Today is National POW/MIA Recognition Day -- Observances of National POW/MIA Recognition Day are held across the country on military installations, ships at sea, state capitols, schools and veterans' facilities. This observance is one of six days throughout the year that Congress has mandated the flying of the National League of Families' POW/MIA flag. The others are Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day and Veterans Day. The flag is to be flown at major military installations, national cemeteries, all post offices, VA medical facilities, the World War II Memorial, Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the official offices of the secretaries of state, defense and veterans affairs, the director of the selective service system and the White House. Still Missing: WWI - 3,349 - WWII - 78,621 - Cold War - 120 - Korea - 8,124 - Vietnam - 1,740 - Iraqi Freedom - 1 - Enduring Freedom - 1
Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells -- MORRISON, Wis. — All it took was an early thaw for the drinking water here to become unsafe. In Morrison, more than 100 wells were polluted by agricultural runoff within a few months, according to local officials. As parasites and bacteria seeped into drinking water, residents suffered from chronic diarrhea, stomach illnesses and severe ear infections. “Sometimes it smells like a barn coming out of the faucet,” said Lisa Barnard, who lives a few towns over, and just 15 miles from the city of Green Bay.
School threatens 4th grader after she refuses pledge of allegiance -- first interview with the nine year old Phoenix 4th grader who was threatened with class failure by her teacher if she did not put her hand over her heart and sing the pledge of allegiance.
Gov't stands by as mercury taints water -- NEW IDRIA, Calif. — Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people. But an Associated Press investigation found that the federal government has tried to clean up fewer than a dozen of the hundreds of mines — and most cleanups have failed to stem the contamination.
Scientists find lifesaver for India – rice that doesn't have to be cooked -- It sounds too good to be true. But if Indian scientists are correct, hundreds of millions of people across the subcontinent could benefit from a specially-developed strain of rice that "cooks" simply by being soaked in water.
Refuse risky Gardisil vaccine, get deportation threat -- The U.S. government requires female immigrants between the ages of 11 and 26 to receive Gardasil shots before they can become citizens.
Illinois woman dies after catching fire during surgery -- A southern Illinois woman died after being severely burned in a flash fire while undergoing surgery, a rare but vexing dilemma in operating rooms.
The Crash, Cash, & Gold -- Everywhere we hear of well-meaning citizens prepping with the four "G"s: guns, gold, groceries, and God. Or the four "F"s: food, funds, firearms, and faith. Or the four "B"s: beans, bullion, bullets, and Bible. Comment: The gold chart comparisons are pretty telling in this article. (Thanks Jimm)
A First Person Perspective of 9/12 Rally For America -- I heard people discussing specific provisions of the Constitution, quoting the Federalist Papers, and recounting debates at the Constitutional Convention. Their vocal critiques of the proposed health care reforms included specific references to bills and to provisions in the bills, sometimes by number and quoting specific language. I especially liked a hand-lettered sign suggesting, "Can’t read? Run for Congress." Also, "Next time, read the bill." They knew how much this all costs, and they know that money is not there.
Peter Schiff running for Senate -- Another question: Is Schiff cultivating Ron Paul and his network? Paul has a remarkably large and passionate following. They’d be natural supporters of Schiff’s likely platform and could be convinced to transplant their campaign machine to CT. (Note: there's a video included in this posting.
DA says DNA problems have put criminals on streets -- DNA has become a cornerstone of criminal cases, convicting some people and exonerating others. But the bombshell this week that 12,000 DNA samples from felons that should be in the 128,605-sample database are not there shakes confidence in the system, Chisholm said. Chisholm said he needs to know immediately whose DNA wasn't in the database to see if it's not too late to file charges in some cases. He did not have an estimate of how many cases could be affected.Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells -- MORRISON, Wis. — All it took was an early thaw for the drinking water here to become unsafe. In Morrison, more than 100 wells were polluted by agricultural runoff within a few months, according to local officials. As parasites and bacteria seeped into drinking water, residents suffered from chronic diarrhea, stomach illnesses and severe ear infections. “Sometimes it smells like a barn coming out of the faucet,” said Lisa Barnard, who lives a few towns over, and just 15 miles from the city of Green Bay.
School threatens 4th grader after she refuses pledge of allegiance -- first interview with the nine year old Phoenix 4th grader who was threatened with class failure by her teacher if she did not put her hand over her heart and sing the pledge of allegiance.
Gov't stands by as mercury taints water -- NEW IDRIA, Calif. — Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people. But an Associated Press investigation found that the federal government has tried to clean up fewer than a dozen of the hundreds of mines — and most cleanups have failed to stem the contamination.
Scientists find lifesaver for India – rice that doesn't have to be cooked -- It sounds too good to be true. But if Indian scientists are correct, hundreds of millions of people across the subcontinent could benefit from a specially-developed strain of rice that "cooks" simply by being soaked in water.
Refuse risky Gardisil vaccine, get deportation threat -- The U.S. government requires female immigrants between the ages of 11 and 26 to receive Gardasil shots before they can become citizens.
Illinois woman dies after catching fire during surgery -- A southern Illinois woman died after being severely burned in a flash fire while undergoing surgery, a rare but vexing dilemma in operating rooms.
The Crash, Cash, & Gold -- Everywhere we hear of well-meaning citizens prepping with the four "G"s: guns, gold, groceries, and God. Or the four "F"s: food, funds, firearms, and faith. Or the four "B"s: beans, bullion, bullets, and Bible. Comment: The gold chart comparisons are pretty telling in this article. (Thanks Jimm)
A First Person Perspective of 9/12 Rally For America -- I heard people discussing specific provisions of the Constitution, quoting the Federalist Papers, and recounting debates at the Constitutional Convention. Their vocal critiques of the proposed health care reforms included specific references to bills and to provisions in the bills, sometimes by number and quoting specific language. I especially liked a hand-lettered sign suggesting, "Can’t read? Run for Congress." Also, "Next time, read the bill." They knew how much this all costs, and they know that money is not there.
Peter Schiff running for Senate -- Another question: Is Schiff cultivating Ron Paul and his network? Paul has a remarkably large and passionate following. They’d be natural supporters of Schiff’s likely platform and could be convinced to transplant their campaign machine to CT. (Note: there's a video included in this posting.
The story of my shoe, by the shoe thrower himself -- Mutadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi who threw his shoe at George Bush gave this speech on his recent release.
Keeping the world working during the H1N1 pandemic -- Seminar in Minnesota next week. Quote "We're beyond theory and on to reality & execution"...For the first time in our history an influenza pandemic is on a collision course with the global just-in-time economy. Are you ready?
Portsmouth hospital employees get choice: Flu shot or mask — or find a new job
75% of Oklahoma high school students can't name the first president of the US -- Only one in four Oklahoma public high school students can name the first President of the United States, according to a survey released today. The survey was commissioned by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs in observance of Constitution Day on Thursday.
Disaster drill involves hundreds -- Greg Mahall, public-affairs chief of the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency, said the high school was one of three Tooele locations that staged mock drills, an annual operation which involved more than 600 people and several agencies from Tooele, Salt Lake and Utah counties. In one morning, three mock disasters struck Tooele simultaneously: A truck crashed into a vehicle carrying mustard agent, resulting in fire, the scattering of cattle, and a town's evacuation; the county experienced a 5.5 magnitude earthquake; and the high-school lab blew up.
$20 per gallon of gas by Frosty Woolridge -- In a new book, $20 Per Gallon by Chris Steiner, our civilization faces abrupt, escalating and dramatic change as the cost of gallon of gas inexorably grows from $5.00, $8.00, $10.00, $12.00 to ultimately $20.00 per gallon.
Bill Gates unleashes another round of grants for genetic modification & vaccine research -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has issued more than $8 million in grants to stimulate unconventional research, in the hopes of producing medical breakthroughs unlikely to emerge through traditional research channels.
Alternative medicine soars as pharmaceuticals sour -- According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), roughly 38 percent of adults and 12 percent of children utilize some form of alternative medicine or treatment. According to a 2007 survey conducted by NCCAM, adults in the U.S. spent nearly $34 billion in out-of-pocket expenses in order to obtain alternative treatments. This figure does not take into account alternative services covered by insurance reimbursement, signifying an even greater unknown amount expended for alternative treatments.
The World Seed Conference -- Technofixes & monopoly control. Held last week, the conference theme and the issues discussed, including plant variety protection and seed improvement techniques, could not be more important to millions of farmers in the developing world. Read More...
National Earthquake Engineering Center at Purdue Univ. to be developed -- Advancing research and education to reduce the devastation and loss of human life from earthquakes and tsunamis is the goal of a new center at Purdue University.
Latest GPS satellite declared operational -- The last in the series of eight modernized Global Positioning System IIR satellites, GPS IIR-21(M), was declared operational Thursday for military and civilian users worldwide, just 10 days after launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
White House collects web users data without notice -- The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears to run counter to President Obama's promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the Internet.
Corporate control over the electronic voting booth -- The recent announcement of the pending merger of Election Systems & Software (ES&S) of Omaha, Nebraska with Diebold/Premier has raised warning flags that a monopoly in vote counting will be the inevitable result. See the maps attached here for the coverage of the new ES&S.
New documentary sheds light on plight of bees --A new study by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that scientists still do not know the exact cause of the disorder that has resulted in the mysterious disappearance of billions of honeybees. However there is some evidence that the bees may have been infected with multiple viruses that combined to create "the perfect storm."
Is there a dog flu outbreak? Well, there's a vaccine for it -- A new vaccine for the Canine Flu is now available at your veterinarian's office and being recommended that all dogs get vaccinated, but especially dogs with increased risk.
H1N1 looks like avian flu on steroids -- Tests on about 100 Americans who died from swine flu virus found that they had infections deep in their lungs, which caused acute respiratory distress syndrome. Often fatal, it fills the air sacs with fluid, starves the blood of oxygen and leaves patients gasping for breath. Basically, patients suffocate or drown.
More Damning Science On Squalene And Related Adjuvants -- The potential of adjuvant hydrocarbon oils to induce autoimmunity has implications in the use of oil adjuvants in human and veterinary vaccines as well as basic research.
Google lets you custom print millions of books -- What’s hot off the presses come Thursday? Any one of the more than 2 million books old enough to fall out of copyright into the public domain.
Obama's Chicago Pentagon -- One of the key planks to President Barack Obama's health care reform plan is already being held up by an Inspector General investigation into whether leaked internal government emails might have been used to sway influence for a government contract, according to Congressional and Defense Department sources.
Keeping the world working during the H1N1 pandemic -- Seminar in Minnesota next week. Quote "We're beyond theory and on to reality & execution"...For the first time in our history an influenza pandemic is on a collision course with the global just-in-time economy. Are you ready?
Portsmouth hospital employees get choice: Flu shot or mask — or find a new job
75% of Oklahoma high school students can't name the first president of the US -- Only one in four Oklahoma public high school students can name the first President of the United States, according to a survey released today. The survey was commissioned by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs in observance of Constitution Day on Thursday.
Disaster drill involves hundreds -- Greg Mahall, public-affairs chief of the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency, said the high school was one of three Tooele locations that staged mock drills, an annual operation which involved more than 600 people and several agencies from Tooele, Salt Lake and Utah counties. In one morning, three mock disasters struck Tooele simultaneously: A truck crashed into a vehicle carrying mustard agent, resulting in fire, the scattering of cattle, and a town's evacuation; the county experienced a 5.5 magnitude earthquake; and the high-school lab blew up.
$20 per gallon of gas by Frosty Woolridge -- In a new book, $20 Per Gallon by Chris Steiner, our civilization faces abrupt, escalating and dramatic change as the cost of gallon of gas inexorably grows from $5.00, $8.00, $10.00, $12.00 to ultimately $20.00 per gallon.
Bill Gates unleashes another round of grants for genetic modification & vaccine research -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has issued more than $8 million in grants to stimulate unconventional research, in the hopes of producing medical breakthroughs unlikely to emerge through traditional research channels.
Alternative medicine soars as pharmaceuticals sour -- According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), roughly 38 percent of adults and 12 percent of children utilize some form of alternative medicine or treatment. According to a 2007 survey conducted by NCCAM, adults in the U.S. spent nearly $34 billion in out-of-pocket expenses in order to obtain alternative treatments. This figure does not take into account alternative services covered by insurance reimbursement, signifying an even greater unknown amount expended for alternative treatments.
The World Seed Conference -- Technofixes & monopoly control. Held last week, the conference theme and the issues discussed, including plant variety protection and seed improvement techniques, could not be more important to millions of farmers in the developing world. Read More...
National Earthquake Engineering Center at Purdue Univ. to be developed -- Advancing research and education to reduce the devastation and loss of human life from earthquakes and tsunamis is the goal of a new center at Purdue University.
Latest GPS satellite declared operational -- The last in the series of eight modernized Global Positioning System IIR satellites, GPS IIR-21(M), was declared operational Thursday for military and civilian users worldwide, just 10 days after launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
White House collects web users data without notice -- The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears to run counter to President Obama's promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the Internet.
Corporate control over the electronic voting booth -- The recent announcement of the pending merger of Election Systems & Software (ES&S) of Omaha, Nebraska with Diebold/Premier has raised warning flags that a monopoly in vote counting will be the inevitable result. See the maps attached here for the coverage of the new ES&S.
New documentary sheds light on plight of bees --A new study by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that scientists still do not know the exact cause of the disorder that has resulted in the mysterious disappearance of billions of honeybees. However there is some evidence that the bees may have been infected with multiple viruses that combined to create "the perfect storm."
Is there a dog flu outbreak? Well, there's a vaccine for it -- A new vaccine for the Canine Flu is now available at your veterinarian's office and being recommended that all dogs get vaccinated, but especially dogs with increased risk.
H1N1 looks like avian flu on steroids -- Tests on about 100 Americans who died from swine flu virus found that they had infections deep in their lungs, which caused acute respiratory distress syndrome. Often fatal, it fills the air sacs with fluid, starves the blood of oxygen and leaves patients gasping for breath. Basically, patients suffocate or drown.
More Damning Science On Squalene And Related Adjuvants -- The potential of adjuvant hydrocarbon oils to induce autoimmunity has implications in the use of oil adjuvants in human and veterinary vaccines as well as basic research.
Google lets you custom print millions of books -- What’s hot off the presses come Thursday? Any one of the more than 2 million books old enough to fall out of copyright into the public domain.
Obama's Chicago Pentagon -- One of the key planks to President Barack Obama's health care reform plan is already being held up by an Inspector General investigation into whether leaked internal government emails might have been used to sway influence for a government contract, according to Congressional and Defense Department sources.
