Indian Banks Need to Clarify to the Public
It has been reported recently in telegraph UK that a large scale fraud has been discovered in UK where the Credit Card swiping devices supplied by China were found to have been tampered with in such a...
View ArticleOil multinationals in “Renewable Energy”– it makes no sense.
We continue to be deluged with corporate advertising claiming that the multinational oil companies are in the vanguard in promoting the benefits of renewable energy. The latest ads from BP, the...
View ArticleFighting Poverty with Killer Eggplant
The Killer Eggplants are coming…they should arrive in 2009. I’m joking, of course. But Science Daily News reports that scientists have developed a newer genetically modified eggplant, which is now in...
View ArticleGrandmom’s Guide to Computers: Messing up my Hotmail
Don’t look now, but the new hotmail S****. No, grandmom doesn’t usually use such language, but there is no other word for it. Once upon a time, Grandmom had AOL, which made it nice and easy for her to...
View ArticleShell scores low in “The Good Companies Guide”
Of the 350 companies in the FTSE350 index I suspect that Royal Dutch Shell probably spends more on corporate advertising than most. Over the past few years there was been a steady stream of advertising...
View ArticleDon’t you just love bankers…?
No matter how bad the times are there is always someone ready to make a fast buck out of those in trouble. Are there are fewer people in more trouble than those in debt, bereft of savings, on the...
View ArticleSome generic blood pressure drugs aren’t as good, so why worry
I am aghast at the latest headline spin insisting that generic drugs are just as good as the more expensive brands. Why? Because the study cited doesn’t “prove” that at all. From the JAMA (Journal of...
View ArticleClueless in Chicago
Here in the Philippines, we figure that all politicians are on the take. Politicians visiting the Presidential palace get gift boxes containing thousands of dollars in pesos; fertilizer funds are...
View ArticleWreaths Across America
It all started in 1992 when Worrell Worcester, of the Worcester Wreath Company of Harrington Maine, estimated he would not be able to sell all of his wreaths by Christmas. Rather than discard them, he...
View Article13 airliners accused of cartel behaviour to be prosecuted
New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has filed proceedings in the High Court of New Zealand against 13 international airliners for alleged cartel  behaviour for more than seven years. Seven airline staff...
View ArticleThe Melamine Trail leads to chocolate and seafood
The list of food contaminated by melamine that originated from China keeps getting longer. The New England Journal of Medicine calls the presence of melamine in food a major public health product,...
View ArticleHow will Shell respond to the threat of an ExxonMobil takeover?
The intriguing story that ExxonMobil has Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) in its sights will send shivers down the spines of Shell’s senior executives as they plan their strategy for 2009 and beyond. It may...
View ArticleNew E-Verify Bills introduced in Arkansas, Nebraska, Indiana, and Wyoming
As anticipated, state legislatures across the country have been renewing and introducing new employment eligibility and compliance laws requiring the use of E-Verify. The latest bills to be introduced...
View ArticleObama stops rules protecting Pro Life Medical personnel
I guess I got out of the Federal government’s health system just in time. Obama has stopped the implementation of protections for medical workers who oppose abortion. It won’t get headlines,Â...
View ArticleArmenian Journalist Hopes Obama Administration Will Protect Foreign Workers...
 FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog, January 22, 2009, San Francisco — Anna Karapetian, a journalist from Armenia who in radio broadcasts funded by the U.S. government reported on human...
View ArticleWhen Medical Journals err: MMR and Iraq Death articles questioned
The esteemed British medical journal, the Lancet, has gotten a black eye in the news lately for articles that were poorly screened and were biased for political/personal reasons. The first one is the...
View ArticleWelfare Queens and the Hippocratic Oath
A couple of months ago, a physician in California who refused to perform in vitro fertilization (aka “IVF”, aka “Testtube baby”) on a lesbian was taken to court and sued for “discrimination”. He...
View ArticleSneaking Big Brother into the Stimulus package
I will leave it to the economists to figure out how using the present day credit crisis as an excuse to increase government spending will solve the world’s problems. But as a doc, I hate to tell you...
View ArticleStanford International’s Pink Sheet Investments
Stanford International Bank may not have been investing client funds in the kind of secured assets they had claimed. Among the many revelations in the unfolding scandal was the company’s majority...
View ArticleBrand issues should play a big part in Royal Bank of Scotland recovery plans
Britain’s largest casualty of the international turmoil in the banking sector has been the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) which only survives at all because it has been bailed out by the British...
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