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TUESDAY – AUGUST 23 – Multiple “LIBERTY” Feature:
Current Quartzsite MAYOR ED FOSTER (and a Marine veteran) shares his concerns for an honest and necessary auditing of events within his community and is calling upon citizens to become involved as watch-keepers in order to return to an honest, reliable government that protects the Peoples’ rights and liberties.
Saturday – August 27th - Quartzsite LIBERTY FESTIVAL
Press Release – More Information
STEWART RHODES , founder of Oath Keepers, states why his organization has taken such an active role in what has transpired in Quartzsite.
In addition, Stewart covers other areas they are involved in and what he believes is now taking place in America……people everywhere are say “no” more.
http://www.oath-keepers.blogspot.com
http://stewart-rhodes.blogspot.com
Today’s EBlast includes topic related recommended articles:
* Oath Keepers: FBI Wants Surplus Stores To Spy on Customers; August 10, 2011
* Quartzsite Police Chief Calls Oath Keepers and Tea Party “Terrorists” and Reports them to the FBI
| World News |
Hurricane Irene Slams Puerto Rico; Could Hit US
Puerto Ricans awoke to flooded and debris-strewn streets Monday following the overnight passage of Hurricane Irene, which next took aim at the Dominican Republic on a path that could take the storm to the U.S. by the end of the week.
Fresh fighting erupts between Libya rebels, regime
Fresh fighting has erupted in Tripoli hours after Moammar Gadhafi's son turned up free to thwart rebel claims he had been captured and to rally supporters.
Rebels and forces loyal to the Libyan leader waged fierce street battles Tuesday, a day after opposition fighters swept into the capital with relative ease, claiming to have most of it under their control.
| U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Mo. National Guard soldiers to deploy to Qutar
Soldiers from southeast Missouri will be deployed to Qutar in September. More than 450 soldiers with the Missouri National Guard under the command of the 175th Military Police Battalion and Lt. Col. Sharon Martin will be deployed. The unit will spend a year in Qatar providing security for military bases and personnel.
Houston breaks record for 100-degree days in year
The National Weather Service says the city has had 33 days at or above 100 degrees this year. That is one more than in in record-setting 1980. The intense heat combined with a lack of rain has most of Texas battling one of the most severe droughts on record.
US Military Intervention in Libya Cost At Least $896 Million
The cost of U.S. military intervention in Libya has cost American taxpayers an estimated $896 million through July 31, the Pentagon said today. The price tag includes the amounts for daily military operations, munitions used in the operation and humanitarian assistance for the Libyan people.
9/11 First Responders to be Excluded From 10th Anniversary Ceremony
They were the first ones on the scene when the World Trade Center towers fell on September 11, 2001, but ten years later, the first responders are being told that they will not be invited to take part in this year’s tenth anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero.
Gunman opens fire at Philadelphia basketball game, 6 hurt
Six spectators were shot and wounded when a gunman opened fire at half-time of an adult basketball league game in Philadelphia on Monday, and one person was in critical condition, police said.
Tainted pet-food settlement checks distributed
The lawsuits against primarily Menu Foods Inc., the Canadian manufacturer of about 100 of the tainted product lines, grew into the largest wave of animal litigation ever in the American legal system. An estimated 20,000 are finally receiving checks from the $24 million settlement approved by a federal judge in Camden in 2008 and made final last year by an appeals panel.
| Economy |
Economists see no 2nd recession, no real recovery
Another recession isn't likely over the next 12 months. Neither is any meaningful improvement in the economy. That's the picture that emerges from an Associated Press survey of leading economists who have grown more pessimistic in recent weeks. They say high unemployment and weak consumer spending will hold back the U.S. economy into 2012
| Energy & Environment |
Halliburton Exec Takes Swig Of Fracking Fluid
At the conference in Denver, Halliburton Co. CEO Dave Lesar talked about addressing public concerns about fracking, which extracts natural gas by blasting a mix of water, chemicals and usually sand underground. Attendees say he raised a container of Halliburton's new fracking fluid made from chemicals sourced from the food industry, said he'd show how safe it was, then had a fellow executive drink it.
| Health |
ALS Cause Discovered, Say Researchers
ALS cause research conducted by Northwestern University has determined that brain and spinal cord neurons’ inability to repair itself is what ties all three kinds of ALS together, reported USA Today. ALS is the acronym for the paralyzing disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, that affects patient’s ability to walk, talk, breathe and swallow.
Vaccination records keep kids out of classrooms
More than 100 new 7th graders reported to the cafeteria instead of the classroom yesterday at Spring Branch Middle School in Houston as the new school year started. The issue: shot records. In particular, proof was needed that the kids had gotten a dose of the meningococcal vaccine.
** Related Article: Back-to-school can mean vaccines for tweens, teens
$100,000 price tag for treatment with new cancer drug
The price of Seattle Genetics Inc's blood cancer drug Adcetris could top $100,000 for a course of treatment, becoming the latest cancer medicine to come at a high cost. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Friday gave its nod to Adcetris, the first drug specifically indicated for anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) and the first one approved for Hodgkin's lymphoma since 1977.
