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Obamacare a 'rotten fish,' says Broun at town hall
CLARKESVILLE - U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, R-Athens, walked into a North Georgia Technical College auditorium Tuesday evening to a standing ovation, holding three thick white binders.
"Folks, this is Obamacare," he said, holding the binders over his head.
"Let me start this by telling you what I think of this bill and Obamacare," he said, and slammed the binders on the ground.
With that, Broun set the tone for a town hall meeting on health care refor…
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AP NewsBreak: Mexican cartels smuggle oil to US
MEXICO CITY – U.S. Justice Department officials say U.S. refineries are buying stolen oil siphoned from Mexican government pipelines and smuggled across the border — in some cases by drug cartels.
U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials are working together to track the stolen oil, which is hauled by tanker and barge into the United States.
The U.S. government plans to hand over $2.4 million to Mexico on Tuesday following a joint investigation…
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Preparing for Martial Law: International Swine Flu Conference to Be Held in Washington
by Kurt Nimmo
Global Research, August 8, 2009
Prison Planet.com
On his show today, Alex Jones read an email sent by a listener. “I work at the National Institutes of Health and we received an email about the upcoming International Swine Flu Conference that will be occurring in Washington, D.C. Aug 19 – Aug 21, 2009,” the listener writes. “They’re talking about mass fatality management and continuity of gove…
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Insane Food Bill 2749 Passes House On 2nd Try
HR 2749: Totalitarian Control Of Our Food Supply
From Lori
7-31-2009
A new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress-HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. The bill needs to be stopped. HR 2749 gives FDA tremendous power while significantly diminishing existing judicial restraints on actions taken by the agency. The bill would impose a one-size-fits-all regulatory scheme on small farms and local artisanal producers; and it would…
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House Passes Food Safety Bill
Measure to improve FDA wins on second try
By Martin H. Bosworth
ConsumerAffairs.com
July 31, 2009
The House of Representatives voted 283-142 to pass the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 (aka H.R. 2749), designed to improve the Food & Drug Administration's (FDA) ability to police food suppliers and processors for signs of foodborne illnesses and unsafe practices.
The bill was originally introduced on June 29, but failed on a vote of 280-150 as the rules requ…
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Wal-Mart weighs role in U.S. H1N1 vaccination plans
Thu Jul 30, 2009
By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc is discussing with U.S. health officials the possibility of putting vaccination sites at some of its stores for an H1N1 swine flu inoculation campaign this fall, a company official said on Thursday.
Federal officials met with Wal-Mart executives on Wednesday in Arkansas to discuss the issue, Dr. John Agwunobi, president of health and wellness for Wal-Mart U.…
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Refusing vaccination labels you a “criminal”, so says WHO
The World Health Organization determined in 2005 it has the authority to dissolve sovereign governments and take control should there be a “pandemic”. This applies to any country signed onto WHO….which of course we are. The WHO just raised this non-existent pandemic to level 6.
From the WHO 2005 declaration: (excerpted)
“ Under special pandemic plans enacted around the world including the USA, in 2005, national governments are to be diss…
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Bernanke faces heat from Republicans on BofA-Merrill deal; disputes threatening CEO's job
By Jeannine Aversa, AP Economics Writer
On Thursday June 25, 2009, 5:46 pm EDT
Companies: American international group, inc.Bank of america corporationFannie mae
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Facing an unusual political trial, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke disputed accusations Thursday that he pressured Bank of America to acquire Merrill Lynch in a deal that cost taxpayers $20 billion.
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MARKET PULSE
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Bank of America Corp. (BAC 12.35, 0.00, 0.00%) may report a second-quarter loss as the bank continues to digest its Merrill Lynch acquisition and bolster reserves amid rising consumer loan losses, Citigroup analyst Keith Horowitz wrote in a note to investors Thursday. The analyst expects Bank of America to report a quarterly loss of 11 cents a share. That compares to the average analyst estimate of a profit of 27 cents a share, according to Thomson R…
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WHO probes report of bubonic plague in Libyan town
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Libyan authorities have reported an outbreak of bubonic plague in the Mediterranean coastal town of Tubruq, and the World Health Organization was sending a team to investigate, a WHO official said on Tuesday.
The cases -- approximately 16 to 18 have been reported -- would be the first in more than two decades in Libya of the disease known…
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U.S. tells Zicam maker to stop selling some products
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By Lisa Richwine and Bill Berkrot
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. regulators warned Matrixx Initiativesto stop selling intranasal versions of its zinc-containing Zicam cold remedy after more than 130 reports of people losing their sense of smell after using the products, sending Matrixx shares into a tailspin.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration al…
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Passengers cheat flu scan with fever reducers
Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:45am EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+]
HANOI (Reuters) - Many sick passengers who flew to Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam took fever reducers to cheat temperature scanners at the airport, leading to the discovery of several infected cases later, state media reported at the weekend.
Nguyen Van Chau, head of Ho Chi Minh City's Health Department, was quoted in state-run Tien Phong (Vanguard) dai…
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Goldman Could Shed ’Commercial Bank’ Charter
Freed from the grip of the U.S. Treasury’s bailout program, Goldman Sachs Group might seek to shed its commercial bank holding company status and reclaim its role as Wall Street’s iconic investment bank, some investors believe.
By Reuters
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* Rescinding would loosen regulation, trading constraints
* '08 charter change signaled safety to investors
* Goldman says not interested in changing status
NEW YORK - Freed f…
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Obama Proposes New Wireless Spectrum Fee
Under President Obama's budget submitted to lawmakers, wireless carriers such as Verizon, AT&T and Sprint would be hit with huge fees for the right to hold a spectrum license. The fee per carrier would be $50 million this year and eventually rise to $500 million per carrier, per year within a decade. Users fear carriers will add the new fee to phone bills.
The Obama administration Feb. 26 proposed to tax wireless carriers as much as $550 million pe…
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Growing Up Without Guns
By Online Sunday, June 14, 2009
While growing up, I knew there were guns and other arms, because the army and police had them. Us, ordinary people didn’t need them. The saying was “my police protect me”. I don’t think I ever saw a gun except in movies or those carried by police on the streets. Some people in remote mountain villages had small rifles and a limited amount of ammunition - mainly to shoot predator animals to protect their farm animals. At 13, police were goi…
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