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U.S. Sets Aside $1 Billion for flu vaccine.

MAY 23, 2009

For Flu Vaccine, U.S. Sets Aside $1 Billion

By BETSY MCKAY

The U.S. government is setting aside $1 billion to launch development of an H1N1 swine flu vaccine, as the disease continues to spread around the globe and its future course and severity remain unknown.

Health and Human Services Department Secretary Kathleen Sebelius shows a child from the HHS daycare how to wash his hands as Sesame Street character Elmo looks on on May 22, 2009… Continue

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New FDA chiefs stress science, better food safety

New FDA chiefs stress science, better food safety

By LAURAN NEERGAARD – 2 days ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The huge salmonella outbreak from peanut butter represented a failure of the Food and Drug Administration, that agency's new chiefs declared Tuesday — one they hope to fix.

Expect a "modern food-safety system focused on prevention of contamination," FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg and her deputy, Joshua Sharfstein, wrote in The New England Journal of… Continue

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CSL to Start Making Swine Flu Vaccine Next Week for Human Tests

CSL to Start Making Swine Flu Vaccine Next Week for Human Tests

By Simeon Bennett

May 26 (Bloomberg) -- CSL Ltd., the Southern Hemisphere’s only flu-vaccine maker, said it plans to start producing a swine flu inoculation next week for testing on humans.

The company plans to make doses of the experimental vaccine using a strain of the H1N1 virus from a patient in California, Rachel David, a spokeswoman for Melbourne-based CSL, said by phone… Continue

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Say it its not so, "are you next?

Thursday, May 28, 2009, from CBN News web site

"Police are increasingly using Global Positioning Systems to track and catch criminals.

The technology uses satellites to map out locations and police say it is more effective than trailing a suspect with officers.

For example, Wisconsin investigators shut down a drug operation after secretly planting a GPS on a drug dealer's borrowed car.

But critics say the technology goes far beyond surveillance and in… Continue

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U.S. News & World Report Piece Implies People Who Question 9/11 Mentally Ill

Psychologists Weigh In On 9/11

A new article in U.S. News & World Report quotes a couple of psychologists, one sociologist and one historian to argue that people who question the government’s version of 9/11 are prone to false thinking.

Initially, remember that, while there are many honorable psychologists and psychiatrists, psychologists helped to create the U.S. torture program, and actively participated in it.

Also, psychologists - such as Freud’s nephew… Continue

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Hopes pinned on finance at U.N. climate talk

Hopes pinned on finance at U.N. climate talks

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

OSLO (Reuters) - About 170 nations will meet in Germany next week to work on a new United Nations climate treaty with hopes for progress pinned most on ways to raise billions of dollars to help poor nations cope with global warming.

The June 1-12 talks between senior officials in Bonn will be the first to review formal draft texts about a sweeping U.N. deal due to be agreed… Continue

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Iran official blames U.S. in deadly mosque bombing

Deadly mosque blast in Iran

By Zahra Hosseinian and Fredrik Dahl

TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian official accused the United States on Friday of involvement in a mosque bombing that killed more than 20 people in volatile south-eastern Iran, two weeks before the Islamic Republic's presidential election.

Jalal Sayyah, of the governor's office in Sistan-Baluchestan province, said three people had been arrested in connection with Thursday's blast in a crowded… Continue

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Pentagon plans new cyberspace war command: report

Pentagon plans new cyberspace war command: report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon plans to create a new military command for cyberspace, stepping up preparations by the armed forces to conduct both offensive and defensive computer warfare, the New York Times said on Friday.

The military command will complement a civilian effort President Barack Obama plans to announce on Friday that will overhaul the way the United States safeguards its computer networks, the… Continue

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Feds to Decide What Can be Sold at Your Garage Sale

Feds to Decide What Can be Sold at Your Garage Sale

By Warner Todd Huston Friday, May 29, 2009

With the first days of Summer a long standing American tradition emerges anew from yards and garages all across the country. Once again this season we will see the venerable American garage sale bloom everywhere. Homeowners will be seen busily setting up folding tables or bringing picnic tables from back yards to load them up with used clothes, toys, collectibles, and items… Continue

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Photos of US soldiers' alleged rape, sexual abuse in Iraq ??? (presstv.ir)

The new (FDA)commissioner, Margaret Hamburg, will be the second woman to ever lead FDA. She comes from a background in public health and bioterrorism

New photos obtained by Press TV have revealed alleged sexual harassment and rape of Iraqi prisoners at US-run Abu Ghraib detention center by American soldiers.

The alleged pictures illustrate American soldiers raping and sexually harassing Iraqi detainees.

Wayne Madsen, an investigative journalist from Washington,… Continue

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Cops Kill Mentally Challenged Teen Using "Non-Lethal" Force (CNN May 28 09)

Cops Kill Mentally Challenged Teen Using "Non-Lethal" Force (CNN May 28 09)

Added by truth on May 29, 2009 at 3:41am — 3 Comments

The US Department of Homeland Security is set to kickstart a controversial new pilot to scan the fingerprints of travellers departing the United States.

The US Department of Homeland Security is set to kickstart a controversial new pilot to scan the fingerprints of travellers departing the United States.

By Brett Winterford~ IT News

From June, US Customs and Border…

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U.S. student, 20, emerges as anti-abortion crusader: Rose stages her own sting operations at Planned Parenthood clinics.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE54R37I20090528

By Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With a video camera hidden in her backpack, college student Lila Rose has become a rising star in the U.S. anti-abortion movement for her clandestine tactics in taking on Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest provider of surgical abortions.

Rose stages her own sting operations… Continue

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Scientists identify new lethal "Lujo" virus in Africa

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D98FIBM80&show_article=1

ATLANTA (AP) - Scientists have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola virus. The so-called "Lujo" virus infected five people in Zambia and South Africa last fall. Four of them died, but a fifth survived, perhaps helped by a medicine recommended by the scientists.

It's not clear… Continue

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ACORN Used in 2010 Census

Judicial Watch: ACORN Used in 2010 Census

Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:32 PM

By: Judicial Watch Article Font Size

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the U.S. Census Bureau detailing the substantial involvement of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in the 2010 Census. Included among the 126 pages of documents, obtained by… Continue

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Baby Girl Vaccinated by FORCE is NOW Austistic

Added by truth on May 30, 2009 at 11:39am — 2 Comments

documentary 'The New Age Infiltration of the Truth Movement'

This documentary 'The New Age Infiltration of the Truth Movement', by Keith Thompson. made in Memory of William Cooper, sheds some interesting light on the trend pushed via Zeitgeist.

The attacks on freedom of religion are becoming more blatant. Only the other week, here in Sydney, Australia, one hospital has ordered that all religious signs were to be removed from a room where patients and family would sit for some peace of mind. It was said that it offends Muslims to have the…

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Added by truth on May 30, 2009 at 2:08am — 2 Comments

The Gov't totally sucks.

Added by Dandy Andy aka flmkrdano on May 29, 2009 at 9:25pm — No Comments

Mr. Obama, do we have your attention.

Added by Dandy Andy aka flmkrdano on May 29, 2009 at 6:41pm — No Comments

North Korea test-fires missile, slams UN Council

North Korea test-fires missile, slams UN Council

AP – South Korean Army soldiers carry a canon during the military exercise near the border village of Panmunjom …

By SIYOUNG LEE, Associated Press Writer – 4 mins ago

YEONPYEONG, South Korea – North Korea warned Friday it would act in "self-defense" if provoked by the U.N. Security Council, which is considering tough sanctions over the communist country's nuclear test, and followed the threat with the test launch of… Continue

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