Archive for the 'Elite' Category
H5N1 VIRAL-ENGINEERING DANGERS WILL NOT GO AWAY
March 27th, 2013Definitely check out Channel 4’s Utopia. It’s a pretty good documentary series. *grin* Via: Nature: Barely two months after a small group of influenza virologists lifted a moratorium on work to make the H5N1 avian flu virus as transmissible between humans as seasonal flu, researchers are at it again. Earlier this month, a Dutch scientist […]
EU to Bank Depositors in Other Member States: You Could Be Next
March 26th, 2013The fascist Borg collective is through effing around. Via: Telegraph: Savings accounts in Spain, Italy and other European countries will be raided if needed to preserve Europe’s single currency by propping up failing banks, a senior eurozone official has announced. The new policy will alarm hundreds of thousands of British expatriates who live and have […]
‘Kerry, Karzai Bury Hatchet in Kabul Meeting’
March 26th, 2013Sequence of events: 1) 10 March 2013, Karzai Says Taliban ‘In Service to America’: “My guess is that Karzai probably perceives that he’s not getting a big enough cut of the opium pie.” 2) 12 March 2013, Over 20 Tons of Heroin Seized in Afghanistan: “Can you hear me now?” 3) 25 March 2013: John […]
Shocker: CIA Airlifting Weapons to Syrian Rebels
March 25th, 2013Via: New York Times: With help from the C.I.A., Arab governments and Turkey have sharply increased their military aid to Syria’s opposition fighters in recent months, expanding a secret airlift of arms and equipment for the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, according to air traffic data, interviews with officials in several countries and the accounts […]
CYPRUS: UP TO 40% THEFT FROM BANK ACCOUNTS
March 25th, 2013Update: No Levies on Accounts with Balances Below €100,000 Via: Guardian / Liveblog: Jeroen Dijsselbloem: “I would l like to emphasis that none of these measures will affect desposits below €100,000.” — Confirmation and details are not out. BBC is going with the following right now. Via: BBC: Eurozone finance ministers have agreed a deal […]
Putin Foe, Exiled Russian Oligarch Found Dead in UK Home
March 24th, 2013Via: CNN: Investigators are searching the London area home where the body of former Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky was found for possible chemical, radiological or biological evidence, police said in a statement released early Sunday. Circumstances surrounding the death of Berezovsky, one of the most politically influential of Russia’s oligarchs until a bitter falling out […]
More People Have Access To Cellphones Than Toilets
March 24th, 2013The failure to see human waste as anything less than a valuable resource is THE most maddening nonsense that I’m aware of. The media would have you believe that this is some sort of expensive, complicated, pretty much unsolvable issue when the most basic solution is a 20 liter bucket (or what Americans refer to […]
Academia Is Eating Its Young
March 24th, 2013Don’t forget the fraud: Doubts About Johns Hopkins Research Have Gone Unanswered Scientific Fraud: ‘Nobody Had Noticed the Whole Thing Was Rotten’ American Society for Microbiology: ‘Has Modern Science Become Dysfunctional?’ Via: Press Button, Go Boink: It’s a difficult time for anyone in Academia. From teaching, to funding, to publishing, to translating research, to intellectual […]
CYPRUS: FOOD AND FUEL
March 23rd, 2013Via: New York Times: Cyprus’s parliament on Friday partly approved a revised formula for obtaining an international bailout to avert a default, amid strong signals that the plan would not pass muster with international lenders. But they put off voting on a crucial new proposal until later this weekend — one that would confiscate a […]
Dylan Ratigan Quits MSNBC, Help Vets Create Network of Organic Hydroponic Farms
March 22nd, 2013Via: Dylan Ratigan: If you are reading this, you likely know I left a highly-successful, self-titled show at MSNBC last June in search of meaning and purpose in my work and life. I had lost both after 18 years in Manhattan and the chaos surrounding the hollow political debates permeating America’s media and politics. After […]
