Veterans Affairs mistakenly tells 1,200 they have Lou Gehrig's, a fatal neurological disease
P.J. DICKERSCHEID
AP News
Aug 24, 2009 17:30 EST
Former Air Force Reservist Gale Reid received a letter from the Veterans Affairs Department that told her she had Lou Gehrig's disease, and she immediately put herself through a battery of painful, expensive tests. Five days later, the VA said its "diagnosis" was a mistake.
I wrote earlier today about Eric Holder's decision to "review" whether criminal prosecutions are warranted in connection with the torture of Terrorism suspects -- that can be read here -- but I want to write separately about the release today of the 2004 CIA's Inspector General Report (.pdf), both because it's extraordinary in its own right and because it underscores how unjust it would be to prosecute only low-level interrogators rather than the high-level officials who implemented the torture… Continue
Added by Tara on August 25, 2009 at 11:58am —
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Crazy Website Part of DHS ReportShare
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 6:46am
Earlier today we reported on the sources that the Department of Homeland Security used in their "Right-Wing Extremism" report. It appeared after reading through all the information, that the primary sources used in this report were all gathered from a hasty Google search. Millions… Continue
According to the belief of two renowned reporters who spoke with top officials at the UN and WHO, the epidemic of the new strand of swine flu virus in Mexico is the result of an artificially created pathogen, the Online Journal reported.
Many of you receiving this do not live in Canada but you may wish to check out the following website
http://www.falseflagflu.com
George Bush his administration and many other prominent, and high level officials over the past eight years since 911 have repeatedly made reference to "a major catastrophe" such as a "pandemic".
The Patriot Act and similar acts that were passed… Continue
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America is just a few days away from a possible day of reckoning. I again call attention to this day, August 25, when the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issues its 2nd Quarter report for 2009 on the state of health of American banks.
A plethora of bank failures has depleted the FDIC reserve fund from $52.8 billion in 2008 to $13 billion in the 1st Quarter of 2009. (See chart below)
Alison Vekshin, writing for Bloomberg, indicates.
"The failure… Continue
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This was found and copied and pasted from the infowars site about Paterson, NJ Curfew, kinda of an off topic related to the curfew though. This is something I want you to share with others, friends, family, dog, cat, who ever Please get this out on TV, radio, and so forth. Make a you tube video about this, make a video for internet or Ham Radio transmission. This could land your life in jeporady. I was in accident and was in the hospital and recovered, but this opportunity of recovery may NOT… Continue
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Barack Obama, the US president, is attempting to seal an Arab-Israeli peace deal that has eluded the region for more than six decades.
Ahead of an initiative expected to be announced in September, Al Jazeera is examining the prospects for peace in a week-long series from Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan.
In the first of the series, Al Jazeera's Nisreen El-Shamayleh speaks to Palestinian refugees about an Israeli plan that Jordan become their… Continue
Added by Tara on August 24, 2009 at 12:10pm —
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Next step in H1N1 scare: Microchip implants
Company developing under-the-skin devices to detect 'bio-threats'
A Florida-based company that boasts selling the world's first and only federally approved radio microchip for implanting in humans is now turning its development branch toward "emergency preparedness," hoping to produce an implant that can automatically detect in its host's bloodstream the presence of swine flu or other viruses deemed a "bio-threat."
It appears that most liberal opponents of the wars in the Middle East/ Central Asia have ceased their opposition with the Obama presidency. The liberal Democrats who abhorred Bush’s war policy (and most grass roots liberal Democrats did vehemently oppose the Bush war policy although this was not always the case with liberal politicians and media figures) apparently were simply opposed to wars led by Republicans. As Byron York, a… Continue
Chilean health officials have confirmed that a flu outbreak detected on two turkey farms is identical to the pandemic influenza A(H1N1) virus and was transmitted by humans.
The outbreak was initially reported late on Thursday in two farms in the Valparaiso region, 160km west of the capital of Santiago, by the Chilean Agricultural and Livestock Service.
"Preliminary results from the analysis showed that the virus (found in the turkeys) is the same as that in Chile" during… Continue
As part of an expanding programme of battlefield automation, the American Air Force has said it is now training more drone operators than fighter and bomber pilots.
In a controversial shift in military thinking - one encouraged by the death of Pakistani Taleban leader Baitullah Mehsud in a drone strike on August 5 - the Air Force is looking to hugely expand its fleet of unmanned aircraft by 2047.
The American government -- which we once called our government -- has been taken over by Wall Street, the mega-corporations and the super-rich. They are the ones who decide our fate. It is this group of powerful elites, the people President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "economic royalists," who choose our… Continue
Dramatic increase in negative equity confirms need for foreclosure reform
Columbus, OH - August 20, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — Data released today by the Mortgage Bankers Association coupled with analysis of a report released last week by First American CoreLogic spell more trouble ahead for Ohio’s housing crisis, and offer fresh evidence for the need for statewide foreclosure reform.
MBA numbers show delinquency rates (those who are late, but not yet in foreclosure) for… Continue
We can expect riots in bank foyers and ultimately martial law to be imposed.
An article I read and thought I pass it on
Bob Chapman’s influential International Forecaster is reporting on the possibility of a so-called “bank holiday” planned for late August or early September. According to Chapman’s sources, U.S. embassies around the world are selling dollars and stockpiling money from respective countries where… Continue
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