Archive for June, 2010
Autism: Mainstream Medicine Learns About GAPS
June 7th, 2010Incredibly, Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride and her book, Gut and Psychology Syndrome weren’t mentioned in this article. Via: Telegraph: Autism could be turned into a “preventable” disorder after British scientists develop a simple test for the condition. Diagnosis of autism has always been difficult and often the condition remains unrecognised until too late for treatment to […]
Connecticut Rating Cut by Fitch
June 7th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Connecticut, the state with the highest tax-supported debt, had its bond rating lowered one level to AA by Fitch Ratings as it prepares to borrow money to cover a budget deficit for a second straight year. The state, whose residents are the wealthiest in the U.S., relies “on borrowing to address its ongoing […]
No Secrets: Julian Assange’s Mission for Total Transparency
June 7th, 2010This is a very interesting piece about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Via: The New Yorker: He had come to understand the defining human struggle not as left versus right, or faith versus reason, but as individual versus institution. As a student of Kafka, Koestler, and Solzhenitsyn, he believed that truth, creativity, love, and compassion are […]
America’s $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP
June 6th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: President Barack Obama is poised to increase the U.S. debt to a level that exceeds the value of the nation’s annual economic output, a step toward what Bill Gross called a “debt super cycle.” The CHART OF THE DAY tracks U.S. gross domestic product and the government’s total debt, which rose past $13 […]
The Scariest Job Chart Ever Just Got Even Scarier
June 6th, 2010Via: Business Insider: Check out the two red lines at the bottom. The solid one includes Census hiring, while the dotted line doesn’t include it. What’s clear is that while we still have a rebound including Census hiring, we’re already flattening out on the dotted line. This is a shape not seen on the other […]
Companies Now Requiring Job Applicants to Already Have a Job
June 6th, 2010Via Huffington Post: Still waiting for a response to the 300 resumés you sent out last month? Bad news: Some companies are ignoring all unemployed applicants. In a current job posting on The People Place, a job recruiting website for the telecommunications, aerospace/defense and engineering industries, an anonymous electronics company in Angleton, Texas, advertises for […]
Israel Seizes Gaza Aid Boat Rachel Corrie
June 5th, 2010Via: Guardian: Israel risked a fresh wave of international condemnation yesterday as its troops detained a boat carrying humanitarian aid attempting to break the blockade of Gaza and forcibly diverted it to the port of Ashdod. Five days after the botched assault on a six-boat flotilla ended with Israeli troops shooting dead nine activists, naval […]
BP Chief Tony Hayward Sold Shares Weeks Before Oil Spill
June 5th, 2010Via: Telegraph: The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused its value to collapse. Tony Hayward cashed in about a third of his holding in the company one month before a well on the Deepwater Horizon rig burst, causing […]
Hungary Close to Default
June 4th, 2010Euro wreck continues, now trading below $1.20. Via: Bloomberg: Credit-default swaps on sovereign bonds surged to a record on speculation Europe’s debt crisis is worsening after Hungary said it’s in a “very grave situation” because a previous government lied about the economy. The cost of insuring against losses on Hungarian sovereign debt rose 63 basis […]
U.S. Special Operations Forces Deployed in 75 Countries
June 4th, 2010Via: Washington Post: Beneath its commitment to soft-spoken diplomacy and beyond the combat zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Obama administration has significantly expanded a largely secret U.S. war against al-Qaeda and other radical groups, according to senior military and administration officials. Special Operations forces have grown both in number and budget, and are deployed […]
