It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. -Samuel Adams Wednesday Morning - January 20, 2010 | ||||||
 New 6.1 mag quake hits Haiti today - not in the same place as the big one ... so it being an 'aftershock' is very questionable. Haiti: An Unwelcome Katrina Redux by Cynthia McKinney January 19, 2010 President Obama's response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in military deployment and puny in what the Haitians need most: food; first responders and their specialized equipment; doctors and medical facilities and equipment; and engineers, heavy equipment, and heavy movers. Sadly, President Obama is dispatching Presidents Bush and Clinton, and thousands of Marines and U.S. soldiers. By contrast, Cuba has over 400 doctors on the ground and is sending in more; Cubans, Argentinians, Icelanders, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, and many others are already on the ground working--saving lives and treating the injured. Senegal has offered land to Haitians willing to relocate to Africa. The United States, on the day after the tragedy struck, confirmed that an entire Marine Expeditionary Force was being considered "to help restore order," when the "disorder" had been caused by an earthquake striking Haiti; not since 1751, 1770, 1842, 1860, and 1887 had Haiti experienced an earthquake. But, I remember the bogus reports of chaos and violence the led to the deployment of military assets, including Blackwater, in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. One Katrina survivor noted that the people needed food and shelter and the U.S. government sent men with guns. Much to my disquiet, it seems, here we go again. From the very beginning, U.S. assistance to Haiti has looked to me more like an invasion than a humanitarian relief operation. On Day Two of the tragedy, a C-130 plane with a military assessment team landed in Haiti, with the rest of the team expected to land soon thereafter. The stated purpose of this team was to determine what military resources were needed. An Air Force special operations team was also expected to land to provide air traffic control. Now, the reports are that the U.S. is not allowing assistance in, shades of Hurricane Katrina, all over again. On President Obama's orders military aircraft "flew over the island, mapping the destruction." So, the first U.S. contribution to the humanitarian relief needed in Haiti were reconnaissance drones whose staffing are more accustomed to looking for hidden weapon sites and surface-to-air missile batteries than wrecked infrastructure. The scope of the U.S. response soon became clear: aircraft carrer, Marine transport ship, four C-140 airlifts, and evacuations to Guantanamo. By the end of Day Two, according to the Washington Post report, the United States had evacuated to Guantanamo Bay about eight [8] severely injured patients, in addition to U.S. Embassy staffers, who had been "designated as priorities by the U.S. Ambassador and his staff." On Day Three we learned that other U.S. ships, including destroyers, were moving toward Haiti. Interestingly, the Washington Post reported that the standing task force that coordinates the U.S. response to mass migration events from Cuba ... READ MORE -- Why did the United States build its 5th largest embassy in Haiti?
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Strong Earthquake Shakes Haiti AgainVoice of America - 30 minutes ago Photo: AP A strong earthquake has once again struck Haiti, shaking buildings and causing panic, eight days after a 7.0 magnitude quake left much of the nation in ruins. Strong aftershock hits Haiti Reuters Wall Street Journal - Aljazeera.net - Los Angeles Times - Washington Post - Wikipedia: 2010 Haiti earthquake all 9,928 news articles
Doctors without Borders says aid plane prevented from landing in HaitiAFP - 10 hours ago PARIS — Aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF - Doctors Without Borders) said one of its planes carrying vital medical equipment to Haiti's quake victims ... U.S. forces are readying airports in Haiti, but assistance remains out of reach of many residents in need. The gas supply is low and the demand is high. | ||||||
America Is More Like Haiti Than We’d Like to Think
by James Wesley, Rawles
SurvivalBlog.com
The recent earthquake in the island nation of Haiti illustrates the fragility of all societies. While Haiti is unusual in its lack of infrastructure and its high dependence on foreign aid–more than half of its annual government budget comes from foreign aid–it is still similar in many ways to other nations: From the 1960s to the turn of the 21st century, as in many other nations, Haiti became an urbanized nation. Before the 1960s a substantial portion of Haitian society still lived on rural semi-self sufficient farmsteads. But as urbanization and specialization went on, fewer and fewer people lived off the land and more and more citizens became dependent on foreign aid and a scant number of industrial jobs. This trend has been repeated around the globe, making nearly all societies increasingly vulnerable to disasters, man-made or natural. The resiliency of traditional agrarian societies has sadly become a thing of the past. Here in America, 2% of the population now feeds the other 98%. This is now something that First, Second, and Third World nations have in common. America is more like Haiti than we’d like to think. Human nature is the same in every culture and nation: fundamentally sinful.
The Banks Are Going Down January 20th, 2010 A Banner Year for Bank Failure by Karen De Coster While the government spent zillions trying to prop up its swine flu propaganda campaign in order to grab unprecedented new powers by putting the populace under the spell of a doomsday crisis, duplicitous public officials who paint catastrophic landscapes with pink ribbons and teddy bears are obscuring the real calamities. The blighted landscape before us has been glossed over with a swarm of lies and appeasements. What’s coming down the pike is a crush of oncoming bank failures. |
GROUP OF 7 RICH NATIONS BANKSTER (G7) NEWS
Going to Arctic Circle to hide from protesters
Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will host G-7 finance chiefs and central bankers Feb. 5-6 in Iqaluit, a town 195 miles south of the Arctic Circle. He says he’ll press for more unity after the U.S., U.K. and France imposed levies on banks or bonuses even after Group of 20 leaders in September promised to “raise standards together.”
“We’re trying to have a synchronized approach and clearly some jurisdictions are going in different directions,” Flaherty said in a Jan. 12 interview in Swift Current, Saskatchewan.
New Mapping Shows Depth Of "Hot Spot" That Fuels Yellowstone National Park
Detailed mapping shows the "hot spot" that fuels Yellowstone National Park's geothermal features is more than 400 miles deep, and might have been responsible for volcanic activity in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho 17 million years ago. The mapping contradicts previous theories that Yellowstone's geothermal features were powered by a relatively shallow -- perhaps 250 miles deep -- hot spot. Additionally, University of Utah researchers say the "banana-shaped magma chamber" they mapped runs at an upward angle from below the park's northwestern corner and is 20 percent larger than previously thought. As a result, they say, "a future cataclysmic eruption could be even larger than thought." Those are among the findings produced by four National Science Foundation-funded studies that are reported on in the current issue of the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. The studies were overseen by Robert Smith, a research professor and professor emeritus of geophysics at the University of Utah and the coordinating scientist for the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. “We have a clear image, using seismic waves from earthquakes, showing a mantle plume that extends from beneath Yellowstone,’’ the geophysicist said. The plume angles downward 150 miles to the west-northwest of Yellowstone and reaches a depth of at least 410 miles, Professor Smith said in a release the university issued Monday. The study estimates the plume is mostly hot rock, with 1 percent to 2 percent molten rock in "sponge-like voids" within the hot rock. READ MORE |
Government is Too Big to Succeed
Rep. Ron Paul
TexasStraightTalk
The Pecora Commission was stacked with big government sympathizers who blamed the free market and the gold standard without question, and without any consideration of government interference in the economy. This panel is no different. Never will they contemplate how government steered us into this crisis, and what perverse incentives can be removed or repealed so that the market will function more smoothly. Never will they discuss how investment should come from savings, not debt. Never will it occur to them that fiat money, artificially low interest rates and the whole Federal Reserve System might be unwise and unstable, not to mention unconstitutional. The answer will always be more government regulation and oversight. It is predictable that this government panel will eventually come to the firm conclusion that government needs to be bigger, and that the market is just too free.
How sad is this when exactly the opposite is true? READ MORE
Georgian special forces personnel tried to rip seals off ballot boxes in Ukraine. Georgians refuse to talk to Ukrainian police.
Ukraine identifies Georgian special forces who were sent to disrupt presidential election. These agents should be on every international watch list: Sergei Bigiashvili, Giorgy Kalandarishvili, Zurab Makirishvili, Zama Vashadze, Zurab Jakhaya, Zviad Tsnobiladze, Chukzar Tsikhilashvili, Irakly Gogiya, Bakur Kornilov, and Irakly Andronikashvili.
UN warns Israeli blockade puts Gazans' health at riskBBC News - 47 minutes ago The blockade of the Gaza Strip is putting residents' health at risk, the UN and aid groups have warned. Medical facilities and equipment are in disrepair, many damaged in Israel's military operation a year ago have not been rebuilt, they said. World aid agencies appeal to Israel to unlock Gaza Washington Post Israeli government nixes permits for NGO (Non-governmental Organization) workers in West Bank. Oxfam, Save the Children, Doctors Without Borders, Terre des Hommes, Handicap International and the Religious Society of Friends all banned from working in West Bank. Just another outrage that will go unreported by the usual suspects in the U.S. corporate media. Desperate Gazans collect aid for Haiti. Unlike Haiti, Gaza's desperation and destruction is Made in Israel. |
Number of couples in which woman is primary breadwinner increases
8 killed in central Virginia shootings
The official asked for anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak about the investigation.
State police say there were multiple deaths and injuries Tuesday and that a lone shooter was responsible. They say more than 100 law enforcement officials had the suspect circled in woods where they believe he is hiding.
Police could not say what sparked the violence.
State police say the gunman also fired at a state police helicopter, which had to land with a ruptured fuel tank after one or more rounds struck it.
International Hearings Begin On “Falsified” Swine Flu Pandemi January 19th, 2010 “Greatest medical scandal of the century” to come under scrutiny Steve Watson The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a 47 nation body encompassing democratically elected members of parliament, has begun hearings to investigate whether the H1N1 swine flu pandemic was falsified or exaggerated in an attempt to profit from vaccine sales. |
Officials order evacuations before 3rd Southern California storm
A tornado touches down. A rare tornado warning was issued for Los Angeles Tuesday as a storm slammed into southern California, dumping heavy rain and snow across the region and leaving thousands of homes without power.
(AFP/NOAA/File)An Los Angeles Fire Department battalion chief responding to a report of a mudslide at Blanchard Canyon Rd. in the Sunland area of Los Angeles became the recipient of a mudslide himself. The vehicle was freed in about an hour from three feet of mud. Forecasters say the worst rainfall from a Southern California winter storm has passed after causing evacuations in wildfire-scarred foothills and cutting power to more than 20,000 people.
(AP Photo/Mike Meadows)Moises Enriquez sits atop his car in Long Beach, Calif. Tuesday, Jan.19, 2010. The second in a series of powerful storms roared into Southern California, bringing heavy rains and winds that smashed windows, submerged cars and flipped an SUV along a stretch of coastline.
(AP Photo/Scott Smeltzer)Associated Press Wed Jan 20, 3:52 am ET
LOS ANGELES – After two days of lightening, flooding and even a tornado, officials tried to get ahead of the next round of powerful storms that are pummeling Southern California by ordering evacuations in mudslide-prone foothill neighborhoods.
Los Angeles police officers went door-to-door in the Tujunga neighborhood late Tuesday, handing out flyers and asking residents of about 200 homes to be out of their homes by Wednesday morning.
With debris basins full and the fire-scorched soil saturated, Los Angeles County fire officials plan to issue mandatory evacuation orders for about 600 homes beginning at 9 a.m. Wednesday in anticipation of the third and longer drenching.
The foothills have received almost 5 inches of rain since Sunday and Wednesday's storm is predicted to drop 4 to 8 inches on the area, Department of Public Works Director Gail Farber said.
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Lawmakers in Arizona have proposed a law that would require state officials to begin independently verifying the accuracy of newly required documents affirming the constitutional eligibility of any candidate for the U.S. presidency.
"Certainly, there has been controversy over President Obama and his birth certificate, where he was born, etc.," state Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, told the Arizona Capitol Times. "It just makes sense and will stop any controversy in the future to just show you are a natural born citizen."
She is one of about three dozen lawmakers to sign on as co-sponsors.
The plan would essentially have the same effect as the federal law proposed by Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla.
The provisions of Posey's H.R. 1503 are straightforward:
"To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require the principal campaign committee of a candidate for election to the office of President to include with the committee's statement of organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate, together with such other documentation as may be necessary to establish that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the Office of President under the Constitution."
The bill also provides:"Congress finds that under … the Constitution of the United States, in order to be eligible to serve as President, an individual must be a natural born citizen of the United States who has attained the age of 35 years and has been a resident within the United States for at least 14 years."
The sponsors' goal is to have the bill become effective for the 2012 presidential election. The legislation now is pending in a House committee and has more than a dozen co-sponsors.
Virus can put child porn on your computer
"It's the worst possible scenario that you could have," said Robert Dobbs with the Geek Squad.
Dobbs tells 10 Connects they have not had any local cases, but says there have been several cases nationally.
The Associated Press recently finished an investigation and found cases in which innocent people were branded as pedophiles because the virus attacked their computer. In the case of Michael Fiola, the AP says he was arrested and charged before he was finally exonerated. Fiola says he spent $250,000 to clear his name.
To best avoid getting the virus, Dobbs says follow these tips:
* Have an antivirus program that automatically scans your harddrive.
* Make sure you empty out your temporary internet files.
* Avoid file sharing websites.
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COLUMN-Massachusetts election kills cap-and-trade: John Kemp Reuters UK - - 3 hours ago ... of passing cap-and-trade legislation in 2010, and with it international negotiations to produce a binding climate accord before the end of the year. ... All is not lost for Dems Reuters | ||
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Bible Possibly Written Centuries Earlier, Text Suggests
Scientists have discovered the earliest known Hebrew writing — an inscription dating from the 10th century B.C., during the period of King David's reign.
The breakthrough could mean that portions of the Bible were written centuries earlier than previously thought. (The Bible's Old Testament is thought to have been first written down in an ancient form of Hebrew.)
Until now, many scholars have held that the Hebrew Bible originated in the 6th century B.C., because Hebrew writing was thought to stretch back no further. But the newly deciphered Hebrew text is about four centuries older, scientists announced this month.
"It indicates that the Kingdom of Israel already existed in the 10th century BCE and that at least some of the biblical texts were written hundreds of years before the dates presented in current research," said Gershon Galil, a professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel, who deciphered the ancient text. READ MORE
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| Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) UFO Database Hillary Clinton’s ET book discovered It's long been speculated that when Hillary Clinton met with Laurance Rockefeller in 1995, they discussed ET disclosure. Researcher Grant Cameron retrieved documents that reveal Rockefeller was soliciting help from Hillary's staff on submitting a paper on disclosure to Pres. Clinton, at the time. Now, another researcher, Tonio Cousyn, has discovered that the book (circled in red) Hillary was holding in the famous photo of her & Rockefeller is none other than, Are We Alone? Philosophical Implications of Extraterrestrial Life by Paul Davies. |
Today in History Wednesday January 20, 2010 1265 - The first English parliament met in Westminster Hall. 1801 - John Marshall was appointed chief justice of the United States. 1885 - The roller coaster was patented by L.A. Thompson. 1887 - The U.S. Senate approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base. 1891 - James Hogg took office as the first native-born governor of Texas. 1929 - The movie "In Old Arizona" was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors. 1937 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to be inaugurated on January 20th. The 20th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution officially set the date for the swearing in of the President and Vice President. 1953 - "Studio One" became the first television show to be transmitted from the United States to Canada. 1954 - The National Negro Network was formed on this date. Forty radio stations were charter members of the network. 1981 - Iran released 52 Americans that had been held hostage for 444 days. The hostages were flown to Algeria and then to a U.S. base in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The release occurred minutes after the U.S. presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan. 1986 - The U.S. observed the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. 1994 - Shannon Faulkner became the first woman to attend classes at The Citadel in South Carolina. Faulkner joined the cadet corps in August 1995 under court order but soon dropped out. 1997 - Bill Clinton was inaugurated for his second term as president of the United States. 1998 - American researchers announced that they had cloned calves that may produce medicinal milk. |
NaturalNews.com | Today's Featured Stories - January 20, 2010
| H1N1 swine flu hoax falls apart at the seams (NaturalNews) The great swine flu hoax of 2009 is now falling apart at the seams as one country after another unloads hundreds of millions of doses of unused swine flu vaccines. No informed person wants the injection anymore, and the entire fear-based... |
| Healing cancer naturally: Charlotte Gerson joins NaturalNews Talk Hour (NaturalNews) This week's NaturalNews Talk Hour features Charlotte Gerson, Founder of The Gerson Institute, discussing "Healing Cancer Naturally". Discover what conventional medicine has kept secret for decades about the cancer treatment industry. Charlotte... |
| U.S. Government Wants Farmers to Dump Heavy Metals on Fields Ash leftover from burning coal contains arsenic, mercury, lead and other heavy metals. These days, the U.S. government is encouraging farmers to dump it right on their fields, and effectively, right onto the public's food supply. According... |
| 247 Americans Die Every Day from Doctors not Washing Their Hands (NaturalNews) A study commissioned by the lead hospital accrediting agency in the United States found that doctors and nurses fail to wash their hands with alarming frequency, contributing to the 247 deaths caused each day by preventable hospital infections... |
| Six Deadly Chemicals You're Carrying in Your Body (NaturalNews) A recent biomonitoring study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, has revealed that out of 212 chemicals tested, all 212 were found... |
| Add Digestive Enzymes and Hydrochloric Acid to Relieve Gas and Bloating Many people experience gas and bloating after eating. Gas can accumulate in the stomach or the intestines, causing pain, rumbling and indigestion. Gas is a product of incomplete digestion and an indication that food is fermenting in the gut... |
| Nightshade Vegetables may Cause Adverse Reactions in Some People We know vegetables are part of a healthy diet, but what about nightshade vegetables? Health research on these vegetables has focused on a group of substances called alkaloids which can impact nerve-muscle and digestive function in animals... |
| Celery is an Ancient Healing Food Celery has a long history of use and is truly an ancient healing food. At first glance celery may seem rather unimpressive, but the more you look into its background and medicinal uses the more you realize that we must have been misinformed... |
| The Fluoride Cover-Up: Look Under the Mother of All Bandaids, Part II (Opinion) Under a bandaid is always a sore. Could government, universities, public health officials and professionals be festering under the fluoridation bandaid as well? The Fraud and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers For Deceit Control and... |
| Despite FDA concern, American Chemistry Council insists Bisphenol A is safe for everyone (NaturalNews) The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has never met a chemical it didn't like. The organization is a chemical advocacy group whose members include all the largest chemical producers such as Monsanto, Bayer, Merck, Chevron, DuPont and many... |
Today's health headlines from across the 'net
(Hand-picked by the Health Ranger for your education and amusement)- Elementary school children injected with insulin instead of swine flu vaccine
- Hospital band hiring of smokers
- Mammograms cause 7,000 women to receive false positives each year in the UK
- Stress really does cause heart attacks
- Russia may ban chicken imports from U.S. due to chlorine chemical used in processing
- Ecuador media publishes story about toxic chemicals in food (en Español)
- Leading heart surgeon calls for ban on butter
- Doctors demand outright ban on trans-fats in the food supply
- Drug-addicted surgery tech gave Hep C to dozens of patients
- American Chemistry Council says BPA is perfectly safe. Eat all you want!
- FDA in bed with chemical industry over BPA in plastics
- Rolaids recalled due to "unusual odor"
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