Troubling reports out of Iowa & N. Carolina raise fears that deadly H1N1 swine flu mutations have hit the US -- New reports from Iowa and North Carolina are raising concerns that the deadly H1N1 swine flu mutations that have been confirmed by the WHO in Ukraine, Norway and elsewhere have already reached the United States.
70 stories from people who have had reactions to the H1N1 vaccine -- The truth is that reports of serious adverse reactions to the H1N1 swine flu vaccine are constantly pouring in. Read a few of them...
My son is paralyzed from the swine flu shot -- Arlene Connin's stepson Jordan McFarland developed Guillain-Barre syndrome after getting the swine flu vaccine. He's now in a wheelchair.
Death toll in Europe on rise from H1N1 -- The number of confirmed deaths reported by EU & EFTA countries as due to the pandemic rose by two thirds in one week to 169.
Study: Vioxx risks could have been detected earlier -- Heart risks from taking Merck & Co Inc's painkiller Vioxx could have been detected more than three years before the company withdrew the drug from the market in September 2004, had the data been openly available, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Rape in the ranks; the enemy within- US Army covers up rape -- War correspondents were stunned to hear from military women in Iraq that they should be very careful working in military units due to sexual assault and rape. A documentary, “Rape in the Ranks: The Enemy Within” was made and shown for the first time in the United States on October 26 at the New York Independent Film Festival.
Report: Obama using Blackwater for assassinations in Pakistan -- The Obama administration is using mercenaries with the firm formerly known as Blackwater to kidnap and assassinate high value targets in Pakistan, according to a published report.
Health Benefits of Pumpkin -- Nutrient-Rich Fruit with Anti-Aging and Disease-Fighting Properties!
The 'Real' Jobless Rate: 17.5% Of Workers Are Unemployed -- According to the government's broadest measure of unemployment, some 17.5 percent are either without a job entirely or underemployed. The so-called U-6 number is at the highest rate since becoming an official labor statistic in 1994.
China executes two over tainted milk powder scandal -- China has executed two people for their role in a scandal involving tainted milk powder that resulted in six children dying, officials have said.
The threat of MRSA, a drug-resistant bacterium commonly picked up in gyms and schools, grows dramatically -- The germ called community-acquired MRSA is resistant to many common antibiotics and kills an estimated 20,000 U.S. residents each year, scientists write in the current issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases. Many doctors and hospitals say they increasingly see patients with this staph infection seeking care.
Agencies find some flaws in Recovery.gov stimulus data -- More than $80 million in federal stimulus projects have been reported on the Recovery.gov Web site, and while the majority of those reports appear to have accurate information, a review by the Argus shows some flaws in the site’s data.
Senator Inhofe to call for investigation into "climategate" -- The publication of more than 1,000 private e-mails that climate change skeptics say proves the threat is exaggerated has prompted one key Republican senator to call for an investigation into their research.
Internet Shut Down Due to Pandemic? Official Govt. Document With Web bot Info mixed In -- They suggest recording the IP addresses of website you go to since that may be the only way to access them.
The critical unraveling of American society -- The economic elite have launched an attack on the U.S. public and society is unraveling at an increased rate.
Next generation flu vaccine plant to open in US -- The factory in Holly Springs, North Carolina, will use batches of dog cells to grow influenza vaccine, instead of the chicken eggs widely used now.
Online retailers snagged in scam blame customers -- First, the good news for consumers: the U.S. government's investigation into how dozens of well-known online stores worked with controversial marketers to "deceive" customers out of $1.4 billion has prompted some retailers, including Continental Airlines, to sever ties with the marketers.
Consumer group targets Ocean Spray cranberry ingredient -- The National Consumers League (NCL) has written to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), accusing Ocean Spray of falsely marketing its Choice sweetened dried cranberry ingredient.
Shopper's guide to 22 worthless drugs -- Check out the rest of this website too, a mix of serious & funny items related to pharmaceuticals (Since its founding, the prestigious Bonkers Institute for Nearly Genuine Research has been a beacon of integrity and enlightenment in this dark age of shameless disease mongering and unprecedented pharmaceutical profiteering. Our mission is to expose fraudulent medical pseudoscience wherever it is found, and nowhere is fraud more prevalent than in the branch of medicine known as psychiatry. We march into the field of battle armed with a powerful weapon: our sense of humor. Fighting pseudoscience with pseudoscience, we shall vanquish our foes by revealing them to be the incompetent quacks, criminal charlatans, con artists and medical imposters that they truly are.)
Uranium from mines in Nevada wells -- A new wave of testing by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that 79 percent of the wells tested north of the World War II-era copper mine have dangerous levels of uranium or arsenic or both that make the water unsafe to drink.
Wave of debt payments faces US government -- The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true.
Indian Health care's broken promises -- After you read this one you won't want health care reform - On some reservations, the oft-quoted refrain is "don't get sick after June," when the federal dollars run out. It's A sick joke, and a sad one, because it's sometimes true, especially on the poorest reservations where residents cannot afford health insurance.
Study links Chinese drywall to metal corrosion in homes -- A federally funded study has found "a strong association" between imported wallboard made in China and metal corrosion in homes in the U.S., the Consumer Product Safety Commission says.
Vicks Sinex Nasal spray recalled after bacterial contamination -- Vicks Sinex nasal spray is being recalled in three countries because of potential bacterial contamination. According to a recall notice issued by Proctor & Gamble, the recall includes three lots of Vicks Sinex nasal spray sold in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany. The bacteria, B. cepacia, has been found in a small amount of Vicks Sinex nasal spray from the recalled lot sold in the States, the notice said.
After Nov. 10 blackout, Brazil still in the dark over it's true cause -- The cause of a massive electrical blackout that darkened large portions of Brazil in early November is still being investigated despite initial reports from the national grid operator that lightning and strong winds affected the transmission grid in southern Brazil.
TalkingPlug uses RFID enabled power outlets for energy management -- The system, developed by a company named Zerofootprint, places passive high-frequency RFID tags into the electric plugs of appliances and other devices.
Wireless RFID smart home comes closer to reality -- A team of scientists has proposed a smart home network system that works by integrating well-known Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology into the Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi) to allow people to access a video monitoring and media system throughout their household or even remotely.
THE ANATOMY OF AN AMERICAN REVOLUTION by Greg Evensen -- In many ways, the past one hundred years of breathtaking kingdom building in America by banks, industry, the political machine, and compliance by government in assisting the takeover of our civil authority, is a study in personal power elites shamelessly securing a selfish wealth of authority under the guise of “law.” Read More...
Global temperatures are declining -- A RETIRED Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University physics professor has rejected the theory of global warming, arguing that temperatures are, in fact, cooling.
Time magazine names Valcent's Vertical Farming Technology one of Top 50 best innovations of 2009 -- Check out the hydroponic-farming system that grows plants in rotating rows, one on top of another. The rotation gives the plants the precise amount of light and nutrients they need, while the vertical stacking enables the use of far less water than conventional farming. But best of all, by growing upward instead of outward, vertical farming can expand food supplies without using more land.”
Tips on how to choose a strong password -- Using a word may make your password easy to remember, but it also makes it vulnerable to a dictionary attack. A dictionary attack is one where a hacker attempts to break your password by throwing every word in the dictionary at your account. Making up your own word or using a random series of letters and digits greatly reduces the chances of someone cracking your password.
A laundry list of complaints -- One woman's fight to hang laundry on clotheslines outside.
* Check out the website devoted to the right to air dry your laundry
George Carlin's views on aging
The Taser and Men’s Rights -- The Taser is a weapon widely used by American police without much regulation or oversight. Many widely varied ‘rights’ organizations, from the NAACP ot Amnesty International, have found reason to dislike the Taser and to demand that the Federal Government issue guidelines for its use or ban it outright. Note: The Taser manual recommends use on private parts.
70 stories from people who have had reactions to the H1N1 vaccine -- The truth is that reports of serious adverse reactions to the H1N1 swine flu vaccine are constantly pouring in. Read a few of them...
My son is paralyzed from the swine flu shot -- Arlene Connin's stepson Jordan McFarland developed Guillain-Barre syndrome after getting the swine flu vaccine. He's now in a wheelchair.
Death toll in Europe on rise from H1N1 -- The number of confirmed deaths reported by EU & EFTA countries as due to the pandemic rose by two thirds in one week to 169.
Study: Vioxx risks could have been detected earlier -- Heart risks from taking Merck & Co Inc's painkiller Vioxx could have been detected more than three years before the company withdrew the drug from the market in September 2004, had the data been openly available, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Rape in the ranks; the enemy within- US Army covers up rape -- War correspondents were stunned to hear from military women in Iraq that they should be very careful working in military units due to sexual assault and rape. A documentary, “Rape in the Ranks: The Enemy Within” was made and shown for the first time in the United States on October 26 at the New York Independent Film Festival.
Report: Obama using Blackwater for assassinations in Pakistan -- The Obama administration is using mercenaries with the firm formerly known as Blackwater to kidnap and assassinate high value targets in Pakistan, according to a published report.
Health Benefits of Pumpkin -- Nutrient-Rich Fruit with Anti-Aging and Disease-Fighting Properties!
The 'Real' Jobless Rate: 17.5% Of Workers Are Unemployed -- According to the government's broadest measure of unemployment, some 17.5 percent are either without a job entirely or underemployed. The so-called U-6 number is at the highest rate since becoming an official labor statistic in 1994.
China executes two over tainted milk powder scandal -- China has executed two people for their role in a scandal involving tainted milk powder that resulted in six children dying, officials have said.
The threat of MRSA, a drug-resistant bacterium commonly picked up in gyms and schools, grows dramatically -- The germ called community-acquired MRSA is resistant to many common antibiotics and kills an estimated 20,000 U.S. residents each year, scientists write in the current issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases. Many doctors and hospitals say they increasingly see patients with this staph infection seeking care.
Agencies find some flaws in Recovery.gov stimulus data -- More than $80 million in federal stimulus projects have been reported on the Recovery.gov Web site, and while the majority of those reports appear to have accurate information, a review by the Argus shows some flaws in the site’s data.
Senator Inhofe to call for investigation into "climategate" -- The publication of more than 1,000 private e-mails that climate change skeptics say proves the threat is exaggerated has prompted one key Republican senator to call for an investigation into their research.
Internet Shut Down Due to Pandemic? Official Govt. Document With Web bot Info mixed In -- They suggest recording the IP addresses of website you go to since that may be the only way to access them.
The critical unraveling of American society -- The economic elite have launched an attack on the U.S. public and society is unraveling at an increased rate.
Next generation flu vaccine plant to open in US -- The factory in Holly Springs, North Carolina, will use batches of dog cells to grow influenza vaccine, instead of the chicken eggs widely used now.
Online retailers snagged in scam blame customers -- First, the good news for consumers: the U.S. government's investigation into how dozens of well-known online stores worked with controversial marketers to "deceive" customers out of $1.4 billion has prompted some retailers, including Continental Airlines, to sever ties with the marketers.
Consumer group targets Ocean Spray cranberry ingredient -- The National Consumers League (NCL) has written to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), accusing Ocean Spray of falsely marketing its Choice sweetened dried cranberry ingredient.
Shopper's guide to 22 worthless drugs -- Check out the rest of this website too, a mix of serious & funny items related to pharmaceuticals (Since its founding, the prestigious Bonkers Institute for Nearly Genuine Research has been a beacon of integrity and enlightenment in this dark age of shameless disease mongering and unprecedented pharmaceutical profiteering. Our mission is to expose fraudulent medical pseudoscience wherever it is found, and nowhere is fraud more prevalent than in the branch of medicine known as psychiatry. We march into the field of battle armed with a powerful weapon: our sense of humor. Fighting pseudoscience with pseudoscience, we shall vanquish our foes by revealing them to be the incompetent quacks, criminal charlatans, con artists and medical imposters that they truly are.)
Uranium from mines in Nevada wells -- A new wave of testing by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that 79 percent of the wells tested north of the World War II-era copper mine have dangerous levels of uranium or arsenic or both that make the water unsafe to drink.
Wave of debt payments faces US government -- The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true.
Indian Health care's broken promises -- After you read this one you won't want health care reform - On some reservations, the oft-quoted refrain is "don't get sick after June," when the federal dollars run out. It's A sick joke, and a sad one, because it's sometimes true, especially on the poorest reservations where residents cannot afford health insurance.
Study links Chinese drywall to metal corrosion in homes -- A federally funded study has found "a strong association" between imported wallboard made in China and metal corrosion in homes in the U.S., the Consumer Product Safety Commission says.
Vicks Sinex Nasal spray recalled after bacterial contamination -- Vicks Sinex nasal spray is being recalled in three countries because of potential bacterial contamination. According to a recall notice issued by Proctor & Gamble, the recall includes three lots of Vicks Sinex nasal spray sold in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany. The bacteria, B. cepacia, has been found in a small amount of Vicks Sinex nasal spray from the recalled lot sold in the States, the notice said.
After Nov. 10 blackout, Brazil still in the dark over it's true cause -- The cause of a massive electrical blackout that darkened large portions of Brazil in early November is still being investigated despite initial reports from the national grid operator that lightning and strong winds affected the transmission grid in southern Brazil.
TalkingPlug uses RFID enabled power outlets for energy management -- The system, developed by a company named Zerofootprint, places passive high-frequency RFID tags into the electric plugs of appliances and other devices.
Wireless RFID smart home comes closer to reality -- A team of scientists has proposed a smart home network system that works by integrating well-known Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology into the Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi) to allow people to access a video monitoring and media system throughout their household or even remotely.
THE ANATOMY OF AN AMERICAN REVOLUTION by Greg Evensen -- In many ways, the past one hundred years of breathtaking kingdom building in America by banks, industry, the political machine, and compliance by government in assisting the takeover of our civil authority, is a study in personal power elites shamelessly securing a selfish wealth of authority under the guise of “law.” Read More...
Global temperatures are declining -- A RETIRED Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University physics professor has rejected the theory of global warming, arguing that temperatures are, in fact, cooling.
Time magazine names Valcent's Vertical Farming Technology one of Top 50 best innovations of 2009 -- Check out the hydroponic-farming system that grows plants in rotating rows, one on top of another. The rotation gives the plants the precise amount of light and nutrients they need, while the vertical stacking enables the use of far less water than conventional farming. But best of all, by growing upward instead of outward, vertical farming can expand food supplies without using more land.”
Tips on how to choose a strong password -- Using a word may make your password easy to remember, but it also makes it vulnerable to a dictionary attack. A dictionary attack is one where a hacker attempts to break your password by throwing every word in the dictionary at your account. Making up your own word or using a random series of letters and digits greatly reduces the chances of someone cracking your password.
A laundry list of complaints -- One woman's fight to hang laundry on clotheslines outside.
* Check out the website devoted to the right to air dry your laundry
George Carlin's views on aging
The Taser and Men’s Rights -- The Taser is a weapon widely used by American police without much regulation or oversight. Many widely varied ‘rights’ organizations, from the NAACP ot Amnesty International, have found reason to dislike the Taser and to demand that the Federal Government issue guidelines for its use or ban it outright. Note: The Taser manual recommends use on private parts.
