If the Defense Department, the CIA, and our largest corporations can be hacked, certainly 50 states and over 3,000 separate county systems are no match for individuals or nation states that might want to influence the outcome of elections. This is particularly true because nowadays things in the world of electronics and elections are as complex as ever. Even if we are casting our ballots on the In...Read More
Polysole LV1250 and Traverse TF4000 Have Successfully Passed the USDA BioPreferred Program's Stringent Independent Certification ProcessVancouver, BC - Solegear Bioplastic Technologies Inc. (TSX-V:SGB) announces today that it has earned a USDA Certified Biobased Product and Packaging Label for its Polysole LV1250 injection molding bioplastic verifying its 85% bio-based content. Solegear's TF4000...Read More
Four in 10 Americans say they have "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of trust and confidence in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. This ties the historical lows on this measure set in 2014 and 2012. Prior to 2004, slight majorities of Americans said they trusted the mass media, such as newspapers, TV and radio.Americans' confidence in the media...Read More
Four in 10 Americans say they have "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of trust and confidence in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. This ties the historical lows on this measure set in 2014 and 2012. Prior to 2004, slight majorities of Americans said they trusted the mass media, such as newspapers, TV and radio.Americans' confidence in the media...Read More
Toronto, ON - Siyata Mobile Inc. (TSX-V:SIM) (the "Company" or "Siyata") is pleased to announce that it has received its first purchase order from BUG, Israel's largest technology retail chain, to launch Truckfone in their outlets nationwide.BUG is Israel's largest retail chain for mobile devices, computers and IT products - renowned not only for its size, but also its unmatched market reputatio...Read More
At least 10 people were killed and nine others were wounded when a gunman who demanded to know his victims' religions opened fire Thursday on a campus in southwest Oregon, witnesses and authorities said.The gunman was killed in a firefight with Douglas County sheriff's deputies at Umpqua Community College, Sheriff John Hanlin said. Multiple law enforcement sources identified him to NBC New...Read More
At least 10 people were killed and nine others were wounded when a gunman who demanded to know his victims' religions opened fire Thursday on a campus in southwest Oregon, witnesses and authorities said.The gunman was killed in a firefight with Douglas County sheriff's deputies at Umpqua Community College, Sheriff John Hanlin said. Multiple law enforcement sources identified him to NBC New...Read More
Scores of U.S. Secret Service employees improperly accessed the decade-old, unsuccessful job application of a congressman who was investigating scandals inside the agency, a new government report said Wednesday. An assistant director suggested leaking embarrassing information to retaliate against Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the House oversight committee.The actions by the employees co...Read More
Scores of U.S. Secret Service employees improperly accessed the decade-old, unsuccessful job application of a congressman who was investigating scandals inside the agency, a new government report said Wednesday. An assistant director suggested leaking embarrassing information to retaliate against Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the House oversight committee.The actions by the employees co...Read More
Two top Army generals recently discussed trying to kill an article in The New York Times on concussions at West Point by withholding information so the Army could encourage competing news organizations to publish a more favorable story, according to an Army document.The generals' conversation involved a Freedom of Information Act request that The Times made in June for data on concussions resu...Read More
Two top Army generals recently discussed trying to kill an article in The New York Times on concussions at West Point by withholding information so the Army could encourage competing news organizations to publish a more favorable story, according to an Army document.The generals' conversation involved a Freedom of Information Act request that The Times made in June for data on concussions resu...Read More
Vancouver, BC - Graphite One Resources Inc. (TSX-V:GPH / GPHOF:OTCQX) ("Graphite One" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has completed and closed on its previously announced non-brokered private placement ("Private Placement") and has raised gross proceeds of $1,359,234.94.Pursuant to this closing, the Company has issued a total of 19,417,642 units (the "Units") at a price of C$0.07 per...Read More
Last week's announcement that Saudi Arabia — easily one of the world's most brutally repressive regimes — was chosen to head a U.N. Human Rights Council panel provoked indignation around the world. That reaction was triggered for obvious reasons. Not only has Saudi Arabia executed more than 100 people already this year, mostly by beheading (a rate of 1 execution every two days)...Read More
Last week's announcement that Saudi Arabia — easily one of the world's most brutally repressive regimes — was chosen to head a U.N. Human Rights Council panel provoked indignation around the world. That reaction was triggered for obvious reasons. Not only has Saudi Arabia executed more than 100 people already this year, mostly by beheading (a rate of 1 execution every two days)...Read More
Hillcore Group to Join Forces with Yaletown in Financing of Solegear's Commercial Growth OpportunitiesVancouver, BC - Solegear Bioplastic Technologies Inc. (TSX-V:SGB) (the "Company" or "Solegear") is pleased to announce that Hillcore Group ("Hillcore") has led the first tranche (the "First Tranche") of a non-brokered private placement of common shares (the "Shares") of the Company (the "Private...Read More
Criminal justice reform is a contentious political issue, but there's one point on which pretty much everyone agrees: America's prison population is way too high. It's possible that a decline has already begun, with the number of state and federal inmates dropping for three years straight starting in 2010, from an all-time high of 1.62 million in 2009 to about 1.57 million in 2012. But...Read More
Criminal justice reform is a contentious political issue, but there's one point on which pretty much everyone agrees: America's prison population is way too high. It's possible that a decline has already begun, with the number of state and federal inmates dropping for three years straight starting in 2010, from an all-time high of 1.62 million in 2009 to about 1.57 million in 2012. But...Read More
Woodbridge, ON - Titanium Transportation Group Inc. (TSX-V:TTR) ("Titanium" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has appointed Nia Karabatsos as General Counsel. Ms. Karabatsos joins Titanium from the Business Law Group at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP.Ms. Karabatsos has a wealth of experience in corporate and commercial law, with emphasis on negotiating and executing mergers...Read More
Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, particularly among armed commanders who dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population. The practice is called bacha bazi, literally "boy play," and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene — in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on mili...Read More
Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, particularly among armed commanders who dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population. The practice is called bacha bazi, literally "boy play," and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene — in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on mili...Read More