Friday, July 31, 2009

Joyce Riley's THE POWER HOUR NEWS | July 31, 2009


The Mandatory Swine Flu Drill -- "How timely! I am a surgeon in the Baltimore area. My main hospital decided to run a “Swine Flu Drill” for the employees and doctors over the last 2 days. Apparently, the general public was excluded because only hospital workers get swine flu. I am sure that the ability to coerce employees had nothing to do with it." Read More...

List of blog posts by Meryl Nass, M.D. on Swine Flu vaccines:
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com
http://www.anthraxvaccine.org

Insane food bill HR 2740 passes House on second try -- HR 2749: Totalitarian Control Of Our Food Supply

Children treated with Tamiflu suffer nightmares and nausea -- More than half of children who take Tamiflu suffer side effects such as nausea and nightmares. The drug being used to fight swine flu can also produce stomach pain, diarrhea and sleeping problems.

Damaged cable causes Internet blackout in four West African countries -- Five days ago, the Appfrica tech blog reported an Internet blackout in Benin, a West African country roughly the size of Ohio. The outage, which also affected neighboring Togo, Niger and Nigeria, was caused by damage to the SAT-3 submarine communications cable, which links Portugal and Spain to South Africa via the West African coastline.

A plain english translation of what's really in Obama's health care legislation -- This is a reprint of what was found in the health care reform bill. As you read this, keep in mind that some of these translations are a bit loose with the interpretations, but I've personally spot-checked these points, and they are indeed all contained in the bill in one form or another (shrouded in Doublespeak language, of course).

Obama exposed disappears off net -- TheObamaFile.com, an extensive information depot questioning Barack Obama's eligibility to hold the office of president, has vanished off the Internet, and its publisher believes the political end is also near for the commander in chief.

Obama forms shadow government for crisis -- The White House Military Office will now lead the way in installing a “shadow government” should officials have to leave the capital because of a terrorist strike or some other catastrophe. The contingency plans include moving those officials to Mount Weather, Va. and running backup computer systems.

US Supreme Court upsets speed camera industry -- Red light camera makers fear high court Confrontation Clause ruling will create legal challenges.

Swine flu hits Air Force operations in N. FLA -- Swine flu has hit the Air Force's special operations command in northwest Florida. As many as 59 airmen at Hurlburt Field are suspected of having the virus, while another four have tested positive.

Additive used in US meat production may be too dangerous even for Codex -- The latest session of the U.N. Codex Alimentarius ended without final adoption of a maximum residue level for ractopamine, a feed additive widely used in pork and beef production.

GM sugar beets found in soil mix sold to gardeners -- In May, genetically modified sugar beet plants were found in a soil mix sold to gardeners at a landscape supply business in Corvallis, Oregon. The contamination incident raises doubts about the ability of the sugar beet seed industry to keep GM sugar beets from contaminating non-GMO sugar beets and related plants.

Disease threatens Afghan wheat crop -- Agronomists and crop experts fear that an aggressive disease that attacks wheat crops could soon reach Afghanistan, potentially threatening food security and initiatives to curb the cultivation of illicit crops.

"Clunkers" rebate program so popular that it's broke -- New-car shoppers appear to have already snapped up all the $1 billion that Congress appropriated for the “cash for clunkers” program, leading the Transportation Department to tell auto dealers Thursday night to stop offering the rebates.

Unique immunization method provides insights about protective anti-malaria immune response -- "The scientists' experimental approach involved exposing two groups of healthy human subjects to mosquitoes once a month over a three-month period at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in The Netherlands. One group (vaccine group) was exposed to mosquitoes infected with the malaria parasite, P. falciparum, and the second group (control group) to uninfected mosquitoes."

AG Eric Holder warns of radicalization of Americans -- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder warned on Wednesday of increased "radicalization" of Americans in recent months, two days after seven people were arrested in North Carolina for allegedly plotting attacks overseas.

YouTube: NRA: the untold story of gun confiscation after Katrina -- Thousands of firearms were confiscated from law-abiding gun owners. The police gave no paperwork or receipts for those guns. They just stormed in and seized them.

Downtown Ft. Myers condo has 32 floors and only 1 occupant -- Victor Vangelakos lives in a luxury condominium tower on the Caloosahatchee River. He never has to worry about the neighbors making too much noise. There are no neighbors.

Swine flu shock-is it a biological weapon? -- As type A (H1N1) flu continues its relentless toll in Thailand, seemingly largely defeating preventative measures, there are disturbing reports that the flu is not one type but, in fact, already a cocktail of human, avian and swine viruses. Which means most antidotes will be ineffective, especially if it turns out to be an ‘escaped biological weapon’; one of the latest claims!

Will Krakatoa volcano rock the world again? -- Last time, it killed thousands and changed the weather for five years, now it could be even deadlier...

Is your cat left or right pawed? -- It may not be obvious from the scratch marks cats dish out, but domestic felines favour one paw over the other. More often than not, females tend to be righties, while toms are lefties, say Deborah Wells and Sarah Millsopp, psychologists at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland.

Let's break up the Fed-Wall St Journal -- The Federal Reserve has done a terrible job at financial regulation. Why give it more power?