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Florida Sun Sentinel – A cross section of civil rights and legal groups from the NAACP to the National Lawyers Association is preparing to file suits alleging massive voting fraud and intimidation in Florida. They claim that there is evidence of systematic obstruction of the voting rights of black citizens across Florida in the recent Presidential election. Civil rights lawyers have been gathering evidence and plan to file lawsuits this week under the Voting Rights Act and other civil rights statutes. There are dozens of reports of harassment and intimidation of black voters and improper denial of voting privileges to blacks in Miami, Tampa, Tallahassee, Hillsborough County, Volusia County and other areas of Florida.read more

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UPI, AP, NYT – Monsoon rains inundated the island of Sumatra Monday, causing landslides that swept more than 100 people into raging rivers and death. The Jakarta Post described the flooding as the worst since 1953. “We are looking for survivors, but we fear there will be only corpses,” said one volunteer.
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Reuters, CNN – The British government plans to compel stores selling cell phones to give customers written health warnings. The proposed pamphlet would explain that current research is going on to establish safety guidelines for cell phones and they should be used with caution until all results are in.

Scientists in the U.K. have found that children who use cell phones have memory loss, sleeping disorders and headaches, according to research published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet.
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Reuters – IBM announced that it has sold the U.S. Air Force a supercomputer to help it identify unidentified flying objects.

The Air Force?s Space Surveillance Team, based in Maui, Hawaii, will use the supercomputer to hunt for old satellites, foreign spacecraft and space debris, although USAF Space Command claims to have these objects under constant tracking surveillance.

However, the new computer will greatly increase the Air Force’s ability to track objects. It will be capable of tracking and identifying ultra high speed objects, for example, as well as unknown objects incoming from space, which present systems are not designed to do.
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