Tag: west virginia
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11/11 Binge & Purge: Spam the Torpedos!
33 sick in multistate outbreak of e. coli associated with cheese // Carnival Splendor passenger describes 2hr foodlines, other problems aboard disabled ship // Food wrappers leach harmful chemicals into food // War over Monsanto gets ugly
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10/21 Newspurge: Don’t Waste Your Time Just Looking Back
US slips to 49th in life expectancy // US will enforce marijuana laws despite California vote // US leaders destroying the dollar // Merkel says german multi-cultural society has failed // Ex-secret service officer almost accidentally shot LBJ the night after JFK assassination
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jesse johnson, 3rd party wv senate candidate, questions 9/11 account
from wvgazette: A third party candidate in West Virginia’s U.S. Senate race questions whether the Sept. 11 attacks were masterminded by Osama bin Laden and carried out by al-Qaida terrorists. Mountain Party nominee Jesse Johnson told The Associated Press that he is also not convinced that hijacked airliners caused the collapse of buildings at the…
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10/14 Newspurge: Become The Enemy
9/11 updates: lemonheads’ evan dando says wtc ‘blown up by bombs’* fmr sen gravel spearheads california 9/11 truth commission initiative* media matters: fox’s napolitano joins 9/11 truther alex jones* project censored: ‘increased tensions with unresolved 9/11 issues’* video: ‘operation dark heart’ author alleges 9/11 coverup* video update: cbs said ground level explosion caused wtc to…
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Econocrash: Welfare, Debtors’ Prisons & Dying Communities
Walmarts Swell With Poor People Once a Month At Midnight — When the Govt’s Electronic Dole Payout Goes Through from usatoday: Once a month, just after midnight, the beeping checkout scanners at a Walmart just off Interstate 95 come alive in a chorus of financial desperation. Here and at grocery stores across the country, the…
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9/30 newspurge: floating vibes
biowars/envirohealth: about 100 arrested in mountaintop mining protest* 100s feared dead in mexico mudslide* video: wjla fires veteran dc anchor after citing bp ties to obama* antibacterial soaps contain endocrine-disruptors capable of interfering with hormones critical for normal development & reproduction* video: gary wolf on ‘bio-feedback’* drugwar: medical marijuana growers join teamsters union* t-mobile sued…
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9/16 Newspurge: Enemy Gene
Econocrash: US poverty on track to post record gain in 2009* Record increase of Americans living in poverty* Doomsday warnings of US apocalypse gain ground* Soros insider trading case to be reviewed* Taxpayer-owned GM pays new CEO $9M* Video: ‘Going out with a bang’ or ‘As above, so below’: Americans using credit cards they can’t…
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Media Hypes New Drug-Resistant Superbugs
An infectious-disease nightmare is unfolding: Bacteria that have been made resistant to nearly all antibiotics by an alarming new gene have sickened people in three states and are popping up all over the world, health officials reported Monday.
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9/9 Newspurge: Momma, I’m A Communist
Castro admits Cuba’s communism doesn’t work // Book says Nazi-hunter Wiesenthal was on Mossad payroll // Portuguese TV presenter guilty of being in paedophile ring // Belarus web activist found hanged // Xbox blocks WV gamer over town’s name: Fort Gay
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9/2 Newspurge: Oh, The Chaos Is Everywhere
US tries to extradite 9/11 FEMA videographer from Argentina // No BP investigation, the senate blocked it // Record number in government anti-poverty programs // Self-described CIA assassin dies in gun accident // John Cusack calls for ‘satanic death’ of Fox News, GOP leaders
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8/26 Binge & Purge: Bypass, Filthy, Inflation
Obama bypasses congress again: Recess appointment for Dr. Elisabeth Hagen to USDA post // Obama dines at critically filthy Miami restaurant // Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution wins Emmy // Judge recommends $12M settlement on bad peanuts
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8/19 newspurge: take on the world
biowars/envirohealth: US survey shows those keenest to be green are most ignorant* gates foundation buys shares in goldman sachs & monsanto* ft detrick to open drug & vaccine testing facility* fda approves 5-day-after birth control pill* fluoride mouthrinse program to re-start in schools this year* nearly 1m children in US potentially misdiagnosed with adhd* sen…
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7/29 Newspurge: Ugly Truth & Lies
“Do the orders still stand?” – Who was he? // Life sentence for (ex-State Dept) Florida drug smuggler // Gay priest sex scandal as undercover Berlusconi reporter ‘films clerics at gay clubs’ // Journalists starting to accept the fact that their print publications will eventually fold
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7/1 Binge & Purge: Cereal Killers & Seed Burners
Haitian farmers to burn donated Monsanto seeds // West Virginia investigating Monsanto for consumer fraud // ‘Chicken of the Sea’ recalled for bad seals
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west virginia’s robert byrd, longest-serving congressman, dead at 92
from cnn: West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, the self-educated son of a coal miner who became the longest-serving member of Congress, died early Monday at age 92, the senator’s office said. Byrd, a nine-term Democrat, was known as a master of the chamber’s often-arcane rules and as the self-proclaimed “champion of the Constitution,” a jealous…