Archive for December, 2011
Japan: Scientists Call for Dumping Radioactive Soil Into Sea
December 5th, 2011Via: Asahi: Scientists have proposed dumping soil contaminated by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the deep sea, an idea certain to meet opposition both at home and abroad. A group led by Isao Tanihata, a professor at Osaka University’s Research Center for Nuclear Physics, and Kozi Nakai, a former professor at the Tokyo […]
Ireland: Psychiatrist Calls for Lithium to be Added to Water
December 5th, 2011Via: Irish Times: A consultant psychiatrist last night called on Government to add lithium salts to the public water supply in a bid to lower the suicide rate and depression among the general population. At a mental health forum on “Depression in Rural Ireland” in Ennistymon, Co Clare, Dr Moosajee Bhamjee said that “there is […]
Fed May Give Loans to IMF to Help Euro Zone
December 5th, 2011Meh, what’s another couple of trillion dollars between friends… Via: Reuters: The Federal Reserve, along with the 17 euro zone national central banks, may help provide the International Monetary Fund with funds that could be used to aid debt-ridden states, a German newspaper said. Die Welt cited sources close to the negotiations as saying the […]
Division of Cerberus Capital Management Buying Large U.S. Firearms Companies
December 5th, 2011Via: New York Times: LINED up in a gun rack beneath mounted deer heads is a Bushmaster Carbon 15, a matte-black semiautomatic rifle that looks as if it belongs to a SWAT team. On another rack rests a Teflon-coated Prairie Panther from DPMS Firearms, a supplier to the United States Border Patrol and security agencies […]
DEA Launders Mexican Profits of Drug Cartels
December 4th, 2011Via: New York Times: Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington’s expanding role in Mexico’s fight against drug cartels, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials. The agents, primarily with the Drug Enforcement Administration, have handled shipments of hundreds of thousands of […]
Regrets of the Dying
December 4th, 2011In other news, Six in 10 Kiwis hate or dislike their job. Via: Inspiration and Chai: For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People […]
85-Year-Old Woman May Sue TSA After Being Strip Searched at JFK Airport
December 4th, 2011Via: New York Daily News: An 85-year-old Long Island grandmother says she plans to sue the TSA after a humiliating strip search on Tuesday by agents at JFK Airport. Lenore Zimmerman, who lives in Long Beach, says she was on her way to a 1 p.m. flight to Fort Lauderdale when security whisked her to […]
New Zealand Government Wants to Rein In Access to Raw Milk
December 4th, 2011New Zealand is a company town and that company is Fonterra. It makes them insane knowing that farmers are cutting them out of the equation by selling directly to consumers. Other parasitic middlemen (the diabolical Foodstuffs and Woolworths duopoly) are cut out of the deal when people buy goods directly from farmers. In short, farmers […]
Black Friday Best-Seller: Guns
December 3rd, 2011Via: ABC News: Americans were big spenders on Black Friday–especially on guns. Numbers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation show an all-time one-day high for background check requests from gun buyers last Friday. There were 129,166 requests to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)–a third more than the previous record of 97,848 on […]
Wall Street’s “Secret Government”
December 2nd, 2011Via: Alternet: We now have concrete evidence that Wall Street and Washington are running a secret government far removed from the democratic process. Through a freedom of information request by Bloomberg News, the public now has access to over 29,000 pages of Fed documents and 21,000 additional Fed transactions that were deliberately hidden, and for […]
