Tag Archives: Hypocrisy

FDA Tells Google-Backed 23andMe to Halt DNA Test Service

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“23andMe Inc., the Google Inc.-backed DNA analysis company co-founded by Anne Wojcicki, was told by U.S. regulators to halt sales of its main product because it’s being sold without ‘marketing clearance or approval.’  The Saliva Collection Kit and Personal Genome Service, or PGS, tells users whether they carry a disease, are at risk of a disease and would respond to a drug. Most of the uses fall into the category of a medical device and require Food and Drug Administration approval, the agency told the Mountain View, California-based company in a Nov. 22 letter made public today.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-25/fda-tells-google-backed-23andme-to-halt-dna-test-service.html

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Watchers watched: Boston cops grumpy over GPS trackers on cruisers

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“While some police officers would like to be able to use GPS trackers on suspects without a warrant, being on the receiving end of surveillance is taken quite differently. Boston cops are concerned about the pending use of trackers on their cars.  The devices would monitor the movement of cruisers in real time, and their adoption comes following negotiations between the city and the patrol officers union.  GPS tracking would give dispatchers more flexibility in managing units, reducing response times. It will also help enforcing rules on patrol zones the patrolmen operate under. But some officers are concerned with the new level of scrutiny they are going to face.”

http://rt.com/usa/boston-police-gps-trackers-938/

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Jeffrey Tucker: Has the Fed Met Its Match?

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“‘It is hard to imagine a world,’ says the unimaginative study, ‘where the main currency is based on an extremely complex code understood only by a few and controlled by even fewer, without accountability, arbitration, or recourse.’  Blink, blink. This is the Fed talking here. Talk about complex. When the Fed governor speaks in Congress, he (soon she) speaks in such a blithering array of econ-babble that no one dare respond, for fear of seeming ignorant. It’s like the first day of an Intro to Physics class. The professor asks if there are questions, and everyone sits in terror.  In a half-century of this nonsense, only Ron Paul ever really dared to ask serious questions of the Fed.”

http://lfb.org/today/has-the-fed-met-its-match/

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Global mercury ban would not affect vaccines with thimerosal

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“The treaty says that certain mercury-added products, such as batteries, lamps, switches, skin-lightening cosmetics, pesticides and thermometers, may not be manufactured, imported or exported any later than 2020.  Mercury-added dental amalgams are also to be phased out.  However, certain mercury-added products are to be exempted from the ban, including those used for military and civil protection, products with no mercury-free alternative, products used in religious or traditional practices, and vaccines containing thimerosal, an ethylmercury preservative.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/19/treaty-on-mercury-would-not-affect-vaccines-with-t/

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Germany, France, Spain collaborate with Britain in mass surveillance

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“Spy agencies in Germany, France, Spain and Sweden are carrying out mass surveillance of online and phone traffic in collaboration with Britain, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden.  Britain’s GCHQ electronic eavesdropping centre — which has a close relationship with the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) — has taken a leading role in helping the other countries work around laws intended to limit spying, the British newspaper said. The report is likely to prove embarrassing for governments including those of Germany and Spain, which had denounced earlier reports that the NSA was electronically spying on their citizens.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/02/germany-france-spain-carry-out-mass-online-and-phone-surveillance-in-collaboration-with-britain-snowden-files/

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Justin Raimondo: Surveillance Is for Peons

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“The political class – in this country and around the world – reserves to itself certain perks and privileges, one of which is the absolute sanctity of their esteemed persons: for example, when they commit a crime, as Glenn Greenwald showed so exhaustively in his book on the subject, they very rarely go to jail. Even if they’re convicted of a crime in a court of law they nearly always manage to get off with a slap on the wrist – that is, if they don’t elude punishment altogether.  These worthies like to think they enjoy a similar immunity when it comes to living under the watchful eye of the all-seeing Surveillance State, and here we come to the real source of Feinstein’s fury.”

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/10/29/surveillance-is-for-peons/

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Obama Administration Uses Pirated Code on Healthcare.gov

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“The new Obamacare website Healthcare.gov has had its fair share of problems over the past weeks, and the trouble continues.  As it turns out, the Government website uses the open source softwareDataTables, which is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library. While using open-source software is fine, the makers of Healthcare.gov decided to blatantly remove all references to its owners or the original copyright license.  In other words, they simply took the open-source software and are passing it off as their own, a clear violation of the GPL v2 and BSD (3-point) licenses DataTables uses.”

http://torrentfreak.com/obama-administration-uses-pirated-code-on-healthcare-gov-131019/

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What Government Schools Can Teach Us About Government Health Care

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“Imagine a politician proudly advertising his new plan to underpay teachers! Yet this is the argument made by single-payer health care boosters, with the word “doctors” implicitly substituted for ‘teachers.’ The Economic Policy Institute (EPI), for example, has published several studies arguing that public school teachers are somehow paid below-market levels and that this has dire consequences for classroom learning. But the EPI also touts its public health insurance plan, which would use ‘concentrated purchasing power’ to force provider prices below market levels. In other words, underpaying teachers is bad, but underpaying doctors is good.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/10/23/what-government-schools-can-teach-us-about-government-healthcare/

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Richard Branson reveals ‘tax exile’ move to private Caribbean island

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“When Sir Richard Branson was asked his opinion this year on wealthy individuals quitting Britain to escape high taxes, he appeared quite adamant. ‘I don’t think people should be leaving the UK because of our tax system,’ he was reported as saying in April.  Now The Sunday Times can reveal Branson himself has opted for life as a tax exile on his private island of Necker in the Caribbean, a perhaps surprising move given the rest of his comments on the British tax system.  ‘It is very reasonable, especially if you compare it to a country like France, where it is 80% for some high earners,’ he said. ‘In the current climate, it would be wrong if George Osborne [the chancellor] lowered taxes for the rich.'”

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/People/article1326921.ece

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Use This Investing Secret of the Rich and Famous …

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“In just the last month, British serial entrepreneur and bleeding heart Richard Branson admitted that he has been living as a de-facto tax exile in the British Virgin Islands for the last seven years. Although he denies tax considerations as a motivation for the move to his private island, Necker, he recently sold his British residence to his kids and declared himself a non-resident.  U2 frontman Bono, net worth $600 million, recently slammed big oil companies for allegedly failing to pay taxes in poor countries where they operate. Days earlier he had defended U2’s own use of offshore companies to reduce taxes in response to the Irish government’s decision to cap artists’ tax-free income at €250,000.”

http://thesovereigninvestor.com/2013/10/18/use-investing-secret-rich-famous/

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