Cash-Poor Governments Ditching Public Hospitals

Wall Street Journal | Faced with mounting debt and looming costs from the new federal health-care law, many local governments are leaving the hospital business, shedding public facilities that can be the caregiver of last resort.

The Creature from Jekyll Island

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve Have I got a book for you! You think you know all about money? Well, so did I – until I started reading The Creature from Jekyll Island; A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, by G. Edward Griffin. Sure, I had a good working knowledge of how our banking system functions and how money is created out of nothing to make loans, but I was blown away by the magnitude of the scam as it has evolved over the years. What a wild ride through history this is as the author reveals where money comes from, where it goes, and who makes it. The money magicians' secrets are unveiled, and you will get a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, their pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A dry and boring subject? Just wait! You'll be hooked in five minutes. Reads like a detective story – which it really is. But…

Deputy constable accused of beating, exposing woman at school, suit says

American-Statesman | Federal lawsuit accuses a Travis County deputy constable of beating a woman and exposing her breast in front of an elementary school with her grandchildren watching.

Just 2 People Sign Up For Obamacare in NJ

My FOX NY | Just two people in New Jersey will begin receiving coverage Monday under new plans created by federal health care reforms.

TSA Begins New, More Aggressive Airport “Frisk”

Boston Herald | Logan airport security just got more up close and personal as federal screeners launched a more aggressive palms-first, slide-down body search technique that has renewed the debate over privacy vs. safety.

Feds found Pfizer too big to nail, so they looked the other way on massive fraud

(NaturalNews) When the world’s largest pharmaceutical company was found to have engaged in a massive illegal marketing campaign, federal prosecutors decided the company was too big to punish — so they let it set up a shell corporation to take the blame. In 2001, the FDA approved Bextra for the relief of arthritis and menstrual cramps, but did not approve it for more severe surgical pain. Yet Pfizer aggressively promoted the drug to anesthesiologists and surgeons — “anyone that use[d] a scalpel for a living,” in the words of one internal company document. Company employees also told doctors that the FDA had approved Bextra as safe in doses as high as 40 milligrams, whereas the agency had actually only approved doses up to 20 milligrams. Yet when the government threatened Pfizer with prosecution for off-label marketing fraud, it realized that a conviction would, under federal law, require that Pfizer be excluded from Medicare and…

Government to overhaul bioterror and pandemic flu plans

Los Angeles Times | Federal officials will use H1N1 funding to speed the process of discovering and developing drugs and vaccines in case of emergency.

U.S. Economy Near Point of No Return

Dan Weil | The Federal Reserve’s decision to expand its quantitative easing by purchasing more Treasuries is a dangerous one.

The Dollar’s Third and Final Act

LewRockwell.com | The US credit system is in the midst of its third credit crisis since the advent of the Federal Reserve.

Solar storms could bring down modern civilization

(NaturalNews) A massive solar storm, considered an inevitable occurrence by astrophysicists, would wreak devastation on modern civilization like a Hurricane Katrina across the globe, U.S. government officials have concluded. “It’s important to understand that, along with other types of natural hazards, [solar] storms can cause impacts,” said Craig Fugate, Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Periodically, eruptions or explosions on the Sun’s surface send bursts of high-powered radiation or charged particles slamming into our planet. Low-level solar weather is responsible for the polar auroras and periodic disruption of radio signals. But truly powerful storms, which occur every few decades, can release as much energy as a billion hydrogen bombs. Government scientists recently carried out a tabletop exercise to analyze the likely effects of such a storm — “what we think could be close to a worst-case scenario,” according to Tom Bogdan of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center. A solar storm in 1859 …

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