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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.
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
