“To judge from past reporting trends, these figures suggest that this year’s West Nile virus outbreak will be among the largest ever recorded!”-Lyle Petersen, CDC
“…disturbingly unpredictable, disagreeable, and difficult to control.”-CDC statement
“At first they said West Nile would remain concentrated along the Eastern Seaboard. Then, as it moved westward, they said it wouldn’t spread […] Continue Reading…
“I believe in creative destruction.”-Meg Whitman, CEO Hewlett Packard
“It’s staggering, this is now the cheapest big stock in the last 25 years. That reflects an industry belief that the company is going to decline.”-A. M. Sacconaghi, Bernstein Research
According to a New York Times article, Meg Whitman will reveal her tactical plans for rejuvenating Hewlett […] Continue Reading…
“At the request of the Iraqi government, according to General Caslen, a unit of Army Special Operations soldiers was recently deployed to Iraq…”-New York Times, 24 September 2012
According to a New York Times article, President Barack Obama has sent Special Forces troops back into Iraq!
The revelation is buried fifteen paragraphs into the article: “Iraq […] Continue Reading…
In Maidan Wardak Province, there is a report that NATO called in a U.S. drone strike, which killed four civilians and wounded several others. It could be vengeance for yesterday’s Green on Blue attack.
In Nangarhar Province, four people killed, three wounded, after a motorcycle bomb exploded near a Mosque.
Despite threats of war with Pakistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari, agreed to come up with a long term military pact. They hope to come up with an agreement by the end of 2013, and the United Kingdom said they will support it.
26 September 2012, almost one year after Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi was captured then tortured to death live via cell phone video, one of the men (supported by the United States and European countries) responsible has himself been tortured to death!
The man, known as Omran Sha’aban, was captured by Gaddafi loyalists in July 2012, along with […] Continue Reading…
26 September 2012, Staples, considered an example of success for vulture capitalist Bain Capital (Mitt Romney sat on Staples’ board of directors for more than a decade), is in big trouble.
On 25 September, officials with Staples announced they will close down 75 stores worldwide (at least 30 in the United States with 15 of […] Continue Reading…
“Not only was this (nonprofit) plundered to fund the operating deficits of the church, the amounts were spent on personal items of the pastor’s family, and thus were items of taxable income.”-Bruce Kowal, former accountant for Reverend Carl Keyes
“If the New York attorney general were to ever find out, then goodness knows the kind […] Continue Reading…
25 September 2012, reports out of Yemen that security guards for the U.S. puppet government of Yemen have clashed with U.S. Marines.
Reports say the Marines were trying to enter a residential area in the capital Sana’a. The President of Yemen said U.S. forces were allowed only to protect the U.S. embassy.
Recently I saw a emergency preparedness public service announcement (PSA) on TV, it was specifically warning about a major earthquake, using the 1989 Loma Prieta (San Francisco bay area) earthquake as an example.
The latest Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) PSA is part of a new series called The Day Before. Past PSAs were more […] Continue Reading…