Archive for January, 2013
‘Americans are as negative about the state of the country and its prospects going forward as they have been in more than three decades’
January 25th, 2013Via: Gallup: U.S. President Barack Obama begins his second term at a time when Americans are as negative about the state of the country and its prospects going forward as they have been in more than three decades. Fewer than four in 10 Americans (39%) rate the current status of the U.S. at the positive […]
Bird Flu Researchers to Continue Work on Engineered Virus
January 25th, 2013Via: Guardian: Research on lab-engineered strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus is set to restart a year after the scientists voluntarily paused it to allow for an international public debate on the safest way to proceed. Last year, two teams of scientists in the United States and the Netherlands submitted papers for publication in […]
Most Probiotic Supplements Contain Genetically Modified Additives
January 25th, 2013Via: Natural News: A Natural News investigation into the probiotics industry has turned up alarming information about how probiotics are formulated and labeled. We’ve found that nearly all probiotics available in the U.S. market today are secretly formulated with genetically modified ingredients that are intentionally not listed on the label. The most common such ingredient […]
Britain: Antibiotic-Resistant Diseases Pose ‘Apocalyptic’ Threat
January 24th, 2013Via: Guardian: Britain’s most senior medical adviser has warned MPs that the rise in drug-resistant diseases could trigger a national emergency comparable to a catastrophic terrorist attack, pandemic flu or major coastal flooding. Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer, said the threat from infections that are resistant to frontline antibiotics was so serious that […]
Jobs ‘Being Obliterated by Technology’
January 24th, 2013Via: AP: Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over. And the situation is even worse than it appears. Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish as well, say […]
Momentum Machines Robots Will Prepare Hamburgers, Eliminate Fast Food Jobs
January 23rd, 2013Via: The National: Funded by San Francisco’s Lemnos Labs, it has developed a robot designed to take the place of humans in burger restaurants. Its creators believe their patty-flipping Alpha robot could save the fast-food industry in the United States about US$9 billion a year. Designed to entirely replace two to three full-time kitchen staff, […]
Around 800 European Children Have Developed Narcolepsy After Being Immunized with the Pandemrix H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine
January 23rd, 2013When I posted about this story back in October 2011, there were 79 victims in Finland. And now… Via: Reuters: Emelie Olsson is plagued by hallucinations and nightmares. When she wakes up, she’s often paralyzed, unable to breathe properly or call for help. During the day she can barely stay awake, and often misses school […]
Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops
January 22nd, 2013Via: Independent Science News: In the course of analysis to identify potential allergens in GMO crops, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has belatedly discovered that the most common genetic regulatory sequence in commercial GMOs also encodes a significant fragment of a viral gene (Podevin and du Jardin 2012). This finding has serious ramifications for […]
U.S. Begins Transporting French Troops, Equipment to Mali
January 22nd, 2013Via: Reuters: The United States has started transporting French soldiers and equipment to Mali as part of its logistical aid to French forces fighting Islamist militants in the north of the country, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. Paris has launched a military campaign against Islamist fighters in Mali at the request of the Malian […]
Senator Asks CIA Nominee When Drones Can Kill Americans
January 22nd, 2013Via: Wired: The man in charge of America’s drone wars will face Senate questioning about perhaps their most controversial aspect: when the president can target American citizens for death. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent a letter on Monday to John Brennan, the White House’s counterterrorism adviser and nominee to be head of the CIA, asking […]
