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Brandon Turbeville
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Labels: big brother, biometrics, India
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Asia One Health
BHOPAL, India - Indian activists have reacted in anger after 12 doctors were fined just 5,000 rupees (S$122) each for conducting secret drug trials on children and patients with learning disabilities.
The Madhya Pradesh state government said the tests had not been cleared by health authorities, and it added that the doctors refused to disclose further details citing patient confidentiality laws.
Anand Rai, a doctor who acted as a whistle-blower over the case, told AFP on Tuesday he was angered and frustrated that the scale of the punishment would not deter future illegal trials.
"The Madhya Pradesh government has now slapped a nominal 5,000-rupee penalty on the 12 government doctors who were involved in the bizarre case," he said. "The penalty was for their failure to inform about the trials."
"All drug trials were performed on patients who had gone to these government hospitals for routine treatment. It's a criminal offence to put them under drug trials without their consent."
Ajay Singh, the leader of opposition in the Madhya Pradesh assembly, described the fine as "ridiculous".
The doctors, two of whom denied any wrong-doing to AFP, are alleged to have been paid by companies to conduct trials in the central city of Indore on drugs to treat sexual dysfunction and other problems.
Labels: human experimentation, India, medical experimentation
Saturday, July 2, 2011
India Initiates 'Cars For Sterilization' Campaign - Cars Burst Into Flames
BBC
Health officials in the Indian state of Rajasthan are launching a new campaign to try reduce the high population growth in the area.
They are encouraging men and women to volunteer for sterilisation, and in return are offering a car and other prizes for those who come forward.
Among the rewards on offer is the Indian-made Tata Nano - the world's cheapest car...[Full Article]
[Webmaster - And then when they get the car, it bursts into flames.]
Another Tata Nano Catches Fire
Edmunds Inside Line
Published Apr 8, 2010
Just the Facts:
- A Nano caught fire in Gujarat this week; the fire started near the engine compartment.
- This particular Nano was owned by Tata Motors; officials said the car had no mechanical flaw. [Webmaster - Does this mean it was SUPPOSED to burst into flames?]
- Last month a Tata Nano caught fire in Mumbai as its new owner was driving it home from the dealership.
The latest incident involved a Nano owned by Tata Motors itself. Reportedly, the car was being driven to a Tata dealership in Gujarat, India. According to Bloomberg, Tata officials said the car "has no design flaw."
In March, a Nano caught fire in Mumbai while the owner and his family were driving home from the dealership. The car was reduced to ashes. Tata said it is investigating the incident.
Indian press reports have said the fires in both incidents appeared to have started in the rear, in or near the engine compartment.
In a statement to Bloomberg, Tata said, "The Nano has successfully passed the most stringent national and international safety and durability certifications."
The Nano went on sale last July in India, priced from around $2,500. Tata is planning to launch Nano sales in Europe and North America over the next two to three years.
Labels: depopulation, India, population reduction, sterilization, Tata Nano
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
U.S. Citizens' Personal Information / Privacy is Being Outsourced to India by U.S. Government
Silicon India News
Bangalore: Indian IT Service firms are in for a big lottery with the U.S. government deciding to cut more than $61 billion from their current spending levels. This will prove to be a blessing in disguise for the service firms who are betting on the U.S. government contracts as most of them are pushing hard to be a part of the $100-billion U.S. government outsourcing market. More of government sector contracts will be outsourced to Indian firms as the U.S. states look at gaining greater efficiencies by reducing costs...[Full Article]
Labels: India, outsourcing, privacy
Monday, December 13, 2010
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Labels: India, measles, vaccination, vaccine
Sunday, October 17, 2010
FBI Knew About David Headley's Terrorist Ties 3 Years Before Mumbai Attacks
Three years before Pakistani terrorists struck Mumbai in 2008, federal agents in New York City investigated a tip that an American businessman was training in Pakistan with the group that later executed the attack.
The previously undisclosed allegations against David Coleman Headley, who became a key figure in the plot that killed 166 people, came from his wife after a domestic dispute that resulted in his arrest in 2005.
In three interviews with federal agents, Headley's wife said that he was an active militant in the terrorist group Lashkar-i-Taiba, had trained extensively in its Pakistani camps, and had shopped for night-vision goggles and other equipment, according to officials and sources close to the case. The wife, whom ProPublica is not identifying to protect her safety, also told agents that Headley had bragged of working as a paid U.S. informant while he trained with the terrorists in Pakistan, according to a person close to the case.
Federal officials say the FBI "looked into" the tip, but they declined to say what, if any, action was taken. Headley was jailed briefly in New York on charges of domestic assault but was not prosecuted. He wasn't arrested until 11 months after the Mumbai attack, when British intelligence alerted U.S. authorities that he was in contact with al-Qaeda operatives in Europe...
[Full Article]Scout in Mumbai attacks was DEA informant while in terror camp, authorities say
Federal officials acknowledged Saturday that David Coleman Headley, the U.S. businessman who confessed to being a terrorist scout in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was working as a Drug Enforcement Administration informant while training with terrorists in Pakistan.
Federal officials, who spoke only on background because of the sensitivity of the Headley case, also said they suspect a link between Headley and the al-Qaeda figures whose activities have sparked recent terror threats against Europe.
The revelations came after a report Friday by ProPublica and The Washington Post that the FBI had been warned about Headley's terrorist ties three years before the Mumbai attacks. Headley was arrested 11 months after those attacks.
After he was arrested in a 2005 domestic dispute in New York City, his wife told federal investigators about his long involvement with the terrorist group Lashkar-i-Taiba and his extensive training in its Pakistani camps. She also told them he had bragged about being a paid U.S. informant while undergoing terrorist training.
Despite a federal inquiry into the tip, Headley spent the next four years doing terrorist reconnaissance around the world. Between 2006 and 2008, he did five spying missions in Mumbai scouting targets for the attack by Lashkar that killed 166 people, including six Americans...
[Full Article]Labels: David Coleman Headly, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, India, Mumbai, provocateur
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Sept 23 – In a report titled “Global Governance 2025,” experts from the U.S. National Intelligence Council and the European Union’s Institute for Security Studies project that by 2025 the United States will maintain its lead in the world power structure, but will have lost considerable ground to the next two countries on the list – emerging Asian forces China and India.
The 82-page report highlights several current and growing global threats, including climate change, economic issues, terrorism, competition for resources, and infectious diseases.
In judging the outcomes of these collective issues, the report outlines several potential scenarios that could take place by 2025, suggesting that the most likely structure in global governance will be “barely keeping afloat,” in which ad hoc institutions and solutions will be applied as new issues arise...
[Full Article]Labels: China, global governance, India, United States
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Vaccine programmes grind to a halt in India once more, when four children died after they received the measles vaccination in Lucknow. The four children were reported to have fainted soon after they were vaccinated and witnesses reported seeing the children's eyes roll back as they began to have seizures. All of the children were under the age of two years of age, with the youngest being just six months. Sadly the children died before medical aid workers could reach them.
As news of the deaths spread, immunization drives in 41 villages have been halted until further investigations have taken place.
The Indian Express stated in their article 4 children die within minutes of vaccination - www.indianexpress.com that-
"The immunisation programme was being conducted as part of the government's Jachha Bachha Suraksha Abhiyan launched on August 15. Minutes after vaccination, the children started gasping for breath."...
[Full Article]Labels: death, immunization, India, vaccination, vaccine
PUNE: If one is suffering from cold, cough, fever, diarrhoea or sore throat basically any upper respiratory illness or even an attack of asthma he/she should not take the H1N1 vaccine, said Sharad Agarkhedkar, president of the city chapter of Indian Medical Association (IMA), here on Thursday.
The IMA warning comes following the death of an H1N1 patient on August 24, 10 days after he was administered an intra-nasal vaccine in a private hospital...
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Labels: death, H1N1, India, swine flu, vaccination, vaccine
Four children in Lucknow, India, died after being administered the measles vaccine followed by a vitamin A solution on August 20.
The parents of the children allege that the deaths were due to the vaccine. The children were all from outlying villages and had been brought to the immunization camp at the Nigoha Primary Health Center in Lucknow to be vaccinated, according to TwoCircles.net...
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Labels: India, vaccination, vaccine
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