The Army’s got a one-two punch to perfect vaccinations and offer scientists the ability to quickly develop inoculations that stave off new dangers. First, they’ll shoot troops up using a “gene gun,” that’s filled with DNA-based vaccines. Then they’ll follow it up with “short electrical pulses to the delivery site.”
The Pentagon’s still after a comprehensive way to inoculate troops and civilians against existing illnesses, rapidly respond to emerging threats, and… Continue
The Lunatic’s Manual
By BOB HERBERT
Published: August 2, 2010
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CloseLinkedinDiggMixxMySpaceYahoo! BuzzPermalink The Army, to its credit, tells the story of a middle-aged lieutenant colonel who had served multiple combat tours and was suffering the agonizing effects of traumatic brain injury and dementia. He also had difficulty sleeping.… Continue
Added by CHUCK W. on August 3, 2010 at 12:31pm —
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“ Love your life, perfect your life,
Beautify all things in your life.
Seek to make your life long,
And its’ purpose in the service of your people.”
Chief Tecumseh
Added by CHUCK W. on August 3, 2010 at 9:42am —
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In response to the massive pension obligations owed to soon-to-retire baby boomers, at least 10 states have voted to push back the retirement age of their employees, the Wall Street Journal reports. Those hoping to… Continue
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WASHINGTON — The Postal Service is ready to deliver lifesaving drugs to about a quarter of the residents of Minneapolis-St. Paul, the only metropolitan area in the nation where letter carriers have been trained to dispense medication after a large-scale terrorist attack involving biological weapons.
Six years after the government began exploring the idea of using postal workers as rapid-response medicine dispensers and eight… Continue
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This summer marks seven years since a routine medical exam changed the course of Tim Moorley’s life. For four and a half years, Moorley has been seeking justice against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, for harm they have caused him and countless others. His fight has been…
I think I really am living in a twilight zone. Federal regulators once again are asleep at the wheel when it comes to consumer food safety but can we expect anything different? The only thing that regulators seem to regulate is the size of their wallet nowadays. At least that is how it appears to me.
Just this summer they had to recall 28 million boxes of Kellogs cereal over consumers complaining of a foul odor and taste and some were…
The Mexican government has just killed a man named Ignacio Coronel Villarreal, who was purported to be the leader of a powerful Mexican drug cartel. According to the New York Times,
the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency congratulated the Mexican government
on a “victory in their sustained efforts to dismantle the drug cartels…
BP Executive Turned Alyeska Pipeline Into "Deeply Distressed" Company
Monday 02 August 2010
by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Investigative Report
Former BP human resources executive Kevin Hostler will be retiring from his current post as Chief Executive Officer for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company in September. (Photo: Alyeska Pipeline Service Co)
Alyeska Pipeline, the BP-led consortium that operates the 800-mile Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS),… Continue
Added by CHUCK W. on August 2, 2010 at 7:00pm —
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I've come to believe that money is indeed at the root of nearly all
the so called 'evils', and certainly at the root of most of them. To a
large extent it has to do with the fact that money equals power, and
the world is full of megalomaniacs. WWI, which was one of the greatest
horrors of human history was over the natural resources of Africa and
Asia. Put more simply it was over… Continue
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WASHINGTON — The Postal Service is ready to deliver lifesaving drugs to about a quarter of the residents of Minneapolis-St. Paul, the only metropolitan area in the nation where letter carriers have been trained to dispense medication after a large-scale terrorist attack involving biological weapons.
Six years after the government began exploring the idea of using… Continue
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(Correction: As initially posted, this story inaccurately said that Pinal County was contiguous with the Mexican border. It is in southern Arizona, but not on the border.)
(CNSNews.com) – Pinal County (Ariz.) Sheriff Paul Babeu is hopping mad at the federal government.
Babeu told CNSNews.com that rather than help law enforcement in Arizona stop the hundreds of… Continue
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DW Description: Chris Langan is known to have the highest IQ in the world, somewhere between 195 and 210. To give you an idea of what this means, the average...