The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
House staves off fiscal cliff, but more money squabbles lie ahead
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/02/politics/fiscal-cliff/index.html
I was actually hoping we would ‘go over the cliff’ and get all that extra revenue even though it was likely to result in a bit of a …
Internet Explorer flaw being exploited by ad companies, analytics firm warns
Spider.io says that vulnerability which lets mouse movements be tracked all over the screen is being used to watch users’ onscreen attention across millions of web pages
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/dec/13/internet-explorer-flaw-exploit-companies
Don’t …
HSBC, too big to jail, is the new poster child for US two-tiered justice system
DOJ officials unblinkingly insist that the banking giant is too powerful and important to subject to the rule of law
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/12/hsbc-prosecution-fine-money-laundering
HSBC was given a …
Four huge corporate power grabs possibly worse than Citizens United
These court cases offer a chilling reminder how close America has come to becoming an outright plutocracy
http://www.salon.com/2012/12/09/4_huge_corporate_power_grabs_that_never_came_to_pass/
This author chooses to use the term ‘plutocracy‘ where I …
Space firm to offer private missions to the moon
Golden Spike, a firm run by former Nasa managers, says it will be ready to fly first mission by 2020, at $1.5bn per expedition
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/dec/07/moon-mission-golden-spike
I am having troubles figuring out …
Obamacare architect leaves White House for pharmaceutical industry job
Few people embody the corporatist revolving door greasing Washington as purely as Elizabeth Fowler
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/05/obamacare-fowler-lobbyist-industry1
The revolving door spins ’round and ’round. I can’t put it any better:
…This is precisely
Court: Off-Label Drug Marketing Is ‘Free Speech’
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/FDAGeneral/36256
It is now official (unless the Supreme Court overturns it, which isn’t likely to happen), Big Pharma can now peddle any drug that made it through the FDA approval process for anything …
Ignoring the Science on Mammograms
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/ignoring-the-science-on-mammograms/
It seems there is a mammography / industrial complex now, as opposed to the ‘simpler’ healthcare / industrial complex. It is now impossible for science to intrude into the thoughts of society here in …
DOJ Mysteriously Quits Monsanto Antitrust Investigation
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/11/dojs-monsantoseed-industry-investigation-ends-thud
Funny how our government treats everything as secret now. Soon people will be going to jail (like Bradley Manning) for leaking SEC investigations. The idiotic paranoia of the top of our government …
I read an article that talked about carbon ‘reduction’ (the article isn’t really relevant to this post, so I won’t distract you with a link) and decided to climb up on my soap box for a few minutes and rant …