Archive for December, 2010
Europe to Ban Hundreds of Herbal Remedies
December 30th, 2010Via: Independent: Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year under what campaigners say is a “discriminatory and disproportionate” European law. With four months to go before the EU-wide ban is implemented, thousands of patients face the loss of herbal remedies that have been used in the UK for […]
U.S. Government Wants to Archive Information on All Bank to Bank Overseas Money Transfers for Ten Years
December 30th, 2010Via: EFF: What do an online donation to the International Red Cross, a bank transfer to family members living in Vietnam, and a payment sent through PayPal for an expensive rug in Turkey have in common? The government wants to know about them. And, if new rules proposed by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or […]
Chat with Other Cryptogon Users?
December 30th, 2010Cryptogon has readers and supporters across the entire ideological spectrum, anarchists, alien abductees, mind control victims, government employees, cops, professors, homeless people, farmers, politicians, monotheists, pantheists, atheists, agnostics, and this list could go on and on. Do you people have any interest in chatting with each other in an affable manner? A very primitive chat […]
Homeland Security Trolling ‘We Won’t Fly Blog’
December 30th, 2010This is just some troglodyte with bits of gas station deli meat down the front of its shirt and undiluted non dairy creamer on its upper lip. Wait until they start showing up in teams, and from different, normal looking ISP IPs (not proxies). The admin will be wondering whether the site needs an enema […]
Living Earth Simulator
December 29th, 2010I seriously need a Magic 8 Ball category. Via: BBC: It could be one of the most ambitious computer projects ever conceived. An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth – from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases to international financial transactions or […]
2010 Worst Year for Bank Failures Since 1992 (Savings and Loan Crisis)
December 29th, 2010Via: Washington Post: More banks failed in the United States this year than in any year since 1992, during the savings-and-loan crisis, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Amid high unemployment, a struggling economy and a still-devastated real estate market, the nation is closing out the year with 157 bank failures, up from 140 […]
80% OF ANTIBIOTICS SOLD IN U.S. USED FOR LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY
December 29th, 2010Via: Center for a Livable Future: Antibiotics, one of the world’s greatest medical discoveries, are slowly losing their effectiveness in fighting bacterial infections and the massive use of the drugs in food animals may be the biggest culprit. The growing threat of antibiotic resistance is largely due to the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in […]
U.S. Changes How it Measures Long-Term Unemployment
December 29th, 2010Via: USA Today: So many Americans have been jobless for so long that the government is changing how it records long-term unemployment. Citing what it calls “an unprecedented rise” in long-term unemployment, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), beginning Saturday, will raise from two years to five years the upper limit on how long […]
Number of Multifamily Households at Record as People Try to Avoid Becoming Homeless
December 29th, 2010Obviously, the economy is playing a big part in this, but I wonder how many households choose this route even though they aren’t broke? This is the default setting for billions of people. Update: Pew Research Center: The Return of the Multi-Generational Family Household: Another factor has been the big wave of immigration, dominated by […]
Water Pipes Freeze Then Burst in Northern Ireland: Tens of Thousands Left Without Water
December 29th, 2010Via: Washington Post: Frustration and fears of disease mounted in Northern Ireland Wednesday as tens of thousands of people were left without water after much of the supply drained away through broken pipes following a deep freeze and a sudden thaw. In many towns and cities water supplies were cut off as residents turned to […]
