Toxic burn pits in Iraq causing health problems -- Though military officials say there are no known long-term effects from exposure to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than 100 service members have come forward to Military Times and Disabled American Veterans with strikingly similar symptoms: chronic bronchitis, asthma, sleep apnea, chronic coughs and allergy-like symptoms. Several also have cited heart problems, lymphoma and leukemia.
FBI seeks to target lone extremists -- "Lone-wolf offenders continue to be of great concern to law enforcement," the agency said in a February memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The FBI is "trying to identify a potential lone wolf before he or she would act out violently,"
IRS Moves to Ban Tax Returns Filed By All But ‘Experts’ -- In an astonishing power grab, the Internal Revenue Service wants to license all who prepare returns for taxpayers. This means that Uncle Oscar couldn’t help his nephew prepare his income tax return unless a Washington bureaucrat grants a license.
Oil & Indians don't mix by Greg Palast -- There's an easy way to find oil. Go to some remote and gorgeous natural sanctuary, say Alaska or the Amazon, find some Indians, then drill down under them. Read More....
How to withdraw from the NAIS system step by step -- NAIS is voluntary and you don't have to be in it and in fact, some people have been put in without their permission. Read More...
North Carolina student arrested for making "monster" out of construction barrels -- Raleigh police arrested a North Carolina State University student last week who was accused of creating a "monster" out of construction barrels and placing it on the side of the road. (Actually this is a pretty clever use of these barrels...)
84 Peruvian Indians massacred-the true cost of oil -- At least 84 indigenous people have been killed fighting to defend their traditional territories from oil exploration. As part of a free trade agreement with the US, Peru has altered their constitution and implemented new laws stripping indigenous tribes of their land rights and opening their lands to oil companies.
AIG balks at claims from ditching of plane in Hudson -- For the first couple of days after his flight ditched into the Hudson River, Paul Jorgenson was just glad to be alive. But then he started to need his laptop, his wallet, his car keys -- all the essentials he had stowed under his seat and left behind in the sinking plane. A Must Read!!
Minnesota Residents: Search to see if your doctor received money from drug companies -- This search engine contains public information from the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy on pharmaceutical company payments to doctors and other caregivers from 2002 through 2008. Some doctors may be listed under more than one city. Maybe other states have the same search website available?
US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive -- Dozens of US cities may have entire neighborhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive" proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.
Georgia construction crew uses GPS instead of street address & demolishes WRONG house!!! -- A crew using coordinates from a global positioning system demolished a 60-year-old home in Carrollton earlier this week, but it was the wrong house.
Sexual assault in military up 8% -- 2,923 reports of sexual assault involving U.S. service members received by the Pentagon during fiscal 2008, which ended last September. Required by Congress, the recently released annual statistics on sexual assault in the military showed an 8 percent increase in reports over the year before - a rise officials say reflects an increase in awareness and reporting of such crimes, but not necessarily a jump in assaults themselves.
NORAD, USNORTHCOM exercises planned for mid-June -- North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command are planning to conduct a combined exercise June 18 - 24 that will incorporate several military exercises with a National Guard exercise. These linked exercises are referred to as ARDENT SENTRY 09. Events will take place in multiple venues across the country including Iowa, Kansas, Oregon, Wyoming, and off the East and West Coasts.
Local military, civilian police training build skills -- PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Security forces Airmen kicking in doors were only part of the action during a joint training exercise, where 21st Security Forces Squadron Airmen teamed with members of the Colorado Springs Police Department, El Paso County Sheriff's Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, among other police agencies.
New York drill for possible nuclear war -- US security authorities have conducted a semi-clandestine nuclear fallout drill in the City of New York in order to be prepared "for the worst.
New "memory test" will wind up diagnosing most elderly with dementia -- A five-minute memory test could help to improve diagnosis of the early signs of dementia, a study suggests.
Swine flu still affecting Mexico tourism -- Mexico says it is going through what is the biggest drop in its tourism revenue since records began in the 1980s because of the swine flu scare. Tourism officials are speaking of a "lost summer" after visitors, particularly from the US and Canada, cancelled their holidays.
New flu H1N1 has been around for years in pigs -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new H1N1 virus, which has caused the first pandemic of the 21st century, appears to have been circulating undetected among pigs for years, researchers reported on Thursday.
H1N1 vaccine ready for tests -- A Swiss pharmaceutical giant said on Friday it has a swine flu vaccine ready for trial as governments stepped up precautions to counter the newly-declared influenza pandemic.
Flu pandemic spurs queries about vaccine and who really needs to get it -- Governments and drug companies ramping up production of a vaccine against the swine-flu virus are facing a tough question: Who really needs it?
YouTube: Tapping your cell phone -- This is a frightening video...a must watch!
YouTube: Obama gets lost reading his teleprompter -- Teleprompter-in-Chief, Barack Obama gets lost reading his teleprompter.
VIDEO: The Touchtable -- GPS technology (video)
Crops under stress as temperatures fall -- Our politicians haven't noticed that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling, observes Christopher Booker.
In Chicago, June's chill is one for the records -- The cloudy, chilly and rainy open to June here has been the talk of the town. So far this June is running more than 12 degrees cooler than last year, and the clouds, rain and chilly lake winds have been persistent. The average temperature at O'Hare International Airport through Friday has been only 59.5 degrees: nearly 7 degrees below normal and the coldest since records there began 50 years ago.
FBI seeks to target lone extremists -- "Lone-wolf offenders continue to be of great concern to law enforcement," the agency said in a February memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The FBI is "trying to identify a potential lone wolf before he or she would act out violently,"
IRS Moves to Ban Tax Returns Filed By All But ‘Experts’ -- In an astonishing power grab, the Internal Revenue Service wants to license all who prepare returns for taxpayers. This means that Uncle Oscar couldn’t help his nephew prepare his income tax return unless a Washington bureaucrat grants a license.
Oil & Indians don't mix by Greg Palast -- There's an easy way to find oil. Go to some remote and gorgeous natural sanctuary, say Alaska or the Amazon, find some Indians, then drill down under them. Read More....
How to withdraw from the NAIS system step by step -- NAIS is voluntary and you don't have to be in it and in fact, some people have been put in without their permission. Read More...
North Carolina student arrested for making "monster" out of construction barrels -- Raleigh police arrested a North Carolina State University student last week who was accused of creating a "monster" out of construction barrels and placing it on the side of the road. (Actually this is a pretty clever use of these barrels...)
84 Peruvian Indians massacred-the true cost of oil -- At least 84 indigenous people have been killed fighting to defend their traditional territories from oil exploration. As part of a free trade agreement with the US, Peru has altered their constitution and implemented new laws stripping indigenous tribes of their land rights and opening their lands to oil companies.
AIG balks at claims from ditching of plane in Hudson -- For the first couple of days after his flight ditched into the Hudson River, Paul Jorgenson was just glad to be alive. But then he started to need his laptop, his wallet, his car keys -- all the essentials he had stowed under his seat and left behind in the sinking plane. A Must Read!!
Minnesota Residents: Search to see if your doctor received money from drug companies -- This search engine contains public information from the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy on pharmaceutical company payments to doctors and other caregivers from 2002 through 2008. Some doctors may be listed under more than one city. Maybe other states have the same search website available?
US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive -- Dozens of US cities may have entire neighborhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive" proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.
Georgia construction crew uses GPS instead of street address & demolishes WRONG house!!! -- A crew using coordinates from a global positioning system demolished a 60-year-old home in Carrollton earlier this week, but it was the wrong house.
Sexual assault in military up 8% -- 2,923 reports of sexual assault involving U.S. service members received by the Pentagon during fiscal 2008, which ended last September. Required by Congress, the recently released annual statistics on sexual assault in the military showed an 8 percent increase in reports over the year before - a rise officials say reflects an increase in awareness and reporting of such crimes, but not necessarily a jump in assaults themselves.
NORAD, USNORTHCOM exercises planned for mid-June -- North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command are planning to conduct a combined exercise June 18 - 24 that will incorporate several military exercises with a National Guard exercise. These linked exercises are referred to as ARDENT SENTRY 09. Events will take place in multiple venues across the country including Iowa, Kansas, Oregon, Wyoming, and off the East and West Coasts.
Local military, civilian police training build skills -- PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Security forces Airmen kicking in doors were only part of the action during a joint training exercise, where 21st Security Forces Squadron Airmen teamed with members of the Colorado Springs Police Department, El Paso County Sheriff's Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, among other police agencies.
New York drill for possible nuclear war -- US security authorities have conducted a semi-clandestine nuclear fallout drill in the City of New York in order to be prepared "for the worst.
New "memory test" will wind up diagnosing most elderly with dementia -- A five-minute memory test could help to improve diagnosis of the early signs of dementia, a study suggests.
Swine flu still affecting Mexico tourism -- Mexico says it is going through what is the biggest drop in its tourism revenue since records began in the 1980s because of the swine flu scare. Tourism officials are speaking of a "lost summer" after visitors, particularly from the US and Canada, cancelled their holidays.
New flu H1N1 has been around for years in pigs -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new H1N1 virus, which has caused the first pandemic of the 21st century, appears to have been circulating undetected among pigs for years, researchers reported on Thursday.
H1N1 vaccine ready for tests -- A Swiss pharmaceutical giant said on Friday it has a swine flu vaccine ready for trial as governments stepped up precautions to counter the newly-declared influenza pandemic.
Flu pandemic spurs queries about vaccine and who really needs to get it -- Governments and drug companies ramping up production of a vaccine against the swine-flu virus are facing a tough question: Who really needs it?
YouTube: Tapping your cell phone -- This is a frightening video...a must watch!
YouTube: Obama gets lost reading his teleprompter -- Teleprompter-in-Chief, Barack Obama gets lost reading his teleprompter.
VIDEO: The Touchtable -- GPS technology (video)
Crops under stress as temperatures fall -- Our politicians haven't noticed that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling, observes Christopher Booker.
In Chicago, June's chill is one for the records -- The cloudy, chilly and rainy open to June here has been the talk of the town. So far this June is running more than 12 degrees cooler than last year, and the clouds, rain and chilly lake winds have been persistent. The average temperature at O'Hare International Airport through Friday has been only 59.5 degrees: nearly 7 degrees below normal and the coldest since records there began 50 years ago.
