Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Bird Flu Researchers to Continue Work on Engineered Virus
January 25th, 2013Via: Guardian: Research on lab-engineered strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus is set to restart a year after the scientists voluntarily paused it to allow for an international public debate on the safest way to proceed. Last year, two teams of scientists in the United States and the Netherlands submitted papers for publication in […]
Around 800 European Children Have Developed Narcolepsy After Being Immunized with the Pandemrix H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine
January 23rd, 2013When I posted about this story back in October 2011, there were 79 victims in Finland. And now… Via: Reuters: Emelie Olsson is plagued by hallucinations and nightmares. When she wakes up, she’s often paralyzed, unable to breathe properly or call for help. During the day she can barely stay awake, and often misses school […]
‘Is Mali the Next Afghanistan?’
January 21st, 2013In other news: Al Qaeda Terrorists Were Working for BP; Witness Describes One Terrorist Speaking with a ‘Perfect English Accent Via: McClatchy: The war rages about cities with names such as Goa and Timbuktu, in a sparsely populated, mostly flat, dusty and landlocked country in northwest Africa. The combatants include a nomadic Berber people known […]
Developer Offers Plan to Buy Belle Isle for $1 Billion, Secede from Michigan
January 20th, 2013If you can’t get your burbclave built in Honduras, maybe Detroit will work? Or Idaho or Texas… My guess is that the Seasteading guys will fire something up before it happens on land. And when they’re through effing around with half ass solutions (cruise ships???), there’s always Rapture… Or Elysium. In all seriousness, a Rapture-on-the-Surface […]
Shocker: House G.O.P. Agrees to Lift Debt Limit
January 19th, 2013Endless can kicking. Via: New York Times: Backing down from their hard-line stance, House Republicans said Friday that they would agree to lift the federal government’s statutory borrowing limit for three months, with a requirement that both chambers of Congress pass a budget in that time to clear the way for negotiations on long-term deficit […]
Fed Needs Seven Years to Deliver Germany’s 300 Tons of Gold
January 18th, 2013Via: ZeroHedge: But the biggest news of the day comes from the official Buba announcement that, in its official capacity as a prudent central bank, it – as first of many – is looking to repatriate some 300 tons of gold from the New York Fed. That, however, is not today’s news – that was […]
A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark
January 17th, 2013Via: NPR: What we have here is an immense and startlingly new oil and gas field — nighttime evidence of an oil boom created by a technology called fracking. Those lights are rigs, hundreds of them, lit at night, or fiery flares of natural gas. One hundred fifty oil companies, big ones, little ones, wildcatters, […]
Spain Plunders 90% Of Social Security Fund To Buy Its Own Debt
January 15th, 2013Via: ZeroHedge: Spain has been quietly tapping the country’s richest piggy bank, the Social Security Reserve Fund, as a buyer of last resort for Spanish government bonds – with at least 90% of the €65 billion ($85.7 billion) fund has been invested in increasingly risky Spanish debt. Of course, this is nothing new, the US […]
After You’ve Been All You Could Be Serving The Empire, Walmart Is Hiring
January 15th, 2013.mil should really talk this one up during the recruitment process. Via: Reuters: Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT), the world’s largest retailer, said it plans to hire more than 100,000 veterans in the United States over the next five years, a move supported by First Lady Michelle Obama. Most of the veterans will be placed in […]
Number of Working Poor Families Grows as Wealth Gap Widens
January 15th, 2013Via: Reuters: The number of U.S. families struggling with poverty despite parents being employed continued to grow in 2011 as more people returned to work but mostly at lower-paying service jobs, an analysis released on Tuesday shows. More working parents have taken jobs as cashiers, maids, waiters and other low-wage jobs in fast growing sectors […]
