Archive for September, 2010
B Vitamins Found to Drastically Slow Cognitive Impairment in Elderly
September 9th, 2010Via: Reuters: Daily tablets of large doses of B vitamins can halve the rate of brain shrinkage in elderly people with memory problems and may slow their progression toward dementia, data from a British trial showed on Wednesday, Scientists from Oxford University said their two-year clinical trial was the largest to date into the effect […]
Ninth Human Foot Washes Ashore in the Pacific Northwest
September 8th, 2010I think I’ve mentioned this phenomenon before, but in case I haven’t… Via: Vancouver Sun: A human foot washed up on a Washington State island Friday morning, raising the tally of feet found on beaches in the Pacific Northwest since 2007 to a total of nine. A tourist found the foot while walking along a […]
China Blacks Out Towns to Meet Energy Goal
September 8th, 2010Via: AP: Chinese steel mills and mobile phone factories are being idled and thousands of homes in one area are doing without electricity as local governments order power cuts to meet energy-saving targets set by Beijing. Rolling blackouts and enforced power cuts are affecting key industrial areas. The prosperous eastern city of Taizhou turned off […]
Ukrainian Journalist, Vasyl Klymentyev, Missing and Presumed Dead
September 8th, 2010Via: Guardian: On 11 August 2010, the investigative journalist Vasyl Klymentyev set off from his home in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city. It was 8.55am. As editor-in-chief of Kharkiv’s Novy Stil (New Style) newspaper – a small publication known for unearthing juicy scandals about corrupt local officials – Klymentyev had many enemies and was rather cautious. […]
Afghan Security Forces Beat Angry Customers to Prevent Run on Kabul Bank
September 8th, 2010Via: Guardian: Afghan security forces used batons on unruly customers scrambling to withdraw their savings today from the country’s biggest bank, which is mired in a scandal of corruption and mismanagement. Kabul Bank’s troubles have threatened to add a financial crisis to Afghanistan’s other woes, with military and civilian casualties at record levels as a […]
John Le Carre on Russia, Banking and the Deep State
September 8th, 2010Via: BBC: “I was laughed at, in a way, when the Cold War ended and the wall came down,” he told Today presenter Justin Webb. “‘Poor old Le Carre, what will become of him? Nobody’s spying anymore.’ “The reality is, the budgets have never been bigger, the recruitment has never been more wholesale.” Today’s Russian […]
Florida Minister: September 11 Quran Burn Still Planned
September 8th, 2010The U.S. is murdering Muslim civilians, with all manner of weaponry, across several countries, but burning the Quran is going to piss some people off? Oh ok. And Petraeus and Clinton are mentioning this yokel… What’s going on here? Via: ABC News: The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy said Wednesday […]
Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds
September 8th, 2010What a mess. Via: Vanity Fair: In addition to its roughly $400 billion (and growing) of outstanding government debt, the Greek number crunchers had just figured out that their government owed another $800 billion or more in pensions. Add it all up and you got about $1.2 trillion, or more than a quarter-million dollars for […]
Combat Over in Iraq: Iraqi Soldier Kills 2 U.S. Soldiers
September 8th, 2010Via: CNN: An Iraqi soldier opened fire Tuesday on a group of U.S. soldiers in northern Iraq, killing two and wounding nine others, the U.S. military and the Iraqi military said. They are the first American deaths in Iraq since the U.S. combat mission officially ended last week. The attack occurred inside an Iraqi army […]
Monbiot: “I Was Wrong About Veganism”
September 7th, 2010Meat: A Benign Extravagance by Simon Fairlie Via: Guardian: This will not be an easy column to write. I am about to put down 1,200 words in support of a book that starts by attacking me and often returns to this sport. But it has persuaded me that I was wrong. More to the point, […]
