Friday, August 28, 2009
CanadaFreePress.com | Sun spot frequency has an unexpectedly strong influence on cloud formation and precipitation
Comprehending the natural climatic variability, which - on different time scales - is significantly influenced by the sun
What Obama was reading in 2008: "The Post American World" by Zakaria
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NaturalNews.com | Today's Featured Stories - August 28, 2009
| Wake Up, America: Forced vaccinations, quarantine camps, health care interrogations and mandatory "decontaminations" (NaturalNews) The United States of America is devolving into medical fascism and Massachusetts is leading the way with the passage of a new bill, the "Pandemic Response Bill" 2028, reportedly just passed by the MA state Senate and now awaiting approval... |
| The Mothers Act Disease Mongering Campaign - Part V (NaturalNews) This is part four of an article series by Evelyn Pringle. |
| Health Care Reform: How It Should Look Health care reform is the hottest debate around, but unfortunately, Washington has it all wrong. Health care reform shouldn't be about who is going to pay for more drugs for people; health care reform should be about how to create and keep... |
| Tamoxifen Reported to Cause Aggressive Cancer Tumors The cancer prevention drug, tamoxifen, may cause cancer. It has been reported that rare cancers are being found in long-term users. Tamoxifen is the drug of choice, prescribed after breast cancer detection or surgery. Its use is deemed to... |
| Consumers Duped by Trans Fat Labeling (NaturalNews) FDA food labeling rules make it possible for consumers to exceed their maximum recommended daily intake of trans fats even if they eat only foods labeled "zero trans fats" per serving. Trans fats, also known as hydrogenated oils, are... |
| Wave Your Health Good-Bye with Sky High WiFi You only have to read travel blogs and the like to know the flying public have their hands full when dealing with jetlag. One recent survey amongst airport frequent flier lounge members listed jet lag as the most irritating aspect of flying... |
| Essiac Tea is a Cancer Cure Big Pharma Does Not Want You to Know About A simple inexpensive four herb tea that cures cancer? Even AIDS maybe? This has been a critical concern since Essiac tea was introduced in Canada during the early 1920's. For over 50 years, a humble nurse, Rene Caisse (pronounced Reen Case... |
| Soda Pop and Natural Juices Increase Incidence of Fatty Liver Disease What do drinks sweetened with aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, and naturally occurring fructose have in common? Recent studies link them all to NAFLD, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Reported in the Journal of Hepatology... |
| The Mothers Act Disease Mongering Campaign - Part IV (NaturalNews) This is part four of an article series by Evelyn Pringle. Find previous parts here: Part One (http://www.naturalnews.com/026634_drugs_suicide_adhd.html), Part Two (http://www.naturalnews.com/026707_health_disease_depression.html) and Part... |
Realityzone.com - Compiled by G. Edward Griffin | Current Headlines - August 28, 2009
US: Federal government will pay $100 to each person who attends Swine Flu indoctrination meeting and accepts vaccination. WND 2009 Aug 27 (Cached)
US: Number of banks on FDIC's problem list rises by more than 33% during second quarter of this year. Government, however, continues to proclaim that a recovery is underway.
Reuters 2009 Aug 27 (Cached)
US: Banks take another loss of $3.7 billion in 2nd quarter. Raw Story 2009 Aug 27 (Cached)
US: 1000 smaller banks expected to fail in the next 2 years. Largest banks would fail, too, except that they are partners with government and are bailed out with taxpayers money. CNBC 2009 Aug 27 (Cached)
Japanese, Koreans gain most from "cash for clunkers." Reuters 2009 Aug 26 (Cached)
US: Government will spend $16 million to convince citizens to take Swine Fly vaccination. Those who are aware of the collusion between Big Pharma and corrupt politicians will not be swayed.
SFGate 2009 Aug 26 (Cached)
Obama's Science Czar. John Holdren, who once favored reduction of the population through forced abortions and sterilization chemicals in the water supply, now is urging mass vaccinations. Hmmm! zombietime Posted 2009 Aug 26 (Cached)US: Real unemployment rate now at 16%.
Breitbart 2009 Aug 26 (Cached)
Japan: Toyota expects to cut output capacity by over 30%. Long sales slump anticipated.
CNN Money 2009 August 26. (Cached)
US: Former Investigator, Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General, says Teen Screen is a dragnet sponsored by Big Pharma to label perfectly normal children as having psychological disorders and, thus, turn them into customers for psychotropic drugs. CCHR 2009 Aug 26 (Cached)
UN recommends mandatory sex education, teaching 5 year olds about masturbation and nine-year olds acceptance of homosexuality and abortion. Under collectivism, parents have no control over the teaching of their children. Fox 2009 Aug 26 (Cached)
9/11 first responders are dying of cancer - 85% suffering from lung diseases caused by toxic dust from debris. Government officials told them is was safe. 911 Blogger 2009 Aug 25
UK: Half of doctors refuse Swine Flu shots because of concerns over safety - but they will be required to offer them to patients. Online Mail 2009 Aug 25 (Cached)
US: Congress approves bonuses for their aides in the form of subsidies for student loans. Those earning up to $168,000 annually are eligible. Bonuses in private industry are evil; bonuses for personal staff are virtuous. Washington Times 2009 Aug 25 (Cached)
ABC refuses TV ad opposing socialized medicine plan. It previously ran a pro-Obamacare infomercial for free. Public-opinion engineering at its finest. Cypress Times 2009 Aug 25 (Cached)
US: Most red ink ever: $9 trillion over next decade, more than the sum of all previous deficits since America's founding. Obama expresses satisfaction with developments and re-appoints Bernanke as head of the Federal Reserve.
Raw Story 2009 August 25. (Cached)
"Flu could infect half of USA" is the screaming headline in USA Today. [Our prediction: Normal flu will kill more people than Swine Flu; vaccines will kill or cripple more people than they will help; and Big Pharma will profit greatly at taxpayers' expense.] USA Today 2009 Aug 25 (Cached)
US: Court rules that Federal Reserve must disclose to Congress the names of those who received taxpayers' bailout money. Reuters 2009 Aug 24 (Cached)
"Don't inject me. Don't infect me." Rap music may not be your style, but this piece tells it like it is.
Health Ranger 2009 Aug 23
CanberraTimes.com.au | 25,000 text messages from Earth zipped past Mars yesterday afternoon on the way to potential alien life forms
Travelling at the speed of light, it will take 20 years for the messages to reach their target destination Gliese 581d, the nearest Earth-like planet outside our solar system.
The interstellar communication project, dubbed Hello From Earth, was part of National Science Week, and invited Australians to log on to a website and write a personal message to the stars.
It has attracted attention from around the world, from Afghanistan to Antarctica.
Hello from Earth spokesman and the editor of the Australian science magazine, COSMOS, Wilson da Silva, said more than 1000 newspapers and 9000 blogs had reported on the project.
He said the exciting thing about the project was inspiring people to think about where humans came from and whether intelligent life existed outside Earth.
Bizjournals.com | South Boston bank hit with FDIC order
TimesOfTheInternet.com | Displaced Somalis found starving
Thousands of internally displaced people are facing a food crisis in Jowhar, Somalia, food shipments to the town have been disrupted, an official says.
Community leader Asiyo Jilibey told Integrated Regional Information Networks Thursday that since food shipments to Jowhar ended two months ago, thousands of people there have struggled to find food.
"The little food we were given in June is gone; we have had nothing in the last two months," Jilibey said. "I don't know what will happen next but if help does not arrive soon we are in trouble."
Jowhar is home to seven refugee camps housing an estimated 49,000 people. Jilibey said most of those people were forced to relocate to the refugee camps in the face of increased violence in the capital of Mogadishu in 2007.
StanDeyo.com | “Perfect Storm” Coming to America – video, prophetic, Real Player or Windows Media
August 24-30, 2009
God has given proven prophet John Paul Jackson insight into the future of America. This week John Paul shares what God has shown him of a coming “Perfect Storm” capable of bringing unpredictable calamity to the United States through the elements of war, politics, economics, religion and geophysical issues. Hear John Paul discuss these future events and how you can prepare for the coming Perfect Storm.
SteveQuayle.com | Hot Headlines- August 28, 2009
Racketeering 101: Bailed Out Banks Threaten Systemic Collapse If Fed Discloses Information
US Bank Enemies at the Gates
Wegelin Private Bank to Pull Out of US
A Shocking Fall In the Tank Forever
A New World Currency
Looming Crises Golden Exits
Ben the Wise
The Devil We Know
Is Russia Setting the Stage for a Nuclear Apocalypse?
Swine Flu Fearmongering a Mass Psy-op?
Setting the People Up to Die: A Conspiracy of Silence About Swine Flu Natural Remedies
The Move to Depopulate the Planet
Barack Obama's Civilian Army - Glenn Beck
The Lost Symbol: Dan Brown’s Pentagram City
Files Prove Pentagon is Profiling Reporters
An End-Time Vision...
Acoustic Weapons - Death by Cortisol?
Robot with Bones Moves Like You Do
4029tv.com | Seven Earthquakes Rumble South-Central Region - Oklahoma and central Arkansas
Joyce Riley's THE POWER HOUR NEWS - August 28, 2009
FBI investigating mystery laptops sent to governors -- The FBI is trying to figure out who sent five Hewlett-Packard laptop computers to West Virginia Governor Joe Mahchin a few weeks ago, with state officials worried that they may contain malicious software. HP laptops mysteriously were also ordered for officials in 10 states.
Tamiflu turned children into hallucinating sobbing wrecks -- raging fevers, nightmares and hallucinations which plagued both our children until we decided they could take no more.
Experts field questions about novel flu vaccines for pregnant women -- Federal health officials today hosted a Web telecast to help pregnant women and new mothers prepare for an uptick in novel H1N1 flu infections, a day after a federal judge rejected an advocacy group's request to limit use of the H1N1 vaccine in pregnant women.
Judge rejects ban on use of vaccine in pregnant women -- -- A judge on Wednesday denied an advocacy group's bid to prevent the government from giving pregnant women flu vaccines with a preservative that contains mercury.
DHS funding police cameras that automatically check license plates -- Automated license plate scanners, which enable cops to quickly check whether passing cars warrant stopping, are the latest police tool to take advantage of available digital technologies—and stir up fears of Big Brother.
Newspaper slump deepens as 2Q ad sales fall 29 pct -- Newspapers' financial woes worsened in the second quarter as advertising sales shrank by 29 percent, leaving publishers with $2.8 billion less revenue than they had at the same time last year.
Toll road firms continue to lose millions -- Toll road giants Macquarie and Transurban lose millions as motorists continue to avoid toll roads.
MORE ON INTERNMENT CAMPS by Chuck Baldwin -- "Keep a wary eye out for anything that the federal government could use to encroach upon our liberties and freedoms--even reports of internment camps. If the reports are bogus, you've lost nothing; but if they are real, you could end up losing your liberty."
McCain speaks with angry crowd at Ariz. town hall -- Sen. John McCain met with an angry crowd at a town-hall meeting about health care reform Wednesday, sometimes having to fight to talk and telling one woman who wouldn't stop yelling that she had to leave.
Power is shut off as bills pile up -- More Americans are having their power shut off as the weak economy makes it harder to pay bills.
$49.9M US Contract for 300 Winchester Magnum Ammo -- ATK subsidiary Federal Cartridge Co. in Anoka, MN received a $49.9 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for .300 Winchester magnum ammunition. Maximum quantity is 80,100 boxes of 480 rounds each, minimum is 117 boxes. This ammunition will be used by U.S. forces engaged in combat, and by the US Navy in Match Team competition.
EDITORIAL: The government 'Death Book' -- Bureaucrats investigate what life is 'not worth living'....Read More....
5 First Steps to Deal With Debt -- The moves you need to make to get back to even.
Scientist warning of dangers of Monsanto herbicide get threatened
CDC turns to social sites to get flu message out -- U.S. health authorities are turning to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter in a bid to prepare people to be vaccinated against the pandemic H1N1 virus.
Lyme/Autism group blasts GM foods as dangerous -- Stop eating dangerous genetically modified (GM) foods! That's the upshot of the Lyme Induced Autism (LIA) Foundation's position paper released.
Foreclosure guilt haunts home buyers -- In most cases, folks who buy foreclosed properties never deal with the previous residents, but Jesse Chase, 30, of Las Vegas came home one day to find his life partner sitting with the woman who owned the house before her. The two were weeping. The previous owner had come by just to see her former home again.
US copter loses ballot boxes as Afghan vote count moves slowly forward -- As the count for Afghanistan’s hotly disputed election trudges along at a snail’s pace, a bit of excitement happened when the US military admitted that it had misplaced 25 ballot boxes it was shipping from Paroon to Kabul. Actually it didn’t so much misplace them as it dropped them, off a helicopter, into what officials are describing as "the rugged mountains of Nuristan."
Half of health workers reject swine flu shot -- About half of Hong Kong's health workers would refuse the swine flu vaccine, new research says, a trend that experts say would likely apply worldwide.
Some stupid news: Scientists ponder threat of a zombie attack
Vending machines take finger scans instead of cash -- Biometric scanners are popping up everywhere, and now Hitachi has debuted the first vending machine that will accept a finger scan instead of cash or coins. By linking the scan to a credit card account, customers can simply place their finger in the machine and purchase whichever snack goods they desire most. It’s probably the best reward you’ll ever get for giving a vending machine the finger.
No swine flu "crisis" plan for Copenhagen climate summit -- Denmark does not intend to establish an "emergency plan" for managing a major swine flu outbreak at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December, a Danish health official said Thursday.
Brisk July portends frigid snowy winter say experts -- Meteorologists at AccuWeather have a name for 2009: "Year Without True Summer." The worst part? It could lead to the truest of winters.
Mohammed Jawad: 'I was 12 when I was arrested and sent to Guantanamo' -- Sitting cross-legged on the cushioned floor of a family friend’s house, Mohammed Jawad furrowed his brow and fidgeted nervously as he struggled to explain his extraordinary ordeal over the past seven years.
DoD seeks panacea for pandemics -- DARPA/DSO is soliciting research proposals that seek to develop highly innovative approaches to counter any known, unknown, naturally occurring or engineered pathogen.
Magnitude 3.7 earthquake hits OKLAHOMA - Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 09:09:05 PM at epicenter
2009 August 28 02:09:05 UTC
Earthquake Details
| Magnitude | 3.7 |
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| Location | 35.566°N, 97.290°W |
| Depth | 5 km (3.1 miles) set by location program |
| Region | OKLAHOMA |
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| Location Uncertainty | Error estimate not available |
| Parameters | NST= 4, Nph= 4, Dmin=140.9 km, Rmss=0 sec, Gp=133°, M-type="Nuttli" surface wave magnitude (mbLg), Version=6 |
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| Event ID | us2009kwap |
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MAG DATE LOCAL-TIME LAT LON DEPTH LOCATION
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map 2.3 2009/08/27 23:15:50 35.566N 97.290W 5.0 12 km ( 7 mi) SSE of Arcadia, OK
map 2.4 2009/08/27 22:30:55 35.566N 97.290W 5.0 12 km ( 7 mi) SSE of Arcadia, OK
MAP 3.7 2009/08/27 21:09:05 35.566N 97.290W 5.0 12 km ( 7 mi) SSE of Arcadia, OK
map 2.7 2009/08/27 13:32:06 35.566N 97.290W 5.0 12 km ( 7 mi) SSE of Arcadia, OK
map 2.6 2009/08/27 12:13:52 35.566N 97.290W 5.0 12 km ( 7 mi) SSE of Arcadia, OK
map 2.5 2009/08/27 10:31:24 35.566N 97.290W 5.0 12 km ( 7 mi) SSE of Arcadia, OK
map 2.7 2009/08/27 10:17:52 35.566N 97.290W 5.0 12 km ( 7 mi) SSE of Arcadia, OK
map 2.5 2009/08/27 07:58:25 35.566N 97.290W 5.0 12 km ( 7 mi) SSE of Arcadia, OK
MAP 3.4 2009/08/27 03:22:15 34.997N 96.597W 5.0 8 km ( 5 mi) NW of Sasakwa, OK
Geology.com | News- August 28, 2009
Ireland’s Greatest Natural Hazard Posted: 27 Aug 2009 10:05 PM PDT An article on the Irish Examiner website explains why landslides have been labeled “Ireland’s Greatest Natural Hazard” and why so many landslides have occurred within the past few years. |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2009 10:00 PM PDT Benitoite is the state gemstone of California and a nice tiny crystal can be worth a lot of money. Scott Kleine of Great Basin Minerals shares some of his photos from a Benitoite fee mining trip. |
| Earthquakes: Email Notification Service Posted: 27 Aug 2009 09:55 PM PDT If you would like to receive an email message from USGS when earthquakes meeting certain magnitude thresholds are recorded it is easy to sign up at the USGS website. Earthquake notifications are sent out within minutes of most earthquakes. |
| Amethyst and Quartz Scepter Crystals Posted: 27 Aug 2009 05:25 PM PDT Another mineral collecting field trip shared by Scott Kleine of Great Basin Minerals. This trip goes to collect amethyst and quartz scepter crystals at Petersen Mountain along the California – Nevada border. |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2009 05:18 PM PDT Earth Observatory has a satellite image pair showing before and after scenes of flooding on the Brahmaputra River as it flows in to Bangladesh. In July, Bangladesh was suffering from a drought, now there are projections that flood waters might cover 30 percent of the country by the end of August. |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2009 08:12 AM PDT This article presents a few short historical glimpses of Galileo and his fascination with the telescope. |
Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government | 28 Aug 2009
CIA Releases Its Instructions For Breaking a Prisoner's Will --With the release late Monday of guidelines for interrogating high-value detainees, the agency has provided -- in its own words -- the first detailed description of the step-by-step procedures used to systematically crush a prisoner's will to resist by eliciting stress, exhaustion and fear. 26 Aug 2009 As the session begins, the prisoner stands naked, except for a hood covering his head. Guards shackle his arms and legs, then slip a small collar around his neck. The collar will be used later; according to CIA guidelines for interrogations, it will serve as a handle for slamming the detainee's head against a wall. After removing the hood, the interrogator opens with a slap across the face -- to get the prisoner's attention -- followed by other slaps, the guidelines state. Next comes the head-slamming, or "walling," which can be tried once "to make a point," or repeated again and again. "Twenty or thirty times consecutively" is permissible, the guidelines say, "if the interrogator requires a more significant response to a question." And if that fails, there are far harsher techniques to be tried...
CIA prisoners faced chilling interrogation methods --The "black sites" were run with the singular goal of extracting potentially valuable information from some of the most high-profile terror suspects in US custody, and there was a clear theory about how that should be done. 26 Aug 2009 The first detailed picture of how so-called high value detainees spent their days inside secret Central Intelligence Agency-run prisons overseas has emerged in dozens of previously classified documents released this week. And the picture is chilling. A detainee could be forced to stand, almost naked, handcuffed, going days without sleep, and if that failed to break his will, there were other methods for interrogators at secret prisons to try.
CIA probe shields architects of US torture regime By Bill Van Auken 27 Aug 2009 The Obama administration’s release of a 2004 internal CIA report on torture and the announcement by the Justice Department of an extremely limited investigation into actions by individual interrogators is part of an elaborate attempt to cover up the scale of the crimes carried out under the Bush administration, while shielding its top figures from prosecution.
UK to stay in Afghanistan for 'a generation' 27 Aug 2009 The British Ambassador to Afghanistan Mark Sedwill expects his country's presence in Afghanistan to last for at least "a generation." "We would expect there to be a British presence here (Afghanistan) ... trying to bring this country up for at least a generation," Sedwill said on Wednesday, adding that they would be active in the "training and mentoring" role for many years. [See: 'Afghan drug trafficking brings US $50 billion a year' 20 Aug 2009.]
10 soldiers died and only 150 Afghans voted: Low election turnout in area seized in British troops' bloodiest campaign 27 Aug 2009 Ten British soldiers died in Afghanistan for the sake of just 150 votes in the country's selection. Operation Panther's Claw, which claimed their lives in ferocious fighting, was meant to improve security in the Babaji district of Helmand. But only 150 of the 80,000 potential voters there braved Taliban threats to vote last week, it was reported yesterday.
General slams 'muddling' MoD 27 Aug 2009 A former head of the Armed Forces has launched a scathing attack on the Ministry of Defence over its handling of the war in Afghanistan. General Lord Charles Guthrie said our brave servicemen and women were starved of single-minded leadership because of ministers who "sit frozen in indecision". The former UK Chief of Defence Staff said: "Britain is at war, but one would never know it walking around Whitehall... The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan appear no more than inconvenient blips - something to be muddled through until things return to normal."
Water shortage threatens two million people in southern Iraq --Electricity supply to Nasiriyah has dropped by 50% because of falling levels of Euphrates river 26 Aug 2009 A water shortage described as the most critical since the earliest days of Iraq's civilisation is threatening to leave up to 2 million people in the south of the country without electricity and almost as many without drinking water. An already meagre supply of electricity to Iraq's fourth-largest city of Nasiriyah has fallen by 50% during the last three weeks because of the rapidly falling levels of the Euphrates river, which has only two of four power-generating turbines left working. If, as predicted, the river falls by a further 20cm during the next fortnight, engineers say the remaining two turbines will also close down, forcing a total blackout in the city.
US military acknowledges keeping tabs on reporters' work 27 Aug 2009 The US Army in Afghanistan admitted Thursday to keeping files on journalists and classifying reporting on the war as positive, negative and neutral, but insisted reporters had never been denied access on the basis of past reporting... US forces in Afghanistan acknowledged in a statement that it uses public relations group Rendon for "several analytic reports, to include characterization of specific topical stories/events as positive, negative or neutral, as well as whether media reporting is an accurate portrayal of the facts as we know them." [The liars at the Pentagon wouldn't know a 'fact' if it jumped up and kissed them.]
Israel calls for 'crippling' sanctions against Iran 27 Aug 2009 The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for "crippling sanctions" against Iran to halt the country's nuclear program. "There is not much time" to halt Tehran's nuclear ambitions, Netanyahu [nut_ n'_yahoo] told reporters after talks with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Thursday.
Israeli war on freedom of Expression, Swedish paper to be sued By Sameh A. Habeeb 27 Aug 2009 New York lawyer sues Swedish newspaper: A lawyer in New York has sued the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet following its article accusing Israeli soldiers of smuggling dead Palestinians' organs. The Israeli lawyer Guy Ophir, based in New York, has submitted a civil action to the New York State Supreme Court, the TT news wire wrote. He's claiming $7.5 million in damages against Aftonbladet because of the harm the tabloid has caused Jews and Israelis, himself included, he wrote in his writ.
Boycott Israel's IKEA Boycott --Shop Till You Drop at IKEA to Counteract Israel's Boycott! --Posted by Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 24 Aug 2009 Thousands of Israelis petition to boycott Sweden retailer IKEA By Adi Dovrat and Irit Rosenblum, Haaretz 23 Aug 2009 Thousands of Israelis have signed an online petition to boycott the Swedish furniture retailer IKEA, in the wake of a controversial article published in the Swedish daily Aftonbladet that suggested that Israeli soldiers "harvested" the organs of Palestinians.
Homeland Security revamps guidelines for border searches of electronics 27 Aug 2009 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Thursday it is developing new guidelines for searches of computers and other electronic devices at border crossings. That includes the use of high-tech data collection and surveillance equipment to scan laptops and other devices. The federal announcement comes a day after the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against DHS in U.S. District Court in New York claiming such searches violate privacy and constitutional rights.
Korean students to have temperatures checked each morning 26 Aug 2009 South Korea's elementary and secondary school teachers will take the body temperature of all their pupils at school gates every morning and sterilize classrooms daily as part of the government's all-out campaign to stem the spread of the influenza A (H1N1) virus, government officials said Wednesday. In addition, the government will push to prioritize elementary and secondary school students in a national inoculation campaign against the flu set to go into full swing in November, they said.
Swine flu vaccine program in jeopardy 28 Aug 2009 (AU) The Federal Government's plan to immunise the population against swine flu is in chaos because doctors' insurers may not cover them to administer the jab, saying inadequate testing and the possibility of spreading other infections mean there is too high a risk that patients will sue them later. Despite weeks of crisis talks, the Government has refused to underwrite doctors' liability for the vaccinations, and medical groups say the program - due to start as early as mid-September - cannot proceed unless doctors are insured.
E.U. Officials Do Not Say Whether Vaccinations Could Be Mandatory 26 Aug 2009 European Union health officials issued a list Tuesday of people who should be the first in line for vaccinations against the H1N1, or swine flu, virus. The officials, who represent 27 E.U. countries and the European Commission, did not say whether vaccinations could be mandatory in some cases, although some governments, including Britain, have already ruled out that possibility.
Flu fascism in West Virginia: CAMC will require flu shots --Employees will be fired if they don't get vaccinated by Dec. 15 26 Aug 2009 (WV) Charleston Area Medical Center employees must get seasonal flu shots this year or risk losing their jobs. All CAMC Health System workers must get vaccinated by Dec. 15 or their employment will be terminated, CAMC said in its August newsletter Vital Signs.
100 suspected swine flu cases at Georgia Tech 26 Aug 2009 Georgia Tech spokesman Matt Nagel says there have been about 100 suspected cases in just one week on the Atlanta campus, with 12 of them confirmed as the highly contagious H1N1 virus. He said the 18,000-student university is asking those who have flulike symptoms to isolate themselves for a few days.
Carnegie Mellon confirms 26 swine flu cases --Ill students have been placed in isolation in on-campus facility 26 Aug 2009 Carnegie Mellon University has confirmed another eight cases of swine flu, bringing the total number of sick students to 26. CMU's director of student health services Anita Barkin says the H1N1 flu virus hit the campus just days before classes officially begin on Monday.
Report: 30 Texas college students sick 27 Aug 2009 At least 30 Texas Christian University students are sick with flu-like symptoms. Dallas-Fort Worth television station KTVT reports that number has nearly tripled in the past two days. The Fort Worth university posted a statement Monday on its Web site indicating at least 10 students were sick with the H1N1 virus.
Rep. Jenkins: GOP looking for 'great white hope' 27 Aug 2009 U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins told a recent gathering in northeast Kansas that the Republican Party is looking for a "great white hope" to help stop President Barack Obama's political agenda. Videotape shows Jenkins, a Republican, making the comment at an Aug. 19 forum. She was discussing the GOP's future after Democrats took control of the House and Senate and Obama became the nation's first black president. Jenkins is white.
Palin supports Fox's Beck over boycott 26 Aug 2009 Former Alaska Gov. [polar bear-killing terrorist] Sarah Palin is jumping into the fray over Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck, whose assertion last month that President Barack Obama is "a racist" led to a boycott of the companies advertising on his show, and ultimately, led some to drop their sponsorship of his show. Palin on Wednesday had this to say on Facebook, the social networking Web site: "FOX News' Glenn Beck is doing an extraordinary job this week walking America behind the scenes of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and outlining who is actually running the White House."
Advertisers bail after US talk show host calls Obama 'racist' 26 Aug 2009 A conservative talk show host who called President Barack Obama a "racist" is facing a loss of advertisers after a group launched a campaign to persuade companies to pull their ads from his program. Fox News Channel's [sociopath] Glenn Beck sparked controversy last month when he said Obama, America's first black president, has a "deep-seated hatred for white people."
Study: Oil speculators dominate open interest in oil futures --Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy paper calls for enhanced regulation of noncommercial traders 27 Aug 2009 A new policy paper by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy shows a clear increase in the size and influence of noncommercial traders, or "speculators," in the oil futures market since regulations were eased by the Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000. Speculators now constitute about 50 percent of those holding outstanding positions in the U.S. oil futures market, compared with only about 20 percent prior to 2002. The report also finds that the correlation between oil and the dollar has strengthened significantly over the past several years.
Will Halliburton Come Between You and Your Health Care? By Sandy LeonVest 26 Aug 2009 Would Americans who don’t want government coming between them and their health care prefer Halliburton play the role of the decider? ...If the Golden State’s reputation as a ‘trend setter’ holds true for health care, those in need of affordable health insurance could find themselves up against private contractors like Halliburton... or Maximus Inc... The news that California’s legislative leaders had agreed to consider Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposal to replace current county workers who assist Californians enrolling in Medi-Cal and other social services with a private contractor "like Maximus or Halliburton" was reported back in July, but with so many devastating budget cuts making headlines this summer in the state, it barely made the radar screens of most Californians – much less the rest of the nation. ['Those in need of affordable health insurance could find themselves up against private contractors like Halliburton.' ]
Health care industry contributes heavily to Blue Dogs 26 Aug 2009 As the Obama administration and Democrats wrangled over the timing, shape and cost of health care overhaul efforts during the first half of the year, more than half the $1.1 million in campaign contributions the Democratic Party's Blue Dog Coalition received came from the pharmaceutical, health care and health insurance industries, according to watchdog organizations.
1,000 Banks to Fail In Next Two Years: Bank CEO 27 Aug 2009 The US banking system will lose some 1,000 institutions over the next two years, said John Kanas, whose private equity firm bought BankUnited of Florida in May. "We’ve already lost 81 this year," he told CNBC. "The numbers are climbing every day."
FDIC: Number of troubled banks rises to 416 27 Aug 2009 The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Thursday that the number of troubled banks rose to 416 at the end of June from 305 at the end of March. FDIC said this is the largest number of banks on its "problem list" since June 30, 1994, when 434 banks were on the list. Assets at troubled banks totaled $299.8 billion, the highest level since Dec. 31, 1993, the agency said.
Previous lead stories: Group: US is monitoring journalists in Afghanistan [It's better than killing, arresting and detaining them --which the US has been doing since the invasion of Iraq.] 26 Aug 2009 The International Federation of Journalists complained Wednesday that news people covering the war in Afghanistan are being monitored by the U.S. military to see if they are sympathetic to the American cause. The federation said journalists seeking to travel under the protection of U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan may be screened first by an American public relations firm to see if their coverage portrays the military in a positive light. [What, exactly, *is* the American cause?]
Mohammed Jawad: 'I was 12 when I was arrested and sent to Guantanamo' --Human rights activists say that in one seven-day period, Jawad was subjected to 152 episodes of mistreatment. 27 Aug 2009 In December 2002, when Mohammed Jawad says he was only 12, he was arrested on suspicion of throwing a grenade into a Jeep carrying US special forces soldiers through Kabul, wounding two of them and an interpreter. He was taken first to an airbase north of Kabul, then to the US prison in Guantánamo Bay, where he remained until his release a few days ago after a ruling by a US judge that his confession had been obtained by force. Since returning, Mr Jawad has accused his captors of torturing prisoners, depriving them of food and sleep, and insulting Islam and the Koran.
Judge denies group's bid to block swine flu vaccine 26 Aug 2009 A judge on Wednesday denied an advocacy group's bid to prevent the government from giving pregnant women flu vaccines with a preservative that contains mercury. Leaders of the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs say their effort took on a new urgency when a government advisory committee recently recommended that pregnant women be among the first people to get swine flu vaccinations when the vaccine becomes available this fall.
Cave Headlines - August 27,2009
"Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government." - Henry Kissinger in an address to the Bilderberger meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992.
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/today-americans-would-be-outraged-if-u-n-troops/347294.html
Rhinotimes.com | You're Not Frightened Enough
Thursday, August 27, 2009
AFP | Pandemic virus could get nastier in year two
Yellowstone National Park earthquake update - August 27, 2009 10:00pmCDT
Monday, August 3, 2009 15:54 MDT (Monday, August 3, 2009 21:54 UTC)
44.43°N 110.67°W, Summit Elevation 9203 ft (2805 m)
Volcano Alert Level: NORMAL
Aviation Color Code: GREEN
July 2009 Yellowstone Seismicity Summary
During the month of July 2009, 98 earthquakes were located in the Yellowstone region. The largest event was a magnitude 2.7 on July 8 at 9:08 AM MDT, located about 5 miles south southeast of Fishing Bridge, WY. The swarm that began on June 30th continued through July 3. This small swarm was located about 15 miles east northeast of West Yellowstone, MT and totaled 37 earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 3.3 to -0.2.
Earthquake activity in the Yellowstone region is at relatively normal background levels.
Ground Deformation Summary: Through July 2009, continuous GPS data show that uplift of the Yellowstone Caldera has slowed but may be continuing. The WLWY station, located in the northeastern part of the caldera, has undergone a total of ~23 cm of uplift since mid-2004. Its record can be found at:
http://pboweb.unavco.org/shared/scripts/stations/?checkkey=WLWY&sec=timeseries_plots×eries=raw
The currently observed reduction in uplift rate may be related to seasonal changes related to snowmelt and groundwater recharge. In several of the past 5 years, such changes have caused decreased uplift or slight subsidence, but were followed later in the year by continued uplift. The general uplift of the Yellowstone caldera is of scientific importance and will continue to be monitored closely by YVO staff.
An article on the current uplift episode at Yellowstone and discussion of long-term ground deformation at Yellowstone and elsewhere can be found at: http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/publications/2007/upsanddowns.php
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The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) is a partnership of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Yellowstone National Park, and University of Utah to strengthen the long-term monitoring of volcanic and earthquake unrest in the Yellowstone National Park region. Yellowstone is the site of the largest and most diverse collection of natural thermal features in the world and the first National Park. YVO is one of the five USGS Volcano Observatories that monitor volcanoes within the United States for science and public safety.
Yellowstone National Park
Update time = Thu Aug 27 21:00:37 MDT 2009
Here are the earthquakes appearing on this map, most recent at top ...
MAG DATE LOCAL-TIME LAT LON DEPTH LOCATION
y/m/d h:m:s deg deg km
0.1 2009/08/27 10:30:54 44.794N 110.985W 8.3 18 km (11 mi) NNE of West Yellowstone, MT
1.5 2009/08/27 09:26:58 44.722N 111.296W 0.9 16 km (10 mi) WNW of West Yellowstone, MT
1.3 2009/08/27 05:28:46 44.719N 111.294W 0.7 16 km (10 mi) WNW of West Yellowstone, MT
1.7 2009/08/27 05:28:24 44.718N 111.298W 3.7 16 km (10 mi) WNW of West Yellowstone, MT
Recent Earthquakes in the Intermountain West
Update time = Thu Aug 27 21:00:37 MDT 2009
MAG DATE LOCAL-TIME LAT LON DEPTH LOCATION
y/m/d h:m:s deg deg km
1.8 2009/08/27 20:19:03 37.601N 116.088W 16.0 40 km (25 mi) W of Tempiute, NV
1.1 2009/08/27 18:59:31 47.387N 114.356W 0.0 8 km ( 5 mi) NNW of Old Agency, MT
2.1 2009/08/27 13:15:19 38.717N 117.060W 0.0 51 km (32 mi) SSE of Washington, NV
0.1 2009/08/27 10:30:54 44.794N 110.985W 8.3 18 km (11 mi) NNE of West Yellowstone, MT
1.5 2009/08/27 10:18:49 39.702N 110.709W 0.5 13 km ( 8 mi) E of Helper, UT
1.5 2009/08/27 09:26:58 44.722N 111.296W 0.9 16 km (10 mi) WNW of West Yellowstone, MT
1.3 2009/08/27 05:28:46 44.719N 111.294W 0.7 16 km (10 mi) WNW of West Yellowstone, MT
1.7 2009/08/27 05:28:24 44.718N 111.298W 3.7 16 km (10 mi) WNW of West Yellowstone, MT
1.7 2009/08/27 00:45:15 39.694N 110.486W 2.9 17 km (11 mi) NNW of Sunnyside, UT
0.9 2009/08/27 00:26:56 36.897N 115.981W 0.0 45 km (28 mi) NW of Indian Springs, NV