Physician Kevin Patterson noticed something during his work as an internist-intensivist at the Canadian Combat Surgical Hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Afghan soldiers, police and civilians he treated had very different bodies from those of the Canadians he treated in his home country. Patterson has become convinced that the effects of urbanization are making people everywhere in the world both fatter and sicker. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/04/15/how-western-diets-are-making-the-world-sick.aspx
Iceland Defies International Bankers' Fraud Request
On April 9, the fiercely independent people of island-nation defeated a referendum that would have bailed out the UK and the Netherlands who had covered the deposits of British and Dutch investors who had lost funds in Icesave bank in 2008. http://netrightdaily.com/2011/04/iceland-declares-independence-from-international-banks/
China accused of stealing 'terabytes' of U.S. data
In a cable obtained by Reuters, U.S. investigators expressed fears about the theft of user names and passwords for State Department computers to designs for multi-billion dollar weapons systems. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/254647,china-accused-of-stealing-terabytes-of-us-data.aspx
Here's a Novel Thought, Hold the Incompetents Rresponsible for Wrecking Lives Across the Globe
Last month, the International Monetary Fund’s Independent Evaluation Office issued a remarkable report. The report quite clearly blamed the IMF for failing to recognize the factors leading up to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and to provide warning to its members so that preventive actions could be taken. http://counterpunch.org/baker04142011.html
How China and Others Are Altering Web Traffic
A proxy server is like one of those food processors you see on TV infomercials at 4am. It slices. It dices. It minces. A carrot goes in one side as a carrot, but it could come out the other side a dozen different ways. http://cryptogon.com/?p=21799
Keep Your Anti-Virus Software Up To Date
FBI dams Coreflood botnet that had infected millions of computers. http://www.zdnet.com.au/fbi-dams-coreflood-botnet-339313208.htm
Smile to the Dial Time
Piano Playing and Singing Poodle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcQai–9AHQ
Rebels Hijack Gadhafi’s Phone Network
This is a joint CIA/NSA operation, but the Wall Street Journal isn’t going there this morning. http://cryptogon.com/?p=21783
Dose of "feel good"
Deer friend protects nesting goose in cemetery http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/buffalo/article388435.ece
Misleading Medicine
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly is promoting Sarafem as a miracle pill for women suffering from PMDD, a ‘mental disorder’ not yet proved to exist. What’s more, Eli Lilly admits that Sarafem has the same active ingredient as Prozac, complete with the same dangerous side effects. http://www.antidepressantsfacts.com/misleading-medicine.htm