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Mobile phones CAN increase risk of cancer: Doctors reveal shock results of major study into effect on the brain By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 7:44 PM on 31st May 2011 Carcinogenic: Mobile phone users are putting themselves at a higher risk of tumours, a major new study has found Mobile phone users may be putting themselves at higher risk of cancer, a major new study has confirmed. The World Health Organisation-funded study has found that microwave radiation from mobile phones can increase the risk of brain tumours. The agency has now listed mobile phones as a 'carcinogenic hazard', alongside lead, engine exhaust fumes and …

Revealed: Facebook's secret smear campaign against arch-rival Google... over privacy By Daniel Bates Last updated at 1:40 AM on 13th May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories Share Facebook has admitted hiring a ‘dirty tricks’ PR firm to smear Google and promote fears that it compromised users’ privacy. Bosses at the social networking website asked Burson-Marsteller to start a secret whispering campaign by planting negative stories in newspapers. The PR firm, which represented the Argentinian junta during the Falklands War and Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu, touted scaremongering stories on behalf of an unnamed client, attacki…

Global war on drugs 'has failed' say former leaders

Qatar DID buy the World Cup, claims Fifa chief as new corruption claims emerge By Rob Cooper Last updated at 2:14 PM on 30th May 2011 President Sepp Blatter 'to be re-elected unopposed' Governing body branded 'rotten to the core' Fifa will face fresh calls to re-run 2022 vote Mohammed Bin Hammam and Jack Warner suspended as they face corruption probe Qatar did buy the right to host the 2022 World Cup, a damning leaked e-mail claimed today. Banned Fifa vice-president Jack Warner leaked an e-mail which claimed Mohamed Bin Hammam did a deal so that the Gulf state could host the tournament. The revelations will lead to fresh calls for the 2022 vot…

The care home where it is alleged "barbaric" staff routinely abused vulnerable adults with learning difficulties should be closed down, according to disability charities. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLUKYtkRbMA&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - ‪Panorama BBC Undercover Care (31/5/11) Part 2‬‏[/ame] Mark Goldring, chief executive of learning disability charity Mencap, said the treatment of patients at Winterbourne View, in Bristol, was "horrific" and seemed "like torture". He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The behaviour of the individuals was cruel and barbaric and the management seemed to be either complicit or non-existent. "So it was sca…

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/business/economy/29view.html?_r=2 Driverless cars are a fantastic concept and invention, and I really hope they are made legal. It would improve peoples' lives immensely to free up the time they spend focusing on driving to doing more valuable things - learning a language, reading, socializing with friends! It might also solve a lot of our traffic problems.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/8jUU3yCy3uI?rel=0 http://www.youtube.com/embed/aDFdwUY2Oks http://www.youtube.com/embed/laZUjLe6exE?rel=0 Here's a thread to post similar videos in the near future, as "austerity" ramps up. To all my Canadian, European, etc friends: Please remember that these riots and police brutality are the endgame of all experiments in socialism. Because the incentive to produce is reduced, and the total consumption of resources is increased, socialism inevitably leads to shortages and reduction of quality-of-life. In America, we are quite familiar with socialism - it is a myth this country is more capitalist than others. Misunderstandi…

What are your peoples thoughts on torture? I mean of course it's not a good thing the idea of torturing another human being, but do you think it's justified in obtaining information? Personally I think that if a threat is imminent or dire that it has to be an option put on the table. I don't think that it should be used all the time or even somewhat frequently. However I think there has to be no doubts as to who they're interrogating. I think it should be a similar approach to going to war in that it's a last resort.

Not even kidding. And if FD5 is "successful" there will be a 6 and 7.

Qualification has started already! With Liverpool taking on the European giants known as Rabotnicki Skopje in the Europa League qualification rounds. Whom do you think will lift old big-ears this year at Wembley?

I'm laughing at any bullheaded person from the United States (I'm looking at you, Saffre) who believes that government intervention is clearly the problem in any (and every) economic situation. Because it's eeeevil. Eeeeevil. IN THE UNITED STATES: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-61YBSCXRg]YouTube - ‪Income Inequality Ignorance‬‏[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XPrQc2pyQQ]YouTube - ‪Shocking Graph: U.S. Income Inequality‬‏[/ame] http://blogs.alternet.org/grantlawrence/2010/04/10/mind-blowing-american-wealth-disparity-the-bottom-50-have-comparatively-nothing/ Yes, the top 1% of wage earners own THIRTY PERCENT OF THE TOTAL WEALTH…

Cult of Apple: Why the must-have brand triggers brain reaction 'similar to religious devotion' By Jane Bunce Last updated at 10:04 PM on 20th May 2011 Fans of Apple products are known for their extreme devotion to the technology brand. But a new TV programme suggests that this desire for iPods and iPads can occasionally border on the religious. An MRI scan of an Apple fanatic's brain has found the same part lit up as a believer's did when they gazed upon religious imagery. Rejoice: Apple employees cheer as the iPad 2 goes on sale. Fans of the brand have an obsession bordering on the religious. Right, Moses (portrayed by Charl…

gotta love this show! I remember seeing commercials for it and thought it was stupid a few years ago. then one day I saw an episode and was hooked to it... too funny

Thought this was interesting, though don't know how much debate it will spark. How is it affecting you guys in America? And also elsewhere? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13338754

Fugitive Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic has been arrested in Serbia after 16 years on the run. Gen Mladic, 69, was found in a village in northern Serbia where had been living under an assumed name. He faces charges over the massacre of at least 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995. Serbian President Boris Tadic said the process to extradite the former Bosnian Serb army chief to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague was under way. Following the arrest of Radovan Karadzic in 2008, Gen Mladic became the most prominent Bosnian war crimes suspect at large. Serbia had been under intense international pressure to arrest him. The …

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Now you can really pay as you go: Google to unveil 'mobile wallet' phone that can be swiped as credit card By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 10:37 AM on 26th May 2011 All-in-one: Phiones with Google Android software, like above, will be able to be scanned to make purchases Google is today set to unveil a new kind of payment system which will allow a mobile phone to be swiped like a credit card. The internet search giant has been working with MasterCard Inc, the world's second-largest credit and debit card network, and Citibank on the project. It is set to be unveiled in New York and Google has signed up retail partners Macy'…

http://moms.today.com/_news/2011/05/25/6715267-he-she-or-it-family-keeps-babys-gender-a-secret The first question people ask after hearing of a new arrival is usually, “Boy or girl?” Friends and family of one Canadian couple are getting no answer to this simple inquiry. Kathy Witterick and her husband David Stocker have decided to keep baby Storm's gender a secret. Boy or girl? They're not telling. Baby Storm, in red, gets a cuddle from brother Jazz. “We've decided not to share Storm's sex for now — a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm's lifetime (a more progressive place?),” the couple wrot…

Hey guys! What do you think about Coldplay related mash ups? I think this one is pretty good. Check it out if you want. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m6Yrg6T9u4&feature=feedf]YouTube - ‪coldplay & eminem - the scientist‬‏[/ame] :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13526379 Smallpox decision deferred again Discuss

Not again! Icelandic volcano set to erupt dwarfing last year's devastation, warn scientists By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 4:28 PM on 9th February 2011 Comments (114) Add to My Stories Scientists in Iceland are warning that another volcano on the island looks set to erupt, threatening to spew-out a blanket of dust that would dwarf last year's eruption. Geologists detected the high risk of a new eruption after noticing an increased swarm of earthquakes around the island's second largest volcano Bárdarbunga. Pall Einarsson, a professor of geophysics at the University of Iceland, says the area around Bárdarbunga is showing signs of i…

Schoolgirl wins right to use her iPod in exams as she can't concentrate unless she's listening to music Quiet please: Invigilators say allowing iPods will add to their workload and disrupt exams (picture posed by models) A schoolgirl has won the right to use an iPod while sitting her exams - after claiming she can only concentrate while listening to her favourite music. The girl won the unprecedented concession after threatening legal action against her school and examination authorities. The Mary Erskine School for girls in Edinburgh, where boarders pay nearly £18,000 a year, has been forced to buy a new iPod that is loaded with the girl's choic…

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmwA9w_JJQs]YouTube - ‪DCC11: Stan Lee Reveals "The Amazing Spider-man" Cameo Details (Spoilers Inside)‬‏[/ame] Looks like the Lizard is going to be the villain according to this.

The Winklevosses' last stand: Twins take Facebook suit to Supreme Court (as Appeals Court tells them never to bring it up again) By Ted Thornhill Last updated at 11:05 AM on 17th May 2011 Twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are taking their multi-million-dollar Facebook settlement suit to the highest court in America after the Appeals Court gave their case a firm 'dislike'. The Winklevosses won $65million in 2008 from Facebook-founder Mark Zuckerberg after claiming he had stolen the idea from them. Now they want a cool $100million, having learnt that the company is worth a whopping $50billion. Yesterday the U.S Appeals Court told the twins that…