(SteveWatson) – A scientist with the World Health Organisation has testified, during ongoing hearings in Strasbourg, France, that the swine flu pandemic was part of an overblown “angst campaign”, devised in conjunction with major drug companies to boost profits for vaccine manufacturers. Read the rest of this entry »

(Guardian) – US pharmaceutical giant Baxter accused of overcharging Medicaid programmes Read the rest of this entry »

Bullet-makers are working around the clock, seven days a week, and still can’t keep up with the nation’s demand for ammunition. Read the rest of this entry »

The business of death and destruction is booming for weapons manufacturers operating in the United States of America. Read the rest of this entry »

Supply can’t keep up with demand, a trend that began after election Read the rest of this entry »

(NYPost) – It’s been a hilarious August, watching media supporters of President Obama’s health care package puzzle over the obscure motivations of the noncompliant Americans rallying against it. Read the rest of this entry »

(A. True Ott, PhD, ND) – Novartis Patent Detailed And Mass Murder Charged Read the rest of this entry »

I recently visited Central America. Everyone I talked with there was convinced that the military coup that had overthrown the democratically-elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, had been engineered by two US companies, with CIA support. And that the US and its new president were not standing up for democracy. Read the rest of this entry »

(Yahoo) – Get ready to roll up your sleeve three times for flu shots this fall. That’s right, three times. This year’s flu season is shaping up to be a very different one. Most people will need one shot for the regular seasonal flu and probably two others to protect against the new swine flu. Read the rest of this entry »

The media is reporting on the governments preparation for a massive vaccination campaign this fall for the hyped up H1N1 hybrid flu virus. Read the rest of this entry »

(BBC) – The swine flu virus has reached 160 countries and could infect two billion people within the next two years, the World Health Organization has said. Read the rest of this entry »

When I attended the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s Shooting, Hunting Outdoor Trade Show in Orlando, Fla., last Jan­uary, there was a completely different atmosphere among the 1,700 firearms-related manufacturers and the thousands of dealers that attended. Read the rest of this entry »

(BBC) – Global military spending rose 4% in 2008 to a record $1,464bn (£914bn) – up 45% since 1999, according to the Stockholm-based peace institute Sipri. Read the rest of this entry »

Federal health officials said Friday that they will set aside $1 billion to jump-start commercial development of a vaccine against the new H1N1 flu virus now spreading worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »

The United States won’t necessarily have the upper hand in seeking an adequate supply of swine flu vaccines, since much of U.S. vaccine manufacturing is done overseas. Read the rest of this entry »

US car giant Chrysler is to file for bankruptcy after talks on its future broke down. Read the rest of this entry »

U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water — contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation. Read the rest of this entry »

If left to the soft kill eugenicists in control of the government, healthy organic food produced by independent farmers will soon be a thing of the past. Read the rest of this entry »

(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration needs to improve its oversight of vitamins and other dietary supplements as reports of consumers experiencing side effects continue to rise, a government report concluded. Read the rest of this entry »

HONG KONG — Nissan Motor joined Toyota, Mazda and Mitsubishi on Monday in forecasting a loss for the current financial year, and announced it was cutting 20,000 workers in one of the most aggressive cutbacks so far by a Japanese company since the start of the global downturn. Read the rest of this entry »

I have to confess that I have fallen into “Japan bad news” syndrome, in that I expect bad news out of Japan and therefore did not focus enough on the details. And while I do not aspire to covering every financial news story (that’s what the MSM is for), the latest figures paint a grim picture, even by our new, desensitized standards.

It wasn’t simply that December was truly awful, but it came on top of a nearly-as-bad November. From Bloomberg:

Japanese manufacturers cut production an unprecedented 9.6 percent last month, deepening a recession that’s expected to be the worst in the postwar era. Read the rest of this entry »