Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Living in U.S. Raises Risk of Allergies
April 30th, 2013Via: AFP: Children born outside the United States have a lower risk of asthma, skin and food allergies, and living in the United States for a decade or more may raise the risk of some allergies, said a study Monday. The research in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that certain environmental exposures […]
Head of Saxo Bank: There Will Be More Wealth Confiscation
April 30th, 2013Via: Telegraph: Savers and investors face further “wealth confiscation” in Europe as the continent struggles to resolve the single currency’s problems, a bank chief has said. European politicians will take the “easy option” of taking money from the rich rather than raising taxes and cutting spending to deal with the continent’s debt problem, Lars Christensen, […]
Afghanistan: CIA’s ‘Ghost Money’
April 29th, 2013Keep in mind, this is the New-York-Times-Limited-Hangout version. My guess is that a couple of extra zeros, at least, would need to be tacked onto, “tens of millions of dollars,” to approach anything resembling what has gone down over there. Via: New York Times: For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into […]
Post 9/11 Domestic Security Spending Exceeds Cost of New Deal
April 28th, 2013Via: CNN / Fortune: Video surveillance is already big business. In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, expect it to get even bigger. … In response to security concerns after 9/11, Americans witnessed the growth of a massive domestic security apparatus, fueled by federal largesse. According to Tomdispatch’s Mattea Kramer and Chris Heilman, post-9/11 […]
Registry System Being Set Up to Track Your Vaccination Status
April 28th, 2013Via: Vactruth: The Centers for Disease Control has been quietly rolling out a nationwide program called the Immunization Information Systems (IIS), registering your vaccine information into a database. This effort has been run in parallel with state vaccine registry implementations. What is the intention of such programs? My colleague Leslie Manookian, writer and director of […]
The Iter Fusion Reactor
April 27th, 2013Fusion power has been 20-years-away since the 1950s. And now, “Commercial reactors could not realistically be built until the second half of the century.” As I was chortling about this, it reminded me of a song from the olden days. The pursuit of this pipedream makes sense, though, if the goal is to keep masses […]
Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
April 27th, 2013Via: Rolling Stone: Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in […]
Corexit: Countless Gulf Residents with Symptoms Resembling Something from a Sci-Fi Horror Film, Bleeding from Nose, Ears, Breasts, Anus; Others Complain of Cognitive Damage
April 26th, 2013Via: Huffington Post: Three years ago, when BP’s Deepwater Horizon began leaking some 210 million gallons of Louisiana Crude into the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. government allowed the company to apply chemical “dispersants” to the blossoming oil slick to prevent toxic gunk from reaching the fragile bays, beaches, and mangroves of the coast, where […]
U.S. Sues Novartis, Alleging Kickbacks to Pharmacies
April 24th, 2013Via: Reuters: The U.S. government filed a civil fraud lawsuit against Novartis AG on Tuesday, accusing a unit of the Swiss drug maker of causing the Medicare and Medicaid programs to pay tens of millions of dollars in reimbursements based on fraudulent, kickback-tainted claims. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan said Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp had […]
Top French Lawyer Olivier Metzner’s Body Found Near Private Island
April 24th, 2013Via: Guardian: One of the giants of the French legal system was found dead near his private island in Brittany on Sunday morning. A suicide note was discovered at his home nearby. Olivier Metzner, 63, nicknamed the “gangsters’ lawyer”, was a larger-than-life figure known for his spirited defence of high-profile and controversial defendants including the […]
