Tag: california
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Swine Flu Unleashed: Never-Before-Seen Viruses Hit Mexico
swine flu pandemic: the stand & the happening right at your door “The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died…
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ontario california tent city residents required to wear wristbands
from latimes: Tent City residents gather as the city of Ontario starts the process of sorting out who may stay and who must leave… The aim is to reduce the number of people living there from over 400 to 170… Officials begin thinning out the encampment, saying the city can provide space only for those…
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if it bleeds, it leads
shootouts, crashes, murder & mayhem…4 police officers dead in oakland gun battlefrom dpa: A fourth California police officer died Sunday after a gun battle with an armed prison parolee in Oakland, east of San Francisco. Three officers died during the battle Saturday, and the fourth died Sunday of his injuries, radio broadcaster KCBS reported. The…
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econocrash: homes, fronts, bank riots & a global currency
an ugly bias is back: blaming jews for financial woes 1 in 8 US homeowners late paying or in foreclosurefrom reuters: About one in eight U.S. homeowners with mortgages, a record share, ended 2008 behind on their loan payments or in the foreclosure process as job losses intensified a housing crisis spawned by lax lending…
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outside the box #191 (w/ michael j panzner & rosalind peterson)
here is the latest episode of “outside the box,” hosted by alex ansary.it was originally broadcast by portland community media on february 26, 2009. from alex ansary: In the first half of the show, Alex talks with Michael J. Panzner (financialarmageddon.com) about the depression we are now moving into. Later he speaks with Rosalind Peterson…
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real time w/ ron paul: america’s war on drugs must end
from raw story: Congressman Ron Paul is the most conservative, grandfatherly man to ever be admired by America’s marijuana enthusiasts. On Friday night’s episode of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, he reminded those who may have been suffering an impaired short-term memory at that late hour why, exactly, they should like him. Speaking live…
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miltech: crashing subs, cameras, guns, computers & internet2
french & uk officials confirm nuclear subs collided in atlanticfrom washington post: Nuclear submarines from Britain and France collided deep in the Atlantic Ocean this month, authorities said Monday in the first acknowledgment of a highly unusual accident. Officials said the low-speed crash did not damage the vessels’ nuclear reactors or missiles or cause radiation…
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outside the box #188
here is the latest episode of “outside the box,” hosted by alex ansary.it was originally broadcast by portland community media on february 5, 2009. from alex ansary: Alex discusses a new report about how excessive TV viewing damages children and the damage still being done to adults who are hooked on the box. He also…
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navy unleashes tug of war off oregon coast
from oregonian: You may not realize it, but the Navy has been conducting warfare training exercises off the coast of Oregon, Washington and Northern California for decades, firing missiles and machine guns, dropping bombs and practicing crucial sonar detection of submarines. Now, the Navy’s Northwest region wants to expand those operations, including adding a dummy…
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killer cop finally arrested for oscar grant shooting
video: former bart officer arrested for oscar grant shootingfrom kgo: Former BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle, who shot an unarmed man on New Year’s Day, was arrested on Tuesday night. Twenty-two-year-old Oscar Grant III was killed as he lay facedown at Oakland’s Fruitvale BART station. video: oscar grant shooting similar to 1992 bart shooting*video: clearest…
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police state usa: dobbs, marines, tasers
video: lou dobbs on martial law & posse comitatus marines establish presence in san bernardinofrom kurt nimmo: Branson Hunter, writing for the Big Bear Observation Post blog, reports that the Marine Corps Air and Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) and the local California Highway Patrol will be working together over the holiday “in a joint effort…
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f-18 crashes into residential neighborhood in san diego
from ap: An F-18 has crashed in a residential neighborhood in San Diego, sparking at least one house fire. Footage from the scene showed columns of white smoke rising from a housing development. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said the plane crashed shortly before noon Monday as it prepared to land at Marine Corps…
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3 strange deaths + 1 should’ve been
teens streams suicide live on webfrom threat level: A 19-year-old Florida teen’s suicide broadcast Wednesday on Justin.tv was a result of an overdose of opiates and benzodiazepine, the Broward County Medical Examiner & Trauma Services Division said Friday. The Pembroke Pines teen was pronounced dead about 6 p.m. on Wednesday, coroner spokeswoman Sherri Baker said…
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norad & northcom run ‘vigilant shield’ drills on nov12-18
from northcom: North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command will participate in Exercise Vigilant Shield 09 Nov. 12 – 18. The focus of VS09 is on homeland defense and civil support. The exercise will include scenarios to achieve exercise objectives within the maritime, aerospace, ballistic missile defense, cyber, consequence management, strategic communications, and…
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envirohealth: pandemic lab, food, nuke, bpa & fat children
bacteria played a role in 1918 pandemic flu deathsfrom los angeles times: Most deaths in the 1918 influenza pandemic were due not to the virus alone but to common bacterial infections that took advantage of victims’ weakened immune systems, according to two new studies that could change the nation’s strategy against the next pandemic. “We…