Archive for November, 2012
DuPont Sends in Former Cops to Enforce Seed Patents
November 29th, 2012Via: Bloomberg: DuPont Co. (DD), the world’s second- biggest seed company, is sending dozens of former police officers across North America to prevent a practice generations of farmers once took for granted. The provider of the best-selling genetically modified soybean seed is looking for evidence of farmers illegally saving them from harvests for replanting next […]
Why So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnership as Global Corporate Coup
November 29th, 2012Via: Andrew Gavin Marshall: The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the most secretive and “least transparent” trade negotiations in history. Luckily for the populations and societies that will be affected by the agreement, there are public research organizations and alternative media outlets campaigning against it – and they’ve even released several leaks of draft agreement chapters. From […]
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MK-ULTRA: Frank Olson Family Sues CIA Over Bioweapons Expert’s 1953 Death
November 29th, 2012Via: AP: The sons of a Cold War scientist who plunged to his death in 1953 several days after unwittingly taking LSD in a CIA mind-control experiment sued the government Wednesday. They claimed the CIA murdered their father, Frank Olson, by pushing him from a 13th-story window of a hotel – not, as the CIA […]
Two-Thirds of Millionaires Left Britain to Avoid 50 Percent Tax Rate
November 29th, 2012Via: Telegraph: Almost two-thirds of the country’s million-pound earners disappeared from Britain after the introduction of the 50p top rate of tax, figures have disclosed. In the 2009-10 tax year, more than 16,000 people declared an annual income of more than £1 million to HM Revenue and Customs. This number fell to just 6,000 after […]
Student Loan Delinquency Rate Goes Parabolic
November 29th, 2012Via: ZeroHedge: What also shouldn’t be a surprise, at least to our readers who read about it here first, but what will stun the general public are the two charts below, the first of which shows the amount of 90+ day student loan delinquencies, and the second shows the amount of newly delinquent 30+ day […]
Vatican Banker Linked to Pablo Escobar
November 28th, 2012Via: Gang Sonny: A Vatican banker found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in 1982 had previously undisclosed links to the notorious Colombian drug smuggler, Pablo Escobar, the author of a new book has claimed. Roberto Calvi, who earned his nickname for his close ties to the Vatican Bank, was found hanged beneath Blackfriars Bridge amid strong […]
Stone Builders, Mound Builders and the Giants of Ancient America
November 28th, 2012Via: Youtube / Jim Vieira at TEDxShelburneFalls:
What Will NASA Do with Donated NRO Telescopes?
November 28th, 2012Via: Discovery: NASA has begun surveying scientists on what they would like to do with two Hubble-class space telescopes donated to the civilian space agency by its secretive sibling, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) — which operates the nation’s spy satellites. But the gifts have some formidable strings attached, including costs to develop instruments and […]
Corrections Corporation of America Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students
November 28th, 2012Via: Center for Media and Democracy: While such “drug sweeps” have become a routine matter in many of the nation’s schools, along with the use of metal detectors and zero-tolerance policies, one feature of this raid was unusual. According to Casa Grande Police Department (CGPD) Public Information Officer Thomas Anderson, four “law enforcement agencies” took […]
