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Australia bans flu vaccines for children
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Friday, 27 August 2010 17:33
Although it's still summer in North America, it is of course winter in Australia, and the flu season is well under way there. As usual, Australian health authorities have been urging parents there to vaccinate their children against the flu, propagating the mythology that flu vaccines are both safe and effective. But this time around, many Australian parents found out the hard way that they were being lied to.
It didn't take long to realize the truth after their children start going into convulsions following the flu vaccine injections. Other children began vomiting or exhibiting dangerously high levels of fever. One child has gone into a coma and may never recover.
Official: Satellite failure casts doubt on decade of "global warming" data
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Friday, 13 August 2010 13:43
US Government admits satellite temperature readings “degraded.” All data taken offline in shock move. Global warming temperatures may be 10 to 15 degrees too high.
The fault was first detected after a tip off from an anonymous member of the public to climate skeptic blog, Climate Change Fraud (August 9, 2010).
Caught in the center of the controversy is the beleaguered taxpayer funded National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA’s Program Coordinator, Chuck Pistis has now confirmed that the fast spreading story on the respected climate skeptic blog is true.
However, NOAA spokesman, Program Coordinator, Chuck Pistis declined to state how long the fault might have gone undetected. Nor would the shaken spokesman engage in speculation as to the damage done to the credibility of a decade’s worth of temperature readings taken from the problematic ‘NOAA-16’ satellite.
GOP calls for homeland security hearing on immigration memo
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Tuesday, 03 August 2010 16:49
Senator Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, called on the administration to “disavow” themselves from the Department of Homeland Security immigration memo that outlined how to give amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants in the United States without taking any legislative action in Congress.
“I hope that this memorandum designated a draft will be thoroughly explained by the administration and will be disavowed in terms of an intention to do an end around Congress,” he said on the Senate floor on Monday. “I’m hopeful that hearings can be held so that the authors of the memorandum or director can explain why this memorandum was written in the first place and what they intend to do about it.”
Mr. Kyl did not think the release of this memo to the public was some odd administration trial balloon. “No, I think they got caught,” he said of that.
“What kind of department do you have when you have four high level people like this taking their time to make this type of recommendation? If the administration wants to say, ‘we don’t want to have anything to do with that,' 'we’re not going to do any of those things,' 'it is not our policy,' that would be an informative response. It’s not very informative to say the obvious, which is to just say, ‘well that’s not a final product.’ No one said it was.”
Fire alarm system on Deepwater Horizon intentionally disabled before Gulf spill
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Friday, 23 July 2010 11:47
The fire alarm system on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig was disabled prior to the catastrophic explosion that caused the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a rig worker said Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The rig's chief electronics technician told a federal panel Friday that the Horizon's fire alarm system and indicator light were deliberately set in "inhibited" mode so the alarms would not wake up sleeping rig workers in the middle of the night.
Michael Williams told the panel that he believed the alarms had been inhibited for over a year before the disaster, a decision made by leadership aboard the rig, the Washington Post reported.
The April 20 explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 people and unleashed one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.
The disabling of the alarm system was not unique -- federal records show that rig operators have paid frequent fines for bypassing safety systems that interfere with routine operations aboard, the Post reported.
Williams, a retired Marine, survived the fire by jumping from the burning rig into the Gulf of Mexico.
"Pre-Crime" Technology to be Used in Washington, DC
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 19:55
Law enforcement agencies in Washington D.C. have begun to use technology that they say can predict when crimes will be committed and who will commit them, before they actually happen.
The Minority Report like pre-crime software has been developed by Richard Berk, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Previous incarnations of the software, already being used in Baltimore and Philadelphia were limited to predictions of murders by and among parolees and offenders on probation.
According to a report by ABC News, however, the latest version, to be implemented in Washington D.C., can predict other future crimes as well.
Well, perhaps everyone should these days. Consumer spending accounts for roughly two-thirds of U.S. gross domestic product, or the value of all goods and services produced in the nation. And spending by the rich now accounts for the largest share of consumer outlays in at least 20 years.
According to new research from Moody's Analytics, the top 5% of Americans by income account for 37% of all consumer outlays. Outlays include consumer spending, interest payments on installment debt and transfer payments.
By contrast, the bottom 80% by income account for 39.5% of all consumer outlays.
It is no surprise, of course, that the rich spend so much, since they earn a disproportionate share of income. According to economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, the top 10% of earners captured about half of all income as of 2007.
What is surprising is just how much or our consumer economy is now dependent on the rich, and how that share has increased as the U.S. emerges from recession. In the third quarter of 1990, the top 5% accounted for 25% of consumer outlays. That held relatively steady until the mid-1990s, when it started inching up past 30%. It dipped in 2003 and again in 2008, but started surging in 2009 amid the greatest bull market rally in history, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising nearly 50% in the last nine months of the year.
ECB president Trichet backs MEPs on new economic governance
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Tuesday, 03 August 2010 13:25
[Editor: this is the latest in the unrelenting push toward global control of economies, banking, and money.]
European Central Bank (ECB) president Jean-Claude Trichet added to the pressure on European Union member state governments by MEPs when he called for a "quantum leap" on economic governance, the European Parliament said in a statement.
Trichet was addressing the EP's economics committee on June 21 2010.
Towing a very similar line to that developed in an EP resolution on economic governance adopted by a large majority last week, Trichet said that policy-makers needed to follow up their words with deeds and advocated for strong surveillance of economic policies, "quasi-automatic" sanctions for under-performing countries, and much more binding power to European Commission proposals regarding budget corrections to be made by a country, the statement said.
During his regular meeting with the committee's MEPs, Trichet also gave his customary assessment of the economic situation in the EU and explained the ECB's May decision to buy Eurozone bonds.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to roll out sophisticated electronic ID tags to track individual pairs of jeans and underwear, the first step in a system that advocates say better controls inventory but some critics say raises privacy concerns.
Starting next month, the retailer will place removable "smart tags" on individual garments that can be read by a hand-held scanner. Wal-Mart workers will be able to quickly learn, for instance, which size of Wrangler jeans is missing, with the aim of ensuring shelves are optimally stocked and inventory tightly watched. If successful, the radio-frequency ID tags will be rolled out on other products at Wal-Mart's more than 3,750 U.S. stores.
"This ability to wave the wand and have a sense of all the products that are on the floor or in the back room in seconds is something that we feel can really transform our business," said Raul Vazquez, the executive in charge of Wal-Mart stores in the western U.S.
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"There are two things you really don't want to tag, clothing and identity documents, and ironically that's where we are seeing adoption," said Katherine Albrecht, founder of a group called Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering and author of a book called "Spychips" that argues against RFID technology. "The inventory guys may be in the dark about this, but there are a lot of corporate marketers who are interested in tracking people as they walk sales floors."
