Archive for September 21st, 2013

By Harvey Wasserman Global Research September 20, 2013 We are now within two months of what may be humankind’s most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis. There is no excuse for not acting. All the resources our species can muster must be focussed on the fuel pool at Fukushima Unit 4. Fukushima’s owner,... »

Dave Hodges TheCommonSenseShow.com September 21, 2013 There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.” ― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Our Congress has an all-time low 9% approval rating, and Obama’s popularity is in... »

Recombinomics.com September 19, 2013 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health (KSA-MoH) has recently released 45 MERS-CoV sequences. Most were from patients in the Al Hasa outbreak (7 full sequences and 32 partial sequences from 9 additional patients), which were virtually identical to the earlier four sequences from Al Hasa. Moreover, two of... »

Lisa Schnirring CIDRAP News Sep 20, 2013 The World Health Organization (WHO) today aired concerns about surging numbers of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) cases and clusters and said that the disease pattern seems to be trending younger and affecting women more often. In a separate report, the WHO downgraded two cases from... »

by RICHARD KNOX NPR.org September 20, 2013 A year after doctors first identified an illness that came to be known as Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome researchers are reporting fresh genetic information about the virus that causes it. The findings don’t bring scientists any closer to understanding where MERS is coming from. In fact, the... »

Researchers have said that transmission of the mystery virus is more complicated than they initially anticipated. Aljazeera.com 20 Sep 2013 Researchers in Britain and Saudi Arabia have said that gene profiling of the MERS virus had provided insights, but no answer, as to how the mysterious microbe spreads. Reporting online in The Lancet, the... »

WashingtonsBlog.com September 21, 2013 Obama Says America Is Not a Banana Republic and We Have to Pay Our Bills … What Do Experts Say? America’s top liberal communications expert is George Lakoff. Professor Lakoff (who we’ve previously interviewed) points out that when a politician says “Not X”, people usually think of X: I wrote... »

By Michael Snyder TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com September 20th, 2013 The too big to fail banks are now much, much larger than they were the last time they caused so much trouble. The six largest banks in the United States have gotten 37 percent larger over the past five years. Meanwhile, 1,400 smaller banks have disappeared from... »

By Rawlson King Biometricupdate.com September 20, 2013 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will test its crowd-scanning facial recognition system, known as the Biometric Optical Surveillance System, or BOSS, at a junior hockey game this weekend, according to the Russian news agency RT. With assistance from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, DHS will test... »

SilverDoctors.com SEPTEMBER 20, 2013 The implications of the Fed not going ahead with tapering are bad for the dollar and won’t stop bond yields at the long end from rising. It shows that the whole US economy is in a massive debt trap that cannot be addressed for powerful reasons. The reality is the... »