skenet av artiklarna ovan..........

”Natosamarbete nödvändigt i kampen mot cyberbrotten” - DN,
http://www.dn.se/debatt/natosamarbete-nodvandigt-i-kampen-mot-cyberbrotten

..........Men internet ger också nya möjligheter att orsaka skada. Vi har den senaste tiden fått tydliga indikationer på vilka konsekvenser internetattacker kan få. När viruset Stuxnet under sommaren spreds över jorden menade till och med Microsoft att det var så avancerat att de inte hade trott att det var möjligt. Och för några år sedan såg vi hur både Estland och Georgien utsattes för storskaliga attacker. Sådana attacker – oavsett om de riktar sig mot viktig infrastruktur, den svenska börsen eller ett skyddat patientregister på ett av våra sjukhus – kan få stora konsekvenser för oss alla...........mera


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Jag gillar verkligen folk som brinner för något, och som finner en sak som denna upphetsande:
"The first stage is the General Conference in October; we have a draft resolution in which the principles are laid out," explained Dr Quinn.

"Then at the General Conference in 2015, I hope the final decision will be taken. But this is science, maybe it won't. Or maybe it'll be quicker, maybe everything will fall into place next year. But that is the excitement of it."

Hela artikeln (som i sig är intressant):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12276822

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Ingen artikel än, men ikväll vår tid kommer NASA med ett stort astrobiologiskt avslöjande.
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/item/19381-nasa-to-announce/

Uppdatering: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/jan/HQ_11-025_Hubble_Distant_Galaxy.html

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Tydligen är det i Sverige, 2011, förbjudet att vara intresserad av hentai, yiffing och vuxenblöjor (bl.a.).
http://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/article7501268.ab

Såg artikeln i samband med artikeln om mangaöversättaren som fick avslag på sin hovrättsdom. Googla den, jag sitter på en buss med en iPhone. :P

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Jo och så sitter Kungliga bibloteket på en massa, som verkligen klassas som barnporr.  Dessutom är de skyldiga att låna ut..................  ÖÖÖÖÖÖH