Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Danish Physician and Medical Researcher: Psychiatric Drugs Do More Harm Than Good
May 13th, 2015Via: Guardian: Psychiatric drugs do more harm than good and the use of most antidepressants and dementia drugs could be virtually stopped without causing harm, an expert on clinical trials argues in a leading medical journal. The views expressed in a British Medical Journal debate by Peter Gøtzsche, professor and director of the Nordic Cochrane […]
Congress Tells Court That Congress Can’t Be Investigated for Insider Trading
May 8th, 2015Via: First Look: In a little-noticed brief filed last summer, lawyers for the House of Representatives claimed that an SEC investigation of congressional insider trading should be blocked on principle, because lawmakers and their staff are constitutionally protected from such inquiries given the nature of their work. The legal team led by Kerry W. Kircher, […]
Robots to Build New Google HQ
May 6th, 2015Via: Architects Journal: An army of robot-crane hybrids will be assembled to build Google’s new headquarters in California, according to the latest design papers posted by the IT giant Mock-ups of the so-called ‘crabots’ are featured in lengthy planning documents submitted to the City of Mountain View Council in Silicon Valley and seen by AJ […]
Head Transplant Doctor: Creating Immortality Is the Goal
April 23rd, 2015Via: Independent: The Italian doctor who has claimed that he could transplant a man’s head onto a donor’s body has said that he could do much of the procedure in less than an hour. The procedure — which Canavero has admitted is just a first step towards his ultimate aim of creating immortality — will […]
Feds Say Cannabis Is Not Medicine While Holding The Patent on Cannabis as Medicine
April 19th, 2015U.S. Patent 6630507: Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants Via: Ben Swann:
61-Year-Old Mailman Lands Gyrocopter on Capital Lawn to Bring Attention to Political Corruption
April 15th, 2015This incident is only hours old and media are already starting the character assassination routine on Doug Hughes. I haven’t looked into the message yet in detail, but here’s the Civilist Papers website in case you want to look at it without the media spin treatment: thecivilistpapers.org Via: Tampa Bay Times: Doug Hughes, a 61-year-old […]
Peak Oil? Peak Oil Demand
April 13th, 2015
Via: Bloomberg: Naimi and other Saudi leaders have worried for years that climate change and high crude prices will boost energy efficiency, encourage renewables, and accelerate a switch to alternative fuels such as natural gas, especially in the emerging markets that they count on for growth. They see how demand for the commodity that’s created […]
Former Blackwater Gets Rich as Afghan Drug Production Hits Record High
April 1st, 2015Via: Guardian: In a war full of failures, the US counternarcotics mission in Afghanistan stands out: opiate production has climbed steadily over recent years to reach record-high levels last year. Yet there is a clear winner in the anti-drug effort – not the Afghan people, but the infamous mercenary company formerly known as Blackwater. Statistics […]
Some of Tesla’s Papers Remain Classified by U.S. Government
March 25th, 2015This is from 2013. Via: National Geographic: 5. Many of Tesla’s inventions were classified. When Tesla died in 1943, during World War II, the Office of Alien Property took his belongings, Alcorn said. Most of his things were later released to his family, and many ended up in the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, which opened […]
Royal Family Member Was Investigated as Part of Paedophile Ring Before Cover-Up, Ex-Cop Says
March 24th, 2015Via: Independent: A member of the Royal family was claimed to be part of a suspected paedophile ring under investigation by police in the late 1980s, a former police officer has said. The former Metropolitan Police officer says he was told by a detective sergeant that the investigation into the ring, which was also claimed […]
