http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2316757020091223(Reuters) - U.S. health officials approved on Wednesday a high-dose influenza vaccine made by Sanofi-Aventis DA (SASY.PA) for people age 65 and older.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
US clears high-dose Sanofi flu vaccine for elderly
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2316757020091223(Reuters) - U.S. health officials approved on Wednesday a high-dose influenza vaccine made by Sanofi-Aventis DA (SASY.PA) for people age 65 and older.
Cops Get “Ghost Cars” to Bust Cell Phone Talkers
http://www.lohud.com/article/20091223/NEWS02/912230332/-1/newsfront/Westchester-cops-hope--ghost-car--blends-inHAWTHORNE — Watch out for the new ghost on the highway.
Westchester County police will introduce a new "ghost car" Wednesday that is designed to sneak up on motorists who are talking on hand-held cell phones, text-messaging or driving without seat belts.Wait dude... What?
Cost to Fight Each Al Qaeda Member in Afghanistan Per Year: $300 Million
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/president-obamas-secret-100-al-qaeda-now-afghanistan/story?id=9227861As he justified sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion a year, President Barack Obama's description Tuesday of the al Qaeda "cancer" in that country left out one key fact: U.S. intelligence officials have concluded there are only about 100 al Qaeda fighters in the entire country.
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Obamacare Slaps $15,000 Annual Fee on Middle Class Families
http://townhall.com/columnists/TerryJeffreyThe Congressional Budget Office's analysis of the final Senate health care bill indicates it would slap a mandatory annual fee of about $15,000 on middle-class families that earn an annual income greater than 400 percent of the federal poverty level ($88,200 for a family of four) and are not provided with health insurance by their employer.
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Paul Howard: Obamacare's gift to all: More regulation, more debt, more taxes
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/
Democrats are spending trillions on a Christmas present that a majority of Americans don't want: health care legislation loaded with more debt, more taxes, and more regulations. Like your Aunt Phyllis' fruitcake, it's on the way and there's nothing you can do to stop it.
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50 years of cooling predicted
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/50_years_of_cooling_predicted#65269
We're already 11 years into a cooling cycle according to BBC.
Meanwhile, Winter freeze kills 79 in Poland.
Who said the science was settled?
Avatar, the answer to a Copenhager’s dream
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_avatar_the_answer_to_a_copenhagens_dream/MOST people will date the death of the great global warming scare not from the Copenhagen fiasco - boring! - but from Avatar.
It won’t be the world’s most expensive warmist conference but the world’s most expensive movie that will stick in most memories as the precise point at which the green faith started to shrivel from sheer stupidity.
Wait dude... What?LAPD Takes Over Boy Scout Explorer Program
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_14052104?source=rss
YOUTHS: New name, uniforms, insignia planned.
With a pledge to develop a program that does not tolerate discrimination, Los Angeles police officials said Tuesday they are on target to take over the Explorer Program on Jan. 1.
New uniforms, patches and other insignia will be unveiled - along with a new name - to make the long-debated transition of the program from the Learning for Life subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America to the LAPD's control.
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Paul goes from ridicule to respect
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6774366.html
Paul's proposal to audit the Federal Reserve — first introduced by the Texas congressman more than 20 years ago — recently sailed through the House Financial Services Committee.
Unemployment funds going ‘absolutely broke’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34519544/ns/business-washington_post
The recession's jobless toll is draining unemployment-compensation funds so fast that according to federal projections, 40 state programs will go broke within two years and need $90 billion in loans to keep issuing the benefit checks.
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Arizona's Coming Government Collapse - from Governor Jan Brewer
http://www.resistnet.com/forum/topics/arizonas-coming-government?xg_source=activity
Dear Fellow Arizonan,
We face a state fiscal crisis of unparalleled dimension – one that is going to sweep over every single person in this state as well as every business and every family.
That is why I held an emergency cabinet meeting yesterday morning where I outlined for our state’s elected leaders and business leaders the ills our state faces. As I told them yesterday, we ARE faced with some of the worst days in our 97-year history.
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Fierce storm barreling into Upper Midwest
USA Today reports the storm will be stronger than any storm seen in South Dakota in the past 40 years, which begs the question…
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NY Times: Obama Puts Off Gitmo Closure Until After 2011
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/human-rights/NY-Times-Closure-of-Guantanamo-Prison-Will-Take-Longer-Than-Expected-79983017.html
The New York Times newspaper says the Obama administration may not be able to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and transfer terrorism suspects held there until 2011 at the earliest.
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Former Microsoft Tech Officer Wants Sulfur Pumped Into Stratosphere To Combat Warming
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2511875/nathan_myhrvolds_anti_global_warming.html?cat=15
The global warming solution proposed by Nathan Myhvold involves Nathan Myhrvold's Anti Global Warming Scheme running a hose up to the stratosphere with balloons and using that hose to pump out enough sulfur particles to dim the sun's heat just enough to counteract the effects of global warming.
Nathan Myhrvold's anti global warming scheme is intriguing, even for those people (increasingly most people) who doubt that man caused global warming is actually real. The climate gate scandal involving leaked emails suggests that the data that supports the idea of man caused global warming has been doctored to some extent.
Obama Extends Diplomatic Immunity to Interpol by Executive Order
http://www.newmediajournal.us/the_fifth_column/12222009.htm
The text of Section 2(c), which now applies to Interpol states:
"(c) Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable."
"If any branch of government wants to keep documents out of the hands of the US court system, just hand them over to Interpol until the smoke clears." It added that Interpol can maintain files on US citizens.
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US Court Orders Records Unsealed In Cap-And-Trade Fraud Case
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200912171847dowjonesdjonline000636&title=us-court-orders-records-unsealed-in-cap-and-trade-fraud-case
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. legislators have obtained a court order unsealing documents in a case involving a multi-million-dollar cap-and-trade fraud.
Republican legislators say the records--due to be opened to the public in early January--could shed light on the potential challenges of policing a new, trillion-dollar commodities market that would be created under climate legislation that Congress is considering.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Taxpayers Help Goldman Reach Height of Profit in New Skyscraper
Building a new headquarters cater-cornered to where the World Trade Center once stood qualified the firm to sell $1 billion of tax-free Liberty Bonds and get about $49 million of job-grant funds, tax exemptions and energy discounts.
Chavez accuses U.S. of sending spy plane into Venezuela's airspace
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/21/content_12681901.htm
The U.S. military sent the unmanned spy plane to Venezuela for espionage, he said.
Last May, Chavez declared that a U.S. patrol plane violated Venezuela's airspace, though the United States said the patrol plane had "mistakenly entered" Venezuela's airspace because of "navigation problem."
Troops Face Prison If They Get Pregnant
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1237333/Serving-U-S-troops-face-prison-fall-pregnant-active.html
Usual US Army policy is to send pregnant soldiers home from combat zones within 14 days.
But Major General Anthony Cucolo, who runs US operations in northern Iraq, issued the new orders because he said he was losing too many women with critical skills.
He needed the threat of court martial and jail time as an extra deterrent, he said.
Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man's best friend
Yahoo News - Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man's best friend
PARIS (AFP) – Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle.
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Wikipedia’s green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/18/370719.aspx
Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used information source the world has ever known – Wikipedia. Starting in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick graph. He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band.
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Sunday, December 20, 2009
War Is Peace
Washington Times: Left rankled over Obama war remarks"Once we are committed to 'war's instrumentality in pursuit of peace,' we begin the Orwellian journey to the semantic netherworld where war is peace, where the momentum of war overwhelms hopes for peace," said the Ohio Democrat.
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Obama to Declare Carbon Dioxide Dangerous Pollutant
http://online.wsj.com/article/
"Officials gather in Copenhagen this week for an international climate summit, but business leaders are focusing even more on Washington, where the Obama administration is expected as early as Monday to formally declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant."
But wait dude... whattabout...?
http://www.populartechnology.
"CO2 is not a pollutant. In simple terms, CO2 is plant food. The green world we see around us would disappear if not for atmospheric CO2." - John R. Christy, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alabama
Obama: Climate Change: "This is not fiction, it is science."
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/president-obamas-climate-speech/
COPENHAGEN — Opening words to Obama's speech,
"Good morning. It is an honor for me to join this distinguished group of leaders from nations around the world. We come here in Copenhagen because climate change poses a grave and growing danger to our people. All of you would not be here unless you — like me — were convinced that this danger is real. This is not fiction, it is science. Unchecked, climate change will pose unacceptable risks to our security, our economies, and our planet. This much we know."
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Poll: Less Than 1/3 Of Americans Believe “Most Scientists Agree” On Global Warming
An Associated Press-Stanford University poll (PDF) released today shows that just 31% of Americans believe that experts agree on the science behind global warming.
Question 22 in the poll asked “Do you think most scientists agree with one another about whether or not global warming is happening, or do you think there is a lot of disagreement among scientists on this issue?”
66% of respondents said that in their opinion “most scientists disagree”.
Tony Blair: The world must take action on climate change…even if the science is not correct.
http://toryardvaark.wordpress.
Failed Euro presidential candidate and former Prime Minister Tony Blair says, “Even if the science is not correct the world must act”.
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt: 'all world's information includes personal information'
http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/index.php?p=320
The Google mission to “organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible” informs all that Google does, according to Schmidt.
New Unelected President of Europe: "2009 is also the first year of global governance"
http://www.europa-eu-un.org/"2009 is also the first year of global governance, with the establishment of the G20 in the middle of the financial crisis. The climate conference in Copenhagen is another step towards the global management of our planet."
- Herman Van Rompuy, following his appointment as President of the Council of the European Union
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Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Climate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.html
Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash, says Christopher Booker.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/
Many of you are too young to remember, but in 1975 our government pushed "the coming ice age."
UN: Environmentalism should be regarded on the same level with religion
Document Reveals U.N.'s Goal of Becoming Rule-Maker in Global Environmental Talks
Environmentalism should be regarded on the same level with religion "as the only compelling, value-based narrative available to humanity," according to a paper written two years ago to influence the future strategy of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), the world's would-be environmental watchdog.
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DOE Website: Tropospheric Aerosol Program (TAP)
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Tropospheric Aerosol Program. (TAP)
Developing the fundamental scientific understanding required to construct tools for simulating the life cycle of tropospheric aerosols by conducting closely linked field, modeling, laboratory, and theoretical studies focused on the processes controlling formation, growth, transport, and deposition of tropospheric aerosols.
"Tropospheric anthropogenic aerosols influence climate directly by scattering solar radiation and indirectly by modifying the microphysical and light scattering properties of clouds."
"will focus on radiative forcing of climate change by atmospheric aerosols."
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Green Quotes
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
– Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme
“Climate change is real. Not only is it real, it’s here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon – the man-made natural disaster.”
– Barack Obama, US Presidential Candidate
“Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet’s climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced – a catastrophe of our own making.”
– Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth
“Climate Change will result in a catastrophic, global sea level rise of seven meters. That’s bye-bye most of Bangladesh, Netherlands, Florida and would make London the new Atlantis.”
– Greenpeace International
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
– Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major UN donor
“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
– Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the World Wildlife Fund
“One America burdens the earth much more than twenty Bangladeshes. This is a terrible thing to say in order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it’s just as bad not to say it.”
– Jacques Cousteau, UNESCO Courier
The whole world needs to adopt China's one-child policy?
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2314438The whole world needs to adopt China's one-child policy.
Wait Diane... What?John Holdren, Obama's Science Czar, says: Forced abortions and mass sterilization needed to save the planet
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/15/hot-button-40981162/
Population czar
President Obama's top science adviser has toyed with extreme measures of population control, even suggesting in one book how to make it more publicly acceptable for the government to spike drinking water in order to sterilize people.http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/
Awwwww, Wait... What??
Trail of Afghanistan's drug money exposed
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KL16Df01.html
"The report says that over the last seven years (2002-2008), the transnational trade in Afghan opiates resulted in worldwide sales of $400-$500 billion (retail value). Only 5-10% of this is estimated to be laundered by informal banking systems (such as hawala). The remainder is laundered through the legal economy, and importantly, through Western banks."
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BBC: 'No Sun link' to climate change
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7327393.stm
Scientists have produced further compelling evidence showing that modern-day climate change is not caused by changes in the Sun's activity.
Wait dude... The sun has no effect on climate change? What?Schizophrenic Americans: Poll Says 44% Want Bush Back
http://www.politico.com/blogs/
Perhaps the greatest measure of Obama’s declining support is that just 50% of voters now say they prefer having him as President to George W. Bush, with 44% saying they’d rather have his predecessor.
FDA dupes Interpol to achieve illegal kidnapping and deportation of herbal formulator Greg Caton
http://www.naturalnews.com/(NaturalNews) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today stands accused of taking part in the kidnapping and illegal extradition of a permanent resident of Ecuador, in violation of both international law and Ecuadorian law.
Greg Caton, owner and operator of Alpha Omega Labs (www.AltCancer.com), an herbal products company that sells anti-cancer herbal remedies made with Ecuadorian medicinal herbs, was arrested at gunpoint at a road checkpoint in Ecuador, then transported to an Ecuadorian holding facility to await a hearing on December 14, 2009.
His crimes? Selling herbal medicine and daring to tell the truth about those medicines on his website.
The "Gulfo"...New Oil Currency?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
“The Gulf monetary union pact has come into effect,” said Kuwait’s finance minister, Mustafa al-Shamali, speaking at a Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) summit in Kuwait.
The move will give the hyper-rich club of oil exporters a petro-currency of their own, greatly increasing their influence in the global exchange and capital markets and potentially displacing the US dollar as the pricing currency for oil contracts.Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar are to launch the first phase next year, creating a Gulf Monetary Council that will evolve quickly into a full-fledged central bank.
The Gulf currency – dubbed “Gulfo” – is likely to track a global exchange basket and may ultimately float as a regional reserve currency in its own right. “The US dollar has failed. We need to delink,” said Nahed Taher, chief executive of Bahrain’s Gulf One Investment Bank.
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Gun Owners Now Searchable like Registered Sex Offenders
"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms."-Thomas Jefferson
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=5230
On November 30, 2009, the Bloomington Herald-Times made the following announcement:
“This week, HeraldTimesOnline.com will launch its new gun permit database. You’ll be able to search gun permit records by county, city or town and street."
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