Archive for March, 2011
Black 9/11: A Walk on the Dark Side
March 9th, 2011Via: Foreign Policy Journal: In his important 2006 book, Nemesis, the Last Days of the American Republic, the third and concluding part of a trilogy, the late Chalmers Johnson, who was an expert on Japan and US foreign policy, writes that as much as 40% of the Pentagon budget is “black,” meaning hidden from public […]
Britain: Rising Food Prices Could Spark Riots
March 9th, 2011Via: Herald Sun: A SENIOR economist at the worldwide bank HSBC has warned of civil unrest in Britain if food prices continue to soar, Sky News reported yesterday. Karen Ward cautioned that the UK was not immune to the kind of “food riots” seen in other countries around the world. “Even in the developed world […]
Libraries May Lend HarperCollins E-Books Just 26 Times… Before Having to Pay Again
March 9th, 2011Via: ABC News: In what is shaping up to be a major battle over e-book lending, librarians across the country have banded together to boycott HarperCollins after the publisher decided it would limit the number of times an e-book can be checked out. Under a new policy started Monday, HarperCollins will allow libraries lend out […]
Secret FBI, CIA Documents, Sex Videos Found at Egypt’s Secret Police HQ
March 9th, 2011Via: Gizmodo: This mountain of shredded paper taking over several rooms was found inside the Egyptian Secret Police’s headquarters in Cairo on March 5, when hundreds of angry people invaded it. They called this day their Bastille Day. An enraged population liberated prisoners still in their isolation cells, no larger than phone booths. In the […]
Handouts Make Up One-Third of U.S. Wages
March 9th, 2011Via: CNBC: Government payouts—including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance—make up more than a third of total wages and salaries of the U.S. population, a record figure that will only increase if action isn’t taken before the majority of Baby Boomers enter retirement. Even as the economy has recovered, social welfare benefits make up 35 […]
NATO Starts 24/7 Surveillance of Libyan Airspace
March 8th, 2011Via: CNN: NATO has launched around-the-clock surveillance flights of Libya as it considers various options for dealing with escalating violence in the war-torn country, America’s ambassador to the organization told reporters Monday. Representatives of key Western powers also highlighted the possibility of establishing a no-fly zone in Libya — part of growing campaign to break […]
U.S. Farmers Fear the Return of the Dust Bowl
March 7th, 2011Via: Telegraph: For years the Ogallala Aquifer, the world’s largest underground body of fresh water, has irrigated thousands of square miles of American farmland. Now it is running dry.
Arkansas: Emergency Order Halts Natural Gas Drilling After Fluid Injections Allegedly Caused Hundreds of Small Earthquakes
March 7th, 2011Via: Arkansas Online: Chesapeake Operating Inc. and Clarita Operating LLC both said before a hearing Friday in Little Rock by the state Oil and Gas Commission that they will comply with an emergency request to stop injections of used natural-gas drilling fluid in the two wells in Faulkner County. The drillers made the announcement in […]
‘As many as 160 prisoners were injected with live cancer cells…’
March 7th, 2011Via: The Columbus Dispatch: Perhaps the most famous was the cancer-vaccine test. As many as 160 prisoners were injected with live cancer cells. The study, co-sponsored by Ohio State and the Sloan-Kettering Research Institute, ran from 1956 until 1961. Eventually, researchers said they lost track of most of the prisoners and thus had no results. […]
Alcohol Wipes Used by Hospitals Causing Potentially Deadly Infections
March 7th, 2011??? Via: MSNBC: Within weeks, hospital officials were stunned to confirm that Peyton’s infection — along with what Nyquist would describe only as “a couple”of others — was caused by contaminated alcohol wipes produced by the hospital’s sole supplier: the Triad Group of Hartland, Wis. “This is something really common in use in hospitals,” said […]
