Scientist who studied health effects of 9/11 dust dies at 68

Paul James Lioy, an environmental scientist known for his work on the health effects of dust produced by the World Trade Center disaster on September 11, 2001, died this week after collapsing at Newark Liberty International Airport. He was 68 years old.   Paul Lioy (Image from Rutgers)   Lioy was an internationally renowned authority on exposure science. He received two lifetime achievement awards for his work – the Wesolowski Award...

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Smart trash cans in NY expanding Wi-Fi hotspots

Some of New York's public trash cans do more than just collect junk. A few hundred of them can detect when they're too stinky, when to compact the trash, and when it's time to empty them. And now they are also about to expand their Wi-Fi hotspot program. Waste management company Bigbelly equipped two of its smart bins with wireless internet in downtown Manhattan last winter, providing 50 to 75 megabits per second. That's...

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IMF Declares War On Germany: In "Secret" Report Lagarde Says Greece Will Need Massive Debt Relief

Update: Europe now looks to be in damage control mode. Here's Reuters: EU SOURCE SAYS EURO ZONE LEADERS KNEW OF LATEST IMF DEBT ANALYSIS FOR GREECE BEOFRE AGREEING ON THIRD BAILOUT TERMS A divide between the IMF and Europe (read: Germany), regarding writedowns on Greece’s debt to the EU has been brewing for quite some time and recently returned to the international spotlight when, a few months back, the Fund indicated debt relief was a precondition...

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Greeks Can’t Tap Cash, Gold, Silver In Bank Safety Deposit Boxes

Capital controls have been in place in Greece since the start of the month to protect the banks from mass withdrawals by nervous Greeks. They have rightly been concerned about their savings, the collapse of the banking system and the loss of their savings in deposit confiscations or bail-ins. Many Greeks were also withdrawing their cash because they fear the country might be forced back onto the drachma. However a little known fact is that, Greeks...

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Santa Cruz County Decides To Do Away With Big Banks

The Board of Supervisors in Santa Cruz County, California, have taken a bold step.  The County has decided that they will not do business, including investment services or bond issuances, with five major banks that the Justice Department found to be associated with felonious acts in May of this year.   “I’m counting my money.” “The Global Financial Context James Dimon” by World Economic Forum – Flickr: The Global Financial Context:...

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BREAKING: Son of Boston Police Captain Arrested for Terrorism Ties to ISIS, Plotting to Bomb College

Boston, MA — Boston Police Captain, Robert Ciccolo, is a veteran commander stationed at Operations within the Boston Police Headquarters and one of the early responders to the Boston Marathon bombings in April 2013. Ironically, Ciccolo’s son, Alexander Ciccolo, 23, also known as Ali Al Amriki, was just arrested for plotting to use the same type of bomb used by the marathon bombers made out of a pressure cooker. Monday, the FBI announced that...

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US Army May Use Hollow Points In New Pistols In Violation Of International Protocol

A few months back, when "boots on the ground" trial balloons were floating around Washington, one argument made for sending so-called "forward spotters" to Iraq and possibly to Syria was that US airstrikes against ISIS needed to be made more efficient and more precise in order to minimize collateral damage. As a reminder here’s an excerpt from a Bloomberg piece published on May 22:  Conducting precision airstrikes that avoid civilian...

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