Archive for the 'Fraud' Category
The Truth About Statin Drugs and Cholesterol
May 2nd, 2016Via: Dr. Daniel Pompa:
The Suicide of Venezuela
April 28th, 2016While this is about Venezuela, I couldn’t help hearing “America” in my mind as I read. Via: Joel D. Hirst’s Blog: No, national suicide is a much longer process – not product of any one moment. But instead one bad idea, upon another, upon another and another and another and another and the wheels that […]
SpaceX Undercut ULA Rocket Launch Pricing by 40 Percent
April 28th, 2016In other words, the Air Force can show they’re saving money *wink*, while funneling billions of dollars for black world R&D to the usual suspects via some other mechanism. Via: Reuters: The U.S. Air Force will save 40 percent by buying a GPS satellite launch from Elon Musk’s SpaceX compared with what United Launch Alliance […]
Children of Sydney’s Business and Political Elite Attend School That Bans Screens in Classrooms
April 18th, 2016Via: The Australian: A top Australian school has banned laptops in class, warning that technology “distracts’’ from old-school quality teaching. The headmaster of Sydney Grammar School, John Vallance, yesterday described the billions of dollars spent on computers in Australian schools over the past seven years as a “scandalous waste of money’’. “I’ve seen so many […]
Substituting Vegetable Oils for Butter Increases Risk of Death
April 18th, 2016Via: Medical Xpress: A research team led by scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health has unearthed more evidence that casts doubt on the traditional “heart healthy” practice of replacing butter and other saturated fats with corn oil and other vegetable oils high in linoleic acid. The findings, reported […]
Japan Prepares for Release of Tritium from Fukushima Plant
April 12th, 2016Via: Japan Today: To dump or not to dump a little-discussed substance is the question brewing in Japan as it grapples with the aftermath of the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima five years ago. The substance is tritium. The radioactive material is nearly impossible to remove from the huge quantities of water used to cool melted-down […]
Goldman Sachs to Pay $5 Billion in Damages Over Mortgage Bond Swindling
April 11th, 2016Via: Reuters: Goldman Sachs Group Inc has agreed to pay $5.06 billion to settle claims that it misled mortgage bond investors during the financial crisis, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday. The settlement, which Goldman disclosed in January, stems from the firm’s conduct in its packaging, securitization, marketing and sale of residential mortgage-backed […]
The Sugar Conspiracy
April 7th, 2016Via: Guardian: In 2008, researchers from Oxford University undertook a Europe-wide study of the causes of heart disease. Its data shows an inverse correlation between saturated fat and heart disease, across the continent. France, the country with the highest intake of saturated fat, has the lowest rate of heart disease; Ukraine, the country with the […]
The Panama Papers: Massive Leak About Shell Companies Operated Through Law Firm Mossack Fonseca
April 3rd, 2016The media organizations involved with this story want to present it as an endless drip of information for as long as possible. Here are a few portals to begin with: Süddeutsche Zeitung Guardian The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists If you want a single story summary of what this is, see, What Are the Panama […]
Paul Le Roux, International Criminal… Creator of TrueCrypt
March 29th, 2016TrueCrypt is actually just a tiny pimple on the larger story of Paul Le Roux. But if you thought the situation surrounding the genesis of such a program would be weird, you have no idea: “The Mastermind” is a story about a new kind of internet-enabled cartel and its machinations, from murder in the Philippines, […]
