Archive for May, 2009
Google Deletes Alex Jones Channel on YouTube
May 5th, 2009Via: InfoWars: You Tube has once again proven itself to be a corporate gatekeeper working to destroy free speech and the alternative media after it suspended the popular ‘Alex Jones Channel’ – primarily because Alex Jones showed a print out of a news article during a live show. The Alex Jones Channel, started by a […]
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability by Lierre Keith
May 5th, 2009I’ve listened to a few of Lierre Keith’s radio appearances and talks. This information will be nothing new to those of you who are involved with producing your own food in ways that build top soil. To the rest of you, this will be deep, chilling doom… for your belly. Lierre Keith is absolutely NOT […]
Russia to Build Floating Arctic Nuclear Stations
May 4th, 2009Ok, I’ll write it to save you from having to post it as a comment: WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? Via: Guardian: Russia is planning a fleet of floating and submersible nuclear power stations to exploit Arctic oil and gas reserves, causing widespread alarm among environmentalists. A prototype floating nuclear power station being constructed at […]
N.Y. Times to File Notice It Will Close Boston Globe
May 4th, 2009Via: Washington Post: The New York Times Co. said last night that it is notifying federal authorities of its plans to shut down the Boston Globe, raising the possibility that New England’s most storied newspaper could cease to exist within weeks. After down-to-the-wire negotiations did not produce millions of dollars in union concessions, the Times […]
Bank of England Carried Out Pandemic Flu Exercise in 2006, “With Eerie Prescience”
May 4th, 2009Via: Independent: With eerie prescience, the City tracked a pandemic using a ‘bird flu’ scenario in 2006 – leaving it better prepared for the effects of the swine flu outbreak. … UK financial regulators have rehearsed how a pandemic like the swine flu, now spreading from Mexico, will affect Britain. In the most detailed disaster […]
“It was nothing malicious, Oxford believes, just some flu vaccine research that broke out of containment.”
May 4th, 2009Via: NPR: The question, then, is how nasty the virus will end up being. Professor John Oxford at St. Bart’s and the Royal London Hospital says there’s some reason for cautious optimism. “In one sense, it’s one of the mildest shifts because most people on the planet have got some memory, have come across H1N1 […]
Tiananmen: The Flame Burns On
May 4th, 2009Via: Guardian: Twenty years ago tanks rolled into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to crush the biggest pro-democracy movement in history. Hundreds were killed, thousands jailed and many fled to escape persecution. Here exiled leaders of the student revolution tell their remarkable stories and reveal how, after being forced to build new lives, they remain haunted by […]
Merck Makes Phony Peer-Review Journal
May 4th, 2009Via: Bioethics.net: It’s a safe guess that somewhere at Merck today someone is going through the meeting minutes of the day that the hair-brained scheme for the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine was launched, and that everyone who was in the room is now going to be fired. The Scientist has reported that, […]
China Has ‘Canceled U.S. Credit Card’
May 4th, 2009Via: AFP: China, wary of the troubled US economy, has already “canceled America’s credit card” by cutting down purchases of debt, a US congressman said Thursday. China has the world’s largest foreign reserves, believed to be mostly in dollars, along with around 800 billion dollars in US Treasury bonds, more than any other country. But […]
Bond Insurer Can’t Pay
May 2nd, 2009Via: Reuters: Sellers of protection on debt issued by bond insurer Syncora Holdings will need to make payments to counterparties after the company suspended claims payments, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association said on Friday. Syncora, formerly known as SCA, suspended payments at the direction of the New York Insurance Department to allow it to […]
