WASHINGTON – If al-Qaida acquired nuclear weapons it “would have no compunction at using them,” President Barack Obama said Sunday on the eve of a summit aimed at finding ways to secure the world’s nuclear stockpile.

“The single biggest threat to U.S. security, both short-term, medium-term and long-term, would be the possibility of a terrorist organization obtaining a nuclear weapon,” Obama said. “This is something that could change the security landscape in this country and around the world for years to come.” Read the full story

The first comprehensive study of pandemic H1N1 influenza from April to the end of July indicates that the pandemic may be the mildest ever, assuming that the virus doesn’t mutate during the winter and come back stronger than before. The analysis suggests that the swine flu virus might directly cause as many as 45,000 deaths in the United States by the end of winter but that the most likely figure is somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 deaths. In a worst-case scenario, the virus would kill no more than 45,000 people, well below earlier estimates that suggested as many as 90,000 could die in the pandemic. Read the full story

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHANK, Afghanistan – Veterans of Iraq recall rolling to war along asphalted highways, sweltering in flat scrublands and chatting with city-wise university graduates connected to the wider world.

Now fighting in Afghanistan, U.S. soldiers invariably encounter illiterate farmers who may never have talked to an American as they slog into remote villages on dirt tracks through bitterly cold, snow-streaked mountains.

“Before deploying here we were given training on language, culture, everything. I thought that since I was an Iraq combat veteran, I didn’t need any of that stuff. I was wrong. Both countries may be Muslim but this is a totally different place,” says Sgt. Michael McCann, returning from a patrol in the east-central province of Logar. Read the full story

(CNN) — A gunman was holding a school principal hostage Tuesday at a school in Pine Plains, New York, about 90 miles north of New York City, police and the town supervisor told CNN.

Police have the gunman contained to a room at Stissing Mountain High School and are negotiating, said Pine Plains Town Supervisor Gregg Pulver.

Pulver said he believed the gunman is a parent. Read the full story

That’s a week after granting that status to the closing of the Champlain Bridge — the disasters are coming more often — and President Obama’s declaration that the swine flu was a National Emergency.

The executive order has these effects:

• Allows health care workers who are not doctors, nurses or nurse practitioners to administer the vaccine
• Allows school-based health centers to handle vaccinations Read the full story

Supermarkets’ Bloody Vaccination Campaign Advances “Health Care Reform” by Lethal Injections

By Dr. Leonard Horowitz and Sherri Kane 09-26-09

Wondering why food stores and pharmacies have replaced doctors offices and clinics as vaccination stations? Ask Steve Burd, the wizard behind Obama’s Health Care Reform plan.

Burd, the Chairman of Safeway Supermarkets (VONS, Pavilions, and more) is also the founder of the Coalition to Advance Healthcare Reform (CAHR) in the US., and Burd has his fingers in more pies than healthcare. Read the full story

Announcing:

NYC CAN’s Historic

MARCH FOR ANSWERS

Sunday September 27 at 2pm

From Battery Park to City Hall
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Los Angeles, CA— World leading drug-industry investigators have uncovered stunning documents proving an international drug ring, operating from New York City, is behind the H1N1 swine flu fright and vaccination preparations. Read the full story

Clearly you can see in this more recently released video a line of demo charges going off vertically on the right middle of the building. Note the charges start going off and only then does the building start to collapse with them. And I say this to any who will insist that the “structural failure” caused these effects. Nuh uh, no way in hell.

Something went off inside that building, in a line, just like demo charges!

From the Financial Times (FT.com) Read the full story

FBI searches home of Colorado man in terror probe

AURORA, Colo. – Federal agents on Wednesday searched the home of a suburban Denver man identified by law enforcement as having a possible link to al-Qaida, carting away several boxes of evidence. Read the full story

NEW YORK —  Law enforcement agents have raided residences in New York City as part of a terrorism investigation, and are preparing to brief Congress about the investigation.

New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne confirms that searches were conducted in the borough of Queens on Monday by agents of a joint terrorism task force. He would not discuss the matter further. Read the full story

In the midst of the swine flu scare, people around the world have been photographed wearing surgical masks in hopes of protecting themselves from exposure.

But it appears that the wrong people are wearing the masks. The flimsy masks do little to protect the wearer from contracting the flu virus. A surgical mask can, however, potentially limit the spread of influenza if the sick person is wearing it, according to research presented at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in San Francisco.

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As many as 3 million Americans may now be immune to the West Nile virus thanks to antibodies they produced after being infected by the bite of an infected mosquito.

And a tenth of 1 percent of the population – about 300,000 people – acquire new West Nile infections each year, most without ever experiencing any symptoms of the disease, according to a study in the current issue of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.

“We do not see any indication that that trend will not continue,” said Thomas R. Kreil, senior director of viral vaccines at Baxter International Inc., in Vienna, Austria. Kriel is the senior author of the study in the journal, which is published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read the full story

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Alonzo Heyward carried a rifle around his low-rent Chattanooga neighborhood one day last month, ranting about suicide and ignoring the pleas of friends for hours before six city police officers surrounded him on his front porch and decided it had to end. Read the full story

Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) — New York City’s Central Park was slammed last night by a sudden thunderstorm with tropical storm- force winds that toppled or damaged hundreds of trees, some of them almost a century old.

“It’s possibly the worst damage Central Park has ever suffered from a storm,” said Adrian Benepe, the city’s parks commissioner, in a telephone interview.

Scattered thunderstorms developed just west of Newark, New Jersey, around 9:30 p.m. local time, leading the National Weather Service to issue a thunderstorm warning for midtown Manhattan and Central Park, said David Wally, a meteorologist with the service’s forecast office in Upton, New York.

The storm moved over the park at about 10 p.m., with wind gusts as strong as 70 miles (113 kilometers) per hour registering on Doppler radar, Wally said. At least 300 mature trees were toppled or snapped in half, while several thousand lost limbs in a half-mile “swath of devastation” in Manhattan between 90th and 110th streets, from Riverside Park east to Randall’s Island, Benepe said. There were no reports of injuries, he said.

“The tragedy is that we lost many large, mature trees close to a century old and some very important specimens of American elms and horse chestnuts and yellow buttonwoods,” said Benepe, who estimated the cleanup costs would run at least into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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(AP) New York City is buying one-way plane tickets for homeless families to leave the city.

It’s part of a program by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration to keep the homeless out of the expensive shelter system, which costs $36,000 a year per family. More than 550 families have left the city since 2007. All it takes is for a relative to agree to take them in. Read the full story