Cooked Squid Inseminates Woman’s Mouth -

Cooked Squid Inseminates Woman’s Mouth - 


Here’s one not for the squeamish, from South Korea: A semi-cooked squid inseminated a woman’s mouth, according to a paper published in the Journal of Parasitology. After experiencing “severe pain in her oral cavity” when she bit into her seafood, the woman spat out her meal, but continued to feel a lingering “pricking” sensation.
Doctors found that the 63-year-old woman had “small, white spindle-shaped bug-like organisms” lodged  in the mucous membrane of her tongue, cheek and gums.
Despite having been boiled, the dead squid’s live spermatophores, or sperm sacks, were alive and penetrated the woman’s mouth.  The sacks, which contain ejaculatory devices, forcefully release sperm and a “cement” that attaches the sperm to a wall.
Not to worry, calamari lovers.  Most Western-world squid preparation removes the squid’s internal organs, leaving only its muscle for eaters to enjoy, according to Danna Staaf,  who writes the blog  Squid a Day,  published on Science 2.0.
Seafood, anyone?


Read more -
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/06/15/cooked-squid-inseminates-womans-mouth/

Gary Ackerman, a Democrat from New York, reflects on his time in Congress - 'The People Have Gotten Dumber' -

Gary Ackerman, a Democrat from New York, reflects on his time in Congress - 'The People Have Gotten Dumber' - 




Retiring congressman Gary Ackerman, a Democrat from New York, reflects on his time in Congress. 


"Congressman Ackerman, you’ve been here 30 years. Can you define comity as it existed when you arrived versus how it exists now?," Bloomberg Businessweek asks.


Ackerman responds: " Your premise is that comity exists now. It may not be entirely accurate. It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It’s not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber. I don’t know that I would’ve said that out loud pre-my announcement that I was going to be leaving. [Laughter] But I think that’s true. I mean everything has changed. The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don’t know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game."


Read more - 
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/retiring-dem-people-have-gotten-dumber_647697.html

Flu vaccine production methods triggered seizures in children -

Flu vaccine production methods triggered seizures in children - 




AUSTRALIAN drug giant CSL has admitted its vaccine production methods probably triggered seizures in children, in the first results from its two-year investigation into the Fluvax fits.


But CSL refused to say yesterday if it would pay compensation to the families of children hospitalised after being immunised with Fluvax, which has been banned for pediatric use after sending one in 100 children into febrile fits in 2010.


The preliminary results of CSL's two-year investigation conclude that its manufacturing methods may have failed to fully split the viruses used to make flu vaccines.


As a result, gene fragments and lipids from "inactivated virus" -- as well as "residual whole virus or clusters of both" -- may have created higher levels of immune-stimulating hormones, known as cytokines.


Read more - 
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/health/flu-vaccine-production-methods-triggered-fits-csl/story-fn59nokw-1226403509900

Prescription Painkillers Overtake Car Crashes as Leading Cause of Accidental Death in America -

Prescription Painkillers Overtake Car Crashes as Leading Cause of Accidental Death in America - 




Prescription painkillers have topped car accidents as the leading cause of accidental death in the U.S., according to a new report.


Research by the National Center for Health Statistics show that drug poisoning is now a more common way to go than being killed on the road.


It follows recent celebrity deaths from painkillers, including Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger and Anna Nicole Smith.


Read more - 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2162050/Prescription-painkillers-beat-car-crashes-leading-cause-accidental-death-America.html

The U.S. Economy By The Numbers: 70 Facts That Barack Obama Does Not Want You To See -

The U.S. Economy By The Numbers: 70 Facts That Barack Obama Does Not Want You To See - 


Why is the economy going to collapse?  Have you ever been asked that question?  If so, what did you say?  Sometimes it is difficult to communicate dozens of complicated economic and financial concepts in a package that the average person on the street can easily digest.  It can be very frustrating to know that something is true but not be able to explain it clearly to someone else.  Hopefully many of you out there will find the list below useful.  It is a list of 70 numbers that show why we are headed for a national economic nightmare.  So why does the title of the article single out Barack Obama?  Well, it is because right now he is the biggest cheerleader for the economy.  He is attempting to convince all of us that everything is just fine and that the economy is heading in a positive direction.  Well, the truth is that everything is not fine and things are about to get a whole lot worse.  Certainly others should share in the blame as well.  Congress has been steering the economy in the wrong direction for decades, the "too big to fail" banks have turned Wall Street into a pyramid of risk, leverage and debt, and the Federal Reserve has more power over the financial system than anyone else does.  Our economy has been in decline for quite a while now, and soon we are going to smash directly into an economic brick wall.  Unfortunately, a lot of Americans are in denial about this.  A lot of people out there doubt that an economic collapse is coming.  Well, if you know someone that believes that the U.S. economy is going to be "just fine", just show them the list below


The following are 70 facts that Barack Obama does not want you to see....


$3.59 - When Barack Obama entered the White House, the average price of a gallon of gasoline was $1.85.  Today, it is $3.59.


22 - It is hard to believe, but today the poverty rate for children living in the United States is a whopping 22 percent.


23 - According to U.S. Representative Betty Sutton, an average of 23 manufacturing facilities permanently shut down in the United States every single day during 2010.


30 - Back in 2007, about 10 percent of all unemployed Americans had been out of work for 52 weeks or longer.  Today, that number is above 30 percent.


32 - The amount of money that the federal government gives directly to Americans has increased by 32 percent since Barack Obama entered the White House.


35 - U.S. housing prices are now down a total of 35 percent from the peak of the housing bubble.


40 - The official U.S. unemployment rate has been above 8 percent for 40 months in a row.


42 - According to one survey, 42 percent of all American workers are currently living paycheck to paycheck.


48 - Shockingly, at this point 48 percent of all Americans are either considered to be "low income" or are living in poverty.


49 - Today, an astounding 49.1 percent of all Americans live in a home where at least one person receives benefits from the government.


53 - Last year, an astounding 53 percent of all U.S. college graduates under the age of 25 were either unemployed or underemployed.


60 - According to a recent Gallup poll, only 60 percent of all Americans say that they have enough money to live comfortably.


61 - At this point the Federal Reserve is essentially monetizing much of the U.S. national debt.  For example, the Federal Reserve bought up approximately 61 percent of all government debt issued by the U.S. Treasury Department during 2011.


63 - One recent survey found that 63 percent of all Americans believe that the U.S. economic model is broken.


71 - Today, 71 percent of all small business owners believe that the U.S. economy is still in a recession.


80 - Americans buy 80 percent of the pain pills sold on the entire globe each year.


81 - Credit card debt among Americans in the 25 to 34 year old age bracket has risen by 81 percent since 1989.


85 - 85 percent of all artificial Christmas trees are made in China.


86 - According to one survey, 86 percent of Americans workers in their sixties say that they will continue working past their 65th birthday.


90 - In the United States today, the wealthiest one percent of all Americans have a greater net worth than the bottom 90 percent combined.


93 - The United States now ranks 93rd in the world in income inequality.


95 - The middle class continues to shrink - 95 percent of the jobs lost during the last recession were middle class jobs.


107 - Each year, the average American must work 107 days just to make enough money to pay local, state and federal taxes.


350 - The average CEO now makes approximately 350 times as much as the average American worker makes.


400 - According to Forbes, the 400 wealthiest Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans combined.


$500 - In some areas of Detroit, Michigan you can buy a three bedroom home for just $500.


627 - In 2010, China produced 627 million metric tons of steel.  The United States only produced 80 million metric tons of steel.


877 - 20,000 workers recently applied for just 877 jobs at a Hyundai plant in Montgomery, Alabama.


900 - Auto parts exports from China to the United States have increased by more than 900 percent since the year 2000.


$1580 - When Barack Obama first took office, an ounce of gold was going for about $850.  Today an ounce of gold costs more than $1580 an ounce.


1700 - Consumer debt in America has risen by a whopping 1700% since 1971.


2016 - It is being projected that the Chinese economy will be larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2016.


$4155 - The average American household spent a staggering $4,155 on gasoline during 2011.


$4300 - The amount by which real median household income has declined since Barack Obama entered the White House.


$6000 - If you can believe it, the median price of a home in Detroit is now just $6000.


$10,000 - According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of all American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, and 29 percent of all American workers have less than $1,000 saved for retirement.


49,000 - In 2011, our trade deficit with China was more than 49,000 times larger than it was back in 1985.


50,000 - The United States has lost an average of approximately 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.


56,000 - The United States has lost more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001.


$85,000 - According to the New York Times, a Jeep Grand Cherokee that costs $27,490 in the United States costs about $85,000 in China thanks to all the tariffs.


$175,587 - The Obama administration spent $175,587 to find out if cocaine causes Japanese quail to engage in sexually risky behavior.


$328,404 - Over the next 75 years, Medicare is facing unfunded liabilities of more than 38 trillion dollars.  That comes to $328,404 for each and every household in the United States.


$361,330 - This is what the average banker in New York City made in 2010.


440,00 - If the federal government began right at this moment to repay the U.S. national debt at a rate of one dollar per second, it would take over 440,000 years to totally pay it off.


500,000 - According to the Economic Policy Institute, America is losing half a million jobs to China every single year.


2,000,000 - Family farms are being systematically wiped out of existence in the United States.  According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of farms in the United States has fallen from about 6.8 million in 1935 to only about 2 million today.


$2,000,000 - At this point, the U.S. national debt is rising by more than 2 million dollars every single minute.


2,600,000 - In 2010, 2.6 million more Americans fell into poverty.  That was the largest increase that we have seen since the U.S. government began keeping statistics on this back in 1959.


5,400,000 - When Barack Obama first took office there were 2.7 million long-term unemployed Americans.  Today there are twice as many.


16,000,000 - It is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls.


$20,000,000 - The amount of money the U.S. government was spending to create a version of Sesame Street for children in Pakistan.


25,000,000 - Today, approximately 25 million American adults are living with their parents.


40,000,000 - According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades if current trends continue.


46,405,204 - The number of Americans currently on food stamps.  When Barack Obama first entered the White House there were only 32 million Americans on food stamps.


88,000,000 - Today there are more than 88 million working age Americans that are not employed and that are not looking for employment.  That is an all-time record high.


100,000,000 - Overall, there are more than 100 million working age Americans that do not currently have jobs.


$150,000,000 - This is approximately the amount of money that the Obama administration and the U.S. Congress are stealing from future generations of Americans every single hour.


$2,000,000,000 - The amount of money that JP Morgan has admitted that it will lose from derivatives trades gone bad.  Many analysts are convinced that the real number will actually end up being much higher.


$147,000,000,000 - In the U.S., medical costs related to obesity are estimated to be approximately 147 billion dollars a year.


295,500,000,000 - Our trade deficit with China in 2011 was $295.5 billion.  That was the largest trade deficit that one country has had with another country in the history of the planet.


$359,100,000,000 - During the first quarter of 2012, U.S. public debt rose by 359.1 billion dollars.  U.S. GDP only rose by 142.4 billion dollars.


$454,000,000,000 - During fiscal 2011, the U.S. government spent over 454 billion dollars just on interest on the national debt.


$1,000,000,000,000 - The total amount of student loan debt in the United States recently surpassed the one trillion dollar mark.


$1,170,000,000,000 - China now holds approximately 1.17 trillion dollars of U.S. government debt.  Yet the U.S. government continues to send them millions of dollars in foreign aid every year.


$1,600,000,000,000 - The amount that has been added to the U.S. national debt since the Republicans took control of the U.S. House of Representatives.  This is more than the first 97 Congresses added to the national debt combined.


$5,000,000,000,000 - The U.S. national debt has risen by more than 5 trillion dollars since the day that Barack Obama first took office.  In a little more than 3 years Obama has added more to the national debt than the first 41 presidents combined.


$5,000,000,000,000 - What the real U.S. budget deficit in 2011 would have been if the federal government had used generally accepted accounting principles.


$11,440,000,000,000 - The total amount of consumer debt in the United States.


$15,734,596,578,458.59 - The U.S. national debt as of June 7, 2012.


$200,000,000,000,000 - Today, the 9 largest banks in the United States have a total of more than 200 trillion dollars of exposure to derivatives.  When the derivatives market completely collapses there won't be enough money in the entire world to fix it.


Read more - 
http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_U.S._Economy_By_The_Numbers%3A_70_Facts_That_Barack_Obama_Does_Not_Want_You_To_See/20114/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Will Toledo, Ohio Be The First Major American City To Be Owned By China? -

Will Toledo, Ohio Be The First Major American City To Be Owned By China? - 

It has been said that there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.  One way is by using the sword, and the other is by using debt.  Fortunately, America is not in danger of being conquered by the sword right now, but America is being conquered by debt.  The borrower is the servant of the lender, and today we owe China more than a trillion dollars.

By running a gigantic trade deficit with us, China has been able to become incredibly wealthy.  We have begged them to lend us back some of the money that we have sent them and this has made them even wealthier.  Now China is gobbling up U.S. real estate and U.S. assets at an astounding pace.  In fact, some cities are in danger of becoming completely dominated by Chinese ownership.  One of those cities is Toledo, Ohio.  In many “rust belt” areas, real estate can be had for a song, and the Chinese are taking full advantage of this.  America was once the wealthiest nation on earth, but now we are drowning in debt and we are being sold off in chunks to the highest bidder.  Is this the legacy that we are going to leave for future generations?


According to a recent Fortune article, Chinese investors have been very busy purchasing distressed commercial real estate in Toledo lately….


In March 2011, Chinese investors paid $2.15 million cash for a restaurant complex on the Maumee River in Toledo, Ohio. Soon they put down another $3.8 million on 69 acres of newly decontaminated land in the city’s Marina District, promising to invest $200 million in a new residential-commercial development. That September, another Chinese firm spent $3 million for an aging hotel across a nearby bridge with a view of the minor league ballpark.


Toledo is being promoted to Chinese investors as a “5-star logistics region“.  From Toledo it is very easy to get to Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Columbus and Indianapolis.


With a population of 287,000, Toledo is only the fourth largest city in Ohio, but it lies at the junction of two important highways — I-75 and I-80/90. “My vision is to make Toledo a true international city,” Toledo’s Mayor Mike Bell told the Toledo Blade.


For some reason the Chinese seem to be very interested in that area of the country.  Last month, I wrote about how one Chinese group plans to develop a 200 acre “China city” just 40 minutes away from Toledo….


A Chinese group known as “Sino-Michigan Properties LLC” has bought up 200 acres of land near the town of Milan, Michigan.  Their plan is to construct a “China City” with artificial lakes, a Chinese cultural center and hundreds of housing units for Chinese citizens.  Essentially, it would be a little slice of communist China dropped right into the heartland of America.  This “China City” would be located about 40 minutes from both Detroit and Toledo, and it would be marketed to Chinese business people that want to start businesses in the United States.


Read more - 
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/will-toledo-ohio-be-the-first-major-american-city-to-be-owned-by-china

How Missile Tracking Cameras Are Remaking The NBA -

How Missile Tracking Cameras Are Remaking The NBA - 




The technology was originally developed to track missiles. Now, SportVU systems hang from the catwalks of 10 NBA arenas, tiny webcams that silently track each player as they shoot, pass, and run across the court, recording each and every move 25 times a second. SportVU can tell you not just Kevin Durant’s shooting average, but his shooting average after dribbling one vs. two times, or his shooting average with a defender three feet away vs. five feet away. SportVU can actually consider both factors at once, plus take into account who passed him the ball, how many minutes he’d been on the court, and how many miles he’d run that game already.
It’s big data in a relatively small pool, and it has the potential to impact everything about basketball, from how it’s coached, to how it’s recruited--even to how we calculate a player’s worth. Sportvision, another sports data collection system based on the same underlying big data idea, has already massively impacted baseball since it came into play in 2006. Now SportVU is generating more basketball data than anyone ever has. And its potential has only begun to be tapped--health care researcher Kirk Goldsberry, who recently wowed the stats geeks at MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference with his spatial analysis to determine the best shooters, has begun mining SportVU’s data for new insights. But only 10 teams in the NBA are currently using SportVU. Four of them made the playoffs. One even made it to the finals: The Oklahoma City Thunder. 
Read more -
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670059/moneyball-20-how-missile-tracking-cameras-are-remaking-the-nba