Archive for August, 2009
National Guard Troops May be Needed in Troubled Alabama County
August 5th, 2009Via: AP: The sheriff in Alabama’s most populous county may call for the National Guard to help maintain order, a spokesman said Tuesday, after a judge cleared the way for cuts in the sheriff’s budget and hopes dimmed for a quick end to a budget crisis. Circuit Judge Joseph L. Boohaker ruled that leaders in […]
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 […]
Dollar: USDX Rangebound
August 4th, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. When an important support is taken out, there can be a period of limbo where the asset is drawn back around the support. I don’t know why this happens, but it’s a eerie thing to watch. The USDX has been doing […]
Scientists Fear a Revolt by Killer Robots
August 4th, 2009Via: Times Online: At the conference, held behind closed doors in Monterey Bay, California, leading researchers warned that mankind might lose control over computer-based systems that carry out a growing share of society’s workload, from waging war to chatting on the phone, and have already reached a level of indestructibility comparable with a cockroach. “These […]
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 […]
Federal Tax Revenues Plummeting
August 4th, 2009Via: AP: The recession is starving the government of tax revenue, just as the president and Congress are piling a major expansion of health care and other programs on the nation’s plate and struggling to find money to pay the tab. The numbers could hardly be more stark: Tax receipts are on pace to drop […]
British Government Installing CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes
August 3rd, 2009Via: Wired: As an ex-Brit, I’m well aware of the authorities’ love of surveillance and snooping, but even I, a pessimistic cynic, am amazed by the governments latest plan: to install Orwell’s telescreens in 20,000 homes. £400 million ($668 million) will be spend on installing and monitoring CCTV cameras in the homes of private citizens. […]
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 […]
