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<p><h3>CIA 'running arms smuggling team in Benghazi when consulate was attacked'</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 2013, by <em>The Telegraph</em> (One of the UK's leading newspapers)</h4></p><p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/10218288/CIA-running-arms-smuggling-team-in-Benghazi-when-consulate-was-attacked.html">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 2013-08-02</p><p><strong>The CIA has been subjecting operatives to monthly polygraph tests in an attempt to suppress details of a reported US arms smuggling operation in Benghazi that was ongoing when its ambassador was killed</strong> by a mob in the city last year, according to reports. Up to 35 CIA operatives were working in the city during the attack last September on the US consulate that resulted in the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, according to CNN. The television network said that <strong>a CIA team was working in an annex near the consulate on a project to supply missiles from Libyan armouries to Syrian rebels.</strong> Sources said that more Americans were hurt in the assault ... than had been previously reported. CIA chiefs were actively working to ensure the real nature of its operations in the city did not get out. So only the losses suffered by the State Department in the city had been reported to Congress. Frank Wolf, a US congressman who represents the district that contains CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, is one of 150 members of Congress for a new investigation into the failures in Benghazi. "I think it is a form of a cover-up, and I think it's an attempt to push it under the rug," he said. "We should have the people who were on the scene come in, testify under oath, do it publicly, and lay it out. And there really isn't any national security issue involved with regards to that."</p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-cia-running-arms-smuggling-team-benghazi-when-consulate-was-attacked">here</a></p><hr>
<p><h3>Top Democratic National Committee Officials Resign in Wake of Email Hack</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 2016, by NBC News (Bay Area affiliate)/Associated Press</h4></p><p><a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/AP-Sources-CEO-at-Democratic-National-Committee-Resigns-388970532.html">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 2016-08-02</p><p>The chief executive of the Democratic National Committee and two other top officials have resigned in the wake of an email hack that embarrassed the party on the eve of its presidential nominating convention. CEO Amy Dacey, Chief Finance Officer Brad Marshall and Communications Director Luis Miranda left their jobs on Tuesday, the party said in a statement. <strong>The resignations are the latest fallout from the hacked emails, which exposed an apparent lack of neutrality in the primary race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, with some party officials disparaging Sanders</strong>. Marshall wrote the most explosive email, questioning Sanders' Jewish faith and suggesting he could be portrayed as an atheist. He has apologized for the missive. Earlier, party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned her position and, after being booed at a pre-convention appearance last week in Philadelphia, chose not to speak from the convention stage. The cache of more than 19,000 messages was made public by the group WikiLeaks just before the convention. Democratic Party officials learned in late April that their systems had been attacked after they discovered malicious software on their computers. </p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-top-democratic-national-committee-officials-resign-wake-email-hack">here</a></p><hr>
<p><h3>Blackest is the new black: Scientists develop a material so dark that you can't see it...</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 2014, by <em>The Independent</em> (One of the UK's leading newspapers)</h4></p><p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/blackest-is-the-new-black-scientists-have-developed-a-material-so-dark-that-you-cant-see-it-9602504.html">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 2014-08-02</p><p>Black, that most enigmatic of colours, has become even darker and more mysterious. A British company has produced a "strange, alien" material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 per cent of visual light, setting a new world record.<strong> To stare at the "super black" coating made of carbon nanotubes – each 10,000 times thinner than a human hair – is an odd experience. It is so dark that the human eye cannot understand what it is seeing. Shapes and contours are lost, leaving nothing but an apparent abyss. If it was used to make one of Chanel's little black dresses, the wearer's head and limbs might appear to float incorporeally around a dress-shaped hole.</strong> Actual applications are more serious, enabling astronomical cameras, telescopes and infrared scanning systems to function more effectively. Then there are the military uses that the material's maker, Surrey NanoSystems, is not allowed to discuss. The nanotube material, named Vantablack, has been grown on sheets of aluminium foil by the Newhaven-based company. While the sheets may be crumpled into miniature hills and valleys, this landscape disappears on areas covered by it. Vantablack ... works by packing together a field of nanotubes, like incredibly thin drinking straws. These are so tiny that light particles cannot get into them, although they can pass into the gaps between. Once there, however, all but a tiny remnant of the light bounces around until it is absorbed.</p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-blackest-the-new-black-scientists-develop-material-so-dark-you-cant-see-it">here</a></p><hr>
<p><h3>Six cities to train mail carriers to dispense anti-terror drugs</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 2010, by <em>USA Today</em></h4></p><p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-08-02-postal02_ST_N.htm">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 2010-08-02</p><p>The Postal Service is ready to deliver lifesaving drugs to about a quarter of the residents of Minneapolis-St. Paul, the only metropolitan area in the nation where letter carriers have been trained to dispense medication after a large-scale terrorist attack involving biological weapons. <strong>Efforts are underway in six cities to train workers to deliver the drugs needed to counter anthrax or other potentially deadly agents, the White House says. The White House won't name the six cities,</strong> and Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Amy Kudwa says she can't talk about whether more cities are interested in the voluntary program. With a model in place, the White House says it is working to expand the voluntary program to cities across the country. Minneapolis postal worker Chris Wittenburg of the National Association of Letter Carriers says setting up the program is complicated. First, letter carriers have to volunteer, undergo medical tests to make sure they can take the antibiotics, be fitted for masks (no facial hair allowed) and be trained. Routes have to be combined, and systems set up to suspend regular mail delivery in an instant, call postal workers in and send them out carrying boxes of drugs and fliers telling people what to do. About 60% of the city's letter carriers volunteered for the program, which was given a trial run in May.</p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-six-cities-train-mail-carriers-dispense-anti-terror-drugs">here</a></p><hr>
<p><h3>Mind-Control Studies Had Origins in Trial of Mindszenty</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 1977, by <em>New York Times</em></h4></p><p><a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E11F83A5B167493C0A91783D85F438785F9">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 1977-08-02</p><p>It may be difficult for Americans to comprehend the frame of mind of the men who ... started the Central Intelligence Agency's effort to manipulate human behavior. The C.I.A. leaders were certain the Communists had embarked on a campaign to control men's minds and they were determined to find a defense, setting out in earnest the next year—1950—with Project Bluebird, which evolved into Project Artichoke, then became MK-ULTRA - MK-DELTA. With each code name change, they broadened their sweep, until there remained virtually no avenue of human behavior control they were not exploring. There was an "urgent need," the C.I.A. and other intelligence agencies argued, to develop "effective and practical techniques" to "render an individual subservient to an imposed will or control." The C.I.A. men ... acknowledged among themselves that much of what they were setting out to do was "unethical," bordered on the illegal and would be repugnant to the American people.  <strong>"Precautions must be taken," one agency official wrote in an internal memo, "not only to protect the operation from exposure to enemy forces, but also to conceal these activities from the American public in general."  They  wanted to be able to get away with murder without leaving a trace.</strong>  In attempts to develop ways to administer lethal and mind-altering drugs surreptitiously through clothing as thick as a leather jacket, they tried out small spray guns and pencil-like injectors.  They studied the writing of the psychologist who worked with Adolf Hitler, wondered about the use of the "occult" and of "black psychiatry."</p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-mindcontrol-studies-had-origins-trial-mindszenty">here</a></p><hr>
<p><h3>New York photographer turns strangers into friends</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 2013, by CBS News</h4></p><p><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57596845/">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 2013-08-02</p><p>Forty-five-year-old Richard Renaldi is looking for someone -- two someones, actually. Two total strangers who were meant to be together, if only for a moment. Richard is a New York photographer working on a series of portraits. For each shot he grabs strangers off the street -- like Jenny Wood, an airline employee from Virginia, and Dominek Tucker, a college student from Brooklyn -- and poses them like adoring family. Richard calls the project "Touching Strangers." He started shooting it six years ago and now has hundreds of portraits of these unlikely intimates. Richard puts the people in these poses, but the sentiment that seems to shine through is real -- at least so say the subjects. At first, Brian Sneeden, a poetry teacher, saw no rhyme or reason for posing with 95-year-old retried fashion designer Reiko Ehrman, but eventually he, too, felt a change. "I felt like I cared for her," Brian says. "I felt like it brought down a lot of barriers." Pretty much everyone shared that same sentiment. "Everyone seems to come away with kind of a good feeling," Richard says. "It's kind of lovely. It's lovely." <strong>Most photographers capture life as it is, but in these strangers, Richard Renaldi has captured something much more ethereal and elusive. He shows us humanity as it could be -- as most of us wish it would be -- and as it was, at least for those one fleeting moments in time.</strong></p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-new-york-photographer-turns-strangers-into-friends">here</a></p><hr>
<p><h3>U.S. regulators lack data on health risks of most chemicals</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 2010, by <em>Washington Post</em></h4></p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/01/AR2010080103469.html">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 2010-08-02</p><p>This summer, when Kellogg recalled 28 million boxes of Froot Loops, Apple Jacks, Corn Pops and Honey Smacks, the company blamed elevated levels of a chemical in the packaging. Dozens of consumers reported a strange taste and odor, and some complained of nausea and diarrhea. Federal regulators, who are charged with ensuring the safety of food and consumer products, are in the dark about the suspected chemical, 2-methylnaphthalene. The [FDA and EPA have] no scientific data on its impact on human health. <strong>The cereal recall hints at a larger issue: huge gaps in the government's knowledge about chemicals in everyday consumer products, from furniture to clothing to children's products. Under current laws, the government has little or no information about the health risks posed by most of the 80,000 chemicals on the U.S. market today.</strong> The information gap is hardly new. When the Toxic Substances Control Act was passed in 1976, it exempted from regulation about 62,000 chemicals that were in commercial use -- including 2-methylnaphthalene. In addition, chemicals developed since the law's passage do not have to be tested for safety. Instead, companies are asked to volunteer information on the health effects of their compounds.</p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-us-regulators-lack-data-health-risks-most-chemicals">here</a></p><hr>
<p><h3>Millions spent on doctor 'gagging orders' by NHS, investigation finds</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 2010, by <em>The Independent</em> (One of the UK's leading newspapers)</h4></p><p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/millions-spent-on-doctor-gagging-orders-by-nhs-investigation-finds-2041209.html">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 2010-08-02</p><p>Hospital doctors who quit their jobs are being routinely forced to sign "gagging orders" despite legislation designed to protect NHS [National Health Service] whistleblowers. Millions of pounds of taxpayers' money are being spent on contracts that deter doctors from speaking out about incompetence and mistakes in patient care. Nearly 90 per cent of severance agreements hammered out between NHS trusts and departing doctors contain confidentiality clauses. <strong>The widespread use of "gagging orders" against senior NHS staff who could raise patient safety concerns will intensify the doubts over the protection given to whistleblowers. Campaign groups claim that NHS managers sometimes resort to intimidatory tactics to deter medics from coming forward</strong>, while others that break cover can face years of expense and uncertainty before their cases reach court. The result, they say, is that doctors accept the gagging clauses in order to protect their careers and avoid legal wrangling. Mike Parker, of the Royal College of Surgeons, said: "The trusts find something upon which they can influence this individual and hold them virtually to ransom, and say: 'You speak up and this will happen.' It's effectively a form of bullying, if you like, but we do hear about this sort of thing happening."</p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-millions-spent-doctor-gagging-orders-nhs- investigation finds">here</a></p><hr>
<p><h3>Selling Sickness to the Well</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 2005, by MSNBC News</h4></p><p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8789159/site/newsweek/">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 2005-08-02</p><p><strong>A new book looks at how pharmaceutical companies are using aggressive marketing   campaigns to turn more people into patients.</strong> In their new book, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1560256974/qid=1133665288/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-0006826-3010373?s=books&v=glance&n=283155">Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical   Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients</a>”, Ray   Moynihan and Alan Cassels examine how the drug industry has transformed the way   we think about physical and mental health and turned more and more of us each   year into customers. Moynihan...a regular contributor to   the British Medical Journal [discusses] how -- and why -- drug makers have begun targeting   people who aren’t sick. The so-called preventives are where the big money are: like the bone-density   drugs or the cholesterol [-lowering] drugs. Increasingly we’re seeing the   marketing shift to those types of drugs. People talk about the "worried well."   There are many ways in which the drug companies target those people. There’s an informal alliance between the drug companies and aspects of the   medical profession and aspects of the patient advocacy world who all seem to   have interests in defining more and more people as ill. Americans make up less than 5 percent of the world’s population but the U.S.   makes up...half of total spending on drugs.</p>  <p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-selling-sickness-the-well">here</a></p><hr>
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