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Tuesday 14 January 2014

Superbugs found breeding and spreading in sewage plants -

Superbugs found breeding and spreading in sewage plants - 



Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have been raising alarms for years, particularly in hospital environments where public health officials fear they can be transferred from patient to patient and are very difficult to treat. Bacteria harboring the encoding gene that makes them resistant have been found on every continent except for Antarctica. Tests at two wastewater treatment plants in northern China revealed antibiotic-resistant bacteria —“superbugs” carrying New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1), a multidrug-resistant gene first identified in India in 2010 — were not only escaping purification but also breeding and spreading their dangerous cargo. NDM-1 is able to make such common bacteria as E. coli, salmonella, and K. pneumonias resistant to even the strongest available antibiotics.

Tests at two wastewater treatment plants in northern China revealed antibiotic-resistant bacteria were not only escaping purification but also breeding and spreading their dangerous cargo.

A Rice University release reports that joint research by scientists from Rice, Nankai, and Tianjin universities found “superbugs” carrying New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1), a multidrug-resistant gene first identified in India in 2010, in wastewater disinfected by chlorination. They found significant levels of NDM-1 in the effluent released to the environment and even higher levels in dewatered sludge applied to soils.

The study, led by Rice University environmental engineer Pedro Alvarez, appeared this month in the American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters.

“It’s scary,” Alvarez said. “There’s no antibiotic that can kill them. We only realized they exist just a little while ago when a Swedish man got infected in India, in New Delhi. Now, people are beginning to realize that more and more tourists trying to go to the upper waters of the Ganges River are getting these infections that cannot be treated.

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http://www.blacklistednews.com/Superbugs_found_breeding%2C_spreading_in_sewage_plants/32024/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Google spends $3.2 Billion to control every object in the house of the future -

Google spends $3.2 Billion to control every object in the house of the future - 



Google dropped $3.2 billion IN CASH to purchase a company that has pioneered smart grid technology.  Nest Labs Inc. is a corporation that designs home appliances and objects that are connected to the internet, or at the very least transmit information in some kind of way.

The deal is the second largest in Google's history, second only to the $12.5 billion purchase of cell phone producer Motorola in 2012.

In a statement on their website Nest Labs Inc. said that "Google will help us fully realize our vision of the conscious home and allow us to change the world faster than we ever could if we continued to go it alone. We’ve had great momentum, but this is a rocket ship."

While the company is currently focused on smoke alarms and simple house hold devices, experts say that Google plans to create "home automation" and an "internet of things".

"Nest Labs appears to be focused on thermostats and smoke alarms, but it's not far-fetched to see Google expanding this technology into other devices over time," said Shyam Patil, an analyst at Wedbush.

"Home automation is one of the bigger opportunities when you talk about the Internet of everything and connecting everything. This acquisition furthers their strategy around that," he said.

"This is a new area for Google, representing a desire to take advantage of all devices," said Ben Bajarin, director of consumer technology at Creative Strategies, a market intelligence and research firm. "Google wants its own platform for this world of connected things."

The internet of things may sound innocent enough, but it has very significant potential of being tied to the RFID agenda.

According to Wikipedia

"The Internet of Things (or IoT for short) refers to uniquely identifiable objects and their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure. The term Internet of Things was proposed by Kevin Ashton in 2009. The concept of the Internet of Things first became popular through the Auto-ID Center at MIT and related market analysis publications. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) was seen as a prerequisite for the Internet of Things in the early days. If all objects and people in daily life were equipped with identifiers, they could be managed and inventoried by computers.  Besides using RFID, the tagging of things may be achieved through such technologies as near field communication, barcodes, QR codes and digital watermarking."

Shares of Google were up 0.5 percent at $1,128.49 in extended trading on Monday, and their move into your living room received very positive feedback from the mainstream media.  The internet of things and smart home appliances are going to be something to keep a close eye on, now more than ever before.

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http://www.blacklistednews.com/Google_Spends_%243.2_Billion_To_Control_Every_Object_In_The_House_Of_The_Future/32002/0/0/0/Y/M.html

Iranian news service posts - "Snowden Documents Proving 'US-ALIEN-Hitler' Link Stun Russia" - Nazi space aliens? -

Iranian news service posts - "Snowden Documents Proving 'US-ALIEN-Hitler' Link Stun Russia" - Nazi space aliens? - 



The state-run Iranian news service FARS has reported that mass NSA surveillance made public by Edward Snowden was actually an effort by the American-Nazi space aliens to hide their nature to a human world they hoped to dominate. 

In a serious news report called, "Snowden Documents Proving 'US-Alien-Hitler' Link Stun Russia" published on the FARS English site this Sunday, the Iranian government-controlled site contends the United States has been secretly run by a shadow government of Nazi space aliens since 1945. It also contends that Snowden offered Russian intelligence officials "incontrovertible proof" to support the claims, and that Russia considers the report to be "accurate":

A stunning Federal Security Services (FSB) [the Russian spy agency] report on the nearly two million highly classified top-secret documents obtained from the United States Department of Defense (DOD) run National Security Agency-Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) by the American ex-patriot Edward Snowden states that this information is providing “incontrovertible proof” that an “alien/extraterrestrial intelligence agenda” is driving US domestic and international policy, and has been doing so since at least 1945, Whatdoesitmean.com reported.

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Greyhound puppy blew up his owners’ house after he chewed through a can of deodorant -

Greyhound puppy blew up his owners’ house after he chewed through a can of deodorant - 



Greyhound cross Zeus was left alone for just ten minutes before he sparked an explosion so powerful it shattered double-glazed windows, blew through floorboards and set a sofa on fire.

The six-month-old pup had chewed through a can of Lynx deodorant and, as it contents sprayed out, they were ignited by the heat from a lamp.

The blast caused £2,000 of damage but Zeus, along with five other pets in the house, escaped uninjured.

Owner Kerry Leech said: ‘He’s just a pup and at the moment he’ll chew anything.’

Miss Leech, 20, and her partner, Mathew Heckler, 22, were on their way to the shops on Saturday when they were alerted to the explosion by a text from a neighbour in Goldthorpe, in South Yorkshire.

She said: ‘I was panicking about our pets and rushed back. We saw flashing lights, two fire engines were outside the house and the street was blocked off.

‘We thought someone had put something through the letter-box or there had been a gas explosion.’

At first, firefighters thought the blast was caused by a leaky gas pipe but an investigation later concluded ‘a dog caused the explosion’.

Mr Heckler said: ‘I didn’t even know we had a can of Lynx in the living room. It was a Christmas present from Kerry’s parents and was in a gift box right next to the fire and back boiler.’

Prof Tom Welton, head of the chemistry department at Imperial College London, said the butane contained in deodorant was highly flammable.

He added: ‘The lowest temperature it can be ignited is minus 60C, so it is very dangerous stuff. These cans do come with warnings but obviously a puppy can’t read those.

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http://metro.co.uk/2014/01/09/scooby-doom-puppy-blows-up-owners-house-after-chewing-through-can-of-deodorant-4257259/