Monday, January 25, 2010

Joyce Riley's THE POWER HOUR NEWS - January 25, 2010


HAARP has deleted its records from 2010-1-11

VIDEO: Is Obama really Osama bin Laden

FDIC: Failed Bank List, 5 more this past Friday
* Related Article: More banks go down on Friday -- Regulators shut down banks Friday in Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington, bringing to nine the number of bank failures so far in 2010, following 140 closures last year in the toughest economic environment since the Great Depression

1st time ever: Transfusion-Related Transmission of Yellow Fever Vaccine Virus -- In the United States, yellow fever (YF) vaccination is recommended for travelers and active duty military members visiting endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa and Central/South America (1,2). The American Red Cross recommends that recipients of YF vaccine defer blood product donation for 2 weeks because of the theoretical risk for transmission from a viremic donor (3). On April 10, 2009, a hospital blood bank supervisor learned that, on March 27, blood products had been collected from 89 U.S. active duty trainees who had received YF vaccine 4 days before donation. This report summarizes the subsequent investigation by the hospital and CDC to identify lapses in donor deferral and to determine whether transfusion-related transmission of YF vaccine virus occurred. Read More...

UK: CCTV in the sky: police plan to use military spy drones -- Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the ­"routine" monitoring of antisocial motorists, ­protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert surveillance.

Dangerous crossroads: US moves troops and missles to Russian border -- on January 20 the Polish Defense Ministry announced that a U.S. Patriot missile battery, and the 100 American soldiers who will operate it, would not be based on the outskirts of the capital of Warsaw as previously announced but in the Baltic Sea city of Morag, 35 miles [6] from Poland’s border with Russia. The missile battery and troops are scheduled to arrive in March or April.Further deployments will follow.

Iran dispatches 5th fleet of warships to Gulf of Aden -- The fifth fleet of warships is tasked with defending Iranian cargo ships and oil tankers for a period of 40 days, Commander of Iran's First Naval Zone Fariborz Qaderpanah told FNA.

Index to SSRI Stories -- This website is a collection of 3500+ news stories with the full media article available, mainly criminal in nature, that have appeared in the media (newspapers, TV, scientific journals) or that were part of FDA testimony in either 1991, 2004 or 2006, in which antidepressants are mentioned.

One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not people, new figures show New analysis of 2009 US Department -- New analysis of 2009 US Department of Agriculture figures suggests biofuel revolution is impacting on world food supplies.

$10,000 reward offered for scientific proof of H1N1 vaccine safety and effectiveness -- In conjunction with NaturalNews, the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (http://www.ConsumerWellness.org ) has publicly offered a $10,000 reward for any person, company or institution who can provide trusted, scientific evidence proving that any of the FDA -approved H1N1 vaccines being offered to Americans right now are both safe and effective.

New Anti-Smog Restrictions Could Warm Planet -- But Jason West at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill says that when you reduce NOx, you don't just reduce ozone; you change the chemistry of the atmosphere in such a way that you end up increasing the amount of methane in the air. And methane is a potent gas when it comes to global warming. "By reducing NOx, the net effect is you make global warming worse," West says.

Security "red zones" in Haiti preventing aid groups from effectively distributing aid -- As thousands of well-equipped US soldiers pour into Haiti, there is an increasing concern about the militarization of the country, supporting the soldiers and not the people. Or, as one doctor put it, "people need gauze, not guns."

Child trafficking with Haiti orphans? -- UNICEF warned of children disappearing from hospitals and raised fears of child trafficking in the wake of Haiti's devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.

Local homes with Chinese drywall to set bar for remediation -- For months the Norfolk lawyer has worked with scientists and contractors, cutting holes in walls in seven Virginia homes, testing corrosion, and developing estimates for what it will take to remediate homes that contain drywall made in China. The product emits a noxious gas that, government agencies have found, apparently corrodes electrical appliances, and some homeowners contend that it causes illness. Judicial decisions will mean little, however, if Taishan ignores the judgment. "This is becoming a common problem in a globalized world," Nagareda said. "If a company doesn't have assets in the U.S., it could be hard to get at them."

Green jobs not recession-proof -- The Obama administration's call for green jobs as an economic savior initially sparked hope for economic recovery. But the federal funds have only dribbled into the sector, held up by various shades of bureaucratic red tape and the lingering credit crisis. As a result, projects stalled and workers got pink slips as banks froze credit, venture capital firms slowed sector investments and government rebates snagged. By year-end, green-sector job freezes and losses far outweighed gains.

Like Lazarus, Bin Laden Rises -- In fact, no matter what you believe about 9/11, it is indisputable that the horrible event served as a launching pad for a seemingly endless war on terror on which the West is now embarked. As far as Bin Laden goes, we've pointed out numerous times that many believe him to be dead. Most recently we reported on a video featuring a statement by Benazir Bhutto (a few weeks prior to her murder) that can be seen on Youtube.com.

The Painting of the Year! -- Unless you’ve already seen this video, this is probably unlike any you have seen before. This painting should be hanging in our Capitol so our Representatives see it each and everyday they walk through the doors. It would serve as a reminder from what this country was founded on and by whom!!! It is absolutely beautiful and it does touch the heart!! Thanks Trevor!

Article from 2008-Haiti is full of oil -- Scientists Daniel and Ginette Mathurin indicate that under Haitian soil is rich in oil and fuel fossible which were collected by Haitian and foreign experts. "We have identified 20 sites Oil, launches Daniel Mathurin stating that 5 of them are considered very important by practitioners and policies.

Prepare now to escape Obama's retirement trap -- Make no mistake, the government need for current revenue and their frenzied search for a short-term fix to fund a backstop of liquidity to buy future government debt obligations when no credible investors will buy them is an unspoken quest of both political parties. The establishments of both political parties will do anything to stay in power and this will include raiding and pillaging your retirement funds.

David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years -- Vital evidence which could solve the mystery of the death of Government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly will be kept under wraps for up to 70 years. In a draconian – and highly unusual – order, Lord Hutton, the peer who chaired the controversial inquiry into the Dr Kelly scandal, has secretly barred the release of all medical records, including the results of the post mortem, and unpublished evidence.

Walmart to axe 11,200 Sam's club staffers -- The terminations represent about 10 percent of the warehouse club operator's 110,000 staffers across its 600 stores.

Burger King to Offer Beer/Burger Combos -- In Miami Beach, one entrepreneur wants you to “have it your way” by enjoying a frosty cold one with your Whopper and fries. (For a mere $7.99.) It’s part of a new Burger King attempt to reinvent the fast-food restaurant’s look and feel. The restaurant will be called the “Whopper Bar South Beach” which, to me, sounds a little hokey. But maybe the name will work just fine in Florida.

Bats dying from white nose syndrome, spells trouble for farmers -- White nose syndrome threatens to wipe out five of Pennsylvania's six bat species, according to bat biologist DeeAnn M. Reeder of Bucknell University, Lewisburg.

Rickets warning from doctors as Vitamin D deficiency widens -- Computer-obsessed children who spend too long indoors and over-anxious parents who slap on excessive sunscreen are contributing to a sharp rise in cases of the bone disease rickets, doctors are warning.

Radiation offers new cures and ways to do harm -- As Scott Jerome-Parks lay dying, he clung to this wish: that his fatal radiation overdose — be studied and talked about publicly so that others might not have to live his nightmare.

Pharma media to squelch probe into H1N1 vaccine fraud & genocide -- The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will hold a secret hearing next week into the apparent manipulation by BigPharma of the World Health Organization's (WHO) global H1N1 flu campaign. Experts predict the secrecy will be maintained by the PharmaMedia that controls mainstream news.

NY Dairy farmer kills 51 cows, then himself -- State police in New York say an upstate dairy farmer shot and killed 51 of his milk cows in his barn before turning the rifle on himself. Local farmers buried the cows outside the barn Friday. They would not discuss the local man or what had happened, but one of the men said these are hard times to be a farmer.

US says it will stay in Haiti long term -- Despite criticism for the US military presence in quake-stricken Haiti, Washington says it has a long-term plan to stay in the country.

US to pay Taliban fighters to lay down arms -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai unveiled an ambitious Western funded plan Friday to offer money and jobs to tempt Taliban fighters to lay down their arms in an effort to quell a crippling insurgency.

Mother who loses son to brain tumor warns of cell phone use -- My Son, Rich Farver, died Oct. 11, 2008 from glioblastoma multiforme brain cancer. He was 28 years old when diagnosed and lived seven months. He was a graduate student at SDSU (San Diego State University). There is a brain cancer cluster on campus.

Call for immediate arrest of 5 Supreme Court justices for treason -- Five members of the Supreme Court declared that a “corporation” is a person, not a “regular person” but one above all natural laws, subject to no God, no moral code but one with unlimited power over our lives, a power awarded by judges who seem themselves as grand inquisitors in an meant to hunt down all hertics who fail to serve their god, the god of money.

Widespread antibiotic use in the 1960s may have sparked MRSA -- A new genetic method of tracking infection suggests that the superbug emerged five decades ago in Europe, just as antibiotics were being widely introduced for the first time.

Obama has suspicious number of letter writing fans named Ellie Light -- In recent weeks, Light has published virtually identical “Letters to the Editor” in support of President Barack Obama in more than a dozen newspapers. Every letter claimed a different residence for Light that happened to be in the newspaper’s circulation area.

Iraq littered with nuclear & chemical contamination -- More than 40 sites across Iraq are contaminated with high levels or radiation and dioxins, with three decades of war and neglect having left environmental ruin in large parts of the country, an official Iraqi study has found.

Military pays for booze for Congressional trips abroad -- When members of Congress travel overseas at the expense of the Department of Defense, they are treated to thousands of dollars worth of alcohol and other amenities.

The coming emergency state -- For now, “end times” or not, the “Emergency State” seems to be the reality in which we will be living under for the next decade or two.

SOS: Katrina & Haiti-by Karl Schwarz -- There are some valuable lessons, moral, social, political and otherwise, in what happened in August 2005 with Hurricane Katrina / New Orleans and what is transpiring right now in Port Au Prince, Haiti. In short, it was then and now failed leadership, failed aid delivery on display in both disasters.

Israel makes waves by simulating an earthquake -- The Seismologic Division of the Ministry of National Infrastructure's Geophysical Institute will attempt to simulate an earthquake in the southern Negev on Thursday. The experiment, financed by the U.S. Defense Department, is a joint project with the University of Hawaii and is part of a scientific project intended to improve seismological and acoustic readings in Israel and its environs, up to a 1,000 km/621 mile radius.

Jobless rate in Las Vegas at 13.1% -- There were 128,200 people who were unemployed, up 9,400 from November.

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Paypal freezes Wikileaks account -- WikiLeaks is not the only non-profit organization with this problem. This is a regular occurrence, that from our perspective should not be tolerated by the global community using this payment system.

Batten down the hatches: augmented reality is on it's way -- Who wants to see poor people? Soon, technology will allow us to airbrush them out.

The age of the killer robot is no longer a sci-fi fantasy -- You can't appeal to robots for mercy or empathy - or punish them afterwards. In the dark, in the silence, in a blink, the age of the autonomous killer robot has arrived. It is happening. They are deployed. And – at their current rate of acceleration –
they will become the dominant method of war for rich countries in the 21st century.

US gunman surrenders after eight are killed -- A gunman wanted for eight killings surrendered to authorities after almost shooting a police helicopter out of the sky. Christopher Speight, 39, turned himself in at daybreak yesterday as officers closed in on him in the thick woods of central Virginia.
* 2 families caught up in Virginia killing rampage -- There was no school the next day, so 15-year-old Emily Quarles had a friend sleep over. As she and her mother took the friend home the next morning, they became targets for a rampaging gunman. When Emily's father and boyfriend went looking for them, they were slain too. Read More...