Tuesday, July 14, 2009

THE POWER HOUR NEWS | July 14, 2009


McCain looks to cut funding for more F-22 jets -- Sen. John McCain, in an unusual alliance with the Obama administration, moved Monday to eliminate $1.75 billion recently inserted into the proposed 2010 defense budget for more fighter jets from Lockheed Martin. From the article: "We do not need these plans," President Barack Obama wrote in a letter to Messrs. McCain and Levin Monday. "To continue to procure additional F-22s would be to waste valuable resources that should be more usefully employed to provide our troops with weapons that they actually do need."

Citizen petitions put photo enforcement companies on the defensive -- Petitions placing the fate of red light cameras and speed cameras in the hands of voters are circulating across the country. In November, photo enforcement bans are likely to be considered in three Ohio cites and two Texas cities. Every Arizona jurisdiction may have a chance to vote in November 2010.

Monitoring faulted in rise of soldier suicides -- Army commanders are failing at the day-to-day task of monitoring troubled young soldiers in their barracks back home, which is helping push suicides to record numbers, the head of the Army's suicide task force says.

Heed flu vaccination warnings and bad omens -- There has been a recent groundswell of warnings and bad omens about the dangers of vaccinations, man-made flu pandemics, and the enforced vaccinations. Not mentioned much on CNN or your daily newspapers or favorite magazines, but disclosed consistently through alternative, independent media and publications by courageous individuals and health experts, whose concern over public health and safety is more important than being part of the status quo.

H1N1 swine flu appears similar to 1918 pandemic: WHO Recommends Vaccines Use Live (Attenuated) Influenza -- Two shocking bits of news about the H1N1 swine flu virus emerged this week. The first is that the widely-circulating swine flu virus may be a lot more dangerous than people have so far been told: It appears to resemble the 1918 pandemic virus in the fact that it is capable of embedding itself deep in lung tissue and causing deadly infections. This is very different from the more common "seasonal flu" which does not replicate in the lungs.

WHO: no licensed flu vaccine until end of year -- A fully licensed swine flu vaccine might not be available until the end of the year, a top official at the World Health Organization said Monday, in a report that could affect many countries' vaccination plans.

Swine vaccine prep ramps up; pregnant women worried about risks -- "Congress has agreed with the president that this is the number one priority, keeping Americans safe and secure," she said, adding that US scientist are working "to get the shots in folks' arms."

Study finds pig's role in 1918 pandemic -- History's deadliest flu pandemic, in 1918, may not have made a sudden jump from birds to people after all. New research says the pig played a big role as an influenza mixing bowl _ a gene probe with lessons for tracking today's swine flu outbreak.

70 years: Chart illustrates dominance by Bilderbergers, CFR and Trilateral Commission -- This chart illustrates the dominance by – The Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission and The Bilderberg - in the major decision making processes and institutions of the United States of America over the last seventy years.

How to detox fluorides from your body -- You can rid you body of most fluorides with some easy natural remedies. Fluorides have been linked to a variety of severe chronic, even acute health issues. First a quick review summary of fluoride. Read More...

After losing homes, families move into tents -- Home these days is a cluster of tents covered by a blue tarp in a back corner of the Timberline Campground in Lebanon. Surrounding them are the tents, campers and recreational vehicles of other families in similar straits, living full time in campgrounds because they can no longer afford to live anywhere else.

US deficit reaches more than 1 trillion dollars -- The US budget deficit reached more than one trillion dollars for the current fiscal year in June as the government wrestled with a prolonged recession, official data showed Monday.

Is your city prepared for a homemade nuke -- Radiation from an improvised bomb could kill hundreds of thousands, but with the right preparation many might be saved.

YouTube: Turn in your neighbor for $1000 cash-video -- Step right up and help us confiscate guns! Make a phone call with an anonymous tip an we'll pay you tax free cash once we get the guns!

US backed peacekeepers roll out the big guns in Somalia -- Fighting flared up in the Mogadishu, Somalia again this weekend. It’s the latest in a series of skirmishes pitting the Al-Shabab insurgent group against the new, U.S.-, U.N.- and African Union-backed “transitional government.”

Swearing can make you feel better, lessen pain -- Cut your finger? Hurt your leg? Start swearing. It might lessen the pain. Researchers from the school of psychology at Britain's Keele University have found swearing can make you feel better as it can have a "pain-lessening effect," according to a
study published in the journal NeuroReport. (Wonder how much this study cost)?

Havasupai tribe conference to oppose uranium mining in Grand Canyon -- The gathering will be held on July 2526, South of the Grand Canyon at the Sacred Red Butte.

Norfolk contractor says chinese drywall put him out of business -- The business owner says he imported the drywall at the height of the housing boom in 2006 because there wasn't enough supply of American-made drywall.

Pennsylvania to target aggressive driving with help from US Border Patrol -- Pennsylvania State Police, in a joint effort with the Ohio Highway Patrol, New York State Police and U.S. Border Patrol, will target aggressive driving, impaired driving and speeding during a 12-hour period.

Momentum builds to end this US agency (the Fed) -- A movement to audit the Federal Reserve – the private institution that virtually controls U.S. interest rates, money supply and other economic influences – is gaining momentum in the House and Senate while the Fed ramps up its efforts to thwart scrutiny of its books. House Resolution 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, now has 260 co-sponsors with many members of the House Financial Services Committee – where the bill currently resides – signed on already.

Obama's teleprompter breaks; leaves him speechless -- President Barack Obama had just started a spirited defense of his economic stimulus plan on Monday when one of his teleprompter screens came loose, crashed to the floor and shattered into pieces. Fortunately for him, he relies on 2 teleprompter screens!!

Warning over honeybee decline -- "Honeybees are dying and colonies are being lost at an alarming rate," said Edward Leigh, the Tory chairman of the committee. "This is very worrying, and not just because the pollination of crops by honeybees is worth an estimated £200m each year to the British economy. So it is difficult to understand why Defra has taken so little interest in the problem up to now.

Natural tomato worm control -- Learn to fight those big, ugly, green tomato worms....safely!!
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