statism watch

Jo Macfarlane, Daily Mail
April 12, 2009

Microchips in pills could soon allow doctors to find out whether a patient has taken their medication.

The digestible sensors, just 1mm wide, would mean GPs and surgeons could monitor patients outside the hospital or surgery.

Developers say the technology could be particularly useful for psychiatric or elderly patients who rely on a complicated regime of drugs – and are at risk if they miss a dose or take it at the wrong time.

It could also be used for the chronically ill, such as people with heart disease, to establish whether costly drugs are working or whether they are causing potentially dangerous side effects.

The sensors could even remind women to take the Pill if they forget.

The ‘intelligent’ medicine works by activating a harmless electric charge when drugs are digested by the stomach.

This charge is picked up by a sensing patch on the patients’ stomach or back, which records the time and date that the pill is digested. It also measures heart rate, motion and breathing patterns.

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Flashback: Supporters defy law, buy plane ticket for Montrealer stuck in Sudan | Ottawa balks at travel permit for man trapped in Sudan | Family of Canadian stranded by no-fly list to make public appeal

Paul Koring, Globe and Mail
April 12, 2009

Claims that UN travel ban is thwarting exiled Canadian’s return seem at odds with reality of international rules

The government has unveiled new and unprecedented reasons barring the return of Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik, claiming every country he might fly over on the way home from Khartoum needed to give explicit permission.

In a federal-court filing, the government says its hands are tied and that neither Mr. Abdelrazik’s Charter right as a citizen to enter Canada nor the UN’s specific travel-ban exemption permitting those on its terrorist blacklist to return home requires it let him fly back to his family in Montreal.

It says the UN travel ban “prohibits other states” from allowing Mr. Abdelrazik or anyone else on what’s called the 1267 list of al-Qaeda suspects “to enter into and travel through their territories which includes land, airspace and territorial waters.”

But that claim, filed in federal court by Justice Department lawyers, is seemingly at odds with the reality of UN rules.

Only two days before Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon rescinded the government’s written promise to issue Mr. Abdelrazik a travel document to fly home, another person on the 1267 blacklist flew from London to Nairobi after the British government received a routine exemption from the UN Security Council 1267 Committee.

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Conveniently, this will put Goldman-Sachs way out in front. Not surprising, considering their alumni engineered the entire legal regime surrounding this.

Flashback: Which Banks Will Rule? | Wall Street’s Big Takeover | Obama appoints architects of economic collapse, financial globalism to economic team | Behind the panic: Financial warfare over the future of global bank power | Goldman-Sachs Alumni Hold Reins of Financial System | What Really Killed Bear Stearns? | Bilderberg Seeks Bank Centralization Agenda | Banks face “new world order,” consolidation: report

James Doran, The Guardian
April 12, 2009

Goldman Sachs plans to issue new shares to help repay the $10bn loan granted under the US Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program

Goldman Sachs is this week preparing to tap shareholders for as much as $6bn (£4bn) to repay the $10bn it was given by the US government as part of the Treasury Department’s $700bn bailout scheme.

A source close to Goldman Sachs told the Guardian that details of the cash call would most likely come after the banking group reveals its first quarter earnings in New York, on Tuesday which are expected to be strong.

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