SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND? National Health care Defiles the Republic

It's the law of the land: Health overhaul signed

By JENNIFER LOVEN, AP White House Correspondent Jennifer Loven, Ap White House Correspondent 1 hr 51 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Claiming a historic triumph that could define his presidency, a jubilant Barack Obama signed a massive, nearly $1 trillion health care overhaul on Tuesday that will for the first time cement insurance coverage as the right of every U.S. citizen and begin to reshape the way virtually all Americans receive and pay for treatment.

After more than a year of hyperpartisan struggle — and numerous near-death moments for the measure — Obama declared "a new season in America" as he sealed a victory denied to a line of presidents stretching back more than half a century. Democratic lawmakers cheered him on, giving the White House signing ceremony a rally-like atmosphere as they shouted and snapped photos with pocket cameras or cell phones.
Not everyone was cheering. The Democrats pushed the bill through Congress without GOP support, and the Republicans said Tuesday that those Democratic lawmakers would pay dearly in this November's elections. Opinion polls show the public remains skeptical, too, and Obama will fly to Iowa on Thursday for the first of a number of appearances that will be more like a continuing sales job than a victory lap.
Aside from the huge, real-life changes in store for many Americans, the White House hopes the victory — even as a companion Senate "fix-it" bill moves through the Senate — will revitalize an Obama presidency that has been all but preoccupied with health care for his first year and two months in office. Vice President Joe Biden was caught whispering a profanity as he exclaimed to the president what a big deal it was.
Indeed, the reshaping of one-sixth of the U.S. economy, to be phased in over several years, ranks among the biggest changes ever devised by Washington. That was a main complaint from Republicans who characterize the measure as a costly, wrongheaded government power grab. Obama and the Democrats portray it as literally a lifesaver for countless Americans.

Cell Phone Usage Causes Biological Damage

 

Christopher Ketcham: Are cellular
phones safe or unsafe? Yes.

It's unresolved, but we shouldn't be
indifferent to the potential hazard.

By CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM, Los Angeles Times

Last update: March 2, 2010 - 10:42 AM

We love our digital gadgets. But there is
growing evidence of a dark side to the
techno-magic. Your cell phone, and any
other wireless device that depends on
electromagnetic (EM) microwave radiation,
may be hazardous to your health.

Most of the bad news comes from major labs
and research institutions in Europe. They're
reporting that using cell phones and Wi-Fi
transmitters can have biological effects on
the brain and body.

The scientific debate remains heated and far
from resolved. But the research to date
suggests a number of chilling possibilities.

For example, in 2008, neuroscientists at
Swinburne University of Technology in
Australia strapped Nokia phones to subjects'
heads, then turned the phones on and off.
On -- the brain's alpha waves spiked. Off --

 

the brain settled. The researchers speculated
that the effect was the result of the brain
"concentrating to overcome the electrical
interference in brain circuits caused by the
pulsed microwave radiation."

Swedish neuro-oncologist Leif Salford,
chairman of the department of neurosurgery
at Lund University, has found that cell phone
radiation kills brain cells in rats, especially
those cells associated with memory and
learning. The damage occurred after an
exposure of just two hours. Salford also
found that cell phone microwaves produce
holes in the barrier between the circulatory
system and the brain in rats. One potential
outcome is dementia.

Meanwhile, Austrian researchers reported in
2004 that cell phone radiation can induce
double-strand breaks in DNA, one of the
undisputed causes of cancer.

So why isn't this a bigger issue in the United
States? Partly because there are
countervailing studies and other scientists
telling us not to be worried, or that we just
don't know enough to say that the risks are
real.

Consider the biggest study being done on the
question of whether cell phones cause 

Body Scanners Destroy Genetic Code, ACLU FAILS!

"As full-body scanners are implemented at airports and government facilities nationwide, are the people aware of the true danger posed to the health of their liberty and physiology?"

Full-body scanner debuts at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport

Michael Tarm, Associated Press Writer, On Monday March 15, 2010, 6:50 pm EDT

CHICAGO (AP) -- Some air travelers already uneasy about a range of security checks at the nation's second-busiest airport can add another potential anxiety: The first full-body scanner at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport made its debut Monday.

The imaging technology, which effectively sees through clothes by scattering low-dose x-rays at a passenger's front and back, is one of 150 such scanners bought with federal stimulus money last year and now being deployed at major airports across the United States.

"It's another layer -- technology being used to provide a more secure environment," Rosemarie Andolino, the commissioner for Chicago's department of aviation, said Monday during a demonstration of the equipment.
Civil libertarians, however, have complained that the new machines can violate a passenger's privacy.
The Transportation Security Administration has been deploying the body-scanning technology in an effort to ensure that airports can detect hidden explosives and other weapons in the wake of an attempted bombing on Christmas Day. In that case, a Nigerian man is charged with trying to set off explosives that had been hidden in his underwear.

Another Likely Staged Terror Event, Imbecile Shoots Two Police Near Pentagon

 2 Pentagon officers shot near Metro station

Suspect also wounded; feds say shooting not an act of terrorism

The Associated Press

updated 10:06 p.m. ET, Thurs., March. 4, 2010

 

A gunman coolly drew a weapon from his pocket and opened fire at the teeming subway entrance to the Pentagon complex Thursday evening, wounding two police officers before being shot and critically wounded, officials said.

Authorities said all three were taken to a hospital. Richard Keevill, chief of Pentagon police, said the two officers suffered grazing wounds that were not life-threatening.

The suspect, identified as 36-year old John Patrick Bedell, allegedly walked up to a security checkpoint at the Pentagon in an apparent attempt to get inside the Defense Department headquarters, at about 6:40 p.m. "He just reached in his pocket, pulled out a gun and started shooting," Keevill said. "He walked up very cool. He had no real emotion on his face." The Pentagon officers returned fire with semiautomatic weapons.

Of the suspect, the chief said, "His injury is pretty critical."

Three law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation, said authorities were also scrutinizing a second man who may have accompanied the shooting suspect.

Two of the officials said investigators had not yet determined whether that second man had any involvement in the attack.

The rush-hour assault happened outside a massively fortified building that nevertheless is near busy crowds of transit riders.

Government Maligns Swine Flu Criticism with Kooky Concepts

The following TV public service announcement released in early 2010 by the Kentucky Department for Public Health, projects to stifle criticism of the H1N1 vaccination campaign.  The production is at the least appalling, more accurately it is a scandalously heinous advertisement deserving of sharp public decry. A negligent characterization of a voluminous body of medical studies and independent research that unequivocally demonstrates the dangerous nature of the "swine flu" inoculation. What the viewers should be asking is the age old question "Cui bono?" (latin for "Who benefits?"), as to discern why the government is so concerned with pushing this vaccination. Keep mindful, billions of dollars are at risk for the vaccine and insurance companies.

Super Virus Immune to Antibiotics: The Second Wave

Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics

By ANDREW POLLACK

A minor-league pitcher in his younger days, Richard Armbruster kept playing baseball recreationally into his 70s, until his right hip started bothering him. Last February he went to a St. Louis hospital for what was to be a routine hip replacement.

By late March, Mr. Armbruster, then 78, was dead. After a series of postsurgical complications, the final blow was a bloodstream infection that sent him into shock and resisted treatment with antibiotics.
“Never in my wildest dreams did I think my dad would walk in for a hip replacement and be dead two months later,” said Amy Fix, one of his daughters.

Not until the day Mr. Armbruster died did a laboratory culture identify the organism that had infected him: Acinetobacter baumannii.

The germ is one of a category of bacteria that by some estimates are already killing tens of thousands of hospital patients each year. While the organisms do not receive as much attention as the one known as MRSA — for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — some infectious-disease specialists say they could emerge as a bigger threat.
That is because there are several drugs, including some approved in the last few years, that can treat MRSA. But for a combination of business reasons and scientific challenges, the pharmaceuticals industry is pursuing very few drugs for Acinetobacter and other organisms of its type, known as Gram-negative bacteria.