[An Nahar] Usernames and passwords of some of Yahoo's email customers have been stolen and used to gather personal information about people those Yahoo mail users have recently corresponded with, the company said Thursday.
Yahoo didn't say how many accounts have been affected. Yahoo is the second-largest email service worldwide, after Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... 's Gmail, according to the research firm comScore. There are 273 million Yahoo mail accounts worldwide, including 81 million in the United States.
It's the latest in a string of security breaches that have allowed hackers to nab personal information using software that analysts say is ever more sophisticated. Up to 70 million customers of Target stores had their personal information and credit and debit card numbers compromised late last year, and Neiman Marcus was the victim of a similar breach in December.
"It's an old trend, but it's much more exaggerated now because the programs the bad guys use are much more sophisticated now," says Avivah Litan, a security analyst at the technology research firm Gartner. "We're clearly under attack."
Yahoo Inc. said in a blog post on its breach that "The information sought in the attack seems to be names and email addresses from the affected accounts' most recent sent emails."
That could mean hackers were looking for additional email addresses to send spam or scam messages. By grabbing real names from those sent folders, hackers could try to make bogus messages appear more legitimate to recipients.
"It's much more likely that I'd click on something from you if we email all the time," says Richard Mogull, analyst and CEO of Securois, a security research and advisory firm.
The bigger danger: access to email accounts could lead to more serious breaches involving banking and shopping sites. That's because many people reuse passwords across many sites, and also because many sites use email to reset passwords. Hackers could try logging in to such a site with the Yahoo email address, for instance, and ask that a password reminder be sent by email.
Litan said hackers appear to be "trying to collect as much information as they can on people. Putting all this stuff together makes it easier to steal somebody's identity."
Yahoo said the usernames and passwords weren't collected from its own systems, but from a third-party database.
Because so many people use the same passwords across multiple sites, it's possible hackers broke in to some service that lets people use email addresses as their usernames. The hackers could have grabbed passwords stored at that service, filtered out the accounts with Yahoo addresses and used that information to log in to Yahoo's mail systems, said Johannes Ullrich, dean of research at the SANS Institute, a group devoted to security research and education.
The breach is the second mishap for Yahoo's mail service in two months. In December, the service suffered a multi-day outage that prompted Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to issue an apology.
Yahoo said it is resetting passwords on affected accounts and has "implemented additional measures" to block further attacks. The company would not comment beyond the information in its blog post. It said it is working with federal law enforcement.
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The solution could rest in an unclassified NSAnet. Eliminating Yahoo and the other incompetent, spam generating middle-men may be the solution. Everyone knows, the gov't is the ultimate answer.
Whether you're naked and hungry on the savannah, driving in traffic or at the controls of your favorite video game, being slow to react can get you eaten, injured or splattered across the screen. While we intuitively know this, a new study offers dramatic evidence of how much speed of response still matters: In men and women from ages 20 to 59, slower than average reaction time turned out to be a pretty good predictor of premature death. I heard about this a couple weeks ago. I put it in my desk drawer. I'm going to get to it.
The new research, published this week in the journal PLoS One, was large, simple and highly revealing. Between 1988 and 1994, researchers gave 5,134 Americans adults under 60 a very straightforward test of reaction time: The participants, all part of a large federal study of American nutrition and health, were seated at a computer and told to push a button immediately upon seeing a 0 on the screen in front of them. There was no practice period; a participant's average over 50 trials was computed, and he or she had just a few seconds between those 50 trials.
They computed a "standard deviation" -- a unit of measure that marks the extent to which an individual's performance departs from the group's average. They took note of the "variability" of each participants' response time -- how widely reaction time fluctuated in the course of their 50 tries.
Then they waited close to 15 years to see who in this relatively young group of Americans would die, and of what.
Because the participants had been recruited for an ongoing study of health and nutrition, the researchers had a wealth of health-related information on them. They could use that data to adjust for risk factors such as age, gender and ethnicity.
In all, 378 of the participants died during a follow-up period that averaged 14.6 years -- 104 of cardiovascular deaths and 84 of cancer deaths.
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...great. Another test for my ever-curious doctor to order...
378 of 5,134, or 7.4%, went to the "harp farm" over the study period, but we are not provided an age of death distribution, an important piece of information...also do not see any means of employment data and other variables that may be germane to the cause and expectation of demise...if this is all there is, it needs qualified acceptance(imho)...
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Half the deaths were heart attacks and cancer, WTH does that have to do with slaloming three deer in the road?
Ship is right, you have to show up first.
My son is really good about going from reading is great to pluggin headphones into the outlet is great in 1.5 seconds. That's quick on the ol decision making process.
But in that case, its not his but my reaction speed which makes the difference.
[Egypt Independent] Indonesia's Mount Sinabung volcano erupted and killed at least 11 people on the western island of Sumatra on Saturday, the first time it is known to have claimed any lives, a senior government official said.
The volcano has becoming increasingly active in recent months, regularly spewing columns of ash several kilometres into the air. The government has evacuated tens of thousands of residents near the area.
"Eleven people were killed because of the eruption this morning and the number could increase. No evacuations could be made at this stage because of the potential for more eruptions," Andi Arief, a presidential staff member, told Rooters.
Sinabung is one of nearly 130 active volcanoes in the world's most populous country, which stands along the "Ring of Fire" volcanic belt around the shores of the Pacific Ocean.
Indonesia's most deadly volcanic eruption in recent years was of Mount Merapi, near the densely populated city of Yogyakarta in central Java. It erupted in late 2010, killing more than 350 people.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Everyone in Morocco remembers Amina al-Filali, the Tangier teenager who drank rat poison after being forced to marry her rapist.
Nearly two years after the suicide of the 16-year-old, the Moroccan parliament on Wednesday (January 22nd) finally scrapped the controversial law that enabled rapists to escape punishment.
Under Moroccan law, rape is punishable by several years in prison if the victim is a minor. Marriage to the victim, however, shielded the perpetrator from prosecution.
That was before parliamentarians unanimously adopted the amendment to Article 475 of the penal code. Perpetrators will now face prison sentences of up to 5 years and a fine. "Those who are found guilty of corrupting a minor now have no escape and must answer to the courts for their actions," Justice Minister Mustapha Ramid said last Thursday.
Amina's death in March 2012 unleashed a nationwide debate on the need for legal reforms and attitudinal changes. Human rights activists campaigned to demand the law's repeal or revision, under the title: "We are all Amina al-Filali".
The old legal provision infringed human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... and absolutely had to be repealed, MP Rachida Tahiri agreed. "It took 16-year-old Amina Filali's suicide and nearly two years for the parliament to close the loophole that allowed rapists to avoid accountability. It's time to have laws that protect survivors of sexual abuse," commented Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, the deputy director of Amnesia Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa programme.
"This vote is a positive step, but Morocco still needs to implement a comprehensive strategy to protect women and girls from violence with the help of women's rights groups, which have been excluded from the process thus far," she added.
In amending the law, Morocco is shouldering its international human rights commitment by amending the law, Chamber of Representatives Legislation Committee chief Abdellatif Ouahbi noted. "No rapist or attacker should be able to escape punishment," he said.
Many members of the public have welcomed the move. Safae Nourali, a teacher, said that the old law brought shame to Morocco. "Instead of incriminating rapists, the law rewarded them by allowing them to marry their victims. A huge absurdity has now been brought to an end," she said.
Sara Mrabti recounted the story of her 16-year-old neighbour Zahra. Like Amina, she was forced to marry her rapist. "She went through an ordeal that lasted for three months until her so-called husband decided to divorce her."
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Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, former vice president Al Gore asserted that it's crucial for global philanthropists to impose "fertility management" on Africa. No one called that racist.
Gore, who apparently mismanaged his fertility by having four children, praised the "wonderful work' of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: "Depressing the rate of child mortality, educating girls, empowering women and making fertility management ubiquitously available -- so women can chose how many children and the spacing of children -- is crucial to the future shape of human civilization."
He warned, "Africa is projected to have more people than China and India by mid-century -- more than China and India combined by end of the century, and this is one of the causal factors that must be addressed."
Lifesitenews.com noted "The statement is similar to one he made in June 2011, when he said 'fertility management' and 'lift[ing] child survival rates so that parents feel comfortable having small families' are critical to preventing overpopulation."
[Dhaka Tribune] Bangladesh Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... activists of Tangail's Maulana Bhashani Science and Technology University (MBSTU) locked the administrative building and all the classrooms yesterday, demanding the removal of a teacher of criminology and police science (CPS) department.
Md Rabiul Islam, security in-charge of the university, said the BCL activists, led by CPS students Suman Fakir, Soton and Zahir, locked the administrative building and the classrooms before vandalising the academic building and setting some classrooms on fire.
Assisted by outsiders, the BCL men then forced out all teachers and staffs from the campus, he added.
The agitated BCL members carried out the violence, reportedly protesting a Facebook post by CPS Assistant Professor Jahirul Islam who allegedly spoke ill about the university.
When contacted, Jahirul said he had repeatedly voiced protests against a group of students and outsiders who dominated and collected extortions from the campus by identifying themselves as BCL men.
"Finally I wrote on my Facebook that 'the dream campus of the MBSTU was in the grasps of devils, thugs and hooligans,'" the teacher added.
Tangail Sadar Model cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge Nazrul Islam said the situation has been contained, while additional police personnel have been deployed on the campus to prevent further violence. No case has been lodged in this connection so far.
Sumon Fakir, Soton and Zahir could not be reached for comments.
Nazmul Huda, president of the BCL's Tangail district unit, said no BCL activists had engaged in the violence, as there was no committee of the Chhatra League on the campus.
The university proctor, Khadimul Islam, said authorities were holding an emergency meeting over the matter.
Pro-VC of the university Prof Dr Muniruzzaman, however, said he was not concerned about the matter.
Earlier on July 2013, BCL activists led by Sumon Fakir allegedly attacked a human chain of MBSTU employees, injuring at least 10 people.
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[An Nahar] The leader of Britannia's opposition Labor party, Ed Miliband, revealed plans on Saturday to further reduce the influence of trade unions on the party.
Unions don't count as labourers any more? Fascinating.
He wants to change the way Labor leaders are elected by ending block voting by the unions -- a system that secured his own narrow victory over his brother in 2010.
The current electoral college system gives a third of the votes each to the unions, party members, and elected members of the British and European parliaments.
Miliband proposes to scrap this and give every member of the center-left party a direct vote for a new leader.
The reforms build on his plans announced last year to change the party's financial ties with the trade unions, which helped found Labor in 1900.
Miliband wants to end the process by which union members are automatically affiliated to Labor unless they opt out, saying it makes no sense in the 21st century.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... it risks having a major impact on the finances of the party, which depends on union donations.
When the move was announced last July, media reports suggested Labor nets £8 million (nine million euros, $12 million) a year from almost three million union workers -- the majority of the party's funds.
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[An Nahar] The United States warned China on Friday against any move to declare a new air defense zone over parts of the South China Sea including disputed islands. Sounds like another red line.
The Asahi Shimbun daily of Japan reported that Chinese air force officials have drafted proposals for the next Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) that could place the Paracel Islands at its core.
Any such move would be seen "as a provocative and unilateral act that would raise tensions and call into serious question China's commitment to diplomatically managing territorial disputes," State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf told news hounds.
She stressed, however, that the reports were "unconfirmed" at this time.
Beijing claims the South China Sea almost in its entirety, even areas a long way from its shoreline.
Late last year, it caused a storm when it abruptly declared an ADIZ above the East China Sea, including islands at the heart of a illusory sovereignty row with Tokyo.
"We've made very clear that parties must refrain from announcing an ADIZ or any other administrative regulation restraining activity of others in disputed territories, and we would of course urge China not to do so," Harf added.
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All indics are that China will set up the new ADIZ regardless.
OWG Globalism = says that the Bammer will allow Rising China as future OWG Co-Superpower to do so despite any PCorrect rants to the contrary.
Unlike in Syria, in the PHIL Abu Sayyaf = Qaeda Boyz, + MNLF-BIFFies, have thus far failed to pose a serious challenge to either Macalanang or new Manila-MILF peace accords. The situation may change in time, but for now all eyes are on the spread of Jihad includ Nuclear Militancy from Syria + Pakistan to Indonesia + SE Asia, in addition to newlu resurgent Commie movements in both the PHIL + Japan.
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One problem in a society where families have but one child each is the difficulty convincing the mothers that they should send their son off to war.
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I refer to them as a paper dragon. "Abraham Lincoln once observed that if he had six hours to chop down a tree he would spend the first four hours sharpening his axe." The political party wants show time. The military are far more realistic. The politician's will run the show however as they try to do here. Major disconnect. Their military have studied all others well. I am impressed with them. Politicians it seems in any country are self absorbed. That is what I see in Russia today. The top members know how to keep power and wealth. They are in it for the long term. The wealthy in China leave. The Russian wealthy stay. Both Russia and China are having an economic downturn. I see Russia in better shape to turn things around. China continues to spend so much and must maintain what they have. Growth has been far too fast. In my opinion they are overextended.
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The time for China to secure bona fide strategic access for the PLA from the "First Island Chain" into WESTPAC + SOPAC, etc. is NOW, not later [> = Year 2018] after US Allies in East Asia go Nukulaar + US-led GMD-TMD, Space Strike + Space Defense, is permanently established in same.
IOW, CHINA HAS THRU THE END OF POTUS BAMMER'S SECOND TERM - notsomuch 2014- Jan. 2017 as much as 2014 - Summer-NLT-Fall? 2016 window.
As said times before, as a rule the longer China waits, the harder it will be to achieve its ambitions.
All things equal, once again it ultimately comes down to China accomplishing its perceived "post-US", future World #1 "Manifest Destiny" before its too late, or in the altern giving up or delaying same until sometime in the future, i.e. Year 2050-2100 or other. THERE IS NO SIGN THAT CHINA IS WILLING TO GIVE UP OR AMEND ITS AGENDA, + WHILE THERE IS EVERY SIGN IT IS PREPARING FOR MIL CONFLICT IN EAST ASIA.
The PLA = PLAA/Ground-Conventional Forces will have two main advantages ...
> Massive Airborne-led/centric conventional forces strike include SPECOPS.
> MINDSET = SUFFERANCE OF PROHIBITIVE COMBAT CASUALTIES IS NOT AN IMPORTANT PLANNING FACTOR RELATIVE TO VICTORY OR TACTICAL SUCCESS.
> CHINA WILL FIGHT IRREGARDLESS OF ANY INITIAL OPERATIONAL DEFECT ANDOR MILTECH SUPERIORITY OF ITS ENEMY.
China will have the Bodies = Cannon Fodder to lose, while its US-Allied enemy won't have enough Bullets + will have the Red-line avoiding
"weakest/worst POTUS in US history", anti-American Amerikan POTUS occupying the WH as de facto Commander-in-Chief, aka the US Leader most in charge of America's military response, or conversely most responsible for lack of same.
IMO given the above the only real reason for Rising China to NOT wage war now is iff IT BEIEVES OR KNOWS THAT THE BAMMER'S SUCCESSOR AFTER JAN 2017 WILL BE ANOTHER ANTI-AMERICAN AMERIKAN GLOBALIST MORE WEAKER OR WAFFLING = "RED-LINE" BUSTING THAN THE BAMMER, ALBEIT PCORRECT???
IOW, CHINA [Iran?] MAY NOT HAVE TO FIGHT ANY MAJOR WAR AGZ THE US BECAUSE IT HAS ALREADY WON EVEN BEFORE THE FIRST SHOT WAS EVEN FIRED, ALA ANTI-US OWG-NWO GLOBALISM.
[An Nahar] Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev called Saturday for all the communist-era secret services' files to be opened immediately, still a controversial issue a quarter of the century after the collapse of the former regime.
"After 25 years, the time for keeping secrets has passed....All citizens, school pupils and students have the right to learn, with no intermediary, the truth about totalitarian power," he said in a national address.
The conservative president said the "worst vice of the transition" that followed the fall of the communist regime on November 10, 1989, was the lack of self-analysis on the preceding four decades of totalitarianism.
Since 2007, a commission has been tasked with opening the old secret service files of ministers, diplomats, political candidates and other key public figures.
Former agents and collaborators face no legal consequences, though the government did recall dozens of ambassadors in 2011 after the contents of their files were revealed.
Under current law, the full secret service archives will eventually be published online, though socialist politicians are trying to overturn that provision.
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[An Nahar] The daughter of jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko on Saturday said attempts to negotiate with the authorities were doomed to failure, as she pressed for the West to take a harder line.
Yevgeniya Tymoshenko spoke to Agence La Belle France Presse in Kiev in a phone interview from the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany where she met with EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele and Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino.
"We are calling for more radical action on the part of leaders of the democratic world," she said.
"Negotiations with (President Viktor) Yanukovych cannot be successful. We are still calling for Yanukovych's resignation and early elections."
Tymoshenko said she had explained to Western officials that protesters were not "faceless myrmidons or provocateurs" and "democratic countries should defend our struggle".
"We need to speak to the authorities from a position of power instead of trying to seek a compromise that Yanukovych will never accept," she said, in an apparent criticism of other opposition leaders who have conducted negotiations with Yanukovych.
"I will continue to fight for my mother because she is the main political prisoner of this regime.... She is now considered a more dangerous enemy than ever."
Tymoshenko was one of the leaders of the pro-democracy "Orange Revolution" in 2004 and then served as prime minister. She is in prison for abuse of power but she has dismissed this as political Dire Revenge™ by Yanukovych.
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Sorry, Obumble is busy ignoring you - so he doesn't have to publicly face Putin and be shown once again as a gutless feckless weenie that he is - and demonstrate again that he is scared of Putin.
[Ynet] London paper details listening devices as next round in fight between Erdogan and competitor in exile, Fethullah Gulen, claimed to be responsible for bringing about corruption investigation
Ooooooh, Byzantine behaviour in the former capitol of Olde Byzantium. May someone who is not Mr. Erdogan win, just because he deserves it. If the Turkish people could somehow win in the end, that would be nice, too.
A source from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan's office said they found suspected spy devices in the leader's bureau and house.
The newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported Thursday that the secret bugging devices were most likely related to Erdogan's fight with a popular Turkish exile, preacher Fethullah Gulen, who lives in the US.
The Turkish source refused to point the finger directly at Gulen's organization, while other Turkish sources quoted in the article blamed figures in the state's attorney general's office and in the judicial branch of government.
The official close to Erdogan said a report is scheduled to be published on eavesdropping in the coming days.
The source said that Erdogan is taking the issue seriously, and he sees the incident as a breach of natural security since eavesdropping on the prime minister is considered treason of the highest degree. He doesn't want a state within a state, the official said.
Erdogan, who was Gulen's partner and was helped by him to rise to power, sees the preacher and his movement as the cause behind the investigation into the prime minister's corruption affair. The former ally has a network of followers in the police and judiciary.
Since leak of the affair, Erdogan has purged hundreds of coppers and sought tighter control over the courts, raising alarm in Western capitals and shaking investor confidence in what was long one of the world's fastest growing economies.
In an apparent bid to force the opposition's hand, Erdogan said he could drop a controversial bill to give government greater sway over the naming of judges and prosecutors if the opposition agreed instead to changes to the constitution on control of the judiciary.
[Egypt Independent] Turkey has purged at least 700 more coppers, local media said, over a corruption investigation portrayed by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan as part of a plot to undermine the country's economy and his government.
Turkey's Central Bank raised all key interest rates by some 500 basis points at an emergency meeting on Tuesday. Erdogan had long argued against the move that could hit growth ahead of polls this year seen as an important test of his popularity.
A photograph in the Hurriyet daily showed staff at Istanbul's main courthouse carrying boxes of documents which the paper said were from the offices of two prosecutors who were removed from the graft inquiry this week.
Altogether, more than 5,000 coppers have been dismissed or transferred since the graft inquiry became public on December 17 with the arrest of businessmen close to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and three cabinet ministers' sons.
In the latest upheaval, hundreds of police were transferred from their posts in Ankara and Izmir on Thursday, and dozens more were affected in Istanbul and the southeastern city of Gaziantep, Radikal newspaper reported.
A front man at police headquarters in Ankara could not immediately confirm the reports.
A similar shake-up in the judiciary has left the fate of the corruption investigation unclear.
Some 200 prosecutors and judges have been reassigned in a purge of the judiciary that has brought to a halt the investigation Erdogan has called a "judicial coup".
The government sees the probe as orchestrated by Erdogan's former ally, the U.S.-based holy man Fethullah Gulen, whose followers, part of a group known locally as "Hizmet," or Service, are influential in many state institutions, including the police and legal system.
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"We're seeing more and more incidents with multiple shooters -- people firing in excess of 20 rounds," here we go again
said Newark police director Samuel DeMaio. "In my 28 years here I've never seen a generation of young people who'll turn and kill people over such a ridiculously small reason." ...video games? lack of responsible parental guidance? lousy school product? nah, except for an oblique reference to "education," nothing in the article about these "unrelated" issues... or an entitlement syndrome encouraged by an "education" system that's completely out of touch
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I was there, literally a block away, when the Newark riot started in 1967. It had no more to do with economics then than it would now.
Lack of good parenting? Lack of good schools? Too much gov't en loco parentis? Too much absolution without penance? Yes.
Back then the blacks had some things to be pissed about, not to the point of rioting but pissed sure. But they could never seem to stop voting for their abusers.
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But Rice counters that back in those days, angry urbanites would listen to pleas from African-American political leaders and activists like himself.
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NEW JERSEY SENATOR FEARS they won't have enough RIOTS, GUN BATTLES, OVERthat he can blame on ECONOMIC TROUBLE so they can declare martial law and become the dictators they want to be
Fixed
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[DAWN] Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... has sold its Motorola handset unit to China's Lenovo for $2.9 billion.
This is Lenovo's second big U.S. deal in a week. It also agreed to buy IBM ...contributed $532,372 to the 2008 Obama campaign... 's low-end server business for $2.3 billion.
Google paid $12.5 billion for Motorola in 2012.
A 'vast majority' of the firm's patents will stay with Google.
The deal will help Lenovo compete in developed markets with Samsung and Apple.
But selling Moto may also mean a tighter Google/Samsung relationship.
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[Breitbart] Great Gibson electric guitars have long been a means of fighting the establishment, so when the powers that be confiscated stocks of tonewoods from the Gibson factory in Nashville--only to return them once there was a resolution and the investigation ended--it was an event worth celebrating. Introducing the Government Series II Les Paul, a striking new guitar from Gibson USA for 2014 that suitably marks this infamous time in Gibson's history.
The latest episode of a story Rantburg has been following for a while. See here for more.
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I read someplace that Gibson called the wood 'unfinished' to avoid tariffs but 'finished' to avoid protected species law (or maybe v.v.) - case may be more complex than it appeared.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[An Nahar] Usernames and passwords of some of Yahoo's email customers have been stolen and used to gather personal information about people those Yahoo mail users have recently corresponded with, the company said Thursday.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, former vice president Al Gore asserted that it's crucial for global philanthropists to impose "fertility management" on Africa. No one called that racist.
[Ynet] London paper details listening devices as next round in fight between Erdogan and competitor in exile, Fethullah Gulen, claimed to be responsible for bringing about corruption investigation
[Egypt Independent] Turkey has purged at least 700 more 
