Archive for May, 2009
Senator Proposes Free Flu Shots for All Americans
May 2nd, 2009Via: Reuters: A Democratic U.S. senator proposed on Friday setting up a free nationwide voluntary flu vaccination program to fend off future outbreaks of dangerous strains. With the United States on alert for more cases of the new H1N1 swine flu virus, Iowa Senator Tom Harkin said the government should include funding for free vaccines […]
Coral Cross: The World’s First Global Flu Pandemic Alternate Reality Game; But Just Weeks Before The Scheduled Launch, An Extraordinary Coincidence Occurred…
May 2nd, 2009“The flu crisis in now real. And so is Coral Cross.” Via: Alternate Reality Gaming Network: Dystopic literature often turns to the threat of pandemics for inspiration. From Albert Camus’ La Peste to Stephen King’s The Stand, authors create global pandemics in their stories to confront issues raised by a threat to human survival that […]
And Now… Lithium in Water ‘Curbs Suicide’
May 2nd, 2009Related: Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of Pharmaceuticals LEGALLY Released Into Waterways That Provide Drinking Water Via: BBC: Drinking water which contains the element lithium may reduce the risk of suicide, a Japanese study suggests. Researchers examined levels of lithium in drinking water and suicide rates in the prefecture of Oita, which has a population […]
Initial Oil Target
May 2nd, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. DISCLOSURE: I’m long oil. West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil, weekly interval
Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms
May 2nd, 2009Via: Global Research: Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms by F. William Engdahl If we are to believe what our trusted international media report, the world is on the brink of a global pandemic outbreak of a new deadly strain of flu, H1N1 as it has been labelled, or more popularly, Swine Flu. As the […]
The CIA’s $1,000 a Day Specialists on Waterboarding, Interrogations
May 1st, 2009Via: ABC News: According to current and former government officials, the CIA’s secret waterboarding program was designed and assured to be safe by two well-paid psychologists now working out of an unmarked office building in Spokane, Washington. Bruce Jessen and Jim Mitchell, former military officers, together founded Mitchell Jessen and Associates. Both men declined to […]
Driver Dies After Suspected Dutch Royal Attack
May 1st, 2009Via: Reuters: A Dutchman who tried to drive his car into a bus carrying Queen Beatrix at a royal parade died from his injuries on Friday. A military policeman hit by the vehicle as it ploughed through a crowd also died, taking the toll among onlookers to six. Mourners laid flowers at the monument in […]
End the University as We Know It
May 1st, 2009Via: New York Times: GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand (research in subfields within subfields and publication in journals read by […]
Swine Flu Alert Clears Old Stock of Tamiflu
May 1st, 2009Via: What Doctors Don’t Tell You: It is almost three years since we faced the hysteria of an avian flu epidemic, when governments bought billions of dollars of Tamiflu – the same anti-viral now being promoted to combat a supposed swine flu pandemic. The shelf life of Tamiflu also happens to be three years. The […]
U.S. Will Target Opium Production in Afghanistan
May 1st, 2009What I think is happening here is that the USUK smack industrial complex has decided to drive up the street price of heroin. My theory will be confirmed if we hear that Obama’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan includes counter-narcotics operations… If heroin money is going to be used to buy U.S. Treasuries, it […]
