House cuts workweek to 2-1/2 days -- The Democratic-led House -- in the middle of the biggest healthcare fight in a generation -- has now trimmed their workweek to just two and a half days, leaving members of Congress plenty of time to ski or play golf.
POTENTIAL SPY BLIMP BEING TESTED AT LORING By: David Deschesne -- The 200+ foot-long blimp currently flying at the former Loring Air Force Base is a prototype of a system that may eventually be used to spy on the American citizenry. The Loring project is called SKYBUS and is an R&D project undertaken jointly by Telford Aviation, from Bangor, Maine and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), headquartered in McLean, Virginia. “The main purpose is to develop an unmanned, remotely piloted airship that can be used in a variety of commercial and defense applications,” Bob Ziegelaar, Senior Projects Manager for Telford Aviation told the Fort Fairfield Journal.
TRICARE increase stuns retirees -- “This shocking announcement is extremely disappointing, given your public assurances earlier this year that the Defense Department would not be proposing any TRICARE fee increases for (fiscal) 2010,” retired Navy Vice Adm. Norbert R. Ryan Jr., president of the Military Officers Association of America told Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Ryan’s protest letter was sent hours after TRICARE officials unveiled their new inpatient fees for Standard.
Father warns others about cold medicine after son's death -- Last January, Logan Mickley, like so many other children came down with a cold. His father, Jason, like so many other parents, gave Logan some cold medicine. Read More...
Loveland, Colorado ski area has earliest opening in 40 years -- Boasting its earliest opening day in 40 years, Loveland officials opened for skiing today. Arapahoe Basin announced it would open Friday.
Accused "Bat-Killers" -- A federal grand jury indicts two men for allegedly violating the Endangered Species Act.
Congressional leaders fight against posting bills online -- As Congress lurches closer to a decision on an enormous overhaul of the American health care system, pressure is mounting on legislative leaders to make the final bill available online for citizens to read before a vote.
Thoughts on irradiated food -- Is food irradiation good enough that we could theoretically go back to having rare hamburgers, soft-boiled eggs and unpasteurized milk?
VIDEO: Max Keiser: The US dollar is finished
Retail vacancies hit multi year highs - 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 multi year highs.
Top researcher who worked on cervical cancer vaccine warns about it's dangers -- One of the key researchers involved in the clinical trials for both Gardasil and Cevarix cervical cancer vaccines has gone public with warnings about their safety and effectiveness.
High fructose corn syrup may raise bad cholesterol levels -- The University of California-Davis have found that consumption of fructose-sweetened drinks appears to raise the body's levels of LDL ("bad") cholesterol in a way that glucose-sweetened drinks do not. The study was published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
US to export riot roasting ray gun -- Aviation Week reports today that executives from American arms megacorp Raytheon, makers of the famous yet seldom-used riot-roaster weapon, have disclosed a sale of four containerised Silent Guardians to "a US ally". The revelations were described as an "oops" by the corporate types, as the Pentagon had forbidden the firm to make the sale public.
Swine flu could be a product of overzealous research -- As swine flu continues to spread across the world, so do theories about its origin. US investigative journalist Wayne Madsen says he's gathering more and more evidence that the H1N1 virus started out in a lab.
Areas hit hard by flu in spring see little now -- While concern over the spread of the H1N1 virus sweeps the country, epidemiologists in New York and a few other cities that were awash in swine flu last spring are detecting very little evidence of a resurgence.
Vaccine induced pandemic -- The 2009 A(H1N1) influenza viruses exhibited less efficient respiratory droplet transmission in ferrets in comparison with the highly transmissible phenotype of a seasonal H1N1 virus. Transmission of the 2009 A(H1N1) influenza viruses was further corroborated by characterizing the binding specificity of the viral hemagglutinin to the sialylated glycan receptors (in the human host) by use of dose-dependent direct receptor-binding and human lung tissue-binding assays.
Sebelius says Americans must get swine flu shot -- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius appealed anew Wednesday for widespread inoculation against a surging swine flu threat, calling the vaccine "safe and secure."
Related Article: Rush Limbaugh says he won't get vaccine because Kathleen Sibelius told him to!
Latex allergy linked to adverse reaction to swine flu shot -- Health officials in Australia, where mass vaccination against swine flu began eight days ago, said a person with an allergy to latex developed a reaction to the shot.
AP poll: only half of people want swine flu shots -- The people who most want the swine flu vaccine are older people, who will be last in line, says a new Associated Press-GfK poll.
Hypersensitivity reactions to vaccine components -- The variety of substances used in vaccines sometimes causes the development of cutaneous reactions in susceptible adults and children. This article will review adverse cutaneous events consistent with hypersensitivity reactions to the following ingredients in vaccines: aluminum, thimerosal, 2-phenoxyethanol, formaldehyde, and neomycin.
Microsoft Launches Online H1N1 Flu Response Center to Support Consumers -- Microsoft Corp. today announced a new Web site, H1N1 Response Center
(http://www.h1n1responsecenter.com), which provides users with timely and relevant content and enables consumers to gauge symptoms and receive guidance using an H1N1 self-assessment service.
The questionable efficacy of flu vaccines and the pandemic that wasn't -- Evidence to date suggests that the “H1N1 flu is not a major threat,” and there is little evidence that flu vaccines are effective in preventing the flu, so says Tom Jefferson, MD, arguably the world’s leading expert on influenza vaccines.
Presidential powers during cybersecurity emergencies -- Our nation can be threatened not only by physical attacks on terra firma, but also in Cyberspace. Indeed, Cyber attacks could threaten all sorts of mission critical systems. For this reason, aides to Senator Jay Rockefeller reportedly have been working recently on a revised draft Senate bill that would give the President broad powers in the event of a Cybersecurity emergency, and that apparently would go so far as allowing the President to temporarily seize control over computer networks in the private sector.
Local cops want nation of snoops and snitches -- Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton and other big city cops are calling for a new system of "citizen watch" programs, allegedly to help them spot hidden terrorists. I view this new call for a nation of private spies with a deep suspicion born of experience with the LAPD and its historic penchant for spying on law-abiding residents of that city.
Vaccines dark inferno -- What is not on insert labels? Our investigation shows that most people do not know what is actually in a vaccine: the active ingredients listed on product labels, inert ingredients, and, most important, the hidden ingredients. Even more remote is taking the time to actually study the subject matter, review the scientific literature and discover the truth for oneself. To our amazement, that truth was easy to find. But it is a truth that will scare the hell out of you.
Bye US Dollar? Yes, but slowly -- Alarmist conclusions that the dollar is on a swift road to ruin are wide of the mark. The road will be long and at its end the dollar will not be ruined, but it will be less important.
SWAT raid on food storehouse headed to trial -- A lawsuit brought by an Ohio family whose children were held at SWAT-team gunpoint while their food supplies were confiscated is scheduled to go to trial this week. The Stowers and their 10 children and grandchildren were detained in one room of their home for six hours while sheriff's officers confiscated 60 boxes of fresh farm food, computers, phones and records, including USDA-certified meat from the children's mini-farm, according to lawyers for the plaintiffs.
POTENTIAL SPY BLIMP BEING TESTED AT LORING By: David Deschesne -- The 200+ foot-long blimp currently flying at the former Loring Air Force Base is a prototype of a system that may eventually be used to spy on the American citizenry. The Loring project is called SKYBUS and is an R&D project undertaken jointly by Telford Aviation, from Bangor, Maine and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), headquartered in McLean, Virginia. “The main purpose is to develop an unmanned, remotely piloted airship that can be used in a variety of commercial and defense applications,” Bob Ziegelaar, Senior Projects Manager for Telford Aviation told the Fort Fairfield Journal.
TRICARE increase stuns retirees -- “This shocking announcement is extremely disappointing, given your public assurances earlier this year that the Defense Department would not be proposing any TRICARE fee increases for (fiscal) 2010,” retired Navy Vice Adm. Norbert R. Ryan Jr., president of the Military Officers Association of America told Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Ryan’s protest letter was sent hours after TRICARE officials unveiled their new inpatient fees for Standard.
Father warns others about cold medicine after son's death -- Last January, Logan Mickley, like so many other children came down with a cold. His father, Jason, like so many other parents, gave Logan some cold medicine. Read More...
Loveland, Colorado ski area has earliest opening in 40 years -- Boasting its earliest opening day in 40 years, Loveland officials opened for skiing today. Arapahoe Basin announced it would open Friday.
Accused "Bat-Killers" -- A federal grand jury indicts two men for allegedly violating the Endangered Species Act.
Congressional leaders fight against posting bills online -- As Congress lurches closer to a decision on an enormous overhaul of the American health care system, pressure is mounting on legislative leaders to make the final bill available online for citizens to read before a vote.
Thoughts on irradiated food -- Is food irradiation good enough that we could theoretically go back to having rare hamburgers, soft-boiled eggs and unpasteurized milk?
VIDEO: Max Keiser: The US dollar is finished
Retail vacancies hit multi year highs - 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 multi year highs.
Top researcher who worked on cervical cancer vaccine warns about it's dangers -- One of the key researchers involved in the clinical trials for both Gardasil and Cevarix cervical cancer vaccines has gone public with warnings about their safety and effectiveness.
High fructose corn syrup may raise bad cholesterol levels -- The University of California-Davis have found that consumption of fructose-sweetened drinks appears to raise the body's levels of LDL ("bad") cholesterol in a way that glucose-sweetened drinks do not. The study was published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
US to export riot roasting ray gun -- Aviation Week reports today that executives from American arms megacorp Raytheon, makers of the famous yet seldom-used riot-roaster weapon, have disclosed a sale of four containerised Silent Guardians to "a US ally". The revelations were described as an "oops" by the corporate types, as the Pentagon had forbidden the firm to make the sale public.
Swine flu could be a product of overzealous research -- As swine flu continues to spread across the world, so do theories about its origin. US investigative journalist Wayne Madsen says he's gathering more and more evidence that the H1N1 virus started out in a lab.
Areas hit hard by flu in spring see little now -- While concern over the spread of the H1N1 virus sweeps the country, epidemiologists in New York and a few other cities that were awash in swine flu last spring are detecting very little evidence of a resurgence.
Vaccine induced pandemic -- The 2009 A(H1N1) influenza viruses exhibited less efficient respiratory droplet transmission in ferrets in comparison with the highly transmissible phenotype of a seasonal H1N1 virus. Transmission of the 2009 A(H1N1) influenza viruses was further corroborated by characterizing the binding specificity of the viral hemagglutinin to the sialylated glycan receptors (in the human host) by use of dose-dependent direct receptor-binding and human lung tissue-binding assays.
Sebelius says Americans must get swine flu shot -- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius appealed anew Wednesday for widespread inoculation against a surging swine flu threat, calling the vaccine "safe and secure."
Related Article: Rush Limbaugh says he won't get vaccine because Kathleen Sibelius told him to!
Latex allergy linked to adverse reaction to swine flu shot -- Health officials in Australia, where mass vaccination against swine flu began eight days ago, said a person with an allergy to latex developed a reaction to the shot.
AP poll: only half of people want swine flu shots -- The people who most want the swine flu vaccine are older people, who will be last in line, says a new Associated Press-GfK poll.
Hypersensitivity reactions to vaccine components -- The variety of substances used in vaccines sometimes causes the development of cutaneous reactions in susceptible adults and children. This article will review adverse cutaneous events consistent with hypersensitivity reactions to the following ingredients in vaccines: aluminum, thimerosal, 2-phenoxyethanol, formaldehyde, and neomycin.
Microsoft Launches Online H1N1 Flu Response Center to Support Consumers -- Microsoft Corp. today announced a new Web site, H1N1 Response Center
(http://www.h1n1responsecenter.com), which provides users with timely and relevant content and enables consumers to gauge symptoms and receive guidance using an H1N1 self-assessment service.
The questionable efficacy of flu vaccines and the pandemic that wasn't -- Evidence to date suggests that the “H1N1 flu is not a major threat,” and there is little evidence that flu vaccines are effective in preventing the flu, so says Tom Jefferson, MD, arguably the world’s leading expert on influenza vaccines.
Presidential powers during cybersecurity emergencies -- Our nation can be threatened not only by physical attacks on terra firma, but also in Cyberspace. Indeed, Cyber attacks could threaten all sorts of mission critical systems. For this reason, aides to Senator Jay Rockefeller reportedly have been working recently on a revised draft Senate bill that would give the President broad powers in the event of a Cybersecurity emergency, and that apparently would go so far as allowing the President to temporarily seize control over computer networks in the private sector.
Local cops want nation of snoops and snitches -- Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton and other big city cops are calling for a new system of "citizen watch" programs, allegedly to help them spot hidden terrorists. I view this new call for a nation of private spies with a deep suspicion born of experience with the LAPD and its historic penchant for spying on law-abiding residents of that city.
Vaccines dark inferno -- What is not on insert labels? Our investigation shows that most people do not know what is actually in a vaccine: the active ingredients listed on product labels, inert ingredients, and, most important, the hidden ingredients. Even more remote is taking the time to actually study the subject matter, review the scientific literature and discover the truth for oneself. To our amazement, that truth was easy to find. But it is a truth that will scare the hell out of you.
Bye US Dollar? Yes, but slowly -- Alarmist conclusions that the dollar is on a swift road to ruin are wide of the mark. The road will be long and at its end the dollar will not be ruined, but it will be less important.
SWAT raid on food storehouse headed to trial -- A lawsuit brought by an Ohio family whose children were held at SWAT-team gunpoint while their food supplies were confiscated is scheduled to go to trial this week. The Stowers and their 10 children and grandchildren were detained in one room of their home for six hours while sheriff's officers confiscated 60 boxes of fresh farm food, computers, phones and records, including USDA-certified meat from the children's mini-farm, according to lawyers for the plaintiffs.
