Monday, November 30, 2009

Joyce Riley's THE POWER HOUR NEWS - November 30, 2009


Independent trucker organization's efforts for troops inspires Missouri VFW -- Commander of the post since June, says the VFW has a “prideful nature” in taking care of their own when they come back, but the post did not see those on active duty as soldiers that needed worrying about. But now, he said the branch in Memphis will be taking a “different approach.” “We’re getting more active for those that are already overseas versus trying to take care of those that came back,” he said.

The US debt clock in real time
* Article regarding: U.S. Debt Clock Real Time

US forces missed chance to get Bin Laden in 2001 -- The U.S. military could have captured or killed Osama bin Laden in 2001 if it had launched a concerted attack on his hideout in Afghanistan, according to a report prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Swine flu epidemic escaped from lab say Australian scientists -- THREE Australian experts are making waves in the medical community with a report suggesting swine flu may have developed because of a lab error in making vaccines.

Fatality in France-Swine flu virus a mixture of drug resistant & hemorrhagic H1N1 -- Two fatalities in France have been identified with the same receptor binding domain as the fatalities in Norway, Ukraine, and China. One of these fatalities also contains a mutation that causes the virus to resist treatment with Tamiflu, a common antiviral medication.

Fed chairman: Audit could impair US financial stability -- The head of the US central bank said Saturday he was "concerned" by some congressional proposals aimed at regulating the US financial system that infringe upon the powers of the Federal Reserve.

Old fridge? Cash for appliances looms -- On the heels of its ballyhooed "Cash for Clunkers" program for cars, the federal government is expected to finalize details in the coming weeks of another tax-supported shopping extravaganza, known as "Cash for Appliances ."

Food stamp stigma fading fast-expanding by 20,000 a day! -- The stigma of food stamps is fading amid record use of the U.S. nutrition program, which now feeds more than 36 million people, officials said.

The inconvenient truths Mr. Gore & his fanatical friends didn't tell you about climate change -- Many people – and bodies – presented as experts actually have little or no knowledge of the science involved. Gullible politicians and gullible media men and women have repeatedly fallen for it.

Climate change: this is the worse scientific scandal of our generation -- Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash, says Christopher Booker.

Top government officials killed in Russian train attack -- Top government officials among the dead, as Moscow blames homemade bomb that could signal renewed campaign by Chechen rebels.

HRT drugs promote ovarian cancer -- Women who use hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may increase not just their risk of breast cancer but also of ovarian cancer, even when they remain on the drugs fewer than four years, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Video: new cheap & effective cancer drug, but big pharma says no way -- Will Dr. Evangelos Michelakis' Invention be blocked by a Profit Driven Pharmaceutical Industry?

Woman's leg amputated by mistake following false cancer diagnosis -- Word to the wise: Be careful of what doctors tell you to cut off following a cancer diagnosis. Submitting to cancer surgery can cost you an arm... or a leg.

FDA approves yet another flu vaccine -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday it has approved a new vaccine to prevent seasonal influenza. Agriflu, made by Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, is not intended to protect against the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu.

Tests confirm that swine flu vaccine probably will not work against the dangerous H1N1 mutation spreading in Ukraine, Norway, Brazil, China France.

Agribusiness chief slams organics -- When Michael Mack, the chief executive of Syngenta, a Swiss agribusiness giant that makes pesticides and seeds, hears people say that organic food is better for the planet, he has one response: "Au contraire." "Organic food is not only not better for the planet," he said, in an interview at The New York Times building on Tuesday. "It is categorically worse."
Related Article: Ecological farms: the only real way to feed an increasingly hungry world -- Contrary to what the propaganda tells us, yields from industrial crops do not consistently produce more food. It’s an industry-generated myth that ecologically-safe organic agriculture yields less than conventional agriculture.

Monsanto's dominance over seed market prompts antitrust inquiry -- For plants designed in a lab a little more than a decade ago, they've come a long way: Today, the vast majority of the nation's two primary crops grow from seeds genetically altered according to Monsanto company patents.

Photo traffic enforcement illegal in South Carolina -- Earlier this year the South Carolina General Assembly enacted a law that will make it even more difficult for red light camera and speed camera vendors to attempt to do business in the state. Under a provision that took effect on April 9, police are authorized to replace traditional handwritten citations with "electronic traffic tickets" designed to speed the roadside ticketing process. These electronic citations, however, cannot be used as part of a photo enforcement system.

Cindy Sheehan & activists protest sending more troops to war at Nellis AFB -- Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, along with other protesters stood outside Nellis AFB, chanting in opposition to President Obama's plan to deploy an additional 30 to 35 thousand troops to Afghanistan.

9-11:Pentagon aircraft hijack impossible say pilots -- Newly decoded data provided by an independent researcher and computer programmer from Australia exposes alarming evidence that the reported hijacking aboard American Airlines Flight 77 was impossible to have existed. A data parameter labeled "FLT DECK DOOR", cross checks with previously decoded data obtained by Pilots For 9/11 Truth from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) through the Freedom Of Information Act.

Super typhoon Nida strongest storm ever? -- NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Super Typhoon Nida early on Nov. 25 that shows a perfectly symmetrical storm and a clear eye, both hallmarks of a powerful typhoon. (NASA MODIS Rapid Response Team)

Barack Obama: Manchurian candidate 2.0 -- " I wonder whether President Obama might not be a perfect Manchurian Candidate of the Republican Party, or perhaps of some nefarious foreign entity—perhaps the China or the always-enigmatic Al Qaeda. How else to explain policies that have wreaked such destruction on the Democratic Party in Washington and on the nation at large."

University outlines "re-education" plan for those who hold "wrong views" -- A program proposed at the University of Minnesota would result in required examinations of teacher candidates on "white privilege" as well as "remedial re-education" for those who hold the "wrong" views, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

Doomsday looming for many truckers at Long Beach & Los Angeles ports -- Clean-air guidelines banning older rigs and those without diesel particulate filters take effect Jan. 1. Many drivers says the changes are just too costly.

Watch out...new names for Aspartame & MSG coming

Info on health care bill -- Be sure to check it out!

FDIC reports biggest drop for business loans on record -- U.S. banks are earning money again, but they're writing fewer business loans, threatening a fragile economic recovery.

Alert: India preparing for nuclear war? -- Reliable sources stated that Pakistani authorities have decided to move her forces from Western to Eastern border. The move of forces would start soon.

Conservation: Indigenous people's enemy #1? -- For centuries we've displaced people to save nature. A huge project in Africa offers a chance to turn that around.