Friday, January 8, 2010

Joyce Riley's THE POWER HOUR NEWS - January 8, 2010





Joyce Riley was a Flight Nurse & Cardiovascular Heart Transplant Nurse - her radio program is always good and very informative. Check out archives if you can't listen when she comes on a 7am:

Intense cold hits midwest, but heading south -- Freezing People, Crops, Wildlife!!

OSIS (full-body scanners) stock almost 30 now -- It looks like the insiders bought stock the end of October - Check out the chart.
* Related link: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=OSIS

Take a look at what the body scanner sees -- why would anyone in their right mind would subject themselves to this?

Do statin drugs cause vitamin D deficiency? -- Cholesterol is required by the body to synthesize vitamin D and statin drugs are are responsible for eliminating it, leading many to speculate that statin drug users do not have enough cholesterol to process vitamin D.

Big Pharma endures big fines and continues business as usual -- In early September 2009, Pfizer agreed to pay out a total of $2.3 billion, considered a record settlement for a drug company. But the New York Times considers this a sneeze for Pfizer, mentioning that "While the government said the fine was a record sum, the $2.3 billion fine amounts to less than three weeks of Pfizer's sales."

Before you take that antidepressant, look at this website -- The 12-year-old web site lists 3,500 crime related news reports linked to the use of SSRI antidepressants.
* Website: SSRI Stories - Antidepressant Nightmares -- This website is a collection of 3500+ news stories with the full media article available, mainly criminal in nature, that have appeared in the media (newspapers, TV, scientific journals) or that were part of FDA testimony in either 1991, 2004 or 2006, in which antidepressants are mentioned.

6 heroin users dead from anthrax in Scotland -- Health officials say contaminated heroin may have caused at least a dozen recent cases of anthrax including six deaths in Glasgow.

Unwanted side effect: Cocaine vaccine lead users to take 10 times more cocaine -- Of 58 subjects who received the vaccine, only 11 managed to stay off of the Bolivian marching powder for more than half of the time they participated in the study.

Doctors need to become healers -- Were doctors to become true healers instead of shills for the pharmaceutical industry, maybe then the American people would have a true shot at regaining their health.

Future course of H1N1 still uncertain -- Despite declines in disease, the H1N1 pandemic flu is still in circulation and the "future is uncertain," a CDC official said.

Toxic dust from asphalt sealant travels into homes -- A widely used type of asphalt sealant derived from coal tar may be making its way into the house dust of homes, according to new research. Young children may actually be playing on coal-tar-sealed driveways and playgrounds, potentially raising their exposure to harmful chemicals.

WHO health advisor conceals donation of millions from pharmaceutical company -- A Finnish member of the WHO board, an advisor on vaccines, has received 46 million crowns (6 million euros) for his research centre from the vaccine manufactures, GlaxoSmithKline. WHO promises transparency, but this conflict of interests is not available for the public to see at WHO’s homepage.

California court slams wardens for illegally stopping motorists over lobsters -- The California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District on Tuesday ruled that a state agency may not pull over and search a motorist on a mere hunch that a lobster might be hidden in the vehicle.

Crotch bomber kicks off massive DNA destruction with backscatter terahertz waves -- These virtual strip searches, in addition to damaging our DNAs, will be setting the stage for the expansion of our world-wide cancer epidemic. Any amount of radiation is dangerous, as it is cumulative, and poses a serious threat to all living cells through which it passes, leaving behind a trail of destruction and genetic mutations.

Afghan government demands arrests of US "death squad" that handcuffed & executed children - US refuses -- UN Representative to Afghanistan confirmed the Afghan government’s investigative conclusions that US troops handcuffed and then executed eight students enrolled in grades 6 through 10 in a night raid on December 27, 2009. The US military and NATO responded the troops involved were non-official. The most likely source of para-military “non-official” troops in Afghanistan is Blackwater/Xe.

Geithner's Fed told AIG to hide backdoor bailout -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, during its $180 billion bailout of American International Group, Inc., instructed AIG to omit details of its purchase of certain toxic assets from a December 24, 2008, Securities and Exchange Commission filing, according to e-mails between the company and the Fed released Thursday.

Frozen Britain as seen from satellite -- This striking image taken by Nasa's Terra satellite on 7 January shows the UK deep in the clutches of the current cold snap.

State tax revenue in US drops most since 1963 -- U.S. state tax collections fell the most in 46 years in the first three quarters of 2009 as the recession shrank revenue from sources including personal income.

Another amazing duct tape story -- Pilot patches plane together & flies away.

Behind mass die offs pesticides lurk as culprit -- In the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and — most recently — bats. Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level exposure to pesticides could be contributing to this rash of epidemics.

Website on MRSA epidemic -- Drug-Resistant Staph At Pandemic Proportions In US With Flu-Related Deaths.

University of Illinois to furlough 11,000 employees, freeze hiring -- The University of Illinois will make a series of drastic cost- cutting measures – including furloughs and a hiring freeze – designed to trim $82 million from its operating budget to respond to a financial crisis resulting from a $436 million backlog of unpaid state of Illinois appropriations to the University.

Wave of bankruptcies hits states hammered by housing bust -- In states such as California, Arizona and Nevada, where housing prices soared and then collapsed during the past decade, consumer bankruptcy filings rose roughly twice as much as the national average increase of 32%.

Threats up against federal judges, prosecutors -- the report was issued shortly before a gunman walked into a federal building in Las Vegas and opened fire, killing a court security officer and seriously wounding a deputy U.S. marshal.

TSA agent arrested at Los Angeles Airport -- A TSA agent was arrested on January 3rd in Terminal One at LAX, a source told NBCLA. He had just gotten off duty and was behaving erratically, saying, "I am god, I’m in charge."

Is the Secret Service targeting the birthers -- At least a half-dozen prominent anti-Obama activists who've petitioned various federal agencies or courts to investigate the president's citizenship or publicly questioned his eligibility to serve say they've been visited by Secret Service or Homeland Security agents.

Girls age 12 & 14 hold up Ohio bank -- Two American girls, believed to be aged 12 and 14, are being hunted by police over a bank robbery.

Florida freezes; price of orange juice jumps -- Orange-juice futures surged as a cold snap gripped Florida, threatening citrus groves in the world’s biggest producer of the fruit after Brazil.

US forges alliance with Saddam Hussein officers to fight al-Qaeda -- American counter-terrorism specialists and Saddam Hussein's former intelligence officers have forged an unlikely alliance in Yemen to tackle al-Qaeda.

Amazon explorers uncover signs of a real ElDorado -- Satellite technology detects giant mounds over 155 miles, pointing to sophisticated pre-Columbian culture

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