Monthly Archives: August 2013
Doctors profiteering from radiation treatments
Doctors who have a financial interest in radiation treatment centers are much more likely to prescribe such treatments for patients with prostate cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/us/doctors-who-profit-from-radiation-prescribe-it-more-often-study-finds.html?ref=us Medicare beneficiaries were often unaware that their doctors stood to profit from the use of radiation therapy. Alternative treatments may be equally effective and are less expensive for Medicare and for […]
US meat inspecting computer system fails again
A troubled new computer system used by inspectors at the nation’s 6,500 meatpacking and processing plants shut down for two days this month, putting at risk millions of pounds of beef, poultry, pork and lamb that had left the plants before workers could collect samples to check for E. coli bacteria and other contaminants. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/us/computer-system-failed-at-meatpacking-plants-but-shipping-continued.html?pagewanted=2&ref=us […]
Protesters oppose fracking by Cuadrilla Resources in UK
Opposition to shale gas extraction flared up in the tiny village of Balcombe, England on Sunday as hundreds marched on an oil exploration site in protest at the drilling process known as ‘fracking’. Activists are concerned the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, process used to extract gas from rocks underground can trigger small earthquakes and pollute […]
Banksters JPMorgan investigated for bribery
Federal authorities have opened a bribery investigation into whether JPMorgan Chase hired the children of powerful Chinese officials to help the bank win lucrative business. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, is a 1977 federal law that bans United States companies from giving “anything of value” to a foreign official to win “an improper advantage” in […]
The new American Drug War
The new documentary by director Kevin Booth, American Drug War 2, highlights the case of a 2-year-old boy who lay in a coma not eating for over 40 days after surviving brain surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. His parents are told to make funeral arrangements. However, his father had read about a version of an ancient […]
NWO nutures divide & conquer and sympathetic police state
The ferocity of the attacks by security forces on Islamist protesters in Cairo, Egypt this week appears to have been a deliberate calculation of the military-appointed government to provoke violence from the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies, a number of Arab and Western historians of Middle East politics said. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/world/middleeast/attacks-on-protesters-in-cairo-were-calculated-to-provoke-some-say.html?hp&_r=0 The hatreds unleashed on all […]
Assange says libertarians only hope for US
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange praised United States Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and his father, Dr. Ron Paul, during an interview Friday in which he said the family has been among the biggest supporters his whistleblowing group has in Congress. The Paul family, added Assange, have been “the strongest supporters of the fight against the US […]
US Defense Department sets up military base in Jordan
The Defense Department is using a warehouse to coordinate support for Jordan’s military as the kingdom copes with a refugee crisis spawned by civil war in neighboring Syria — and to help prepare if violence spills across the border. The Pentagon deployed Patriot air-defense missile batteries here, along with F-16s to train with the Jordanian […]
NSA admits to violating 4th amendment in leaked audit
The National Security Agency violated privacy rules protecting the communications of Americans and others on domestic soil 2,776 times over a one-year period, according to an internal audit leaked by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden and made public on Thursday night. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/us/nsa-often-broke-rules-on-privacy-audit-shows.html?hp&_r=0 The largest number of episodes — 1,904 — appeared to be […]
China vows to stop harvesting prisoners organs in 5 years
For years, China denied that it used organs from executed prisoners, but admitted it a few years ago. China has moved from denying to admitting and now phasing out the macabre practise of harvesting organs from prisoners. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-23722796 Prisoners’ organs were being sold to wealthy foreign patients. China then began admitting it was, after all, […]
Facebook reduces satisfaction and fosters loneliness
Using Facebook can reduce young adults’ sense of well-being and satisfaction with life. Checking Facebook made people feel worse about both issues, and the more they browsed, the worse they felt, the University of Michigan research said. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23709009 The study adds to a growing body of research saying Facebook can have negative psychological consequences. “On […]
US pays Egypt 1.5 billion to kill journalists and civilians
A veteran cameraman for the Britain-based news network Sky News was among the hundreds of people killed in Cairo on Wednesday. Other journalists described close calls in the streets, and several were detained by local authorities. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/world/middleeast/cameraman-for-british-network-is-killed-in-cairo.html?ref=world&_r=0 Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, a reporter for Xpress, a newspaper based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, was also […]
Hastings, Snowden warn journalists of the info war
In a recent interview NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden states, “After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power — the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government — for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period […]
Brazil stands their ground on US data spying
Resentment has festered in Brazil since revelations of the surveillance practices emerged in July, detailing how the agency established a data collection center in Brasília and prioritized Brazil, with its vast telecommunications hubs and large population of 200 million, as among the agency’s most spied-upon countries. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/world/americas/in-brazil-kerry-is-told-spying-sows-distrust.html?ref=world Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota issued the unusual expression […]
Fuaed Abdo Ahmed, Colin Ferguson, brain chips and murder
An hours-long standoff at a Louisiana bank began around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday when a gunman — identified by police as 20-year-old Fuaed (FOO-od) Abdo Ahmed — took two women and a man captive at the Tensas State Bank branch in St. Joseph. One of his demands to authorities was that they get an implanted device […]
Judge says Stop & Frisk unconstitutional but can continue
US federal judge found New York City’s police department violated the civil rights of thousands through its stop and frisk policy. In 2012, police stopped and frisked 533,042 people on the streets of New York, up from about 115,000 in 2002, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23672901 She did not order an end […]
US spying leviathan holds on to telephone records
The US spying programme “touches” 1.6% of internet traffic in fact reveal the vast scale of snooping, a senior security researcher has said. The figures were “utterly meaningless” since the memorandum is vague about where the data is taken from. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23669003 Caspar Bowden told the BBC that the National Security Agency (NSA) was a “surveillance […]
Judge orders baby’s name be changed from Messiah
A judge in the US has ordered a baby’s first name to be changed from Messiah to Martin, arguing that the only true messiah is Jesus Christ. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23665106 She was able to make the order because the parents were already in a child support hearing in a dispute over what their son’s last name should […]
Bankster elitist Summers to be appointed as Fed chair
The Obama administration is considering nominating Lawrence H. Summers as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. Senators are speaking out against Mr.. Summers. They are raising questions about potential conflicts of interest and noting his role in the repeal of the Glass-Steagall law, which limited the sorts of activities banks could undertake, and his […]
Dirty Babylon 