Archive for March, 2010
Beijing to Sweeten Stench of Rubbish Crisis with Giant Deodorant Guns
March 28th, 2010Via: Guardian: Beijing is to install 100 deodorant guns at a stinking landfill site on the edge of the city in a bid to dampen complaints about the capital’s rubbish crisis. The giant fragrance sprays will be put in place by May at the Asuwei dump site, one of several hundred tips that are the […]
CIA Propaganda Strategies for Western Europe on Afghanistan
March 27th, 2010Via: WikiLeaks: This classified CIA analysis from March, outlines possible PR-strategies to shore up public support in Germany and France for a continued war in Afghanistan. After the dutch government fell on the issue of dutch troops in Afghanistan last month, the CIA became worried that similar events could happen in the countries that post […]
Supply Fears Start to Hit Treasuries
March 27th, 2010Via: Financial Times: The bond vigilantes are finally flexing their muscles. A long period of stability for the US government bond market showed signs of cracking this week as a lack of investor appetite for new debt sent the benchmark 10-year yield to its highest level since last June. For more than a year, analysts […]
Pfizer to Pay $142 Million for Drug Fraud
March 26th, 2010Pocket lint. Via: CBC News: Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has been ordered to pay $142 million US in damages for fraudulently marketing gabapentin, an anti-seizure drug marketed under the name Neurontin. A federal jury in Boston ruled Thursday that Pfizer fraudulently marketed the drug and promoted it for unapproved uses. The jury sided with California-based Kaiser […]
Computer-Controlled Swarm of Bacteria Builds Tiny Pyramid
March 26th, 2010Via: IEEE: Researchers at the NanoRobotics Laboratory of the École Polytechnique de Montréal, in Canada, are putting swarms of bacteria to work, using them to perform micro-manipulations and even propel microrobots. Led by Professor Sylvain Martel, the researchers want to use flagellated bacteria to carry drugs into tumors, act as sensing agents for detecting pathogens, […]
Social Security to See Payout Exceed Pay-In This Year
March 26th, 2010Via: New York Times: The bursting of the real estate bubble and the ensuing recession have hurt jobs, home prices and now Social Security. This year, the system will pay out more in benefits than it receives in payroll taxes, an important threshold it was not expected to cross until at least 2016, according to […]
WikiLeaks Statement on Recent Events
March 26th, 2010Via: WikiLeaks: EDITORIAL:U.S. must stop spying on WikiLeaks Fri Mar 26 08:44:46 UTC 2010 Over the last few years, WikiLeaks has been the subject of hostile acts by security organizations. In the developing world, these range from the appalling assassination of two related human rights lawyers in Nairobi last March (an armed attack on my […]
A London Trader Walks the CFTC Through a Silver Market Manipulation
March 26th, 2010Via: GATA: On March 23, 2010, GATA Director Adrian Douglas was contacted by a whistleblower by the name of Andrew Maguire. Maguire is a metals trader in London. He has been told first-hand by traders working for JPMorganChase that JPMorganChase manipulates the precious metals markets, and they have bragged to how they make money doing […]
Governments Using Forged SSL Certificates for Man in the Middle Attack on “Secure” Web Sessions
March 25th, 2010I don’t believe in web based email solutions that purport to provide strong encryption and/or anonymity. Who knows what their applets and servers are doing? Not me. And if they rely on SSL, well, that’s ok for buying a book online, but no tinfoiler in his right mind would bet his life on SSL. —The […]
Pope Failed to Defrock an American Priest Who Molested Hundreds of Deaf Boys
March 25th, 2010Via: Telegraph: The sex abuse scandal enveloping the Catholic Church moved closer to Pope Benedict XVI today with revelations that in the 1990s the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger failed to defrock an American priest who molested hundreds of deaf boys, despite receiving letters from a number of American bishops pleading with him to act. Internal […]
