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Met asked to investigate NHS regulator after Morecambe Bay trust report
Police have been asked to investigate allegations of a cover-up at the Care Quality Commission, stemming from the health regulator's failure to investigate an alarming rise in deaths in Morecambe Bay NHS Trust hospitals. Liberal Democrat chair Tim Farron has written to the Metropolitan Police following publication...
guardian.co.uk (1 hour ago)
UK urged to accept responsibility for 1948 Batang Kali massacre in Malaya
A petition will be delivered to the government on Tuesday demanding an "honourable acceptance of responsibility" for the massacre of 24 unarmed rubber plantation workers by British troops during the anti-communist insurgency in Malaya in 1948. The petition, signed by 10,000 people, will be handed to the British high...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
David Stockman's Non-Recovery Part 1: Post-2009 Faux Prosperity
Few others are better equipped to comprehend both the insider's and outsider's perspective on what the government, the Fed, and the banks are doing in this so-called 'recovery' we are experiencing than David Stockman. Nowhere does he detail this better than Chapter 31 of his new book 'The Great Deformation'. In this...
zerohedge.com (1 day ago)
Quoted: Chelsea Clinton on her mother's tweets
"I hope she can also relax a little bit and enjoy the cadence of Twitter." -- Chelsea Clinton on her mother's overly thoughtful tweets. The former first daughter told MSNBC on Friday that Hillary Clinton's debut last week on Twitter has been like everything else her mother does: "Deliberate and intentional and...
washingtonpost.com (2 days ago)
White House guarded over North Korea offer of nuclear and security talks
The White House has responded to an apparent overture by North Korea over nuclear talks, stating that it is open to discussions, but only if Pyongyang lives up to its "obligations to the world". The guarded response from Washington came after North Korea's high-ranking National Defence Commission proposed...
guardian.co.uk (3 days ago)
Scorpio Daily Horoscope For June 15th 2013
In this daily horoscope, Kelli Fox, The Astrologer says: "Your actions are deliberate but your manner is unassuming.
palmbeachpost.com (4 days ago)
Nick Nyhart: A Call for Election Reform, Beginning with New York
In a 2011 speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, civil rights hero and Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.) eloquently described attacks across the country on Americans' access to the ballot box: "Voting rights are under attack in America. There's a deliberate and systematic attempt to prevent millions...
huffingtonpost.com (4 days ago)
New ministry plans grand opening
SOUTH BEND -- Maranatha Fellowship Ministries is a new worship and resource organization at 1406 E. Ewing Ave. in Twyckenham Hills, South Bend. This ministry is devoted to serving the community and is deliberate in helping the residents of South Bend, according to its organizers. The public is welcome to the grand...
southbendtribune.com (4 days ago)
Bernanke And His Game Of Chicken
Sometimes things can get out of control. So you have to wonder if the “taper caper” was either: A. A deliberate ploy or trial balloon to gauge investor reaction B. An effort to reduce speculation in extended equity and high yield sectors C. Something that just got out of control as vigilantes showed Ben they’re...
zerohedge.com (4 days ago)
Iranian elections lack 'green' energy of 2009
Friday's presidential elections in Iran came amid an atmosphere of resignation, in sharp contrast to the energy and hope that characterized the 2009 vote that sparked the so-called Green Revolution. Iranians trudged to the polls, determined to cast their votes even if they knew life inside the Islamic Republic is...
foxnews.com (4 days ago)
Why 3.5% Of Android Clocks Are an Hour Off
At OpenSignal, each datapoint we collect has two timestamps: the time the reading was taken and the time the reading was inserted into our server. Because we make extensive use of SQLite cacheing on devices, these times can be far apart - sometimes up to the order of weeks. The app reading time, however, should...
gizmodo.com (5 days ago)
House passes sweeping $638 billion defense bill
The House overwhelmingly passed a sweeping, $638 billion defense bill on Friday that imposes new punishments on members of the armed services found guilty of rape or sexual assault as outrage over the crisis in the military has galvanized Congress. Ignoring a White House veto threat, the Republican-controlled House...
foxnews.com (5 days ago)
Guest Post: How Does It End?
Originally posted at Monty Pelerin's World blog, The days of reasonable economic forecasting are over. Today, an economic forecast is more like the analysis of a criminal mind than the evaluation of economic data. The dominating role of government overpowers markets intentionally. In the short-term that will...
zerohedge.com (5 days ago)
Tirath to attend C`wealth Women`s Affairs Ministerial meet
The forthcoming meeting of the Women`s Affairs Minsters` of Commonwealth countries will deliberate on measures for achieving gender equality.
india.com (5 days ago)
Empire of the Sun: Ice on the Dune
Now - when an album is a deliberate exercise in bad taste, is it still bad? It’s a question the...
thetimes.co.uk (6 days ago)
The Desolation of Smaug's quest to transform The Hobbit
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug really ought to be a pretty simple sell for Peter Jackson and his amiable band of Kiwi storytellers. If you liked part one, and managed to get through the whole thing without pointing continually at the screen and shouting, "That wasn't in the book!"; if you didn't find yourself...
guardian.co.uk (7 days ago)
Gunman gets 42 years for killing man and shooting disabled woman
A gunman who tried to kill a disabled woman after shooting her partner dead in a “cold-blooded, deliberate execution” was jailed for a minimum of 42 years today.
standard.co.uk (7 days ago)
Gunman who shot disabled woman after killing her partner gets 42 years
A gunman who tried to kill a disabled woman after shooting her partner dead in a "cold-blooded, deliberate execution" has been jailed for a minimum of 42 years. Drug dealer Daniel Bidace Anthony, 30, fired twice at double leg amputee Amy Ashitey, 28, as she lay in bed. One bullet pierced part of her lung and remains...
guardian.co.uk (7 days ago)
Dimon Defends London Whale Response
By David Henry and Peter Rudegeair June 11 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon, who won a strong vote of confidence from shareholders last month, on Tuesday defended the disclosures the bank made last year about its unfolding London Whale derivatives loss. "We did everything that we...
huffingtonpost.com (7 days ago)
NSA leaks: how to make surveillance both ethical and effective | David Omand
What have we learned in the past week? First, that analysts in America's National Security Agency are able, with legal authority, to access much of the internet traffic of those they suspect of being terrorists, narcotics traffickers, arms proliferators and no doubt other international criminals. Surprised? I think...
guardian.co.uk (8 days ago)
Turkish PM calls on protesters to withdraw from Istanbul park
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan called on protesters to withdraw from central Istanbul's Gezi Park on Tuesday and said a wave of anti-government demonstrations was part of a deliberate attempt to damage Turkey's image and economy. "I invite them to withdraw from the park and I ask this as...
yahoo.com (8 days ago)
City Notes Blog: Appleton wants new fire chief by end of year
The city's Police and Fire Commission said Monday it wants to hire a new fire chief hired by the end of 2013. The commission and the city's human resources department will launch a nationwide search this week to replace Len Vander Wyst, whose last day as chief is Friday. Dale Schumaker, the commission's chair, said...
postcrescent.com (8 days ago)
Darpa Robotics Challenge: the search for the perfect robot soldier
The Atlas robot looks something out of the post-apocalyptic future, or maybe a Will Smith blockbuster. It's a 330lb cyborg with eerily human-like hands and a head equipped with a laser. It lunges forward with a grim, deliberate clatter on curved slices of metal for feet. This bot will be a first responder in times...
guardian.co.uk (9 days ago)
Puzzle Pirates blockade schedule for the weekend of June 8-9
This weekend's blockade schedule suggests a great amount of scuttling happened on the Meridian Ocean. "But what has the deliberate sinking of one's own ship to do with blockades?" you might ask. Well, within...
examiner.com (11 days ago)
Three-year-old Hoskins animal cruelty case ends with summations
Prosecutors said all the sidebar issues of money, hoarding and vendettas should be ignored, and asked the judge to to focus solely on the suffering of horses under Beth Lynne Hoskins’ care.The defense attorney contended that Hoskins is the victim of overzealous animal rights crusaders trying to use the case to...
buffalonews.com (12 days ago)
Cian Healy cleared of wrongdoing over biting allegations
Cian Healy has been cleared of any wrongdoing following allegations that a Western Force player was bitten during their midweek game against the Lions. A judicial hearing found there was insufficient evidence to suspend the Irish prop, who was represented by the Lions' lawyer Max Duthie. Nigel Hampton QC stated...
guardian.co.uk (12 days ago)
Thérèse Desqueyroux – review
This is the last film from Claude Miller, who died last year at the age of 70. François Mauriac's mysterious novel of dark provincial passion (previously filmed by Georges Franju in 1962) has here has been turned into a closely observed, intriguingly oppressive and unventilated drama, whose suspense accumulates as...
guardian.co.uk (13 days ago)
Virginia collector ordered to return sword to Brown University
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia judge has ordered a Williamsburg antiques collector to return a Civil War-era sword that was stolen from Brown University in the 1970s. The sword and ornamental scabbard were first presented to Col. Rush C. Hawkins by a group of prominent New Yorkers in 1863 for his service to the...
providencejournal.com (13 days ago)
Warburton returns to lead Lions
Sam Warburton will at last lead the Lions against Queensland Reds on Saturday after finally overcoming his knee injury. The Wales flanker missed the opening victory over the Barbarians in Hong Kong and Wednesday night's triumph over Western Force but has resumed full training after having a steroid injection to...
guardian.co.uk (13 days ago)
Veterans accuse Department of Veterans Affairs of being more interested in saving money than lives
Some veterans have accused the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) of deliberate intransigence and of being more interested in saving money than in saving lives. A leading psychiatrist has backed the claims, and says the DVA does appear to be reticent to make money available for treatment, and that in some cases...
abc.net.au (13 days ago)
