Efficacy and effectiveness of influenza vaccines: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Prof Michael T. Osterholm PhD et al … Background: No published meta-analyses have assessed efficacy and effectiveness of licensed influenza vaccines in the USA with sensitive and highly specific diagnostic tests to confirm influenza. – The LancetDominant Social Theme: Vaccines are great. Use them...Read More
Support wanes for conscript system in Europe … Austrians vote on army conscription this weekend, an issue on which voters in Switzerland might also be polled this year. In the post-Cold War era various European countries have grappled with the topic, each in their own way. Seventeen countries in Europe have abolished or suspended conscription in the 21st century. Only six European Union memb...Read More
West faces 'decades' of conflict in N Africa … David Cameron has raised the spectre of Britain being sucked into the fight against terrorists in north Africa for "decades" after the Algerian hostage crisis ended with more than 80 reportedly dead. The UK prime minister said on Sunday that the growing threat of Islamist militants in the Sahel region of Africa required "a...Read More
Efficacy and effectiveness of influenza vaccines: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Prof Michael T. Osterholm PhD et al … Background: No published meta-analyses have assessed efficacy and effectiveness of licensed influenza vaccines in the USA with sensitive and highly specific diagnostic tests to confirm influenza. – The LancetDominant Social Theme: Vaccines are great. Use them...Read More
Why No Glass-Steagall II? … Eighty years ago this month, Ferdinand Pecora, the cigar-chomping former assistant district attorney for New York City, was appointed chief counsel for the US Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. In subsequent months, the hearings of the Pecora Commission featured many sensational revelations about the practices that led to the 1930's financial crisis. &n...Read More
Bill Gates is leading a group of U.S. investors committing $1 billion for a stake in construction and fertilizer company OCI NV in one of Egypt's largest foreign currency inflows since the 2011 uprising. OCI will absorb all local stock and global depositary receipts of Orascom Construction Industries under a share exchange offer that has attracted more than $2 billion in commitments, said the...Read More
Why No Glass-Steagall II? … Eighty years ago this month, Ferdinand Pecora, the cigar-chomping former assistant district attorney for New York City, was appointed chief counsel for the US Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. In subsequent months, the hearings of the Pecora Commission featured many sensational revelations about the practices that led to the 1930's financial crisis. &n...Read More
Bill Gates is leading a group of U.S. investors committing $1 billion for a stake in construction and fertilizer company OCI NV in one of Egypt's largest foreign currency inflows since the 2011 uprising. OCI will absorb all local stock and global depositary receipts of Orascom Construction Industries under a share exchange offer that has attracted more than $2 billion in commitments, said the...Read More
Powering a thirsty world – water and energy for a world we want! … UN launches Water Cooperation 2013 … In December 2010, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 as the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation. In reflection of this declaration, the 2013 World Water Day, which will take place on 22 March 2013, also will be dedicated to water cooperation. T...Read More
Jon Stewart: "NRA is a false flag operation run by Michael Moore" … The NRA came out with a disgusting new commercial in which it called Obama an "elitist hypocrite" because the Secret Service protects his daughters, while the President doesn't think turning our schools into prisons with armed guards is the answer. Here is the sick new NRA commercial: http://aattp.org...Read More
Powering a thirsty world – water and energy for a world we want! … UN launches Water Cooperation 2013 … In December 2010, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 as the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation. In reflection of this declaration, the 2013 World Water Day, which will take place on 22 March 2013, also will be dedicated to water cooperation. T...Read More
Jon Stewart: "NRA is a false flag operation run by Michael Moore" … The NRA came out with a disgusting new commercial in which it called Obama an "elitist hypocrite" because the Secret Service protects his daughters, while the President doesn't think turning our schools into prisons with armed guards is the answer. Here is the sick new NRA commercial: http://aattp.org...Read More
Remarkable economic transformation in India, China: Federal Reserve chairman … Emerging markets like India and China are witnessing a remarkable transformation, despite a slowdown in economic growth, lifting millions of people out of poverty, Bernanke said. Emerging markets like India and China are witnessing a remarkable transformation, despite a slowdown in economic growth, lifting million...Read More
Remarkable economic transformation in India, China: Federal Reserve chairman … Emerging markets like India and China are witnessing a remarkable transformation, despite a slowdown in economic growth, lifting millions of people out of poverty, Bernanke said. Emerging markets like India and China are witnessing a remarkable transformation, despite a slowdown in economic growth, lifting million...Read More
Mario Draghi: the closest thing the Eurozone has to a leader? Who leads the Eurozone? Having "saved" the euro last year, I think that title belongs to Mario Draghi, head of the ECB. This article looks at why that is, and why it's less than ideal. … Having "saved" the euro last year, I think that title belongs to Mario Draghi, head of the ECB. This article looks at why...Read More
Michael Savage: Don't trust feds on flu shot … 'Not everything your government tells you is true' … Asking listeners to put aside his political orientation for a moment, talk-radio host Michael Savage questioned the federal government's recommendation that citizens get a flu shot. … "Did Harry Reid take a flu shot? Did Barack Obama take a flu shot? Did Barack...Read More
Mario Draghi: the closest thing the Eurozone has to a leader? Who leads the Eurozone? Having "saved" the euro last year, I think that title belongs to Mario Draghi, head of the ECB. This article looks at why that is, and why it's less than ideal. … Having "saved" the euro last year, I think that title belongs to Mario Draghi, head of the ECB. This article looks at why...Read More
Michael Savage: Don't trust feds on flu shot … 'Not everything your government tells you is true' … Asking listeners to put aside his political orientation for a moment, talk-radio host Michael Savage questioned the federal government's recommendation that citizens get a flu shot. … "Did Harry Reid take a flu shot? Did Barack Obama take a flu shot? Did Barack...Read More
Beleaguered Canadian miner Eldorado Gold Inc. (TSX:ELD) (NYSE:EGO) is facing renewed antagonism to its projects in Greece.France Press reports that hundreds of demonstrators marched in Athens on Jan. 12 against Eldorado's Hellas gold project in the northern region of Halkidiki, as locals claim it is causing irreversible damage to the environment.Several citizens' groups, backed by the radical lef...Read More
The government of El Salvador has asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) to help the country push for a halt of Vancouver-based Goldcorp's (TSX: G), (NYSE: GG) Cerro Blanco gold-silver project in southern Guatemala, reports La Informaci??n (in Spanish).The article says El Salvador's human rights defense attorney general (PDDH), Oscar Luna, claims Cerro Blanco mine will greatly...Read More