Archive for May 6th, 2012

Adam Taylor and Simone Foxman BusinessInsider.com May 6, 2012 The first exit polls from today’s big Greek election are out… The Conservative New Democracy party looks to have secured the largest vote (17 – 20%). Crucially it does not look like ND and its rival center-left PASOK have secured 39-40% of the vote, falling... »

It’s out there: Science journal publishes details of deadly lab-made bird flu that ‘could cause global pandemic’ Scientists argue publication will help find cure Mutant lab-created version can be spread easily among ferrets Not clear whether ‘new’ versions of flu would have same effect in humans By ROB WAUGH DailyMail.com 3 May 2012 The... »

By RICHARD WILCOX JapanTimes.com Sunday, May 6, 2012 Kevin Rafferty’s May 2 article, “Inviting economic suicide?,” is correct on the main points: Japan is in an economic tailspin and this is of grave concern for our well-being. But so, too, is the rest of the industrialized world as the 500-year-old banking system, which is... »

ActivistPost.com Saturday, May 5, 2012 As part of the coordinated biometric border control program, including Secure Communities, a new mobile device called SEEK II has been ordered by Customs and Border Protection. The Federal Biometric ID program which was announced by ICE back in February of 2011 was introduced under the guise of tracking... »

Brandon Turbeville ActivistPost.com Sunday, May 6, 2012 Only three months ago, I wrote an article entitled “Cashless Society: India Implements First Biometric ID Program for all of its 1.2 Billion Residents,” where I discussed the implementation of a relatively new policy in India geared toward the creation of a massive biometric identification database for... »

By ENENews May 6th, 2012 Title: Dr. Helen Caldicott Q&A on March 22, 2012 Uploaded by: MylaReson Upload date: May 5, 2012 At ~1:20 in They’ve never seen or contemplated anything like this. It will be reaching you quite soon, I think in the ocean current and the fish. And the fish... »

Gregor MacDonald BusinessInsider.com May 6, 2012 The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) produces excellent research. In March of 2010 I discussed their report, Energy Use in the US Food System, which noted that the energy-cost intensity of food production was expanding. (see: the Gregor.us blog post Paris Over Amherst: Food Energy and Credit).... »

Robert Johnson BusinessInsider.com May 6, 2012 DARPA is at it again. This time, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced plans to create nanochips for monitoring troops health on the battlefield. Kate Knibbs at Mobiledia reports the sensors are targeted at preventing illness and disease, the two causes of most troops medical evacuations.... »

Seamus Light Policymic.com Ron Paul has won 2 of the 3 available delegate slots in Massachusetts’s 1st District in Saturday’s state caucuses. That’s right, Massachusetts, a primary state, has caucuses, and Ron Paul has emerged victorious. At approximately 9:30 a.m. on this brisk Saturday morning, Republicans of all ages from Massachusetts’s 1st District (Western... »

Mike Hapgood, who studies solar events, says the world isn’t prepared for a truly damaging storm. And one could happen soon. By Amina Khan LATimes.com May 4, 2012 A stream of highly charged particles from the sun is headed straight toward Earth, threatening to plunge cities around the world into darkness and bring the... »