Archive for July, 2009
Volunteers Needed for H1N1 Vaccine Trials in Rochester
July 23rd, 2009Via: Democrat and Chronicle: In August, Rochester Clinical Research in Irondequoit will begin testing vaccines against the so-called swine flu, and the company needs about 300 volunteers of all ages. Six vaccines are being tested among more than a dozen sites across the country, and RCR will be testing four, according to Patricia Larrabee, president […]
Obama: Take the Blue Pill
July 23rd, 2009Via: CBS News: Mr. Obama went on to say that people should start paying lower prices for comparable medication. “If there’s a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half price for the thing that’s going […]
Bernanke: “I Don’t Know” Which Foreign Banks Were Given Half a Trillion
July 22nd, 2009Via: Prison Planet: Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke was confronted yesterday by Congressman Alan Grayson about which foreign banks were the recipients of Federal Reserve credit swaps, but he was unable to provide an answer as to where over half a trillion dollars had gone. Asked which European financial institutions received the money, which was […]
Catherine Austin Fitts: “I believe one of the goals of the swine flu vaccine is depopulation.”
July 22nd, 2009Via: Solari: I believe one of the goals of the swine flu vaccine is depopulation. Perhaps it is the goal of a swine flu epidemic as well, whether bio-warfare or hype around a flu season. … So the question for you and me is “what do we do?” Are we going to take a vaccine? […]
NSA Using Cloud Model for Intelligence Sharing; Open Source Software; Commodity Hardware
July 22nd, 2009Whooooo weeeee, a lot of bozos are going to draw salary for years off of this boondoggle. (Assuming the whole damn show doesn’t go up in flames before then.) Via: Information Week: The National Security Agency is taking a cloud computing approach in developing a new collaborative intelligence gathering system that will link disparate intelligence […]
Allegations: U.S. Personnel Were Present During the Massacre
July 22nd, 2009Via: Salon: It has long been known that soon after the American invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, hundreds or thousands of Taliban prisoners who had surrendered in the city of Kunduz were herded into metal containers and suffocated or shot, allegedly under orders from an Afghan warlord. As Newsweek reported in August 2002, the bodies […]
Los Angeles: More Bodies Go Unclaimed as Families Can’t Afford Funeral Costs
July 22nd, 2009Via: Los Angeles Times: The weak economy is taking its toll, with an increasing number of bodies in Los Angeles County being cremated at taxpayers’ expense. The poor economy is taking a toll even on the dead, with an increasing number of bodies in Los Angeles County going unclaimed by families who cannot afford to […]
Irish Economic Collapse Accelerates; Other States Following it Down
July 22nd, 2009Via: Telegraph: For a glimpse of what awaits Britain, Europe, and America as budget deficits spiral to war-time levels, look at what is happening to the Irish welfare state. Events have already forced Premier Brian Cowen to carry out the harshest assault yet seen on the public services of a modern Western state. He has […]
Obama Administration Takes Aim At Gun-Rights Revolt
July 21st, 2009Someone better blink, or this could get weird. Via: CBS News: The Obama administration is raising the stakes in a fight over states’ rights and firearm ownership by arguing that new pro-gun laws in Montana and Tennessee are invalid. In the last few months, a grass-roots, federalist revolt against Washington, D.C. has begun to spread […]
Obama Authorizes Extended Secret Service Guard for Cheney
July 21st, 2009Touching. Via: New York Daily News: Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s Secret Service protection has been extended for at least another six months, beginning Tuesday. Normally, ex-veeps only get six months of protection at taxpayer expense. But Cheney asked for an extension, and President Obama – whom Cheney has excoriated in several interviews since leaving […]
