Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Squalene: The Swine Flu Vaccine’s Dirty Little Secret Exposed
August 4th, 2009Via: Mercola: Will There Be Immune Adjuvants in Swine Flu Vaccines? The U.S. government has contracts with several drug companies to develop and produce swine flu vaccines. At least two of those companies, Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline, are using an adjuvant in their H1N1 vaccines. The adjuvant? Squalene. According to Meryl Nass, M.D., an authority on […]
Goldman Sachs Employees Told Not to Make Big Purchases
August 4th, 2009NSFW Audio: Via: Reuters: Goldman Sachs Group Inc Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein told employees to avoid making high profile purchases, the New York Post said, citing sources. Blankfein, who first asked employees to avoid large purchases late last year, has stepped up his campaign in recent weeks, a source told the paper. “This is a […]
U.S. Antidepressant Use Doubled Between 1996 and 2005
August 4th, 2009Must read: Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption. Via: Reuters: Use of antidepressant drugs in the United States doubled between 1996 and 2005, probably because of a mix of factors, researchers reported on Monday. About 6 percent of people were prescribed an antidepressant in 1996 — 13 million people. This rose to more […]
Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption
August 3rd, 2009Via: New York Review of Books: Since drug companies don’t have direct access to human subjects, they need to outsource their clinical trials to medical schools, where researchers use patients from teaching hospitals and clinics, or to private research companies (CROs), which organize office-based physicians to enroll their patients. Although CROs are usually faster, sponsors […]
The Deep Politics of Hollywood: Close Encounters with the Pentagon
August 3rd, 2009I wish I’d taken a screenshot from the scene in the 2007 Transformers where John Turturro is shown against a wall and the sign to the left of the frame says something like, “322 days since last accident.” HAHA. I almost upchucked the lamb chop I ate for dinner that night. I hit REWIND and […]
Corporate Welfare at the Expense of Everything Else
August 3rd, 2009Via: Solari: What we are watching price out through the political process is life vs. death. More specifically, the financial value of the life and death of various groups and ages of people vs. the life and death of large banks and corporations. In a market economy, if a person’s skills become outdated, the theory […]
A Scene from a Los Angeles Freeway On Ramp
August 3rd, 2009I like it, but the artist botches the job by using “socialism” as the tagline. When I think of socialism, I think of the Scandinavian countries. While I don’t find those models socialism desirable, by a lot of measures, those countries are pretty good places to live. The U.S., on the other hand, suffers under […]
Town Halls Gone Wild
July 31st, 2009Via: Politico: Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen fearful for their safety — welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of Congress. On the eve of the August recess, members are reporting meetings that have gone terribly awry, marked […]
Afghanistan: U.S. Surgeons Drafted in as British Medics Exhausted by Casualty Surge
July 31st, 2009Well, nobody said that a turf war over opium was going to be a walk in the park. Via: Times Online: The surge in British casualties in Afghanistan has left military surgeons so exhausted that a US surgical team has been drafted in to help. The British doctors have also been overwhelmed with casualties from […]
Obamas to Rent Vacation Property Owned by Wealthy Republican Family
July 28th, 2009I was certain that the Obama zombies were going to have their asses handed to them, but even I am amazed by this regime’s failure to maintain appearances. Via: Times Online: It might have been the golf tee that swung it for President Obama as he looked for a summer holiday retreat — but the […]
