Massive layoffs this weeks:
* Caterpillar to ay off 20,000
* Pfizer, tens of thousands
* Home Depot-7,000
* Sprint-8,000
* ING-7,000
* Phillips-6,000
* Walmart to cut over 11,000 jobs
Verizon to cut 13,000 jobs -- Verizon Communications Inc., coping with subscriber losses at its fixed-line phone business, plans to cut about 13,000 jobs at the division this year after posting fourth-quarter revenue that missed analysts’ estimates.
Live pigs blasted in terror attack experiments -- LIVE pigs are being blown up with explosives at Porton Down, the government’s secret military research laboratory, to simulate the effect of terrorist attacks on civilian targets. Read More...
WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON IN HAITI? By Chuck Baldwin -- Simply put, I cannot remember such an all-out "relief effort" by our nation's military and government forces following a natural disaster anywhere—ever! Not even New Orleans, Louisiana, and surrounding Gulf Coast communities here in the homeland received the kind of attention from Washington, D.C., that Haiti is receiving. According to Agence France-Press (AFP), "The US military is ramping up its mission in quake-hit Haiti, with 20,000 US troops expected to operate on ground and offshore by Sunday [January 24], the US commander overseeing the region said."
Haiti's homeless plead for tents after quake -- Haitian President Rene Preval has asked the world for 200,000 tents to provide temporary shelter for earthquake victims.
US credit card defaults hit near records levels -- U.S. consumers defaulted on store-branded credit cards at near-record levels during the holiday shopping season, with 2010 likely to bring more of the same trend, according to Fitch Ratings.
War Criminals: Arrest Warrants Requested -- International arrest warrants have been requested for George W. Bush, Richard (Dick) Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleeza Rice and Alberto Gonzales at the International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands.
Raw Food Diet: Enjoy Nutrition as Nature Designed -- Raw food diets are becoming increasing popular, and with good reason. Foods in their raw state are truly as nature designed and they are the most biocompatible with our bodies.
USDA poised to take away our right to GMO free food -- Barack Obama, despite promising us "change we can believe in," is unfortunately turning out to be just as pro-GMO as the preceding Bush and Clinton administrations, packing the USDA and other government bureaucracies with Monsanto men and biotech cheerleaders such as former Iowa Governor, Tom Vilsack, named biotech governor of the year in 2001, now serving as USDA Secretary.
Compact fluorescent bulbs dumping mercury directly into landfills -- A report released in 2008 from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection revealed that when a CFL bulb is broken, it can release dangerously high levels of mercury into the air.
VIDEO: Americans sign petition to repeal the first amendment!?
Davos world economic forum security chief found dead in apparent suicide -- Reports are streaming in that Dr. Markus Reinhardt, a police captain who was in put in charge of the World Economic Forum's security taskforce, has been found dead.
Ex government lawyers: Iraq war was illegal -- Two of the Government's most senior lawyers at the time of the Iraq war have said they believed it was illegal without a second UN resolution.
Report: US flunks on ability to deal with bio attack -- The United States has made little progress in the past year in improving its ability to blunt the impact of a biological weapons attack, says a new report from the commission Congress established to assess the nation's efforts to prevent and respond to terrorism.
UK anti terror cops stop children's TV stars for carrying glittery hair dryers -- Running around the streets in combat gear, waving around glittery hairdryers and claiming to be 'dork hunters', they couldn't fail to attract attention. Little did they know they would be issued a warning by four policemen and we were issued with a warning "under the act of terrorism".'
Organic family farms being crushed by rogue factory farms -- Family farmers from around the country, who produce organic milk, are petitioning president Obama, and the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB), for the swift adoption of new strict rulemaking that will rein in the abuses of a handful of factory farms they claim are violating both the spirit and letter of the federal organic law.
US Navy veteran arrested with arsenal, military installation maps at New Jersey motel -- Somerset County investigators seized a cache of weapons including a grenade launcher and hundreds of rounds of ammunition today from the Branchburg motel room of a Virginia man, who also had maps of a U.S. military facility and an out-of-state civilian community.
Neuroscientists say brain scans can spot PTSD -- researchers at the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis VA Medical Center announced they’d found a distinct pattern of brain activity among PTSD sufferers.
Pentagon report calls for "Office of Strategic Deception -- The Defense Department needs to get better at lying and fooling people about its intentions. That’s the conclusion from an influential Pentagon panel, the Defense Science Board, which recommends that the military and intelligence communities join in a new agency devoted to “strategic surprise/deception.”
The destabilization of Haiti: Anatomy of a military coup d'Etat -- This article was written almost six years ago in the last days of February 2004. It was published on February 29th, 2004, on the same day as the US sponsored coup d'Etat, which led to the kidnapping and deportation of the country's elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Lancet report: Over 34,000 military personnel medically evacuated from Iraq 2004-2007 -- 34 006 personnel were medically evacuated, of whom 89% were men, 91% were enlisted, 82% were in the army, and 86% sustained an injury in Iraq. Read the most common reasons for medical evacuation....Read More...
Obama administration use of military drones responsible for increase in civilian deaths -- Obama administration is ramping up its use of drone unmanned aircraft to execute targeted killings in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and perhaps in other locations - and, in the process, killing civilians along with insurgents.
Agencies probe DuPont plants safety after employee dies from pesticide exposure -- Two federal agencies are considering conducting detailed safety reviews of DuPont Co.'s Belle chemical plant following a series of incidents, including one toxic leak that went undetected by the company for nearly a week and another that left a worker hospitalized after he was sprayed with poison phosgene gas.
UN "peacekeepers" pepper spray hungry Haitians -- Thousands of hungry Haitians spilled into the streets defeating barbed wire and a tiny contingent of blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers distributing food.
Ukrainian black lung death over 1000 -- The mutated version of the H1N1 Swine Flu is truly wrecking havoc throughout Eastern Europe, with the Ukrainian death toll now clocking in at 1005 dead.
TV & trauma based programming -- So what about the general population and television? Does it hurt us individually and collectively to be exposed to a constant barrage of emotional and mental trauma?
101 facts about gold --
Budget Office: The government's finances on 'unsustainable path' -- The 2010 federal budget deficit will be $1.35 trillion, nearly as large as last year's record $1.4 trillion budget shortfall, according to the independent Congressional Budget Office.
Revolutionary tiny solar cells -- These cells attain their minuscule size due to the application of the techniques like microelectronic and micro electromechanical systems.
* Caterpillar to ay off 20,000
* Pfizer, tens of thousands
* Home Depot-7,000
* Sprint-8,000
* ING-7,000
* Phillips-6,000
* Walmart to cut over 11,000 jobs
Verizon to cut 13,000 jobs -- Verizon Communications Inc., coping with subscriber losses at its fixed-line phone business, plans to cut about 13,000 jobs at the division this year after posting fourth-quarter revenue that missed analysts’ estimates.
Live pigs blasted in terror attack experiments -- LIVE pigs are being blown up with explosives at Porton Down, the government’s secret military research laboratory, to simulate the effect of terrorist attacks on civilian targets. Read More...
WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON IN HAITI? By Chuck Baldwin -- Simply put, I cannot remember such an all-out "relief effort" by our nation's military and government forces following a natural disaster anywhere—ever! Not even New Orleans, Louisiana, and surrounding Gulf Coast communities here in the homeland received the kind of attention from Washington, D.C., that Haiti is receiving. According to Agence France-Press (AFP), "The US military is ramping up its mission in quake-hit Haiti, with 20,000 US troops expected to operate on ground and offshore by Sunday [January 24], the US commander overseeing the region said."
Haiti's homeless plead for tents after quake -- Haitian President Rene Preval has asked the world for 200,000 tents to provide temporary shelter for earthquake victims.
US credit card defaults hit near records levels -- U.S. consumers defaulted on store-branded credit cards at near-record levels during the holiday shopping season, with 2010 likely to bring more of the same trend, according to Fitch Ratings.
War Criminals: Arrest Warrants Requested -- International arrest warrants have been requested for George W. Bush, Richard (Dick) Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleeza Rice and Alberto Gonzales at the International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands.
Raw Food Diet: Enjoy Nutrition as Nature Designed -- Raw food diets are becoming increasing popular, and with good reason. Foods in their raw state are truly as nature designed and they are the most biocompatible with our bodies.
USDA poised to take away our right to GMO free food -- Barack Obama, despite promising us "change we can believe in," is unfortunately turning out to be just as pro-GMO as the preceding Bush and Clinton administrations, packing the USDA and other government bureaucracies with Monsanto men and biotech cheerleaders such as former Iowa Governor, Tom Vilsack, named biotech governor of the year in 2001, now serving as USDA Secretary.
Compact fluorescent bulbs dumping mercury directly into landfills -- A report released in 2008 from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection revealed that when a CFL bulb is broken, it can release dangerously high levels of mercury into the air.
VIDEO: Americans sign petition to repeal the first amendment!?
Davos world economic forum security chief found dead in apparent suicide -- Reports are streaming in that Dr. Markus Reinhardt, a police captain who was in put in charge of the World Economic Forum's security taskforce, has been found dead.
Ex government lawyers: Iraq war was illegal -- Two of the Government's most senior lawyers at the time of the Iraq war have said they believed it was illegal without a second UN resolution.
Report: US flunks on ability to deal with bio attack -- The United States has made little progress in the past year in improving its ability to blunt the impact of a biological weapons attack, says a new report from the commission Congress established to assess the nation's efforts to prevent and respond to terrorism.
UK anti terror cops stop children's TV stars for carrying glittery hair dryers -- Running around the streets in combat gear, waving around glittery hairdryers and claiming to be 'dork hunters', they couldn't fail to attract attention. Little did they know they would be issued a warning by four policemen and we were issued with a warning "under the act of terrorism".'
Organic family farms being crushed by rogue factory farms -- Family farmers from around the country, who produce organic milk, are petitioning president Obama, and the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB), for the swift adoption of new strict rulemaking that will rein in the abuses of a handful of factory farms they claim are violating both the spirit and letter of the federal organic law.
US Navy veteran arrested with arsenal, military installation maps at New Jersey motel -- Somerset County investigators seized a cache of weapons including a grenade launcher and hundreds of rounds of ammunition today from the Branchburg motel room of a Virginia man, who also had maps of a U.S. military facility and an out-of-state civilian community.
Neuroscientists say brain scans can spot PTSD -- researchers at the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis VA Medical Center announced they’d found a distinct pattern of brain activity among PTSD sufferers.
Pentagon report calls for "Office of Strategic Deception -- The Defense Department needs to get better at lying and fooling people about its intentions. That’s the conclusion from an influential Pentagon panel, the Defense Science Board, which recommends that the military and intelligence communities join in a new agency devoted to “strategic surprise/deception.”
The destabilization of Haiti: Anatomy of a military coup d'Etat -- This article was written almost six years ago in the last days of February 2004. It was published on February 29th, 2004, on the same day as the US sponsored coup d'Etat, which led to the kidnapping and deportation of the country's elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Lancet report: Over 34,000 military personnel medically evacuated from Iraq 2004-2007 -- 34 006 personnel were medically evacuated, of whom 89% were men, 91% were enlisted, 82% were in the army, and 86% sustained an injury in Iraq. Read the most common reasons for medical evacuation....Read More...
Obama administration use of military drones responsible for increase in civilian deaths -- Obama administration is ramping up its use of drone unmanned aircraft to execute targeted killings in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and perhaps in other locations - and, in the process, killing civilians along with insurgents.
Agencies probe DuPont plants safety after employee dies from pesticide exposure -- Two federal agencies are considering conducting detailed safety reviews of DuPont Co.'s Belle chemical plant following a series of incidents, including one toxic leak that went undetected by the company for nearly a week and another that left a worker hospitalized after he was sprayed with poison phosgene gas.
UN "peacekeepers" pepper spray hungry Haitians -- Thousands of hungry Haitians spilled into the streets defeating barbed wire and a tiny contingent of blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers distributing food.
Ukrainian black lung death over 1000 -- The mutated version of the H1N1 Swine Flu is truly wrecking havoc throughout Eastern Europe, with the Ukrainian death toll now clocking in at 1005 dead.
TV & trauma based programming -- So what about the general population and television? Does it hurt us individually and collectively to be exposed to a constant barrage of emotional and mental trauma?
101 facts about gold --
Budget Office: The government's finances on 'unsustainable path' -- The 2010 federal budget deficit will be $1.35 trillion, nearly as large as last year's record $1.4 trillion budget shortfall, according to the independent Congressional Budget Office.
Revolutionary tiny solar cells -- These cells attain their minuscule size due to the application of the techniques like microelectronic and micro electromechanical systems.
