Read: Refuse Health Care And You Will Be Fined07-03-2009 First you paid to insure your car. Soon you may have to add health insurance premiums to that stack of monthly bills as well.
In a revamped health care system envisioned by senators, people would be required to carry health insurance just like motorists must get auto coverage now....More>>
Read: 7 More failed banks Totaling 52 This Year07-03-2009 Six Illinois banks and one bank in Texas were shuttered Thursday as government regulators proposed new rules for private equity firms seeking to take over failed banks.
That brought the number of U.S. bank failures this year to 52.
That's more than double the 25 which failed in all of 2008 and the three closed in 2007.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was appo...More>>
Read: Vaccine Expert Reveals What You Should Know Before You Roll Up Your Sleeve 07-01-2009 A study by the Harvard Medical School of Public Health confirmed that public health officials could convince most people in the U.S. to alter their daily lives, follow government mandates and do as they are told after only a small amount of hyping that a deadly global pandemic was eminent. It documented that people tend to look to the government as a sort of Big Daddy who has their best interests at heart. People think Big Daddy will take care of them and they don't have to bother taking care of...More>>
Read: Israel threatens to shoot international activists07-01-2009 The postwar humanitarian crisis in Gaza takes a turn for the worse with the Israeli Navy intercepting a relief ship headed toward the coastal strip.
A group of 21 activists sailing to Gaza said Tuesday that Israeli forces had threatened to gun down their boat unless they changed direction.
"There is a patrol boat around us and we were told that if we did not turn back they would open fire," Reuters quoted Irish activist Derek Graham as saying.
"We ar...More>>
Read: Israel Kidnapps Former US Congress Woman Cynthia Mckinney07-01-2009 Activists included Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire, former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
A group of 21 peace activists sailing to Palestine were intercepted and arrested by Israeli authorities on Tuesday as they attempted to bring food and medical supplies to the war-torn city of Gaza. Israel said it plans to deport most of the people involved, including former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Mairead Maguire, a Nobel laureate.
The group insists they were not in Isr...More>>
Read: Disappointed Obama Supporters Your Not Alone 06-30-2009 I Want My Money Back! (Pres. Obama!)
I want my money back.
I gave $20 a week for seven months, plus $60 every once in a while for a t-shirt and sticker. I gave of my modest purse joyfully. Once I add that all up, it makes a grand total of... $106 billion?! Wait a minute, I thought I was supporting change I could believe in, not more of the same bloodshed and war!
Betrayal is a part of life. After awhile, you just come to expect it. Yet, the initial shock a...More>>
Read: More Moves From Big Brother: Moving Into The Cashless Society06-30-2009 No More Cash Payments on E-470 Tolls
Starting Saturday, July 4, cash payments will no longer be accepted at the tolls on E-470 in Colorado.
The only payments that will work are an Express Toll account or a license plate toll. With the license plate toll, a picture will be taken of the front and rear license plate and the owner of the vehicle will then receive a bill in the mail.
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Read: EU ministers approve sale of food from cloned animals' offspring 06-30-2009 Milk and meat from the progeny of cloned animals could soon be hitting the shelves of European supermarkets. Some groups have been critical of such products, which are already on sale in the United States.
European agriculture ministers approved the sale of milk and meat from the direct offspring of cloned animals on Monday. Germany had long opposed the move, but finally changed its position.
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Read: Obama Administration Shuts Down 9/11 Families Lawsuit 06-30-2009 Court case aimed at revealing Saudi Royal family links to attacks quashed after pressure from government
The Obama administration has effectively ended the efforts of families of victims of the September 11th attacks to bring lawsuits against members of the Saudi Royal family for financial links to the conspiracy.
The Supreme Court today ruled that it will not allow any lawsuits to go ahead, just a few weeks after the government filed a cou...More>>
Read: 55year Old Shot And Killed After He Put Down His Weapon 06-29-2009 The 55-year-old West Philadelphia man shot and killed by police Wednesday evening was standing in the doorway of the home where he grew up - holding a revolver in his hand - when officers arrived, neighbors said.
The officers ordered Tony Anderson to drop the gun. Anderson then tossed it toward the police, neighbors said yesterday, but his movement apparently spurred two officers to fire nine shots before the gun landed at the feet of one officer.
Anderson was hit twice in the chest. He wa...More>>
Read: Legislation in Congress would give the Federal Trade Commission regulatory authority over broadband use06-28-2009
Legislation in Congress would give the Federal Trade Commission regulatory authority over broadband providers that want to impose limits on customers' bandwidth use.
The Broadband Internet Fairness Act (HB-2902) would require Internet service providers with more than 2 million users to submit proposals for bandwidth caps to the FTC, "in consultation with" the Federal Communications Commission.
The FTC would have the power to deny the proposals if they impose rate...More>>
Read: Obama Depopulation Policy Exposed06-28-2009 Panelists warn of the revival of eugenics under Obama’s modern healthcare through the denial of care to millions who would be judged ‘not fit to live’, just as in Nazi Germany.
Historian Anton Chaitkin also alleges that Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Rahm Emanuel, in working with Obama, has also called for the Hippocratic oath to be ‘junked.’
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Read: Five Banks Are Seized, Raising U.S. Failures This Year to 45 06-28-2009 Five U.S. banks with total assets of about $1.04 billion were seized by regulators, pushing this year’s tally of failures to 45 as a recession drives up unemployment and home foreclosures.
Community Bank of West Georgia, in Villa Rica, Georgia; Neighborhood Community Bank of Newnan, Georgia; Horizon Bank of Pine City, Minnesota; MetroPacific Bank of Irvi...More>>
Read: Thought Crime Bills Threaten Talk Radio 06-28-2009 HR 1966 has cleared the House and now faces the Senate as S.909, the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act (officially, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act). The bill is expected to sail through the Senate as it did in the House. It will provide federal assistance to the states, local jurisdictions, and Indian tribes to prosecute hate crimes, and for “other purposes.” It creates special protective ...More>>
Read: Autopsy: Suspect fleeing Lakewood police shot in back06-27-2009 An armed man who was killed by an undercover Lakewood officer was shot twice in the back, according to an autopsy report.
Eugene Paul Velarde, 25, was shot after he fled a liquor store at West First Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard on June 10.
Police said Velarde entered the store with a pistol and made threats.
A short time later, two ...More>>
Read: Explosives Prevent Technology Theft06-27-2009 Product piracy causes billions worth of damage worldwide. A combination of visible and invisible copy protection is really effective against this. Explosive embossing is an economical procedure and can be used for mass-produced goods.
The holographic structure on the frisbee glistens colorfully. It is unique to this batch and makes the product forgery-proof. Explosives are used to emboss the original pattern into the injection moulding tool. This method can be used to give copy protection to ...More>>
Read: With 'Cap and Trade' We All May Need 'Nationalized Health Care' Because We're Sick Of Washington!06-27-2009 Misguided government policies have already dealt vicious body blows to our economy, but that hasn’t stopped politicians this week from launching two new kicks to the groin: a national health insurance plan and a carbon emissions regulation system called “cap and trade.” Even if these plans could achieve their desired ends, ...More>>
Read: Environmental Destruction: Business as Usual in the Obama Administration06-27-2009
Of all of Barack Obama's airy platitudes about change none were more vaporous than his platitudes about the environment and within that category Obama has had little at all to say about matters concerning public lands and endangered species. He is, it seems, letting his bureaucratic appointments do his talking for him. So now, five months into his administration, Obama's policy on natural resources is beginning to take shape. It is a disturbingly familiar...More>>
Read: 'If I didn't confess to 7/7 bombings MI5 officers would rape my wife,' claims torture victim06-26-2009 A British man spoke publicly for the first time yesterday to accuse MI5 officers of forcing him to confess to masterminding the July 7 bombings.
Jamil Rahman claims UK security officers were behind his arrest in 2005 in Bangladesh.
He says he was beaten repeatedly by local officials who also threatened to rape him and his wife.
Mr Rahman, who is suing the Home Office, said a pair of MI5 officers who attended his torture and interrogation would leave the room while he was beaten.
He c...More>>
Read: Arkansas State Health Department: Mandatory Vaccines Are Constitutional 06-26-2009 Legal council tells concerned caller that American citizens must accept enforced shot in event of mass swine flu vaccination program
A member of the public who was concerned about a mandatory mass vaccination program in light of the swine flu pandemic called the Arkansas State Health Department for advice only to be told that mandatory vaccines were constitutional and could be enforced at gunpoint by the government if necessary.
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Read: Student Strip Search Illegal06-26-2009 Arizona school officials violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old girl when they strip-searched her on the suspicion she might be hiding ibuprofen in her underwear, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The decision put school districts on notice that such searches are "categorically distinct" from other efforts to combat illegal drugs.
In a case that had drawn attention from educators, parents and civil libertarians across the country, the court ruled 8 to 1 that such an intrusive se...More>>
Read: Is KUSA 9News Turning into a Payed Commercial for the National Guard 06-26-2009 Headline: Looking for Work? The National Guard may offer solutions
In the midst of an economic crisis, the Colorado National Guard is currently hiring 160 positions.
Most of the positions are part-time jobs requiring one weekend of service per month, and two weeks of annual training a year. This allow recruits to keep their civilian jobs as well as get paid training in other fields as well.
Jobs openings with the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard are also available across C...More>>
Read: You May No Longer File Your Own Tax Return?: IRS Moves to Ban Tax Returns Filed By All But ‘Experts’06-25-2009 In an astonishing power grab, the Internal Revenue Service wants to license all who prepare returns for taxpayers. This means that Uncle Oscar couldn’t help his nephew prepare his income tax return unless a Washington bureaucrat grants a license.
H&R Block and the National Association of Tax Professionals (NATP) are supporting the effort by IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman for selfish reasons: If Uncle Oscar can’t help, his nephew must pay a “licensed” preparer.
Shulman said in testimo...More>>
Read: MN. Legislator Won't Fill Out Census06-25-2009 According to the Minnesota Independent, “Rep. Michele Bachmann told the Washington Times on Wednesday that she will not be filling out all the questions on next year’s census because ACORN will be one of the federal gove...More>>
Read: Monsanto & Dole Team Up to Force-Feed Consumers Genetically Engineered Fruits & Veggies06-25-2009 Dole Fresh Vegetables, Inc. and Monsanto Co. have entered into an agreement to develop new products that will "enhance consumer vegetable choices," according to the companies. The five-year agreement will focus on broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce and spinach. Any new products developed through the agreement will be commercialized by Dole in North America.
Plant breeding techniques will be used to improve the nutrition, flavor, color, texture, taste and aroma of the vegetables. Monsanto's role i...More>>
Read: 9/11 FEMA videographer at Ground Zero goes public06-24-2009 As official videographer for the U.S. government, Kurt Sonnenfeld was detailed to Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, where he spent one month filming 29 tapes: "What I saw at certain moments and in certain places ... is very disturbing!" He never handed them over to the authorities and has been persecuted ever since. Kurt Sonnenfeld lives in exile in Argentina, where he wrote « El Perseguido » (the persecuted). His rece...More>>
Read: Spies In the Classroom: The Government Is Running a Secretive Intelligence Recruitment Program in Schools06-24-2009 The "Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program" may become a permanent budget item, making universities unwitting agents of state intelligence.
As the continuities and disjunctures between the Bush and Obama administrations come into focus it becomes increasingly clear that while Obama’s domestic agenda has some identifiable breaks with Bush’s, at its core, the new administration remains committed to staying the course of American militarization. Now we have an articulate, nuanced president w...More>>
Read: Monsanto's Pesticide Kills Human Cells - Debate Intensifies Over So-Called 'Inert' Ingredients06-24-2009 Used in yards, farms and parks throughout the world, Roundup has long been a top-selling weed killer. But now researchers have found that one of Roundup's inert ingredients can kill human cells, particularly embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells.
The new findings intensify a debate about so-called "inerts" - the solvents, preservatives, surfactants and other substances that manufacturers add to pesticides. Nearly 4,000 inert ingredients are approved for use by the U.S. Environmental P...More>>
Read: Gates approves creation of new cyber command06-24-2009 Cyberthreats and cyberwarfare issues will be getting more focused attention from the military.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates formally ordered the creation today of a new military cyber command that will coordinate the Pentagon's efforts to defend its networks and conduct cyberwarfare.
Officials have said the new command would be located at Fort Meade in Maryland, and would be fully ready to go by the end of next year.
Gates' memo...More>>
Read: 9/11 sculpture embroiled in alleged fraud scheme06-24-2009 A towering sculpture in the Maryland mountains depicting three New York City firefighters raising the U.S. flag at ground zero was financed by investor fraud, federal regulators say.
Now the 40-foot bronze statue unveiled in November 2007 at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, Md., is for sale. A court-appointed receiver and the sculptor, Stanley J. Watts of Kearns, Utah, say they hope to raise at least $425,000 to repay i...More>>
Read: Obama Regulatory Reform Plan Officially Establishes Banking Dictatorship 06-23-2009 President Obama’s plan to give the privately-owned and unaccountable Federal Reserve complete regulatory oversight across the entire U.S. economy, which is likely to be enacted before the end of the year, will officially herald the beginning of a new form of government in the United States - an ultra-powerful banking dictatorship controlled by a small gaggle of shadowy and corrupt elitists.
The new rules would see the Fed given the authority to “regulat...More>>
Read: Report: DHS to end use of satellites for domestic spying06-23-2009 Department of Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano plans to end domestic law enforcement’s access to spy satellites, a government source told the Associated Press on Monday night.
Funding for the program, announced by the Bush administration in 2007, was included in President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget.
"Napolitano recently reached her decision after the program was discussed with law enforcement officials , and she was told it was n...More>>
Read: Evidence Links Pesticides To Parkinson's 06-23-2009 A new study confirms the link between on-the-job pesticide exposure and Parkinson's disease, and suggests that certain insecticides may be particularly risky.
Parkinson's disease is a degenerative brain condition in which dopamine-producing cells in the brain gradually die off or malfunction. Dopamine helps regulate movement, and as Parkinson's progresses, people have increasing difficulty walking, talking and performing simple tasks.
The exact cause of Parkinson's is unknown, but research...More>>
Read: Pa. police shooting of unarmed teen probed06-22-2009 A prosecutor in south-central Pennsylvania says he's investigating whether a police officer was justified in shooting a 17-year-old boy in the face.Dauphin County Assistant District Attorney Fran Chardo says the 17-year-old boy shot by a Harrisburg police officer Wednesday night was unarmed. Chardo says the officer told investigators that the teen was running directly at him and ignored orders to stop. The officer said he was backed up against a car and couldn't get out of the way of the charge....More>>
Read: VA State Police Say Anti-NWO and Gun Rights Activists are Terrorists 06-22-2009 Another document designating Americans as terrorists has surfaced. The document, entitled “Crisis Controlled: Assessing Potential Threats of Violence,” authored by Trooper John R. Wright, is posted on the official website of the Commonwealth of Virginia, under the Department of Human Resources Management.
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Read: Bank Failures Continue With Very Little Fan Fair06-22-2009 Bank failures in Georgia and North Carolina have brought the number of failures in 2009 to 39, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. late Friday. Southern Community Bank of Fayetteville, Ga., was the year's seventh bank failure in that state and United Community Bank of Blairsville, Ga., will assume all of the deposits. As of May 29, Southern Community Bank had total assets of $377 million and total deposits of approximately $307 million. United Community Bank will buy about $364 mill...More>>
Read: Feds To Get Power To Target Websites Making “False Claims” 06-22-2009 New FTC guidelines would allow government to scrutinize content of websites, “patrol what bloggers say and do”
The Federal Reserve refuses to disclose where trillions of dollars in bailout money went and yet the FTC is more concerned about snooping into the financial affairs of bloggers who make a few bucks off affiliate relationships, according to new guidelines set to be introduced later this year that would give the government a foot in the door to regulate ...More>>
Read: Kissinger threatens regime change in Iran if coup fails: Video06-21-2009 Talking on BBC Newsnight Kissinger says that while the US will not intervene in the current crisis, if the coup fails and a popularly based government is not installed (ie the one he wants), then we may conclude that we must work for regime change in Iran from the outside. This is an indicted war criminal making threats against a sovereign nation.
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Read: 9/11 Truther Found Not Guilty In Assault Case06-21-2009 A New York jury has acquitted a 24-year-old man accused of heckling Laura and Jenna Bush and assailing a wheelchair-bound teenager and her family.
The New York Post reported Wednesday a Manhattan Criminal Court jury acquitted Gary Talis Tuesday on assault charges stemming from an April 2008 incident in which Talis allegedly attacked a family following a New York appearance by the wife and daughter of ...More>>
Read: Denver police officer accused of pulling gun at McDonald's window06-21-2009 A Denver police officer has been suspended after allegedly brandishing his gun at a McDonald's restaurant in Aurora after his order took too long to fill.
Aurora police confirmed the CBS4 investigation saying the incident occurred May 21 at the McDonald's at 18181 East Hampden Avenue.
A spokesperson for the Aurora Police Department said they plan to present the case -- now classified as a felony menacing incident -- to the Arapahoe County District Attorney's Office Thursday for possible fi...More>>
Read: 9,000+ Vials Missing From Biolab06-20-2009 Laboratory Says Security Is Tighter, but Earlier Count Missed Dangerous Vials
An inventory of potentially deadly pathogens at Fort Detrick's infectious disease laboratory found more than 9,000 vials that had not been accounted for, Army officials said yesterday, raising concerns that officials wouldn't know whether dangerous toxins were missing.
After four months of searching about 335 freezers and refrigerators at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Frederic...More>>
Read: CIA delays release of secret prison report06-20-2009 The CIA has delayed the release of a promised 150-page report on secret prisons and interrogation techniques, according to a letter sent to the American Civil Liberties Union on Friday.
The report, originally expected Friday, was still being examined by government censors for sensitive material, the intelligence agency ...More>>
Read: Call for public inquiry into 7/7 from former head of counter-terrorism06-20-2009 An independent public inquiry should be held into how suicide terrorists were able to carry out the July 7 bombings, Scotland Yard’s former head of counter-terrorism says.
Andy Hayman, who was Assistant Commissioner for Special Operations at the time of the bombings in 2005, is the first figure from the security establishment to break ranks and call for an open inquiry.
Almost four years after Mohammad Sidique Khan and his Leeds-based cell carried out the bombings, Mr Hayman says that...More>>
Read: Yes, Conspiracy Theorists ARE Crazy06-20-2009 Many people have given talks, and written articles and books about how "conspiracies" are a well-recognized legal principal, about documented conspiracies throughout history, and about the overwhelming evidence that some recent events were conspiracies.
But it has just dawned on me that - much of the time - the opposite approach might be more effecti...More>>
Read: Alcohol abuse by GIs soars since '0306-19-2009 The rate of Army soldiers enrolled in treatment programs for alcohol dependency or abuse has nearly doubled since 2003 — a sign of the growing stress of repeated deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Army statistics and interviews.
Soldiers diagnosed by Army substance abuse counselors with alcoholism or alcohol abuse, such as binge drinking, increased from 6.1 per 1,000 soldiers in 2003 to an estimated 11.4 as of March 31, accord...More>>
Read: EC calls for one world internet governance06-19-2009 ICANN has oversight too?
The European Commission is once again calling for the United States to let go of ICANN and place it under international supervision.
Echoing an earlier appeal from EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding, the Commission said in a statement today that future internet governance "should reflect the key role that global network has come to play for all count...More>>
Read: Geithner Defends Plan to Give Fed More Power06-19-2009 Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner defended the administration’s proposal to give the Federal Reserve increased powers in his first public tussle with lawmakers skeptical whether the central bank is up to the job.
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The CIA has delayed the release of a promised 150-page report on secret prisons and interrogation techniques, according to a letter sent to the American Civil Liberties Union on Friday.
The report, originally expected Friday, was still being examined by government censors for sensitive material, the intelligence agency ...