Obama in, my pick, McCain supports a Military draft

I attended last night’s Obama Town Hall in Raleigh and I have to say while I do not feel it was one of his strongest speeches, seeing the man in person is something I hope everyone gets a chance to experience. The energy in the crowd was one of excitement and desire, a desire for change and [...]

Like Many Food Suppliers, Whole Foods Beef Company Was a Repeat Offender

Source: Martha Rosenberg - OpEdNews
Scratch the surface of a food offender whether they abuse the environment, workers, animals, the public trust or public funds and you usually find they are repeat offenders.
Nebraska Beef, the Omaha, NE-based supplier Whole Foods says it didn’t know its supplier Coleman Natural Foods was using (right) recalled more than 5 [...]

Army Secretary orders review of USAMRIID at Fort Detrick

Anthrax case raises concerns about highly secure programs
Source: Greg Carlstrom - The FederalTimes.com
Bruce Ivins, the biologist suspected of sending anthrax-laced letters to politicians and journalists in 2001, began showing signs of mental illness as far back as 2000 — but he was allowed to access sensitive research facilities until as recently as last year.
And that [...]

McCain’s Mansions

 
McCain vs McCain

Share the Outrage in Your Credit Card’s Fine Print

The Fed apparently is getting a bit nervous about the credit card industry and the possiblility it will be this next bubble to burst or to go bust, ironically because of it’s own predatory practices. When you consider that “Penalty fees make up nearly half of industry revenues” the credit card industry is “banking” on [...]

Pandora’s Pandemic Box

Over the past year people concerned about the research to be conducted at the National Bio Agro Defense Facility have been called alarmist, chicken little and NIMBY’s by the proponents of the NBAF for questioning the lab’s true purpose. Think about it common sense says, why would the US government spend three-fourths of a billion dollars on a facility to study [...]

Athens NBAF meeting, some oppose others argue need

Source: Ken Foskett - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A polite crowd of about 200 people filled a University of Georgia auditorium Thursday to register support and opposition to a proposed animal research facility under consideration at UGA and sites in five other states.
The Department of Homeland Security will select the site of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility later [...]

Bush Has Lyme Disease

Mystery solved, how fitting.

more about “Bush Has Lyme Disease“, posted with vodpod
 

Terror suspect list included Plum Island,Biological and Chemical Weapons

The NBAF won’t be a terrorist target? Not according to this article.
Watch the female Bin Laden
Terror suspect had New York target list
Source: ABC News - By RICHARD ESPOSITO and BRIAN ROSS
When she was arrested in Afghanistan last month, Aafia Siddique allegedly had in her possession maps of New York, a list of potential targets that [...]

Durham 4-1 says No to NBAF,will ask Consortium to withdraw NC

Durham Commissioners nix NBAF
Source: Lisa Sorg - Independent Weekly
The next coffin nail was hammered into the proposed National Bio and Agro Defense Facility Monday night when Durham County Commissioners voted 4-1 to oppose the federal disease lab that could be sited in Butner.
The commission also took a stronger step of passing a resolution to draft [...]