From vaccines to painkillers, the multi-national corporation Novartis had enjoyed making a fortune on our ills. In 2010 this Switzerland based drug company reported $50.6 billion profit, up 30% from last year. Most popular products? Flu vaccines and Excedrin. This week, the company issued a voluntary recall of many of their products as pills...
Demonstrators wear masks from “V for Vendetta” movie and hold signs “Your rubber bullets only make us angrier” referring to police shooting rubber bullets, grenades and tear gas at them. Rubber bullets? Grenades? Tear Gas?? Are we in the Middle East?? Is this a War Zone?
This is the video you probably haven’t seen. KTVU reports confirm that the force used for Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in Oakland was brutal, but it doesn’t give a clue about what that entailed. Take a look at this video. When I watched this, I said “no way this happened, not here, in California,...
Whatever happened to the metal detector scanners? We have used them up until May of this year and as far as I can remember the x-ray machine was always an option you'd choose if desired. Now the TSA choses for you. If you say no to the X-ray machine, the TSA will choose the...
Now that everyone is part of some kind of “special network” the social isolation is reaching its peak. Some people are on Facebook, some on Google+, others are on Skype or yet a dozen of so networks. How do we connect the dots? Only in world wide web, if we're lucky. What happened to...
May Day, May Day, 'Geronimo-E KIA' was the U.S. military code for Osama Bin Laden E-enemy and KIA - killed in action. President Obama ordered the raid on Pakistani compound where the man who's been hunted for more than 10 years, had been found and killed along with his family (wife and son). Sunday...
Historical data provides some evidence of gas prices manipulation. On April 21, 2011 U.S. president Obama creates Oil and Gas Price Fraud Working Group to investigate potential criminal activity on oil and energy market. See more on: justice.gov
It has been one year since the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which many called the worst environmental disaster ever. That is, of course, before the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan. I think this one will top the list. But yet, athorities assure us that there no reason for concern...
FDA has been detaining products imported from Japan and screening them for radiation and today they added a new one: mushrooms. It looks like they will be denied entry into the U.S. market along side with the following (big) list of products: Spinach, Lettuce, Celery, Cress, Endive, Escarole, Chard, and Collards, leafy vegetables (i.e. turnip),...
After the 9.0 earthquake and the nuclear melt down in Japan, consider staying off sushi and Kobe beef for a while. Even though FDA, CDC and pretty much any other health/nuclear authority say the radiation levels are safe and there is no reason for concern, having lived through Chernobyl, let me just say, you...
