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NASA | Earth approaching objects (objects that are known in the next 30 days)
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Radio New Zealand | 300 evacuated from villages in Vanuatu due to gas and ash from volcano
Posted at 01:27 on 26 November, 2009 UTCMore than 300 people are to be evacuated from today from three villages in the north of Vanuatu because of gas and ash fall from a volcano.
The government has sent the country’s paramilitary and mobile forces, and the Vanuatu Red Cross Society to monitor the evacuation from the west of the island of Gaua in Torba province.
The director of the National Disaster Management Office, Job Esau says people have been suffering from respiratory problems and diarrhoea in the last few days as a strong wind has carried the gas and ash.
Reports from Gaua says two boats from the police and health department in Torba are starting to evacuate people this morning. They are starting with children, women, the elderly and disabled.
Mr Esau says they will negotiate with ships owners to help with the evacuation because the two motor boats can not carry enough people.
Chiefs from two villages, Namasari and Lembot, from the east of Gaua met yesterday about housing the relocated people. At the moment, the National Disaster Management Office has maintained the level of alert on 2 but Esau says during the past days, ash fall and the gas has increased.
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http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=50551
Mercola.com by Dr. Mercola | Why Canned Soups Can Be Dangerous to Your Health
November 24 2009 | 67,363 views
The food processing world is reeling right now one day after a shocking new series of tests released by Consumer Reports revealed that many leading brands of canned foods contain Bisphenol A (BPA)—a toxic chemical linked to health risks including reproductive abnormalities, neurological effects, heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, heart disease and other serious health problems.
BPA is used in the lining of cans and the toxin leaches from the lining into the food. According to Consumer Reports just a couple of servings of canned food can exceed scientific limits on daily exposure for children.
The federal government is currently studying the dangers of BPA and advocates are calling on the FDA to ban the use of BPA in food and beverage packaging by the end of the year. Companies in other industries, including Wal-Mart, Target, Nalgene, and Babies R Us have already made commitments to stop using BPA.
BPA is used in the lining of cans and the toxin leaches from the lining into the food. According to Consumer Reports just a couple of servings of canned food can exceed scientific limits on daily exposure for children.
The federal government is currently studying the dangers of BPA and advocates are calling on the FDA to ban the use of BPA in food and beverage packaging by the end of the year. Companies in other industries, including Wal-Mart, Target, Nalgene, and Babies R Us have already made commitments to stop using BPA.
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http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/24/Why-Canned-Soups-Can-Be-Dangerous-to-Your-Health.aspx
Miami Herald | GAO: Fraud hits disabled veterans contracts
A government investigation found that fraud and abuse are diverting millions of dollars in contracts intended to go to businesses owned by service-disabled veterans.
November 25, 2009 - Millions of dollars worth of government contracts designated for service-disabled veterans are being siphoned off by fraud and abuse, according to a recent government report.
November 25, 2009 - Millions of dollars worth of government contracts designated for service-disabled veterans are being siphoned off by fraud and abuse, according to a recent government report.
In a case-study of 10 firms, including one Florida company, the Government Accountability Office found ineligible companies had won about $100 million worth of contracts earmarked for service-disabled veteran-owned companies.
The program is vulnerable to fraud and abuse, which could result in legitimate service-disabled veterans losing contracts to ineligible firms,'' according to the report, which was presented to Congress last week.
The program is vulnerable to fraud and abuse, which could result in legitimate service-disabled veterans losing contracts to ineligible firms,'' according to the report, which was presented to Congress last week.
Florida is home to 1,421 service-disabled veteran-owned businesses, according to the government's Central Contractor Registry. And while the government has a mandate to set aside 3 percent of all federal contracts for such firms, it often misses the mark.
During fiscal year 2008 -- the latest data available -- service-disabled small businesses won $3.3 billion worth of federal contracts, or about 1 percent. But the GAO study suggests that even those modest results are overstated.
In one case, the GAO found a full-time Department of Defense contractor, who was disabled and worked at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, was passing along a $900,000 contract to manufacture furniture to his wife's company. She, in turn, passed it along to another manufacturer that actually completed the work.
The investigation found that while officials at MacDill were aware of the illegal pass through,'' they approved the contract anyway.
In another case, a Las Vegas company won a $7.5 million contract to maintain trailers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Even after it was discovered the owners were not service disabled, they continued to receive service-disabled contracts, the investigation found.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/business/story/1350590.html
During fiscal year 2008 -- the latest data available -- service-disabled small businesses won $3.3 billion worth of federal contracts, or about 1 percent. But the GAO study suggests that even those modest results are overstated.
In one case, the GAO found a full-time Department of Defense contractor, who was disabled and worked at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, was passing along a $900,000 contract to manufacture furniture to his wife's company. She, in turn, passed it along to another manufacturer that actually completed the work.
The investigation found that while officials at MacDill were aware of the illegal pass through,'' they approved the contract anyway.
In another case, a Las Vegas company won a $7.5 million contract to maintain trailers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Even after it was discovered the owners were not service disabled, they continued to receive service-disabled contracts, the investigation found.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/business/story/1350590.html
The Australian | Garlic price soars as China's top performing asset - H1N1 virus and that garlic may offer some immunity from it
November 26, 2009 7:27AM SHANGHAI stocks have done very well, copper has soared and property has been blazing. Not one of those assets, though, can match the roaring returns on a kilogram of Chinese garlic.
In the garlic-producing heartland of Jinxiang, wholesale market prices of the pungent clove -- caught in a tornado of easy liquidity and artificial market forces -- have been whisked into the stratosphere.
Average prices, according to a report from the Ministry of Commerce, have hit 6.14yuan (97 cents) a kilogram, having surged 286 per cent since March.
In some markets, the price has risen fortyfold this year, according to Jerry Lou, a Morgan Stanley analyst. In Jinxiang, the market activity has become so frenzied that fever for the stinking produce is affecting the financial sector.
Local banks and cash machines have found themselves running out of money as speculators withdraw hard currency to fight for their purchases. The astonishing surge in the price of garlic makes it the best-performing Chinese asset class of the year.
Two factors are driving the gains.
Garlic, Mr Lou writes, has become a barometer for China's wider issues of bubble formation. The massive flood of liquidity -- created by the huge government stimulus package and unprecedented bank lending -- has made a diverse range of assets the target of speculation. Garlic has joined property and stocks as a favourite market for cashed-up punters.
Helping things along has been a technical squeeze on the market. Chinese garlic is a big export commodity -- 60 per cent of the garlic used in American restaurants, for example, is Chinese in origin.
But last year China reduced its total garlic planting areas by 50 per cent, diminishing the overall supply and giving speculators a reason to assume future shortages.
The H1N1 virus, and the suggestion that garlic may offer some immunity from it, has also had an effect. Some believe that the suggestion may have been promoted by traders in Jinxiang.
Nevertheless, the theory has been adopted beyond China's borders: the Moldovan Army has added 0.5 ounces of garlic to soldiers' daily rations to protect them from the ravages of swine flu -- and make their food taste better.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/industry-sectors/garlic-price-soars-as-chinas-top-performing-asset/story-e6frg95o-1225804001035
Troubling Reports Out Of Iowa And North Carolina Raise Fears That Deadly H1N1 Swine Flu Mutations Have Already Reached The United States
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. In Iowa, a report that doctors are seeing "very heavy, wet hemorrhagic lungs, lungs with a lot of blood in them" in H1N1 patients is creating concerns among health experts that the deadly Ukraine H1N1 has already spread there. In addition, a report of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 swine flu in North Carolina is raising questions about the ability of medical authorities to combat H1N1 if thousands of people do start dying. If deadly H1N1 swine flu mutations have already reached the United States, what does that mean? Doctors in Ukraine have been reporting that victims of H1N1 there are experiencing violent hemorrhaging in their lungs. As the patients near death, their lungs reportedly become as "black as charcoal" and literally begin to disintegrate. Will this start happening soon inside the U.S.?
The news report causing the most concern today is the one about H1N1 patients in Iowa. Commenting on a dramatic spike in H1N1 deaths in Iowa, Dr. Gregory Schmunk told KCCI news that what doctors there are seeing "is very heavy, wet hemorrhagic lungs, lungs with a lot of blood in them."
Hemorrhagic lungs that are filled with blood?
That sounds precisely like what is taking place in Ukraine.
Last week, the WHO confirmed that an H1N1 mutation had been discovered in Ukraine. This H1N1 mutation involved a receptor binding domain change, and it is apparently causing the H1N1 virus to become much more virulent.
Just like the new report in Iowa, many victims of H1N1 in Ukraine have been experiencing violent hemorrhaging in the lungs. Temperatures inside the lungs of patients in Ukraine have been reported to be as high as 135 degrees Fahrenheit. As the patient near death, the lungs turn to mush and literally become as black as charcoal.
In fact, one doctor in Western Ukraine was quoted as saying the following about what is happening to the lungs of these patients.....
"We have carried out post mortems on two victims and found their lungs are as black as charcoal. They look like they have been burned. It’s terrifying."
If that wasn't bad enough, the WHO has now confirmed that the same H1N1 mutation has shown up in Norway.
Norway's Institute of Public Health has released a statement in which they announced that this mutation "could possibly...cause more severe disease" because it apparently infects tissue deeper in the airway than usual.
Not only that, but today Hong Kong's Department of Health has confirmed that it has found the same mutation in a H1N1 flu virus sample as the one detected in Norway recently.
Hong Kong is on the other side of the world from Ukraine and Norway.
What in the world is going on?
Nobody knows for sure, but the truth is that the increasing similarities between the current H1N1 outbreak and the 1918 "Spanish flu" outbreak are becoming too striking to ignore.
Firstly, both the current outbreak and the 1918 Spanish flu are from the H1N1 family ... FULL ARTICLE
Watch Russia Today video at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEN3swiFcYY
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http://thebirdflupandemic.com/archives/troubling-reports-out-of-iowa-and-north-carolina-raise-fears-that-deadly-h1n1-swine-flu-mutations-have-already-reached-the-united-states
India plans to buy more gold from IMF
November 24, 2009 - India is open to buying more gold from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It bought 200 tonnes for $6.7 billion on November 3. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may well buy IMF’s remaining hoard of 201.3 tonnes on acceptable terms, which are now under negotiation. A government official said that the additional purchase would depend on the “successful pitching by RBI”. “RBI is an independent body, and the government does not interfere in its affairs. It will get the gold if its bid is successful and at the price it has offered,” said the official .. Full Article
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http://www.mydigitalfc.com/plan/india-plans-buy-more-gold-imf-410
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http://www.mydigitalfc.com/plan/india-plans-buy-more-gold-imf-410
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Joyce Riley's THE POWER HOUR | November 25th Interview with Joseph Milliner, Father of American POW believed still in Laos
On the 2nd hour of the November 25, 2009 POWER HOUR RADIO SHOW, Joyce Riley interviewed WWII Pilot and Father JOSEPH MILLINER as he shared his heartbreaking life-journey to free his beloved Viet Nam War Pilot and Son William Patrick Milliner - "Billy". Joseph Milliner had also been captured and held prisoner of war during WWII.William "Billy" Milliner, a 1968 graduate of Trinity High School who attended Western Kentucky University for a year, joined the Army at the height of the Vietnam War because he wanted to be a pilot, his father said. He was 20 when he was reported missing over Laos on March 6, 1971.
According to the best accounts, Joe Milliner said, four Cobra helicopters, all low on fuel, had flown through a heavy barrage of North Vietnamese anti-aircraft fire and were on their way back to their base in South Vietnam. William Milliner's helicopter never made it. The Army still lists him as missing in action.
Larry Greer, a spokesman for the Defense Department's POW-Missing Personnel Office in Washington, appeared skeptical of the Milliner's claims. He said the department has "no knowledge of anyone being alive and held against their will" in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam era. "The evidence we have" would not support the Milliners' belief that their son is alive. Greer said. There are about 2,100 service members listed as missing from the Vietnam War, he said, and no soldier held prisoner has been found alive in nearly 20 years. Greer said some families of POWs have been the victim of scams, and he urged the Milliners to share any information they may have with his office.
But Joe Milliner said he has asked the military for help for many years and has been greeted with skepticism.
"We gave up on (getting help from the military) four years ago," he said.
Milliner said the family has been working primarily outside government channels to find his son. He referred to them as "private, mercenary types" but was reluctant to be more specific for fear that might jeopardize the effort. He said there had been at least one unsuccessful attempt to rescue William Milliner.
Joe Milliner said the family has received independent reports of people seeing his son as recently as 1992. He believes his son has injuries including a "missing or useless" left arm and permanent damage to his left side and left ear which is partly missing. He also said he is trying to raise money to travel to Laos to search for his son.
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SHOCKING REVELATION: U.S. POWS STILL IN LAOS
AFP & others have said it for years; now proof emerges U.S. soldiers still held in Southeast Asian camps
By Christopher J. Petherick
There is new evidence that American GIs are being held against their will in Southeast Asia more than three decades after the Vietnam War officially ended.
A letter recently received by the father of a U.S. pilot, who went missing in action in 1971, could provide a key piece of information that proves American prisoners of war are alive and imprisoned in remote areas of South Vietnam.
Over the years, historians, researchers and independent journalists have made a compelling case that, during the Cold War, thousands of U.S. POWs were moved among Soviet, Chinese and North Korean labor camps, where they toiled and died under the worst conditions. Families of POWs and MIAs say the U.S. government has turned a blind eye to the plight of these men, even going so far as to sabotage their efforts at finding out what exactly happened to their loved ones.*
But Joe Milliner’s incredible story of his son, told at the June 20 meeting of the National Alliance of POW/MIA Families in Crystal City, Va., could change all of that. Documentation compiled by Milliner could finally force the country to come to terms with the fact that thousands of Americans were abandoned by the U.S. .... Full Article
AFP & others have said it for years; now proof emerges U.S. soldiers still held in Southeast Asian camps
By Christopher J. Petherick
There is new evidence that American GIs are being held against their will in Southeast Asia more than three decades after the Vietnam War officially ended.
A letter recently received by the father of a U.S. pilot, who went missing in action in 1971, could provide a key piece of information that proves American prisoners of war are alive and imprisoned in remote areas of South Vietnam.
Over the years, historians, researchers and independent journalists have made a compelling case that, during the Cold War, thousands of U.S. POWs were moved among Soviet, Chinese and North Korean labor camps, where they toiled and died under the worst conditions. Families of POWs and MIAs say the U.S. government has turned a blind eye to the plight of these men, even going so far as to sabotage their efforts at finding out what exactly happened to their loved ones.*
But Joe Milliner’s incredible story of his son, told at the June 20 meeting of the National Alliance of POW/MIA Families in Crystal City, Va., could change all of that. Documentation compiled by Milliner could finally force the country to come to terms with the fact that thousands of Americans were abandoned by the U.S. .... Full Article
Source:
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/pows_still_in_laos_142.html
BIO: MILLINER, WILLIAM P.
Source:http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/m/m152.htm
Forbes - Layoff Tracker | The Weekly Layoff Report: A Holiday Lull - Except at Time Inc. and Goodrich
11.25.09, 03:53 PM EST - Layoff activity was slow this week, thanks to the approach of the Thanksgiving holiday. We’re finalizing the list on Wednesday instead of Friday in the fervent hope that no company will be cruel enough to serve pink slips on Thanksgiving Day or Black Friday.
Here are highlights of the week's activity, recorded by the Forbes.com Layoff Tracker, which counts the layoffs at all the nation's 500 largest corporations....... Full Article
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http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/25/layoff-tracker-unemployment-leadership-careers-report.html
Wisconsin Govenor issues Executive Order to deal with propane shortage
November 25, 2009 - Gov. Jim Doyle has declared a state of emergency to help alleviate a shortage of propane.
Doug Caruso of the Wisconsin Farmers Union says the demand for the fuel is higher than normal because it’s needed to help dry a high-moisture corn crop.
Doyle’s declaration will expand the hours that propane terminals are open during the next two weeks.Caruso says there have been long waits at terminal points where drivers get propane for delivery to drying facilities.
The state of emergency also gives temporary relief to federal driving limits for truck drivers who carry propane.High moisture continues to be a problem with the corn crop, but as it gets colder, farmers cannot wait much longer for the crop to dry in the field.
Twenty-one percent of the year's grain corn was harvested statewide last week, bringing the total to 59%. That's still well below the norm of 87% by this time.
Low test-weights and mold have also been problems with some of the corn.The soybean crop is pretty much in. Ninety-four percent was harvested as of Sunday.
Source:
http://www.agweek.com/articles/?id=7471&article_id=93598&property_id=19
Doug Caruso of the Wisconsin Farmers Union says the demand for the fuel is higher than normal because it’s needed to help dry a high-moisture corn crop.
Doyle’s declaration will expand the hours that propane terminals are open during the next two weeks.Caruso says there have been long waits at terminal points where drivers get propane for delivery to drying facilities.
The state of emergency also gives temporary relief to federal driving limits for truck drivers who carry propane.High moisture continues to be a problem with the corn crop, but as it gets colder, farmers cannot wait much longer for the crop to dry in the field.
Twenty-one percent of the year's grain corn was harvested statewide last week, bringing the total to 59%. That's still well below the norm of 87% by this time.
Low test-weights and mold have also been problems with some of the corn.The soybean crop is pretty much in. Ninety-four percent was harvested as of Sunday.
Source:
http://www.agweek.com/articles/?id=7471&article_id=93598&property_id=19
South Dakota Govenor issues Executive Order to deal with propane shortage
November 25, 2009 - Due to extremely low inventories and widespread outages of propane in South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds issued an executive order to continue expedited commercial agricultural propane deliveries until Dec 5, according to a news release from the Governor's office."Propane demand for agricultural purposes is strong this fall because of the wet weather, and it's imperative that supplies keep up with demand," Gov. Rounds said. "Farmers have bumper crops this year, and we must make sure they have all the propane they need to dry those crops and adequately preserve the harvest."
The Governor's executive order declares a state of emergency and exempts agricultural propane deliveries from federal motor carrier regulations on drivers' hours of service.
Although hours of service are temporarily suspended for commercial propane deliveries, propane transport companies may not require or allow fatigued drivers to make deliveries, Gov. Rounds said.
The executive order is an extension of a previous order that expired on Nov. 29.
Bloomberg.com | Dubai World to Delay Debt, Owes $59 Billion; Default Swaps Soar
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Dubai World, with $59 billion of liabilities, will seek to delay debt payments, sending contracts to protect the emirate against default surging by the most since they began trading in January. The state-controlled company will ask all creditors for a “standstill” agreement as it negotiates to extend maturities, including $3.52 billion of Islamic bonds due on Dec. 14 from its property unit Nakheel PJSC, the builder of palm tree-shaped islands, Dubai’s Department of Finance said in an e-mailed statement. Moody’s Investors Service said it would consider the plan a default should bondholders be forced to accept the terms...FULL ARTICLE
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aGfMX1gn3CEk&pos=1
SteveQuayle.com | Hot Headlines - November 25, 2009
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Obama's Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Climategate: the Final Nail in the Coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?
The Fall of Mexico U.K. Cops Arrest People ‘Just for the DNA’
Ukraine Dead Approach 400
132 Flu Patients Hit with Brain Disorders Since July
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Gold Rises to Record on Dollar Drop, Report India May Buy More
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Arrogance of the Gods (The Day the Dollar Died Part IV)
It's Called "Precedent" (Bair)
Gold Krugerrands Run Out
Gold Moves Toward 1500.00/oz
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The Fall of Mexico U.K. Cops Arrest People ‘Just for the DNA’
Ukraine Dead Approach 400
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Numismaster.com | Shortage of Eagles Occurs Again
November 25, 2009 - Last Friday I wrote that Krugerrands were in short supply on the American bullion coin market and asked how long it would be before high demand overwhelms the U.S. Mint’s ability to delivery gold and silver American Eagle bullion coins.
According to Pat Heller, that point seems to have been reached. The Mint has told the market it cannot supply gold and silver American Eagles.
The Mint says it is still striking them, according to the memo that outlined what it was doing that I wrote about on Monday. It expects to have some new supply of the silver American Eagles in early December and West Point is working to supply additional 2009 gold American Eagles also.
Obviously, market conditions are changing fast.
On a happy note, South Africa has been shipping in more Krugerrands and supplies are loosening up.
According to Pat Heller, that point seems to have been reached. The Mint has told the market it cannot supply gold and silver American Eagles.
The Mint says it is still striking them, according to the memo that outlined what it was doing that I wrote about on Monday. It expects to have some new supply of the silver American Eagles in early December and West Point is working to supply additional 2009 gold American Eagles also.
Obviously, market conditions are changing fast.
On a happy note, South Africa has been shipping in more Krugerrands and supplies are loosening up.
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NaturalNews.com | Vioxx has killed more people than those lost in the Vietnam War - yet remains legal
A nation asleep: the Vioxx deception put into perspective
According to estimates by the FDA's senior drug safety researcher, Dr. David Graham, the drug Vioxx caused over 140,000 heart attacks in patients, likely killing more than 60,000 Americans who took the drug.
Yes the drug remains perfectly legal and continues to be prescribed to patients right now.
Consider the following:
- If a defective automobile resulted in the death of 60,000 Americans, the manufacturer would apologize, issue mandatory recalls, and try to amend the damage done by settling lawsuits and repairing its vehicles.
- If an herb resulted in the death of 60,000 Americans, the FDA would outlaw the herb, confiscate shipments, raid vitamin shops and criminalize the selling of the herb. The press would headline scary stories about "the dangers of herbal medicine."
- If a sports drink were found to contain a deadly chemical that killed 60,000 people, grocery stores would sweep the product from their shelves, national news would declare it a national tragedy, and consumers would be in an uproar.
- The FDA reinstates the drug as "safe" and allows it to continue being sold to consumers.
- Its manufacturer denounces critics, refuses to apologize for the deaths and vows to fight the 16,000 pending lawsuits, mostly by blaming patients for their own death.
- Doctors continue to prescribe Vioxx, apparently giving no consideration to its safety risks.
- The Dept. of Justice launches no investigation into criminal conduct by Merck, a company that clearly hid evidence about the dangers of its drug. The FTC launches no investigation into anti-trade practices. The FDA goes out of its way to protect Merck by silencing its own drug safety scientists who sound the alarm.
- The mainstream media, which subsists in part on Big Pharma advertising money, reports no national tragedy, offers no real investigative journalism and no recognition of the scale and scope of the Vioxx disaster.
It's as if 60,000 Americans were sent to a war, returned home in body bags, and nobody noticed.
Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/020030_Vioxx_the_FDA_drug_safety.html
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?"
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