Google faces fresh privacy investigations in Europe and U.S. after ‘bypassing’ security to spy on iPhone users

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2115827/Google-face-privacy-probe-Europe-US-spying-iPhone-users.html Renewed controversy over Google’s privacy policies Company ‘tricked’ iPhones into running hidden code Investigation by FTC and EU regulators By Rob Waugh PUBLISHED: 05:13 EST, 16 March 2012 | UPDATED: 05:41 EST, 16 March 2012 Google is to face new investigations in both America and the EU over using hidden computer code to violate […]

Greece on the breadline: HIV and malaria make a comeback

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2012/mar/15/greece-breadline-hiv-malaria Jon Henley finds a medical aid organisation trying to plug the gaps as the health service nears breakdown Posted on Thursday 15 March 2012 08.34 EDT The Guardian Doctors, nurses and paramedics clash with riot police outside the health ministry last May during a protest against cuts. Photograph: Alexandros Vlachos/EPA The incidence of HIV/Aids […]

EDITORIAL: Germany proposes a Drudge Tax – Washington Times

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/12/germany-proposes-a-drudge-tax/ EDITORIAL: Germany proposes a Drudge Tax – Washington Times. Government seeks to impose fees on news aggregators By THE WASHINGTON TIMES -The Washington Times Monday, March 12, 2012 European politicians are on the hunt for new sources of revenue as the continent’s fiscal situation worsens. The level of desperation is clear in the latest […]

DON’T give us a break! Swiss voters say no to six weeks’ paid holiday fearing move would put economy at risk

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2113711/DONT-break-Swiss-voters-say-weeks-paid-holiday-fearing-economy-risk.html Swiss voters have rejected an increase in their annual paid holiday over fears it would put their economy at risk. Polls closed last night on several national referendums, including one pushed by a union to raise the minimum holiday from four to six weeks. Two-thirds of voters reportedly rejected the proposal, which would have […]

Athens ablaze as Greece votes in favour of £110bn bailout: Rioters attack police and set ten buildings on fire in protest at cuts

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2100099/Athens-protests-Lawmakers-endorse-austerity-measures-Greece.html By Kirsty Walker Last updated at 12:39 AM on 13th February 2012 Greek MPs last night voted in favour of a controversial austerity bill as rioters again took to the streets and set buildings alight. The punishing cuts to wages and pensions are fiercely stoking tensions in the near-bankrupt country. Yet if the bill […]

The EU is Considering Using Drones to Police Farm Subsidies, Enforce Environmental Rules

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-02/eu-considering-using-drones-police-farm-subsidies-enforce-environmental-rules By Clay Dillow Posted 02.08.2012 at 4:39 pm   Looking Down on Farmland in the UK Jim Bain via Wikimedia When European farmers turn their eyes skyward, they soon may have more than the weather to worry about. The more progressive aviation framework in Europe means that government monitors potentially have a new weapon […]

You might need more than one can of WD-40 to start that one! Europe held in icy grip as temperatures plummet as low as -20C

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099435/Youll-need-lot-WD-40-start-car-Europe-held-icy-grip-temperatures-plummet-low-20C.html Death toll across the continent due to extreme weather reaches 460 By Graham Smith Last updated at 6:26 PM on 10th February 2012 Every driver dreads having to de-ice his car on winter mornings, but the owner of this vehicle really has his work cut out. Parked on the frozen waterside promenade at Lake […]

Ice age Europe: How the big freeze, with temperatures as low as MINUS 40, has turned Britain and the continent BLUE

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2097779/Europe-weather-Snow-covers-continent-temperatures-plunge-MINUS-40C.html Hundreds of Eastern European villages cut off as temperatures plummet to -40C Melting snow causes dam wall to break and flood entire village in southern Bulgaria, killing four European crisis commissioner says ‘the worst is yet to come’ By Lee Moran Last updated at 9:54 PM on 7th February 2012 Europe continues to be […]

AGENDA 21: THE END OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART 2

http://www.newswithviews.com/Marquardt/kathleen104.htm By Kathleen Marquardt February 4, 2012 NewsWithViews.com In part I, I gave you the first half of the overview of Agenda 21. This is part 2 of the overview. Keep in mind that it is just an overview; I will expound upon the key aspects in later articles. In order to build a sustainable […]

Colosseum closes and drivers abandon cars as snow falls on Rome for the first time in 26 YEARS

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096402/Rome-snow-Colosseum-closes-drivers-abandon-cars.html Italian capital grinds to halt as severe weather halts traffic Locals shiver in tiled homes thanks to city’s heating restrictions -36C temperatures across eastern Europe send death toll to 176 Military on alert in the UK as temperatures drop and snowfall is predicted Over 11,000 villagers in Serbia trapped by snowdrifts and blizzards Death […]