Archive for October, 2008
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/october/how_do_you_think_you.php
From the page: “While the financial services industries were the first to the trough for bail-out, they wonâ€t be the only private interests standing in line for some of our taxpayers†funds. But when the private, for-profit health insurance industry comes calling, it will do so by raising premiums, denying claims and seeking to cover more Americans who wonâ€t actually need to use many medical services. There are limited ways for the health insurance giants to recoup losses, and we are the way — our money, our ability to get the care we need and our lives depend on getting healthcare out of this folly.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MIL20081029&articleId=10755
From the page: “Following on from genetic engineering, nanotechnology represents the latest high technology attempt to infiltrate our food supply. Senior scientists have warned that nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the scale of atoms and molecules, introduces serious new risks to human and environmental health. Yet in the absence of public debate, or oversight from regulators, unlabelled foods manufactured using nanotechnology have begun to appear on our supermarket shelves.
Around the world there is an increase in interest in our food, health and environment. Where are products produced, how, why, by whom, how far have they travelled, how long have they been stored etc.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3275246/Parents-to-be-fingerprinted-by-nursery-schools.html
From the page: “Parents to be fingerprinted by nursery schools
Parents are to be fingerprinted when they pick their children up from nursery school, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
By Urmee Khan
Last Updated: 1:43PM GMT 29 Oct 2008
Up to 50 nurseries and playgroups have already signed up for the new security measures, thought to be the first time parents have been targetted in this way.
Civil libertarians have branded the decision a “huge overeaction”.
The new entry system requires people who collect their children to place their finger on a scanner, to make sure that only nominated individuals can get through secure entrances.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/13/AR2005121301709.html
An old article on the militarization of American life. Its being ratched up lately, of course.
From the page: “Marshals To Patrol Land, Sea Transport
TSA Test Includes Surveillance Teams On Metro System
By Sara Kehaulani Goo – Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 14, 2005; Page A01
Teams of undercover air marshals and uniformed law enforcement officers will fan out to bus and train stations, ferries, and mass transit facilities across the country this week in a new test program to conduct surveillance and “counter potential criminal terrorist activity in all modes of transportation,” according to internal federal documents.”
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