Monday, October 12, 2009

Joyce Riley's THE POWER HOUR NEWS | October 12, 2009

A Thought For The Day From our friend Mike Tawse in UK -- Grateful To Complain - If I have the energy to complain, then I have something for which to be grateful, but if I have no reason to complain, I should, surely, be grateful for that. If, on the most difficult of days, I can appreciate my freedom to complain, then I find fewer reasons to do so. Be sure to check out Mike's Website: My Serrapeptase Adventure

Army drill canceled due to US outcry -- A joint military exercise that Israel, the US, NATO, Turkey and Italy were scheduled to conduct this week, was taken off the table because of American disappointment with Ankara's decision to withdraw from the maneuver due to Israel's planned participation, Israeli defense officials said Sunday.

Anti-wi-fi paint offers security -- Researchers say they have created a special kind of paint which can block out wireless signals.

U.S. Can’t Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas -- Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country.

76 U.S. children dead of swine flu as cases rise -- Health officials said Friday that 76 children in the United States have died of swine flu since April, including 16 new reports in the past week — more evidence the new virus is unusually dangerous in kids.

Dollar reaches breaking point as banks shift reserves -- Central banks flush with record reserves are increasingly snubbing dollars in favor of euros and yen, further pressuring the greenback after its biggest two- quarter rout in almost two decades.

It's a Fork, It's a Spoon, It's a ... Weapon? -- A 6-year-old's suspension for bringing a camping tool to school has sparked a debate over whether schools' zero-tolerance policies on weapons have gone too far.

Vaccine Revolt! Swine flu vaccine support crumbles -- Public support for the swine flu vaccine is evaporating by the day as the rationale for the vaccine appears increasingly ludicrous to anyone paying attention. Moms, nurses, day care workers and members of the general public are increasingly realizing that Big Pharma's rationale for swine flu vaccination just doesn't add up.

WHO says it could take years to lower pandemic level -- It could take years for the World Health Organization to downgrade the H1N1 flu from a pandemic to seasonal-like virus, the U.N. agency said on Friday.

FDA & Glaxo warn of death with anti flu drug Relenza -- GlaxoSmithKline has notified doctors of at least one death caused by a inappropriate use of its anti-flu medication Relenza.

Fit to fly? Balance boards to be used at airports to detect suspicious characters -- Nervous flyers, beware: a Department of Homeland Security-funded project is investigating whether Wii Fit Balance Boards might be good ways to detect signs of tension or unease in airport security lines.

What could happen if the electric goes out -- This could come in perhaps two or three years, or even sooner. This is about a future with no electricity. Such a disaster can quickly happen anytime after the Sun generates a coronal mass ejection (commonly known as a CME) in the direction of Earth.

French car company makes car parts out of flax -- Welcome to the bio-car. PSA, the French automotive group that makes Peugeots and Citroëns, has started using components made from natural materials — radiator caps and side mirror mountings that contain hemp instead of glassfibre; parcel shelves that are moulded in a plastic made from wood chippings; and inner door panels that are 50% flax.

Heart Disease - Beyond The Stent & Bypass -- Explore the historical, clinical, and pathological link between heart disease, typical, and atypical tuberculosis.

YouTube: What happened in NY on 9/11/09? You did not hear about it

Battening down the hatches: Secret state monitor protest, represses dissent -- As social networking becomes a dominant feature of daily life, the secret state is increasingly surveilling electronic media for what it euphemistically calls "actionable intelligence."

Turkey wars in Canada...making it harder to raise free range birds -- If you're eating organic turkey this weekend, savour it, because by next Thanksgiving it may be easier to buy crack cocaine in Ontario than a drug-free bird.

Cell phones: reason for concerns -- Hang on to your land line phones. Herb Denenberg in an article for The Bulletin says: “The great cell phone cover-up may be coming to an end. A new report may finally wake the public up to the brain cancer risks of cell phones and force necessary preventive measures.

The CIA mind control doctors, from Harvard to Guantanamo -- Papers that report the results of research funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Department of the Army, the Office of Naval Research and the CIA. From 1950 to 1972, the CIA funded TOP SECRET research at many leading universities including Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Johns Hopkins and Stanford. There was a series of CIA mind control programs including BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, MKULTRA, MKSEARCH and MKNAOMI.

UK government: per mile tax would solve global warming -- UK government group believes punishing drivers with new taxes will stop global warming.

Microchip implant to link your health, social security, credit history -- Novartis and Proteus Biomedical are not the only companies hoping to implant microchips into patients so that their pill-popping habits can be monitored. VeriChip of Delray Beach, Fl., has an even bolder idea: an implanted chip that links to an online database containing all your medical records, credit history and your social security ID.

An integrated sensor system for the detection of biothreats from pandemics to emerging diseases to bioterrorism -- There is a clear need for a
biothreat sensor system that spans the range from surveillance and early warning of both known and novel agents to multiplexed diagnostics for rapid and broadly applicable classification and characterization during an outbreak event. Read More... (now this is scary) - Website of company

VIDEO: Even more sick veterans come forward with male breast cancer
Related Article: Male breast cancer patients blame water at Marine base

k"Death Bonds" Wall Streets shocking new plan to reap billions off dying Americans

The resistance to vaccines mounts -- Now that John and Jane America are armed with valuable information — thanks to the Internet — the mass inoculation, by force, is losing its grip and the hysteria is waning.

Vaccination justification is collapsing -- BMJ Says Simple, Cheap Measures Keep Viruses at Bay.

Nearly 8300 stores have closed this year -- When consumers start their holiday shopping in earnest next month, they will find fewer stores competing for their business as vacancy rates at malls and shopping centers have risen to multiyear highs. Rabies shows up in vaccinated pets -- Don't assume that because your pet is vaccinated, that you don't have to worry about trying to reduce the risk of exposure to rabies. Don't assume that an animal with neurological disease doesn't have rabies just because it's been vaccinated.

UK: Smart meters could be spy in then home -- Smart meters could become a 'spy in the home' by allowing social workers and health authorities to monitor households, adding to concern at Britain's surveillance society.

Speed cameras attacked in Poland, Finland & Wales -- Attacks on photo enforcement devices have grown increasingly common in the UK as Wales, with a population of three million, reported at least 102 camera attacks in the past few years.

Driving around with a loud stereo? -- Florida wants to make it a crime.

Bacterium aids in the formation of gold -- An Australian-led team of international scientists says it's found the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans catalyses toxic gold compounds into metallic form.
-- It sounds too gruesome to be true, but the bankers have already shaken the silver out of everything that had value in America -- except for the elderly.