FEMA is dysfunctional, so we're making it larger? -- Don't look now, but US lawmakers -- Republican and Democrat alike -- in Congress are grabbing more power for themselves while at the same time creating a whole new federal bureaucracy. Americans will rue the day it was created when they see their communities under the control of federal bureaucrats and agencies. The Federal Emergency Management Agency was so ineffective and mismanaged during Hurricane Katrina that it should be totally dismantled and replaced with a new disaster response agency, according to a draft of a Senate report that was presented to their Homeland Security Committee.
House orders up 3 elite jets -- At the end of July, the House approved nearly $200 million for the Air Force to buy three elite Gulfstream jets for ferrying top government officials and Members of Congress. Ellis said the airplanes are part of a larger trend for the Appropriations Committee to simply decide that big-ticket items are program increases, not earmarks, so they require less public disclosure.
Activists hold little hope for legal justice on Agent orange -- A legal victory for Vietnamese Agent Orange victims is highly unlikely as the US government and chemical companies work only to protect themselves, several international activists have said.
Hundreds panic in India over swine flu death -- Hundreds of anxious people, many with young children, crowded a hospital Wednesday to be tested for swine flu in a western Indian city that reported the country's first fatality two days ago.
WHO plans to vaccinate more than half the world's population for swine flu -- Get in line folks! NOT...!!!!
Soldier who didn't obey is jailed -- A soldier at Fort Hood who fought his deployment to Afghanistan and stopped obeying orders was sentenced to a month in jail and demoted to private in a military court on Wednesday morning.
Magnesium deficiency linked to ADD & ADHD in children -- Children's diets today are filled with processed foods, refined sugars and food additives. This type of diet depletes children of magnesium in two ways. First, this diet is extremely low in magnesium to begin with. Secondly, refined sugars and food additives can actually stress the nervous system, causing the body to use up magnesium supplies as it tries to counteract this effect.
Spike in suicide calls due to the economy -- Economic woes are weighing heavily on some Americans _ so much so that the federal government is boosting financial support for suicide prevention centers around the nation.
Demand at food banks up, even in well off DC suburbs -- As the national unemployment rate nears 10 percent, more and more people are turning to food banks for help keeping food on their plates.
Oregon hemp farming bill becomes law -- New State Program for Hemp Farmers to be Established.
Cat food irradiation in Australia banned as cats die -- About 90 cats fell ill last year and 30 died before a Sydney vet, Georgina Child, made the link in November between the mystery illness and a brand of Canadian gourmet pet food called Orijen.
New Jersey bill seeks help of truckers in reporting suspicious activity -- A bill awaiting a floor vote before the full Senate would make an exception from the state’s cell phone law for truck drivers to assist in national security efforts. Assembly lawmakers already approved a similar version.
Pain ray first commercial sale looms -- The military isn’t about to deploy its pain ray to the battlefield. But someone in the commercial sector is about to. We don’t know who. The sale is mentioned in a presentation by Raytheon, who built the microwave weapon for the Defense Department.
Obama team mulls new quarantine regulations -- The Obama administration is quietly dusting off an effort to impose new federal quarantine regulations, which were vigorously resisted by civil liberties organizations and the airline industry when the rules were first proposed by the Bush administration nearly four years ago.
White House website asking for info on anti health care advocates -- Of the information that American snitchers send off to the White House, who in the White House is going to get this information? What are they going to do with it? Will they create a data base of people that stand against Obama? What is to be done with such a database? Who will get visited by the FBI in the dead of night because they sent an email critical of Obama’s socialist styled healthcare policies?
An overdue ban on a dangerous sweetener, Aspartame -- Back in 2006, based on highly sensitive and life long feeding tests in groups of about 200 rats and at doses less than usual human dietary levels, the prestigious Italian Ramazzini Foundation confirmed that aspartame is unequivocally carcinogenic. A high incidence of cancers was induced in multiple organs, including lymph glands, brain and kidney.
Citizen uprising begins; Congress feels heat back home -- The vast American heartland is standing up to the Washington elitists who presume to know what we need better than we do.
Feds at DefCon alarmed after RFIDs scanned -- It’s one of the most hostile hacker environments in the country –- the DefCon hacker conference held every summer in Las Vegas. Federal agents at the conference got a scare on Friday when they were told they might have been caught in the sights of an RFID reader.
House orders up 3 elite jets -- At the end of July, the House approved nearly $200 million for the Air Force to buy three elite Gulfstream jets for ferrying top government officials and Members of Congress. Ellis said the airplanes are part of a larger trend for the Appropriations Committee to simply decide that big-ticket items are program increases, not earmarks, so they require less public disclosure.
Activists hold little hope for legal justice on Agent orange -- A legal victory for Vietnamese Agent Orange victims is highly unlikely as the US government and chemical companies work only to protect themselves, several international activists have said.
Hundreds panic in India over swine flu death -- Hundreds of anxious people, many with young children, crowded a hospital Wednesday to be tested for swine flu in a western Indian city that reported the country's first fatality two days ago.
WHO plans to vaccinate more than half the world's population for swine flu -- Get in line folks! NOT...!!!!
Soldier who didn't obey is jailed -- A soldier at Fort Hood who fought his deployment to Afghanistan and stopped obeying orders was sentenced to a month in jail and demoted to private in a military court on Wednesday morning.
Magnesium deficiency linked to ADD & ADHD in children -- Children's diets today are filled with processed foods, refined sugars and food additives. This type of diet depletes children of magnesium in two ways. First, this diet is extremely low in magnesium to begin with. Secondly, refined sugars and food additives can actually stress the nervous system, causing the body to use up magnesium supplies as it tries to counteract this effect.
Spike in suicide calls due to the economy -- Economic woes are weighing heavily on some Americans _ so much so that the federal government is boosting financial support for suicide prevention centers around the nation.
Demand at food banks up, even in well off DC suburbs -- As the national unemployment rate nears 10 percent, more and more people are turning to food banks for help keeping food on their plates.
Oregon hemp farming bill becomes law -- New State Program for Hemp Farmers to be Established.
Cat food irradiation in Australia banned as cats die -- About 90 cats fell ill last year and 30 died before a Sydney vet, Georgina Child, made the link in November between the mystery illness and a brand of Canadian gourmet pet food called Orijen.
New Jersey bill seeks help of truckers in reporting suspicious activity -- A bill awaiting a floor vote before the full Senate would make an exception from the state’s cell phone law for truck drivers to assist in national security efforts. Assembly lawmakers already approved a similar version.
Pain ray first commercial sale looms -- The military isn’t about to deploy its pain ray to the battlefield. But someone in the commercial sector is about to. We don’t know who. The sale is mentioned in a presentation by Raytheon, who built the microwave weapon for the Defense Department.
Obama team mulls new quarantine regulations -- The Obama administration is quietly dusting off an effort to impose new federal quarantine regulations, which were vigorously resisted by civil liberties organizations and the airline industry when the rules were first proposed by the Bush administration nearly four years ago.
White House website asking for info on anti health care advocates -- Of the information that American snitchers send off to the White House, who in the White House is going to get this information? What are they going to do with it? Will they create a data base of people that stand against Obama? What is to be done with such a database? Who will get visited by the FBI in the dead of night because they sent an email critical of Obama’s socialist styled healthcare policies?
An overdue ban on a dangerous sweetener, Aspartame -- Back in 2006, based on highly sensitive and life long feeding tests in groups of about 200 rats and at doses less than usual human dietary levels, the prestigious Italian Ramazzini Foundation confirmed that aspartame is unequivocally carcinogenic. A high incidence of cancers was induced in multiple organs, including lymph glands, brain and kidney.
Citizen uprising begins; Congress feels heat back home -- The vast American heartland is standing up to the Washington elitists who presume to know what we need better than we do.
Feds at DefCon alarmed after RFIDs scanned -- It’s one of the most hostile hacker environments in the country –- the DefCon hacker conference held every summer in Las Vegas. Federal agents at the conference got a scare on Friday when they were told they might have been caught in the sights of an RFID reader.
