Rick Santelli's Chicago Tea Party

In ‘universal’ flu shot push, medical industry admits current flu shots are useless
Tea party favorite SC Sen. Jim DeMint won’t endorse anyone in state’s early GOP primary
Witness says Cain accuser hugged him during Tea Party meeting a month ago
MSNBC Analyst: We Should Get Rid of the Second Amendment
South Carolina’s Immigration Law Challenged by Federal Gov’t
Bigfoot takes free speech claim to NH high court
New Mexico gov looking at tax reform proposals
Lawmakers Question MF Global Trustee’s Work on Lehman Brokerage
Cameraman Shot for Filming Cops in Oakland
Darpa Begs Hackers: Secure Our Networks, End ‘Season of Darkness’

In ‘universal’ flu shot push, medical industry admits current flu shots are useless

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 04:42 AM PST

By Ethan A. Huff, Natural News

The medical community is in the process of unveiling a "universal" influenza vaccine that it claims will prevent all flu strains with a single jab. The only problem is that, in the process, the system has inadvertently admitted that current flu shots are medically useless because they fail to target the correct flu strain in many cases, and they do not stimulate a natural flu-fighting immune response even when the strain is a match.

A recent report by CBS 11 News in Dallas / Fort Worth explains that researchers from the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have identified a compound they say spurs the growth of a key protein known as REDD-1, which prevents cells from becoming infected. By injecting this compound into patients, REDD-1 will increase, say the researchers, and thus effectively prevent any strain of flu from taking hold.

But what about current flu vaccines? Dr. Beatrice Fontoura, one of the head researchers involved with the new universal flu shot, explained to CBS 11 that it works differently than current flu shots because it "stimulates our own (immune) response which is already there and boost[s] it to fight an infection."

In other words, flu shots being sold today at pharmacies across the country do not actually promote natural immunity at all, which begs an important question. If current flu shots do not boost the immune response, then what, exactly, are they good for?

Tea party favorite SC Sen. Jim DeMint won’t endorse anyone in state’s early GOP primary

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 04:38 AM PST

By Associated Press, The Washington Post

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Tea party favorite U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint says he won't endorse a candidate in the 2012 presidential race, taking what could have been a huge bump in popularity off the table for candidates in early voting South Carolina.

DeMint spokesman Wesley Denton on Monday confirmed a report that the senator would stay on the sidelines of the first nominating contest in the South.

"He's not going to bed endorsing in the presidential race," Denton said. "He will be focusing on electing conservatives to the United States Senate."

The Washington Post first reported that DeMint is staying out of the primary.

In January 2007, DeMint's early endorsement of Mitt Romney gave the former Massachusetts governor a bigger presence in a crowded political field that included former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and the eventual nominee, Sen. John McCain.

DeMint helped paint a stark contrast between McCain and Romney on illegal immigration. Republicans were stirred enough at a GOP convention that they openly booed McCain's top South Carolina backer, Sen. Lindsey Graham.

Witness says Cain accuser hugged him during Tea Party meeting a month ago

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 04:34 AM PST

By MICHAEL SNEED, The Chicago Sun Times

The Cain Encounter …

They hugged each other backstage in a full embrace like old friends.

She grabbed his arm and whispered in his left ear.

She kept talking as he bent to listen, and he kept saying "Uh, huh. Uh, huh."

Huh?

"I don't know if what she was giving him was a sucker punch, but he didn't put his arm down while she was talking to him," said the Sneed source.

The "he"… is GOP presidential contender Herman Cain, who has been accused of sexual harassment by several women.
The "she"… is Chicagoan Sharon Bialek, who held a news conference Tuesday as the only woman to PUBLICLY accuse Cain of sexual harassment.

MSNBC Analyst: We Should Get Rid of the Second Amendment

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 04:06 PM PST

By: Katie Pavlich, TownHall.com

What is the deal with MSNBC folks being anti-Second Amendment lately? Last week it was fill in host Craig Melvin and this week it’s analyst and Huffington Post writer Alex Wagner.

Wagner was on Real Time With Bill Maher and when asked about what should be changed in the Constitution, Wagner said we should get rid of the Second Amendment.

Bill Maher, HBO: “Let’s ask Alex. What would you change in the Constitution?”

Alex Wagner, Huffington Post: “Well, I’m going to be pilloried for this. I think get rid of the second Amendment, the right to bear arms. I just think in the grand scheme of the rights that we have; the right of assembly, free speech, I mean, owning a gun does not, it does not tally on the same level as those other Constitutional rights. And being more discreet about who gets to have a firearm and right to kill with a firearm, I think is something that would be in our national interest to revisit that.”

Thankfully, Rep. Darrell Issa was on the same panel and set her straight.

Issa: We have a problem in America which is we misunderstand quite frankly what the Second Amendment is for, it’s for law abiding citizens to have a right both to protect themselves and to be protected from living under tyranny.

South Carolina’s Immigration Law Challenged by Federal Gov’t

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 04:01 PM PST

By Amanda Winkler, ChristianPost.com

South Carolina's strict new immigration law is being challenged by the U.S. Department of Justice under the claim that it undermines federal authority.

A lawsuit was filed Monday that seeks to stop the implementation of the law that is scheduled to go into effect in January. The legislation requires law enforcement to call federal immigration officials if they believe someone is in the country illegally. The state law official may only check immigration status after the person has been stopped for something else, for example, speeding. The legislation also requires that business owners check the legal status of newly hired employees.

But the federal government is calling foul.

“The Justice Department has many important tasks and two of the most important tasks it has are defending the Constitution and ensuring equality for all citizens,” said U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles, according to the McClatchy Newspapers.

The defendant is South Carolina's Indian-American Governor Nikki Haley. Haley is the daughter of Sikh immigrants and believes the law is within her state's rights.

“As the daughter of immigrants who came to this country legally, Governor Haley understands that no American value is more sacred than the rule of law. That’s what this is about, nothing more, nothing less,” Haley spokesman Rob Godfrey told Politico.com.

Bigfoot takes free speech claim to NH high court

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:58 PM PST

By: Lynne Tuohy, Boston.com

Bigfoot is taking his First Amendment case to New Hampshire's top court.

When Jonathan Doyle of Keene donned a Bigfoot costume and set out to videotape staged sightings of the fabled ape-like creature on Mount Monadnock two years ago, state park officials put the kibosh on his escapades, saying Doyle and his friends had failed to pay $100 for a special-use permit 30 days in advance and secure a $2 million bond.

But such requirements stifle free speech and artistic expression and are too broad to pass constitutional scrutiny, say Doyle and the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union. Defeated at the trial court level, they've now climbed to the top of New Hampshire's legal system, the state Supreme Court.

The state, which won a summary judgment motion in May, argues the permit requirement for organized events is applied fairly and is designed to enhance public enjoyment of the state's parks "free from unwelcome or unwarranted interference, annoyance or danger.''

Merrimack Superior Court Judge Larry Smukler agreed, saying Doyle's film "was far more than a simple attempt at spontaneous expression. It was a full-fledged commercial production.''

The justices of the Supreme Court are slated to hear from both sides Thursday.

Doyle first wore his Bigfoot costume on the top of Monadnock on Sept. 6, 2009, then interviewed hikers at random about what they saw. Those interviewed went along with the skit and Doyle posted his video on YouTube.

New Mexico gov looking at tax reform proposals

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:54 PM PST

From: CBSNews.com

(AP) SANTA FE, N.M. — Republican Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration is considering a wide range of business friendly tax proposals for next year’s legislative session in hopes of improving New Mexico’s economy.

Among the possibilities is reducing or eliminating the gross receipt tax on small businesses with a tax liability of less than $200 a month. That proposal could help about half of the 80,000 businesses in the state.

Scott Darnell, a spokesman for Martinez, said no final decisions have been made yet on what tax and economic development legislation will be recommended to lawmakers when they meet in January for a 30-day session.

“The governor’s focus will be on creating jobs for New Mexicans, and she hopes to work in a bipartisan way to grow the state’s economy and enact reforms that will create opportunities for businesses to hire new workers,” Darnell said in a statement.

Finance and Administration Secretary Tom Clifford said the administration is exploring corporate income tax revisions, including rate reductions and revamping a formula that determines how much of a multistate corporation’s income will be taxed in New Mexico.

“State taxes matter. If you manage your tax policy poorly it’s going to make your economy less competitive,” Clifford told a legislative committee last week.

Lawmakers Question MF Global Trustee’s Work on Lehman Brokerage

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:51 PM PST

By Robert Schmidt, Bloomberg.com

The trustee liquidating MF Global Holdings Ltd. (MF)'s brokerage came under fire from two Republican lawmakers who said he's proven too slow at a similar task resolving the broker-dealer of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEHMQ)

In a Nov. 4 letter to regulators, Representatives Ed Royce and Scott Garrett said they were concerned that the trustee, James Giddens, has been handling the Lehman liquidation for three years and made little progress returning money to customers and creditors. Meanwhile the process has cost more than $640 million, the lawmakers noted.

"As the trustee fees continue to mount" and the "resolution languishes, it is surprising that the very same trustee was recently selected to liquidate MF Global's broker- dealer business," the lawmakers wrote to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chief Mary Schapiro and Stephen Harbeck, the head of the Securities Investor Protection Corp.

Royce, of California, and Garrett, of New Jersey, both members of the House Financial Services Committee, said that although the Lehman case is more than three years old "no distributions have been made to customers, no settlements have been made with Lehman affiliates and no effort has been made to resolve unsecured claims against" the firm.

Harbeck's group, known as SIPC, requested last week that Giddens, of the law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, be named as the trustee for the MF Global brokerage liquidation. A federal judge approved the appointment on Oct. 31.

Cameraman Shot for Filming Cops in Oakland

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:47 PM PST

By: Kurt Nimmo, Infowars.com

Filming the police is dangerous to your health. In many parts of the country it can result in arrest and imprisonment.

In Oakland, California, it can result in being shot with a "non-lethal" weapon, as the man in the video below discovered. He wasn't violent of threatening the cops. His crime appears to be that he dared film riot cops without their permission. He was considered the enemy because he was with Occupy protesters.

In fascist dictatorships or countries taken over in military juntas, the police and military usually shoot and kill citizens who dare resist their authority. If you think it can't happen here, remember Kent State and Jackson State where students were killed for the crime of protesting against the government.

It is a small step from rubber bullets to live ammo.

Darpa Begs Hackers: Secure Our Networks, End ‘Season of Darkness’

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:43 PM PST

By Spencer Ackerman, Wired.com

The Pentagon's far-out research agency and its brand new military command for cyberspace have a confession to make. They don't really know how to keep U.S. military networks secure. And they want to know: Could you help them out?

Darpa convened a "cyber colloquium" at a swank northern Virginia hotel on Monday for what it called a "frank discussion" about the persistent vulnerabilities within the Defense Department's data networks. The Pentagon can't defend those networks on its own, the agency admitted.

Because it's the blue-sky research agency that helped create the internet, Darpa framed the problem as a deep, existential one, not a pedestrian question of insecure code. "It is the makings of novels and poetry from Dickens to Gibran that the best and the worst occupy the same time, that wisdom and foolishness appear in the same age, light and darkness in the same season," mused Regina Dugan, Darpa's director. She's talking about the internet. "These are the timeless words of our existence. We know it is true of everything."

Put in a blunter way, U.S. networks are "as porous as a colander," Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief turned cybersecurity Cassandra, told a packed ballroom.

"We are losing ground because we are inherently divergent from the threat," conceded Dugan, swooping down from the stratosphere. Current network security is a numbers game: According to Darpa research, securing sensitive information on the military's networks requires, typically, programs running 10 million lines of code. On average, the malicious code, viruses, bots, worms and exploits that try to penetrate those defenses rely on 125 lines of code. Eventually, simple beats over-engineered.

Dugan didn't go as far as Clarke did — she's a senior Defense Department official, after all — but she implied that left to its own devices, the government's network defenses will allow crucial data to increasingly sluice through, like water through Clarke's colander. And it's not just information leaking out: it's the danger of a cyberattack crippling U.S. financial systems or the power grid, according to many at the colloquium. "We believe we need more and better options," Dugan said.

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