Archive for January, 2010
Britain: Children Reaching Age 3 Without Being Able to Say a Word
January 4th, 2010The piece says that television isn’t a factor, but keep this USA Today article in mind: A study released Monday adds to the debate over whether television impairs children’s language development. It found that parents and children virtually stop talking to each other when the TV is on, even if they’re in the same room. […]
Theft of Death Camp Sign Possibly Linked to a Plot to Bomb Swedish Parliament
January 4th, 2010Via: Guardian: It sounds like the plot of a Steig Larsson thriller: a band of eastern European criminals is contracted to steal an iconic piece of Nazi memorabilia, which is then sold to a mysterious collector to finance a neofascist bomb attack on the Swedish parliament. But today it emerged that Swedish investigators are helping […]
“The Crotch Bomber” Is Another Dupe
January 4th, 2010Via: Veterans Today: When nothing adds up, its time we starting looking at what we know. Our recent terrorist, now dubbed “the crotch bomber” is another dupe. He could have been working for anyone, drugged, brainwashed or simply influenced, maybe by crazy Arabs, maybe by the Mossad, maybe by the CIA. We only know the […]
Proposed Legislation: IRS to Make Sure Americans Are Buying Health Insurance
January 4th, 2010Change. Via: USA Today: Internal Revenue Service agents already try to catch tax cheats and moonshiners. Under the proposed health care legislation, they would get another assignment: checking to see whether Americans have health insurance. The legislation would require most Americans to have health insurance and to prove it on their federal tax returns. Those […]
New Zealand Licks Uncle Scam’s Toes: Total Network Surveillance System Operational
January 4th, 2010I suppose the news here is that they admit it. Related: NZ Plugs Into Secret Pentagon Intranet NZ Attorney General on GCSB Intercepts in Urewera 16 Case: “That Evidence Will Never See the Light of Day.” US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand Building Biometric Database World Spy Chiefs Gather in New Zealand Secret Power, […]
Yemen: Pentagon’s War On The Arabian Peninsula
January 4th, 2010Via: Global Research: Yemen will become a battleground for a proxy war between the United States and Saudi Arabia – whose state-to-state relations are among the strongest and most durable of the entire post-World War II era – on one hand and Iran on the other. It is perhaps impossible to determine the exact moment […]
China Clamps Down on Rare Earth Elements Exports
January 2nd, 2010Via: Independent: Britain and other Western countries risk running out of supplies of certain highly sought-after rare metals that are vital to a host of green technologies, amid growing evidence that China, which has a monopoly on global production, is set to choke off exports of valuable compounds. Failure to secure alternative long-term sources of […]
Injecting Beef with Ammonia
January 2nd, 2010Must see image of the factory floor. It’s the Mordor of The Meatrix. Via: New York Times: Eight years ago, federal officials were struggling to remove potentially deadly E. coli from hamburgers when an entrepreneurial company from South Dakota came up with a novel idea: injecting beef with ammonia. The company, Beef Products Inc., had […]
FDA Warning Letter to LSG SkyChefs (World’s Second Largest Provider of Airline Catering Services)
January 2nd, 2010Yum. Via: FDA: At the conclusion of the inspection, on October 6, 2009, the FDA investigator issued a list of Inspectional Ohservations (FDA-483) to your firm. As documented on this form (copy enclosed), the following are the significant violations at your airline catering facility on which we base the “Provisional” classification: • To comply with […]
U.S. to Lose $400 Billion on Fannie, Freddie
January 2nd, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Taxpayer losses from supporting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will top $400 billion, according to Peter Wallison, a former general counsel at the Treasury who is now a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. “The situation is they are losing gobs of money, up to $400 billion in mortgages,” Wallison said in a […]
