Sunday, August 30, 2009

Right To Travel

Man protests driving regulations

In this troubleshooters report: A Pender County man who refuses to get a license plate, registration, or insurance on his truck.

Donald Sullivan says the Constitution gives us the right to travel the public highways, and he shouldn't be charged or regulated for simply exercising his right.

You might be surprised to hear a judge ruled in his favor. ...

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Posse Comitatus Violations

The posse comitatus act is federal law that prohibits military doing law enforcement within the borders of America. In the state of Washington, a military person has been exposed as spying on peace activists in the state. The spy has allegedly admitted his role and confirmed his spying and reporting to all levels of government.

Why do we spend our tax dollars investigating and spying on peaceful American activists?
Why are we violating federal law?
Where are the indictments?

Video report:

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Easy FDA Product Approval

The Food and Drug Administration approves medical products, supposedly to protect consumers. As proved by a Congressional committee, anyone can get anything approved.

Drug and device makers along with hospitals and university research facilities must retain an independent IRB to oversee the methodology and safety issues for human studies.

People may assume the IRBs are well-regulated. On the contrary, IRBs are a sham.
About 6,350 IRBs are registered with the Department of Health and Human Services.

Fake products and fake IRBs.
Coast IRB LLC of Colorado Springs, Colo., did approve a study for the fictitious adhesive gel, "Adhesiabloc." Five months after approving the study for abdominal surgery patients, Coast learned that neither Adhesiabloc nor its maker, Device Med-Systems of Virginia, existed.
The committee, working with the Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigatory arm, named the CEO of the fake IRB Truper Dawg, after a staffer's three-legged dog, now deceased. Other fake names included "April Phuls" and "Timothy Wittless," which lawmakers said should have signaled irregularities to HHS. The department registered the IRB.

Monday, August 17, 2009

DNA Evidence Can Be Faked

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show
By ANDREW POLLACK

Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining the credibility of what has been considered the gold standard of proof in criminal cases.

The scientists fabricated blood and saliva samples containing DNA from a person other than the donor of the blood and saliva. They also showed that if they had access to a DNA profile in a database, they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person.

“You can just engineer a crime scene,” said Dan Frumkin, lead author of the paper, which has been published online by the journal Forensic Science International: Genetics. “Any biology undergraduate could perform this.”
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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Town Hall Green Houses

Congress is having their summer recess, and many of the members of Congress are using this time to connect with local voters through town hall meetings. The meetings have the theme of health care reform, and are being used to push further federal government control.

The Lone Star Times has video from a town hall meeting where an Obama for President campaign worker asks a question and presents herself as a "general practicioner" who has been practicing for "four years". These actresses are plants to create an impression of agreement with the government takeover of health care. Some call this "astro turf" because it is fake grass roots. Others are calling the town hall health care meetings "green houses" because of the abundance of plants.


Follow the link to watch the video of the actress impersonating a doctor.

Obama camp plants fake doc
by Matt Bramanti

I was reading the Chron’s piece about Sheila Jackson Lee’s town hall, when something caught my eye:
One supporter, Dr. Roxana Mayer, a physician who does not live in Jackson Lee’s district, praised the reform plan for overhauling a broken system.
“I don’t know what there is in the bill that creates such panic,” she said.
In this video, Mayer claims to be a general practitioner, eliciting applause and even a hug ...

I’m not sure why, but something didn’t smell right. So my colleagues and I did a little digging, and wouldn’t you know it? Roxana Mayer is, like, totally not a doctor.
But she is an Obama campaign volunteer.
Our own David Jennings secured a phone interview, in which Mayer admitted to impersonating a physician, saying — get this — she thought it would help her credibility. (It didn’t.)
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Thursday, August 13, 2009

ToutTV

ToutTV.com resolves to CNBC. Funny!

Sugar Shortage

Tariffs are a problem, along with the rising energy costs.

U.S. food giants warn of sugar shortage

(Reuters) - Large U.S. food companies said the country could "virtually run out of sugar" unless the Obama administration eased import curbs, the Wall Street Journal said.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Whole Foods Style Health Care Reform

The co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods wrote an interesting piece on health care. Some of the points
+ health care is not a right, even in Canada and the UK
+ many degenerative diseases (heart disease, cancer, obesity) are choices
+ allow tax-deductible donations to help those who don't have health care
+ encourage high-deductible health care plans


The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare
Eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit.

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• Equalize the tax laws so that employer-provided health insurance and individually owned health insurance have the same tax benefits. Now employer health insurance benefits are fully tax deductible, but individual health insurance is not. This is unfair.

• Repeal all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines.
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• Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover.
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Friday, August 07, 2009

Vaccination Plan A Big Experiment

A/H1N1 vaccination plan a big experiment, doctor says

The enormous vaccination programme against the A/H1N1 swine flu virus due to start this autumn across Germany is nothing less than a huge experiment, a prominent critic of the pharmaceutical industry says.

Wolfgang Becker-BrĂ¼ser, doctor and publisher of the arznei-telegramm magazine which details critiques of the pharmaceutical industry, says current safety testing rules allow for up to a quarter of a million people to have serious reaction against the vaccine.

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This means that if the target of 25 million Germans being vaccinated is met, nearly 250,000 could have a serious reaction against the vaccine. ...