Breaking news! Deployment orders revoked for soldier challenging president -- A U.S. Army Reserve major from Florida scheduled to report for deployment to Afghanistan within days has had his military orders revoked after arguing he should not be required to serve under a president who has not proven his eligibility for office. His attorney, Orly Taitz, confirmed to WND the military has rescinded his impending deployment orders.
Related Article: Soldier balks at deploying: says Obama isn't president
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Shows Off Sample Coin of New ‘World Currency’ at G-8 -- Medvedev shows reporters a sample coin of a possible global currency during a news conference at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, Friday, July 10, 2009. Medvedev at G8 was given the first coin of future supranational currency which he called a "united future world currency." (AP) “Here it is,” Medvedev told reporters today in L’Aquila, Italy, after a summit of the Group of Eight nations. “You can see it and touch it.” (Thanks Stan)!!
Statins given to prevent pneumonia in elderly actually increase chance of getting it by 61% -- Pneumonia risk was 26 percent higher in people using a statin than in those not on the drug. What's more, the extra risk soared up to 61 percent for severe pneumonia that landed people in the hospital.
Careful-credit card issuers are watching what you buy -- Here's a word to the wise: Think twice before whipping out that credit card to pay for purchases at the Salvation Army or a discount store, have tires re-treaded or even buy a late-night round of drinks. Credit card companies see those purchases, and a slew of others, as a sign of real or impending financial trouble and they'll quickly cut the credit limit, raise the interest rate or even cancel the card with no warning. Once that happens the credit score that determines who is worthy of a loan and at what rate usually plummets.
The economy is even worse than you think -- The average length of unemployment is higher than it's been since government began tracking the data in 1948.
A deadly ingredient in a chicken dinner...arsenic -- Most people don't know that the chicken they eat is laced with arsenic. The ice water or coffee they enjoy with their chicken may also be infused with arsenic. If they live on or near a farm, the air they breathe may be infected with arsenic dust as well.
Mandatory swine flu vaccination report -- On July 13, a World Health Organization (WHO) Global Alert headlined, "WHO recommendations on pandemic (H1N1) 2009 vaccinations" suggest that universally mandated ones are coming. It stated that on July 7, the pharmaceutical industry-dominated Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization held an "extraordinary meeting in Geneva to discuss issues and make recommendations related to vaccine for the pandemic (H1N1) 2009."
Swine flu fears close summer camps -- The American Lung Association has advised its affiliated camps to close, including one in Colorado that was scheduled to begin next week.
HHS purchases additional H1N1 vaccine ingredients -- HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that the department will commit $884 million to purchase additional supplies of two key ingredients for potential H1N1 vaccine to further prepare the nation for a potential resurgence of the 2009 H1N1 virus.
1918 pandemic H1N1/swine recombination -- It has become almost common wisdom that the virus that caused the 1918 flu pandemic was an avian strain introduced into the human population shortly before the pandemic erupted. But a new study disputes that hypothesis, arguing instead that genes of the 1918 virus had circulated in mammalian hosts, most likely pigs and humans, for several years before 1918.
India to issue all 1.2 billion people biometric ID cards -- It is surely the biggest Big Brother project yet conceived. India is to issue each of its 1.2 billion citizens, millions of whom live in remote villages and possess no documentary proof of existence, with cyber-age biometric identity cards. Millions of Indians who live in remote rural areas will finally have proof of their existence thanks to biometric identity cards.
Cause of cancer is known in lab animals -- It's difficult to understand medical establishment claims that the cause of cancer and other diseases is unknown, when these diseases are easily created in lab rats by injecting pesticides and chemicals into them.
Ron Paul painting/artist will donate portion of winning bid -- The seller will donate 25% of the final bid to the winners Liberty related group of their choosing. Such as: Campaign for Liberty, Restore the Republic, We are Change, and InfoWars.com. "If the bidding goes past $1,200 I will donate 40% to a Liberty related group."
Our lives at risk: drug company greed, dangerous vaccines -- We must protect our own safety, because there is no official who will help any of us. This is the tragic reality. Nevertheless, it is in our hands. We live in perilous times. We can either stand together for justice, safety, and our Constitutional rights, or we can cower and be in denial. We do have a choice. With little of our freedom left, we can and must STOP THIS IMMANENT THREAT TO ALL OF US!
Organic panic - Michelle Obama's garden and it's discontents -- Pushing organic and local foods is hardly official White House policy. The first lady's public statements, combined with the selection of a White House chef who favors local and organic foods, has brought more attention to what we eat than anything since Top Chef.
Scientists fear mad cow disease from farm raised fish -- Scientists are worried that people who eat farmed fish that are fed cattle byproducts could get mad cow disease, according to an article in the new issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
3 reasons why US cybersecurity sucks -- Good news, cybersecurity nerds: You're not running out of work, anytime soon. As last week’s cyber panic about North Korea showed, when there isn’t a teenager-simple denial-of-service attack that delays your access to a government website, there is a voracious hype machine that feeds on the tiniest slivers of data – both significant and trivial – and expels massive quantities of fear and misinformation. And where there’s cyber fear, there’s cybersecurity work to be done.
DHS awards technical & engineering assistance contracts -- Four contractors will compete for $389 million in task orders over five years to support the Homeland Security Department’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communication.
Does Google know too much about you? -- Earlier this week, Google announced it's jumping off its own servers and onto your desktop with its own operating system, Chrome OS. Read More...
Upcoming military robot could feed on dead bodies...ewwww! -- A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.
CONTRAILS & MAN-MADE CLOUDS CHANGE CLIMATE, HARMING AGRICULTURE -- Now, almost twenty years after the first reports of jets leaving persistent jet contrails, our elected officials are still “dodging and weaving” when the subject of the negative impacts, associated with persistent jet contrails and man-made clouds on our environment, is brought to their attention. The media has refused to do any in-depth investigations into the synergistic impacts of persistent jet contrails on global warming and climate change. No current congressional legislation, which claims to be addressing climate change and global warming, has been introduced which would address this major cause of climate change and global warming.
Al Gore's global warming hoax will bankrupt us -- Let us begin today with full disclosure: For those who don't know my position on global warming alarmism and its insidious uses, it is that this phenomenon is the greatest hoax in modern times and is being used to achieve things - bad things - quite apart from its ostensible goal of "saving the planet."
