Cerberus made 23 times its investment on human plasma. This was accomplished by the most savage, heartless means possible: by paying peanuts to impoverished human plasma donors, who increasingly come from Mexican border towns to blood-pumping stations set up on the American side, jacking up the price of plasma by restricting supply (a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission accused Cerberus Plasma Holdings of “operat[ing] as an oligopoly”), and then selling the refined products to the most desperately ill—patients suffering from hemophilia, severe burns, multiple sclerosis and autoimmune deficiencies.
Cerberus Capital: Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor to Make Their Billions
Spitzer: Surprised WH Is Making “Definitive Statements About Geithner’s Involvement” In NY Fed/AIG Scandal
Obama Takes New Route to Opposing Parts of Laws
Domestic Drones Spying on America...I guess you're all "OK" with this, since I've seen no protests against it!
Domestic Espionage Alert: Spy Drone Discovered
* Police use DRONES to spy on AMERICANS!! Police, Stop the ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES ON AMERICANS!
Body Scanners at airports that can measure your penis and vagina, and now this van (below). You know what really frosts me about teabaggers? That they are against "big government" but don't protest "big government" spying on them.
The Savagery of Israel's attack on Gaza
Health officials in Israel are subjecting many female Ethiopian immigrants to a controversial long-term birth control drug in what Israeli women’s groups allege is a racist policy to reduce the number of black babies.
What You Didn't Know About The War
The most important photo from yesterday,.. BigDan taking a dump while catching up on the local news - in the poop shack out in his backyard.
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BD:
ReplyDeleteThis guy seems like an enlightened and valuable resource:
http://www.examiner.com/x-6495-National-Intelligence-Examiner~y2009m3d27-White-House-insider-with-inside-scoop-on-deep-politics
These are his creations:
http://www.wanttoknow.info/
http://www.wanttoknow.info/conspiracytheories
http://www.peerservice.org/peersboardmembers#burks
start here:
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Well,.. "Poppy" likely didn't find this pizza so tasty.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhznZ-d5h7Y&feature=player_embedded
Ex intel guy speaks to the issue of Global Warming,.. (temperature/weather shift on a global scale)
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Oh for God's sake the damn link ain't wurkin.
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The most important photo from yesterday,.. BigDan taking a dump while catching up on the local news - in the poop shack out in his backyard.
NEW LINK,..
http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo232/jaxnonnie/nowthatscold.jpg
China's Nair Man,..
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Three Approved GMO's Linked to Organ Damage
ReplyDeleteFriday 08 January 2010
by: Rady Ananda, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
In what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study of the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers have linked organ damage with consumption of Monsanto's GM maize.
All three varieties of GM corn - Mon 810, Mon 863 and NK 603 - were approved for consumption by US, European and several other national food safety authorities. Made public by European authorities in 2005, Monsanto's confidential raw data of its 2002 feeding trials on rats that these researchers analyzed is the same data.
http://www.truthout.org/article/three-approved-gmos-linked-organ-damage
Forbes Magazine just named Monsanto "Company of the Year 2009",.. who you say - capitalist pigs ?
http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto_today/2010/company_of_the_year.asp
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0118/americas-best-company-10-gmos-dupont-planet-versus-monsanto.html
More info on domestic spy drones.
ReplyDeleteThere is a company in Indiana that is manufacturing surveillance drones the size of a tennis ball and they are working hard at reducing the size to that of a fly. These drones will be able to fly INTO your house. They are even touted as being able to plant tracking devices on people without being detected. Next time you see a fly buzzing around in your office, it may just be the FBI or the local police having a looksee.
http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/01/08/domestic-espionage-alert-spy-drone-discovered/
Guess what? I've had that "want to know" guy on my "exposing fascism" links for a long time:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wanttoknow.info/index.shtml
I forget how I ran across it, maybe it was one of you guys to begin with.
You should say: "OH! FER CRAPSSAKE! THE CRAPPER LINK ISN'T WORKING!!!!!!"
ReplyDeleteI'm licking my wounds after the Eagles lost to the Cowboys yesterday. That sucked! And it was around ZERO degrees here last night.
ReplyDeleteZ - cold up there in Maine? I assume so!
Oh God,.. a new level of gruesome brought to you by Mexican drug cartels.
ReplyDeleteMexico man's face skinned and stitched onto a soccer ball in Sinaloa in threat to Juarez drug cartel
By Soraya Roberts
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Saturday, January 9th 2010, 5:54 PM
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/01/09/2010-01-09_mexico_mans_face_skinned_and_stitched_onto_a_soccer_ball_in_threat_to_juarez_dru.html#ixzz0cEKK1GR4
Everyone should study this:
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Here's how you use the fallacious argument detection (I'm MidnightWalker):
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A little info for all the drug smoking hippies out 'Fornia way,..
ReplyDeleteSAN ANDREAS - Hundreds of basins carved into a football field-sized granite ledge in a remote Sierra Nevada wilderness are the remains of what may be the oldest manufacturing operation in North America, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study whose results were released in December.
The researchers concluded that the more than 350 basins three to four feet in diameter were used to evaporate salt from the briny flow of a nearby spring.
"The water was carried to the individual basins, probably in water-tight baskets, where it dried in the summer heat, leaving a salt residue on the basin floor," said Jim Moore, USGS geologist and co-author of the report.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100103/A_NEWS/1030314#STS=g41uekl4.1jz5
How Banks Are Poised to Cash In on the Cold Snap
ReplyDeleteThe cold snap that has large swaths of the United States in a deep freeze may mean higher heating bills for millions of consumers, but the frigid air is good news for top banks.
Or, to put it in the language of the perhaps inevitable political talking point: As Main Street shivers, Wall Street is poised to cash in.
Big financial firms have invested heavily in the oil and gas sector in recent years, buying up energy storage facilities. With demand for heating oil rising, and raising prices along with it, tankers used to store oil at sea are now headed back to the Northeast, the trade Web site HeatingOil.com reports, carrying with them the makings of healthy weather-related profits for the likes of Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan.
http://www.sphere.com/article/banks-with-heating-oil-investments-are-poised-to-cash-in-on-the-cold-snap/19309578
http://www.heatingoil.com/blog/heating-oil-in-sea-storage-headed-for-the-northeast106/
From yesterday: zz 17 hours ago
ReplyDeleteA child wanted to go on a school field trip but the parents refused to allow this because they wanted the child taught the literal interpretation of the Bible
If you haven't checked that yet, take a look - some pretty funny one liners and puns open the comment section. Then the holy rollers start chiming in.
http://failblog.org/2010/01/06/field-trip-fail/
If you're feeling lonely, all you have to do is come to the Big Blog and post a comment as a guest - bingo - someone sends you an email right away!
ReplyDeleteWhen you star feeling lonely again, just close your browser then restart it and come back here again!
Someone named Disqus sure likes me!
Rethugs - cold hearts,.. no brains,..
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-iyOJgkkAU
Great job on the FDL takedown, BD.
ReplyDeleteDoes BigDan have a smallish penis or something ? Why is he in such a uproar about TSA pervert/rape full body scanners at airports ? Is there something he does not want plastered on a big flat screen 60 inch viewing monitor open for a public show and tell glimpse ?
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They dared to mention Israel:
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Actually, his wife doesn't want the world to know how massive his balls are..but for those of us who read him daily, we already know any way.
ReplyDeleteCan't argue there,.. but the other part is barely perceptible.
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He is gloating in the background there somewhere,.. just full of himself,.. and proud as can be - muttering,..
ReplyDeleteYah,.. yah,.. but,.. but,.. at least they can't call me,..
A Prick !
http://www.haloscan.com/images/smileys/au_revoir.gif
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CRASH
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ReplyDeleteIf you make a word a link here it sends it to moderation, whereas if you past the URL only it sends it right through!
So here - the "Approved" way:
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http://bluebear2.blogspot.com/2010/01/crash.html
Feinstein: 'Scores' of Gitmo inmates back on battlefield
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Senator Feinstein's Iraq Conflict
As a member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms
As chairperson and ranking member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee (MILCON) from 2001 through the end of 2005, Feinstein supervised the appropriation of billions of dollars a year for specific military construction projects. Two defense contractors whose interests were largely controlled by her husband, financier Richard C. Blum, benefited from decisions made by Feinstein as leader of this powerful subcommittee.
http://www.bohemian.com/metro/01.24.07/dianne-feinstein-0704.html
And don't forget, Feinsten & Schumer approved Mukasey.
‘Experts’ justify profiling, body scanners with familiar paranoid rhetoric
ReplyDeletehttp://rawstory.com/2010/01/retired-general-profiled-strip-searches-fullbody-scanners-chertoff-conflict/
Over the last two years, the news media and Congress have brought attention to many deaths in the immigration detention system that appear to have involved substandard medical care or abuse. But a trove of documents obtained over recent months by The New York Times and the American Civil Liberties Union sheds light on even more fatalities.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/nyregion/10detainside.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The National Iranian American Council is on high alert after a South Carolina Congressman announced this week that he will introduce legislation which would require the deportation of all Iranians living in America.
ReplyDeleteThe Stop Terrorists Entry Program Act (STEP) was first introduced by Rep. J. Gresham Barrett (R-SC) in 2003 [PDF link]. The updated version, he explained in a media advisory, would bar citizens of Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Yemen and Syria from entry into the United States. It would further require citizens of those nations who are legally visiting or residing in the United States to be deported within 60 days.
http://rawstory.com/2010/01/gop-congressman-deport-iranian/
Shouldn't he have included Venezuela home of Hugo Chavez,.. in his South Carolina Red Neck/Neo-Fascist/Hyper-Zionist/potential terrorist - hate list ?
ReplyDeleteHell hath no fury like the Miami Cuban Community. You lump Cuban American citizens in with alleged Iranian terrorist and the shit will hit the fan like you've never seen. Democratic landslide in FLA = Obama's second term secured.
ReplyDeleteThis guy has NO IDEA what he has just unleashed in florida. NO IDEA.
Erik Prince's - "Soldiers for Jesus Christ" wont cotton to this dark skinned/Arab/Muslim bullshit.
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Iraqi forces raid private military contractors (possibly Blackwater)
Source: Reuters
09 Jan 2010 15:20:58 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Khalid al-Ansary
BAGHDAD, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Security forces confiscated hundreds of rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition and other military gear in a crackdown on private security contractors in Iraq, officials said on Saturday.
Police raided three locations in Baghdad on Friday, a week after Iraqi authorities were incensed by a U.S. judge's decision to throw out charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing over a dozen Iraqi civilians in 2007.
Officials said they are targeting private security companies that are no longer legally licensed to operate in Iraq.
"All those companies with their work permits expired are not allowed to move one metre inside Baghdad, or own one piece of weaponry," Baghdad security spokesman Qassim al-Moussawi said.
He would not reveal how many unlicensed contractors were on the target list, or their names.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ANS949707.htm
Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany?
ReplyDeleteGerman prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into allegations that the CIA deployed a team of Blackwater operatives on a clandestine operation in Hamburg, Germany, after 9/11 ultimately aimed at assassinating a German citizen with suspected ties to Al Qaeda. The alleged assassination operation was revealed last month in a Vanity Fair profile of Blackwater's owner Erik Prince.
The magazine reported that after 9/11, the CIA used one of Prince's homes in Virginia as a covert training facility for hit teams that would hunt Al Qaeda suspects globally. Their job was find, fix, and finish: "Find the designated target, fix the person's routine, and, if necessary, finish him off," as the magazine put it.
According to Vanity Fair, one of the team's targets was Mamoun Darkazanli, a naturalized German citizen originally from Syria. Darkazanli has been accused by Spain of being an Al Qaeda supporter with close ties to the alleged 9/11 plotters who lived in Hamburg. The Blackwater/CIA team "supposedly went in 'dark,' meaning they did not notify their own station--much less the German government--of their presence," according to Vanity Fair. "hey then followed Darkazanli for weeks and worked through the logistics of how and where they would take him down." Authorities in Washington, however, "chose not to pull the trigger."
This week, a senior lawmaker in Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right Christian Democratic Union called on Washington to provide an explanation. "If this commando really existed and the U.S. government knew about it but didn't notify our government then this would be a very grave incident," said the lawmaker, Wolfgang Bosbach.
His concerns were echoed in the US by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. "This really is part of an ongoing investigation that I can't talk about, but even the fact that there is that allegation, I think, gives one a picture of the degree to which Blackwater has been completely enmeshed in these secret operations," Schahowsky said. "And, you know, at least the allegation that they are, I think is disturbing enough. And there is an investigation going on around activities like that."
http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/157-civilian-security/705-jeremy-scahill-did-cia-send-a-blackwater-hit-team-to-germany
Hey what about Lebanon,.. and the dark skinned terror group Hezbollah ? Ain't this Fascist Red Neck yet done heard about Hezbollah ?
ReplyDeleteAs new government directives are now mandating full body (terahertz) scanning (or pat down searches) of our private parts on all US inbound flights, a recent research article in arXiv points to potential negative health effects from the new technology. Terahertz waves penetrate non-conducting material like clothing, but then they deposit energy in the skin. Now researchers at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory have shown that terahertz radiation may be able to do some serious damage to the DNA it encounters when bouncing off your body
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Mickey Mouse rushed to the hospital with extensive frostbite of the ears, snow fell in Orlando, Florida, days wind chill of 20 degrees.
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http://www.wptv.com/content/news/topstories/story/snow-flurries-florida-west-palm-beach-cold-weather/pPsvoMfkBEeMT7hLd3JrIw.cspx
What do you get when you put two blondes in the freezer?
ReplyDeleteFrosted flakes.