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Today in History Friday November 20
1620 - Peregrine White was born aboard the Mayflower in Massachusetts Bay. White was the first child to be born of English parents in present-day New England.
1789 - New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1889 - Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born. Hubble discovered and developed the concept of an expanding universe. In 1924 he proved the existence of galaxies other than our own.
1901 - The second Hay-Pauncefoot Treaty provided for construction of the Panama Canal by the U.S.
1943 - During World War II, U.S. Marines began their landing on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands.
1959 - Britain, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and Sweden met to create the European Free Trade Association.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis ended. The Soviet Union removed its missiles and bombers from Cuba and the U.S. ended its blockade of the island.
1967 - The Census Clock at the Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, went past 200 million.
1969 - The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phase out of the substance.
1983 - An estimated 100 million people watched the controversial ABC-TV movie "The Day After." The movie depicted the outbreak of nuclear war.
1989 - Over 200,000 people rallied peacefully in Prague, Czechoslovakia, demanding democratic reforms.
1990 - The space shuttle Atlantis landed at Cape Canaveral, FL, after completing a secret military mission.
1993 - The U.S. Senate passed the Brady Bill and legislation implementing NAFTA.
1998 - Afghanistan's Taliban militia offered Osama bin Laden safe haven. Osama bin Laden had been accused of orchestrating two U.S. embassy bombings in Africa and later terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon.
1998 - Forty-six states agreed to a $206 billion settlement of health claims against the tobacco industry. The industry also agreed to give up billboard advertising of cigarettes.

Gold's 'Money' Value is $4,000 to $11,000: Market Strategist -- Federal Reserve officials on Thursday downplayed the consequences of the falling U.S. dollar, pointing to deflation as a lingering threat. The dollar has fallen 7 percent so far this year and likely has become a funding vehicle for bets on higher-yielding currencies in growing emerging markets. So how should investors guard their portfolios? Jim Rickards, senior managing director of market intelligence at Omnis, shared his insights. “Very few people think of gold as money. If you think of gold as money, that level is a range between $4,000 and $11,000 an ounce—that’s the price gold will have to be to support the money supply.”

WHO has confirmed that H1N1 swine flu has mutated in Ukraine, but not to worry -- If this Ukraine flu is not a big concern as the WHO claims, then why is it turning the lungs of victims black and raising internal temperatures inside of the lungs of victims to over 130 degrees Fahrenheit?

Looks like the pneumonic plague has spread to Poland -- Reports are coming in of people dying of symptoms similar to the pneunomic plague in an Emergency Room in Bialystok in the north east of Poland.
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 * Flu attacks Poland -- The AH1N1 virus has claimed a fourth victim in Poland and the number of those suffering flu-like symptoms has increased dramatically.
* Schools & hospitals in Poland closing down over flu fears -- A school in the southern town of Lipnik closed down after 75 per cent of its students failed to turned up for classes on Wednesday morning. School activities have also been suspended in several other cities.

Radical measures can't stop swine flu -- Quarantines, school closures and other steps to contain swine flu have not worked.

VIDEO: Medical doctor that recommended H1N1 vaccine retracts and says don't take it!

Aspirin kills 400% more people than swine flu -- Did you know that more than four times as many people are killed each year by common NSAID painkillers like aspirin?

The association of acetaminophen, aspirin and ibuprofen with respiratory disease and lung function

Vaccinations are causing impaired blood flow, (Ischemia), chronic illness & disease -- It is now proven that we are all being harmed by repeat vaccinations. This evidence must be circulated broadly in light of the imminent Fall, 2009 plan to turn North American schools into MASS vaccine centers to institute triple flu vaccine to us all. Children will be the first to be injected with experimental flu vaccines. The entire vaccine industry, as it turns out, has been experimental. We did not know that we were causing damages – for us all.

Moldovan soldiers given onions & garlic to fight swine flu -- Moldova's army is feeding its soldiers onions and garlic to help them ward off swine flu. Defense Ministry chief doctor Col. Sergiu Vasislita says about 0.9 ounces (25 grams) of onions and 0.5 ounces (15 grams) of garlic will be added to each soldier's daily diet. That roughly corresponds to a small onion and a couple of garlic cloves.

Microbiologist nabbed by FBI after warning that vaccine is a bioweapon -- Watch the actual videos as he is surrounded, gassed, and tasered. Joseph Moshe is a microbiologist who had called a radio station, and stated that the H1NI vaccine is actually a bio-weapon, and is the DEPLOYMENT OF A PLAGUE. The official propaganda line is that he had threatened the President, although there is no evidence that this is true.

Facebook friend turns into Big Brother...cops use facebook to bust underage drinkers -- Student was among at least eight people who said Wednesday they had been cited for underage drinking based on photos on social networking sites.

Obama may put Americans under World judge's power -- President Obama has dispatched a delegation this week to The Hague to explore issues involving the United States' possible participation in the International Criminal Court, an organization critics charge could be used to prosecute Americans under international legal standards for actions that are not crimes in the U.S.

House attacks Fed, Treasury -- Panel Votes for Tighter Political Rein on Central Bank; Some Call for Geithner to Quit.

Link found between thyroid cancer and residents proximity to Indian Point nuclear plant -- An article just published in the International Journal of Health Services has found that thyroid cancer rates in the four counties surrounding the Indian Point nuclear power plant, which is located in Buchanan, New York (south of Peekskill, and 24 miles north of New York City) - Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester -- are the highest in New York State.

New York readies for the Gitmo Five -- While some believe that trying the so-called "Gitmo Five" in New York City will result in more terrorist attacks in the city, Stratfor does not anticipate a marked increase in the number of plots or attacks.

Our chief industry: War -- The economy may be collapsing, but the war business is booming.

Hasan's supervisor warned Army in 2007 -- Two years ago, a top psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center was so concerned about what he saw as Nidal Hasan's incompetence and reckless behavior that he put those concerns in writing. NPR has obtained a copy of the memo, the first evaluation that has surfaced from Hasan's file.

House Panel Votes to Advance Ron Paul's Plan on Fed Audits -- A U.S. House committee advanced a proposal to remove a three-decade ban on congressional audits of Federal Reserve interest-rate decisions, a measure backed by a lawmaker who has called for the abolition of the central bank.

Microchipping of US citizens to be mandatory? -- Already, It Looks As if Micro-chipping of US Citizens Will Soon Be Mandatory. Read More...

Idahoans see meteor explosion -- People flooded the phone lines Tuesday night as they called 911 trying to figure out what flashed in the middle of the night. It was actually a meteor traveling at unbelievable speeds.

IBM reveals the biggest artificial brain of all time -- IBM has revealed the biggest artificial brain of all time, a simulation run by a 147,456-processor supercomputer that requires millions of watts of electricity and over 150,000 gigabytes of memory. The brain simulation is a feat for neuroscience and computer processing—but it's still one- eighty-third the speed of a human brain and is only as large as a cat's. Will we ever get to truly capable artificial intelligence? PM reports from IBM's Almaden research center to find out.

Venezuela prepares for conflict with US in Columbia -- Hugo Chavez has ordered his troops to prepare for a possible conflict with US-backed Columbia.

Critical information may be missing from prescription drug labels -- Prescription drug use, sadly, is rising among people in the United States with one in six using three or more medications. Of special interest then is a recent commentary published last month in The New England Journal of Medicine which states that the FDA has critical information when a drug is approved that may not make it onto the drug label or package inserts that come with the medications.

GSK and Nabi announce agreement for NicVAX®, a vaccine for nicotine addiction -- GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA (GSK) and Nabi Biopharmaceuticals (Nabi) today announced an exclusive worldwide option and licensing agreement for a nicotine conjugate candidate vaccine (NicVAX®), an investigational vaccine for the treatment of nicotine addiction and the prevention of smoking relapse, as well as for the development of a second generation nicotine vaccine.

UK: Dozens of birds drop dead during country show -- Autopsy show hemorrhaging in lungs.

Rise in soldier suicides leaves Pentagon looking for answers -- American soldiers are committing suicide in the greatest numbers since official records began in 1980, with the US Army at a loss to explain the phenomenon since a third of the dead have never been deployed in combat.

Women put 515 chemicals on their face & body every day in beauty regime -- A survey found women typically use up to 13 products, most of which contain more than 20 ingredients, including additives. Perfumes contain an average cocktail of 250 ingredients, the study found, with some containing as many as 400.

Design flaw in CFL bulbs-they become dimmer over time -- Energy-saving lightbulbs being used in millions of homes could lose up to 40 per cent of their brightness over the next few years, engineers warned yesterday. A design flaw in compact florescent bulbs mean they become dimmer as they age.


Today in History Thursday November 19
1794 - The U.S. and Britain signed the Jay Treaty, which resolved the issues left over from the Revolutionary War.
1850 - The first life insurance policy for a woman was issued. Carolyn Ingraham, 36 years old, bought the policy in Madison, NJ.
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
1893 - The first newspaper color supplement was published in the Sunday New York World.
1895 - The "paper pencil" was patented by Frederick E. Blaisdell.
1919 - The U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles with a vote of 55 in favor to 39 against. A two-thirds majority was needed for ratification.
1928 - "Time" magazine presented its cover portrait for the first time. Japanese Emperor Hirohito was the magazine's first cover subject.
1954 - Two automatic toll collectors were placed in service on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey.
1959 - Ford Motor Co. announced it was ending the production of the unpopular Edsel.
1969 - Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon.
1985 - U.S. President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva.
1993 - The U.S. Senate approved a sweeping $22.3 billion anti-crime measure.
1998 - The impeachment inquiry of U.S. President Clinton began.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed the most comprehensive air security bill in U.S. history.
2002 - The U.S. government completed its takeover of security at 424 airports nationwide.
2003 - Eight competing designs for a memorial to the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center were unveiled. One design would be built at the site of the World Trade Center.

Raw Cranberry Sauce  Recipe -- Be sure to check out the other recipes in our "recipe" section.  Send in your favorite recipe and we may add it to our collection!!

Air Force Adds Kids to Pentagon's Mandatory H1N1 Vaccine Program -- About 25,000 children in on-base Air Force daycare centers will be forced to receive the H1N1 vaccine or face being barred from school, Truthout has learned following reports from concerned parents.

Swine flu deception & disinformation exposed -- There has been a flurry of contradictory swine flu events reported here and from Ukraine this early fall. These coincided with a CBS news program releasing information that very few reported swine cases actually tested positive for H1N1. CBS's state by state survey discovered that less than 5 percent of flu cases reported in most American states were confirmed as H1N1. In most states less than half the reported cases were not even a flu of any type!

Video coverage from Russia Today on Ukraine talks about the spraying

Biolabs multiplying like rabbits...a clear & present danger -- Earlier this year, during an audit of the nation's largest Level-4 BioSafety Lab (BSL-4) at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, 9,220 vials of ebola, anthrax, botulinum, equine encephalitis virus, and other deadly germs were discovered in the proverbial dusty old storage area. No one even knew the vials existed and thus no one knows for sure whether any are missing.

State Budget Shortfalls and Safety Deposit Boxes -- The United States has long been a socialistic country that thinks they are capitalistic. For decades America has had a centrally planned economy through the unconstitutional legal tender laws and illegal Federal Reserve which attempts intervention of both the money supply and cost of money. Government holds no solutions and is only making the situation worse the same way they did with the Great Depression.

Record numbers go hungry in the US -- Government report shows 50m people unable to put food on the table at some point last year.

Food insecurity state by state -- A new report from the US Department of Agriculture highlights the millions of Americans suffering from food insecurity. Find out how they compare from state to state.

10 states face imminent bankruptcy -- Ten states are facing imminent bankruptcy, confounding any possibility of economic recovery as tax revenues continue to decline and unemployment increases nationwide, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports. Those states in fiscal peril include California, Arizona, Rhode Island, Michigan, Oregon, Nevada, Florida, New Jersey, Illinois and Wisconsin.

On the lighter side: Turnpike turkey transfixes New York/New Jersey -- Meet Tammy the Turnpike Turkey. She made the Jersey City/Liberty Park Exit 14B toll plaza of the New Jersey Turnpike her home for months through noon today, defying several attempts over a couple of weeks by Turnpike staff and state wildlife people to move her out. The turkey hung around the toll booths, walked the lanes, pottered around the grass at the side of the toll admin buildings, and even alighted on the roofs of collectors' cars in the plaza carpark.

Cancer industry desperately needs mammogram screenings to recruit patients and generate repeat business -- Any time you threaten to take away repeat customer from the businesses that make up the cancer industry, you're in for a political fight. After the United States Preventive Services Task Force released new recommendations advising against mammograms for women under 50 (and recommending only bi-annual screenings after that), the cancer industry went berserk. Mammograms, you see, are the bread and butter of the for-profit cancer industry.

Hawaii: Paramedics called to Sacred Hearts after swine flu vaccinations given -- A "handful" of Sacred Hearts Academy students were taken to Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children after receiving swine flu shots or nasal spray at the school this morning, school principal Betty White said. Read More...

Artificial snowstorm in China kills 38 -- Officials have said the two storms in Beijing were artificially induced, sparking anger among capital-area residents, but the extent of the weather manipulation efforts remained unclear.

Court: Army Corps liable for Katrina flooding -- The Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a shipping channel linking New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico led to catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Katrina, a federal court ruled Wednesday.

UK-Secret CCTV cameras fitted INSIDE people's homes to spy on neighbors outside -- CCTV cameras are being fitted inside family homes by council 'snoopers' to spy on neighbors in the street outside, it was revealed today. The £1,000 security cameras have been placed inside properties but are trained on the streets to gather evidence of anti-social behavior.

Congress members asked where in the Constitution does it mandate health care? --Read the embarrassing & aggravating answers.

Iodine prevents breast cancer -- Fortunately, preventing breast cancer is easy, and iodine is one of the key nutritional strategies for accomplishing precisely that. Here, we bring you an extremely informative collection of information about how iodine helps prevent breast cancer. You'll learn how it works, which different sources of iodine are available today, and which books to read to learn more.

Alternative cancer treatments info center website -- (save this info before they ban it)!!

Tests find Bisphenol A in canned foods -- Extensive tests carried out by Consumer Reports finds wide range of bisphenol A (BPA) levels in a variety of canned soups, juice, tuna, and green beans. Now Consumer Reports' latest tests of canned foods, including soups, juice, tuna, and green beans, have found that almost all of the 19 name-brand foods we tested contain some BPA. The canned organic foods we tested did not always have lower BPA levels than nonorganic brands of similar foods analyzed. We even found the chemical in some products in cans that were labeled "BPA-free."

Grand Canyon uranium mine challenged -- A mining company's plans to reopen a long-dormant uranium mine near the Grand Canyon without an updated environmental review could damage the water, wildlife and "iconic landscapes" of canyon country, environmental groups say in Federal Court.

Executive Order 13519 Establishment of financial fraud task force

Latest flu numbers from the Ukraine -- This Blog is strictly about what is going on in the Ukraine and possibly spreading in the area.

Ukraine swine flu burns lungs -- British scientists suspect that swine flu virus has mutated in Ukraine. Some doctors say that flu in the country has shown unprecedented symptoms, creating the effect of “burnt” lungs, the Daily Mail reports.

If H1N1 joins with the bird flu, pandemic may be much worse -- When swine flu erupted this spring in the southwestern United States and Mexico, it had been 40 years since the last flu pandemic. The outbreak has dispelled any illusion that pandemic influenza belonged to a bygone era, like smallpox, polio or scarlet fever. But we haven't seen how bad things might yet get.

Aerosol spraying, weaponized viruses & Baxter

US wants China to buy into its small banks -- Chinese and U.S. regulators are negotiating a pact aimed at encouraging Chinese financial institutions to buy into small and medium-sized banks in the United States, bankers briefed on the plan said on Tuesday.

The CIA's secret drone war -- Back in May, C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta said something that high-level C.I.A. and administration officials have rarely acknowledged publicly either before or since: that controversial unmanned aerial vehicles—or "drones," as they're commonly called—were the "only game in town" for taking out Al Qaeda in Pakistan.

Teens help SWAT team practice -- As part of a training exercise for SWAT personnel, about 70 students, including volunteers from El Dorado and Yorba Linda high schools, joined police officers from the North County SWAT Team at Yorba Linda High School Sunday.

Swat team decends on school in Pottstown PA over misunderstanding-check out the photos...all over basically nothing -- A misunderstanding about the visit of a parent to West-Mont Christian Academy's elementary school led to the evacuation and search of the school building Tuesday morning.

Government website says stimulus created jobs in non existent districts -- The federal website that tracks spending from the Obama administration's $787 billion economic stimulus program reports that the program has created thousands of jobs in congressional districts that don't exist.

Mexican border city groups call for UN peacekeepers -- Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world.

US occupied Iraq, Afghanistan among world's most corrupt countries -- US-occupied Afghanistan is the world’s second most corrupt country—after Somalia, where no government has functioned for two decades—while Iraq is the fourth worst, according to a report released by an international watchdog group.

Pedal powered laptops in Afghanistan -- Pedal power laptop is a pedal powered machine that uses nothing but pedal power to operate the laptop. The system is set up so that just about anyone with two legs would be able to power the laptop and they claim that even a third grader can step up to the pedal power laptop computer and get to work with no problems.

NSA is giving Microsoft some help on Windows7 security -- Other software makers have turned to government agencies for security advice, including Apple, which makes the Mac OS X operating system.

Website: The non-GMO project -- Our shared belief is that everyone deserves an informed choice about whether or not to consume genetically modified products, and our common mission is to ensure the sustained availability of non-GMO choices.

The wrong arm of the law...how the fed criminalize legal activities -- A new book reveals how US federal prosecutors twist the law to criminalize legal activities, with connivence from the media.

Something fun: strange facts about household products

Today in History Wednesday November 18
1477 - William Caxton produced "Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres," which was the first book to be printed in England.
1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer became the first American to sight the continent of Antarctica.
1865 - Samuel L. Clemens published "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" under the pen name "Mark Twain" in the New York "Saturday Press."
1883 - The U.S. and Canada adopted a system of standard time zones.
1903 - The U.S. and Panama signed a treaty that granted the U.S. rights to build the Panama Canal.
1928 - The first successful sound-synchronized animated cartoon premiered in New York. It was Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie," starring Mickey Mouse.
1969 - Apollo 12 astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. and Alan L. Bean landed on the lunar surface during the second manned mission to the moon.
1987 - The U.S. Congress issued the Iran-Contra Affair report. The report said that President Ronald Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrongdoing by his aides.
1993 - American Airlines flight attendants went on strike. They ended their strike only 4 days later.
1997 - The FBI officially pulled out of the probe into the TWA Flight 800 disaster. They said the explosion that destroyed the Boeing 747 was not caused by a criminal act. 230 people were killed.
1997 - First Union Corp. announced its purchase of CoreStates Financial Corp. for $16.1 billion. To date it was the largest banking deal in U.S. history.

Find a Thrift Shop near you -- TheThriftShopper.Com is a one-stop web destination for all your thrift shopping needs. Search for thrift stores in our national thrift store directory, join our online thrifting community, and learn more about thrift shopping!

Airplanes sprayed mysterious substance over Ukraine days before pneumonic plague outbreak -- 5 Sources confirms this and the local newspapers of Kiev also received hundreds of phone calls from residents and business owners close to the area the planes were spraying the suspicious substance. Not only that but local businesses and retailers were "advised" to stay indoors during the day by the local authorities.

Pneumonic plague United States Patent #7572449-anything to do with the Ukraine? -- "What is more interesting is why was this patent filed in August this year. Maybe its just coincidence but we felt like putting out there so people can decide for themselves."

Back in September Chicago scientist researching plague dies from it -- A University of Chicago researcher died ept. 13, at the Medical Center's Bernard Mitchell Hospital from an infection which may be attributable to a weakened laboratory strain of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes the plague.

Increase in GM crops, resistant weeds lead to dramatic rise in pesticide use -- The widespread use of genetically modified (GM) crops engineered to tolerate herbicides has led to a sharp increase in the use of agricultural chemicals in the U.S. This practice is creating herbicide-resistant "super weeds" and an increase in chemical residues in U.S. food.

Medicinal properties of sage revealed -- Of all the culinary herbs, sage is perhaps the one with the broadest range of medicinal uses. As you'll see in the collection of quotes about sage shown below, sage is anti-hypertensive, anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial; plus it helps cleanse your blood and may even prevent Alzheimer's disease.

New Zealand tops Denmark as world's least corrupt nation -- New Zealand was on Wednesday named the world's least corrupt nation out of a list of 180 countries, unseating Denmark after a year in which the global recession and ongoing conflicts proved challenging.

US Army suicides set to hit new high in 2009 -- Suicides in the U.S. Army will hit a new high this year, a top general said on Tuesday in a disclosure likely to increase concerns about stress on U.S. forces ahead of an expected buildup in Afghanistan.

Farmers not invited to world food summit? -- World farmers are not part of the official delegations at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) food summit on food security that opened here Monday. But they came anyhow to express their views, since, they say, it is their communities that are most impacted by the food crisis.

Indian Point nuclear plant puts public health at grave risk -- Indian Point is the site of two large nuclear reactors operating since the mid-1970s. Because Indian Point's federal licenses will expire in several years, Entergy Nuclear of Jackson, Miss., which owns the reactors, has asked federal regulators to extend them for another 20 years.

Senators blame HHS for mishandling H1N1 vaccine effort -- Senators on the Homeland Security Committee scolded Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Tuesday for overly optimistic estimates of pandemic H1N1 flu vaccine supplies. (and these people want to manage our health care?)

China questions costs of US health care reform -- Guess what? It turns out the Chinese are kind of curious about how President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform plans would impact America’s huge fiscal deficit. Government officials are using his Asian trip as an opportunity to ask the White House questions. Read detailed questions...

US Army wants armed spy bots in intercontinental ballistic missiles -- The problem: The US Army—purveyors of all things camouflage green— thinks that spy planes are too slow to recognize remote battlegrounds. The solution: Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles loaded with weaponized spy bots. The side-effect: World War III.

Nanoparticles used in common household items cause genetic damage in mice -- Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles, found in everything from cosmetics to sunscreen to paint to vitamins, caused systemic genetic damage in mice, according to a comprehensive study conducted by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

India plans fingerprint IDs for billion citizens -- India's 1.16 billion people are each to receive their own identity number under a monumental plan designed to cut corruption and improve distribution of state benefits.

VIDEO: Woman pastor- reporter dragged away by Obama security -- A woman whom is a reporter for the Georgia Insider and a Pastor of a Church in Ga. was manhandled by Obama security thugs!

Federal Court bans South Carolina Christian license plate -- A US District Court judge ruled last week that the state of South Carolina violated the federal Constitution when it allowed drivers to choose a Christian-themed license plate last year. Judge Cameron McGowan Currie issued a scathing decision prohibiting the state from going forward with the plate's production. South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer was the driving force behind the legislation that created the plate. He noted that even atheists can select a "Secular Humanists of the Low Country" plate which replaces the phrase "In God We Trust" with "In Reason We Trust"

How to avoid cell phone radiation -- Concerned about cell phone radiation? Here's a list of the phones with the most powerful speakerphones and Bluetooth capability for hands- free use.

Cocaine, spices, hormones found in drinking water -- This story is part of a special series that explores the global water crisis.

Arnold Schwarzenegger visits Iraq-and aims to transfer military tactics to California -- Schwarzenegger said he wants to study counter-insurgency strategies developed by the US military when Iraq was on the brink of civil war, and bring them back to the mean streets of California, where criminal gangs rule entire neighborhoods, especially in large cities.

US military employs counterinsurgency strategy in California city -- The U.S. military is aiding police in a California conduct “counterinsurgency” operations as part of a crack down on gang related violence in the city of Salinas, a relationship officials admit pushes the boundaries of the constitutional bar on the military operating within U.S. borders but one that should be expanded nationwide.

Nations buying gold from the IMF by the ton -- The African nation of Mauritius has bought two metric tons of gold from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for nearly 72 million dollars.

US public debt tops 12 trillion for the first time -- The US public debt topped 12 trillion dollars for the first time in history, Treasury officials disclosed Tuesday, moving past a key barrier that raised hackles in Congress.

Gun sales shoot up amid America's rising fear of crime & terrorism -- Smith & Wesson expects to nearly double its annual sales in the next three to five years as demand for its firearms soars in the recession.

Hmm...this is interesting - the National Vaccine Injury website does not list the H1N1 vaccine for compensation -- Read the vaccines that are covered by the VICP.

Unsettling revelations about US leasing of Columbian military bases -- A recently publicized U.S. Air Force document presents a far more ominous explanation for massive congressional funding for the forthcoming military construction at the Colombian bases. It emphasizes the “opportunity for conducting full spectrum operations throughout South America” against threats not only from drug trafficking and guerrilla movements, but also from “anti-U.S. governments” in the region.

Indonesia to produce of H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine in November 2010! -- Indonesia plans to start mass production of swine flu vaccine in November 2010 after a clinical trial in March 2010, health minister Endang Rahayu Setyaningsih said. (that's a year away? are they expecting this flu to keep going?)

Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining -- During the last two decades, mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia has destroyed or severely damaged more than a million acres of forest and buried nearly 2,000 miles of streams.

Kilometer tax avoiders in Netherlands will face fines & jail -- People without a working kilometer tax meter in their cars once the system is introduced in 2012 face six months in jail or a fine of up to €18,500, the Telegraaf reports on Tuesday.



Today in History Tuesday November 17
1800 - The U.S. Congress held its first session in Washington, DC, in the partially completed Capitol building.
1869 - The Suez Canal opened in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and the Red seas.
1903 - Russia's Social Democrats officially split into two groups - Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.
1904 - The first underwater submarine journey was taken, from Southampton, England, to the Isle of Wight.
1913 - The steamship Louise became the first ship to travel through the Panama Canal.
1913 - In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm banned the armed forces from dancing the tango.
1922 - Siberia voted for union with the U.S.S.R.
1962 - Washington's Dulles International Airport was dedicated by U.S. President Kennedy.
1970 - The Soviet Union landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon, the Lunokhod 1. The vehicle was released by Luna 17.
1973 - U.S. President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, FL, "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
1988 - Benazir Bhutto became the first woman leader of an Islamic country. She was elected in the first democratic elections in Pakistan in 11 years.
1990 - The Soviet government agreed to change the country's constitution.

Related to today's guest NICK KOLLERSTROM - YouTube: Peter Power 7/7 Terror Rehearsal -- Live ITV News interview with Peter Power, the Managing Director of Crisis Management firm Visor Consultants who was 'actually running an exercise... based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations that happened'. Recorded at 8:20pm on the evening of the London Bombings.

New health care swastika? -- The new soft blue swastika is "Ok" with Pelosi. Here it is again, the swastika and "ok" sign. Any Enlightenment? I haven't been able to find any information on who the blue cross swastika logo belongs to. Anyone know?

Devvy Kidd: Demand Congress stop withholding taxes NOW -- We must make a thousand times more noise than the tea parties with our demand to stop the withholding tax. Allow Americans to take home what is rightfully theirs -- not some foreign banking cartel or government.

Outrageous!! Army sends infant to protective services, Mom to Afghanistan -- VENTURA, California - U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite having been told she would be granted extra time to find someone to care for her 11-month-old son while she is overseas.

Niacin beats statin drug Zetia -- Once again vitamins top the list for better health.

Thanksgiving is coming, but pantries are bare -- It's the bleak reality this year for local organizations that provide hot holiday meals to people in need.

As of the end of October 18.8 million homes in default, vacant -- About 18.8 million homes stood empty in the U.S. during the third quarter as banks seized properties from delinquent borrowers and new home sales fell in September.

Bomb proof wallpaper is stronger than the wall it papers -- The X-Flex wallpaper is really a layer of Kevlar-type material, in between sheets of "elastic polymer wrap," which provides both flex and strength so that the projectile doesn't knock the wall down. The US Army is considering using it for bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In the 'who comes up with these things?' department -- Presenting...bacon flavored envelopes!! Bacon Flavored Envelopes!!!

Watching the H1N1 flu pandemic...the story in pictures -- Health officials around the world are stepping up vaccination efforts and are closely tracking the progress of the H1N1/09 virus (often referred to as "swine flu" in the media). (the comments are also worth reading)

Millions hit by plague worse than swine flu -- A DEADLY plague could sweep across Europe, doctors fear, after an outbreak of a virus in Ukraine plunged the country and its neighbors into a state of panic. A cocktail of three flu viruses are reported to have mutated into a single pneumonic plague, which it is believed may be far more dangerous than swine flu.

Ukraine disaster -a chemical connection? -- "I was, of course, wondering whether some explanation other than a virus could account for the million cases of illness recently reported in the Ukraine." Read More...

Marine Corps logistics base cuts 170 workers -- The Marine Corps Logistics Base is slashing its workforce and started by laying off approximately 170 workers from its Maintenance Center in Yermo Monday, according to MCLB officials.

Pennsylvania to lay off 319 state workers -- The Rendell Administration said today it will issue layoff notices this week to 319 state employees in what some hope is the last big aftershock from the fiscal earthquake that rocked the state budget this year.

Specialty grocer closes after 145 years -- They just couldn't compete with the larger chain supermarkets any longer.

Would our government really start a war to stimulate the economy?

Florida's Turnpike going cashless -- Cash tolls would be eliminated on portions of Florida’s Turnpike during a switch to video tolling in 2011. Public comments about the “Toll-by-Plate” proposal will be accepted during an online meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 17, and by e-mail until Dec. 1.

Avocados offer remarkable benefits for skin health -- Avocados are Mother Nature's skin moisturizer. With their healthy fats and phytonutrients, they offer remarkable benefits to human skin -- both when eaten and when used topically.

Phthalate warning: Medications contain chemicals that "feminize" unborn baby boys -- In a bombshell finding that has far-reaching implications for society and culture, scientists at the University of Rochester have found that phthalates -- the chemical found in many vinyl and plastic products -- tends to "feminize" boys, altering their brains to express more feminine characteristics. The study has been published in the Journal of Andrology.

Drugs used in the young for mood disorders, pain & epilepsy may cause psychiatric problems as adults -- Working with infant rats in the lab, GUMC scientists tested medications that are frequently prescribed to treat epilepsy, pain and mood disorders in humans -- including children. By using behavioral tests on the animals when the rats reached adulthood, the researchers documented that the drugs did indeed cause behavioral abnormalities later in life.

Pharmaceutical lobbyists draft Congressmen's speeches -- Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies.

Information security at Los Alamos lab still weak -- Network security at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) continues to suffer from weaknesses, potentially exposing classified information such as nuclear weapon design to unauthorized users, warned congressional investigators recently.

Global warfare USA: The world is the Pentagon's oyster -- US military operations in all major regions of the World.

Illinois Democrats rally behind plan to take Gitmo prisoners -- Illinois' governor and senior senator spent yesterday feverishly trying to regain momentum on their plan to use a nearly empty maximum-security prison 150 miles from Chicago to house Gitmo detainees. (Look out! Remember Hardin Montana? American Police Force may be coming to illinois.

“An enemy combatant of his time.” -- New book tells story of Chief Standing Bear, who fought back in court and won.

Fluoridation increases infant death rates -- Fluoridation causes more premature births, one of the top causes of infant death in the USA. It poses the greatest risk to poor non -white mothers and babies. This is the finding State University of New York researchers from data spanning 1993 to 2002.

Kuwaiti company that supplies US military food is accused of fraud -- A Kuwaiti company that has been paid more than $8.5 billion to supply food and other items to the U.S. military in the Middle East has been indicted on multiple federal fraud charges, authorities announced Monday.

Where have all the protests gone? US students in limbo -- When Hemnecher Amen, a student, joined a protest outside the White House recently, it was the latest visible opposition here to US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hardly anyone took any notice.

ADL covering up for crimes of financial elite -- The ADL is accusing the New York Times Maureen Dowd of anti-semitism over a recent op-ed titled "Virtuous Bankers? Really!?!" The article about corruption on Wall Street specifically involving Goldman Sachs.

Gerald Celente: Americans losing everything to fascist oligarchs -- Gerald Celente is one of the world’s best trend forecasters. In the following 4-part radio interview, Celente blasts current political and economic “leadership” as beholden to large corporate and financial interests.

Watch out for tungsten filled fake gold bars -- If anyone were contemplating creating “fake” gold bars, tungsten [at roughly $10 per pound] would be the metal of choice since it has the exact same density as gold making a fake bar salted with tungsten indistinguishable from a solid gold bar by simply weighing it. Unfortunately, there are now more sordid details to report. Read More...

Italian MP denounces Bilderberg influence during European parliament meeting -- Mario Borghezio, an Italian member of European Parliament, dropped a bomb shell at the EU this week. In the video below, during a session of the parliament in Brussels Borghezio questioned the nominations of Bilderberg and Trilateral attendees and cohorts for the posts of EU President and EU foreign minister.

Leaked G20 documents shed light on global carbon tax -- As The Corbett Report reported, veteran Bilderberg researcher Daniel Estulin has obtained documents from inside last week’s G20 Finance Minister’s meeting in St. Andrews, Scotland.

Rice market on thin ice as record prices may return -- Rice prices may return to record levels as bad weather curbs output in major growers and forces some nations to accelerate imports, a Philippine minister and the U.S. Rice Producers Association said.

Apple patents technology that would force users to interact with ads -- Its distinctive feature is a design that doesn’t simply invite a user to pay attention to an ad — it also compels attention. The technology can freeze the device until the user clicks a button or answers a test question to demonstrate that he or she has dutifully noticed the commercial message. Because this technology would be embedded in the innermost core of the device, the ads could appear on the screen at any time, no matter what one is doing.

Millions may have to repay part of Obama tax credit -- For more than 15.4 million people, the Making Work Pay tax credit enacted as part of the $787-billion economic stimulus package could turn out to be a Making You Pay Back tax credit. The ADL is accusing the New York Times Maureen Dowd of anti-semitism over a recent op-ed titled "Virtuous Bankers? Really!?!" The article about corruption on Wall Street specifically involving Goldman Sachs.

Welcome home. War! Creating the domestic surveillance state -- How America's Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties.

Today in History MONDAY - November 16, 2009
1776 - British troops captured Fort Washington during the American Revolution.
1864 - Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea" during the U.S. Civil War.
1907 - Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state.
1915 - Coca-Cola had its prototype for a countoured bottle patented. The bottle made its commercial debut the next year.
1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations for the first time.
1952 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Lucy first held a football for Charlie Brown.
1969 - The U.S. Army announced that several had been charged with massacre and the subsequent cover-up in the My Lai massacre in Vietnam on March 16, 1968.
1973 - Skylab 3 carrying a crew of three astronauts, was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, on an 84-day mission.
1973 - U.S. President Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law.
1981 - A vaccine for hepatitis B was approved. The vaccine had been developed at Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research.
1998 - It was announced that Monica Lewinsky had signed a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with U.S. President Clinton.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court said that union members could file discrimination lawsuits against employers even when labor contracts require arbitration.
2000 - Bill Clinton became the first serving U.S. president to visit Communist Vietnam.
2004 - A NASA unmanned "scramjet" (X-43A) reached a speed of nearly 10 times the speed of sound above the Pacific Ocean.

High Flight recited by William Conrad -- Dedicated to all those who served in the Military!

Gold hits new high again -- $1128.

Obama to Congress: Hold off Fort Hood hearings -- Obama said he was not opposed to hearings — eventually. But he strongly pressed lawmakers to hold off until the probes now under way are completed.

HASAN'S APPLICATION FOR CONCEALED WEAPON PERMIT -- A Private then commissioned to 2nd Lieutenant?? How unusual that a Private would be picked to go to college and medical school??? Check out his concealed weapon permit in 1996 when he was living in Vinton, Va.
* Homeland Security Profile on Nidal Malik HASAN - NOTE: No mention of anything prior to 1997.

Patriots or extremists? -- The members of the militia in Michigan would certainly call themselves patriots. The folks at the civil rights organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center prefers to use the word "extremists."  Read More...

Continental Congress CC2009 Takes Wing -- Convening November 11 - 22, 2009. Alternative media is blacked out!! The purpose of Continental Congress 2009 is to determine a legal and peaceful means to stop the violations of The Constitution of The United States of America and to restore Constitutional governance.

BPA in plastic bottles ups male infertility risk -- Exposure to the high concentrations of Bisphenol A (BPA), found in hard, clear plastic bottles, causes to impotence in certain individuals.

Barack Obama’s Top 10 Stocks –- He Owns Stock In Gilead The Makers Of Tamiflu.

NY city security lockdown for 9-11 terrorists trial -- Call it the fortress of steel. When the murderous 9/11 Gang of Five finally lands in New York for trial, they'll face an impenetrable wall of security -- with five times the normal number of US marshals flooding lower Manhattan and a ring of marksmen watching their every move, sources said yesterday.

China has now become the biggest risk to the world economy -- At some point, American workers will rebel. US unemployment is already 17.5pc under the broad "U6" gauge followed by Barack Obama. Realty Track said that 332,000 properties were foreclosed in October alone. More Americans have lost their homes this year than during the entire decade of the Great Depression. A backlog of 7m homes is awaiting likely seizure by lenders. If you are not paying attention to this political time-bomb, perhaps you should.

Everyone in Britain could be given a personal 'carbon allowance' -- Lord Smith of Finsbury believes that implementing individual carbon allowances for every person will be the most effective way of meeting the targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. It would involve people being issued with a unique number which they would hand over when purchasing products that contribute to their carbon footprint, such as fuel, airline tickets and electricity.

British scientists testing Ukrainian "super flu" -- Some doctors have likened the symptoms to those seen in many of the victims of the Spanish flu which caused millions of deaths world-wide after the World War One. An unnamed doctor in western Ukraine told of the alarming effects of the virus. He said: 'We have carried out post mortems on two victims and found their lungs are as black as charcoal.

Swine Flu Updates -- State by State!!

H1N1 super flu plague in Ukraine sparks concern, conspiracy theories about origin -- Here's what we know with some degree of certainty about the H1N1 virus in Ukraine right now: nearly 300 people have died from the viral strain, and over 65,000 people have been hospitalized (the actual numbers are increasing by the hour). The virus appears to be either a highly aggressive mutation of the globally-circulating H1N1 strain, or a combination of three different influenza strains now circulating in Ukraine. Some observers suspect this new "super flu" might be labeled viral hemorrhagic pneumonia (meaning it destroys lung tissue until your lungs bleed so much that you drown in your own fluid), but that has not been confirmed by any official sources we're aware of.

An Avalanche Of Reports Of Adverse Reactions To The H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine –- And Yet World Health Authorities Continue To Insist That It Is Safe!

Ontario: Deadly Swine Flu surge kills 24 people in 72 hours -- A deadly Swine Flu surge in Ontario has killed 24 people in a 72-hour period, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada. Up until Nov. 10, Ontario's death toll stood at 37. The new total of deaths in Ontario is now 61, the highest in Canada.

We can't sit back & allow the loss of our freedoms: Judge Napolitano -- We elect the government. It works for us. As we watch the Democrats' plans for health care take shape, we can only ask how did our government get so removed, so unbridled, so arrogant that it can tell us how to live our personal lives?

Side by side comparisons of major health care proposals -- This side-by-side compares the leading comprehensive reform proposals across a number of key characteristics and plan components. Included in this side-by-side are proposals for moving toward universal coverage that have been put forward by the President and Members of Congress.

New fears of 3M chemicals -- Three new studies show a link between Scotchgard-type chemicals in ground water and high cholesterol in human blood.

Welcome home solider...now shut up -- War crimes are collective in nature. Especially in wars based on fraud, soldiers are expected to lie - to their country, to their community, even to themselves. The silencing process begins on the battlefield in the presence of officers, power-holders who seek to nullify the perceptions and personal experience of troops under their command. Read More...

New prison wing at Bagram AFB in Afghanistan cost $60 million -- "The new prison wing cost some $60 million to build ... and is meant to be part of a new era of openness and transparency," Bays said. Bays said the extended prison could hold up to 1,000 detainees, but was at present holding around 700 inmates, including 30 foreign prisoners.

Microchip included in health bill? -- "The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the ‘registry’) to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and outcomes data on each device that—‘‘(A) is or has been used in or on a patient; and ‘‘(B) is a class III device; or ‘‘(ii) a class II device that is implantable.” In “real world speak”, according to this report, this new law, when fully implemented, provides the framework for making the United States the first Nation in the World to require each and every one of its citizens to have implanted in them a radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchip for the purpose of controlling who is, or isn’t, allowed medical care in their country.
Related Articles:
* Text of bill...go to bottom of page 1001 and continue into pg.1002
* Comments: Microchip to link all your records

Farmers, ranchers fighting back against FDA tyranny over animal farms -- A bill that would grant the FDA expanded authority to inspect farms has come under fire from ranchers and farmers concerned about increased government interference in their operations.

Farmers scramble to finish harvest from hell -- Wet weather has caused widespread crops problems including mold and diseases. All across the Midwest, crops are higher in moisture, creating harvest glitches, which means grain can't be stored or processed properly. Count on higher food prices in the coming months.

Vaccination: Federal Health Agencies Continue to Deceive Americans -- Congressional Report on a Vaccine Mercury-Autism Link Ignored for Six Years.

What Depleted Uranium weapons have done in Iraq -- Iraqi former battle zone sees abnormal clusters of infant tumours and deformities.
Related Articles:
* Deformed babies in Fallujah -- Letter to the UN from Iraq.
* Petition to help deformed babies in Iraq -- Help Deformed Children in Fallujah.

WHO planning guide for mass gatherings & pandemic

1.25 million contract mystery flu in Ukraine as cases also spike in Russia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Serbia, Norway, India & Canada -- The latest numbers out of Ukraine indicate that 1.25 million people have now contracted what is being called "the mystery flu". Over 65,000 of those have required hospitalization and 239 are officially reported to be dead.

Paraguayan village sprayed with toxic chemicals after land dispute -- Following an overturned eviction last week, an Ava Guarani community in Paraguay’s Itakyry district was sprayed with toxic chemicals, most likely pesticide, resulting in nearly the entire village needing medical treatment.

Major Hasan Of Fort Hood -- A Patsy In A Drill Gone Live?

Portable 'pain ray' raises fears of non lethal weapons proliferation to be used against civilians -- Israeli researchers have developed a portable device that causes excruciating sensations of burning and can be built for just $250,000, raising fears that even the world's poorest, most oppressive governments will now be able to use advanced non-lethal weapons on their civilian populations.

Signing of Columbia bases deal could set stage for 'expeditionary warfare' -- After several months of secrecy and controversy, on October 30th the US and Colombia signed an agreement to allow the United States military extensive access to seven Colombian bases, notwithstanding serious concerns about true intentions and eventual consequences of the deal.

From the Federal Register...plans to increase spying on all financial transactions -- FinCEN is issuing this notice of proposed rulemaking to amend the
relevant Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) information sharing rules to allow certain foreign law enforcement agencies, and State and local law enforcement agencies, to submit requests for information to financial institutions.

Record cold in Alaska this week...40 to 50 below temps! -- A powerful storm brought winds over hurricane force to southern England Saturday. Most locations in southern England recorded winds of 60-70 mph, including London.

Chinese earthquake caused by HAARP device? -- Benjamin Fulford investigates a mysterious plasma weapon seen prior to the Niigata earthquake in July 2007 and Red, White & Blue HAARP lights near the epicenter prior to the recent quake in China.

Car parts made from hemp -- PSA, the French manufacturer for Peugeot and Citroen, has recently initiated its Green Materials Plan. This plan intends to increase car parts made from natural materials 600 percent by 2015. They are making a few parts now that are based on flax and hemp.


Today in History FRIDAY - November 13, 2009
1775 - During the American Revolution, U.S. forces captured Montreal.
1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in which he said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
1805 - Johann George Lehner, a Viennese butcher, invented a recipe and called it the "frankfurter."
1909 - 250 miners were killed in a fire and explosion at the St. Paul Mine at Cherry, IL.
1927 - The Holland Tunnel opened to the public, providing access between New York City and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River.
1933 - In Austin, MN, the first sit-down labor strike in America took place.
1940- The Walt Disney movie "Fantasia" had its world premiere at New York's Broadway Theater.
1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.
1956 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.
1971 - The U.S. spacecraft Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, Mars.
1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC.
1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly acknowledged that the U.S. had sent "defensive weapons and spare parts" to Iran. He denied that the shipments were sent to free
hostages, but that they had been sent to improve relations.
1998 - Monica Lewinsky signed a deal with St. Martin's Press for the North American rights to her story about her affair with U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000, without an apology or admission of guilt, to throw out her sexual harassment lawsuit.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed an executive order that would allow for military tribunals to try any foreigners captured with connections to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. It was the first time since World War II that a president had taken such action.

Brasscheck TV: New growth industry: X-raying Americans -- Have you seen the new walk through x-ray machines proposed for airports? Well...You ain't seen nothing yet. Check out the new X-Ray device for Ferry's. "Someone is getting rich off this nonsense and with the money made you can bet they can buy a lot of public officials to approve this hyper-expensive junk security."

Muslims decry move to seize Houston mosque -- Houston spiritual center among U.S. buildings federal prosecutors link to Iran. The U.S. government on Thursday moved to seize more than $500 million in assets from a New York-based foundation accused of being a front for the Iranian government, including a building that houses the Islamic Education Center of Houston. Read More...

Martin Noakes - New Song/Video - Don't Take The Swine Flu Jab

San Bernardino County declares swine flu emergency -- San Bernardino County public health officials have declared a state of emergency due to H1N1 flu, one in a series of federal, state and local declarations intended to position authorities to deal with people sickened by the new flu strain. Local officials hope that by declaring an emergency, they will be first in line for vaccines and other resources when available.

Seasonal Flu Shots Don’t Protect Against Swine Flu, Study Says -- Seasonal flu shots didn’t protect against the new swine flu strain that’s now responsible for 99.6 percent of U.S. infections, according to a federal study.

New account of Ft Hood shooting may put another officer in spotlight -- It has emerged that a previously unheralded police sergeant may have fired shots that ended attack.

Conflicts of interest? Dr Mehmet Oz owns 150,000 options shares in vaccine technology company -- Joyce covered this article yesterday but now read the follow-up: ** Company tries to deny they are involved with vaccines & attack Mike Adams for the above article...he fights back with proof!

How UN redefined 'pandemic' to heighten alarm over H1N1 -- In light of a perceived swine flu outbreak, the World Health Organization raised its influenza pandemic alert to its second highest level in May – but evidence reveals the agency may have made it easier to classify the flu outbreak as a pandemic by changing its definition to omit "enormous numbers of deaths and illness" just prior to making its declaration.

Texas governor says Obama hell bent on socialism -- Texas GOP Gov. Rick Perry accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of “punishing” Texas and being “hell-bent” on turning the United States into a socialist country.

America's shameful neglect of homeless -- "More Americans should travel to Washington DC and see the many homeless US military veterans living on the streets of our capital in plain sight of the callous nitwits on Capitol Hill and the arrogant thugs at the White House. I have seen the lobbyists and power brokers pretend they are not even there but they are everywhere. As if they were leading the world and cannot even lead the District of Columbia out of a basic human need problem." 
Related Article: UN investigator accuses US of neglect of homeless -- A United Nations special investigator who was blocked from visiting the US by the Bush administration has accused the American government of pouring billions of dollars into rescuing banks and big business while treating as "invisible" a deepening homeless crisis.

Colloidal silver better than antibiotics -- Colloidal silver is one of the best natural antibiotics yet discovered in human history. For many health applications, it's safer, cheaper and far more effective than traditional antibiotics. The effectiveness of colloidal silver is such a huge threat to the pharmaceutical industry that the FDA (and even the FTC) has engaged in an all-out assault to threaten and intimidate colloidal silver companies in order to drive them out of business.

Dangerous arms buildup in Arab/Gulf states -- Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are leading a drive to upgrade their missile-defense, naval and air forces. The spending offers U.S. and European defense companies such as BAE Systems Plc and Lockheed Martin Corp. as much as $40 billion in sales, mostly in the next two to five years, analysts estimate. Some of these deals may be discussed at the Dubai Air Show starting Nov. 15.

Organic Genetically Modified alternative crops considered (isn't organic GM an oxymoron?) -- Concern was raised over the organic agriculture industry’s ability to cope with the onslaught of climate change while spurning GM technologies, at a high-level debate in the capital last week. A panel of experts discussed the possibilities for organic food to become “more robust” in front an audience including the government’s chief scientific advisor John Beddington, who last month called for GM crops to ensure global food security.

UN food summit fails before it begins -- A UN food summit aimed at helping the one billion people worldwide suffering from hunger has been declared a failure a week before it has even begun.

Brazil moves to place RFID tracking in all vehicles -- Brazil's federal legislature has voted final approval to implement plans for a nationwide automatic vehicle identification system based on the RFID ISO 18000 6C (6C) sticker tags.

McDonalds advertises for staff to work at Guantanamo Bay -- The burger chain is looking to hire an assistant manager for its outlet at the military base on Cuba where the US holds foreign terrorist suspects. The sole McDonald's branch on the communist island has featured in news reports about the controversial prison, with interrogators allegedly buying Big Macs and fries in an attempt to make captives more amenable.

Arthritis drugs pose cancer risk -- The Food and Drug Administration, which urged greater caution with so-called TNF blockers last September, said an analysis of 48 reported cancer cases in children using the drugs "showed an increased risk of cancer, occurring after 30 months of treatment on average."

Learn more about antioxidants -- The anti-prostate cancer effects of pomegranate and its extracts may be related to stopping an enzyme in the liver that processes environmental carcinogens, according to a new study.

Widespread flooding from Hurricane Ida along East Coast -- Coastal flooding, beach erosion, high winds and rain will continue to lash the mid-Atlantic coast today through the start of the weekend before a powerful nor'easter, formerly Hurricane Ida, shifts farther out to sea.

Something cool...Polar bear photographed blowing bubble -- The giant creature performed the stunt in front of onlookers in a glass zoo tunnel in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Peter Schmidt, a retired doctor, took the photograph after spotting the bear in mid-blow.

Health care reform DOA -- "I never thought I'd find myself thanking the women-loathing, Christian fundamentalist-pandering Democrats in Congress for anything, but here it is: Thank you Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Mich), for your outrageous amendment to the House version of the health insurance reform legislation in Congress, which bars any insurance company in the proposed health insurance exchange from offering a health insurance plan that includes abortion coverage."

Big Pharma deal with White House on course to net industry billions -- The deal struck between the pharmaceutical lobby, the White House and Senate Democrats has drastically improved Big Pharma's expected profits, a private industry report finds.

Vaccines & their hidden effects -- We are taught to believe that untoward reactions to vaccines are rare, and that there has never been a question about the overwhelming success of all vaccines at all times, wherever they have been used.

Oysters to be irradiated -- Calling it a "significant hazard," the Food and Drug Administration is proposing that all raw oysters harvested from the Gulf states undergo processing to kill Vibrio vulnificus, a deadly virus.

VeriChip buys SteelVault -- Changes name to "PositiveID" creating micro implant health record/credit score empire.
Related Article: Microchip implant to link all of your records -- Novartis and Proteus Biomedical are not the only companies hoping to implant microchips into patients so that their pill-popping habits can be monitored. VeriChip of Delray Beach, Fl., has an even bolder idea: an implanted chip that links to an online database containing all your medical records, credit history and your social security ID.

Afghanistan's oil binge: 22 gallons of fuel per soldier per day -- Wanna know why the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are so expensive? Here’s one big reason: The U.S. military consumes 22 gallons of fuel per soldier, per day. And each gallon costs $45 or more to haul to the battlefield.

Vaccine victims blamed for national emergency -- Smoking Guns Indict Murdoch's Media in Deadly Corruption.

Possible deaths in Sweden from H1N1 vaccine -- There are reports from Sweden of possible deaths linked to the H1N1 vaccine; unconfirmed and unwelcome news which will surely complicate the very busy flu season that has descended on most of the northern hemisphere.

Dillsburg, PA earthquake swarm could be record setting -- The recent earthquake swarm in the Dillsburg area could break the record as the longest swarm to date, a panel of local experts told residents Wednesday night. Read More...

Latest Taser is insane...can zap you up to 175' away & keep zapping for 3 minutes -- A new electroshock weapon being developed by Taser could zap people up to 175 feet away — and keep on applying pain for as long as three minutes in a row. Click Here for Taser patent info

World gold supply running out -- Global gold production is in terminal decline despite record prices and Herculean efforts by mining companies to discover fresh sources of ore in remote spots, according to the world's top producer Barrick Gold.

Can houseplants save your life? -- Study shows ornamental indoor plants can effectively remove harmful chemicals from indoor air.

Study links fluoride to premature births -- State University of New York (SUNY) researchers found more premature births in fluoridated than non-fluoridated upstate New York communities, according to a presentation made at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting on November 9, 2009 in Philadelphia.


Today in History THURSDAY - November 12, 2009
1799 - Andrew Ellicott Douglass witnesses the Leonids meteor shower from a ship off the Florida Keys.
1815 - American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, NY.
1859 - The first flying trapeze act was performed by Jules Leotard at Cirque Napoleon in Paris, France. He was also the designer of the garment that is named after him.
1915 - Theodore W. Richards, of Harvard University, became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
1921 - Representatives of nine nations gathered for the start of the Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments.
1942 - During World War II, naval battle of Guadalcanal began between Japanese and American forces. The Americans won a major victory.
1946 - The first drive-up banking facility opened at the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, IL.
1954 - Ellis Island, the immigration station in New York Harbor, closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since 1892.
1964 - Paula Murphy set the female land speed record 226.37 MPH.
1975 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired because of failing health, ending a record 36½-year term.
1979 - U.S. President Carter ordered a halt to all oil imports from Iran in response to 63 Americans being taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran on November 4.
1980 - The U.S. space probe Voyager I came within 77,000 miles of Saturn while transmitting data back to Earth.
1987 - The American Medical Association issued a policy statement that said it was unethical for a doctor to refuse to treat someone solely because that person had AIDS or was HIV-positive.
1995 - The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
1998 - Daimler-Benz completed a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler AG.

DEDICATED TO ALL VETERANS - "Our Sons Who Gave For Thee"! -- by F. Ed Knutson 11-11-2009 - Former US Marine 02-11-1974 thru 02-10-1978
*** Click Here for the Text Version

One world government? World may not be big enough -- The New World Order came into being at 4:25 Tuesday afternoon. It arrived at the Capitol, until that moment the seat of American government, in the form of the stooped and bespectacled figure of Ban Ki-moon, who as U.N. secretary general is the de facto leader of what conspiracy theorists call the One World Government. One floor beneath the Senate chamber, Ban, a South Korean national, took his place behind a lectern bearing the Senate seal and spelled out his demands.

Americans on food stamps tops 36 million, new record -- The number of Americans receiving food stamp assistance soared above 36 million for the first time in August, the eighth month in a row that enrollment set a record, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Wednesday. USDA said 36.492 million people were receiving food stamps, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. In July, enrollment stood at 35.851 million. At the current rate, an estimated one in eight Americans receive benefits.

The Associated Press agenda has been attacking natural forms of healing -- Join reader action to educate the Associated Press about natural remedies, alternative medicine. AP's contact info: http://www.ap.org/pages/contact/contact.html

Video from Poland: Baxter admit contaminating H1N1 vaccine (Subtitled in English)

Sen Reid puts health care bill on Senate calendar -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) late Tuesday laid the groundwork for the Senate's healthcare reform debate to start next Tuesday. Reid filed a motion to introduce the bill on Monday, Nov. 16. Anticipating a Republican objection, the bill would be pushed onto the Senate calendar.

Chart of the Day: The Dow priced in gold

Obama may be afraid of Blackwater -- Despite news reports that the security contractor formerly known as Blackwater has seen its contracts dry up and its influence wane, the company continues to do brisk business in Iraq and Afghanistan -- and the Obama administration may be too afraid of the firm to do anything about it, says investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill (did you know they guard members of Congress?)

Chicago Mayor Daley blames 2nd amendment for Ft Hood shooting -- On Monday, Chicago Mayor Daley blamed the Ft. Hood Jihad Massacre on America’s love of guns!

Army doctors had warned Hasan was psychotic -- US military doctors had worried that the suspected gunman in the Fort Hood shootings was "psychotic" and unstable but did not seek to sack him, National Public Radio reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed officials.

A morally bankrupt military: when soldiers & their families become expendable -- Tens of thousands of soldiers continue to serve, even being deployed to combat zones like Iraq and/or Afghanistan, despite persistent injuries. According to military records, over 43,000 troops classified as "nondeployable for medical reasons" have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan nevertheless.

Lou Dobbs to Quit CNN -- CNN's Lou Dobbs told viewers on Wednesday that he was quitting his nightly show to pursue new opportunities. "This will be my last broadcast," Dobbs said after giving the day's headlines. Dobbs, who hosts a daily radio show unrelated to CNN, said the network had allowed him to be released early from his contract.

Lack of health care killed 2,266 US veterans last year says study -- The number of US veterans who died in 2008 because they lacked health insurance was 14 times higher than the US military death toll in Afghanistan that year, according to a new study. The analysis produced by two Harvard medical researchers estimates that 2,266 US military veterans under the age of 65 died in 2008 because they lacked health coverage and had reduced access to medical care.

Why are we locking up traumatized veterans for their addictions instead of offering them treatment? -- A new report by the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) exposes practices and policies that for decades have unjustly resulted in large numbers of psychically injured and addicted veterans landing in the nation’s prisons and jails.

October was wettest on record in USA -- The USA just slogged through its wettest October on record, the federal government's National Climatic Data Center announced Tuesday.

Latest flu map -- This map is compiled using data from official sources, news reports and user-contributions and updated multiple times per day.

Doctors in England to get bigger bonuses if they meet swine flu jab targets -- Doctors are in line for huge bonuses if large numbers of their patients sign up for swine flu jabs.

Virginia teen ill after flu shot -- A 14-year-old Virginia boy is weak and struggling to walk after coming down with a reported case of Guillain-Barre syndrome within hours after receiving the H1N1 vaccine for swine flu.

WHO appeals to Ukraine for help with hemorrhagic pneumonia -- WHO experts appealed to Ukrainian physicians requested to report positive experiences in treating patients with severe influenza A/H1N1, so it can be used not only in Ukraine but other countries, the WHO European Region.

The cervical cancer vaccine may not work, but broccoli does -- Gardasil, a vaccine designed to prevent cervical cancer in women, has recently been the target of debate about its safety and efficacy. While young girls have been dying and key researchers are saying the vaccine doesn't work, there are dozens of studies using natural compounds in broccoli that DO work to not only PREVENT but possibly TREAT cervical cancer as well.

Vegetables provide the best diabetes defense for your baby -- Why do pregnant women crave foods? Ask nutritionists this question, and they'll probably tell you that it's the body's way of telling the mother that it's "craving" a particular vitamin or nutrient. Read More...

OSHA nominee may seek to ban guns as public health threat -- Second Amendment advocates are expressing alarm that the most significant attack on gun rights across the United States in years soon could come in the form of a workplace "safety" regulation under President Obama's nominee to run the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Detox with the ancient Ayurvedic practice of oil pulling -- Oil pulling or oil swishing, in alternative medicine, is a procedure that involves swishing oil in the mouth for oral and systemic health benefits. It is mentioned in the Ayurvedic text Charaka Samhita where it is called Kavala Gandoosha / Kavala Graha, and it is claimed to cure about 30 systemic diseases ranging from headache, migraine, diabetes, asthma, skin conditions, allergies, oral bacterial infections, gum problems and more. The practitioner rinses the mouth with approximately one tablespoon of oil (sesame and sunflower oils are the most recommended) for 15−20 minutes on an empty stomach (preferably first thing in the morning, before eating/drinking), then spits it out. Read More...

Survival school: why more Americans are learning to pick locks, bust out of handcuffs and evade surveillance -- Why more Americans are learning to pick locks, bust out of handcuffs, and avoid surveillance.

Tampa police: Marine reservist attacked Greek priest he mistook for terrorist -- The Marine ended up in jail, accused of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. He was released Tuesday on $7,500 bail. The Priest ended up at the hospital with stitches. He told the police he didn't want to press charges, espousing biblical forgiveness.

9-11's delayed legacy: cancer for many of the rescuers -- A spate of cancer-related illnesses among New York's rescue services who worked at Ground Zero sparks fear of an epidemic.

Playing with weather stirs debate in China -- Chinese scientists artificially induced the second major snowstorm to wreak havoc in Beijing this season, state media said, reigniting debate over the practice of tinkering with Mother Nature.

Can we manipulate the weather? -- Chinese scientists claim to be able to control the weather. But is so-called geoengineering more than wishful thinking? And, if so, should we be worried?

YouTube: US tested using rain to infect people 15 years ago -- This video gives testimony from POLICE OFFICERS even that a small town in Washington state was used as testing grounds for the military's use of RAIN as a way to vector viruses for a population.

Airport rules changed after Ron Paul aide detained -- An angry aide to Rep. Ron Paul, an iPhone and $4,700 in cash have forced the Transportation Security Administration to quietly issue two new rules telling its airport screeners they can only conduct searches related to airplane safety.

Dollar falls to 15 month low -- The dollar dropped to a new 15-month low as the the euro rose above $1.50 Wednesday morning, even as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner reiterated the administration's stance that a strong dollar is good for the U.S. economy.

Foreclosure filings surpass 300,000 for 8yh straight month -- U.S. foreclosure filings surpassed 300,000 for an eighth straight month as unemployment made it tougher for homeowners to pay their bills, RealtyTrac Inc. said.

7500 trucking jobs lost in October -- Payroll employment among for-hire trucking companies in October dropped 0.6 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from September levels – slightly more than the decline the month before. 

Airlines, hotels face bleak holidays -- Many travelers plan to take car trips, stay with friends and family and spend less -- bad news for the struggling industries.

The genetic modification of humans on planet earth



Today in History WEDNESDAY - November 11, 2009 - Veterans Day

1620 - The Mayflower Compact was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower when they landed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod. The compact called for "just and equal laws.
1831 - Nat Turner, a slave and educated minister, was hanged in Jerusalem, VA, after inciting a violent slave uprising.
1851 - The telescope was patented by Alvan Clark.
1868 - The first indoor amateur track and field meet was held by the New York Athletic Club.
1889 - Washington became the 42nd state of the United States.
1918 - World War I came to an end when the Allies and Germany signed an armistice. This day became recognized as Veteran's Day in the United States.
1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns was dedicated at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia by U.S. President Harding.
1938 - Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on network radio.
1940 - The Jeep made its debut.
1952 - The first video recorder was demonstrated by John Mullin and Wayne Johnson in Beverly Hills, CA.
1966 - The U.S. launched Gemini 12 from Cape Kennedy, FL. The craft circled the Earth 59 times before returning.
1972 - The U.S. Army turned over its base at Long Bihn to the South Vietnamese army. The event symbolized the end of direct involvement in the Vietnam War by the U.S. military.
1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan accepted the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a gift to the nation from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.
1986 - Sperry Rand and Burroughs merged to form "Unisys," becoming the second largest computer company.
1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin told U.S. senators in a letter that Americans had been held in prison camps after World War II. Some were "summarily executed," but others were still living in his country voluntarily.
1993 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Women's Memorial was dedicated to honor the more than 11,000 women who had served in the Vietnam War..
1996 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund unveiled "The Wall That Heals." The work was a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial that would tour communities throughout the United States.

DEDICATED TO ALL VETERANS - "Our Sons Who Gave For Thee"! -- by F. Ed Knutson 11-11-2009 - Former US Marine 02-11-1974 thru 02-10-1978
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Connection to Fort Hood? -- By the 1920’s not only had [clinical hypnotists] learned to apply posthypnotic suggestion, but also had learned to split certain complex individuals into multiple personalities like Jeckyl-Hydes. During World War II, I worked this technique with a vulnerable Marine lieutenant I’ll call Jones. I split his personality into Jones A and Jones B. Jones A, once a “normal” working Marine, became entirely different. He talked communist doctrine and meant it. He was welcomed enthusiastically by communist cells, and was deliberately given a dishonorable discharge by the Corps and became a card-carrying party member. Jones B was the deeper personality, knew all the thoughts of Jones A, was a loyal American and was “imprinted” to say nothing during conscious phases. All I had to do was hypnotize the whole man, get in touch with Jones B, the loyal American, and I had a pipeline straight into the Communist camp. It worked beautifully for months.”

Declassified MK-Ultra Project Documents

Dr. Mehmet Oz found to hold 150,000 option shares in vaccine-related technology company -- Dr. Mehmet Oz is a huge promoter of vaccines. He's been on television reinforcing fear about H1N1 swine flu and telling everyone to get vaccinated. But what he didn't tell his viewing audience is that he holds 150,000 option shares in a vaccine company that could earn him millions of dollars in profits as the stock price rises.

The Dollar Meltdown -- The Dollar Meltdown puts America's decline it into a sweeping context that makes our collective outcome impossible to ignore: Plunging living standards, a steadily eroding currency and massive inflation in a nation that has lost its industrial base. If you think things are bad now, they're only going to get worse.

A wonderful story for Veteran's Day -- A lesson that should be taught in all schools . . And colleges.

Veteran's Day History & other info on vets -- Veterans' statistics, history of the holiday, war poetry, and more.

Navajo Code Talkers to be in NYC Veteran's Day parade -- More than a dozen of the famed Navajo Code Talkers are coming to New York City to take part for the first time in the nation's largest Veterans Day Parade. The American Indians, all Marines, devised an unbreakable code from their ancient language that stymied the Japanese during World War II.

Psychoactives, War, and Covert Operations Timeline by Erowid

First-Hand Account from Ft. Hood

Rupert Murdoch warns he may block Google -- Global media mogul Rupert Murdoch has accused Google of stealing from his News Corp. empire, and warned he may block the search engine from accessing its content.
** Google replies: Keep your stories!

Ex-Astronaut Lisa Nowak Pleads Guilty in Attack on Rival -- Former astronaut Lisa Nowak pleads guilty, gets 1-year probation in attack on romantic rival.

Statin drugs cause muscle damage even after you stop using them -- Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs may cause serious and long-term muscle damage that persists even after the drugs are halted, according to a new study conducted by researchers from Tufts Medical Center and the University of Bern, and published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Steroids & statin drugs to treat H1N1? -- Can cheap and readily available treatments like steroids and cholesterol-lowering statin drugs help save the sickest of H1N1 patients? New efforts by researchers in Canada, the United States and France could help answer this pressing question.

H1N1 swine flu vaccine deaths being reported all over Europe -- *In Sweden, there have been over 350 reported serious adverse reactions to the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, and there have been five people who have died there after taking the vaccine. Reportedly there is now a media blackout on reporting any additional deaths from the swine flu vaccine as the authorities do not want to discourage people from getting the vaccine. *In Northern Ireland, a 15-year-old boy fell seriously ill and was on the verge of death less than 24 hours after receiving the swine flu vaccine. Read More...

Probiotics found to reduce eczema & skin allergies -- A recent Dutch study gathered over 150 pregnant women with allergic disease histories in their families. During the last six weeks of pregnancy, they were given either three strains of probiotics or an inactive placebo pill. Neither they nor the doctors knew which was which. After those pregnant women gave birth, most of their children were monitored by the Dutch researchers. The children continued to receive probiotics or placebos for 12 months. After three months, the rate of eczema occurring among the probiotic subjects was less than half of those given only placebos.

University backs away from new hire DNA testing as part of background check -- The University of Akron is backing away from a controversial new policy, which appears to be the first in the nation, saying that new hires can be DNA tested as part of a background check.

A collection of videos on genetically modified food

Studies on toxicity of squalene vaccine additive -- SQUALENE REFERENCES.

Wife blames 2006 taser incident for trucker husband's death -- Professional truck driver Larry Works – husband, father and decorated veteran of the Vietnam War – died at home Monday, Nov. 9, after suffering a heart attack. He was 61. Works, a longtime OOIDA member from Holladay, TN, is familiar to many truck drivers after news coverage of a 2006 incident involving an off-duty law enforcement officer at a Missouri truck stop. Officers shot Larry seven times with taser guns by sheriff’s deputies in Newton County, MO, before he was arrested.

Massive blackout in Brazil & Paraguay, tens of millions without power -- A massive blackout plunged tens of millions in Brazil's largest cities into darkness, sparking major disruptions, fears of crime and energy supply concerns Wednesday for the newly named Olympic hosts.

Where will they get the troops to fight these wars? -- As the Obama administration debates whether to send tens of thousands of extra troops to Afghanistan, an already overstretched military is increasingly struggling to meet its deployment numbers. Surprisingly, one place it seems to be targeting is military personnel who go absent without leave (AWOL) and then are caught or turn themselves in.

On the lighter side: Pluto: I'm a planet, darn it!!

Blackwater said to pursue bribes to Iraq after 17 died -- Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.

Obama's war & Remembrance Day -- With word being leaked out over the weekend that our Nobel Peacenik President is close to announcing plans to escalate the US troop level in the Afghanistan War by 50%, we are about to have perhaps the ultimate of ironies—a president announcing a big step-up in American war-making on or around November 11, the day known around much of the Western world as Armistice or Remembrance Day.

UK to spy on every phone call, email, web search -- Every phone call, text message, email and website visit made by private citizens is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by government bodies.

Swine flu may be means of political manipulation in Ukraine -- Ukraine may be using the H1N1 virus as a means of political manipulation, said investigative journalist and RT contributor Wayne Madsen.

Florida: Dozens of students given wrong flu shot -- They thought they were getting protected against the swine flu, but dozens of Collier County students were mistakenly given the seasonal flu vaccine instead.

Woman dies of swine flu AFTER getting vaccine -- A 42-year-old Quebec woman has died from complications resulting from the H1N1 virus. It is the third death in the province since September. The woman, who worked at the Monteregie Health and Social Services Centre, died Tuesday night. Public health officials said the woman was not a nurse or front line worker who was in contact with patients. She had also received the H1N1 vaccination on Oct. 29, two days before coming down with symptoms of the flu.

Congressman Brad Sherman admits explosives found in dust of World Trade Center

YouTube: CNBC: Dollar will be utterly destroyed, global currency, new world order -- The dollar will get "utterly destroyed" and become "virtually worthless", said Damon Vickers, chief investment officer of Nine Points Capital Partners. Due to the huge wage disparities between the United States and emerging markets like China, Vickers said that may resolve itself in some type of a global currency crisis.

Credit score don'ts: How to keep your score from dropping -- To Raise Your Credit Score or Keep It High, Avoid These Missteps at All Costs.

Red Light Cameras Again Prove Ineffective and Dangerous: Accidents Increase 133% in Temple Terrace, FL -- Councilman Halloway of Temple Terrace, FL was shocked on Friday to hear that accidents INCREASED at red light camera intersections in his city, according to ABC News.

Justice Dept. asked for news site's visitor lists -- The U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day. The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site "not to disclose the existence of this request" unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization.

Video: Vaccine cover-up -- "what are you doing to this generation of children" by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The link between birdsong & human language -- "It's very regimentally similar to our syntax," Jin said of the process the finch brain uses to determine what sounds it makes when singing. "Even though we look at [a] primitive species, it can offer insights in to how the human brain works."

Today in History TUESDAY - November 10, 2009
1775 - The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress. The Marines went out of existence after the end of the Revolutionary War in April of 1783.
The Marine Corps were formally re-established on July 11, 1798. This day is observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps.
1801 - The U.S. state of Tennessee outlawed the practice of dueling.
1871 - Henry M. Stanley, journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone. Livingston was a missing Scottish missionary in central Africa. Stanley delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1879 - Western Union and the National Bell Telephone Company reached a settlement over various telephone patents.
1917 - 41 suffragists were arrested in front of the White House.
1919 - The American Legion held its first national convention, in Minneapolis, MN.
1951 - Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began when Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, NJ, called his counterpart in Alameda, CA.
1954 - The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, VA.
1975 - The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior.
1980 - CBS News anchor Dan Rather claimed he had been kidnapped in a cab. It turned out that Rather had refused to pay the cab fare.
1982 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to visitors.
1984 - The U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1988 - The U.S. Department of Energy announced that Texas would be the home of the atom-smashing super-collider. The project was cancelled by a vote of the U.S. Congress in Oct. 1993.
1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Brady Bill, which called for a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases.
1997 - WorldCom Inc. acquired MCI Communication Corporation. It was the largest merger in U.S. history valued at $37 billion.
1998 - At the White House, U.S. Vice President Al Gore unveiled "The Virtual Wall" website (www.thevirtualwall.org) that enables visitors to experience The Wall through the Internet.

MAJOR HASAN ATTENDEE AT George Washington University CONFERENCE FOR OBAMA'S PNAC DOCUMENT -- THINKING ANEW----SECURITY PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION HOMELAND SECURITY POLICY INSTITUTE - RE-INVIGORATING OUR ROLE IN THE WORLD.

Somali pirates seize weapons ship, attack tanker -- Somali pirates have seized a United Arab Emirates-flagged cargo ship loaded with weapons bound for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation in contravention of a U.N. arms embargo, maritime experts said Monday.

Shocking numbers: Real unemployment tops 22% -- The true rate of unemployment for October 2009 may be 22.1 percent, not the 10.2 percent reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports. Unemployment at 22.1 percent, if accurate, would be at numbers not seen since peak unemployment during the 1973 to 1975 recession.

Underground bases -- This is a list of known or suspected U.S. Underground Bases, the purpose of each, how they're set up and any other info known about them.

Ron Paul for President in 2012 -- Website to draft Ron Paul in 2012 - Sign up to pledge your support for Ron Paul.

Investigators descend on small town doctor -- Bukacek, an outspoken critic of President Obama's health-care reforms and president of Montana ProLife Coalition, said the visit last week was the fourth or fifth investigation since last spring. Dr. Annie Bukacek sits behind piles of private patient records that she was required to compile for state and federal investigations into her billing practices for Medicaid reimbursements as well as into her custom of praying with patients.

Aloe Vera; the healthy plant -- Extracts from the aloe vera plant have been used for medicinal purposes in humans for over 2,000 years. Because of the numerous nutrients contained within the leaves of this plant, aloe vera is used today to treat a variety of conditions, either by ingestion or as a topical ointment.

Dean foods pulls bait & switch on "organic" silk soymilk -- Until early 2009, Silk brand soy milk was made using organic soybeans. But earlier this year, Dean Foods (owner of the Silk brand) quietly switched to conventional soybeans, which are often grown with pesticides. But they kept the same UPC barcodes on their products, and they kept the product label virtually the same, only replacing the word "organic" with "natural" in a way that was barely noticeable. They also kept the price the same, charging consumers "organic" prices for a product that was now suddenly made with conventionally-grown soybeans.

How partially hydrogenated oils & trans fast destroy your health -- Of all the poisons in the food supply, trans fats are perhaps the most frequently overlooked. They're hidden in all sorts of foods, from crackers and baked goods to breakfast cereals. And thanks to intentionally deceptive FDA-approved labeling laws, food products that contain sizable amounts of trans fatty acids can still declare "trans fats free" right on their labels (this clever trick involves reducing serving sizes until the trans fat level drops to 0.5 grams per serving, at which point the FDA says companies can just "round down" to zero).

Farmers growing genetically engineered corn break rules -- Corn genetically engineered to resist pests and tolerate herbicides made up 85% of the U.S. corn crop in 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But a report by a watchdog group, out today, finds that since 2006, farmers have become increasingly non-compliant with federally-mandated planting requirements designed to keep the popular technology useful in the future.

Remote Eskimo village hit by suspected swine flu -- Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island — prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help.

Summary of recent scientific papers on effects of electromagnetic radiation -- The following information on this website is a quick summary of another twenty papers that have come out over the last few months related to effects of electromagnetic radiation. Some of the papers are notable papers that have been published very recently, others are papers that were published a few months ago that have not yet made it to one of the Science Updates.

Health care bill protects trial lawyers -- Buried in the bowels of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 2,000-page healthcare reform bill is a powerful carrot for states that agree to give up on tort reform – and a stick to wallop those that won’t. Section 2531 of Pelosi’s $1.2 trillion House bill appears to be another example of dangling taxpayer dollars to get states to do what Beltway politicians want.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Why I voted no on health care bill -- instead of working toward the elimination of for-profit insurance, H.R. 3962 would put the government in the role of accelerating the privatization of health care. In H.R. 3962, the government is requiring at least 21 million Americans to buy private health insurance from the very industry that causes costs to be so high, which will result in at least $70 billion in new annual revenue, much of which is coming from taxpayers. This inevitably will lead to even more costs, more subsidies, and higher profits for insurance companies—a bailout under a blue cross. Read More...

Construction unemployment rate is 18.7% -- Construction's unemployment rate climbed again in October, hitting 18.7%, up from 17.1% in September, as the industry lost another 62,000 jobs during the month, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported.

DHS strikes deal for tribal ID cards (with RFID chips) Tohono O'Odham nation latest to enhanced ID -- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has struck a fourth agreement for enhanced tribal identification cards compliant with US travel laws with a Native American tribe, the department announced Tuesday.

161 US airports now have behavior detection officers -- You might not see them, but they're studying you. To identify potentially dangerous individuals, the Transportation Security Administration has stationed specially trained behavior-detection officers at 161 U.S. airports. The officers may be positioned anywhere, from the parking garage to the gate, trying to spot passengers who show an unusual level of nervousness or stress.

Are people wising up? Low turnout in NYC for free flu shots -- the seven clinics across the city were, depending on how you looked at it, puzzlingly underused or puzzlingly over prepared.

Total destruction of lungs in Ukraines H1N1 cases -- Period of time from onset to death averaged from 4 to 7 days. In all patients during a hospital for signs of respiratory insufficiency of various degrees, which quickly rose and manifested accelerated respiration rate, shortness of breath and effectiveness of independent breathing. X-ray studies were performed on 1-2 day hospitalization. Most patients experienced a double-headed particles of lower lung lesion, followed by a trend towards total destruction.
Related Article: Has the H1N1 Swine flu in Ukraine mutated to become more like the 1918 Spanish flu? Victims have total destruction of lungs

Cheerleader that was poisoned by vaccine makes recovery with natural based therapies! -- Desiree Jennings is the 26 year old cheerleader and marathon runner was who severely crippled with a neurological disorder diagnosed as dystonia in the wake of taking the Wonderful Swine Flu vaccine (that government officials and pharmaceutical shills keep telling us is "safe").

Doing Business During H1N1 Pandemic document -- A Toolkit for Organizations of All Sizes.

Pregnancy and the H1N1 flu virus -- As midwives consider the potential impact of the new H1N1 Flu virus on our clients, it serves us well to consider modalities and options for preventative treatment. Although the mainstream is pro-vaccination, there are many varied opinions on the matter to take into account.

Serbia may declare swine flu epidemic, mobilize Army, Police -- The Serbian government may declare a swine flu epidemic after more than 200 people were diagnosed with the disease and seven people died, a step that would allow it to mobilize the army and police to help treat victims. (are we seeing a trend here with all these countries declaring martial law?)

Hospitals keep patients in dark on adverse events -- When hospital patients suffer adverse effects from treatments, they seldom get explanations from medical personnel, even though the disclosure may improve patients' ratings of care, researchers said.

KBR may have poisoned 100,000 people in Iraq -- Defense contractor KBR may have exposed as many as 100,000 people, including US troops, to cancer-causing toxins by burning waste in open-air pits in Iraq, says a series of class-action lawsuits filed against the company. Read More...

The internet as you know it will cease to exist -- Read possible changes.

New Jersey cop assaults TV cameraman -- Caught on Tape: New Jersey Cop Puts TV Photographer in Choke Hold.

Oldest American artifact unearthed -- Archaeologists claim to have found the oldest known artefact in the Americas, a scraper-like tool in an Oregon cave that dates back 14,230 years.

Today in History MONDAY - November 9, 2009
1857 - The "Atlantic Monthly" first appeared on newsstands and featured the first installment of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
1872 - A fire destroyed about 800 buildings in Boston, MA.
1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt left for Panama to see the progress on the new canal. It was the first foreign trip by a U.S. president.
1911 - George Claude of Paris, France, applied for a patent on neon advertising signs.
1935 - United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization.
1961 - Major Robert White flew an X-15 rocket plane at a world record speed of 4,093 mph.
1965 - The great Northeast blackout occurred as several states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.
1967 - A Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight.
1984 - A bronze statue titled "Three Servicemen," by Frederick Hart, was unveiled at the site of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
1989 - Communist East Germany opened its borders, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany.
1998 - A federal judge in New York approved the richest antitrust settlement in U.S. history. A leading brokerage firm was ordered to pay $1.03 billion to investors who had sued over price-rigging of Nasdaq stocks.

A Couple of Thoughts of the Day from our friend Mike Tawse in the UK -- Your Freedom Belongs To You
* Government For The People?

More bank failures on Friday -- Five banks failed late Friday, bringing the 2009 tally to 120. The biggest to fall was United Commercial Bank of San Francisco followed by United Security Bank of Sparta, Ga., Home Federal Savings Bank of Detroit, Prosperan Bank of Oakdale, MN. and Gateway Bank of St. Louis, Mo.

Some pregnant women fearful of H1N1 vaccine -- Pregnant women are among the groups strongly advised to get the vaccine, but many women are less than thrilled about the idea of getting the shot, reporting concerns about the safety of the vaccine and possible effects for the unborn baby. (Read the comment section and see how many women have miscarried)
Related Article: Shocking H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Miscarriage Stories From Pregnant Women – Tell Your Doctors That Vaccines And Pregnancy Do Not Mix!

Blog website on what is going on in the Ukraine with the pneumonic plague/swine flu -- This Blog is about what is going on in the Ukraine and possibly spreading in the area.

Keep your pet healthy during flu season -- People who think they may have H1N1 flu need to stay away from work, avoid sneezing on their spouses and children and now, they have someone else to worry about infecting too -- their pets.

A a collection of stories related to the Ft Hood incident

Ft Hood & Orlando shooters both linked to psychiatric drug use -- As an army psychiatrist, he was also allowed to prescribe powerful psychiatric drugs to both his patients and himself. Many psychiatrists self-medicate, and Hasan was extremely anxious about the possibility of being sent overseas by the army, according to statements from family members (Reuters, below). Although official confirmation will probably never be made, it seems altogether likely that Hasan was treating himself with powerful psychotropic medications.

Associated Press declares war on alternative medicine -- The Associated Press has declared war on alternative medicine, publishing a series of stories attacking everything from nutritional therapies to bioidentical hormones.

Pneumonic plague drill held in Illinois -- In Lake in the Hills, Illinois, police will conduct a drill to combat a fictitious pneumonic plague on Saturday.

Massive US health care reform bill contributing to deforestation: 1,990 pages and 19.6 pounds of paper -- The U.S. Government Printing Office, has reportedly printed 1,335 copies of the bill, totaling 2.6 million pages of paper. This massive volume of paper required nearly 319 trees to produce.

Confirmed: Buy insurance or go to jail -- A Michigan congressman has released a report from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation confirming that the House Democrats' health-care bill could impose penalties of up to $250,000 in fines and five years in jail for failing to buy the proper insurance coverage.

Deadly mutation predicted: Ukraine under martial law -- Warnings that the H1N1 Swine Flu virus would mutate into a much more deadly strain have come true according to President Victor Yuschenko. The Ukrainian politician, vying for re-election, declared martial law last week in a move that reflects gross negligence and criminal malfeasance, according to intelligence sources provided by American public health expert, Dr. Leonard Horowitz.

Russia ,Belarus & Bulgaria on verge of flu epidemic as Ukraine cases near 1 million -- Last week, samples from patients who had died were sent by the WHO to facilities in the U.K. for analysis. The delay of the release of these results is raising concerns that either the H1N1 swine flu has mutated or that the epidemic in Ukraine is being caused by something else entirely.

Ukraine first and Austria second for martial law? -- The number of police and private security forces patrolling on the streets in Austria has certainly increased dramatically recently. There are even uniformed, private security guards now patrolling Vienna University’s libraries, something totally new. Extra police have been put in the airports and border crossings. The army command structure has been centralized. Special army units based in Korneuburg, the same place where Baxter has its facilities.

Paraguayan president fires military chiefs amid coup rumors -- Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has replaced his military chiefs after making accusations of a coup plot to overthrow his leftist government, officials said Thursday.

Texas voters ok limits on use of eminent domain -- Concerns about privatized toll roads spurred Texas voters to easily approve one proposition on the statewide ballot limiting the government’s eminent domain powers.

What has happened to common sense? -- Remember food fights in school? Used to be the kids would get detention...no more...Kids in food fight at Chicago school get arrested. Parents Worry That Criminal Records For Such An Event Will Haunt Students' Futures.

Health benefits of honey & cinnamon -- The health benefits of honey and cinnamon include a strong immune system, digestive system, healthy heart, bones, skin, teeth, and hair, weight loss. It also helps in getting relief from itching, and arthritis. This article covers the health benefits of honey and cinnamon together.

Cilantro helps detox heavy metals -- Heavy metals are extremely toxic to human neurology. Mercury, lead and cadmium all contribute aggressively to the deterioration of neurological function. Fortunately, there's a simple, natural way to detox your body and remove these toxic substances from your tissues. The solution is cilantro. It's that magical-tasting herb often used in Mexican food recipes. As it turns out, cilantro not only taste great, it also binds to heavy metals and helps remove them from your body.

Afghanistan: Time to leave -- Patrick Cockburn, our award-winning reporter who has covered the region for more than 30 years, explains why it is best for the world, and Afghanistan, if our troops are brought home

US troops' continental insignia bears UN colors; indicates advancement of plan to integrate North America -- Troops in the United States' USNORTHCOM ranks appear to have adopted a shoulder patch showing a North American continental design, with an emphasis on United Nations colors, giving evidence of the strength of a plan to integrate North America. The patch reveals the continent of North America in the orange and blue colors typical to the U.N.

Army withholds anti burn panels on Humvees as deaths continue -- Soldiers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan know that the Humvee, despite all the extra armoring added by the Pentagon, remains the most vulnerable vehicle they use.

Blackout: Military Personnel Banned From H1N1 Vaccine Sites -- It has been reported that some bases are blocking certain websites. Among those that were repeatedly mentioned as blocked sites are the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), the site for Gary Matsumoto's book Vaccine-A, and vaccine expert Dr. Meryl Nass.

Pennsylvania resurrects plan to toll Interstate 80 -- Pennsylvania re-files application to add tolls to the Interstate 80 freeway to generate $473 million in revenue.

Free book download: "Corruption inside the USDA" -- An insider's report to the American public on : intentional routing of contaminated milk into America's food supply; funding a USDA office via the contaminated milk processor as it supplies infant formula production; associated extraction of dairy farmer money; involved U.S. Department of Agriculture appointees; and evidence held inside the U.S. Department of Justice.

Spokane considers community bill of rights -- Thousands of people voted to protect nine basic rights, ranging from the right of the environment to exist and flourish to the rights of residents to have a locally based economy and to determine the future of their neighborhoods.

45% of Spain's total energy now comes from wind -- Wind energy in Spain reached a new record last night, providing at its peak 45.1% of Spain’s total electricity demand – 2.1% greater than the previous record set in November last year.

Tea farmers struggle for survival in fields of gold -- Tea, coffee, cocoa, cotton and rice prices have all fallen in real terms over the past four decades, plunging 500 million smallholder families deeper into poverty while helping the developed world get richer.

Polish Health Minister, a family doctor, tells Parliament she will not allow use of untested swine flu jabs; reveals secret contracts that violates the law -- The Polish Health Minister Eva Kopacz today told Parliament during a heated debate on the swine flu vaccination that she, as a qualified family doctor with more than 20 year of experience, will not authorise the use of untested vaccines on millions of people in Poland when there is inadequate information about the safety of the jabs. She said the secret contract that the Polish government was supposed to sign with pharmaceutical companies had more than 20 clauses which are against the law.

Today in History FRIDAY - November 6, 2009
1789 - Father John Carroll was appointed as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States of America.
1832 - Joseph Smith, III, was born. He was the first president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He was also the son of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism.
1851 - Charles Henry Dow was born. He was the founder of Dow Jones & Company.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States.
1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected as the president of the Confederacy in the U.S.
1861 - The inventor of basketball, James Naismith, was born.
1913 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1923 - Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver.
1935 - Edwin H. Armstrong announced his development of FM broadcasting.
1952 - The first hydrogen bomb was exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
1965 - The Freedom Flights program began which would allow 250,000 Cubans to come to the United States by 1971.
1977 - 39 people were killed when an earthen dam burst, sending a wall of water through the campus of Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia.
1983 - U.S. Army choppers dropped hundreds of leaflets over northern and central Grenada. The leaflets urged residents to cooperate in locating any Grenadian army or Cuban resisters to the U.S-led invasion.
1984 - For the first time in 193 years, the New York Stock Exchange remained open during a presidential election day.
1986 - U.S. intelligence sources confirmed a story run by the Lebanese magazine Ash Shiraa that reported the U.S. had been secretly selling arms to Iran in an effort to secure the release of seven American hostages.
1989 - In the hopes of freeing U.S. hostages held in Iran, the U.S. announced that it would unfreeze $567 million in Iranian assets that had been held since 1979.
1991 - Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last of the oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War.
2001 - In Madrid, Spain, a car bomb injured about 60 people. The bomb was blamed on Basque separatists.

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RESCUE GROUPS THAT CAN HELP THESE BEAUTIFUL DOGS IN Seneca, MO (S. West MISSOURI ) -- This is a remote shelter that rarely gets any notice or help for the animals!!! Please help!  The contact person is: Chalice Zuvekas - Seneca, Missouri - shserescue@gmail.com 

Parents: Send this note to your school principal to protect your child from swine flu vaccinations -- After reading about the forced vaccination of a Brooklyn schoolgirl who ended up in the hospital, many parents are concerned about how they might protect their own children from school-based vaccination schemes.

Suspect Arrested in Milwaukee Theft of Flu Vaccine -- Suspect arrested after truck carrying 900 doses of swine flu vaccine is stolen in Milwaukee.

Army: Ft Hood shooting suspect is alive -- The suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was on a ventilator and unconscious in a hospital after being shot four times during the shootings at the Army’s sprawling Fort Hood, post officials said. In the early chaos after the shootings, authorities believed they had killed him, only to discover later that he had survived.
Related Articles:
 * 1 shooter dead, 2 in custody at Fort Hood mass shooting -- Officials at Fort Hood confirmed that more than one shooter fired shots into the Soldiers     Readiness Processing Center and Howze Theater on Fort Hood, killing 12 and 31 wounded. The suspect that was confirmed dead has been identified at Major Malik Nadal Hasan. (Now they are reporting the shooter is alive.....confirmed dead then now mysteriously alive....hmmmmmm)!
* Troubling portrait emerges of Ft Hood suspect -- There are many unknowns about Nidal Malik Hasan, the man authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base. Most of all, his motive. But details of his life and mindset, emerging from official sources and personal acquaintances, are troubling.
 * Army post shooting leaves 13 dead -- Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas.
 * Ft Hood shooter had said Muslims should rise up -- Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who allegedly killed 11 people before being shot and wounded by police at Fort Hood, had said Muslims should "rise up" and attack Americans in retaliation for the US war in Iraq, a former army colleague said.
 * VIDEO: Defense Dept video shows aftermath of Ft Hood shooting
 * Ft. Hood Shooter Graduated from Virginia Tech -- The gunman that allegedly opened fire at a U.S. Army base at one point lived in Vinton and graduated from Virginia Tech, according to Roanoke Times archives.

How often do soldiers kill soldiers? -- Military officials say the shootings at Fort Hood were an 'isolated incident.' But the stress of repeated wartime deployments has led to several such incidents in recent years.

Chairman of Navy Joint Chiefs calls for better mental health programs for troops -- The military’s top officer today urged mental health providers to demonstrate leadership in developing effective programs to treat wounded warriors.

US generals and soldiers flood Israel for one of the largest joint land exercises ever held between the two nations -- Dubbed "Juniper Cobra," the exercise, which is held every year, but never before on such a large scale, is scheduled to last three weeks.

Pomegranate extracts treat diseases of inflammation -- Emerging research continues to strengthen the evidence that pomegranate extracts can be used to treat chronic inflammation, and the diseases that go along with it.

Tai Chi shows promise for arthritis of the knee -- The traditional Chinese exercise of Tai Chi can relieve the pain of arthritis of the knee, according to a new study. After a 12-week course of Tai Chi, people also had less difficulty with everyday tasks such as using the stairs.

WHO warns countries not to underestimate pandemic virus -- An official from the World Health Organization (WHO) today said he expects serious cases and deaths as pandemic flu activity picks up in the Northern Hemisphere, and he warned people not to underestimate the virus, even though illnesses are often mild. (Nina's comment: Yes, because we need to sell all those vaccines nobody wants)

WHO says H1N1 in virtually every country in the world -- Pandemic H1N1 influenza is now in virtually every country in the world, and health officials are bracing for an upsurge in cases as winter sets in, World Health Organization officials said this morning.

Defense Dept. receives first H1N1 vaccine shipments -- The Defense Department has started receiving H1N1 vaccines and will begin distributing doses in the coming weeks. The Health and Human Services Department is distributing the vaccines, manufactured by four producers, to the department. Because rates of production vary among the manufacturers, supplies are expected to be limited initially, but to increase over time, said Ellen P. Embrey, acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs.

US Census & GPS mapping-Big Brother at your door -- A great deal of speculation has taken place about the small army of census takers that has been reported GPS mapping individual buildings and residences across the country. A recently discovered UN document reveals the reasons behind this development. Read More...

How much radiation does your cell phone emit -- Check out the list of phones and their levels of radiation.

Dutch pull Pfizer vaccine after infants die -- Dutch authorities say they have banned use of a batch of Pfizer's Prevenar, or Prevnar, after three infants died within two weeks of receiving the anti-infection vaccination. 110,000 doses of anti-infection drug Prevenar quarantined after deaths!

Byetta diabetes drug recalled for risk of kidney failure -- The FDA has announced labeling changes on the diabetes drug BYETTA (exenatide). The revisions will warn doctors and patients of the risk of kidney failure and renal insufficiency when taking the medication. So far there have been at least four reported deaths from kidney failure associated with BYETTA use.

YouTube: World Trade Center on 9-11: Hear the explosions for yourself -- Various visual and audio recordings of explosion and rumble sounds in the vicinity of the WTC World Trade Center on 9/11 2001.

UK: Brave smiles and heartbroken applause as widow of bomb disposal hero killed in Afghanistan welcomes her husband home -- Christina Smith applauded as a hearse bearing her husband's coffin was driven through the streets of Wootton Bassett.  A Must Read!!  (Thanks Karen)!!

Taxpayers swarm Capitol to protest Obamacare -- 10,000 chant to Congress: 'Hands off our health care' and 'Kill the bill'

Ukrainian President's address to the people on the occasion of the flu epidemic -- This comes from the Press office of President Victor Yushchenko.

Ukrainian presidential candidate says flu epidemic in Ukraine used to distract the public from real problems -- The Ukrainian authorities are using hysteria over the flu outbreak in the country in order to distract the attention of citizens from economic and social problems, presidential candidate Sergiy Tigipko has said.

FDA advisory committee on vaccines & related biological products-transcript of discussion on whether unlicensed adjuvants should be added to vaccines -- Discussion of Clinical Trials to Support Use of Vaccines Against the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus. Agenda Item: Call to Order and Opening Remarks.

Swine flu outbreak in Ukraine sparks mutation fears -- British scientists are examining samples of a strain of swine flu behind a deadly Ukrainian outbreak to determine whether the virus has mutated.

Beijing gives frosty reception to man made snowstorm -- Government scientists in Beijing have been pilloried for inducing a recent heavy snow fall that jammed traffic, delayed air travel and left city residents shivering, state media said Wednesday.

Something Fun: World's largest tree house -- Think you had the world’s greatest tree house as a kid? Well this guy’s got you beat. A Must See!

Kansas, Oklahoma conduct joint livestock disease drill -- Officials work to prevent foot-and-mouth disease from contaminating U.S. herds.

Pumpkin skin may scare away germs -- The skin of that pumpkin you carve into a Jack-o'-Lantern to scare away ghosts and goblins on Halloween contains a substance that could put a scare into microbes that cause millions of cases of yeast infections in adults and infants each year.

The role of gold in the world's monetary system -- What Is India and China Doing That Malaysia Has Neglected To Do?

9 million Afghans living on less than a dollar a day -- The average per capita monthly expenditure of nine million Afghans is less than 66 US cents a day, and millions of other Afghans spend about $42 a month, according to a summary of Afghanistan’s new National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (NRVA).

Inside the Army's far out acid tests -- Dropping acid to boost the Pentagon’s psychic powers was just the start. The Men Who Stare At Goats, the upcoming movie based on Jon Ronson’s non-fiction book of the same name, has George Clooney and Jeff Bridges in a bizarre military research project involving astral projection, remote viewing, and LSD. But for the real dope on the Army’s narcotics and psychedelics tests, you have to turn to Dr. James S. Ketchum, who wrote a firsthand account of the military’s trials with these “incapacitating chemical agents.” Read More...

Craigslist founder to work with VA -- The founder of Craigslist will join a panel of judges who'll review ideas on how to improve processing times for veterans’ disability claims, the Veterans Affairs Department has announced.

Dutch barter system challenges bankers -- Anthony Migchels is the initiator of the "Gelre," the first Regional Currency in the Netherlands. His organization is a foundation, not for profit, not a company, because he believes credit should be a public facility, serving the people that actually OWN the credit, instead of milking them dry with what is rightfully theirs. The Gelre foundation is run by a board of three.

Today in History THURSDAY - November 5, 2009  (Remember, remember the 5th of November)
1605 - The "Gunpowder Plot" attempted by Guy Fawkes failed when he was captured before he could blow up the English Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5th in Britain to celebrate his failure to blow up all the members of Parliament and King James I.
1844 - In California, a grizzly bear underwent a successful cataract operation at the Zoological Garden.
1872 - In the U.S., Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the presidential election. She never paid the fine.
1895 - George B. Selden received the first U.S. patent for an automobile. He sold the rights for $200,000 four years later.
1935 - The game "Monopoly" was introduced by Parker Brothers Company.
1940 - U.S. President Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office.
1946 - John F. Kennedy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives at the age of 29.
1963 - Archaeologists found the remains of a Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland.
1974 - Ella T. Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut. She was the first woman in the U.S. to win a governorship without succeeding her husband.
1986 - The White House reaffirmed the U.S. ban on the sale of weapons to Iran.
1998 - Scientists published a genetic study that showed strong evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child (Eston Hemings) of his slave, Sally Hemings. (for more information)
1994 - Former U.S. President Reagan announced that he had Alzheimer's disease.
1998 - In the U.S., Chairman Henry Hyde of the Judiciary Committee asked President Clinton to answer 81 questions for the House impeachment inquiry.
1999 - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft Corp. enjoyed "monopoly power".

5:30 PM: BREAKING NEWS: 12 dead, 31 injured in shootings at Fort Hood

Swine/Tamiflu Vaccines: Side effects suicidal thoughts, thinking of stabbing myself with knives -- Read some of the side effects being reported...feelings of stabbing oneself, Violent uncontrollable dry heaving and severe nausea, hallucinations, suicidal thoughts, disorientated, anxiety, depression...read more!

Thought for the day from our friend Mike Tawse in the UK -- To Overcome Limitations… First, Accept Them...read more! Be sure to check out his other websites, especially My Serrapeptase Adventure located at: http://serrapeptaseadventure.ws

Update on Ukraine flu -- In last 24 hours, an unknown virus (presumed pneumonic plague) infected another 37 thousand and killed 12 more people. The authorities deny that this is pneumonic plague, and insist that people die from influenza, pneumonia and ARI.

US Newsmen Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs Targeted By Assassins??? -- This is being reported by Sorcha Faal. Disturbing FSB reports circulating in the Kremlin today are warning that a putsch against dissident newsman in the United States has begun and has targeted two of their right-wings top television journalists, Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs. HOWEVER... Glenn Beck's website states: Glenn out with appendicitis.

Detroit Imam says Abdullah killing 'pre-arranged' -- After a prayer's leader was killed during an alleged shootout with federal agents in the US, another mosque leader in the city of Detroit says his killing was pre-arranged. Over one thousand American Muslims gathered in the city of Detroit on Sunday to mourn the prayers leader.

Ohio farmer cited for washing vegetables sold at farmer's market! -- The Ohio Department of Health/Department of Agriculture has issued a Notice of Violation to a farmer at a farmers market in Lake County on 7/8/09. According to the notice, it is a violation to offer cleaned and rinsed “lettuce and mixed greens” in a package at a farmers market. Related Article: More on closing farmer's markets stands in Ohio -- "A Connecticut state health department closed an entire 200-year old farmers market. There is more to come. I figured this
would happen, especially with Ohio’s new rules, which mimic UN/USDA/HHS plans."

Cat in Iowa had H1N1: may be first case in dogs or cats -- U.S. Department of Agriculture labs seen in Ames, Iowa. CAPTIONBy Charlie Neibergall, APThe U.S. Department of Agriculture and Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine confirmed that a 13-year-old cat whose owners had experienced flu-like symptoms contracted H1N1 (swine) flu.

Veterinarians warn of highly contagious dog flu -- Sporadic outbreaks of a virus called H3N8, or canine influenza, have veterinarians on alert and recommending vaccinations for certain dogs.
Dog Flu: Symptoms, Treatments and More -- But in 2004, researchers looking at unexplained deaths of greyhounds at dog racing tracks discovered a new influenza virus that can infect dogs. Since then, the virus has been found in 30 states and Washington D.C., said Cynda Crawford, an assistant professor of shelter medicine at the University of Florida, who first found the flu virus. Now it's another thing dog owners need to be aware of, she said.

Commercial pigs in Indiana test positive for H1N1 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday that pigs in a commercial herd in Indiana have tested positive for swine flu, making it the first time the virus has been found in such hogs.

Remote Amazon tribe hit by swine flu!?! -- Swine flu has hit an isolated tribe of Indians in the Amazon jungle, with seven dying in the last two weeks, Survival International said on Wednesday.

H1N1 vaccine shortage fabricated to increase demand? -- There's a fascinating book by author Robert Cialdini called Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion. As someone who frequently writes about Big Pharma's social engineering tactics, I've read and studied many of these tactics, noting carefully how governments and Big Business use them to wage disinformation campaigns against the People.

WHO targets hemorrhagic H1N1 cases in Ukraine -- As the WHO update clearly states, the dominant influenza circulating worldwide is swine H1N1 and it is assumed that most cases in the Ukraine (see map) are swine H1N1.

Ukraine flu case double in 2 days to 478,000 -- The numbers on this website are from the latest update from Ukraine. The number of infected patients has almost doubled to just under ½ million, compared to the report two days ago (see map).

Photo enforcement defeated at the ballot box in Texas, Ohio -- Voters in College Station, Texas as well as Chillicothe and Heath, Ohio vote to ban automated ticketing machines.

Capitol to be filled with livid Americans -- Citizens return to D.C. to warn Congress, 'Keep your hands off my health care'. A group of legislators led by Reps. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., will be holding an emergency town-hall meeting outside the Capitol at noon to protest the health-care bill set to hit the House floor. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has indicated that a vote on the bill could take place as soon as Thursday. Bachmann told WND she is urging citizens to come to Washington and "pay an emergency House call to Congress."

Afghanistan flu cases quadruple in 2 days -- The number of Afghans infected by the deadly H1N1 virus has more than quadrupled in two days, a health ministry official said on Wednesday.

First Lady requires more than 20 attendants (with nice salaries & benefits) -- Update: First Lady Now Requires 26 Servants. See the bill paid to these assorted attendants.

Research shows antioxidants beneficial in flu treatment -- Every time I hear of a death related to the respiratory problems associated with the current flu situation I ask "Why aren't these doctors using key supplements known to heal you from viruses, especially vitamin A for people getting the bacterial pneumonia?" Well it seems while not high dose vitamin C or high dose vitamin A along with vitamin D, some researcher are seeing the light on the benfit of antioxidants for people with flu, and consider it for other viral maladies as well.

Johnson & Johnson draws heat for drug kickbacks -- A $112 million settlement involving alleged drug kickbacks that the Justice Dept. announced with the nation's largest nursing home pharmacy and a generic drug manufacturer on Nov. 3 is part of a wide-ranging investigation of suspected Medicaid fraud by the pharmaceutical industry. Critics say the continuing probe, which involves Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and other major drugmakers, highlights what they describe as an industry practice of paying money to outfits that provide drugs to consumers, in return for preferential treatment.
Related Article: Johnson & Johnson cutting up to 7% of jobs -- Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday it plans to take a fourth-quarter restructuring charge of about $1.2 billion as part of a cost-cutting program to reduce its global work force by 6% to 7%.

Chinese herbs may prevent diabetes in high risk people -- Type 2 diabetes is an international epidemic and 380 million people throughout the world are expected to develop the condition by 2025. The vast majority of the time, pre-diabetes (also called impaired glucose tolerance or IGT), which is marked by higher than normal blood sugar levels, develops before full-blown diabetes. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates that about 57 million Americans -- which translates to one in four U.S. adults age 20 or older -- already have IGT. Simply put, these are cases of type 2 diabetes waiting to happen.

Burn pit legislation signed into law to protect our troops in Iraq & Afghanistan -- President Barack Obama recently signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes provisions authored by U.S. Representative Tim Bishop of Southampton to protect the thousands of troops exposed to open, toxic burn pits used in Iraq and Afghanistan.

California toll road admits penalties were unconstitutional -- California motorists hit with massive fines for minor, alleged toll infractions won a settlement last month from the Orange County Transportation Agency (OCTA) and Transportation Corridor Agency (TCA). The toll road operating entities agreed to pay $1.4 million in restitution and waive $41 million in unpaid toll penalties after admitting the fines were "excessive" and that the denial of due process to the accused was "unconstitutional."

Blackwater arrives in Pakistan -- The foreigners affiliated with the notorious private military contractor Blackwater, whose security company Blackwater was later renamed as Xe Services LLC, arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday through a PIA flight, sources told TheNation.

Top 10 weirdest CIA programs -- From spy cats to psychic hippies, the read the ten of the weirdest spy programs the government has proposed and funded over the years.

Smoke medical marijuana, lose your gun rights? -- The right of Oregonians to use marijuana for medical reasons and also to obtain concealed handgun permits is being challenged by local sheriffs who say federal law prevents those people from packing heat.

The monster devouring us: Even the men who created the Internet are beginning to fear it's power to destroy our freedom -- Yes...This is becoming a world in which you are constantly worried about who is reading your emails and analysing your phone calls.

Spanish doctor reveals important information about swine flu -- A doctor physician specializing in internal medicine explains the consequences of the declaration of a PANDEMIC, the political consequences from this declaration and makes a proposal to keep calm. She calls for an urgent activation of all legal mechanism and the participation of all citizens in this matter.

Obama creates 640,329 jobs at a cost of $323,739.83 per job -- The US economic stimulus programme has directly created or saved 640,000 jobs so far, the White House said on Friday as it battled to find ways to show that its $787bn package was working, despite persistently high unemployment.

Secret copyright treaty leaks...it's bad, very bad -- The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. Read what it says.

Giant crack in Africa will create a new ocean -- A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm.


Today in History November 4, 2009
1842 - Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, IL.
1846 - The patent for the artificial leg is granted to Benjamin Palmer.
1880 - James and John Ritty patented the first cash register.
1924 - Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected America's first woman governor so she could serve out the remaining term of her late husband, William B. Ross.
1939 - During World War II, the U.S. modified its neutrality stance with the Neutrality Act of 1939. The new policy allowed cash-and-carry purchases of arms by belligerents.
1939 - At the 40th National Automobile Show the first air-conditioned car was put on display.
1965 - Lee Ann Roberts Breedlove became the first woman to exceed 300 mph when she went 308.5 mph.
1979 - Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage (90 total hostages). The militants, mostly students, demanded that the U.S. send the former shah back to Iran to stand trial. Many hostages were later released, but 52 were held for the next 14 months.
1985 - Soviet defector Vitaly Yurchenko announced he was returning to the Soviet Union. He had charged that he had been kidnapped by the CIA.
1991 - Ronald Reagan opened his presidential library in Simi Valley, CA. The dedication ceremony was attended by President Bush and former U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon. It was the 1st gathering of 5 U.S. chief executives.
1999 - The United Nations imposed economic sanctions against the Taliban that controlled most of Afghanistan. The sanctions were imposed because the Taliban had refused to turn over Osama bin Laden, who had been charged with masterminding the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Libertarian 9/11 truth leader Jim Duensing shot in the back by cops -- Jim Duensing, 2008 Congressional candidate and founder of the Libertarian 9/11 truth caucus Libertarians for Justice, is in critical condition after being repeatedly shot in the back and arm by a Las Vegas cop. Our prayers go out to Jim, who is recovering with his wife in the hospital and thankfully is expected to survive.

Brasscheck TV: How the US military poisons its own troops -- Pentagon resumes experimental vaccine testing on US troops.
(This is a clip from Beyond Treason)

Massachusetts pandemic bill nears passage -- The Massachusetts House has overwhelmingly approved an effort giving public health officials the power to isolate individuals and order quarantines to contain the outbreak of serious contagious diseases. The bill – S2028 – is designed to protect public health in case of a variety of possible emergencies, including natural disasters, chemical spills, bioterrorist attacks and infectious diseases. The H1N1 virus, or swine flu, is covered under infectious diseases.

Government appoints task force to handle swine flu propaganda -- The U.S. government has appointed what the media is ludicrously billing as an “independent” group of health advisors whose job it will be to whitewash adverse reactions to the swine flu vaccine and “explain” them to the public as mere coincidence.

CFR recording suggests creating false scarcity to drive up demand for H1N1 vaccine -- A recording of a recent Council On Foreign Relations symposium reveals attendees discussing ways and means of getting the public to take the H1N1 flu vaccine in spite of the mass resistance that has arisen due to questions over it’s safety.

Swine flu or worse? The debate on what the heck is going on in the Ukraine rages on -- At this hour a team of experts from the World Health Organization is on the ground in Ukraine, but the search for solid answers about what in the world is going on there has not made much progress.

Online coupon site -- List of stores with discount codes.

Can marijuana help kids with autism? -- As the mother of an autistic child, Marie Myung-Ok Lee is navigating uncharted territory as she struggles to manage her son's condition. She has bravely come forward to share her son's battle with this mysterious disorder, and to discuss how medical marijuana has brought them both back from the brink of despair.

FDA hid research that damned Aspartame -- Fatal Studies Should Have Blocked NutraSweet Approval.

Author says G20 meeting in Scotland this week about dumping US dollar -- Best-selling author Daniel Estulin states that the key issue to be discussed this week at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting, being held in St. Andrews, Scotland, is how to bring down the present world financial system through dumping the US dollar.

Layoffs, bankruptcies & business closings for the month of October -- Your source for daily job news regarding layoffs, bankrupcy's and closings.

It's time to bring back the BBS network-bypass the internet -- Before the World Wide Web (WWW) came into its own in the latter 1990’s, the BBS or Bulletin Board System was the popular means of communicating by computer. Read More...

Copy of consent form issued by GSK before taking flu vaccine -- This form is to be filled in by candidates for vaccination prior to the administration of
the Pandemrix (GSK) vaccine against influenza A/H1N1. Two copies are to be signed, one to be retained by the doctor.

The silence about vaccine deaths in media is due to confidential contracts with the vaccine makers -- If you are to receive the "Pandremix" against the benign “new-type” H1N1-flu this season, we recommend that you first learn about the possible side effects, as GSK asked their own employees to sign an "informed consent form" before receiving the vaccine.

Swine flu scare tightens borders around Ukraine -- Russia and Slovakia tightened their borders with Ukraine on Tuesday as the World Health Organization began investigating a suspected swine flu outbreak.

Consumer goods made with radioactive metals -- A lack of regulatory oversight has led to massive quantities of radioactive metal entering the U.S. raw materials supply, meaning that many consumer products may expose users to dangerous levels of radiation, a Scripps Howard News Service investigation has found.
 
Parents: send this note to your school principal to protect your child from swine flu vaccines -- After reading about the forced vaccination of a Brooklyn schoolgirl who ended up in the hospital, many parents are concerned about how they might protect their own children from school-based vaccination schemes.

Companies are cashing in in swine flu -- Business is booming for shady internet pharmacies peddling fake vaccines. Be especially wary of unauthorized versions of Tamiflu. The real swine flu vaccine can be sold only through doctors.

Swine flu causes brawl on NY Subway -- Fight heats up on subway between two women because one did not cover her mouth while coughing.

Chinese drywall studies released by various agencies -- The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has received thousands of reports involving corroding metal components in houses built using Chinese drywall materials. The Chinese Drywall complaints and reports come from 30 US States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

Obama election defeat termed 'astonishing' -- The Obama freight train that has been steamrolling American politics ever since his election one year ago ran squarely into a political brick wall Tuesday night, as Democrats suffered stunning setbacks in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races.

Honolulu symphony may file for bankruptcy this week -- The Honolulu Symphony may file for bankruptcy protection as early as tomorrow, according to people familiar with the situation.

Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire -- Al Gore, the former US vice president, could become the world's first carbon billionaire after investing heavily in green energy companies.

Sustainably grown garlic! -- Fueled by factors including the growth of the "local foods" movement, interest in world cuisines, and widespread reports touting its numerous health benefits, demand for high-quality, locally grown garlic is increasing throughout the U.S. (plant garlic in the fall!)

TV exposure may be associated with aggressive behavior in young children -- Three-year-old children who are exposed to more TV appear to be at an increased risk for exhibiting aggressive behavior, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Maryland cities create school zones for speed camera use -- Baltimore and New Carrollton, Maryland create new school zones in areas that have no children for the purpose of installing speed cameras.
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Today in History November 3, 2009
1507 - Leonardo DaVinci was commissioned by the husband of Lisa Gherardini to paint her. The work is known as the Mona Lisa.
1631 - The Reverend John Eliot arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was the first Protestant minister to dedicate himself to the conversion of Native Americans to Christianity.
1793 - Stephen F. Austin was born. He was the principle founder of Texas.
1796 - John Adams was elected the 2nd U.S. President.
1839 - The first Opium War between China and Britain erupted.
1892 - The first automatic telephone went into service at LaPorte, IN. The device was invented by Almon Strowger.
1900 - The first automobile show in the United States opened at New York's Madison Square Garden.
1952 - Frozen bread was offered for sale for the first time in a supermarket in Chester, NY.
1957 - Sputnik II was launched by the Soviet Union. It was the second manmade satellite to be put into orbit and was the first to put an animal into space, a dog named Laika.
1973 - The U.S. launched the Mariner 10 spacecraft. On March 29, 1974 it became the first spacecraft to reach the planet Mercury.
1992 - Carol Moseley-Braun became the first African-American woman U.S. senator.
1995 - U.S. President Clinton dedicated a memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to the 270 victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
1998 - A state-run newspaper in Iraq urged the country to prepare for to battle "the U.S. monster."
1998 - Minnesota elected Jesse "The Body" Ventura, a former pro wrestler, as its governor.

NAU-USANORTH Logo -- Orange and BLue military logo!!!!!!!!!!

Drones: Unmanned aircraft technology improved to better track militants -- Like the Reaper and its earlier counterpart, the Predator, the newest technology program has been given a fearsome name: the Gorgon Stare, named for the mythological creature that turns unwitting victims to stone. Predators and other unmanned aircraft have just revolutionized our ability to provide a constant stare against our enemy," said a senior military official who like others spoke on condition of anonymity when discussing the uses and capabilities of the system. "The next sensors, mark my words, are going to be equally revolutionary."

Novartis A(H1N1) Pandemic Influenza vaccine Focetria® receives positive opinion from CHMP -- Contains SQUALENE and MERCURY!!

BrassCheck TV: Doctors speak out about the H1N1 Vaccine -- If you or a loved one are crippled by this vaccine, you will shoulder the burden yourself. The pharmaceutical companies and the government have exempted themselves from all liability.

Audit warns KBR to cut number of employees in Iraq -- Pentagon auditors are warning the Army's primary support contractor in Iraq, responsible for everything from mail and laundry to housing and meals, to cut its work force there or face nearly $200 million in penalties for keeping thousands too many on the payroll.

Soldiers Nearly Killed with Military's Bioterrorism Vaccine -- Approximately 200 soldiers have suffered from serious and even life-threatening complications from the government -mandated smallpox vaccine, and one has even died.

How processed junk food diet can give you depression -- Those who regularly eat high-fat foods, processed meals, desserts and sweets are almost 60 per cent more likely to suffer depression than those who choose fruit, vegetables and fish.

New concerns raised over blacktop sealant runoff -- A long-standing ritual of homeowners - sealing their blacktop driveways - is getting new scrutiny from the state of Minnesota because sealant from driveways and parking lots may be washing off into ponds and streams as hazardous waste.

Influenza or pneumonic plague-situation getting worse in Ukraine -- Ukrainian News Agency "Fraza" reported that, according to informed sources, "it has been confirmed 100 % Pneumonic Plague in Ukraine".

Ukraine says it's not swine flu -- There is no epidemic of swine flu in Ukraine, told the chief sanitary doctor Oleksander Bilovol in the air of ICTV TV channel. According to him, "the epidemic of influenza and acute respiratory disease is observed in the western regions. Especially in 11 regions, where the threshold is exceed almost by 15 percents, - said the chief sanitary doctor. - In other regions, there are indexes which were in 2007-2008" , - said Oleksander Bilovol.

Panic in Ukraine-Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities - martial law expected -- The office of Emergency Response in the district of Desniansko, Kiev, are tonight (30th Oct.) strongly refuting reports that light aircraft were spraying a substance over the city intended to counter a “swine flu pandemic” in Ukraine.

Switzerland forbids swine flu vaccine for pregnant women, young & old people -- Swissmedic, the authority in Switzerland that gives permission for the use of drugs, today announced that the "swine flu" vaccine Pandemrix will not be allowed to be injected into pregnant women, children or young adults (below 18 years of age) or elderly (above 60 years of age).

While here they want to give 2 doses to kids and pregnant women -- Interim clinical trial findings announced today affirm that children younger than 10 need two pandemic H1N1 vaccine doses, and initial findings in pregnant women reveal no safety concerns and a need for only one dose.

Maryland Governor has broad powers in event of H1N1 crisis; professors say could choke civil rights -- Quarantine, forced vaccination and martial law are just a few of the options available to Gov. Martin O’Malley should the H1N1 virus spread uncontrollably, according to professors who talked Wednesday about the civil rights problems an outbreak could create.

20 reasons why Vitamin D is better than a swine flu vaccine -- The news is out: Vitamin D is better than the swine flu vaccine at halting H1N1 infections. In fact, without vitamin D, chances are that a vaccine won't generate much of an immune response in the first place. Read The Reasons...

Can charcoal fight heart disease in kidney patients? -- Charcoal may provide a new approach to managing the high rate of heart disease in patients with advanced kidney disease, according to preliminary research being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San Diego, CA.

Obama pulls plug on North American Union/SPP? -- "The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP-"North American Union") is no longer an active initiative. There will not be any updates to this site."

Illinois soybean, corn harvests at record lows -- Illinois soybean and corn levels are at their lowest levels in four decades because of the state's record rainfall, according to the Illinois Agriculture Department's statistics.

Alabama's crops in trouble -- Large amounts of rain during September and October have degraded various crops and caused poor harvesting conditions, which caused the harvest to be behind schedule by around 4 - 6 weeks.

Iowa facing latest corn harvest in decades -- Farmers in Iowa are facing the latest corn harvest to occur in the state in 42 years, a climate expert said State Climatologist Harry Hillaker said the late harvest, caused by heavy rains, raises concerns for corn farmers because crops become more vulnerable the longer they remain in the fields, The Des Moines (Iowa) Register reported Friday.

Stupid news - Kellogg's claims sugary Cocoa Krispies can boost your child's immunity

Chinese chicken-which fast food restaurant may serve you this scary import? -- Now that a 2004 ban on chicken imported from China has been lifted, it could be awfully tempting for some of America's favorite fast-food chains to buy the cheap meat. We asked seven of the biggest fast food chains in the U.S. whether they would buy the chicken when it becomes available. Three said they will only buy American chicken. Three would not say what they'll do. And one, a very big one, left the door wide open.

EPA's secret plan to raise public radiation exposure levels challenged -- Public employees have filed a lawsuit demanding documents related to the U.S. EPA's plans made "in secrecy" to allow public exposure to increased levels of radioactivity following nuclear accidents or attacks.

Unanticipated long term consequences of nuclear waste from bomb making -- Radioactive debris has been found in canyons that drain into the Rio Grande, but officials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory say there's no health risk.

Ukraine mystery outbreak sparks WHO concern as illness spreads -- The World Health Organization sent a team of experts to Ukraine today to investigate an outbreak of respiratory disease that’s sickened a quarter of a million people and left pharmacies without masks or flu remedies.

City of Boston gives flu tracking a shot in the arm -- Barcode system improves outbreak readiness.

2 ALS cases may be linked to Gardisil vaccine -- Researchers Believe Cervical Cancer Vaccine Could Be Linked to Cases of Lou Gehrig's Disease.

Dallas police enforce all laws, even ones that don't exist -- 39 drivers ticketed for not speaking English.

Girl mistakenly given Swine flu vaccine goes to ER -- Now it turns out that one of the public school students given the swine flu vaccine without parental consent had to go to the emergency room after getting sick.

15 remarkable animals that use tools -- Even insects use tools, especially social insects such as ants and wasps. Read More...

Psychic computer shows your thoughts on screen -- Scientists have discovered how to “read” minds by scanning brain activity and reproducing images of what people are seeing — or even remembering.

Delaware beats Switzerland as most secretive financial center -- Move over Switzerland. The tiny state of Delaware beats the Alpine country in a contest for the most secretive financial jurisdiction, a tax justice rights group said on Saturday.

Americans get together in hunt for bargains -- Six hundred people rushed to buy half-price entry to the Botanical Gardens in New York this week. In San Francisco, 760 bagel-lovers signed up for a dozen at a cutprice $5 (£3) from the House of Bagels.

Lawsuit probes use of psychologists in terror war -- The state board responsible for licensing - and disciplining - psychologists in Louisiana is accused of turning a blind eye to serious allegations of abuse against one of its members, including complicity in beatings, religious and sexual humiliation, rape threats and painful body positions during his service as a senior advisor on interrogations for the U.S. military in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.

Inside one of the world's largest data centers -- On the outside, Microsoft's massive new data center resembles the other buildings in the industrial area. Even the inside of the building doesn't look like that much. The ground floor looks like a large indoor parking lot filled with a few parked trailers. Read More...

Today in History November 2, 2009
1776 - During the American Revolutionary War, William Demont, became the first traitor of the American Revolution when he deserted.
1783 - U.S. Gen. George Washington gave his "Farewell Address to the Army" near Princeton, NJ.
1867 - "Harpers Bazaar" magazine was founded.
1883 - Thomas Edison executed a patent application for an electrical indicator using the Edison effect lamp (U.S. Pat. 307,031).
1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted into the union as the 39th and 40th states.
1895 - In Chicago, IL, the first gasoline powered contest took place in America.
1920 - The first commercial radio station in the U.S., KDKA of Pittsburgh, PA, began regular broadcasting.
1930 - The DuPont Company announced the first synthetic rubber. It was named DuPrene.
1947 - Howard Hughes flew his "Spruce Goose," a huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in California. It was the plane's first and only flight. The "Spruce Goose," nicknamed because of the white-gray color of the spruce used to build it, never went into production.
1948 - Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency. The Chicago Tribune published an early edition that had the headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." The Truman victory surprised many polls and newspapers.
1962 - U.S. President Kennedy announced that the U.S.S.R. was dismantling the missile sites in Cuba.
1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
1986 - American hostage David Jacobson was released after being held in Lebanon for 17 months by Shiite Muslims kidnappers.
1993 - The U.S. Senate called for full disclosure of Senator Bob Packwood's diaries in a sexual harassment probe.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton gave his first in-depth interview since the White House sex scandal to Black Entertainment Television talk show host and political commentator Tavis Smiley on the network's "BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley.""

Appeals court throws out convictions in slayings of Raytown couple (Parents of Rick Caylor from Rick's Satellite) -- On Tuesday, the Western District of the Missouri Court of Appeals, threw out the Murder Convictions that Kellen McKinney was found guilty of for killing Rick's parents on a technicality.

9 more banks fail -- Nine more U.S. banks, all owned by the same Illinois holding company, were closed Friday by regulators, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said U.S. Bank of Minneapolis would assume their deposits. The closings brought the 2009 total to 115 in 2009 -- the first year since 1992 that more than 100 banks have gone under.

Gold Market Reaching the Breaking point -- Rising demand for physical gold is a threat to the dollar because it signals a growing loss of confidence in the paper currency. It is also key to understand that gold prices aren't rising because of the changing fundamentals of gold, but because of the changing fundamentals of the dollar. In other words, gold isn't rallying, THE DOLLAR IS FALLING.

More blasts in Pakistan: ‘Huge blast’ kills at least 30 in Pakistan -- Suicide bomber riding motorcycle detonates device near busy bank.

Ship built with 9/11 steel comes to New York -- A U.S. Navy assault ship built, the USS New York, with steel from the fallen World Trade Center and named in honor of the city and state that were home to the twin towers is making its inaugural visit there.

Swine Flu? Typhus? Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever? Pneumonic Plague? -- Panic Explodes As A Mystery Illness Rips Through Ukraine

Doctors are dying in Ukraine from illness -- Four doctors died of flu in Ukraine's Ternopol and Lvov regions, Health Minister Vasily Knyazevich said at the Sunday meeting of the operative headquarters for the prevention and treatment of A/H1N1 flu.

Ron Paul: Be prepared for the worst -- The large-scale government intervention in the economy is going to end badly.

How Goldman secretly bet on the US housing crash -- In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting.

Why wasn't military notified when Northwest flight went missing? -- F-16 Jets Weren't Ready to Launch Until After the Pilots Were Back in Touch.

Beijing engaged in weather control activities -- BEIJING: Beijingers woke up Sunday morning to a city turned white with snow that came far ahead of the winter. It was only in the later part of the day that one learnt that 186 doses of silver iodide went into persuading the clouds to release snow flakes.

Record setting snowstorm in Rockies -- A record-setting snowstorm that dumped nearly 4 feet of snow across parts of the Rockies by Thursday will threaten parts of the Midwest and South today with heavy rain and flooding.

CVS drug store company caught in hidden drug pushing deal to promote Zyprexa for money -- A pharmacy benefits manager (PMB) for drug store chain CVS entered a secret agreement with pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly to promote the company's antipsychotic Zyprexa to doctors, according to internal documents revealed as part of an insurance industry lawsuit against the drug maker.

Ukraine Bans Big Crowds to Combat Swine Flu -- The Ukrainian government is taking some of the sternest measures in the world against the spread of the swine flu virus, ordering schools nationwide to close for three weeks, banning public gatherings and imposing restrictions on travel.
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Ukraine flu epidemic being blamed on lack of vaccination-but read the comments at end of article -- Chief State Sanitary Doctor Oleksandr Bilovol sees the mass refusal from vaccination as one of the reasons for the epidemic of flu and acute respiratory diseases in Ukraine.

Ukraine looking at unknown virus causing outbreak -- According to the doctors, now in Chernivtsi unidentified viral infection is being observed. The first results of virological studies that will identify the virus, will be ready only in two weeks.

Has Baxter released a bioweapon in Ukraine? -- Evidence appears to suggest that Baxter International may be responsible for a new deadly outbreak of viral pneumonia in Ukraine. Read More...

Sacked-for telling the truth about drugs -- Government fires top adviser for challenging its hardline policy on cannabis and ecstasy.

Poland closely monitors Ukraine flu -- As 81,000 are diagnosed with flu in Ukraine and over 2,000 hospitalized, Poland’s health authorities are monitoring the outbreak carefully and ready to tale emergency measures.

List of all flu vaccine ingredients, package inserts -- The following website has the ingredient lists, warnings and side effects for vaccines currently scheduled to be administered to populations worldwide for the H1N1 swine flu.

Squalene - A history of vaccine development and the newest adjuvant -- "Squalene is a kind of trigger for the real biological weapon: The immune system. When the immune system’s full repertoire of cells and antibodies start attacking the tissues they are supposed to protect, the results can be catastrophic," wrote Matsumoto. Dr. Pam Asa concurs with Matsumoto when she stated," Oil adjuvants are the most insidious chemical weapon ever devised." Read More...

VIDEO: Merck scientist admits cancer & AIDS came from vaccines

Swine flu rates up to 5 times higher for native groups -- Swine flu deaths among U.S. children are "shooting up," the U.S. government reported today, generating thousands of headlines online within hours.

FBI demands tattoo shops rat out their customers -- In Philadelphia, the FBI has instructed tattoo shops to rat out their customers if they demand privacy, insist on paying with cash, engage in “suspicious behavior,” make “anti-US” comments, or request tattoos that are “extremist symbols.”

Something neat...beautiful snow moose -- You probably won't see this again in your life time. Be sure to show this to you children or grandchildren...

FDA studies bacteria that could fight salmonella in tomatoes -- FDA scientists studying salmonella in tomatoes have stumbled upon what could be a breakthrough in the battle to control the bacteria.

Beijing's first snow of season 'artificially induced' -- Chinese meteorologists covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding clouds to bring winter weather to the capital in an effort to combat a lingering drought, state media reported.

How terahertz waves tear apart DNA - But a new generation of cameras are set to appear that not only record terahertz waves but also bombard us with them. And if our exposure is set to increase, the question that urgently needs answering is what level of terahertz exposure is safe.

Police arrest suspect for setting fire at 9/11 victims chapel -- A man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of setting a small fire at the temporary home for the remains of thousands of World Trade Center victims, police said.

EU to ban all shoppers refunds -- EU BUREAUCRATS want to end the right of shoppers to get their money back for shoddy goods. This would end the 100 years of protection British consumers have enjoyed.

EU to police drivers with black boxes in ALL cars -- THE European Union is drawing up plans for aircraft-style black box recorders to be fitted to all cars to help the police identify who is responsible for crashes.

US workers starved into service -- With the official US unemployment rate at 10 percent and climbing (that’s more than 15 million people struggling to put food on the table) and nearly double that number if you include part-time wage-earners who need full-time jobs, never mind all of those ‘discouraged workers,’ it’s little wonder that so many of the nation’s jobless are flocking into its military recruitment offices.

Acid ship 'sinks in China's Yangtze' -- A ship carrying 100 tonnes of hydrochloric acid sank in China's Yangtze river on Sunday after colliding with another vessel, state media reported, citing local officials.


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Today in History October 30, 2009
1735 - John Adams, the second President of the United States, was born in Braintree, MA. His son became the sixth President of the U.S.
1831 - Escaped slave Nat Turner was apprehended in Southampton County, VA, several weeks after leading the bloodiest slave uprising in American history.
1875 - The constitution of Missouri was ratified by popular vote.
1893 - The U.S. Senate gave final approval to repeal the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890.
1894 - The time clock was patented by Daniel M. Cooper of Rochester, NY.
1938 - Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" aired on CBS radio. The belief that the realistic radio dramatization was a live news event about a Martian invasion caused panic among listeners.
1943 - In Moscow, a declaration was signed by the Governments of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and China called for an early establishment of an international organization to maintain peace and security. The goal was supported on December 1, 1943, at a meeting in Teheran.
1945 - The U.S. government announced the end of shoe rationing.
1972 - U.S. President Richard Nixon approved legislation to increase Social Security spending by $5.3 billion.
1975 - The New York Daily News ran the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." The headline came a day after U.S. President Gerald R. Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.
1993 - Martin Fettman, America's first veterinarian in space, performed the world's first animal dissections in space, while aboard the space shuttle Columbia.
1995 - Federalist prevailed over separatists in Quebec in a referendum concerning secession from the federation of Canada.
2001 - In New York City, U.S. President George W. Bush threw out the first pitch at Game 3 of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks.

US government recommends blocking popular websites during pandemic flu outbreak -- The US government has issued a new report that recommends blocking access to popular websites during a pandemic outbreak in order to preserve internet bandwidth for investors, day traders and securities clearing house operations. (so...mainly to protect Wall St)

YouTube: Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty? -- Lord Moncton tells it like it is on the Copenhagen treaty. On October 14, Lord Christopher Monckton gave a presentation in St. Paul, MN on the subject of global warming. In this 4-minute excerpt from his speech, he issues a dire warning to all Americans regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty that is scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009.

Saudis don't want oil price set in U.S. anymore -- Saudi Arabia on Wednesday decided to drop the widely used West Texas Intermediate oil contract as the benchmark for pricing its oil, dealing a serious blow to the New York Mercantile Exchange. The decision by the world's biggest oil exporter could encourage other producers to abandon the benchmark and threatens the dominance of the world's most heavily traded oil futures contract.

Hundreds of schools closed due to H1N1 flu -- The federal government has urged schools to close because of the swine flu only as a last resort. But schools are closing by the dozens as officials say they are being hit so hard and so fast by the H1N1 virus that they feel shutting down for a few days is the only feasible option.

US emergency declarations raise pandemic concerns -- New York Gov. David Paterson has declared a state of emergency because of the rise in swine flu cases. The executive order means that far more health care professionals - including dentists - will be permitted to administer vaccines with only brief training. The order is needed to suspend provisions of state law.

Mercury free flu shot available, but Vitamin D and homeopathy prevent flu better -- Because of the outcry against mercury in the swine flu vaccine, six thousand doses of mercury-free flu shots are being made available. With 160 million doses of the regular flu shot being shipped, the mercury-free flu vaccine will go fast. Those who feel a need to be vaccinated, can ask for the mercury-free shot, which health providers will need to keep under refrigeration. Other options for preventing the flu include homeopathy and vitamin D therapy, both of which have been shown to be effective in preventing colds and flu.

YouTube: Now for something funny - Baby Boomers Battle Hymn

They're thinking of using statin drugs to treat H1N1? -- Commonly available drugs that are sold in lower-cost generic versions improve the survival of patients hospitalized for seasonal influenza, researchers reported today, raising the possibility of a widely available treatment that could be used in a severe flu pandemic if other drugs are in short supply.

Cash for Clunkers wound up costing taxpayers $24,000 per car -- The average rebate was $4,000. But the overwhelming majority of sales would have taken place anyway at some time in the last half of 2009, according to Edmunds.com. That means the government ended up spending about $24,000 each for those 125,000 additional vehicle sales.

Robins can see Earth's magnetic field -- Robins can 'see' the Earth's magnetic field which allows them to navigate, scientists believe.

Chickens immunized with Genetic Modified Peas -- Genetically modified peas that can protect chickens against a common infection have been successful in trials, say scientists. (a good reason to raise your own chickens)!!

Dioxin contaminating Vietnam is a carcinogen -- An article released by Agence France Presse news service understates dioxin's cancer effects.

Harvard lab workers were poisoned -- Harvard University says six researchers who became sick in August apparently were poisoned. The Boston Herald says a memo released Friday says the group drank from a coffee machine on Aug. 26 that later tested positive for sodium azide, a common preservative used in labs. The six reported symptoms ranging from dizziness to gar ringing, and one passed out. They were treated at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and later released.

28 inches! Colorado braces for more snow! -- Wintry storm closes schools, delays flights, sparks dozens of crashes.

Florida's turnpike to go cashless, all electronic tolling -- By February 2011, all cash collection on the turnpike's southernmost stretch will end. Toll plazas between the Golden Glades and Interstate 595 will be converted the following year. Eventually, the turnpike will be free of toll booths.

Study finds quake risk at Los Alamos lab -- A big earthquake and resultant fire could trigger potentially deadly releases of radioactive materials from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico due to "major deficiencies" in the nuclear weapons lab's safety planning, federal safety experts warned Tuesday.

Are populations being primed for nano-microchips in vaccines? -- It's almost surreal, like something out of a sci-fi flick, but nano-microchips invisible to the naked eye are a reality that are already being hosted in wide-range of applications. The question is, how long will it take governments and big pharma to immerse nano-microchips inside of vaccines to tag and surveil global populations?

German protests over toxic swine flu jab grow after Army rejects it as too risky! -- The protest against German government plans to mass vaccinate the population with the untested and toxic swine flu jab are growing after the German army decided to order a jab without heavy metals mercury and without adjuvants that is made in the same way as the regular flu shots.

Asteroid explodes over Indonesia with the force of 3 Hiroshimas -- An asteroid that exploded in the Earth’s atmosphere with the energy of three Hiroshima bombs this month has reignited fears about our planet’s defences against space impacts.

How 56.5 million households live: $52,000 median household income in 2009 -- In the last decade, even after the housing bust, prices are still higher yet incomes still lag.

Stimulus dollars go to accused contractors More than $1.2 billion awarded to firms on watchdog's list -- More than $1.2 billion awarded to firms on watchdog's list.

McDonald's to close all restaurants in Iceland -- U.S. fast food chain McDonald's in Iceland announced that all its restaurants would close at the end of October, according to reports reaching here from Reykjavik on Tuesday. "The reason is the rising cost of imported supplies following the collapse of the Icelandic krona," reported the Icelandic electronic newspaper Iceland Review.

US secretly funding Pakistan offensive -- WASHINGTON: Even as the Pakistani government plays down the US role in its military operations in Taliban-controlled areas along the border with Afghanistan, the US has quietly rushed hundreds of millions of dollars in arms, equipment and sophisticated sensors to Pakistani forces in recent months, said US and Pakistani officials.

'Impossible' device could propel cars, missiles -- The Emdrive is an electromagnetic drive that would generate thrust from a closed system — “impossible” say some experts.

Little Known... 'Taking Your Property Back... Free and Clear!' -- Recently, some homeowners have staved off foreclosure for more than four years using a newly employed legal strategy, which requires the lender to 'Produce The Promissory Note'...Read More...

Back to freedom? -- There is only one road 'Back to FREEDOM' and this involves accepting full RESPONSIBILITY for our actions and for our lives; because without the acceptance of personal responsibility, for the things we do or fail to do, there can be no freedom.

British website - Big Brother Watch -- Sensitive official information with potential implications for national security has leaked from Whitehall, the head of the civil service has warned.

Internet turns 40 years old -- "It's the 40th year since the infant Internet first spoke," said University of California, Los Angeles, professor Leonard Kleinrock, who headed the team that first linked computers online in 1969.

Today in History October 29, 2009
1652 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaimed itself to be an independent commonwealth.
1682 - William Penn landed at what is now Chester, PA. He was the founder of Pennsylvania.
1863 - The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded.
1901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President McKinley, was electrocuted.
1911 - American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer died.
1929 - America's Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market.
1940 - The first peacetime military draft began in the U.S.
1945 - The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each.
1956 - "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" premiered on NBC. The show replaced "The Camel News Caravan."
1959 - General Mills became the first corporation to use close-circuit television.
1966 - The National Organization for Women was founded.
1969 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered an immediate end to all school segregation.
1974 - U.S. President Gerald Ford signed a new law forbidding discrimination in credit applications on the basis of sex or marital status
1991 - The U.S. Galileo spacecraft became the first to visit an asteroid (Gaspra).
1991 - Trade sanctions were imposed on Haiti by the U.S. to pressure the new leaders to restore the ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.
1994 - Francisco Martin Duran fired more than two dozen shots at the White House while standing on Pennsylvania Ave. Duran was later convicted of trying to kill U.S. President Clinton.
1998 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off with John Glenn on board. Glenn was 77 years old. In 1962 he became the first American to orbit the Earth.
1998 - The oldest known copy of Archimedes' work sold for $2 million at a New York auction.
2001 - KTLA broadcasted the first coast to coast HDTV network telecast

Strange Lists - The Top 20 Worst Foods in America -- Read all about how calories you are downing when eating these foods!!.....sorry to spoil your day... :)

The raid that rocked the Met: Why gun and drugs op on 6,717 safety deposit boxes could cost taxpayer a fortune -- More than 500 officers smashed their way into thousands of safety deposit boxes to retrieve guns, drugs and millions of pounds of criminal assets. At least, that's what was suppose to happen. Read More...

Top officials defend vaccination campaign -- The Obama administration gave its most aggressive defense of the government's swine flu vaccine campaign, with top officials saying Wednesday that despite shortages, the program has been more successful than expected in some ways and that millions of doses are quickly becoming available.

Shortage of vaccine posts political test for Obama -- Despite months of planning and preparation, a vaccine shortage is threatening to undermine public confidence in government, creating a very public test of Mr. Obama’s competence.

Chaos at vaccination clinic in California -- Overwhelmed clinic staff began vaccinating many people who were not supposed to be first in line for protection, officials said Tuesday. Immediately swamped by patients, they haven't been able to monitor whether those receiving the vaccines were at the top of the federal priority list.

US official says vaccine policy is too cautious -- Though the swine flu is widespread in 46 states many Americans are still waiting to get their vaccines. The Obama administration blames the shortage on manufacturing delays at the five firms making these products. But production issues only explain part of the shortfall. Also to blame are a series of policy decisions that reflect our extreme caution when it comes to these products.

Wisconsin beef farmer ordered to register premises -- A Polk County judge has ruled in favor of the state of Wisconsin in the state's second case of a farmer refusing to register a livestock premises. Cumberland cattle rancher Patrick Monchilovich, 39, faced trial Oct. 21 in Balsam Lake for not registering his premises as required by the state's livestock premises registration law.

FAA reacted slowly to errant jet -- The Federal Aviation Administration violated its own rules by taking more than 40 minutes to alert the military after losing communication with a Northwest Airlines flight last week, according to officials familiar with internal reviews under way at several federal agencies.

Government is trying to make bank bailouts permanent -- Paul Volcker and senior Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron both testified to Congress this week that the government is trying to make bailouts for the giant banks permanent.

US airlines to cut 1700 jobs -- US Airways and American Airlines said overnight they were cutting a total of 1700 jobs as they face turbulence amid prolonged recession.

Shots fired at home of Lou Dobbs -- someone has fired a gun at the home of Lou Dobbs, with his wife just a few feet away from the incident. The gunfire followed a series of threatening phone calls. Lou Dobbs is being targeted by the pro-illegal alien groups and pundits who feel that Dobbs is stopping Amnesty from passing.

Costco to accept food stamps nationwide -- Costco Wholesale Corp. said Wednesday that it will start accepting food stamps at its warehouse clubs nationwide after testing them at stores in New York.

George Soros: China should lead New World Order -- China should step up to the plate as the leader of a new global economic order, and the US shouldn't fear the establishment of a global currency because it would help the economy, billionaire investor George Soros says.

Obama signs hate crimes bill into law -- The Senate approved the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act by a vote of 68-29 on Oct. 22 after Democrats strategically attached it to a "must-pass" $680 billion defense appropriations plan.

Troops who suffer intestinal problems on active duty more likely to have continuing problems -- Troops who suffered a bout of infectious gastroenteritis while serving -- as in dysentery or diarrhea -- are more likely than others to suffer longer-term bowel disorders, researchers said here.

More on FBI raid at Pennsylvania Turnpike -- the FBI were at the Turnpike's head offices in Harrisburg Thursday afternoon and that they went away with computers and other materials. He says that as a supervisor on different Turnpike projects he personally has been interviewed multiple times by the FBI as part of a major USDOJ investigation of corruption at the Turnpike. The investigation has been going on for some months.

The video they don't want you to see of potential devastation during a Seattle earthquake -- The Washington Department of Transportation has released a powerful simulation of what could happen to the Alaskan Way Viaduct in the event of a powerful earthquake.

Curry spice kills cancer cells -- An extract found in the bright yellow curry spice turmeric can kill off cancer cells, scientists have shown.

US may end up discarding unused H1N1 vaccine -- The U.S. government may end up throwing away unused doses of swine flu vaccine if people cannot get it soon enough, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.

Swift & supersized FDA enforcement -- FDA’s commissioner vows to strengthen enforcement activity and promises more bite from the agency.

Checkpoints for the next few weeks at Chesapeake Bay bridge tunnel aimed to stop terrorist threats -- Drivers using the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel saw a very public effort to reduce terrorist risks to the nation's surface transportation. As many as 60 people with the TSA, the tunnel police, Coast Guard, NCIS, FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Norfolk Police and Virginia Beach Police are part of the security checkpoint that’s occurring on both ends of the span.

America moving from kingdom of cash to socialism -- Pragmatic America realized that billions of people are not willing to live in the kingdom of hard cash and decided that it would be better off leaving this kingdom itself. Now the USA is talking about introducing elements of socialism.

Steps toward the American police state always tried out in Britain first -- When police admit you could be put on a secret database for being at a demo, it’s time to worry!

UK: Parents banned from watching their own children at playgrounds -- Parents are being banned from playing with their children in council recreation areas because they have not been vetted by police. Mothers and fathers are being forced to watch their children from outside perimeter fences because of fears they could be pedophiles.

America's drug crisis brought to you by the CIA -- Kudos to the New York Times, and to reporters Dexter Filkins, Mark Mazzetti and James Risen, for their lead article today reporting that Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Afghanistan's stunningly corrupt President Hamid Karzai, a leading drug lord in the world's major opium-producing nation, has for eight years been on the CIA payroll.

CIA prevented prisoner deaths to prolong torture -- The CIA took measures to make sure their tortured prisoners did not die – in order to continue further torturing, according to human rights lawyer John Sifton.

Putin given shocking report that Obama ousted in right wing military coup -- Shocking reports circulating in the Kremlin today are stating that Prime Minister Putin’s refusal to agree to new talks with the United States on the START 1 Nuclear Arms Control Treaty, Russian National Security Council Head Nikolai Patrushev’s warning that the Motherlands “military must prepare for a large-scale conflict” and the State Duma’s unanimous vote to allow Russian troops to go “abroad to prevent aggression by other states and to protect Russian citizens on foreign soil”, are all due to a GRU report stating that the American President, Barack Obama, has been made to “surrender his power” to the Right-Wing fascist forces who now, for all intent and purposes, are steering the US towards Total Global War.

Blackwater aided by PR giant -- Public relations giant Burson-Marsteller has vast experience steering companies through tough times. But there's a limit to how much it can help Blackwater USA, a new client that's been battered by negative publicity.


Today in History October 28, 2009
1636 - Harvard College was founded in Massachusetts. The original name was Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was the first school of higher education in America.
1776 - The Battle of White Plains took place during the American Revolutionary War.
1793 - Eli Whitney applied for a patent for his cotton gin.
1886 - The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by U.S. President Cleveland. The statue weighs 225 tons and is 152 feet tall. It was originally known as "Liberty Enlightening the World."
1904 - The St. Louis Police Department became the first to use fingerprinting.
1919 - The U.S. Congress enacted the Volstead Act, also known as the National Prohibition Act. Prohibition was repealed in 1933 with the passing of the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1922 - Benito Mussolini took control of the Italian government and introduced fascism to Italy.
1936 - The Statue of Liberty was rededicated by U.S. President Roosevelt on its 50th anniversary.
1949 -U.S. President Harry Truman swore in Eugenie Moore Anderson as the U.S. ambassador to Denmark. Anderson was the first woman to hold the post of ambassador.
1965 - The Gateway Arch along the waterfront in St. Louis, MO, was completed.
1976 - John D. Erlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, entered a federal prison camp in Safford, AZ, to begin serving his sentence for Watergate-related convictions.
1983 - The U.S. vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution "deeply deploring" the ongoing U.S.-led invasion of Grenada.
1986 - The centennial of the Statue of Liberty was celebrated in New York.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton visited Kuwait and implied that all the troops there would be home by Christmas.
1996 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained a record 337.17 points (or 5%). The day before the Dow had dropped 554.26 points (or 7%).

Bomb kills dozens in Pakistan as Hillary Clinton arrives -- The deadliest Taliban bombing in two years ripped through a women's market in the Pakistani city of Peshawar today, killing almost 90 people. The attack happened as the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, began a three-day visit to Pakistan.

Benefits of Hemcrete -- To the lady that called into The Power Hour who lives in a "tepee" in Alaska. A Power Hour listener did some research on hemp and found out that you can use hemp by products in construction like construction blocks or powder that can be shaped for building and insulation purpose. Thanks Knightrider777!!!

VIDEO: Peter Schiff issues a Red Alert: "Get out of the US dollar" -- The writing is on the wall, my friends. If you havent invested in gold & silver yet, you may want to consider doing so. In Peter Shiffs own words, "Get out of the US dollar." Could this be related to the webbot prediction? Time will tell.

4th teen from same Palo Alto high school commits suicide -- For the fourth time in less than six months, a student from one Palo Alto high school has committed suicide, authorities say. The boy stepped in front of a train at the same location where three other students have killed themselves since May.

Gardasil Researcher Drops A Bombshell -- Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have been no efficacy trials in children under the age of 15.

Swine flu peaks out before vaccines make it into widespread distribution -- Swine flu infections have peaked out in the USA, even before drug companies could get their vaccines injected into everyone. According to CDC findings announced recently in Atlanta, one in five U.S. children have already experienced the flu this month, and most of those were likely H1N1 swine flu cases, the CDC says.

Report: Exposure to the H1N1 flu virus could protect people form the H5N1 bird flu -- Kristien Van Reeth and colleagues at Ghent University infected pigs with a closely related “predecessor” to the current pandemic strain of the flu virus. Four weeks later they also infected these animals with the H5N1 virus, and found that they had developed some immunity to bird flu.
What is H5N1 you ask: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H5N1

Obama's daughters get swine flu shot, but he is waiting to get his vaccine until more becomes available -- President Barack Obama's daughters, Malia and Sasha, have received their swine flu shots. A spokeswoman for first lady Michelle Obama said Tuesday that 11-year-old Malia and 8-year-old Sasha received their H1N1 shots last week from a White House doctor after the vaccine became available to schoolchildren in the Washington, D.C., area.

Governors & Muppet Elmo dragged out for public service announcements on flu -- the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the availability of thirteen new 30-second flu radio public service announcements (PSA). These new radio messages feature 13 of America’s governors and Elmo from Sesame Street. The messages, which will be promoted to radio stations across the country, promote key flu prevention messages to parents and children.

Massachusetts House passes H1N1 pandemic bill -- As feared Massachusetts House of Representatives passed H1N1 bill. House of Representatives to take the state closer to giving the governor nearly unlimited power to declare states of emergency and public health emergencies.

What's behind the false flag flu emergency? -- Misdirection, overreaction and lack of preparedness by public health officials is a clear indication to the public that they cannot totally rely upon potentially problematic vaccines or anti-viral drugs to defend themselves against the flu. QUOTE: "The public should utilize bona fide immune boosters such as vitamin D and vitamin C, and take nutrients that are documented to reduce the duration and severity of the disease which include vitamin E, the trace mineral selenium, the sulfur compound NAC, and elderberry."

VIDEO: 9-11 and the Medical Reserve Corps -- Video of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius calling for health professionals to consider enlisting in the Medical Reserve Corps. (now tell me everyone, but is this woman scary looking & monotonous?)

Curcumin inhibits cancers of the head & neck -- The yellowish orange Indian spice turmeric, used to flavor curries, contains a remarkable phytochemical known as curcumin -- and this natural substance is the target of feverish research across a spectrum of medical disciplines. The reason? Curcumin has shown remarkable promise in helping the human body in a wide variety of ways. Read More...

87.4 million people using government health programs such as Medicare/Medicaid -- SK&A, a leading provider of healthcare information and research, today released its Physician Office Acceptance of Government Insurance Programs Report, which reveals that 83% of U.S. medical offices accept Medicare and 65% accept Medicaid.

Recession declared over, but job losses mounting -- It's about to become official: The recession is over—but not the pain.
The government will release figures this week expected to show that the economy has awakened from its deepest slump since the 1930s and is in the early stages of a recovery. But the following week, the government will issue another set of figures expected to show unemployment continuing to rise toward and possibly above a clearly recessionary 10 percent.

Feds to convince DC area taxpayers to embrace $4.8 billion mileage tax -- Washington, DC regional officials seek federal gas tax money to study political implication of $4.8 billion mileage tax on motorists.

"Little Buddy" GPS device keeps track of your kid -- Best Buy is selling a transmitting device that lets parents keep track of their children. Parents can place the device in a child's backpack or lunch box, for example. The "Little Buddy Child Tracker" retails for $100 (far less than other devices that sell for $200 to $500). It combines global satellite positioning and cellular technology to signal the child's whereabouts to a computer or smartphone.

AFRICOM and America's military agenda: Taking the helm of the entire world -- “AFRICOM facilitates the United States advancing on the African continent, taking control of the Eurasian continent and proceeding to take the helm of the entire globe.”

Journal article says suppressed study show GM corn killed ladybugs -- A recent article in Nature Biotechnology on how biotechnology companies restrict independent research described a study showing that a genetically modified corn killed ladybugs. The study was suppressed by the corn's developer.

German pilot describes spreading of Chemtrails -- Description of a commercial jet pilot - The written description was made on Aug. 17. 2009 and is reproduced in this article as a literal transcript.

FBI raid Pennsylvania Turnpike offices in corruption probe -- A number of Pennsylvania Turnpike officers have lost computer hard drives to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Last Thursday morning Oct 22, FBI officers showed up unexpectedly at the Turnpike offices in Harrisburg and apparently presented their authority (subpoena) to impound, examine and confiscate equipment and records as part of a criminal investigation. The agents returned and spent most of Friday at the Turnpike also. Nothing has been announced by either the FBI or the Turnpike.

Squalene in H1N1 vaccine -- The people who do take the vaccine are likely to get a dose that has squalene. The military has taken a serious thrashing over the years for their use of squalene in "classified vaccines" , so you can find out quite a bit about the use of squalene and other vaccine adjuvants in the various web-sites the military has set up to explain their position.

The case for precaution in the use of cell phones -- Electromagnetic fields generated by cell phones should be considered a potential human health risk. Sufficient time has not elapsed in order for us to have conclusive data on the biological effects of cell phones and other cordless phones — a technology that is now universal.
Websites on electromagnetic radiation:
http://www.radiationresearch.org
http://www.guineapigsrus.org

DOE awards $3.4 billion for smart grid upgrades -- The Dept. of Energy has awarded $3.4 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to modernize the electric power grid and boost its efficiency and reliability.

DARPA looks to send the Internet into orbit -- There’ve been satellites orbiting Earth for half a century. But getting information to and from them is still a pain. Which is why Pentagon research arm Darpa is looking to finally hook the orbiting spacecraft up with reliable broadband connections. It’s part of a larger movement to extend terrestrial networks into space, and eventually build an “Interplanetary Internet.”

Mathew Hoh, Senior Civilian official in Afghanistan resigns over US strategy -- A key U.S. official in Afghanistan has resigned in protest over U.S. policy in the war-torn region, as the Obama administration deliberates its future strategy there.

Fighting Afghanistan's dumbed down and deadly bombs -- Afghanistan’s low-tech, relatively-primitive bombs might be even harder to stop than Iraq’s comparatively-sophisticated improvised explosives. The Pentagon is sinking almost a billion dollars into new tools to stop this dumbed-down threat, like sensors and software that can detect minute changes on the ground, along with dozens of other initiatives.

Coming in December:  World Government

The ominous "success" of re-education -- "The purpose of education and the schools is to change the thoughts, feelings and actions of students."

Australia faces famine expert warns -- Experts say greatest threat to the world is food production on land and in the water. A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage.

ADHD drugs side effects raise concerns -- A new report from Australia is raising alarm about potentially dangerous side effects of drugs used to treat ADHD. The report states that 30 children have had suicidal thoughts (some attempting suicide), while taking drugs for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)causing the National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia to upgrade the guidelines for prescribing ADHD drugs, such as Ritalin.

UK: How police rebranded lawful protest as "domestic extremism" -- About 600 climate change campaigners had gathered outside the Drax power station in North Yorkshire. They had chosen to demonstrate there because the huge plant is the UK's biggest emitter of carbon. The protesters were mainly families with young children, accompanied by clowns, cyclists, baton twirlers and, according to some reports, a giant ostrich puppet.

The Top 20 worst foods in America

2009 US Army aviation accidents costly -- So far, 2009 is shaping up to be a costlier year for U.S. Army aviation accidents and incidents, according to an Aerospace DAILY analysis of data provided by the Army Combat Readiness/Safety Center (USACRC). The average cost per accident or incident for this calendar year was about $220,178 as of July 28, the last date for which data were provided, compared to about $176,638 for all of 2008, the analysis shows.

Today in History October 27, 2009
1659 - William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson became the first Quakers to be executed in America.
1787 - The first of the Federalist Papers were published in the New York Independent. The series of 85 essays, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, were published under the pen name "Publius."
1795 - The United States and Spain signed the Treaty of San Lorenzo. The treaty is also known as "Pinckney's Treaty."
1858 - Roland Macy opened Macy's Department Store in New York City. It was Macy's eighth business adventure, the other seven failed.
1878 - The Manhattan Savings Bank in New York City was robbed of over $3,000,000. The robbery was credited to George "Western" Leslie even though there was not enough evidence to convict him, only two of his associates were convicted.
1880 - Theodore Roosevelt married Alice Lee.
1904 - The New York subway system officially opened. It was the first rapid-transit subway system in America.
1925 - Fred Waller received a patent for water skis.
1927 - The first newsreel featuring sound was released in New York.
1938 - Du Pont announced "nylon" as the new name for its new synthetic yarn.
1962 - The Soviet Union adds to the Cuban Missile Crisis by calling for the dismantling of U.S. missile basis in Turkey. U.S. President Kennedy agreed to the new aspect of the agreement.
1994 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that the U.S. prison population had exceeded one million for the first time in American history.
1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 554.26 points. The stock market was shut down for the first time since the 1981 assassination attempt on U.S. President Reagan.

BANKS WORLDWIDE GET READY FOR THE OCTOBER SURPRISE! -- They're implementing what they're calling the "October Release".

Missouri  suspends Thimerosol ban for vaccine!!!!!!! -- Missouri’s top public health official granted an exemption Thursday to allow pregnant women and parents of children less than three years old to choose whether to receive flu vaccine containing a mercury-based preservative.

Federal jury finds tax protestor Peter Hendrickson guilty -- A federal jury today convicted tax protester and author Peter Hendrickson on 10 counts of filing false documents. Hendrickson, 54, of Commerce Township, author of "Cracking the Code," could face prison when he is sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Gerald E. Rosen on Feb. 9. Each count is a three-year felony. Hendrickson's trial began last Tuesday on charges he falsely reported zero or nominal income on his 2000 to 2006 tax returns when he actually earned tens of thousands of dollars each year.

Bernie Kerik JAILED After Judge Revokes Bail In Corruption Trial -- An angry federal judge sent former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik to jail Tuesday for sharing secret pretrial information with a "propagandist" who Kerik claimed was really his lawyer. Kerik will be forced to await his upcoming corruption trial behind bars. Related Article: Big-shot Kerik witness? Aponte, who led mob-tied firm, may be called

Wayward pilots say they were busy using laptops??? -- Not sleeping, the pilots say. They were engrossed in a complicated new crew-scheduling program on their laptop computers as their plane flew past its Minneapolis landing by 150 miles — a cockpit violation of airline policy that could cost them their licenses.

Stroke may be striking at a younger age -- Reporting in the current issue of the American Journal of Occupational Therapy, the team also found that while more people younger than age 65 are suffering strokes, rehabilitation is often not offered to younger people with mild stroke. Wolf and his colleagues gathered data on 7,740 people treated for stroke at a St. Louis hospital between 1999 and 2008. They found that 45 percent were younger than age 65, and 27 percent were younger than the age of 55.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd wants rate freeze on credit cards -- Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, who is fighting for his political survival, proposed Monday an immediate interest rate freeze on existing balances for the estimated 700 million credit cards in circulation. Consumers ‘shouldn't be taken to the cleaners by outrageous rates,’ he says.

Profit driven swine flu propaganda part 4 -- Those in control of the mainstream media have joined together with public health officials to provide the pharmaceutical industry with the best swine flu promotional campaign that money can buy.

Why such a shortage of swine flu vaccine? -- Administration officials sought Monday to explain why so much less H1N1 flu vaccine is available than had been promised, blaming the manufacturers and the vagaries of science for nationwide shortages.

Swine flu levels off in Georgia -- The swine flu monster seems to be retreating from Georgia - for the time being, as hospitals, health agencies and schools report fewer cases.

Obama's emergency step aimed to help implement disaster plans -- In a measure designed to help hospitals respond more quickly to surging numbers of pandemic H1N1 cases, President Barack Obama on Oct 24 signed an emergency declaration that will help facilities establish alternative care sites and protocols for triage and transport.

SEC and Homeland Security say internet could get clogged during pandemic -- Securities exchanges have a sound network back-up if a severe pandemic keeps people home and clogging the Internet, but the Homeland Security Department has done little planning, Congressional investigators said on Monday.
Related Info:
* GAO issues report on dealing with possible internet slow down during height of pandemic -- Key Securities Market Participants Are Making Progress, but Agencies Could Do More to Address Potential Internet Congestion and Encourage Readiness - summary (pdf)
* Full report - 77 pages

Fact sheet on Peramavir emergency flu drug just authorized for use -- NOTE: Do not use Peramivir IV for the treatment of seasonal influenza A or B virus infections, for outpatients with acute uncomplicated 2009 H1N1 virus infection or for pre- or post-exposure chemoprophylaxis (prevention) of influenza.

Oregano oil eliminates parasites in humans -- It's not widely known, but oregano extracts are extremely effective at eliminating parasites in humans. And a lot of people have parasites they simply don't know about.

Ex Treasury official: Dump Dollar -- A former assistant secretary of the Treasury for international affairs is warning dollar deficits might no longer be funded by foreign nations, including China.

Michelle Obama plants organic garden while husband supports Big Agra world food domination...what hypocrisy! -- Be sure to check out the people behind all this in this article.

Healthcare system wastes up to $800 billion a year -- The U.S. healthcare system is just as wasteful as President Barack Obama says it is, and proposed reforms could be paid for by fixing some of the most obvious inefficiencies, preventing mistakes and fighting fraud, according to a Thomson Reuters report released on Monday.

Texas red light camera program offers no appeal for tickets -- The right to a meaningful appeal in a red light camera case does not exist in the state of Texas. While several states have allowed photo enforcement tickets to be appealed to the highest level -- Minnesota's highest court ruled on a photo ticket in 2007 and a red light camera case is currently pending before the California Supreme Court -- several Texas municipalities are using an ambiguity in state law to deny challenges beyond the lowest level of the court system.

The Pentagon's Dirty Bombers -- Depleted Uranium Death In The USA.

U.S. Forcibly Deported Islanders And Gassed Their Dogs To Make Way For Diego Garcia Military Base -- In order to convert the sleepy, Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia into a dominating military base, the U.S. forcibly transported its 2,000 Chagossian inhabitants into exile and gassed their dogs. Read More...

Detroit house auction flops for urban wasteland -- In a crowded ballroom next to a bankrupt casino, what remains of the Detroit property market was being picked over by speculators and mostly discarded. On the auction block in Detroit: almost 9,000 homes and lots in various states of abandonment and decay from the tidy owner-occupied to the burned-out shell claimed by squatters.

Will the soldiers we train in Afghanistan end up trying to kill us in the future? It's happened before -- For 30 years we've been deeply involved in creating, financing, and sometimes arming a part of the world that has shown willingness to create violence on our own soil.

Somali pirates are still at it -taking Panamanian carrier & 26 crew members -- Pirates captured a Panamanian-flagged ship with 26 crew off the East Africa coast on Thursday and fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at an Italian ship, which escaped.

Disaster hit Philippines seeks help on disease outbreak -- The Philippines is seeking international help to fight a deadly outbreak of an infectious disease following two devastating tropical storms, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

Thousands of schools shut in Iraq over swine flu panic -- Iraqi education and health officials have closed almost 2,500 schools as a precaution against the spread of swine flu.

School undercounts raise pandemic concerns -- "We do know we have the H1N1 flu up here, but there's also the seasonal flu, bronchitis, strep throat, pneumonia, it's just a combination of - the perfect storm."

Modified crops reveal hidden cost of resistance -- Genetically modified squash plants that are resistant to a debilitating viral disease become more vulnerable to a fatal bacterial infection, according to biologists.

Music makes you smarter -- Regularly playing a musical instrument changes the anatomy and function of the brain and may be used in therapy to improve cognitive skills.

Health study links 4 kind of cancer to mobile phone use -- A major international health study has shown that excessive mobile phone use can be linked to four different kinds of cancer.

UK cancer patients made to take benefits test -- Terminally ill people are being forced to have tests to prove they qualify for benefits, it was claimed yesterday. Disability groups say some cancer patients have been caught up in a government crackdown on welfare cheats. They have to take tough work capability tests to assess their health because GPs have been too slow to hand over details of their illnesses.

Stimulus contracts go to companies under criminal investigation -- The Department of Defense awarded nearly $30 million in stimulus contracts to six companies while they were under federal criminal investigation on suspicion of defrauding the government.

FDA fails to follow up on unproven drugs -- The Food and Drug Administration has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn't extend patients' lives, say congressional investigators.


Today in History October 26, 2009
1774 - The First Continental Congress of the U.S. adjourned in Philadelphia.
1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York. The 363-mile canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of $7,602,000.
1854 - Charles William Post was born. He was the inventor of "Grape Nuts," "Postum" and "Post Toasties."
1858 - H.E. Smith patented the rotary-motion washing machine.
1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang.
1942 - The U.S. ship Hornet was sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz during World War II.
1949 - U.S. President Harry Truman raised the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour.
1955 - New York City's "The Village Voice" was first published.
1958 - Pan American Airways flew its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York City to Paris.
1972 - U.S. National security adviser Henry Kissinger declared, "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam..
1977 - The experimental space shuttle Enterprise successfully landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1985 - Approximately 110,000 people marched past the U.S. and Soviet embassies in London to pressure the two countries to end their arms race.
1988 - Two whales were freed by Soviet and American icebreakers. The whales had been trapped for nearly 3 weeks in an Arctic ice pack.
1990 - The U.S. State Department issued a warning that terrorists could be planning an attack on a passenger ship or aircraft.
1992 - General Motors Corp. Chairman Robert Stempel resigned after the company recorded its highest losses in history.
1998 - A French lab found a nerve agent on an Iraqi missile warhead.

Capmark Financial files for bankruptcy -- Capmark Financial, one of America's biggest commercial property lenders, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday night after being hit by souring loans. The firm which was formerly GMAC's commercial real estate business (Or GMAC Commercial Holding Ccapital Markets Corp in short), and had originated over $10 billion in CRE loans.

UrbanShield.org -- Urban Shield 2009 will be even more challenging then previous exercises. Each participating tactical team will be provided with state of the art technology and weaponry. Teams will be challenged. Read More...

RI tracking swine flu through electronic records -- State health officials are tracking the spread of swine flu through electronic prescription records, developing what they believe is a model that could help doctors more easily identify and respond to an outbreak of the illness.

Nurses Got Sick From the Swine Flu Vaccine in Sweden -- UPDATE –- 190 Adverse Reactions 1 Suspected Death.

VIDEO: Air Force Bugbots -- Micro Air Vehicle (MAVs) buglike drones

14 Americans killed in 3 helicopter crashes in Afghanistan -- At least 14 Americans have been killed in two separate crashes involving three helicopters in Afghanistan, NATO said. Hostile fire doesn’t appear to be the cause of either incident, the alliance said.

Obama declares swine flu a national emergency -- President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency and empowered his health secretary to suspend federal requirements and speed treatment for thousands of infected people.
Related Article: He had also declared it in April when there were only 20 cases -- The Obama administration has declared a public health emergency as a result of the increasing number of Swine Flu cases being reported around the country and the danger that the virus could become a pandemic. Meanwhile, the Democrats are blaming Republicans. And the president went golfing.

Swine flu emergency! What does that mean? -- President Obama announced today that he has declared a "national emergency" over the H1N1 virus, a phrase with an ominous sound, but with little explanation offered by most of the news media.

Obama's H1N1 National Emergency declaration could invoke FEMA response to pandemic by Mike Adams -- President Obama's declaration of a national pandemic emergency is "no cause for alarm," reported the mainstream media throughout the weekend. The declaration is nothing more than a "precaution," they say. "It's really more a continuation of our preparedness steps," said Anne Schuchat, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, in a USA Today story.

Obama's daughters not vaccinated -- President Obama’s school age daughters have not been vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the vaccine is not available to them based on their risk.

Deaths from swine flu vaccine reported in Europe -- As European governments forge ahead with mass swine flu vaccination programs, reports out of Hungary and Sweden suggest that some people have died shortly after taking the H1N1 vaccine.

Do Not take the H1N1 vaccine until you have read these real life horror stories -- Millions of Americans are lining up to take the H1N1 swine flu vaccine with no idea about the horrible things that could happen to them. In this article you will read tragic real life vaccine horror stories from people who have personally experienced devastating vaccine side effects.

FDA approves use of EXPERIMENTAL antiviral for H1N1 flu -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is allowing the use of an experimental antiviral drug to treat severe cases of H1N1 or swine flu. The drug, peramivir, is currently being developed by BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc. and is undergoing testing required for regular FDA approval. The FDA said there's only limited clinical data about whether peramivir is safe and effective, but "based upon the totality of scientific evidence available, it is reasonable to believe that peramivir IV may be effective in certain patients."

WHO memos from 1972 explains how to turn vaccines into a form of killing -- Two key memorandums from WHO, discovered by Patrick Jordan, prove WHO has intentionally created the three-shot killer vaccine that people in the USA and other countries could soon be forced to take. Read More...

The swine flu is not a flu at all -- What we have today, is a pandemic with "flu-like" symptoms. And flu-like symptoms doesn't necessarily mean "Influenza" is its underlying cause.

Increase in flu is called dramatic -- Massachusetts has seen a jump in flu activity this week that has led one Central Massachusetts high school to close and that appears to signify the arrival of the second wave of swine flu.

Signs of recovery don't extend to jobs -- U.S. states and regions continue to see their economies slowly improve, but employers across the country remain skittish about hiring, according to two government reports released Wednesday.

Depleted Uranium causes cancer -- Depleted Uranium is nuclear waste…quite literally…and it causes cancer and birth defects. Read More...

VIDEO: Obama Youth Brigade March in Formation -- Our new civilian security in training?

Research reveals that Astralagus contains molecules that reverse aging -- The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine was awarded jointly to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, and Jack W. Szostak for their discoveries into cell division and into how chromosomes can be copied without degradation. The key was found in maintaining healthy telomeres, the protective ends of chromosomes, by reigniting the growth of telomerase, the enzyme that forms them. Certain astragalus molecules have been found to contribute to telomere growth, effectively reversing the aging process.

More bank failures -- Florida’s Partners Bank is the seventh failure in Florida, a state hard hit by a speculative real estate bubble and now stagnant growth. In 2009, Florida experienced its first drop in population [2] since the end of World War II.

Filthy Lucre - Paper Money As A Vector Of Disease -- This article has some interesting facts associated with pathogens and currency/paper.

Attack on free speech -- US Chamber of Commerce shuts off websites of hundreds of activists groups.

LAPD creepy anti terrorism ad -- Check out the Los Angeles Police Department's creepy new public service announcement for its city-wide anti-terrorism iWatch program. The civilian program was launched earlier this month and is endorsed by 63 police chiefs around the country.

Greyhound bus passengers get pat down, special screening by TSA -- Bryce Williams wasn't expecting to walk through a metal detector or have his bags screened for explosives at the Greyhound bus terminal near downtown Orlando. But Williams and 689 other passengers went through tougher-than-normal security procedures Thursday as part of a random check coordinated by the U.S.

Heavily armed law enforcement team with foreign forces (French) conduct Bay Area drill -- For the first time in the three-year history of the Alameda County Sheriff's Department -sponsored exercise, there will be a foreign team of officers taking part and international observers. An eight-member team representing the French National Police's Research, Assistance, Intervention, and Dissuasion unit will compete.

Indiana: 500 show up for 1-$13 an hour job -- By the time the job posting was pulled off Careerbuilder.com later in the day, it was guessed nearly 500 people had applied for the $13-an-hour job.

7,000 unemployed lose their benefits every day -- As the Senate debates whether to extend unemployment benefits, more than 200,000 jobless Americans are set to see their checks stop in October.

Sweatshop conditions in US cities -- A new low-wage industry study by the Center for Urban Economic Development, the National Employment Law Project, and the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment exposes the dark side of workforce exploitation in America's three largest cities - New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

Chemtrails: US patent #5003186Stratospheric seeding for reduction of population -- Read about US PATENT #5003186. Stratospheric Welsbach Seeding For Reduction Of Global Warming. Patented March 26, 1991.

Ever wonder why there was a big rush to get GPS readings at your front door? -- "I strongly recommend that each and every one of you watch this short 4 minute US Air Force video - http://video.designworldonline.com/bugbots.html  It is your government and tax dollars at work and the final intent for use may just be for each and every one of us. No paranoia, just 1 + 1 = 2 on real application. But then nothing to be concerned about, our government would not do this to US, now would they?'

Today in History October 23, 2009
1864 - During the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeated the Confederate forces in Missouri that were under Gen. Stirling Price.
1910 - Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight.
1915 - The first U.S. championship horseshoe tourney was held in Kellerton, IA.
1915 - Approximately 25,000 women demanded the right to vote with a march in New York City, NY.
1929 - In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged starting the stock-market crash that began the Great Depression. .
1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time.
1956 - NBC broadcasted the first videotape recording. The tape of Jonathan Winters was seen coast to coast in the U.S.
1962 - During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. naval "quarantine" of Cuba was approved by the Council of the Organization of American States (OAS).
1962 - The U.S. Navy reconnaissance squadron VFP-62 began overflights of Cuba under the code name "Blue Moon."
1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and seat Communist China.
1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn over the subpoenaed tapes concerning the Watergate affair.
1983 - At Beirut International Airport, a suicide bomber destroyed a U.S. Marine compound and killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors. 58 French paratroopers were killed in a near-simultaneous attack.
1985 - U.S. President Reagan arrived in New York to address the U.N. General Assembly.
1995 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin and U.S. President Bill Clinton agree to a joint peacekeeping effort in the war-torn Bosnia.
1996 - The civil trial of O.J. Simpson opened in Santa Monica, CA. Simpson was later found liable in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
1998 - Dr. Barnett Slepian, a doctor who performed legal abortions, was killed at his home in suburban Buffalo, NY, by sniper fire through his kitchen window. James Kopp was charged with second-degree murder.

FTC, FDA threaten Dr. Andrew Weil with criminal arrest over immune formula -- In their latest example of tyranny and intimidation, the FTC and FDA have teamed up to threaten Dr. Andrew Weil with criminal arrest and prosecution over his true statements about an immune boosting formula containing astragalus (an herb that can help protect you against the swine flu).
Related Article: Dr. Weil was right: Astragalus herb really helps fight the flu (influenza)

Look what 1.5 million can buy you in Wisconsin -- TOM & MELISSA MONCHILOVICH: CONVICTED! October 21, 2009 in Wisconsin Circuit Court, Polk County, Judge Molly E Galewyrick found the Monchilovich couple guilty of failure to register premises.

Jet overshoots Minn. airport by 150 miles -- Two Northwest Airlines pilots failed to make radio contact with ground controllers for more than an hour and overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles before discovering the mistake and turning around.

800 turned away from Portland Multnomah County swine flu shot site -- Multnomah County turned away an estimated 800 people Thursday morning at the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization building where 500 lucky people got the shot on the first day the vaccines were provided at several county locations.

F-16 jettisons bombs at Utah Air Force base -- An F-16 jettisoned two 500-pound bombs and two fuel tanks during an in-flight emergency, causing an explosion at Hill Air Force Base, base and police officials said. He said the pilot had to drop the munitions and tanks to lighten the jet's load.

A vaccine for anxiety. The real reason drug companies are pushing more vaccines -- There's a new vaccine for nicotine addiction, and another one for drug addiction. There's an AIDS vaccines (which doesn't work) and a vaccine for cervical cancer that's been approved for use on boys (boys don't have a cervix). Through the pharmaceutical industry, the big push for vaccines is on!

Major swine flu outbreak at Chicago high school -- There are signs all over the United States that the swine flu outbreak is starting to become more serious. At one Chicago area high school, 972 students have come down with flu-like symptoms, forcing school officials to close the school down and to cancel all extra-curricular activities. The high school where this is happening, St. Charles East High School, closed on Wednesday and will not re-open until Monday at the earliest.

Sunstein urges: abolish marriage -- The U.S. government should abolish its sanctioning of marriage, argued Cass Sunstein, President Obama's regulatory czar.

They can't push us around forever -- The following is a letter from Tennessee to the other 49 State Legislatures. Read More...

Judge tosses out suit against Blackwater -- A federal judge on Wednesday tossed out a series of lawsuits filed by alleged Iraqi victims of the contractor once known as Blackwater USA, but is allowing the plaintiffs to refile their claims.

Stop the spraying of citizens on California -- October 20th: Sonoma Action! 5:00pm - 6:15pm, Come to the Tuesday's Sonoma Farmers' Market (Broadway and E. Napa Street). Show support for farmers. Tabling and leafleting throughout the Plaza will also be going on then and after 6:15pm. Signs and banners will be provided, but feel free to bring your own.

Profit driven swine flu propaganda part 3 -- This article is part three in a six-part series. Public health officials now say they have quit keeping tabs on swine flu deaths because it is too difficult. A more likely explanation is that fear mongering would be impossible if they continued to announce the low rates of swine flu deaths and vaccine profits would take a nose dive.

Government hijacks kids TV to propagandize for flu shots -- The federal government has accelerated its $16 million dollar PR campaign to brainwash and coerce increasingly suspicious Americans into taking the swine flu vaccine by weaving their propaganda into a popular pre-school show for children currently airing on PBS Kids.

Louis Farrakhan says H1N1 vaccine designed to kill people -- In Memphis on Sunday, Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan said to an audience that the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccination was developed to depopulate the human race.

Bill Gates reveals support for GMO agriculture -- As it has come to dominate the agenda for reshaping African agriculture over the years, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been very careful not to associate itself too closely with patent-protected biotechnology as a panacea for African farmers.

French official says US trying to inflate away debt -- The United States is pumping out liquidity to try to inflate away its debt, leading to the depreciation of the U.S. dollar, Henri Guaino, a top advisor to French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday.

Dollar dumping will remain the hot trade -- The dollar slumped to a new 14-month low Wednesday, and it could continue floundering well into next year.

Barack Obama sees worst poll rating drop in 50 years -- The decline in Barack Obama's popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years.

America is filling up with dumb people -- As if guided by an invisible hand nationwide, administrators forced teachers to dumb down the academic requirements. Teachers passed kids to the next grade level... whether those children performed... or not.

The gathering storm in commercial real estate -- These quickie retail operations -- known as pop-ups -- are showing up throughout Southern California and around the nation, filling in the gaps at recession-battered shopping centers for a fraction of the regular rents. The model has been well-established with "holiday theme stores"--retail operations which sell goods aimed at a specific holiday such as Halloween for a few weeks prior to the holiday.

VIDEO: Richard Belzer EXPOSES Federal Reserve on HBO Real Time Bill Maher

Today in History October 22, 2009
1746 - The College of New Jersey was officially chartered. It later became known as Princeton University.
1797 - Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first recorded parachute jump. He made the jump from about 3,000 feet.
1836 - Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas.
1844 - This day is recognized as "The Great Disappointment" among those who practiced Millerism. The world was expected to come to an end according to the followers of William Miller.
1879 - Thomas Edison conducted his first successful experiment with a high-resistance carbon filament.
1907 - The Panic of 1907 began when depositors began withdrawing money from many New York banks.
1934 - Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, the notorious bank robber, was shot and killed by Federal agents in East Liverpool, OH.
1962 - U.S. President Kennedy went on radio and television to inform the United States about his order to send U.S. forces to blockade Cuba. The blockade was in response to the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.
1968 - Apollo 7 splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean. The spacecraft had orbited the Earth 163 times.
1975 - Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich was discharged after publicly declaring his homosexuality. His tombstone reads " "A gay Vietnam Veteran. When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one."
1981 - The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified by the federal government for its strike the previous August.
1983 - At the Augusta National Golf Course in Georgia, an armed man crashed a truck through front gates and demanded to speak with U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1986 - U.S. President Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.
1995 - The 50th anniversary of the United Nations was marked by a record number of world leaders gathering.
1999 - China ended its first-ever human rights conference in which it defied Western definitions of civil liberties.

Gold closes higher as dollar hits new low -- Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange closed higher on Wednesday as dollar slid to a new 14-month low. Silver and platinum both gained.

Firefight Over the Red, White and Blue -- Chester, Pa., firefighter James Krapf wants to know what's wrong with Old Glory. The 11-year veteran was suspended without pay Thursday after he refused to peel a sticker of the American flag from his locker.

Extinct animals could be brought back to life using DNA technology -- Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park film may have been pure science fiction - but extinct creatures such as Neanderthals to Sabre-toothed tigers could soon be brought back to life thanks to advances in DNA technology.

Profit Driven Swine Flu Propaganda -- The pharmaceutical industry, with public health officials and the mainstream media acting as a mass marketing team, is about to pull off the biggest profiteering scheme in the history of the world. The swine flu hoax, perpetrated on a global level, will generate unheard of profits from a non-existent pandemic.
Related Article: Profit driven swine flu propaganda part 2 -- This article is part two in a six-part series. The pandemic has fizzled out but the gravy train toward vaccine profits is still rolling. On September 16, 2009, Reuters reported that the death rate from the pandemic H1N1 swine flu was likely lower than earlier estimates.

Despite H1N1 fears, many worry about vaccination -- Americans have become increasingly alarmed about the swine flu, but many are wary about getting vaccinated against the disease, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

For Some Parents, Shouting Is the New Spanking -- “I’ve worked with thousands of parents and I can tell you, without question, that screaming is the new spanking,” said Amy McCready, the founder of Positive Parenting Solutions, which teaches parenting skills in classes, individual coaching sessions and an online course. “This is so the issue right now.

CBS & swine flu -- Get this. The CDC stopped testing people for Swine Flu in JULY. Why? Because CDC assumed there was already an epidemic, and therefore more tests would be waste of time and money. CBS has been trying to obtain state-by-state numbers for Swine Flu cases compiled, by the CDC, BEFORE the testing was stopped. The CDC has refused to come across with those numbers. It’s been stonewalling CBS for the last three months.

Serious vaccine reactions to be called "coincidence"? -- Every day Americans wake up to news reports that warn us about the dangers of influenza, especially the new H1N1 “swine flu”. But swine flu is mild for most people and the virus is not mutating into a more serious form.

US hate law encourages international enforcement -- We must preserve our free speech and national sovereignty at all costs! The only way we can do that right now is to continue to email the President against the defense/hate bill. But we must also now protest his signing away our national sovereignty at the Copenhagen conference.

TASER advises cops not to aim at suspect's chest -- The maker of TASER stun guns is advising police officers to avoid shooting suspects in the chest with the 50,000-volt weapon, saying that it could pose an extremely low risk of an "adverse cardiac event."

The dollar is finished & the Chinese are dumping it -- China's "current strategy is to diversify out of dollars and into commodities," Ferguson says. Furthermore, China's recent pact with Brazil to conduct trade in their local currencies is a "sign of the times."

Worlds stupidest inventions -- These are real - and real stupid - inventions. Click through to discover the most ridiculous inventions of all time.

Irrational exuberance behind recent stock gains says UAB expert -- A second straight week of stronger-than-expected third quarter earnings from a broad cross section of U.S. industries has held the nation's Dow Jones Industrial Average above the psychological benchmark of 10,000 points for the week of Oct. 19, but the climb isn't likely to last, says a finance expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

Swine vaccine goal 50 million doses next month -- The government now hopes to have about 50 million doses of swine flu vaccine out by mid-November and 150 million in December.

Canadian turkey sick with swine flu -- Canadian health officials on Tuesday announced the first case of turkeys catching the swine flu in this country, likely from humans, and urged farm workers to get vaccinated soon.

Pentagon used psychological operation on US public, documents show -- Figure in Bush propaganda operation remains Pentagon spokesman.

Man arrested in Boston on terrorism charges -- A pharmacist living with his parents in the suburbs of Boston was arrested on Wednesday on federal terrorism charges. The authorities said he had conspired to attack civilians at a shopping mall, American soldiers abroad and two members of the executive branch of the federal government.

America's phony war in Afghanistan -- One of the most remarkable aspects of the Obama Presidential agenda is how little anyone has questioned in the media or elsewhere why at all the United States Pentagon is committed to a military occupation of Afghanistan. There are two basic reasons, neither one of which can be admitted openly to the public at large.

Criminalizing Poverty For Profit: Local Government's New Debtors Prisons -- Local government is desperate for new funding but doesn't dare tap the wealthy. So they're busily criminalizing poverty and filling new Debtor's prisons.

US soldier commits suicide in Indiana movie theater -- A National Guard soldier home on a 15-day leave from the war in Afghanistan committed suicide in a Muncie, Indiana, movie theater October 12. Jacob W. Sexton, a 21-year-old from rural Farmland, Indiana, shot himself in the head, approximately 20 minutes into the violent comedy Zombieland, with friends and siblings sitting around him. The suicide underscores once again the psychological damage done to soldiers charged with carrying out the brutal colonial occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

VIDEO: Man paralyzed after routine vaccinations -- Jerry Emmons got a tetanus and a pneumonia shot in June. Now he's in a wheelchair. His legs are paralyzed, and his arms weak. The shots had caused the Guillain-Barre syndrome.

NY state assembly hearing on vaccines video -- Gary Null speaks out.

H1N1 outbreak at Air Force Academy -- Specimens from ill cadets tested positive for novel influenza A (H1N1 [nH1N1])–specific ribonucleic acid (RNA) by real-time reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction.

Clotheslines banned in thousands of US communities -- Treehugger.com reports that, "hanging clotheslines was against the rules in so many communities nationwide that state governments are being forced to step in and make it against the law to ban them. And states like Vermont and Utah have already succeeded. But the fight for the right to hang clotheslines is just getting started."

Canadian military prepares for worst -- The Canadian military has been looking a decade ahead as it tries to prepare for various worst case scenarios that it may be faced with in the future, and some are pretty scary.

Today in History October 21, 2009
1797 - "Old Ironsides," the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, was launched in Boston's harbor.
1849 - The first tattooed man, James F. O’Connell, was put on exhibition at the Franklin Theatre in New York City, NY.
1858 - The Can-Can was performed for the first time in Paris.
1879 - Thomas Edison invented the electric incandescent lamp. It would last 13 1/2 hours before it would burn out.
1917 - The first U.S. soldiers entered combat during World War I near Nancy, France.
1918 - Margaret Owen set a typing speed record of 170 words per minute on a manual typewriter.
1925 - The photoelectric cell was first demonstrated at the Electric Show in New York City, NY.
1925 - The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it had fined 29,620 people for prohibition (of alcohol) violations.
1927 - Construction began on the George Washington Bridge.
1959 - The Guggenheim Museum was opened to the public in New York. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
1967 - Thousands of demonstrators marched in Washington, DC, in opposition to the Vietnam War.
1980 - The Philadelphia Phillies won their first World Series.
1983 - The Pentagon reported that 2,000 Marines were headed to Grenada to protect and evacuate Americans living there.
1988 - Former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos and his wife, Imelda, were indicted in New York on fraud and racketeering charges. Marcos died before his trial and Imelda was acquitted in 1990.
1994 - North Korea and the U.S. signed an agreement requiring North Korea to halt its nuclear program and agree to inspections.
1998 - Cancer specialist Dr. Jane Henney became the FDA's first female commissioner.

Senate Bill 1858 Passed: The Bill Nobody Noticed: National DNA Databank -- In April of 2008, President Bush signed into law S.1858 which allows the federal government to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. This was to be implemented within 6 months meaning that this collection is now being carried out. Congressman Ron Paul states that this bill is the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database.

A/H1N1 flu confirmed in turkey flock in Canada -- A turkey farm in Ontario province has been confirmed infected with A/H1N1 flu, making Canada the second country to report such infection after Chile, health officials said on Tuesday.

Britain will starve without GM crops, says major report -- A new row over genetically modified foods being introduced into our shops has broken out after a Royal Society report recommended GM crops should be grown in Britain.

Economic Pearl Harbor -- Did you know they had some warning at Pearl Harbor? Read More...

Profit driven swine flu propaganda: pump up the volume -- The pharmaceutical industry, with public health officials and the mainstream media acting as a mass marketing team, is about to pull off the biggest profiteering scheme in the history of the world. The swine flu hoax, perpetrated on a global level, will generate unheard of profits from a non-existent pandemic.

British Columbia man who was paralyzed after flu shot in 2007 warns of risks -- A New Westminster man is raising a warning flag after he contracted a rare and debilitating condition linked to the flu shot that left him paralyzed for almost five months.

Woman suffers rare paralysis after flu shot -- A Sarnia woman who suffered a rare reaction to a flu shot is recovering from temporary paralysis from the waist down. Teresa Valenti, 42, developed Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) after receiving the vaccination, and was told only one person in a million experiences that kind of side-effect.

Satire piece: How to be a swine flu zealot -- Swine flu vaccine zealots are like zombies... they just keep coming at you, mindless... heartless... empty-headed and a tad funky on the smell, too. But I've noticed from observing the behavior of a few such zealots that not all of them fully comprehend precisely how to act like a mindless vaccine zealot. There's more to it than just parroting whatever the FDA says. You actually have to get with the zealot program if you want to be taken seriously as a swine flu vaccine zealot.

They're Destroying the Dollar -- Now that the dollars has resumed its long-term decline, one might consider adopting the realism of Chinese students. At Beijing University last summer, when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner spoke about his faith in a strong dollar and insisted that "Chinese assets are very safe," they laughed.

If a Bubble Bubble Bursts Off Balance Sheet, Will Anyone Be There to Hear It? Pt 4 - Wells Fargo -- I query, why do the smaller, healthier banks continue to agree to fund the likes of the humongous risk behemoths such as Wells Fargo, Bank of America, et. al.? Is it a death of comparable lobbying power? If so, simply pass this series of off balance sheet bank articles to your local representatives AND their constituents. I am sure that can serve to get the discussion started!

U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets -- In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media.

German government to host flu database GISAID, Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data -- The German Ministry of Food, Agriculture & Consumer Protection (BMELV) today announced that it has agreed to host the influenza gene sequence database of the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID), putting its future on a more solid footing as the world enters the second wave of the H1N1 flu pandemic.

OSHA statement on H1N1 Inspections -- To ensure the protection of frontline healthcare and emergency medical workers at high risk of infection with H1N1 virus, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will soon issue a compliance directive to ensure uniform procedures when conducting inspections to identify and minimize or eliminate high to very high risk occupational exposures to the 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus.

Beyond Stupid news: Man charged for being naked in his own home while making coffee -- A Springfield, Virginia man is facing an indecent exposure charge after a passerby spotted the man naked in his kitchen and reported it to police.

Navy's new slogan: "America's Navy, A global force for good" -- The Navy’s new recruiting slogan, “America’s Navy: A global force for good,” was designed from the outset to motivate existing sailors as much as to entice young people to enlist.

Pharma's hidden secrets revealed -- "I hope that I have your attention because I am going to reveal what the medical establishment and Big Pharma has hidden from the citizens of the world for over 65 years."

Suzanne Somers gets vilified for touting alternative cancer treatments in new book -- Suzanne Somers is at it again. Less than a year after the former sitcom actress frustrated mainstream doctors (and cheered some fans) by touting bioidentical hormones on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," she's back with a new book. This one's on an even more emotional topic: Cancer treatment. Specifically, she argues against what she sees as the vast and often pointless use of chemotherapy.

San Francisco passes nation's first mandatory composting law -- By requiring all residents and businesses to compost, we’ll increase the amount of “black gold” available for sustainable regional agriculture and improve our environment. When food scraps break down in an oxygen-starved landfill it creates large quantities of methane gas, a greenhouse gas 72 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. It also creates acids that can leach toxins from the landfill.

State sponsored terror campaigns: the hidden evil -- This document is dedicated to the known & unknown people who have been driven to suicide or have committed acts of violence as a result of being harassed by Organized Vigilante Stalking groups. It is my goal to make their operations as visible as possible.

Man Joins Army to Help Ailing Wife -- Bill Caudle of Watertown was laid off in March from the plastics company where he'd worked for 20 years. Unable to find another job, Caudle -- on his 39th birthday -- enlisted in the U.S. Army to get the health insurance his wife needs to continue her battle against ovarian cancer. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel told the family's story Sunday.

Hunting banned in parts of Austria after hailstones kill up to 90% of wild game -- Hunting has been banned in parts of Austria after freak storms with tennis ball-sized hailstones killed up to 90 per cent of the wild game population.

VIDEO: The forgotten Navajo: Living with uranium -- Rolanda Tahani has been drinking water from a well behind her house for decades. And just recently she was informed it has been contaminated with uranium since the 1970s.

Iraqi honey industry battling to regain it's buzz...production down due to bee illness -- Iraq's once-flourishing honey industry is struggling to revive itself, hit by long-term environmental degradation and six years of unrest that followed the 2003 US-led invasion.

Top tech firms back open internet in letter to FCC -- Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Google, Twitter and other leading Web and technology companies expressed support Monday for Federal Communications Commission (FCC) efforts to ensure an open Internet.

2009 Top 100 government contractors

The bill nobody noticed: National DNA Data Bank -- In April of 2008, President Bush signed into law S.1858 which allows the federal government to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. This was to be implemented within 6 months meaning that this collection is now being carried out. Congressman Ron Paul states that this bill is the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database.

US military create live remote controlled beetles to bug conversations -- The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has spent years developing a whole host of cyborg critters, in the hopes of creating the ultimate 'fly on the wall'.

Foreclosures force homeowners to check into shelters -- Growing numbers of Americans who have lost houses to foreclosure are landing in homeless shelters, according to social service groups and a recent report by a coalition of housing advocates.

Census predicts fall in response rate -- Starting next year, Bank of America will charge a small number of customers an annual fee, ranging from $29 to $99. The bank has characterized the fee as experimental. But card holders who have never carried a balance or paid late fees could be among those affected.

Citibank closing credit card accounts without warning -- Citi confirmed the basics. The bank said in a statement it “decided to close a limited number of oil partner co-branded MasterCard accounts.” That includes not only Shell, but Citgo, ExxonMobil and Phillips 66-Conoco cards. The close date was Wednesday, and letters were sent out Monday to customers informing them of the change, a Citi spokesman said. The bank would not say how many cards were shut down or how much available credit they represented.

German government to get special swine flu vaccine -- Just a week after it emerged that the German armed forces was getting a different kind of A/H1N1 vaccine to the general population, Der Spiegel magazine reports that the government will also get special treatment.

VIDEO: Air Force bugbots -- Micro Air Vehicle (MAVs) buglike drones

Today in History October 20, 2009
1803 - The U.S. Senate approved the Louisiana Purchase.
1818 - The U.S. and Great Britain established the boundary between the U.S. and Canada to be the 49th parallel.
1892 - The city of Chicago dedicated the World's Columbian Exposition.
1903 - A joint commission ruled in favor of the U.S. concerning a dispute over the boundary between Canada and the District of Alaska.
1910 - A baseball with a cork center was used in a World Series game for the first time.
1930 - "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" debuted on NBC radio.
1935 - Mao Zedong arrived in Hanoi after his Long March that took just over a year. He then set up the Chinese Communist Headquarters.
1942 - Pierre Laval told the French labor that they must serve in Germany.
1944 - Allied forces invaded the Philippines.
1944 - During World War II, the Yugoslav cities of Belgrade and Dubrovnik were liberated.
1947 - Hollywood came under scrutiny as the House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist influence within the motion picture industry.
1957 - Walter Cronkite began hosting "The 20th Century." The show aired until January 4, 1970.
1967 - Seven men were convicted in Meridian, MS, on charges of violating the civil rights of three civil rights workers. Of the men convicted one was a Ku Klux Klan leader and another was a sheriff's deputy.
1968 - Jackie Lee Bouvier Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis.
1976 - More than 70 people were killed when the Norwegian tanker Frosta collided with the ferryboat George Prince on the Mississippi River.
1979 - The John F. Kennedy Library in Boston was dedicated.
1984 - The U.S. State Department reduced the number of Americans assigned to the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
1986 - American mercenary Eugene Hasenfus was formally charged by the Nicaraguan government on several charges including terrorism.
1993 - Attorney General Janet Reno warned the TV industry to limit the violence in their programs.
1995 - Britain, France and the U.S. announced a treaty that banned atomic blasts in the South Pacific.
2003 - A 40-year-old man went over Niagara Falls without safety devices and survived. He was charged with illegally performing a stunt.

October 16, 2009
What the demise of the dollar means for you -- For several months you have read the warnings issued by economists and columnists, including this writer, concerning the devaluing of the dollar and its ultimate demise. But what, exactly, does this mean for you, the citizen?

2012: combat the nonsense -- Here is a list of other resources that should help answer any questions or concerns you may have on this topic.

Extending the recession indefinitely -- Unemployment continues to tick upward. Small businesses forgo profits on two-for-one deals just to keep the doors open.

Poorer nations to get donated swine flu vaccine -- About 100 developing countries will receive international donations of swine flu vaccines, maybe as soon as November, a World Health Organization official said Monday.

Virtual fence, real disaster -- This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 3:43 pm and is filed under Miscellaneous. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Sticker shock at the supermarket: Prices poised to rise -- If there's any silver lining to a recession -- albeit a thin one -- it's that consumer prices typically go down. Make no mistake, deflation is a sign of a sick economy, but at least the net effect of cheaper prices for the basic necessities -- food, clothing and shelter -- helps folks get by when they are struggling to make ends meet.

Pittsburgh: beta test for a police state -- Pittsburgh is not going to stand-down now that the G-20 has departed. The “dividend” is that it will remain a militarized police state.

New Zealand: Proposed powers bordering on police state -- On the second anniversary of controversial police raids, political activists today told MPs a new bill allowing police greater powers to search and monitor could stifle freedom of speech.

NORAD exercise on east coast -- TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, FLA. (10/13/2009)(readMedia)-- The Continental United States NORAD Region, a geographical component of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, will conduct a three-day homeland defense exercise, Falcon Dart, beginning Oct. 14 along the eastern seaboard and in New England.

Cut yourself? Sprinkling sugar on the wound could help it heal faster -- If there's any silver lining to a recession -- albeit a thin one -- it's that consumer prices typically go down. Make no mistake, deflation is a sign of a sick economy, but at least the net effect of cheaper prices for the basic necessities -- food, clothing and shelter -- helps folks get by when they are struggling to make ends meet.

Leaked network memo revelas Obama controls your television set

Today - October 15, 2009

One time atomic bomb making center gst stimulus funds to get rid of by-products -- “Exciting and bittersweet” is how Anthony Buhl, CEO of EnergX, a contractor at the U.S. Energy Dept’s Oak Ridge nuclear waste cleanup site near Knoxville, Tenn., describes his portion of the complex’s stimulus infusion gained early this year.

Indonesia declares seven quake destroyed villages mass graves -- Indonesian authorities declared as mass graves Tuesday seven villages destroyed by earthquake-triggered landslides, as they called off the search for over 200 people believed buried.

The 15 most toxic places to live -- Chernobyl is the town in northern Ukraine home to the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, the worst nuclear power plant accident in history.

Drug makers, doctors rake in billions battling H1N1 flu -- Swine Flu Is Bad for Victims, But Good for Businesses That Cater to Expanding Market

FBI building system that blows away fingerprinting -- The FBI plans to migrate from its IAFIS fingerprint database to a new biometrics system that will include DNA records, 3-D facial imaging, palm prints and voice scans.

Record October cold has folks scrambling to winterize -- A record-breaking cold snap that has made this the most frigid start in memory for October has people scrambling to winterize home, car and self.

Government reports point to fiscal doomsday -- When our leaders have no awareness of the disastrous consequences of their actions, they can claim ignorance and take no action.

Growing number of pet owners turn to home cooking

Sweden loses it's Internet connection for an hour -- The internet connection for the whole of Sweden went down for almost an hour when routine maintenance broke every single .se address.

Millions to participate in earthquake drill in CA

America faces dairy shortage


Today - October 14, 2009

Dollar loses reserve status to yen & euro -- Ben Bernanke's dollar crisis went into a wider mode yesterday as the greenback was shockingly upstaged by the euro and yen, both of which can lay claim to the world title as the currency favored by central banks as their reserve currency.

Goldman Sachs 2009 bonuses to double 2008’s; $23 billion could send 460,000 to Harvard, buy insurance for 1.7 million families -- Today, we bring you the investment bank that manages to double its bonuses during the worst recession since the Great Depression.

Agnico-Eagle Says Gold Price ‘Only Halfway’ to High -- Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd., the
Canadian gold producer that’s quadrupling output, expects the metal’s price to exceed $2,300 on inflation and tight supply.

New York Nurses Suing State Over Forced Vaccinations -- A group of nurses is suing the State of New York over mandatory H1N1 vaccinations, claiming that the threat of being fired for refusing is a violation of their civil rights.

US, other nations stop counting pandemic flu cases -- Government doctors stopped counting swine flu cases in July, when they estimated more than 1 million were infected in this country. The number of deaths has been sitting at more than 600 since early September.

RFID 'Powder' - World's Smallest RFID Tag -- The world's smallest and thinnest RFID tags were introduced yesterday by Hitachi. Tiny miracles of miniaturization, these RFID chips (Radio Frequency Identification chips) measure just 0.05 x 0.05 millimeters. The previous record-holder, the Hitachi mu-chip, is just 0.4 x 0.4 millimeters. Take a look at the size of the mu-chip RFID tag on a human fingertip.

German Soldiers to Receive Different Swine Flu Vaccine Than German People -- According to a newspaper article, the German military has ordered it's own special vaccine for it's 250000 soldiers. Different from the serum which the civilian population will be vaccinated with, the more compatible vaccine for the soldiers will not contain any contended additives nor will it contain any mercury preservatives, has been reported by the Bielefelder "Westfalen- Blatt" under reference to military sources. Its about the Serum Celvapan manufactured by Baxter.

Three heroes of 9/11 die of cancer in five days -- A firefighter and two cops who worked at Ground Zero in the days and weeks after Sept. 11 have died of cancer in the past five days, the Daily News has learned.

Ship with 9/11 steel heads to New York: Chenango Valley grad captains vessel -- A Navy assault ship with a bow containing 7 1/2 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center towers began its journey to New York on Tuesday, sailing down the Mississippi River in a pea-soup fog as watchers along the levee strained for a glimpse.

Capsaicin could stop a heart attack in progress, scientists find -- The researchers found an amazing 85 percent reduction in cardiac cell death when capsaicin was used. This is the most powerful cardioprotective effect ever recorded, according to Keith Jones, PhD, a researcher in the UC department of pharmacology and cell biophysics.


Today in History October 13, 2009
1775 - The U.S. Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.
1792 - The cornerstone of the Executive Mansion was laid in Washington, DC. The building became known as the White House in 1818.
1812 - American forces were defeated at the Battle of Queenstown Heights. The British victory effectively ended an further U.S. invasion of Canada.
1854 - The state of Texas ratified a state constitution.
1953 - An ultrasonic burglar alarm was patented by Samuel Bagno.
1957 - Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra introduced the Ford Edsel on an hour long special.
1989 - U.S. President George Bush called for an overthrow of the Panamanian ruler Manuel Antonio Noriega.
1992 - A commercial flight record was set by an Air France supersonic jetliner for circling the Earth in 33 hours and one minute.
1995 - Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 500-millionth guest.

Celente - People Should Brace For 'Greatest Depression' -- 2012 Forecast - Food Riots, Ghost Malls, Mob Rule, Terror.

German soldiers to receive different H1N1 vaccine than German people -- According to a newspaper article, the German military has ordered it's own special vaccine for it's 250000 soldiers. Different from the serum which the civilian population will be vaccinated with, the more compatible vaccine for the soldiers will not contain any contended additives nor will it contain any mercury preservatives, has been reported by the Bielefelder "Westfalen-Blatt" under reference to military sources.

Does your boss want you dead? -- Right now, your company could have a life insurance policy on you that you know nothing about. When you die -- perhaps years after you leave your employer -- the tax-free proceeds from this policy wouldn't go to your family. The money would go to the company.

Interpol seeks visa-free travel for its cops -- The global police organization Interpol began issuing special passports Tuesday to its senior investigators, aimed at allowing them to enter any of the group's 188 member countries without visas. Pakistan and Ukraine become the first countries to accept the new documents and three more will follow soon, Interpol Secretary-General Ronald K. Noble said during the organization's general assembly here.
Related Info: Who is Ronald K. Noble?...Click Here!

W.Va. driver licenses good to go on Real ID -- The National Conference on State Legislatures has been sending out action alerts reminding states that they must apply for an extension for complying with Real ID standards by Dec. 1 or risk the chance that state drivers' licenses and identification could be invalid for boarding commercial aircraft or entering federal buildings as of Jan. 1, 2010. West Virginia won't have to sweat the deadline, since West Virginia's licenses are already in compliance with current Real ID benchmarks.

Vitamin D may save you from swine flu -- People still don't get it: Vitamin D is the "miracle nutrient" that activates your immune system to defend you against invading microorganisms -- including seasonal flu and swine flu. Two months ago, an important study was published by researchers at Oregon State University. This study reveals something startling: Vitamin D is so crucial to the functioning of your immune system that the ability of vitamin D to boost immune function and destroy invading microorganisms has been conserved in the genome for over 60 million years of evolution.

Wrong turn in Afghanistan -- But wars are often presented in simple terms in the West. The military marches in, defeats bad guys and then a democratic state is born or reinvigorated. When President Bush appeared on an aircraft to indicate that the mission to defeat a "bad guy" had been successful, it was actually only the start of a long and inconclusive struggle against several nation states.

Obama White House to 60,000,000 Anglers: We Don't Need You -- A recently released White House document could result in the closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas.

Regulatory czar Cass Sunstein says "Take organs from helpless patients -- 'Though it may sound grotesque, routine removal would save lives'!?!!!

Dr. Russell Blaylock: Doctor will be drafted under Democrat's public option -- A respected medical specialist has carefully reviewed the healthcare reform bill in the U.S. House, and he declares that it would amount to a virtual "draft" of doctors into the government's "public option" health insurance program.

US Consumer Expectations - Next 5+ years -- However, the trivial issues we concern ourselves with today (Politics, American Idol, Survivor, keeping up with the Jones’, etc) will no longer be the forefront of our daily lives, as we struggle to keep food on the table and a roof over our heads. The ACLU-type concerns of today will also become irrelevant and family values/religion will become the center-stage of the new America.

Swine flu fears grow as NHS staff (UK) refuse vaccines -- Hospital chief executives have told the Guardian that they expect as few as 10%-20% of their staff to get vaccinated and cannot fulfil the DH’s demands because the jabs, which are due to begin within days, are entirely voluntary.

Secondary Transmission: The short and sweet about live virus vaccine shedding -- The fact is that once a child is injected with a live virus vaccine (and let’s assume that this child is immune as a result of it) there are still other things to consider which most parents do not know about and most pediatricians fail to warn about – which is vaccine shedding! What is shedding? Read More...

Obama & the Nobel peace prize: When war becomes peace, when the lie becomes the truth -- Granting the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama provides legitimacy to the illegal practices of war, to the military occupation of foreign lands, to the relentless killings of civilians in the name of "democracy".

Pollution an enduring legacy at old missile sites -- As U.S. Air Force officials marked the 50th anniversary of the deployment of nuclear missiles to sites in the rural United States this past week, residents in some of these communities are still grappling with another legacy -- groundwater pollution from chemicals used to clean and maintain the weapons.

Kentucky pastor gives up pulpit to fight for second amendment rights -- The Kentucky pastor who drew notice earlier this year for hosting a God-and-guns event at his church is giving up his flock for his Glock.

Obama's communist gun free America plan -- The great pay-back has begun, and it's going to be ugly. The gun grabbers in Congress are paying back the anti-gun extremists who put them and Barack Obama in office.

Waco siege enforcer to rule over global police force -- Man who both approved and covered-up government slaughter of 76 people, including 20 children, will lead move to establish international model of law enforcement.

Why & how to avoid GMO foods -- Now that President Obama has appointed Michael Taylor as Food Czar to his cabinet, the struggle is destined to become more difficult unless more consumers knowingly boycott GMO products. Michael Taylor was a vice president and chief lobbyist for Monsanto prior to his cabinet selection. Did you know that the stated aim of Monsanto is to own the patents for all the food crop seeds in the world? And now they're in the White House!

FBI scanning drivers license photos with face recognition technology to look for criminals -- In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver's license photos with pictures of convicts in a high-tech analysis of chin widths and nose sizes.

Red Bull drink=slow death? -- RED BULL was created to stimulate the brains in people who are subjected to great physical force and in stress coma and never to be consumed like an innocent drink or soda pop.

Why are Monsanto insiders now appointed to protect your food safety By Dr. Mercola -- While health care reform is finally on the table, and an organic farm has, for the first time, been planted on the White House lawn, there are an unsettling number of foxes being appointed to guard the U.S. health care and food industry hen houses … foxes that have entirely too many connections to Monsanto, the chemical manufacturer turned agricultural giant that is slowly gaining control over the world’s population, one seed at a time.

Obama risks a domestic military intervention -- There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America's military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the "Obama problem." Don't dismiss it as unrealistic.

Rogue insect takes down missile transport truck -- A giant bug lands on a truck driver transporting intercontinental ballistic missiles. The trucker swerves off the road, inadvertently kicking off Armageddon. Read More...

Behind Montana prison fiasco...how they prey on small desperate towns -- With the unraveling of the deal for the shadowy American Private Police Force to take over and populate an empty jail in Hardin, Montana, it's pretty clear that the small city got played by an ex-con and his (supposed) private security firm.

The Obama Justice department's secret blogging team -- Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, has apparently hired a cadre of left-wing, Democrat campaign bloggers to troll through the Internet looking for news stories and blog posts that denigrate the Obama agenda.

Cold temperatures threaten seed potato crop -- Record-low temperatures in southwestern Idaho are threatening to destroy at least a portion of this season's crop of seed potatoes.

Soybeans, corn rise as rains stall US harvest, limit supplies -- Corn and soybeans rose on speculation that cold, wet Midwest weather will slow the harvest and reduce production in the U.S., the world’s largest grower and exporter of both crops.

Ammunition bill signed into law in California -- Before the midnight deadline, Gov. Schwarzenegger acted on 685 bills that were on his desk. He signed 456 and vetoed 229. One of the bills that he signed was Assembly Bill 962. It requires handgun ammunition to be kept behind the counter where customers cannot access it without assistance.

It's a Fork, It's a Spoon, It's a ... Weapon? -- A 6-year-old's suspension for bringing a camping tool to school has sparked a debate over whether schools' zero-tolerance policies on weapons have gone too far.


Today in History October 12, 2009 - Columbus Day!
1492 - Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, sighted Watling Island in the Bahamas. He believed that he had found Asia while attempting to find a Western ocean route to India. The same day he claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain.
1792 - The first monument honoring Christopher Columbus was dedicated in Baltimore, MD. .
1860 - Inventor Elmer Sperry was born on this day. He held patents on more than 400 inventions. The most important being the Sperry Automatic Pilot.
1892 - In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Columbus landing the original version of the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited in public schools.
1895 - In Newport, RI, the first amateur golf tournament was held.
1915 - Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt criticized U.S. citizens who identified themselves by dual nationalities.
1920 - Construction of the Holland Tunnel began. It opened on November 13, 1927. The tunnel links Jersey City, NJ and New York City, NY.
1933 - John Dillinger, bank robber, escaped from a jail in Allen County, OH. The sheriff was killed by his gang as they helped Dillinger escape.
1933 - The U.S. Department of Justice acquired Alcatraz Island from the U.S. Army.
1945 - Private First Class Desmond T. Doss was presented with the Congressional Medal of Honor for outstanding bravery as a medical corpsman. He was the first conscientious objector in American history to win the award.
1960 - Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pounded a shoe on his desk during a dispute at a U.N. General Assembly.
1961 - The first video memoirs by a U.S. president were made. Walter Cronkite interviewed Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1988 - Federal prosecutors announced that the Sundstrand Corp. would pay $115 million dollars to settle with the Pentagon for overbilling airplane parts over a five-year period.
1989 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a statutory federal ban on the destruction of the American flag.
1998 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Online Copyright Bill.
2000 - In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole, a U.S. Navy destroyer, experienced a large explosion while refueling. The explosion was the result of a terrorist attack using a small boat. 17 crewmembers were killed and at least 39 were injured.
2006 - The Dow Jones industrial average advanced over 11,900 for the first time.

A Thought For The Day From our friend Mike Tawse in UK -- Grateful To Complain - If I have the energy to complain, then I have something for which to be grateful, but if I have no reason to complain, I should, surely, be grateful for that. If, on the most difficult of days, I can appreciate my freedom to complain, then I find fewer reasons to do so. Be sure to check out Mike's Website: My Serrapeptase Adventure

U.S. and Israel to hold Juniper Cobra military exercises Oct. 12-16 -- Several US Navy ships just landed in Haifa to conduct a massive wargame with Israel. The Israeli and American militaries are conducting an exercise simulating a multi-front conflict with Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas. The exercise, codenamed ‘Juniper Cobra 2009,’ is the largest joint US-Israeli drill in history.

Army drill canceled due to US outcry -- A joint military exercise that Israel, the US, NATO, Turkey and Italy were scheduled to conduct this week, was taken off the table because of American disappointment with Ankara's decision to withdraw from the maneuver due to Israel's planned participation, Israeli defense officials said Sunday.

Happy Thanksgiving Canada -- In Canada Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October!

Weapons failed US troops during Afghan firefight -- Questions arise: Eight years into the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, do U.S. armed forces have the best guns money can buy?

Anti-wi-fi paint offers security -- Researchers say they have created a special kind of paint which can block out wireless signals.

Warning! Don't eat certain imported dried plums in Texas -- The Texas Department of State Health Services is warning consumers not to eat certain imported dried plums and products containing imported dried plums because they have elevated levels of lead.

2012 isn't the end of the world, Mayans insist -- Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world. Or is it? Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff."

U.S. Can’t Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas -- Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country.

76 U.S. children dead of swine flu as cases rise -- Health officials said Friday that 76 children in the United States have died of swine flu since April, including 16 new reports in the past week — more evidence the new virus is unusually dangerous in kids.

Dollar reaches breaking point as banks shift reserves -- Central banks flush with record reserves are increasingly snubbing dollars in favor of euros and yen, further pressuring the greenback after its biggest two- quarter rout in almost two decades.

Vaccine Revolt! Swine flu vaccine support crumbles -- Public support for the swine flu vaccine is evaporating by the day as the rationale for the vaccine appears increasingly ludicrous to anyone paying attention. Moms, nurses, day care workers and members of the general public are increasingly realizing that Big Pharma's rationale for swine flu vaccination just doesn't add up.

WHO says it could take years to lower pandemic level -- It could take years for the World Health Organization to downgrade the H1N1 flu from a pandemic to seasonal-like virus, the U.N. agency said on Friday.

FDA & Glaxo warn of death with anti flu drug Relenza -- GlaxoSmithKline has notified doctors of at least one death caused by a inappropriate use of its anti-flu medication Relenza.

Fit to fly? Balance boards to be used at airports to detect suspicious characters -- Nervous flyers, beware: a Department of Homeland Security-funded project is investigating whether Wii Fit Balance Boards might be good ways to detect signs of tension or unease in airport security lines.

What could happen if the electric goes out -- This could come in perhaps two or three years, or even sooner. This is about a future with no electricity. Such a disaster can quickly happen anytime after the Sun generates a coronal mass ejection (commonly known as a CME) in the direction of Earth.

French car company makes car parts out of flax -- Welcome to the bio-car. PSA, the French automotive group that makes Peugeots and Citroëns, has started using components made from natural materials — radiator caps and side mirror mountings that contain hemp instead of glassfibre; parcel shelves that are moulded in a plastic made from wood chippings; and inner door panels that are 50% flax.

Heart Disease - Beyond The Stent & Bypass -- Explore the historical, clinical, and pathological link between heart disease, typical, and atypical tuberculosis.

YouTube: What happened in NY on 9/11/09? You did not hear about it

Battening down the hatches: Secret state monitor protest, represses dissent -- As social networking becomes a dominant feature of daily life, the secret state is increasingly surveilling electronic media for what it euphemistically calls "actionable intelligence."

Turkey wars in Canada...making it harder to raise free range birds -- If you're eating organic turkey this weekend, savour it, because by next Thanksgiving it may be easier to buy crack cocaine in Ontario than a drug-free bird.

Cell phones: reason for concerns -- Hang on to your land line phones. Herb Denenberg in an article for The Bulletin says: “The great cell phone cover-up may be coming to an end. A new report may finally wake the public up to the brain cancer risks of cell phones and force necessary preventive measures.

The CIA mind control doctors, from Harvard to Guantanamo -- Papers that report the results of research funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Department of the Army, the Office of Naval Research and the CIA. From 1950 to 1972, the CIA funded TOP SECRET research at many leading universities including Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Johns Hopkins and Stanford. There was a series of CIA mind control programs including BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, MKULTRA, MKSEARCH and MKNAOMI.

UK government: per mile tax would solve global warming -- UK government group believes punishing drivers with new taxes will stop global warming.

Microchip implant to link your health, social security, credit history -- Novartis and Proteus Biomedical are not the only companies hoping to implant microchips into patients so that their pill-popping habits can be monitored. VeriChip of Delray Beach, Fl., has an even bolder idea: an implanted chip that links to an online database containing all your medical records, credit history and your social security ID.

An integrated sensor system for the detection of biothreats from pandemics to emerging diseases to bioterrorism -- There is a clear need for a
biothreat sensor system that spans the range from surveillance and early warning of both known and novel agents to multiplexed diagnostics for rapid and broadly applicable classification and characterization during an outbreak event. Read More... (now this is scary)  - Website of company

VIDEO: Even more sick veterans come forward with male breast cancer
Related Article: Male breast cancer patients blame water at Marine base

k"Death Bonds" Wall Streets shocking new plan to reap billions off dying Americans -- It sounds too gruesome to be true, but the bankers have already shaken the silver out of everything that had value in America -- except for the elderly.

The resistance to vaccines mounts -- Now that John and Jane America are armed with valuable information — thanks to the Internet — the mass inoculation, by force, is losing its grip and the hysteria is waning.

Vaccination justification is collapsing -- BMJ Says Simple, Cheap Measures Keep Viruses at Bay.

Nearly 8300 stores have closed this year -- When consumers start their holiday shopping in earnest next month, they will find fewer stores competing for their business as vacancy rates at malls and shopping centers have risen to multiyear highs.

Rabies shows up in vaccinated pets -- Don't assume that because your pet is vaccinated, that you don't have to worry about trying to reduce the risk of exposure to rabies. Don't assume that an animal with neurological disease doesn't have rabies just because it's been vaccinated.

UK: Smart meters could be spy in then home -- Smart meters could become a 'spy in the home' by allowing social workers and health authorities to monitor households, adding to concern at Britain's surveillance society.

Speed cameras attacked in Poland, Finland & Wales -- Attacks on photo enforcement devices have grown increasingly common in the UK as Wales, with a population of three million, reported at least 102 camera attacks in the past few years.

Driving around with a loud stereo? -- Florida wants to make it a crime.

Bacterium aids in the formation of gold -- An Australian-led team of international scientists says it's found the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans catalyses toxic gold compounds into metallic form.


Today in History October 9, 2009
1635 - Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, was banished from Massachusetts because he had spoken out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away land that belonged to the Indians. Williams had founded Providence, Rhode Island as a place for people to seek religious freedom.
1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut was chartered in New Haven. The name was later changed to Yale.
1776 - A group of Spanish missionaries settled in what is now San Francisco, CA.
1781 - The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War took place in Yorktown, VA. The American forces, led by George Washington, defeated the British troops under Lord Cornwallis.
1812 - During the War of 1812 American forces captured two British brigs, the Detroit and the Caledonia.
1855 - Isaac Singer patented the sewing machine motor.
1855 - Joshua C. Stoddard received a patent for his calliope.
1858 - Mail service via stagecoach between San Francisco, CA, and St. Louis, MO, began.
1872 - Aaron Montgomery started his mail order business with the delivery of the first mail order catalog. The firm later became Montgomery Wards.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson made their longest telephone call to date. It was a distance of two miles.
1888 - The public was admitted to the Washington Monument for the first time.
1936 - The first generator at Boulder Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles, CA. The name of the dam was later changed to Hoover Dam.
1946 - The first electric blanket went on sale in Petersburg, VA.
1983 - Helen Moss joined the Brownies at the age of 83. She became the oldest person to become a member.
1986 - U.S. District Judge Harry E. Claiborne became the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment. The U.S. Senate convicted Claiborne of "high crimes and misdemeanors."
1994 - The U.S. sent troops and warships to the Persian Gulf in response to Saddam Hussein sending thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks toward the Kuwaiti border.
1995 - Saboteurs tinkered with a stretch of railroad track in Arizona. An Amtrak train derailed killing one and injuring a hundred.

Obama awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize -- President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism. Nobel observers were shocked by the unexpected choice so early in the Obama presidency, which began less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline.

House panel votes to overturn Feres doctrine -- A bill that would overturn a 59-year-old Supreme Court decision that bars service members from suing the government for peacetime medical malpractice narrowly passed a House Judiciary Committee vote Wednesday and now will be considered by the entire House.  Related Article: Active-duty military may get malpractice rights -- The bill, filed by U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y., was prompted by the case of Marine Sgt. Carmelo Rodriguez, whose cancer, Cohen said, was misdiagnosed as a boil by a string of military physicians. He died at his upstate New York home in front of a CBS news crew in 2007.

Senate Judiciary Committee Approves PATRIOT Act Renewal -- By an 11 to 8 vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday sent the USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Provision Act (S. 1692) to the Senate floor for full consideration with three of its most controversial sections intact.

American troops in Afghanistan losing heart, say army chaplains -- American soldiers serving in Afghanistan are depressed and deeply disillusioned, according to the chaplains of two US battalions that have spent nine months on the front line in the war against the Taleban. Many feel that they are risking their lives — and that colleagues have died — for a futile mission and an Afghan population that does nothing to help them, the chaplains told The Times in their makeshift chapel on this fortress-like base in a dusty, brown valley southwest of Kabul.

"RAVENWOOD" COMES TO AMERICA by Chuck Baldwin -- The question must then be asked: "Could the whole APF and Hardin, Montana, affair be a test run for Obama's budding Civilian Defense Force?" Read more...

Urgent lawsuit filed against FDA to halt swine flu vaccines -- Health freedom attorney Jim Turner is filing a lawsuit in Washington D.C. mid-day Friday in an urgent effort to halt the distribution of the swine flu vaccine in America. The lawsuit charges that the FDA violated the law in its hasty approval of four swine flu vaccines by failing to scientifically determine neither the safety nor efficacy of the vaccines.

Former Lt. Colonel sues state of Florida over forced vaccination -- A former lieutenant colonel who almost died from taking a smallpox shot is suing the state of Florida over a law that allows the government to forcibly vaccinate the public in the event of a pandemic.

Patients with vaccine allergy may be safely vaccinated -- "If the vaccine is warranted for an allergic individual, evaluation may determine that it can be administered in the office of an allergy specialist who is prepared to treat for an emergency if needed." (What!?)

2 Reports offer new data on severe H1N1 cases -- Two reports published by the New England Journal of Medicine today filled in more details about severe cases of H1N1 influenza, generally confirming previous findings that most of them occur in non-elderly people who have chronic health conditions but that previously healthy people are also affected.

MORGELLONS : A STATUS REPORT by Clifford Carnicom -- This is a partial summary of the research accumulated through this site on the so-called "Morgellons" issue.

Historical data shows vaccines are not what saved us -- Take a look at some of the historical data on this website showing various vaccination programs and the outbreak of that very disease either immediately to several years later.

Jack LaLanne at 95! -- He's 95, in fabulous shape although no longer the slab of muscle who inspired a nation via his daily exercise TV program. The brain is still cooking, and that's always been LaLanne's most effective tool.

VIDEO: Special needs student beaten by cop for not having shirt tucked in -- The 15 year old student was walking down his school hallway when he says a Dolton, Ill. police officer went from berating him for his untucked shirt to slamming him to the ground and beating him.

10,000 apply for 90 factory jobs -- In the latest sign of weakness in Louisville-area employment, about 10,000 people applied over three days for 90 jobs building washing machines at General Electric for about $27,000 per year and hefty benefits.

Stupid news: Zoo dyes donkeys to look like zebras -- Two white donkeys dyed with black stripes delighted Palestinian kids at a small Gaza zoo on Thursday who had never seen a zebra in the flesh.

The RFID conspiracy -- Can all Americans really be tagged?

Dog stuck in crate highlights risk of spot on flea treatment -- A veterinarian presented with a peculiar case of a poodle stuck in its crate last week traced the problem to the pet’s spot-on flea treatment. Residue from the product Advantage, which was applied between the poodle’s shoulders, somehow came in contact with the plastic base of the animal’s crate, dissolving the plastic and causing it to adhere to the dog’s belly.

Airports to screen for symptoms of H1N1 virus...you may be quarantined -- New Guidelines Allow Airports To Take Temperatures, Quarantine Passengers Exhibiting Flu-Like Illness People Traveling Internationally May Be Screened When Leaving, Entering U.S.

Recall: Consumers warned not to eat certain types of dried plums -- The Texas Department of State Health Services is warning consumers not to eat certain imported dried plums and products containing imported dried plums because they have elevated levels of lead.

How to make fresh homemade almond milk -- Fresh raw almond milk is delicious, healthy, unprocessed, and economical. There is no waste, no unrecyclable plastic-lined tetra-pak boxes or cartons to put in landfills and drink BPA out of, and this tastes much, much better than store bought. The resulting almond meal is a free bonus, useful in cookies, crumb crusts, porridge, granolas, or in lieu of bread crumbs in stuffing's and dressings, breaded crusts, etc.

Scientists link chronic fatigue disorder to retrovirus -- "We now have evidence that a retrovirus named XMRV is frequently present in the blood of patients with CFS. This discovery could be a major step in the discovery of vital treatment options for millions of patients."

NYPD tracking cell phone owners -- The NYPD is amassing a database of cell phone users, instructing cops to log serial numbers from suspects' phones in hopes of connecting them to past or future crimes.

Volcanic activity and earthquakes hit Caribbean islands -- The volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat shot a plume of ash more than two miles into the sky today, lightly dusting the small island.


Today in History October 8, 2009
1871 - The Great Fire of Chicago broke out destroying about 17,450 buildings. About 250 people were killed and 90,000 were left homeless.
1871 - Peshtigo, WI, was destroyed by a forest fire. Over 1,100 people were killed by the fire that eventually burned across 6 counties.
1895 - The Berliner Gramophone Company was founded in Philadelphia, PA.
1918 - U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. York had originally tried to avoid being drafted as a conscientious objector. After this event his was promoted to sergeant and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
1919 - The first transcontinental air race in the U.S. began.
1945 - U.S. President Truman announced that only Britain and Canada would be given the secret to the atomic bomb.
1952 - "The Complete Book of Etiquette" was published for the first time. .
1981 - U.S. President Reagan greeted former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon to the White House. The group was preparing to leave for Egypt to attend the funeral of Anwar Sadat.
1991 - A slave burial site was found by construction workers in lower Manhattan. The "Negro Burial Ground" had been closed in 1790. Over a dozen skeletons were found.
1993 - The U.S. government issued a report absolving the FBI of any wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco, TX, on the Branch Davidian compound. The fire that ended the siege killed as many as 85 people.
1998 - Taliban forces attacked Iranian border posts. Iran said that three border posts were destroyed before the Taliban forces were forced to retreat. The Taliban of Afghanistan denied the event occurred.
2001 - Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania, was sworn in as director of the new U.S. department of Homeland Security.
2002 - A federal judge approved U.S. President George W. Bush's request to reopen West Coast ports, to end a caustic 10-day labor lockout. The lockout was costing the U.S. economy an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion a day.
2004 - The first-ever direct presidential elections were held in Afghanistan.

Outrage of the Day - SWAT raid on food storehouse heading to trial -- A lawsuit brought by an Ohio family whose children were held at SWAT-team gunpoint while their food supplies were confiscated is scheduled to go to trial this week. John and Jackie Stowers are suing the Ohio Department of Agriculture and the Lorain County General Health District over the raid on their "Manna Storehouse," an organic food co-op that operated in LaGrange.
Related Article: SWAT raid on food co-op called 'entrapment' Lawyer says family badgered by agent to 'sell' eggs

House cuts workweek to 2-1/2 days -- The Democratic-led House -- in the middle of the biggest healthcare fight in a generation -- has now trimmed their workweek to just two and a half days, leaving members of Congress plenty of time to ski or play golf.

POTENTIAL SPY BLIMP BEING TESTED AT LORING By: David Deschesne -- The 200+ foot-long blimp currently flying at the former Loring Air Force Base is a prototype of a system that may eventually be used to spy on the American citizenry. The Loring project is called SKYBUS and is an R&D project undertaken jointly by Telford Aviation, from Bangor, Maine and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), headquartered in McLean, Virginia. “The main purpose is to develop an unmanned, remotely piloted airship that can be used in a variety of commercial and defense applications,” Bob Ziegelaar, Senior Projects Manager for Telford Aviation told the Fort Fairfield Journal.

TRICARE increase stuns retirees -- “This shocking announcement is extremely disappointing, given your public assurances earlier this year that the Defense Department would not be proposing any TRICARE fee increases for (fiscal) 2010,” retired Navy Vice Adm. Norbert R. Ryan Jr., president of the Military Officers Association of America told Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Ryan’s protest letter was sent hours after TRICARE officials unveiled their new inpatient fees for Standard.

Father warns others about cold medicine after son's death -- Last January, Logan Mickley, like so many other children came down with a cold. His father, Jason, like so many other parents, gave Logan some cold medicine. Read More...

Loveland, Colorado ski area has earliest opening in 40 years -- Boasting its earliest opening day in 40 years, Loveland officials opened for skiing today. Arapahoe Basin announced it would open Friday.

Accused "Bat-Killers" -- A federal grand jury indicts two men for allegedly violating the Endangered Species Act.

Congressional leaders fight against posting bills online -- As Congress lurches closer to a decision on an enormous overhaul of the American health care system, pressure is mounting on legislative leaders to make the final bill available online for citizens to read before a vote.

Thoughts on irradiated food -- Is food irradiation good enough that we could theoretically go back to having rare hamburgers, soft-boiled eggs and unpasteurized milk?

VIDEO: Max Keiser: The US dollar is finished

Retail vacancies hit multi year highs - When consumers start their holiday shopping in earnest next month, they will find fewer stores competing for their business as vacancy rates at malls and shopping centers have risen to multiyear highs.

300 California Hotels in Foreclosure in Default -- More California hotels, including several in Southern California, are being pushed into foreclosure as tourists and businesses alike scale back their travel plans and owners can't pay their mortgages, it was reported Wednesday.

Top researcher who worked on cervical cancer vaccine warns about it's dangers -- One of the key researchers involved in the clinical trials for both Gardasil and Cevarix cervical cancer vaccines has gone public with warnings about their safety and effectiveness.

High fructose corn syrup may raise bad cholesterol levels -- The University of California-Davis have found that consumption of fructose-sweetened drinks appears to raise the body's levels of LDL ("bad") cholesterol in a way that glucose-sweetened drinks do not. The study was published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

US to export riot roasting ray gun -- Aviation Week reports today that executives from American arms megacorp Raytheon, makers of the famous yet seldom-used riot-roaster weapon, have disclosed a sale of four containerised Silent Guardians to "a US ally". The revelations were described as an "oops" by the corporate types, as the Pentagon had forbidden the firm to make the sale public.

Swine flu could be a product of overzealous research -- As swine flu continues to spread across the world, so do theories about its origin. US investigative journalist Wayne Madsen says he's gathering more and more evidence that the H1N1 virus started out in a lab.

Areas hit hard by flu in spring see little now -- While concern over the spread of the H1N1 virus sweeps the country, epidemiologists in New York and a few other cities that were awash in swine flu last spring are detecting very little evidence of a resurgence.

Vaccine induced pandemic -- The 2009 A(H1N1) influenza viruses exhibited less efficient respiratory droplet transmission in ferrets in comparison with the highly transmissible phenotype of a seasonal H1N1 virus. Transmission of the 2009 A(H1N1) influenza viruses was further corroborated by characterizing the binding specificity of the viral hemagglutinin to the sialylated glycan receptors (in the human host) by use of dose-dependent direct receptor-binding and human lung tissue-binding assays.

Sebelius says Americans must get swine flu shot -- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius appealed anew Wednesday for widespread inoculation against a surging swine flu threat, calling the vaccine "safe and secure."
Related Article: Rush Limbaugh says he won't get vaccine because Kathleen Sibelius told him to!

Latex allergy linked to adverse reaction to swine flu shot -- Health officials in Australia, where mass vaccination against swine flu began eight days ago, said a person with an allergy to latex developed a reaction to the shot.

AP poll: only half of people want swine flu shots -- The people who most want the swine flu vaccine are older people, who will be last in line, says a new Associated Press-GfK poll.

Hypersensitivity reactions to vaccine components -- The variety of substances used in vaccines sometimes causes the development of cutaneous reactions in susceptible adults and children. This article will review adverse cutaneous events consistent with hypersensitivity reactions to the following ingredients in vaccines: aluminum, thimerosal, 2-phenoxyethanol, formaldehyde, and neomycin.

Microsoft Launches Online H1N1 Flu Response Center to Support Consumers -- Microsoft Corp. today announced a new Web site, H1N1 Response Center (http://www.h1n1responsecenter.com), which provides users with timely and relevant content and enables consumers to gauge symptoms and receive guidance using an H1N1 self-assessment service.

The questionable efficacy of flu vaccines and the pandemic that wasn't -- Evidence to date suggests that the “H1N1 flu is not a major threat,” and there is little evidence that flu vaccines are effective in preventing the flu, so says Tom Jefferson, MD, arguably the world’s leading expert on influenza vaccines.

Presidential powers during cybersecurity emergencies -- Our nation can be threatened not only by physical attacks on terra firma, but also in Cyberspace. Indeed, Cyber attacks could threaten all sorts of mission critical systems. For this reason, aides to Senator Jay Rockefeller reportedly have been working recently on a revised draft Senate bill that would give the President broad powers in the event of a Cybersecurity emergency, and that apparently would go so far as allowing the President to temporarily seize control over computer networks in the private sector.

Local cops want nation of snoops and snitches -- Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton and other big city cops are calling for a new system of "citizen watch" programs, allegedly to help them spot hidden terrorists. I view this new call for a nation of private spies with a deep suspicion born of experience with the LAPD and its historic penchant for spying on law-abiding residents of that city.

Vaccines dark inferno -- What is not on insert labels? Our investigation shows that most people do not know what is actually in a vaccine: the active ingredients listed on product labels, inert ingredients, and, most important, the hidden ingredients. Even more remote is taking the time to actually study the subject matter, review the scientific literature and discover the truth for oneself. To our amazement, that truth was easy to find. But it is a truth that will scare the hell out of you.

Bye US Dollar? Yes, but slowly -- Alarmist conclusions that the dollar is on a swift road to ruin are wide of the mark. The road will be long and at its end the dollar will not be ruined, but it will be less important.

SWAT raid on food storehouse headed to trial -- A lawsuit brought by an Ohio family whose children were held at SWAT-team gunpoint while their food supplies were confiscated is scheduled to go to trial this week. The Stowers and their 10 children and grandchildren were detained in one room of their home for six hours while sheriff's officers confiscated 60 boxes of fresh farm food, computers, phones and records, including USDA-certified meat from the children's mini-farm, according to lawyers for the plaintiffs.


Today in History October 7, 2009
1765 - Nine American colonies sent a total of 28 delegates to New York City for the Stamp Act Congress. The delegates adopted the "Declaration of Rights and Grievances."
1777 - During the American Revolution the second Battle of Saratoga began.
1868 - Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, NY.
1913 - For the first time, Henry Ford's entire Highland Park automobile factory was run on a continuously moving assembly line when the chassis was added to the process.
1918 - The Georgia Tech football team defeated Cumberland College 222-0. Georgia Tech carried the ball 978 yards and never threw a pass.
1951 - The Western Hills Hotel in Fort Worth, TX, became the first hotel to feature all foam-rubber mattresses and pillows.
1956 - A U.S. House subcommittee began investigations of allegedly rigged TV quiz shows.
1963 - U.S. President Kennedy signed a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
1968 - The Motion Picture Association of America adopted the film-rating system that ranged for "G" to "X." .
1985 - Four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt. There were 440 people onboard. They surrendered after two days and
killing American passenger Leon Klinghoffer.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton sent more troops, heavy armor, and naval firepower to Somalia.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton dispatched an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf when Iraqi troops were spotted moving toward Kuwait. The U.S. Army was also put on alert.
1998 - The U.S. government filed an antitrust suit that alleged Visa and MasterCard inhibit competition by preventing banks from offering other cards.
1999 - American Home Products Corp. agreed to pay up to $4.83 billion to settle claims that the fen-phen diet drug caused dangerous problems with heart valves.
2001 - The U.S. and Great Britain began air strikes in Afghanistan in response to that state's support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. The act was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in the recall election of Governor Gray Davis.

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Is the U.S. Preparing to Bomb Iran? -- Is the U.S. stepping up preparations for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear facilities? The Pentagon is always making plans, but based on a little-noticed funding request recently sent to Congress, the answer to that question appears to be yes.

Honor The Fallen -- Honoring those who fought and died in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.

Tracking the H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) -- The first thing you see on this website is a map of the swine flu outbreak nationwide and what is stunning is the fact that they have the map broken down into regions...FEMA regions! The map is from the CDC. There's a little bar under the map where you can move an arrow back & forth & see how the flu has progressed. Scroll down and look at all of the propaganda stories on the vaccines.

First doses of the H1N1 vaccine given to children -- With a squirt, 4-year-old Sariah is one of the first in the Portland-Metro area to get the mist that should protect her from the Swine Flu. She may not feel special but with only 500 doses in Clackamas County, she's in a select group to get the vaccine.

Swine flu vaccine victims encouraged to post reports of side effects on SwineFluVaccineReport.com -- As the swine flu vaccination campaigns begin sweeping across America, NaturalNews has created a new website where victims of swine flu vaccine side effects can post their true stories about what happened to them or their children. The website is SwineFluVaccineReport.com and it was created by NaturalNews editor Mike Adams for the simple purpose of "shedding light" on the potential side effects of the swine flu vaccine. Anyone can post on the site. All posts are moderated, so it takes some time for new posts to be approved. Any posts that appear to be fictitious will be deleted.

Recipients Of The Swine Flu Vaccine Are Being Given CDC “Vaccination Record” Tracking Cards -- Swine flu vaccinations began Monday in Indiana, Illinois and Tennessee, and recipients of the H1N1 vaccination are being given CDC "vaccination record" tracking cards to help keep a record of who has received the swine flu vaccine.

Doctors Concerned FluMist Vaccine Could Spread Live H1N1 Virus -- Doctors and hospitals are expressing concern that the FluMist vaccine could endanger people because it contains live H1N1 virus, unlike the injectable shot that contains antibodies. With no less than 60 per cent of the U.S. population immunodeficient in one way or another, could FluMist be a pandemic waiting to happen?

1 Year Old killed By Vaccine in Michigan -- "My daughter took her youngest son Chris to the pediatrician for a 1 yr check. Chris is a special needs child. At 6 months he was given vaccines and within 24 hours began having serious seizures. Friday, he came in with a fever, coughing and runny nose. The nurse by the peds orders came in without asking, without signatures, and gave him a flu shot, adding 5 other shots with it." Read More...

Texas DOT dumps the TransTexas Corridor project in response to public outcry -- Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) officials plan to announce Wednesday that, in response to citizen comments received during the environmental review of Trans-Texas Corridor-35, the department has recommended the No Action Alternative on the TTC-35 environmental study to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).

State governors to US on public private partnerships "Bug off, the roads are ours!" -- Regardless of party, state governors are opposing moves in the US Congress to second guess their arrangements for privatization of roads, toll concessions, or public private partnerships.

Verichip chooses Raytheon /ECLAN to manufacture it's implantable microchips -- VeriChip Corporation announced that it has selected Raytheon Microelectronics España/ECLAN for the production of the company’s implantable microchips, including the chip used in its HealthLink patient identification system, its new eight millimeter microchip for use in Medical Components Inc.’s vascular access medical devices, and its glucose-sensing RFID microchip under development with RECEPTORS LLC.

Missouri hospital implements biometric time & attendance system -- Fujitsu Frontech North America, a supplier of biometric products and services, has announced that Missouri-based Bates County Memorial Hospital has successfully incorporated Fujitsu’s PalmSecure vascular scanner into their time and attendance tracking system.

Hardin Montana jail deal delayed -- Plans for a California company to take over this city's empty jail were put on hold Monday, following last week's revelations that the company's lead figure has a criminal history.

Guilty and you didn't even know it -- Your license could be suspended and you may not even know it. In yet another colossal failure of photo enforcement, you may have been cited with a traffic citation and never been notified.

STUPID NEWS! Japanese airline asks passengers to use toilet before boarding so the plane weighs less and cuts carbon emissions -- Yep...you read it right! ANA hopes the weight saved will lead to a five-tonne reduction in carbon emissions over the course of 30 days.

UK: snoopers could win prizes for monitoring CCTV cameras on the internet -- Citizen spies will be given the chance to win up to £1,000 by watching CCTV cameras on the internet and reporting people they suspect of committing crimes.

Thousands line up for stimulus money in Detroit -- Thousands of people have lined up Tuesday for a chance at millions of stimulus dollars set aside to help Detroit's homeless and low-income residents.

Gold surges to all time high of $1045 -- Gold prices surged to a new high Tuesday as investors sought a safe harbor from a falling dollar and inflation.

Windows 7 will let Microsoft track your every move -- Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 plans to offer developers location tools at the operating system level and the company doesn’t seem to think users care about control or privacy.

Homeland security plans to scan travelers bodily functions -- The idea is essentially to create a remote lie detector, where sensors placed at airport security screening areas would be able to monitor a passenger's physical reaction to questions being asked by screeners.

Hemp legal in Oregon, but held up by US law -- Industrial hemp is legal in Oregon but growers say they can't get on with their business until the federal government change its policies.

New pet microchip search engine debuts -- The American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) on Monday launched a long anticipated Web-based search engine for pet microchip identification numbers. The search tool has access to four databases with which pet owners in the United States may register their pets’ microchip identification numbers. However, companies that control three other databases are not currently participating.

IBM builds bar code reader for DNA -- Imagine a world where medicine is guaranteed not to cause adverse reactions because it's designed for an individual's DNA.

The demise of the dollar -- In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

The criminal behavior of G-20 police in Pittsburgh - great opinion piece -- U.S. media outlets are writing about the new LRAD or "audio cannon" device used on demonstrators Thursday at the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh in a way that only brain-dead sold out scoundrels can. LRAD stands for "Long Range Acoustic Device" and the name does not betray the weapon's objective.

Typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis, forgotten victim and possible links to the spread of Agent Orange -- A tough week – the Philippines, Indonesia, American Samoa, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and of course, Vietnam.

KGEZ: cops to conservative radio-you're off the air -- A conservative talk radio station has been forced off the air after years of wresting with the state and the courts over property rights, shut down by a reported 30 armed police officers who barged into the station in the middle of the owner's radio show and showed him the door. John Stokes is the owner of KGEZ-radio, a station whose headquarters sit on 6.5 acres and whose towers sit on a 160-acre easement of farmland in rural Kalispell, Mont. According to Stokes, KGEZ is America's oldest independently owned radio station, on air since 1927.


Today in History October 6, 2009
1683 - The first Mennonites arrived in America aboard the Concord. The German and Dutch families settled in an area that is now a neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA.
1846 - Inventor George Westinghouse was born. He was the founder of Westinghouse Electric Company and invented railway braking systems.
1847 - "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte was first published in London.
1848 - The steamboat SS California left New York Harbor for San Francisco via Cape Horn. The steamboat service arrived on February 28, 1849. The trip took 4 months and 21 days.
1857 - The American Chess Congress held their first national chess tournament in New York City.
1863 - The first Turkish bath was opened in Brooklyn, NY, by Dr. Charles Shepard.
1866 - The Reno Brothers pulled the first train robbery in America near Seymour, IN. The got away with $10,000.
1884 - The Naval War College was established in Newport, RI.
1889 - The Kinescope was exhibited by Thomas Edison. He had patented the moving picture machine in 1887. .
1949 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000 for war crimes. The conviction was for being Japanese wartime broadcaster "Tokyo Rose."
1949 - U.S. president Harry Truman signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Act. The act provided $1.3 billion in the form of military aid to NATO countries.
1954 - E.L. Lyon became the first male nurse for the U.S. Army.
1961 - U.S. president John F. Kennedy advised American families to build or buy bomb shelters to protect them in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.
1986 - A Soviet nuclear submarine sank in the Atlantic Ocean about 1,200 miles from New York.
1992 - Ross Perot appeared in his first paid broadcast on CBS-TV after entering the U.S. presidential race.

Cell Phone Trees -- Throughout northern San Diego County, new trees are springing up everywhere. Unlike most palms and gymnosperms that take many decades to grow, these "new" trees appear within days. They are commonly used in indoor landscaping and to camouflage unsightly communication towers.

Federal SWAT Raid Over … Orchids - Criminalizing everyone -- Unbelievable...Federal SWAT raid by the US Fish & Wildlife Service for growing ....orchids!

American Police Force makes changes to website, contract -- On Sunday morning, there were some visible changes to California-based security company American Police Force's website. What previously read "American Police Force" now uses the company's formal name "American Private Police Force." Note the comments after article.
More on Hardin, Montana: Montana Attorney General takes action on Hardin -- American Police Force (Respondent) is hereby COMMANDED to present to the Montana Department of Justice, under oath, by delivering to the Montana Attorney General's Office, 215 North Sanders, P.O. Box 201401, Helena, MT 59620, on or before the 12th day of October.2009, the information specified within this article. Read More...

Guns bought by Americans this year could outfit 2 armies -- Guns purchased legally in the United States this year could outfit two armies – and not just any armies, the armies of China and India, according to new government reports cited by a website for sport-shooting enthusiasts.

Gen. Petraeus treated for prostate cancer -- Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in February and has since undergone two months of radiation treatment. This was not publicly disclosed at the time because Petraeus and his family regarded his illness as "a personal matter."

Credit card holders to banks: We're angry! -- Consumers are not hiding their feelings in response to actions by credit-card issuers that have cut borrowing limits, hiked rates and imposed fees.

US health workers get first H1N1 vaccines -- The nation's first doses of the pandemic H1N1 vaccine were administered today, mainly to a limited group of healthcare workers and emergency medical service workers, while some physicians' offices fielded calls about when the vaccine would be more widely available.

H1N1 fears overburdening local hospital -- Health officials in southwest Washington have asked the public to stay away from the hospital if they believe they have the H1N1 flu virus. "If folks are in general pretty healthy and they are having general flu like illness, it's a common course to stay home and get a lot of rest and a lot of fluids."

The great poisoning of America begins Oct. 2009 -- The Great Poisoning of America has begun. It will probably continue through November and maybe into December. MILLIONS of people will suffer IRREVERSIBLE damage as a result of being vaccinated with the Swine Flu vaccine and MANY THOUSANDS WILL DIE, some immediately, and some more slowly.

NYC schools hold pandemic vaccination drill -- Health Department and Department of Education Launch Week-Long Vaccination Effort to Test Vaccine Distribution in Schools across the City.

Teen girl left brain damaged after cervical cancer vaccine -- A teenage girl has been left brain-damaged after suffering epileptic seizures just days after being given the controversial cervical cancer jab.

Consumer bankruptcies soar past 1 million in the first 9 months of 2009 -- Consumer bankruptcies totaled 1,046,449 filings through the first nine months of 2009 (Jan. 1-Sept. 30). The filings for the first three-quarters of 2009 were the highest total since the 1,350,360 consumer filings through the first nine months of 2005.

List of Obama's czars -- Take a look at the list of the 30 remaining Obama Czars, after Van Jones departure.
Related Article: HR 3226...legislation to ban czars -- H.R. 3226: Czar Accountability and Reform (CZAR) Act of 2009″) being introduced by Rep. Jack Kingston and the House Republicans that would prevent funding for any office headed by someone who has been inappropriately appointed.

Pennsylvania firearms freedom act introduced -- State Representative Sam Rohrer has introduced the “Firearms Freedom Act” (HB1988) for consideration in the state legislature. The bill is “An Act prohibiting certain firearms, firearm accessories or ammunition from being subject to Federal law or Federal regulation.”

US Senate candidate: Martial law needed in Chicago -- Martin says Mayor Daley and Barack Obama look stupid campaigning for the Olympics when they lack the resources to protect the city’s existing residents.

Random breathalyzer tests considered for Canada -- The federal justice minister is considering a new law that would allow police to conduct random breathalyzer tests on drivers, regardless of whether they suspect motorists have been drinking.

1918 flu left legacy of heart disease -- Men who were in utero during the peak of the 1918-1919 flu pandemic were at increased risk of heart disease when they reached their 60s, 70s, and 80s, researchers said.

93 agricultural groups ask Agriculture Appropriations Committee to defund NAIS -- R-CALF USA and 92 other organizations recently joined together to ask members of the Agriculture Appropriations Conference Committee to eliminate completely any and all funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) National Animal Identification System (NAIS) by adopting the House version of the 2010 Agriculture Appropriations Bill, which zeroes out any money for NAIS.

Dangers of Genetically modified foods -- Genetically Modified foods have been introduced to the African Market. It is now up to African consumers to reject them. This will save lives and cost for the treatment of the side effects of consuming Genetically Modified foods.*

Ohio Supreme Court criminalizes Breathalyzer refusal -- Supreme Court of Ohio upholds the imposition of criminal sanctions on drivers who refuse to take a breathalyzer test.

Can Walmart sell nutrition better than the US? -- Walmart sometimes faces strong opposition to settling in urban areas — often from the same people who advocate for farmers markets, James points out. "I'm sure they'd love to provide produce to poor people, but often activists prevent that from happening."

2 government studies find autism disorders in 1 in 100 children -- Two new government studies indicate about 1 in 100 children have autism disorders — higher than a previous U.S. estimate of 1 in 150.

Netherlands to close prisons...not enough criminals -- The Dutch government is getting ready to close eight prisons because they don’t have enough criminals to fill them. Officials attribute the shortage of prisoners to a declining crime rate.

Surveillance will expand to midtown Manhattan mayor says -- A network of private and public surveillance cameras, license plate readers and weapons sensors already established in Lower Manhattan as an electronic bulwark against terrorist attacks will soon expand to a large patch of Midtown Manhattan, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said Sunday as they announced the allocation of $24 million in Homeland Security grants toward the effort.

HR 1727-Managing Arson Through Criminal History (MATCH) arsonist and bomber registry -- To establish guidelines and incentives for States to establish criminal arsonist and criminal bomber registries and to require the Attorney General to establish a national criminal arsonist and criminal bomber registry program, and for other purposes.

US relinquishes control of the internet -- After complaints about American dominance of the internet and growing disquiet in some parts of the world, Washington has said it will relinquish some control over the way the network is run and allow foreign governments more of a say in the future of the system.

KGB Agent - How To Brainwash A Nation

Today in History October 5, 2009
1813 - Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Indians was killed at the Battle of Thames when American forced defeated the British and the allied Indian warriors.
1877 - Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians surrendered to the U.S. Army after a 1,000-mile retreat towards the Canadian border.
1882 - Robert H. Goddard , known as the "Father of the Space Age", was born.
1892 - The Dalton gang was nearly wiped out while attempting to rob two banks simultaneously in Coffeyville, KS. Four members of the gang and four citizens were killed. The only survivor of the gang, Emmett Dawson, was sentenced to life after surviving his wounds.
1902 - Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's, was born.
1930 - Laura Ingalls became the first woman to make a transcontinental airplane flight.
1931 - Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon landed in Washington after flying non-stop across the Pacific Ocean. The flight originated in Japan and took about 41 hours.
1937 - U.S. President Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations.
1947 - U.S. President Harry S Truman held the first televised presidential address from the White House. The subject was the current international food crisis.
1969 - A Cuban defector landed a Soviet-made MiG-17 at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. The plane entered U.S. air space and landed without being detected.
1974 - American David Kunst completed the first journey around the world on foot. It took four years and 21 pairs of shoes. He crossed four continents and walked 14,450 miles.
1988 - In a debate between candidates for vice president of the U.S., Democratic Lloyd Bentsen told Republican Dan Quayle, "You're no Jack Kennedy."
1989 - Jim Bakker was convicted of using his television show to defraud his viewers.
1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced that his country would cut its nuclear arsenal in response to the arms reduction that was initiated by U.S. President George Bush.
1998 - The U.S. paid $60 million for Russia's research time on the international space station to keep the cash-strapped Russian space agency afloat.

A Soldier’s Protest By: JOHN ALAN COEY -- John Alan Coey was a U.S. soldier during the Vietnam era who saw through the U.S. Government’s façade of “fighting communists” when it was actually aiding them in the field, and adopting their guiding principles at home. His “Soldier’s Protest” is reprinted here with permission from his mother. It not only describes the problems with our government during the Vietnam War, but also the same problems exist today with the Iraq war. He saw how globalists and bankers now effectively run our military and use it as their own private mercenary team to further their own greedy profits as well as enslaving the American people to their Communistic goals of globalism. (A BIG Thanks to David Deschesne, editor of the Fort Fairfield Journal for publishing some of John's works)

3 Failed Banks made the list Friday Oct. 2, 2009 -- 2 in Minnesota and 1 in Colorado.

E. coli path shows ground beef inspection flaws -- After reading this article, it will make you think twice before buying hamburger meat again!!!

Essential Oils in Common Spices Kill Sickness-Causing Germs in Food --In a study just published in the Journal of Food Science, a publication of the Institute of Food Technologists, researchers at Processed Foods Research and Produce Safety and Microbiology units of Western Regional Research Center from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) investigated the effectiveness of oregano, allspice and garlic essential oils (EOs) against disease-causing E. coli, Salmonella and Listeria. The EOs were incorporated into thin, tomato-based coatings known as edible films which were layered on top of the bacteria. The disease-causing germs were also exposed to vapors rising up from the EOs in the tomato film.

Curry powder ingredient, curcumin, may block nicotine activated cancer cells in head, neck -- Researchers found that curcumin, a compound found in turmeric, the Indian spice that gives curry its orange-yellow colour, may block nicotine from activating cancer causing cells in patients with head and neck cancer who continue to smoke or use nicotine products to help them quit. The researchers hope the findings will help to discover additional therapies for preventing and treating cancer.

Suicide bomber kills 5 at UN office in Pakistan -- A suicide bomber disguised as a security officer struck the lobby of the U.N. food agency's Pakistan headquarters Monday, killing five people a day after the new leader of the Pakistani Taliban vowed fresh assaults, authorities and witnesses said.

Project Censored's Latest Top 25 Censored Stories -- For 33 years, Sonoma State University's (SSU) Project Censored (PC) has engaged in pioneering research on, and advocacy for, First Amendment issues. PC works cooperatively "with numerous independent (US) media groups," primarily to train SSU students "in media research and First Amendment issues and the advocacy for, and protection of, free press rights in the United States."

Growing Number of Detroit Pastors Wear Handguns in Pulpit -- Michigan allows pastors to decide if someone registered to carry a handgun can do so for protection inside churches.The clergy in Detroit who arm themselves say they do so because of the high overall crime rate. But churchgoers elsewhere have been the target of violent attacks several times in recent years...Read More...

Kid vaccinated by force developed autism (video) -- This little girl was taken out of the arms of her mother who didn't want her vaccinated, forcibly given vaccines, and ended up in critical condition that very day!

Swine flu vaccine & NY health workers -- Remember these profound words: "There is no evidence that the vaccine will protect anyone from the virus."

RFID can help in containing swine flu -- Simple RFID tags can be used on the wristbands of patients and their movement can be tracked across wards. Health administrators can subsequently analyze the log of all patient interactions to immediately take precautionary action, in case a patient has interacted with an infected person. Considering the number of visitors to a hospital on a daily basis, this information can help in preventing the breakout of the pandemic.

Aspirin misuse may have made 1918 pandemic worse --High aspirin dosing levels used to treat patients during the 1918-1919 pandemic are now known to cause, in some cases, toxicity and a dangerous build up of fluid in the lungs, which may have contributed to the incidence and severity of symptoms, bacterial infections, and mortality.

Layoffs, bankruptcies & closings for September -- This is pretty stunning...but the recession is over don't you know......
Related Link: Some research on layoffs -- Take a look at what's going on in October already.

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California quake swarm continues -- A swarm of earthquakes have been shaking the Owens Valley since Wednesday. The quake activity intensified on Friday night, with more than 70 250 (and another 30 by 5:30 a.m. local time) temblors hitting by midnight. Bob Dollar of the US Geological Survey says such activity is not unexpected in this region of the Eastern Sierra.

Man evicted from house for resisting warrantless inspections -- A Pennsylvania man who refuses to allow city officials to enter his home without a warrant has been forced out to stay in a hotel instead, evicted by a notice posted on his door that forbids him from using or occupying the building he owns.

Obama: Trilateral Commission endgame -- As previously noted in Pawns of the Global Elite, Barack Obama was groomed for the presidency by key members of the Trilateral Commission. Most notably, it was Zbigniew Brzezinski, co-founder of the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller in 1973, who was Obama’s principal foreign policy advisor.

Police chiefs endorse anti terror community watch -- Using brochures, public service announcements and meetings with community groups, iWatch is designed to deliver concrete advice on how the public can follow the oft-repeated post-Sept. 11 recommendation, "If you see something, say something."
Related Article: IWatch Los Angeles site -- iWATCH, iREPORT, i KEEP US SAFE (iWATCH) is a community awareness program created to educate the public about behaviors and activities that may have a connection to terrorism.

Decatur Georgia installs wireless parking meters -- The city of Decatur in Georgia has taken a new approach to manage its parking meters and is testing a wireless system that could improve asset management, increase revenue, and make it easier for employees to do their jobs. Read More...

Feds sued to keep out of state's gun affairs -- In the second major front in the war over gun rights that has developed in just days, a lawsuit has been filed against U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder seeking a court order that the federal government stay out of the way of Montana's management of its own firearms.

Military's disaster proof cuisine tastes like soap -- The military’s got disaster-proof foodstuff down to a science: their meals ready-to-eat