I thought this next story was just plain funny. Must have been one hell of a hot chili eating contest!
Telegraph: World's hottest chilli contest leaves two in hospital
A 'world's hottest chilli' competition at a curry restaurant left two people in hospital.
Emergency services were called to Kismot Restaurant's curry-eating challenge, on St Leonards Place, Edinburgh, after competitors started writhing on the floor in agony, vomiting and fainting during the contest.
RawStory: Principal allegedly assaulted student for wearing Gay-Straight Alliance shirt
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Japan
M&C: Thyroid irregularities found in children near nuclear plant
Global Conflict
Wired: Oct. 5, 1986: Israel’s Secret Nuke Arsenal Exposed
ExtinctionProtocol: Syria threatens to attack Israel if NATO intervenes in internal conflict
SOTT: Anonymous - The Bankers Are The Problem
BusinessInsider: And Now This Again: Greece Anti-Austerity Protests Turning Violent
ICite: The struggle to occupy #occupywallstreet
SOTT: US: Police have action plan for protests
SOTT: First Official Release from Occupy Wall Street
RawStory: Ben Bernanke on ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest: I can’t blame them
Wired: Iraq Militants Brag: We’ve Got Robotic Weapons, Too
NPR: Greece Staggered By 24-Hour Civil Servants' Strike
AlJazeera: Two leaders, two visions, many narratives
The battle for public perception at the UN - a fight between Israel, Palestine and their competing visions.
BBC: Boehner says Senate currency bill is 'pretty dangerous'
BBC: Syria unrest: Western anger at UN vetoes - Western nations have lamented China and Russia's vetoes of a UN Security Council resolution condemning Syria's crackdown on anti-government protests.
Spiegel: Violence Escalates in Turkey - Kurds Fear New Civil War May Be Brewing
ActivistPost: Russia and China block UN resolution on Syria amidst fears it could mean another Libya-style intervention
Independent: Saudi police open fire on civilians as protests gain momentum - Insecure Saudis crack down on freedom protest
SkyNews: Greece: Riot Police Called Amid Major Strike
Hacker News
Not sure if this story goes here or not yet, but it's beginning to look like it.
YahooNews: Bank of America website still having problems - Bank of America's consumer online banking service was slow for a fifth day Tuesday, and the bank still wasn't saying what the problem was.
Financial News
FederalReserveBankNY: How Well Do Financial Markets Separate News from Noise? Evidence from an Internet Blooper
Bloomberg: BofA’s Countrywide May Face Fraud Suit After U.S. Housing Audit
Guardian: Cameron rewrites conference speech to remove credit card pay-off call - We were not ever trying to urge people to pay their credit card bills tomorrow, Downing Street says
MSNBC: Private employers added 91,000 jobs in September, report shows
CNN: Challenger report: September job cuts spike
Politico: Justice Democrats take on big banks - The question is whether these politicians can survive the ugly and withering attacks heading their way.
Reuters: Annals of government toothlessness, HAMP edition - ProPublica’s Paul Kiel has a fantastic story today about the way in which the government has proved utterly toothless with regard to auditing its mortgage-modification programs, never mind publicizing or enforcing whatever violations it did manage to find. HAMP, it turns out, is a perfect example of what happens when the government mandates change without enforcing it: huge amounts of money get spent, to little or no lasting effect.
Box.net: Leaked Citibank Memo The Plutonomy Symposium Rising Tides Lifting Yachts.pdf
MSNBC: Planned layoffs at US firms highest in more than two years, report shows
Spiegel: Polish Opposition Leader - Kaczynski Warns of Germany's 'Imperial' Ambitions
Guardian: Italy downgrade deepens contagion fears over euro debt crisis - Ratings agency Moody's slashes Italy debt rating by three points, increasing pressure on European governments trying to contain financial crisis
Guardian: Stress now commonest cause of long-term sick leave – report
• Stress at work escalates as employers plan redundancies
• Managers need to regain trust of employees, says CIPD
CreditWritedowns: Full text: Moody's downgrades Italy's government bond ratings to A2 with a negative outlook
Zerohedge: IMF Vows To Spend Some More Taxpayer Money
TechReview: Flocking Behaviour Improves Performance Of Financial Traders - Day traders tend to coordinate their behaviour in the same way that cicadas synchronise their chirping
Economist'sView: Fed Watch: The Fed Drops the Ball
YahooFinance: IMF seeks radical change in euro crisis strategy - IMF seeks radical change in crisis strategy for eurozone amid intensifying pressure
Zerohedge: FT Rumormill: Zero For Three: "EU Says No Concrete Bank Recapitalization Plan Right Now"
BusinessInsider: The Insanity In The Markets Probably Won't Affect You
Bloomberg: Moody’s Sees More European Debt Rating Downgrades, Significant Market Risk
WashingtonPost: Spending measure gives Postal Service 6 more weeks to pay bills
Mish: "Get the Heck out of Bank of America" says Senator Richard Durbin, on Senate Floor; Rep Brad Miller Accuses Banks of "Vulgar Profits"
BBC: IMF warns that countries may need to reverse cuts - Europe's stronger economies should avoid imposing drastic budget cuts at the expense of growth, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Bloomberg: Political Pressure Wouldn’t Halt More Fed Easing
BusinessInsider: El-Erian: Look Out! CDS Are Widening Even For Germany Now
GlobeandMail: Our economic fate is tied to commodities, not Europe
BusinessInsider: What Harvard B-School Is Doing To Make Sure 95% Of Its Students Get Jobs Again This Year
CharlesHughSmith: The Technical Evidence for a Bear Market Decline
Bloomberg: BofA, JPMorgan, Wells Accused of Charging Veterans Illegal Fees
ProPublica: Secret Docs Show Foreclosure Watchdog Doesn’t Bark or Bite
Peak oil and Energy News
TransitionVoice: Happy Birthday! Burning a candle for the peak-ocalypse
CreditWritedowns: Russian Currency Outlook Negative Due To Falling Oil Prices
OilPrice: Loss of Egyptian Natural Gas Supplies Costs Israel $2.68 Million Per Day
BigPictureAgriculture: Coal Production in the Top Five Producing Nations Grew by 98% from 2000-2010
DeclineoftheEmpire: Another Day On Planet Stupid - Oil prices have been falling fast lately. One paragraph in a recent CNBC weekly survey explained what's been happening with crude prices.
Commodities/Metals
Mineweb: The great gold price conspiracy and the Chinese response - For some time many of gold's strongest supporters have pointed to a ‘conspiracy'; between the U.S. and the West to suppress the price of gold in what they see as a misguided global economic interest. China clearly believes this and thinks it has the answer.
Environmental News
alArabiya: Volunteers care for sick animals at Qaddafi’s menagerie
DesdemonaDespair: Video: There Once Was An Island
RawStory: Forecasters predict extreme cold winter for Chicago
NYPost: Dead whale discovered on New Jersey shore was shot, authorities say
An Allenhurst Dept of Public Works employee removed the carcass of a 740-pound pilot whale that died shortly after washing up on a beach there.USAToday: Dust storm causes pileup on Arizona interstate - Authorities have closed a portion of Interstate 10 northwest of Tucson, Ariz., after a dust storm led to a multi-vehicle pileup.
Witnesses tell KVOA-TV in Tucson as many as 30 vehicles may be involved in the wreck near Picacho.
There are reports of injuries, and several emergency crews are responding.
Authorities say visibility has been reduced to zero because of intense dust blowing in the area. The Arizona Department of Transportation reports the interstate is closed in both directions.
ExtinctionProtocol: Double eruptions: Kamchatka’s Shiveluch volcano unleashes 8 km ash cloud, Anak Krakatau 3 km
DesdemonaDespair: Third day in a row of record-breaking temperatures in the south of England
CarbonFix: Volcanic vs. Anthropogenic CO2
DesdemonaDespair: Thailand hit with worst monsoon floods in decades – ‘It’s the worst flooding yet’
America in Decline
WiredThreatLevel: GPS Inventor Urges Supreme Court to Reject ‘Automated,’ Warrantless Surveillance
The principal inventor of the Global Positioning System is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to renounce the Obama administration’s position that it may affix GPS devices to vehicles and track their every move without a court warrant.
Wired: Hayden Urges Congress to Allow NSA to Monitor Public Networks for Malicious Activity
NakedCapitalism: One Third of Americans One Paycheck Away From Homelessness
USAToday: Judge rips firing contest of convenience store chain’s owner -The owner of a chain of convenience stores, branded by one former employee as the "boss from hell," offered a $10 cash prize to workers who could predict which of them would next be fired.
Food and Water
SSEReview: Thirty Million Dollars, a Little Bit of Carbon, and a Lot of Hot Air
“Vestergaard Frandsen makes an ingenious water filter that’s too expensive for the people who need it.” Fast Company, April 2011
Verstergaard Frandsen, maker of fine mosquito nets and the mostly useless LifeStraw Personal, has announced plans to give away a million of their LifeStraw Family water filters to households in western Kenya. CEO Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen will invest $30 million of his own money in the project—known as Carbon for Water—but according to Fast Company, “he’s not worried about losing out—because for each LifeStraw he donates, he’s going to be making money.”
SeattleTimes: CDC says 18 deaths tied to listeria in cantaloupe
Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe To Eat?
Science and Technology
Wired: Super Small: Top 20 Microscope Photos of the Year
TechReview: The Battle for the Government - As governments all over the world move their IT to the cloud, they are becoming some of Google and Microsoft's most coveted customers.
NPR: Israeli Chemist Wins Nobel Prize For Quasicrystals
UniverseToday: Looking Into The Eye Of A Monster – Active Galaxy Markarian 509
Medical and Health
Cryptogon: Denmark Introduces ‘Fat Tax’ on Foods High in Saturated Fat
M&C: Hand, foot and mouth infections jump 55 per cent in Vietnam
Doomsteading, Gardening, Urban Farming
ContainerGardening: Guerrilla Gardening
ModernSurvivalOnline: Gun maintenance supplies to put back……
PreparednessPro: Preparedness Pro Says “Team Freeze-Dried”
ModernSurvivalBlog: Health and Fitness for Disaster Preparedness
Other News
Here's a great video my husband sent in for us!
Spiegel: Nazi CrimesDiaries Reveal How Much Wartime Germans Knew
Newly published diaries by a Nazi-era court official document details that others conveniently ignored. While many Germans would later claim they knew nothing of Nazi crimes, Friedrich Kellner's critical observations show that such information was available.
Guardian: Tony Blair tells Americans to give up on being loved
Ex-prime minister tells audience in North Carolina that US and the west is suffering a period of self-doubt and are not in decline
ABCNews: Helicopter Crashes into New York's East River, One Dead
Reuters: Hungry Muppet to appear on "Sesame Street" - A new poverty-stricken Muppet will highlight the issue of hunger struggles on an episode of "Sesame Street", the show said in a statement on Tuesday.
NDTV: Driver orders passengers off bus, runs them over - Jaipur: In an act of cold-blooded murder, a bus driver Wednesday ordered tourists to de-board and then ran the vehicle over them in Rajasthan, killing six people, police said.
The horrific act took place near a petrol station in Karauli district, 180 km from here. Four of the dozen injured people were in critical condition.
MSNBC: Video: Teen executed in 1944 may have been innocent:
RawStory: Employers less likely to interview openly gay men: study
Hosted: Hundreds of Nazi probes reopened
Politics
Wired: Justice Department Official: Muslim ‘Juries’ Threaten ‘Our Values’
FBI intelligence analysts weren’t the only ones teaching their colleagues that the U.S. is at war with the Islamic religion. Justice Department officials — and even teachers at the Army’s top intellectual center — are delivering similar messages.McClatchy: Perry's poll plunge continues as tea party support erodes
Danger Room has acquired a 2010 PowerPoint presentation compiled by an intelligence analyst working for the U.S. Attorney in the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Reminiscent of FBI training materials exposed by Danger Room in September, the PowerPoint warns of a “Civilizational Jihad” stretching back from the dawn of Islam and waged today in the U.S. by “civilians, juries, lawyers, media, academia and charities” who threaten “our values.” The goal of that war: “Replacement of American Judeo-Christian and Western liberal social, political and religious foundations by Islam.”
RollCall: Frank Wolf Criticizes Grover Norquist Over ‘Unsavory’ Connections
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) lambasted anti-tax activist Grover Norquist on the House floor today, accusing the powerful conservative of corruption and having ties to terrorist organizations.
WashingtonPost: Bishops warn that church teaching is nonpartisan
With the 2012 campaign gearing up before an angry and divided electorate, U.S. Catholic bishops on Tuesday (Oct. 4) reminded Catholic voters that they can’t cherry-pick from church teachings to justify their own political preferences, and cautioned both sides not to edit the bishops’ statements into “voter guides” to back one party or another.
WashingtonPost: Poll sees a new low in Americans’ approval of Congress
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