Archive for September, 2010
Timeline of Shame: Decades of DeCoster Egg Factory Violations
September 17th, 2010Via: The Atlantic: Salmonella, mounds of excrement, and hefty citations are nothing new to Jack DeCoster, whose Iowa henhouses were blamed for last month’s nationwide egg recall. DeCoster has done business in Turner, Maine, his hometown, for over 60 years—and has incurred a decades-long list of violations there. DeCoster’s history of legal cases in Maine […]
Implanted Fuel Cell Powered by Rat’s Body Fluids
September 17th, 2010Via: National Geographic: A new fuel cell is putting a twist on alternative energy from biofuels: The implanted device draws power from chemicals in living animals. Dubbed a glucose biofuel cell, the implant gets its juice from glucose—aka blood sugar—and oxygen, both of which are naturally present in the fluids between a body’s cells. In […]
Pennsylvania’s Homeland Security Chief Goes Into Hiding
September 17th, 2010Via: Post Gazette: The former Special Forces colonel who has headed the state Office of Homeland Security for four years and who now finds himself at the center of a firestorm over an anti-terrorism contract is missing in action. James F. Powers Jr. has basically gone underground since Tuesday, when Gov. Ed Rendell denounced a […]
Modern Cargo Ships Slow to Speed of Sailing Clippers
September 17th, 2010Related: SkySails: Via: Guardian: The world’s largest cargo ships are travelling at lower speeds today than sailing clippers such as the Cutty Sark did more than 130 years ago. A combination of the recession and growing awareness in the shipping industry about climate change emissions encouraged many ship owners to adopt “slow steaming” to save […]
Some of Blackwater/Xe’s Corporate Clients: Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Deutsche Bank and Barclays
September 17th, 2010Via: The Nation: Over the past several years, entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and banking giants Deutsche Bank and Barclays, according to […]
U.S. Drug Firm Penalized $300 Million for Criminal Actions
September 16th, 2010Via: CBC: A major U.S. drug company, Forest Pharmaceuticals, has agreed to plead guilty to three charges related to selling an unapproved drug, promoting an antidepressant to children and obstructing federal agents. The company is facing fines and criminal penalties of over $300 million. The charges date back more than 10 years when Forest was […]
McDonald’s Food Doesn’t Break Down Over Time?
September 16th, 2010Update: Site Claims “No Animals or Insects Will Touch Them” Via: Friendseat: How to create your own Immortal Burger: 1. Buy some hamburgers from your favorite fast food restaurant: McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King (any place that serves hybridized, chemicalized, genetically altered, hormone/ pesticide-laden food) – BUT DON’T EAT THEM! 2. Put your hamburgers in a […]
Big Pharma’s Quackademic ‘Thought Leaders’
September 16th, 2010Via: The Chronicle of Higher Education: Perhaps the most remarkable recent exchange with a KOL emerged in an investigation of Joseph Biederman, a child psychiatrist at Harvard University. In a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, Biederman was accused of promising positive research results to the company in exchange for funding. A hint of Biederman’s self-opinion […]
Green Shoots: U.S. Census Bureau Reports Highest Poverty Rate Since 1994: 14.3 Percent
September 16th, 2010Via: NPR: This morning, the U.S. Census Bureau released its annual report on income, poverty and health insurance in the U.S. The poverty rate in 2009 rose by 1.1 percent, to 14.3 percent. According to the agency, “there were 43.6 million people in poverty in 2009, up from 39.8 million in 2008 — the third […]
Laws of Physics Vary Throughout the Universe, New Study Suggests
September 16th, 2010Via: Science Daily: A team of astrophysicists based in Australia and England has uncovered evidence that the laws of physics are different in different parts of the universe. The team — from the University of New South Wales, Swinburne University of Technology and the University of Cambridge — has submitted a report of the discovery […]
