Saturday, 14 August 2010 09:36
'A 'smart' pill that texts patients' mobile phones if they forget to take their medication is being tested in the UK. Around 40 volunteers are being recruited by NHS doctors to take standard versions of their heart pill fitted with a microchip. The chips in the pills send signals to a patch attached to the patient's shoulder when swallowed.'
Read more: Chip and Pill: The Hi-tech Tablet That Will Text You When it's Time to Take Another Dose
Saturday, 14 August 2010 09:23
'To attest to the ever more authoritarian nature of our federal government, I give you the stormtroopers of the National Archives who, for some unfathomable reason, have guns, badges and the power to “raid homes.”
The L.A. Times published a story recently detailing the poor state of security of our National Archives holdings. The piece penned by Faye Fiore is one that everyone should read because it details the utter incompetence of our federal government even at so small a level as safeguarding our nation’s historical records and archives. (And we want these nincompoops to take over our healthcare?)'
Read more: Should Federal Clerks and Archivists Have Guns and Badges?
Saturday, 14 August 2010 09:16
'Two deaf shoppers at XXI in Los Angeles, CA were approached by security and asked for their receipts. One was tackled and choked for an extended length of time while the other pleaded with security to stop, trying to explain that they are deaf. Police responded and arrested the alleged shoplifter for robbery and assault. By the looks of this video, it is hard to imagine how the deaf man laying on the ground turning purple from lack of oxygen assaulted anyone.'
Saturday, 14 August 2010 09:06
Saturday, 14 August 2010 08:52
'Iran warns that if Israel were to invade Lebanon, it would be counter-attacked by several countries in the region. Iran's Fars News Agency reported that Ramin Mehman-Parast, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, issued the warning yesterday, saying that while it's unlike Israel will invade Lebanon, the "Zionist regime would be slapped hard in the face by the regional states if it dares to attack Lebanon again."
"What the Zionist regime [Israel] should understand well… is that an aggression against any country in the region or against any Muslim nation in the region will cause the strong reaction of all the regional countries," said Mehman-Parast, when asked about how Iran would react were Israel to attack Lebanon. "Given the regional countries' preparedness and vigilance, they won't allow the Zionist regime and its supporters to make a move in this regard".'
Saturday, 14 August 2010 08:44
Saturday, 14 August 2010 08:34
'I believe that if ignorance can be banished from this world, if people can communicate with each other fully, frankly, and in depth, then all wars will cease because the cause of war is fear and hatred, and hatred is the ugly daughter of the evil witch of ignorance.'
- Zulu Shaman, Credo Mutwa
Saturday, 14 August 2010 08:30
'A group of prominent legal and medical experts today called for a full inquest into the death of the government scientist David Kelly in 2003. An inquest was suspended by Lord Falconer, then lord chancellor, before the Hutton inquiry into the circumstances of the scientist's death. It was not resumed after Hutton's report in 2004 concluded that Kelly killed himself by cutting an artery in his wrist.
Nine experts including Michael Powers, a QC and former coroner, and Julian Blon, a professor of intensive care medicine, said in a letter to the Times that the official cause of death – haemorrhage from the severed artery – was "extremely unlikely".'
Saturday, 14 August 2010 08:22
'This is a 14 minute clip from an investigative documentary about the cover up of the catholic church, of the notorious paedophile and former catholic priest, Bill Carney. After being convicted of two counts of 'Indecent Assault' against children in 1983, he pleaded guilty to these charges but was allowed to continue his work as a parish priest.
The film also covers the 'Murphy Report' 2009 which reports into the cover up of Clerical sexual abuse in Dublin.
Wikipedia Link to The Murphy Report
Saturday, 14 August 2010 08:18
'An ambitious military operation that Afghan officials had expected to be a sign of their growing military capacity instead turned into an embarrassment, with Taliban fighters battering an Afghan battalion in a remote eastern area until NATO sent in French and American rescue teams.
The fighting has continued so intensely for the past week that the Red Cross has been unable to reach the battlefield to remove the dead and wounded.'
Read more: Showcase Afghan Army Mission Turns Into Embarrassment
John Bolton: Russia's Loading of Nuke Fuel Into Iran Plant Means Aug. 21 Deadline for Israeli Attack
Saturday, 14 August 2010 08:05
'News that Russia will load nuclear fuel rods into an Iranian reactor has touched off a countdown to a point of no return, a deadline by which Israel would have to launch an attack on Iran's Bushehr reactor before it becomes effectively "immune" to any assault, says former Bush administration U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton.'
Saturday, 14 August 2010 08:02
Saturday, 14 August 2010 07:53
'S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.
“If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes. It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.” ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower
It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food.
Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill and would not benefit from it, but Monsanto’s Michael Taylor who gave us rBGH and unregulated genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have designed it and is waiting as an appointed Food Czar to the FDA (a position unapproved by Congress) to administer the agency it would create — without judicial review — if it passes. S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food supplements, food and farming.'
Read more: Senate Bill S510 Makes it illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell Homegrown Food
Saturday, 14 August 2010 07:46
'It sounds like an April Fool's joke, but it isn't: A doctor from Imperial College London whose study was published in the American Journal of Cardiology has proclaimed that people who eat burgers and milkshakes at fast food restaurants should be given free statin drugs (like ketchup packets) to counteract the cholesterol effects of eating burgers.
"Fast food outlets could provide statin drugs free of charge," says Dr. Darrel Francis, lead author of study, who goes on to complain that statin drugs shouldn't be prescription drugs at all. People should be able to get them as easily as asking for a packet of ketchup: "It makes sense to make risk-reducing supplements available just as easily as the unhealthy condiments that are provided free of charge," Francis says, calling statins a "supplement" instead of a drug. Yeah, as if it were a nutrient or something.'
Read more: Doctor Urges Fast Food Restaurants to Hand Out Pharma Drugs Like Ketchup Packets
Saturday, 14 August 2010 07:38
'Since BP announced that CEO Tony Hayward would receive a multi-million dollar golden parachute and be replaced by Bob Dudley, we have witnessed an incredibly broad, and powerful, propaganda campaign. A campaign that peaked this week with the US government, clearly acting in BP’s best interests, itself announcing, via outlets willing to allow themselves to be used to transfer the propaganda, like the New York Times, this message: “The government is expected to announce on Wednesday that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of harm.”
The Times was accommodating enough to lead the story with a nice photo of a fishing boat motoring across clean water with several birds in the foreground.
This message was disseminated far and wide, via other mainstream media outlets like the AP and Reuters, effectively announcing to the masses that despite the Gulf of Mexico suffering the largest marine oil disaster in US history, most of the oil was simply “gone.” Thus, it’s only what is on the surface that counts. If you can’t see it, there is not a problem.'
Read more: BP's Insidious Coverup and Propaganda Campaign: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Saturday, 14 August 2010 07:23
'The British government has been secretly paying hundreds of thousands of dollars from taxpayers' money to US lobbyists in a bid to win contracts for British defense companies and to maintain good bilateral ties. A Daily Telegraph report disclosed in a report on Wednesday that O'Brien & Associates, a Washington-based firm of lobbyists, has received more than $500,000 of British taxpayers' money over the past four years.
The lobbying firm is a specialist in working on behalf of major defense companies in the US capitol and its president has donated money to both Republican and Democrat politicians.'
Saturday, 14 August 2010 07:15
'Leading children's charity, Barnardo, says vulnerable children are harmed by delays in family court proceedings for care and supervision orders.
Sky News has reported that some of Britain's most vulnerable children in England and Wales are stuck in abusive homes for over a year while awaiting decisions to be taken into the care. According to figures released by Barnardo, in 2009 children waited an average of more than 56 weeks before a court decision was made on care or supervision orders. Family court proceedings took an average of 45 weeks.
Additionally, the total number of unresolved cases increased to 12,994 at the end of 2009, 50 percent more than at the end of 2008.'
Read more: Barnardo's Boss Can't Get Kids Into 'Care' Quick Enough
Saturday, 14 August 2010 07:07
'Britain's Energy Secretary and anti-nuclear campaigner Chris Huhne has vowed to build new nuclear power stations across the country in a move described by British voters as 'an astonishing U-turn'. The minister who belongs to the Liberal Democrats camp, the junior partner in the coalition government, said that potential sites for building new nuclear plants have been identified and they should come on stream by 2018. When in opposition, Secretary Huhne was one of the most high-profile anti-nuclear campaigners and for the same reason his reason his remarks shocked many in Westminster.
Three years ago, he wrote: “Nuclear is a tried, tested and failed technology. New nuclear would be economically foolhardy, environmentally irresponsible and pose long-term security questions that are impossible to address. “If we opt for a new generation of nuclear reactors, future generations may rue the day. We will be encumbering them with high costs and enormous and unknowable liabilities. We will miss a key opportunity to pioneer a green future".'
Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:47
'A German court has released Uri Brodsky, an Israeli citizen suspected of being involved in the assassination of a senior Hamas leader in Dubai, on bail. Brodsky, an alleged Mossad agent, is accused of helping fake a German passport that was used by one of the members of a hit squad involved in the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel in January.
German prosecutors said on Friday that there was no need to keep Brodsky in detention and that he was free to travel while judicial proceedings against him continue in Germany. This would mean Brodsky is free to return to Israel, as his maximum penalty would be a fine covered by the bail payment.'
Friday, 13 August 2010 09:08
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