69 Wisconsin doctors show up on Pfizer payroll -- Sixty-nine Wisconsin doctors were on the payroll of the world's largest drug company, Pfizer, during the last six months of 2009, working as speakers, consultants and researchers and pulling in more than $200,000 combined, according to a list made public by the company.
* Link to Pfizer's spin
Hundreds gather in Madison to promote raw milk sales -- The movement to legalize raw milk sales in the United States has been driven by people seeking alternatives to processed food, which they believe is unhealthy and causes diseases. "We are not ignorant people who need to be protected from ourselves," said Emily Matthews, a registered nurse who spoke at the symposium. It's a freedom-of-choice issue, according to raw milk advocates. "We are in a war, and it's not really about milk. It is about control of our food supply," said Ted Beals, a retired pathologist from Michigan.
VIDEO: Microchipping Airport Workers
Poland's National Bank President Slawomir Skrzypek Says No to IMF - Dies in Plane Crash 12 Days Later -- Poland’s economy is in “good enough shape” that the country doesn’t need to extend its Flexible Credit Line from the International Monetary Fund, the central bank said in an e-mailed statement today.
Polish Leader, 96 Others Dead in Russia Jet Crash -- The crash of an aging Russian airliner ravaged the top levels of Poland's military, political and church elite Saturday, killing the Polish president and dozens of other dignitaries as they traveled to a ceremony commemorating a slaughter that has divided the two nations for seven decades.
Big businesses winning contracts meant for small ones, groups charge -- A new skirmish is emerging in an ugly, ongoing dispute between small business advocates and the federal government over its past -- and perhaps continuing -- practice of awarding small business contracts to Fortune 500 companies. The American Small Business League in a lawsuit is accusing the General Services Administration of destroying information in a database that could help advocates trace the violations, and the league has asked a federal court in Northern California to force the government to restore the data, which spans 10 years, and to make the information public.
Ohio - Sheriff's friends benefit from foreclosures -- The foreclosure crisis that has impacted Summit County homeowners has been a financial boon for a select few friends of Sheriff Drew Alexander. Fifteen men, mostly retired police officers with little or no appraising experience, combined to earn more than $1.2 million working part time setting property values for the sheriff's office last year.
NASA's Global Hawk Completes First Science Flight -- NASA has successfully completed the first science flight of the Global Hawk unpiloted aircraft system over the Pacific Ocean. The flight was the first of five scheduled for this month's Global Hawk Pacific, or GloPac, mission to study atmospheric science over the Pacific and Arctic oceans.
Ultimate road test: Stanford's driverless Audi tests high-speed handling on Colo.'s Pikes Peak -- The U.S. Department of Defense has been developing driverless technology that allows unmanned vehicles to perform military missions without endangering soldiers. Its research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, has been sponsoring autonomous vehicle contests since 2004 with the goal of making one-third of the military's ground combat vehicles driverless by 2015.
FDA Finally Admits That Asthma Drugs Can Actually Cause Serious Asthma Attacks -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued new restrictions for four popular long-acting asthma drugs. Novartis AG's Foradil, GlaxoSmithKline's Serevent and Advair, and AstraZeneca's Symbicort, all contain an ingredient that relaxes airway muscles in the lungs which can cause asthma-related death. If not accompanied by other asthma drugs to offset this life-threatening side effect, the consequences could be fatal.
Poverty Now Rampant: Half of US Kids on Food Stamps -- Almost half of all children living in the United States will receive food stamp assistance at some point before they turn 18, according to a study conducted by researchers from Cornell and Washington Universities and published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
VIDEO: Federal Reserve BANK Con Exposed on MSNBC There is No Money
Super-High Alcohol Beer Heads to the US -- Thanks to a war between European brewing companies, it's never been easier to catch a healthy beer buzz.
'If you get too close to me with that camera, I'll take it out of your hand and ram it down your throat' -- The irony in the above video is that the man hired to protect the courthouse from “terrorists” is the one doing the terrorizing by making violent threats against law-abiding citizens.
Energy Star Rating Given to Gas Powered Clock Radio and 14 Other Bogus Products -- The Environmental Protection Agency certified that a “gas-powered clock radio” was an energy-efficient product under the government’s Energy Star program, despite the fact that neither the clock nor its manufacturer ever existed.
The Coast Guard: A Branch of the Military That is Not Subject to Posse Comitatus - Say What??? -- What branch of the military, that is not really a branch of the military, or sometimes is a branch of the military, is not subject to Posse Comitatus like the military, but gets to act like the military and prosecute civilians under military law, and is now a part of the Department of Homeland Security?
Is There Really a Recovery? -- The talking heads on all the major news shows keep telling us that the U.S. economy is experiencing a recovery.
Amid Cuts, Ohio Judge Tells Citizens to Carry Guns -- A judge in an Ohio county is urging citizens to be vigilant and carry firearms because of budget cuts to the sheriff's department.
Inkjet-Like Device 'Prints' Cells Right Over Burns -- Inspired by a standard office inkjet printer, U.S. researchers have rigged up a device that can spray skin cells directly onto burn victims, quickly protecting and healing their wounds as an alternative to skin grafts.
IMF Warns High Public Debt Tremendous Challenge -- IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said on Saturday that public debt in the advanced economies is set to increase significantly and reversing the rise would be a "tremendous" challenge.
Glenn Beck: 'Mitt Romney Could be the Only Guy That Could Win in 2012' -- Glenn Beck and radio pals Pat Gray and Stu Burguiere rattled down the list of potential Republican nominees for President in 2012 this morning, and they had some bad news for the Tea Party movement: Sarah Palin probably won’t run, Ron Paul is still and long shot, and Mitt Romney, as of now, is the GOP’s best bet.
Cable Ties Kissinger to Chile Controversy -- As secretary of state, Henry Kissinger canceled a U.S. warning against carrying out international political assassinations that was to have gone to Chile and two neighboring nations just days before a former ambassador was killed by Chilean agents on Washington's Embassy Row in 1976, a newly released State Department cable shows.
33 States Out of Money to Fund Unemployment Benefits -- With unemployment still at a severe high, a majority of states have drained their jobless benefit funds, forcing them to borrow billions from the federal government to help out -of-work Americans.
Sovereign Debt Crisis at 'Boiling Point' -- The Bank for International Settlements does not mince words. Sovereign debt is already starting to cross the danger threshold in the United States, Japan, Britain, and most of Western Europe, threatening to set off a bond crisis at the heart of the global economy.
Citigroup Bosses Under Fire for Role in Credit Meltdown -- Citigroup's board was blindsided by the collapsing mortgage market and unaware it was sitting on tens of billions of dollars of mortgage derivatives in the run-up to the financial crisis, its former bosses told a commission of inquiry.
Opium and the CIA: Can the US Triumph in the Drug Addicted War in Afghanistan? -- Alfred McCoy’s important new article (TomDispatch, posted on Global Research, April 5, 2010) deserves to mobilize Congress for a serious revaluation of America’s ill-considered military venture in Afghanistan. The answer to the question he poses in his title – “Can Anyone Pacify the World's Number One Narco-State? – is amply shown by his impressive essay to be a resounding “No!” . . . not until there is fundamental change in the goals and strategies both of Washington and of Kabul.
Big Brother Pre-Crime Quiz Used on Children -- The British government plans to collect lifelong records on all residents starting at the age of five, in order to screen for those who might be more likely to commit crimes in the future.
