60 Minutes Explores Developments in ‘Mind Reading’
Posted in Big Brother, Futuretech, Government, Military, New World Order, Science, Social, Surveillance, Video on Jan 14th, 2009
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The number of obese American adults outweighs the number of those who are merely overweight, according to the latest statistics from the federal government.
Numbers posted by the National Center for Health Statistics show that more than 34 percent of Americans are obese, compared to 32.7 percent who are overweight. It said just under 6 percent [...]
Not since 1945 has the hemorrhaging of jobs accelerated at such a record pace - bringing last year’s total job losses to a whopping 2.6 million and marking its highest levels since the end of World War II, the Labor Department said yesterday.
There were 2.75 million jobs lost in 1945.
At the same time, the unemployment [...]
The Good News of Our Times
Posted in Blah Blah Blah, Economy, Health, Science, Social on Dec 31st, 2008
Be prepared to see a lot of doom and gloom this week. Those year-end video and photo montages, year-in-review summaries and “a look back” reflections are inevitably gloomy even in boom times. That’s likely to be especially true in 2008, a year that, admittedly, wasn’t particularly filled with hope (Barack Obama’s campaign promises aside).
I recently [...]