The Fat Lady Hasn't Sung Yet -- Judging from the market's immediate reaction to the jobs news--a wicked 223-point dive that day in the Dow Jones Industrials--obviously a lot of investors are signaling that they, too, believe Inmelt is all wet in his positive economic outlook.
Cynthia McKinney speaks from prison in Israel -- This is Cynthia McKinney, I'm speaking from an Israeli prison cellblock in Ramle. [I am one of] the Free Gaza 21, human rights activists currently imprisoned for trying to take medical supplies to Gaza, building supplies and even toys and crayons - I had a suitcase full of crayons for the children. Read More...
Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America -- Over the last 25 years, America has seen a disturbing militarization of its civilian law enforcement, along with a dramatic and unsettling rise in the use of paramilitary police units (most commonly called Special Weapons and Tactics, or SWAT) for routine police work.
CATO Website-Botched police raids in America-interactive map -- An interactive map of botched SWAT and paramilitary police raids, released in conjunction with the Cato policy paper "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids," by Radley Balko.
Sandstorms plague Iraq and are getting worse -- These sandstorms still hover over the capital. It coats parked cars in a tan frosting. It seeps under windowsills and doorways. It grits the teeth and stings the eyes. It clogs rifles and etches scrimshaw across sniper scopes. And it kills people. Read More...
3 Thoughts for the Day from our friend Mike Tawse In the UK -- Learning Is Not A Memory Test - The Gift Of Learning - The Door To Success.
How computers can harm your children's future...by damaging their brains -- Children who spend hour after hour on the computer may be damaging a vital part of their brains. Here, in a stark warning, Baroness Susan Greenfield, director of the Royal Institution and Oxford Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology, explains how this could be creating a generation blighted by obesity and gambling.
Obama touches down for Moscow summit -- Arms control is expected to dominate the two-day meeting with Russian leaders, the first of its kind since the early part of the George W. Bush presidency.
Tea parties from sea to shining sea-more than 2,000 -- More than 2,000 tea parties from coast to coast attracted hundreds of thousands tax and Big Government protesters on Independence Day – perhaps the biggest July 4 political event in America since the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence.
China state media: 140 killed in riots in west -- More than 800 hurt in protests started by ethnic Muslim group, officials say.
Plant disease hit Eastern US vegetable plants -- Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.
WHO warns swine flu unstoppable -- The UN's top health official has opened a forum in Mexico on combating swine flu by saying that the spread of the virus worldwide is now unstoppable.
Group focuses ire on Monsanto -- The Organization for Competitive Markets will hold its annual conference on August 7 in St. Louis to discuss what it sees as unfairness between farmers and ranchers and the corporations with whom they do business.
Spending $102 billion a year on 800 worldwide military bases is bankrupting the country -- We're building new "embassies" that run close to $1 billion and host countries keep jacking the rent for existing bases.
BrassCheck TV: Vaccine created illnesses-Garth Nicholson video -- Can vaccines cause chronic illnesses? Dr. Garth Nicholson, microbiologist and director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine, says yes.
Speed cameras disabled in Arizona & France-the people fight back!!! -- Vigilantes in Arizona have declared their independence from speed cameras. Over the past two weeks, Post-It Notes have been placed on mobile speed camera vans operated on Phoenix-area freeways by Redflex Traffic Systems, an Australian company. As a result of the notes, photographs taken by the unmanned Ford SUVs are unusable for ticketing purposes.
Experts call for diversified reserve currency ahead of G8 summit -- The declining US dollar could not play the long term role as the world’s single reserve currency and a more diversified global currency system should be formed, prominent experts said Saturday at a global think tank summit in Beijing, days ahead of the G8 meeting this week.
Incandescent bulbs return to the cutting edge -- “Due to the 2007 federal energy bill that phases out inefficient incandescent light bulbs beginning in 2012, we are finally seeing a race” to develop more efficient ones, said Noah Horowitz, senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
NSA plans massive data center in Utah -- The National Security Agency was so confident that its nearly $2 billion plan for a new data center in Utah would be approved by Congress that it began designing the facility last November.
A secret history of dissent in the all volunteer military -- The All-Volunteer Force (AVF) exists for a reason captured in a study by Colonel Robert D. Heinl, Jr., author of the "definitive history of the Marine Corps," published in Armed Forces Journal in 1971. Read More...
2 centuries on, a cryptologist cracks a presidential code -- For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now.
White House to hold swine flu summit -- The White House said Thursday it would hold a high-level meeting next week bringing together top government officials to prepare for the possibility of a more severe outbreak of A(H1N1) flu.
North American integration agenda continues -- North American integration is a deep-rooted agenda that continues on many different fronts. This has not changed under an Obama administration. Posted on the U.S. Department of State’s website calendar of events is the fifth annual North American Leaders Summit, which is set to take place August 8-11 in Mexico. Read More...
Even cockroaches get fat on bad food -- As part of a decade's worth of research on cockroaches, Patricia Moore of the University of Exeter studied how female cockroaches change their mating behavior in response to their diet, specifically what they eat when they are young.
Senate bill fines people for refusing health coverage -- Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.
Suicide warnings on 2 anti-smoking drugs -- Federal drug regulators warned Wednesday that patients taking two popular drugs to stop smoking should be watched closely for signs of serious mental illness, as reports mount of suicides among the drugs’ users.
Search the TSA No-Fly List -- Search the NO FLY list from the Terrorist Security Administration.
YouTube: Police State - The Militarization of the Police Force in USA -- Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army.
Strange martial law via food control -- HR 2749 is a strange bill in many ways. While the other “food safety” bills have been around since winter, allowing for much public discussion on the internet, HR 2749 has only suddenly appeared. It is a mutant conglomeration of the worst of the other bills, with the addition of one very original part – martial law. Read More...
Pennsylvania House unanimously passes bill to ban forced implantation of microchips -- the Philadelphia Democrat introduced a bill, passed unanimously last week by the House, that would ban the forced implantation of computer chips in humans.
G-8 surveys financial crisis aftershocks -- Eight of the world's most powerful leaders gather in an Italian earthquake zone this week to thrash out a common strategy on how to absorb the tremors of global recession, climate change and Iran.
Frankincense Essential Oil and lecture on Human Growth Hormone
YOUNG LIVING TRAINING on Age Related Macular Degeneration and the use of the Wolfberry
Cynthia McKinney speaks from prison in Israel -- This is Cynthia McKinney, I'm speaking from an Israeli prison cellblock in Ramle. [I am one of] the Free Gaza 21, human rights activists currently imprisoned for trying to take medical supplies to Gaza, building supplies and even toys and crayons - I had a suitcase full of crayons for the children. Read More...
Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America -- Over the last 25 years, America has seen a disturbing militarization of its civilian law enforcement, along with a dramatic and unsettling rise in the use of paramilitary police units (most commonly called Special Weapons and Tactics, or SWAT) for routine police work.
CATO Website-Botched police raids in America-interactive map -- An interactive map of botched SWAT and paramilitary police raids, released in conjunction with the Cato policy paper "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids," by Radley Balko.
Sandstorms plague Iraq and are getting worse -- These sandstorms still hover over the capital. It coats parked cars in a tan frosting. It seeps under windowsills and doorways. It grits the teeth and stings the eyes. It clogs rifles and etches scrimshaw across sniper scopes. And it kills people. Read More...
3 Thoughts for the Day from our friend Mike Tawse In the UK -- Learning Is Not A Memory Test - The Gift Of Learning - The Door To Success.
How computers can harm your children's future...by damaging their brains -- Children who spend hour after hour on the computer may be damaging a vital part of their brains. Here, in a stark warning, Baroness Susan Greenfield, director of the Royal Institution and Oxford Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology, explains how this could be creating a generation blighted by obesity and gambling.
Obama touches down for Moscow summit -- Arms control is expected to dominate the two-day meeting with Russian leaders, the first of its kind since the early part of the George W. Bush presidency.
Tea parties from sea to shining sea-more than 2,000 -- More than 2,000 tea parties from coast to coast attracted hundreds of thousands tax and Big Government protesters on Independence Day – perhaps the biggest July 4 political event in America since the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence.
China state media: 140 killed in riots in west -- More than 800 hurt in protests started by ethnic Muslim group, officials say.
Plant disease hit Eastern US vegetable plants -- Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.
WHO warns swine flu unstoppable -- The UN's top health official has opened a forum in Mexico on combating swine flu by saying that the spread of the virus worldwide is now unstoppable.
Group focuses ire on Monsanto -- The Organization for Competitive Markets will hold its annual conference on August 7 in St. Louis to discuss what it sees as unfairness between farmers and ranchers and the corporations with whom they do business.
Spending $102 billion a year on 800 worldwide military bases is bankrupting the country -- We're building new "embassies" that run close to $1 billion and host countries keep jacking the rent for existing bases.
BrassCheck TV: Vaccine created illnesses-Garth Nicholson video -- Can vaccines cause chronic illnesses? Dr. Garth Nicholson, microbiologist and director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine, says yes.
Speed cameras disabled in Arizona & France-the people fight back!!! -- Vigilantes in Arizona have declared their independence from speed cameras. Over the past two weeks, Post-It Notes have been placed on mobile speed camera vans operated on Phoenix-area freeways by Redflex Traffic Systems, an Australian company. As a result of the notes, photographs taken by the unmanned Ford SUVs are unusable for ticketing purposes.
Experts call for diversified reserve currency ahead of G8 summit -- The declining US dollar could not play the long term role as the world’s single reserve currency and a more diversified global currency system should be formed, prominent experts said Saturday at a global think tank summit in Beijing, days ahead of the G8 meeting this week.
Incandescent bulbs return to the cutting edge -- “Due to the 2007 federal energy bill that phases out inefficient incandescent light bulbs beginning in 2012, we are finally seeing a race” to develop more efficient ones, said Noah Horowitz, senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
NSA plans massive data center in Utah -- The National Security Agency was so confident that its nearly $2 billion plan for a new data center in Utah would be approved by Congress that it began designing the facility last November.
A secret history of dissent in the all volunteer military -- The All-Volunteer Force (AVF) exists for a reason captured in a study by Colonel Robert D. Heinl, Jr., author of the "definitive history of the Marine Corps," published in Armed Forces Journal in 1971. Read More...
2 centuries on, a cryptologist cracks a presidential code -- For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now.
White House to hold swine flu summit -- The White House said Thursday it would hold a high-level meeting next week bringing together top government officials to prepare for the possibility of a more severe outbreak of A(H1N1) flu.
North American integration agenda continues -- North American integration is a deep-rooted agenda that continues on many different fronts. This has not changed under an Obama administration. Posted on the U.S. Department of State’s website calendar of events is the fifth annual North American Leaders Summit, which is set to take place August 8-11 in Mexico. Read More...
Even cockroaches get fat on bad food -- As part of a decade's worth of research on cockroaches, Patricia Moore of the University of Exeter studied how female cockroaches change their mating behavior in response to their diet, specifically what they eat when they are young.
Senate bill fines people for refusing health coverage -- Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.
Suicide warnings on 2 anti-smoking drugs -- Federal drug regulators warned Wednesday that patients taking two popular drugs to stop smoking should be watched closely for signs of serious mental illness, as reports mount of suicides among the drugs’ users.
Search the TSA No-Fly List -- Search the NO FLY list from the Terrorist Security Administration.
YouTube: Police State - The Militarization of the Police Force in USA -- Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army.
Strange martial law via food control -- HR 2749 is a strange bill in many ways. While the other “food safety” bills have been around since winter, allowing for much public discussion on the internet, HR 2749 has only suddenly appeared. It is a mutant conglomeration of the worst of the other bills, with the addition of one very original part – martial law. Read More...
Pennsylvania House unanimously passes bill to ban forced implantation of microchips -- the Philadelphia Democrat introduced a bill, passed unanimously last week by the House, that would ban the forced implantation of computer chips in humans.
G-8 surveys financial crisis aftershocks -- Eight of the world's most powerful leaders gather in an Italian earthquake zone this week to thrash out a common strategy on how to absorb the tremors of global recession, climate change and Iran.
Frankincense Essential Oil and lecture on Human Growth Hormone
YOUNG LIVING TRAINING on Age Related Macular Degeneration and the use of the Wolfberry
