Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Ivory Coast on the ‘Brink of Genocide’
January 1st, 2011A few terms that don’t appear in the story below: Oil, diamonds, cobalt, gold, iron, manganese and nickel. Cocoa, however, is mentioned. Via: Guardian: Ivory Coast is on the “brink of genocide” and the world must take urgent action, the country’s new ambassador to the UN has warned. Youssoufou Bamba also claimed that some houses […]
Letter from Poland
December 30th, 2010Via: Letter from Poland / YouTube:
Dawn of the Age of the Robot
December 30th, 2010This article reminded me of reading OMNI magazine in the 1980s, when I should have been doing my homework. Hopefully, much of this stuff will remain as science fiction / grant swindles for another 20 years… but I doubt it. Via: Guardian: The robots are coming. The second decade of the 21st century will see […]
California Woman Charged with Insider Trading; Selling Secret Information for Over $200,000
December 30th, 2010International Criminals Launder Billions of Dollars Through U.S. Financial Institutions, and Invest Profits in Publicly Traded Companies Insider Crimes, Funny Money and Options Rackets They Made a Killing: The Use of Knowledge of Covert Operations in the Stock Market Rest assured: This is the chicken feed. Via: AFP: US prosecutors have charged a California woman […]
Europe to Ban Hundreds of Herbal Remedies
December 30th, 2010Via: Independent: Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year under what campaigners say is a “discriminatory and disproportionate” European law. With four months to go before the EU-wide ban is implemented, thousands of patients face the loss of herbal remedies that have been used in the UK for […]
80% OF ANTIBIOTICS SOLD IN U.S. USED FOR LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY
December 29th, 2010Via: Center for a Livable Future: Antibiotics, one of the world’s greatest medical discoveries, are slowly losing their effectiveness in fighting bacterial infections and the massive use of the drugs in food animals may be the biggest culprit. The growing threat of antibiotic resistance is largely due to the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in […]
More Than 25% of Kids and Teens in the U.S. Take Prescription Drugs on a Regular Basis
December 28th, 2010Via: Wall Street Journal: These days, the medicine cabinet is truly a family affair. More than a quarter of U.S. kids and teens are taking a medication on a chronic basis, according to Medco Health Solutions Inc., the biggest U.S. pharmacy-benefit manager with around 65 million members. Nearly 7% are on two or more such […]
pHood Printer
December 26th, 2010Is there an unwritten rule that members of the grant swindling class have to be batshit insane? Via: BBC: Christmas dinner traditionally centres on the turkey or goose. But if US scientists have their way, everyone may be sitting around a printer. The team at Cornell University’s Computational Synthesis Lab (CCSL) are building a 3D […]
Companies That Made And Maintained Blow Out Preventer Have Had Hands-On Access To It
December 24th, 2010Via: AP: A federal board allowed to monitor testing of a key piece of Gulf oil spill evidence — the blowout preventer — demanded Thursday that the analysis stop, saying representatives of the companies that made and maintained the 300-ton device have been getting preferential and sometimes hands-on access to it. The U.S. Chemical Safety […]
Trader Holds $3 Billion of Copper in London
December 23rd, 2010Via: Wall Street Journal: As commodity prices soar to new records, the ability of a few traders to hold huge swaths of the world’s stockpiles is coming under scrutiny. The latest example is in the copper market, where a single trader has reported it owns 80%-90% of the copper sitting in London Metal Exchange warehouses, […]
