Sunday, October 6, 2013

Sunday October 06, 2013 News Links

Eye Witness: Police pulled child from car THEN executed woman!
Wolf Blitzer talks to a woman who witnessed the Capitol Hill shooting and describes the barrage of gunfire.


The U.S. and Russia are set to hold their first high-level talks since sealing a deal to secure and destroy Syria's chemical weapons and the onset of an apparent warming between Iran and the West.


TSA Security in Action: 9 Year Old Hops Flight to Vegas, Alone and Without Ticket


Attacks across Iraq killed 66 people on Saturday, most of whom died during bombings against Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad. Two journalists were gunned down in a separate incident in Mosul, located in the north of the country.


The United States will run out of borrowed money “no later than Oct. 17″ unless Congress raises the $16.7 trillion debt limit, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said in a letter to Congress Wednesday.


Five years after U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, triggering a global financial crisis and shattering confidence worldwide, families in major countries around the world are still hunkered down, too spooked and distrustful to take chances with their money.


The details of the capital structure were daunting, the purpose crystal clear


Days after the launch of the federal government's Obamacare website, millions of Americans looking for information on new health insurance plans were still locked out of the system even though its designers scrambled to add capacity.


Expect, in fact, anybody — now more than ever. Beyond the feds, marketers and cops, there is a growing customer base for Internet-monitoring contractors who sift through personal details readily available on the Internet. Recently, some schools began enlisting these services to follow students on social media and monitor for cyberbullying, and eventually others will catch on.


Meaningful artificial intelligence has been the aim of computer science since Alan Turing first imagined, in the 1950s, a computer that “passed” as human. Hollywood movies began shortly thereafter to depict computers with human-like intelligence. But, like so many things, artificial intelligence has been much harder to achieve in reality than in the movies.


MasterCard is joining the FIDO Alliance, signaling that the payment network is getting interested in using fingerprints and other biometric data to identify people for online payments.


Reports from London’s Mail on Sundayreveal the image was found on a computer ­belonging to the Special Forces marksman known as Soldier N, who is said to have told his wife that members of the SAS “arranged” the death of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed.


Obama Admin Closes Part Of Ocean Due To Govt. Shutdown
Since the government shutdown, the Obama administration has been criticized by many on the right for “unnecessary” shut downs to “inflict the maximum public pain”.

In this episode we talk U.S. Gov. shut-down, Monsanto, Hemp, and take look back at the weeks crazy media circus.

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