Showing posts with label Corporate Ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corporate Ethics. Show all posts

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Econ 101 - Everything You Ever Needed To Know About Globalization, Media Concentration And Corporate Personhood



Thursday, July 24, 2008

Guess Who's Coming To Bohemian Grove... 2008 Guest List

According to the guest list, this year's attendees include George H. W. Bush, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, several former CIA directors and Paul Pelosi, Nancy's husband. Also attending are two members of the Grateful Dead, one of whom is camping with the elder Bush.
Courtesy of Indybay, IndyMedia



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Bohemian Grove 2008 Guest List REVEALED


Activists Take 9/11 Truth to Elite's Summer Retreat

July 23, 2008
truthaction. org

http://truthaction. org/forum/viewtopic. php?t=3873

Activists from truthaction. org have obtained the official guest list for Bohemian Grove's 2008 midsummer encampment along with a map of the Grove's facilities. According to the guest list, this year's attendees include George H. W. Bush, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, several former CIA directors and Paul Pelosi, Nancy's husband. Also attending are two members of the Grateful Dead, one of whom is camping with the elder Bush.

The Bohemian Grove, located in the small town of Monte Rio in Sonoma County, California is notorious for its annual summer retreats for the rich and powerful during which participants kick back, relax and enjoy a simulated child sacrifice called "Cremation of Care". The Grove is strictly off-limits to the uninvited and much effort is made to maintain secrecy. Workers at the retreat must sign a comprehensive confidentiality agreement and the entrance to the 2,700 acre getaway is guarded not only by private security but also the local Sheriff's department, at taxpayers expense.

Statement and more in full @ Indymedia





Saturday, March 29, 2008

Upping the anti (depressant) - Everything you'd want to know about the non-functionality of anti-depressants - Log base 2

H/T to Brad DeLong @ Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Economist Brad DeLong's Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based Semi-Daily Journal, who had this to say about Log base 2:

Nick Barrowman gave his weblog a somewhat deceptive name:

Log base 2: perspectives on history, science, technology, politics, language, and culture from Nick Barrowman.

So he tries to recover:

Friday, March 28, 2008

























Upping the anti (depressant)

A paper on antidepressants by Kirsch and co-authors published last month in PLoS Medicine has received a lot of attention. The antidepressants studied are the six most widely prescribed approved between 1987 and 1999: Prozac, Paxil, Effexor, Serzone, Zoloft, and Celexa.

The Editors' Summary explains:
The researchers obtained data on all the clinical trials submitted to the FDA ... They then used meta-analytic techniques to investigate whether the initial severity of depression affected the HRSD [Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression] improvement scores for the drug and placebo groups in these trials. They confirmed first that the overall effect of these new generation of antidepressants was below the recommended criteria for clinical significance. Then they showed that there was virtually no difference in the improvement scores for drug and placebo in patients with moderate depression and only a small and clinically insignificant difference among patients with very severe depression. The difference in improvement between the antidepressant and placebo reached clinical significance, however, in patients with initial HRSD scores of more than 28—that is, in the most severely depressed patients. Additional analyses indicated that the apparent clinical effectiveness of the antidepressants among these most severely depressed patients reflected a decreased responsiveness to placebo rather than an increased responsiveness to antidepressants.
The press simplified it further. The MSNBC headline was "Antidepressants may not help many patients". The Guardian announced: "Prozac, used by 40m people, does not work say scientists".