ZDN — May 18th, 2010
from an email i received – full article is also available online at marketoracle.co.uk…
An example would be on the $65 ABC stock, say you placed a protective stop 20% below or $52. As the market fell on Thursday your stop was triggered at $52 and placed a market order. Because the market was falling so fast the order could not find a bid, it could have been $52, $42, $32 or .01 whatever the bid was at. Let’s say it hit at $26.75 for a 59% loss.
After the so called 16 min “glitch” ABC was back
Continue reading 16 Minutes: The May 6th, 2010 Stock Market Crash
ZDN — May 17th, 2010
from dailymail.co.uk…
Prolonged use of mobile phones over many years could increase the risk of cancer, scientists have found.
However, a landmark study by the World Health Organisation into the safety of mobiles is expected to stop short of concluding that they definitely cause cancer – because the evidence is not conclusive enough.
And, despite spending £15million investigating handsets over the past decade, the authors will admit there is a need for further research into their health effects before definitive advice can be given.
ZDN — May 17th, 2010
Children exposed to higher levels of a type of pesticide found in trace amounts on commercially grown fruit and vegetables are more likely to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder than children with less exposure, a nationwide study suggests.
ZDN — May 17th, 2010
from dailykos.com…
“A new earthquake” is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated with highly toxic pesticides. The MPP has committed to burning Monsanto’s seeds, and has called for a march to protest the corporation’s presence in Haiti on June 4, for World Environment Day.
ZDN — May 17th, 2010
from news.yahoo.com…
“We’ll have a significant reduction” in the opium production “this year,” Daud said, refusing to give further details, saying that an overall survey of this year’s output was still under way.
Afghanistan produces more than 90 percent of the world’s opium, the raw material for making heroin, mainly in the provinces of Helmand and Kandahar in the south and Farah in southwest.
“Interestingly there is a natural disease that is infecting opium in five provinces,” said Daud.
He could not confirm what disease had infected the crops but blamed it on an insect infestation. He said
Continue reading CIA Needs Your Help!: Disease ‘To Cut Afghan Opium By Up To 70%’
