Joyce Riley's THE POWER HOUR NEWS | November 25, 2009

AMA does not mandate flu shot for physicians -- The AMA House of Delegates rejected a proposal to mandate vaccinations for health care professionals but approved other policy to prevent the spread of seasonal flu and influenza A(H1N1).

Canada reports unusual number of bad reactions to flu shots -- Canadian health officials are investigating what caused six severe allergic reactions to the H1N1 vaccine earlier this month, which the World Health Organization calls "an unusual number."

Vaccines & the role of antioxidants to neutralize toxins -- All of the negative effects of modern vaccines are mediated by toxin-induced pro-oxidant mechanisms. Properly administered vitamin C can be expected to effectively eliminate vaccine toxicity and to stimulate antibody response to the vaccine, in the event that a given vaccine cannot be avoided in the first place.

WHO warns of Bird Flu resurgence -- The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Tuesday of a possible resurgence of bird flu amid new cases of the disease in poultry in Egypt, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.

The H5N1 virus & your pets! -- Until recently it was thought that pets could not be infected with the 2009 H1N1 virus. Read More...

Vitamin D prevents heart disease -- Did you know that vitamin D helps prevents heart disease? In fact, most people suffering from heart disease are chronically deficient in vitamin D. By correcting their vitamin D levels (through sunlight exposure or by taking vitamin D3 supplements), people can simultaneously halt cancer and prevent heart disease, too.

They were in such a hurry to pass the stimulus bill, but 78% of it still remains UNSPENT! -- By the end of fiscal 2009 fully 78 percent of the federal spending authorized by that bill had not yet taken place, according to the Government Accountability Office.

Wall Street Journal publishes leaked emails of climate change scientists -- The emails on this website were selected from more than 3,000 emails and documents that were hacked last week from computers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit in the United Kingdom.

Fighting ghosts & Shadow Governments -- The "troops" Obama wants to send into the Afghanistan-Pakistan War, will cost the taxpayer's a million dollars a piece; due to the high costs of sending at least one if not two mercenaries for every GI that is sent. This is caused by having privately-contracted for all other services to be done by private-contractors, aside from and in addition to, the actual fighting. " Blackwater charges the government $1,222 per day per guard, "equivalent to $445,000 per year, or six times more than the cost of an equivalent U.S. soldier," the report said."

Court rules that New York can seize private property for new sports arena for NJ Nets team -- New York's top court ruled Tuesday that the state can use eminent domain to force homeowners and businesses to sell their properties for a massive development in Brooklyn that includes a new arena for the New Jersey Nets.

Wikileaks releases 9-11 text messages -- Over 1/2 million of them.
Link: http://911.wikileaks.org

FDIC insurance fund is $8.2 billion in debt -- As the number of problem U.S. banks swells to the hundreds, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is increasingly hard-pressed to fill in the gaps where institutions have put depositor's funds at risk.

A worry free Christmas is yours for the taking -- No need to run up those credit cards!

From where did the 2009 'swine-origin' influenza A virus (H1N1) emerge? -- After examining publicly available genetic sequences, virologist Adrian Gibbs and colleagues suggest in a study in Virology Journal today that the pandemic H1N1 virus may have been the product of a lab. In May the World Health Organization (WHO) examined Gibbs's assertions and said natural means were more likely. Gibbs told Bloomberg News today that, while genes from different flu strains may have mixed naturally to form novel H1N1, human involvement is "by far the simplest explanation."

CDC confirms West Virginia pediatrician had H1N1 twice -- A West Virginia physician who claimed to have contracted the H1N1 virus twice now has proof -- from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, no less -- that her claims were true.

Belarus physician openly speaks out about epidemic and lung destruction

Census of ocean depths reveals hundreds of new species -- "The deep sea is the Earth's largest continuous ecosystem and largest habitat for life. It is also the least studied," says Dr. Chris German of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of 344 scientists from 34 nations working to identify deep sea creatures for the Census of Marine Life.

Judge orders Army to disclose impacts on sacred Hawaiian valley -- A federal judge in Honolulu has ruled that the U.S. Army is obliged to give the community meaningful information on how military training at Makua Military Reservation on Oahu could damage native Hawaiian cultural sites and contaminate marine resources on which area residents rely for subsistence.

Thanks to US occupation, no rights for women in Iraq -- After the State Minister of Woman Affairs, Mrs. Nawal Al-Samara’i declared at the beginning of 2009 that there are thousands of women detainees and prisoner exposed to the worst kinds of violations, that they are living in inhuman conditions, that their numbers are unknown, and that she personally worked on releasing seven of them; after this relatively too bold a statement, coming from a woman working within an occupying government, her voice was lost in dead silence.

Feeling nervous? 3,000 behavior detection monitors will be watching at airports this Thanksgiving -- Nearly 100,000 passengers were pulled aside by TSA behavior watchers last year, and it remains to be proven whether you can spot terrorists by the looks on their faces.

Goldman Sachs & US demise -- After destroying millions of families, businesses and lives all over America and the world, they will contribute $100 million a year for five whole years. What are we supposed to say? Thank you?

UK-Police arresting people "just for the DNA" -- Britain has built the world's biggest DNA database without proper political debate and police routinely arrest people just to get their DNA profiles onto the system, the genetics watchdog said in a report on Tuesday.
Related Article: Texas-Government taking newborn DNA samples without permission

Climategate exposes the alarmist machine -- Internal documents show, the UK was being well-funded for making up scare stories about the CO2-induced end of the world. This was part of a process where public grants would routinely go to the researcher with the most dire predictions about the ravages of global warming. Call it The Alarmist Machine.

US congressman calls for "war tax" -- David Obey, chairman of the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee said Americans could be forced to pay a 'war tax' if the conflict escalates. Said he feared the President would bankrupt his domestic agenda if he ups the ante in Afghanistan. 'There ain't going to be no money for nothing if we pour it all into Afghanistan,' he told ABC News.

CIA's lost magic manual resurfaces -- At the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency paid $3,000 to renowned magician John Mulholland to write a manual on misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft. All known copies of the document — and a related paper, on conveying hidden signals — were believed to be destroyed in 1973. But now resurfaces!

FAA computer failure reflects growing burden on systems -- The Federal Aviation Administration identified a serious computer problem and repaired it within about four hours Nov. 19, but the resulting air traffic delays took hours to unwind.

What Happens When A Carry Trade Blows? -- "On Friday the Intercontinental Exchange was hit by a MASSIVE short-covering on Dollar contracts....There was a brief spike of 9% (NOT A TYPO)[and]the IE actually SHUT TRADES DOWN and REFUSED to honor the outstanding contracts to deal with this."
"[This] is the kind of thing that can trigger FULL-BLOWN SYSTEMIC COLLAPSES.

Will Pentagon purge Oath Keepers? -- St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner Kurt Hofmann speculates on potential consequences for a group of current and retired military and law enforcement personnel who believe their oath to the Constitution should have bearing on their professional conduct. In today's column, he asks "Will Pentagon try to crush Oath Keepers?"