Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Scientists Have Created Hybrid Viruses That Could ‘Cause a Global Pandemic Killing Millions of People’
May 3rd, 2013Via: Independent: Senior scientists have criticised the “appalling irresponsibility” of researchers in China who have deliberately created new strains of influenza virus in a veterinary laboratory. They warned there is a danger that the new viral strains created by mixing bird-flu virus with human influenza could escape from the laboratory to cause a global pandemic […]
Fed Will Maintain $85 Billion a Month Asset Purchasing Program
May 2nd, 2013In other news: Foreigners now hold more than $13 trillion in American securities, a record set as the U.S. seeks to assert itself as the safest port in troubled global waters. China and Japan combined owned more than $3.4 trillion, including $2.4 trillion in debt, a number that has grown since the data set was […]
‘Obamacare’ Poll Finds 42% of Americans Unaware It’s Law
May 1st, 2013Via: ABC: A new poll finds that many Americans are confused about the health care overhaul legislation commonly called “Obamacare.” The Kaiser Family Foundation released results of a non-partisan study today finding more than 40 percent did not even know the law was in place. “Four in ten Americans (42%) are unaware that the ACA […]
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 […]
