Archive for September, 2009
New York Health Workers: Get Vaccinated or Get Fired
September 29th, 2009There are many people reading this who work in health care. How hard would it be to “obtain” a sample of the actual H1N1 vaccine and have it analyzed? What I mean is: A sample from the stuff that is actually distributed to clinicians and meant for use on the public. Assuming that a sample […]
Bank of England Calls Emergency Meeting Over Sterling
September 28th, 2009Via: Telegraph: The Bank of England has summoned the City’s leading economists to an unprecedented meeting in Threadneedle Street, as the pound plunges amid growing confusion over its radical Quantitative Easing (QE) policy. The Bank will host a seminar of all London’s major economists next Tuesday – the first time it has invited them in […]
Spain: More Bad Economic News
September 28th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Spain is sliding into a full-blown economic depression with unemployment approaching levels not seen since the Second Republic of the 1930s and little chance of recovery until well into the next decade, according to a clutch of reports over recent days. The Madrid research group RR de Acuña & Asociados said the collapse […]
Escalator Fall Kills Hedge Fund Manager
September 28th, 2009Via: NBC News: A hedge fund executive died early Sunday morning after falling three floors from an escalator at The Pier Shops at Caesars, according to police. Atlantic City police said James Vellanti, 40, fell from the third to the first floor. Vellanti lived in Clinton, Hunterdon County and was Chief Operating Officer for the […]
Washington State Lifts Limit on Mercury Preservative in Swine-Flu Shots
September 28th, 2009Via: Seattle Times: In preparation for swine-flu vaccinations next month, Washington’s Health Department on Thursday temporarily suspended a rule that limits the amount of a mercury preservative in vaccines given to pregnant women and children under the age of 3. The preservative, thimerosal, has never been linked to any health problems, said Secretary of Health […]
U.S. Intelligence Budget: $75 Billion, 200,000 Operatives
September 28th, 2009Via: Dissident Voice: Speaking at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club September 15, Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis C. Blair, disclosed that the current annual budget for the 16 agency U.S. “Intelligence Community” (IC) clocks-in at $75 billion and employs some 200,000 operatives world-wide, including private contractors. In unveiling an unclassified version of the National Intelligence […]
Berkeley and DARPA: Cyborg Beetle Piloted by Remote Control
September 28th, 2009Via: Wired: The creation of a cyborg insect army has just taken a step closer to reality. A research team at the University of California Berkeley recently announced that it has successfully implanted electrodes into a beetle allowing scientists to control the insect’s movements in flight. “We demonstrated the remote control of insects in free […]
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Obama: More Sk0ol
September 28th, 2009Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto “Thirty years of award-winning teaching in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders as cogs in the industrial machine.” Via: AP: Students beware: The […]
FBI Releases Edited OKC Bombing Tapes
September 28th, 2009Via: AP: Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday. “The real story is what’s missing,” said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney […]
