Day: February 7, 2014

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The most profitable diseases for big pharma in 2014

Fernando Kaskais

Martha Rosenberg RINF Alternative News Most of us have our guard up when it comes to direct-to-consumer drug advertising. We know the butterflies, sunsets and puppies in the TV ads are designed to distract us from words like “blood clot”, “heart attack”, “stroke”, “seizure”, “life-threatening allergic reaction” and “death.” We are aware that more than half the ads tells us why we don’t want to ask our doctor about the new wonder drug. Unbranded advertising, however, is much more insidious. Instead of selling a drug, it sells the disease driving the drug sales and sometimes doesn’t mention the drug at … Continue reading The most profitable diseases for big pharma in 2014

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Vatican claims UN child sex abuse report is ‘prejudiced’ against Catholic Church

Fernando Kaskais

The Vatican on Friday criticised a damning UN report on the Catholic Church’s handling of child sex abuse cases, saying it had “grave limits” and accusing UN committee members of following “prejudiced” views. “The recommendations published by the committee appear to present… grave limits,” spokesman Federico Lombardi said in a statement on Vatican Radio’s website, defending the efforts made to stamp out abuse. “More attention was devoted to well-known non-governmental organisations that are prejudiced against the Catholic Church and the Holy See than to the positions of the Holy See,” Lombardi said. “It makes one think the report was already … Continue reading Vatican claims UN child sex abuse report is ‘prejudiced’ against Catholic Church

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Saudi female student dies after male ambulance crew denied access

Fernando Kaskais

Outrage after university staff bar male paramedics from entering a women’s-only campus after student heart attack By Habib Toumi Manama: Thousands of Saudis vented their anger online after staff at a Riyadh university barred male paramedics from entering a women’s-only campus to assist a student who had suffered a heart attack and later died. Amna Bawazeer, a Master’s student at the College of Social Studies at King Saud University in the capital Riyadh, suffered the heart attack at 11 am at the women’s college where she was finalising her course timetable for the second semester. However, when the ambulance arrived, … Continue reading Saudi female student dies after male ambulance crew denied access

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Should coastal Britain surrender to the tides?

Fernando Kaskais

Ferocious recent storms have destroyed natural landmarks and placed communities at risk. But simply patching up our defences won’t work. Our coast is changing, and we must change with it Patrick Barkham  Before the coast became our national park and playground, we once feared the sea. It was where “beauty, horror and immensity united”, as the Romantics might put it. This phrase sprang to mind watching the church tower of Porthleven cowering behind terrifying blasts of spray this week, and seeing a section of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s South Devon railway, the engineering marvel that snakes along the south coast, reduced … Continue reading Should coastal Britain surrender to the tides?

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Amy Winehouse’s saxophonist arrested over Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death

Fernando Kaskais

A musician is amongst four people to have been arrested in connection with the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. Saxophonist and keyboard player Robert Vineberg, 57, was one of four people arrested in connection with Hoffman’s death from a heroin overdose during a raid on a New York apartment on 4th February. Vineberg has pleaded not guilty to the charge of possession of heroin with the intent to supply, and is due back in court next week. The multi-instrumentalist, who goes under the stage name Robert Aaron, is a veteran musician who has toured with some of the world’s … Continue reading Amy Winehouse’s saxophonist arrested over Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death

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Scandal: Bank Of England Encouraged Currency Manipulation By Private Banks

Fernando Kaskais

Source: Zero Hedge Raise your hands if you are surprised that, as has emerged, virtually every major bank was manipulating currencies (and everything else) whether as part of the “Bandits’ Club”, the “Cartel” or some other – until recently- secret message room. That’s what we thought. Now raise your hand if you thought the manipulation could be so pervasive, so glaring and so in your face, that even the oldest central bank – the Bank of England – and who knows how many other monetary authorities, were openly encouraging traders from these private banks to do more of the illegal … Continue reading Scandal: Bank Of England Encouraged Currency Manipulation By Private Banks

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New Google Glass app gives ‘instant dossiers’ on people you meet

Fernando Kaskais

The privacy concerns surrounding Google Glass may get even worse now that an app has been unveiled that gives users access to “instant dossiers” on people they meet. Last year, individuals in Congress asked questions about the privacy of Google’s new device, hackers were able to use the technology as a facial recognition device and an exploit was shown to be able to turn Glass into a covert surveillance device. Now an app will allow an average person to have access to the kind of information that high-powered dignitaries and CEOs have assembled by a team of aides. “Dossiers are … Continue reading New Google Glass app gives ‘instant dossiers’ on people you meet

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Endless love

Fernando Kaskais

After all these years. Photo by Chris Stowers/Panos Pictures We no longer expect passion to last a lifetime, but some couples do stay in love to the end. What’s their secret? by Aaron Ben-Zeev As a young boy, I was fascinated by romantic tragedies such as Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1856) and Amos Oz’s My Michael (1968). These novels served as cautionary tales, warning what could happen if passion withered and true love died. Take the undoing of Emma Bovary, who tries to relieve the banality of her life through a series of adulterous affairs. Ultimately rejected by her lovers … Continue reading Endless love

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The God decision

Fernando Kaskais

Christian parents teach their children to believe in God, atheists teach them not to. Who is doing the right thing? by Michael Ruse Ever since I read Richard Dawkins’s book The God Delusion (2006), one thing has stayed with me above all the fiery polemics. It is an answer that Dawkins gave in the book to a question about priestly abuse of children: ‘I replied that, horrible as sexual abuse no doubt was, the damage was arguably less than the long-term psychological damage inflicted by bringing the child up Catholic in the first place.’ In the five or six years … Continue reading The God decision

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Are Some People Immune To Cancer?

Fernando Kaskais

Steve Mehdi’s ‘Man of Steel’. Photograph: Sheffieldicon/Wikimedia Unbreakable: do superheroes, impervious to cancer, walk among us? In the 2000 M Night Shyamalan film Unbreakable, Samuel L Jackson’s character – a man born with a severe form of brittle bone disease – asks Bruce Willis’s character, ‘if there is someone like me in the world, and I am at one end of the spectrum, couldn’t there be someone else, the opposite of me at the other end? Someone who doesn’t get sick, who doesn’t get hurt like the rest of us?’ Some cancer researchers are trying to answer the same question; … Continue reading Are Some People Immune To Cancer?