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Army imprisons Iraq vet for hip-hop song -- The Army threw Hall in jail on December 11, 2009, in Liberty County Jail, Georgia. He is charged under Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which covers “all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline” and “all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.” Army officials considered the song a warning sign and threat.
Truckloads of unused swine flu vaccine -- Truckloads of swine flu vaccines are being returned by counties that say the expected demand for the shots never happened.
Real time National Debt Clock -- The purpose of the US Debt Clock is to inform the public of the financial condition of the US.
Crack new scanner looks for bombs inside body cavities -- Nesch, a company based in Crown Point, Indiana, may have a solution. It’s called diffraction-enhanced X-ray imaging or DEXI, which employs proprietary diffraction enhanced imaging and multiple image radiography.
VIDEO: George Bush heckled in a pizza restaurant -- Former President George H.W. Bush surrounded by Secret Service agents gets cursed at in Pizza place. (Warning: Rough Language)
US drones collecting too much information -- US remote-controlled spy drones used over Afghanistan and Iraq are producing so much video intelligence that analysts are finding it more and more difficult to keep up with it, according to The New York Times.
Government cover-up of food shortage feared -- the government is intentionally covering up the nature of the food shortage because if the public realized the true extent of the crisis and/or prices rose dramatically, economies could collapse and governments could fall.
A North American Security perimeter on the horizon -- Some of the recommendations from the 2005 report, Building a North American Community co-sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, included a unified border, a North American border pass, a single economic space, as well as a common security perimeter by 2010.
Iraqi doctors demand cancer probe -- Iraqi doctors believe depleted uranium from US military equipment used in the 2003 invasion is spreading cancer through the population. They are recording a shocking rise in the number of cancer victims south of Baghdad, they claim. Outraged, they have demanded an investigation be held into the matter.
Animals fed GM feed are different -- In a landmark ruling, the NZ Commerce Commission has accepted evidence from Prof Jack Heinemann, from an exhaustive review of the literature and on the basis of his own extensive professional experience, that animals fed on GM components ARE different from those which are reared using non-GM feed.
TSA lies exposed: Full body scanners do save & transmit images, secret documents reveal -- secret documents uncovered by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (www.EPIC.org) have revealed that these machines do indeed posses precisely such capabilities. According to TSA specification requirement documents that have been uncovered by the EPIC, all full-body scanners purchased by the TSA must have the ability to both save and transmit the scanned images of air passengers.
* EPIC posts TSA documents on body scanners
* Info from TSA site about imaging machines
Privacy activists score victory against more detailed body scanners at airports -- We don't need to look at naked 8-year-olds and grandmothers to secure airplanes," Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said Friday. "Are we really going to subject 2 million people per day to that? I think it's a false argument to say we have to give up all of our personal privacy in order to have security.
New store signs can spy on customers -- Microsoft & Intel have created technology that will allow signs in stores to detect a customer’s gender and which products a shopper looks at.
Government launches secret program to lay eggs -- At clandestine farms across Pennsylvania, thousands of roosters and hens have been toiling away for months in confidential conditions normally reserved for important government ops. Their mission: Fertilize enough eggs to keep supplies of swine-flu vaccine flowing.
VA & Kaiser launch Electronic Health Records Pilot -- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Kaiser Permanente have launched an electronic health record (EHR) data sharing program that will eventually lead to the creation of EHRs for all veterans and service members.
Obama and the Global Police; more friendly fascism? -- Obama's recent transformation of Executive Order (EO) 12425 from a document that constitutionally limits the International Criminal Police Organization's (Interpol) activities domestically to one that establishes it as an autonomous police agency within the U.S. "The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."-- James Madison
401K/IRA screw job coming -- The U.S. Treasury and Labor Departments will ask for public comment as soon as next week on ways to promote the conversion of 401(k) savings and Individual Retirement Accounts into annuities or other steady payment streams, according to Assistant Labor Secretary Phyllis C. Borzi and Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary Mark Iwry, who are spearheading the effort.
The disposable worker -- You know American workers are in bad shape when a low-paying, no-benefits job is considered a sweet deal.
The military industrial complex is ruining the economy -- Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says that the Iraq war will cost $3-5 trillion dollars.
Ex FEMA worker charge in Katrina Fraud -- A former FEMA employee and her cousin are being accused of stealing more than $721,000 in Hurricane Katrina relief money. Former FEMA worker Lashonda Booker and her cousin, Peggy Hilton, have been charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud in Mississippi. She is accused of using a government database to get information about storm victims who applied for assistance. Prosecutors say Hilton used the information to get FEMA to send money to a bank account.
Targeting guns: a cops new priority -- "It's not the guy with the kilo of weed in his car, it's the one with the Glock in his waistband."
California quake illustrates force of plate movement -- The powerful earthquake that rocked the seabed off the Northern California coast near Eureka on Saturday underscores the complexity of seismic dangers within the Earth's crust, and is likely to be followed by a large aftershock this week - but it is not expected to exceed the 6.5 magnitude of the temblor that was felt as far away as Reno, scientists said.
Another good reason to kill your television -- Prolonged TV viewing linked to higher risk of death even in those who exercise. Researchers in Australia found that prolonged television viewing was linked to an increased risk of death, even in people who exercised regularly, and recommended more be done to encourage people to spend fewer hours sitting still in front of the TV.
Truckloads of unused swine flu vaccine -- Truckloads of swine flu vaccines are being returned by counties that say the expected demand for the shots never happened.
Real time National Debt Clock -- The purpose of the US Debt Clock is to inform the public of the financial condition of the US.
Crack new scanner looks for bombs inside body cavities -- Nesch, a company based in Crown Point, Indiana, may have a solution. It’s called diffraction-enhanced X-ray imaging or DEXI, which employs proprietary diffraction enhanced imaging and multiple image radiography.
VIDEO: George Bush heckled in a pizza restaurant -- Former President George H.W. Bush surrounded by Secret Service agents gets cursed at in Pizza place. (Warning: Rough Language)
US drones collecting too much information -- US remote-controlled spy drones used over Afghanistan and Iraq are producing so much video intelligence that analysts are finding it more and more difficult to keep up with it, according to The New York Times.
Government cover-up of food shortage feared -- the government is intentionally covering up the nature of the food shortage because if the public realized the true extent of the crisis and/or prices rose dramatically, economies could collapse and governments could fall.
A North American Security perimeter on the horizon -- Some of the recommendations from the 2005 report, Building a North American Community co-sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, included a unified border, a North American border pass, a single economic space, as well as a common security perimeter by 2010.
Iraqi doctors demand cancer probe -- Iraqi doctors believe depleted uranium from US military equipment used in the 2003 invasion is spreading cancer through the population. They are recording a shocking rise in the number of cancer victims south of Baghdad, they claim. Outraged, they have demanded an investigation be held into the matter.
Animals fed GM feed are different -- In a landmark ruling, the NZ Commerce Commission has accepted evidence from Prof Jack Heinemann, from an exhaustive review of the literature and on the basis of his own extensive professional experience, that animals fed on GM components ARE different from those which are reared using non-GM feed.
TSA lies exposed: Full body scanners do save & transmit images, secret documents reveal -- secret documents uncovered by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (www.EPIC.org) have revealed that these machines do indeed posses precisely such capabilities. According to TSA specification requirement documents that have been uncovered by the EPIC, all full-body scanners purchased by the TSA must have the ability to both save and transmit the scanned images of air passengers.
* EPIC posts TSA documents on body scanners
* Info from TSA site about imaging machines
Privacy activists score victory against more detailed body scanners at airports -- We don't need to look at naked 8-year-olds and grandmothers to secure airplanes," Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said Friday. "Are we really going to subject 2 million people per day to that? I think it's a false argument to say we have to give up all of our personal privacy in order to have security.
New store signs can spy on customers -- Microsoft & Intel have created technology that will allow signs in stores to detect a customer’s gender and which products a shopper looks at.
Government launches secret program to lay eggs -- At clandestine farms across Pennsylvania, thousands of roosters and hens have been toiling away for months in confidential conditions normally reserved for important government ops. Their mission: Fertilize enough eggs to keep supplies of swine-flu vaccine flowing.
VA & Kaiser launch Electronic Health Records Pilot -- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Kaiser Permanente have launched an electronic health record (EHR) data sharing program that will eventually lead to the creation of EHRs for all veterans and service members.
Obama and the Global Police; more friendly fascism? -- Obama's recent transformation of Executive Order (EO) 12425 from a document that constitutionally limits the International Criminal Police Organization's (Interpol) activities domestically to one that establishes it as an autonomous police agency within the U.S. "The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."-- James Madison
401K/IRA screw job coming -- The U.S. Treasury and Labor Departments will ask for public comment as soon as next week on ways to promote the conversion of 401(k) savings and Individual Retirement Accounts into annuities or other steady payment streams, according to Assistant Labor Secretary Phyllis C. Borzi and Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary Mark Iwry, who are spearheading the effort.
The disposable worker -- You know American workers are in bad shape when a low-paying, no-benefits job is considered a sweet deal.
The military industrial complex is ruining the economy -- Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says that the Iraq war will cost $3-5 trillion dollars.
Ex FEMA worker charge in Katrina Fraud -- A former FEMA employee and her cousin are being accused of stealing more than $721,000 in Hurricane Katrina relief money. Former FEMA worker Lashonda Booker and her cousin, Peggy Hilton, have been charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud in Mississippi. She is accused of using a government database to get information about storm victims who applied for assistance. Prosecutors say Hilton used the information to get FEMA to send money to a bank account.
Targeting guns: a cops new priority -- "It's not the guy with the kilo of weed in his car, it's the one with the Glock in his waistband."
California quake illustrates force of plate movement -- The powerful earthquake that rocked the seabed off the Northern California coast near Eureka on Saturday underscores the complexity of seismic dangers within the Earth's crust, and is likely to be followed by a large aftershock this week - but it is not expected to exceed the 6.5 magnitude of the temblor that was felt as far away as Reno, scientists said.
Another good reason to kill your television -- Prolonged TV viewing linked to higher risk of death even in those who exercise. Researchers in Australia found that prolonged television viewing was linked to an increased risk of death, even in people who exercised regularly, and recommended more be done to encourage people to spend fewer hours sitting still in front of the TV.
