Archive for the 'Kill Off' Category
22,000 Died Amid Delayed Bayer Drug Recall
February 18th, 2008Via: Reuters: The lives of 22,000 patients could have been saved if U.S. regulators had been quicker to remove a Bayer AG drug used to stem bleeding during open heart surgery, according to a medical researcher interviewed by CBS Television’s 60 Minutes program. The drug Trasylol was withdrawn in November at the request of the […]
California Plans to Spray Pesticide Over Urban San Francisco, Marin County and the East Bay
February 16th, 2008“I suppose it’s all just a coincidence that Arnold Schwarzenegger selected a belt buckle to wear—on the cover of a mass circulation news magazine—that features a human skull. Sure, Arnold’s dad was a Nazi and Arnold denies that he admired Hitler and liked to pretend to be an SS officer, despite eyewitness accounts to the […]
Why Bird Flu Has Been Kept at Bay
February 13th, 2008Now that they know why bird flu isn’t readily transmissible from human to human, how long until a weaponized version is engineered? That’s me being optimistic; assuming that a weaponized form doesn’t exist already. Via: BBC: Scientists say they have identified a key reason why bird flu has so far not posed a widespread menace […]
Metabolic Syndrome Is Tied to Diet Soda
February 8th, 2008I particularly like the retarded musings of one of the co-authors of the research: “Why is it happening? Is it some kind of chemical in the diet soda, or something about the behavior of diet soda drinkers?” Holy crap. Are we to believe that a professor of epidemiology needs to be told about the links […]
France: Vaccine Companies Face Manslaughter Investigation
February 7th, 2008Via: Reuters: French authorities have opened a formal investigation into two managers from drugs groups GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur over a vaccination campaign in the 1990s, a judicial source said late on Thursday. Judge Marie-Odile Bertella-Geffroy also opened an investigation for manslaughter against Sanofi Pasteur MSD, a joint venture between Sanofi Aventis and Merck, the […]
Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories
January 21st, 2008Mainstream media playing catch up… Via: New York Times: Rising prices for cooking oil are forcing residents of Asia’s largest slum, in Mumbai, India, to ration every drop. Bakeries in the United States are fretting over higher shortening costs. And here in Malaysia, brand-new factories built to convert vegetable oil into diesel sit idle, their […]
Modeling Urban Panic
January 15th, 2008Via: Pruned: Paul Torrens is someone after our hearts, for he has developed a realistic computer 3D model that can predict crowd behavior in various spatial configurations. It can simulate, for instance, how people navigate through busy city streets, shoppers through urban shopping centers, and tourists through unfamiliar landscapes. “The goal of this project is […]
On the Record with Oil at $100 per Barrel
January 3rd, 2008WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. As you can see below, I saved up a bunch of stories for the day when oil finally hit $100 per barrel. In addition to posting all of those stories to mark the occasion, I’m going on the record to say […]
Stockpile Food for [Engineered] Flu Crisis
December 19th, 2007A little background reading… Bird Flu “Pandemic” Antidote: Wash Hands Spain: Bird Flu Sparking Human Epidemic Is ‘Science Fiction’ STRATFOR on Bird Flu: Calm Down The New PSYOP Payload: Bird Flu and the Collapse of the Internet Flu Pandemic: New Zealand’s Martial Law Contingency Plan Via: Courier Mail: EVERY Australian household should stockpile at least […]
UN: World Food Stocks Dwindling Rapidly
December 18th, 2007If you look at the ongoing crises involved with food production, you see not just a perfect storm, but multiple perfect storms. — Cryptogon November 28, 2007 Via: International Herald Tribune: In an “unforeseen and unprecedented” shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels, the top food […]
