Posted on March 29, 2008 by butnerblogspot
The results of this study did not surprise me one bit. Consider aspartame for a moment, if you haven’t heard of it’s dangers watch Sweet Misery. People using Aspartame have reported some of the same symptoms as Parkinson’s for years.
BioMed Central
Family Study Bolsters Link Between Pesticides And Parkinson’s
For the first time, the association between Parkinson’s disease [...]
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Posted on March 29, 2008 by butnerblogspot
Sebelius signs bill to help land bio-defense facility
Kansas City Business Journal
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Friday signed legislation providing for infrastructure improvements needed to secure a National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility for the state.
Kansas is one of six finalists for the facility. The proposed site is at Kansas State University, immediately adjacent to the Biosecurity [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by butnerblogspot
The images in this video are breathtaking. The video is an overview of the SINGS and GLIMPSE programs of the Spitzer Space Telescope that revealed our own and nearby galaxies as never seen before.
Additional Resources for Spitzer Space Telescope:
Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) Spitzer Data
Spitzer Space Telescope - CalTech Edu
Spitzer Space Telescope - NASA
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Posted on March 27, 2008 by butnerblogspot
Part 1 - Breaking the Nuremberg Code: The US Military’s Human-Testing
Part 2 - Breaking the Nuremberg Code: The US Military’s Human-Testing
Additional Resources for your consideration:
Heather Wokusch’s website
GAO Report - Feb. 2008 - DOD and VA Need to Improve Efforts to Identify and Notify Individuals Potentially Exposed During Chemical and Biological Tests
GAO Report - 1994 - Human Experimentation
The US Military’s [...]
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Posted on March 27, 2008 by butnerblogspot
A voice of reason in this economic madness provided by Ron Paul. “The middle class is being quietly wiped out”, indeed. ”The Fed is rescuing itself from a situation the Fed created, we must abolish the Federal Reserve”.
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Posted on March 27, 2008 by butnerblogspot
Posted on March 27, 2008 by butnerblogspot
Officials Improvised To Rescue Markets;Will It Be Enough
From the Wall Street Journal
The past 10 days will be remembered as the time the U.S. government discarded a half-century of rules to save American financial capitalism from collapse.
On the Richter scale of government activism, the government’s recent actions don’t (yet) register at FDR levels. They are shrouded [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by butnerblogspot
From Reuters
Goldman Sachs forecasts global credit losses stemming from the current market turmoil will reach $1.2 trillion, with Wall Street accounting for nearly 40 percent of the losses.
U.S. leveraged institutions, which include banks, brokers-dealers, hedge funds and government-sponsored enterprises, will suffer roughly $460 billion in credit losses after loan loss provisions, Goldman Sachs economists wrote [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by butnerblogspot
Source: Counterpunch.org
Bidding War for Biowarfare Labs
The Germs Next Door
By STAN COX
What would it take to convince you that your town should play host to the world’s most feared human and animal pathogens? Believe it or not, five states are locked in fierce competition over a proposed bioterror lab that would have them doing just [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by butnerblogspot
The competition for the NBAF is heating up. Consider the following from Online Athens.
“At least one finalist - Kansas - is publicly sweetening its deal, adding more than $100 million in incentives to entice Homeland Security”.
“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently asked five finalists for the National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility to revise their proposals [...]
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