Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Charlie Keating IV, Grandson of Notorious Banker, Identified as Navy SEAL Killed by ISIS
May 4th, 2016Really? Via: NBC: The U.S. Navy SEAL killed by direct fire during an ISIS-led siege in Iraq was identified Tuesday as Charlie Keating IV, a Phoenix high school graduate — and grandson of the banker who came to symbolize America’s savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. “Our state and nation are in mourning today […]
CNN: “Donald Trump: Presumptive GOP Nominee”; Destroys Cruz in Indiana Primary
May 3rd, 2016Via: CNN: Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee following a decisive victory in the Indiana primary and the decision by Ted Cruz to drop out of the race. Though Trump has not formally secured the 1,237 delegates he needs to win the nomination — and likely won’t until June — there is no […]
The Truth About Statin Drugs and Cholesterol
May 2nd, 2016Via: Dr. Daniel Pompa:
The Secretive, Billionaire-Backed Plans to Harness Fusion
May 1st, 2016Via: BBC: Inside a laboratory near Vancouver in British Columbia, an alarm is blaring. In the middle of the industrial warehouse stands what looks like a cannon from a spaceship, about five metres long and festooned in wires. None of the lab’s red-coat-wearing technicians seem fazed by the noise. The siren, which alerts workers to […]
Serial Child Molester Hastert Sentenced to 15 Months in Prison
April 27th, 2016Via: Politico: The judge calls the former House speaker a “serial child molester” as Hastert apologizes for “mistreating” boys he supervised as a wrestling coach.
Firms that Paid for Clinton Speeches Have U.S. Government Interests
April 22nd, 2016Well holy shit. Thanks, Captain! Via: AP: It’s not just Wall Street banks. Most companies and groups that paid Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to speak between 2013 and 2015 have lobbied federal agencies in recent years, and more than one-third are government contractors, an Associated Press review has found. Their interests are sprawling and […]
Life-Expectancy Inequality Grows in America
April 19th, 2016Via: The New Yorker: There may be no better way to appreciate humanity’s growing prosperity than to consider how long we live. A child born in 1900—little more than a century ago—was likely, on average, to die by the age of thirty. Today, according to the World Bank, the comparable figure is seventy-one. That is […]
Children of Sydney’s Business and Political Elite Attend School That Bans Screens in Classrooms
April 18th, 2016Via: The Australian: A top Australian school has banned laptops in class, warning that technology “distracts’’ from old-school quality teaching. The headmaster of Sydney Grammar School, John Vallance, yesterday described the billions of dollars spent on computers in Australian schools over the past seven years as a “scandalous waste of money’’. “I’ve seen so many […]
Substituting Vegetable Oils for Butter Increases Risk of Death
April 18th, 2016Via: Medical Xpress: A research team led by scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health has unearthed more evidence that casts doubt on the traditional “heart healthy” practice of replacing butter and other saturated fats with corn oil and other vegetable oils high in linoleic acid. The findings, reported […]
Here Come the Unregulated GMOs
April 18th, 2016Via: MIT Technology Review: People are arguing about whether genetically modified foods should carry labels. But the next generation of GMOs might not only be unlabeled—they might be unregulated. Over at Scientific American you can read a 6,000-word story about how one such plant, a GM mushroom, was created. The short version is that a […]
