Louisiana Girl Contracts Rare Disease following Flu Shot

Proponents of the H1N1 vaccine will say there’s no provable correlation between the shot and reactions like this girl’s. Meanwhile, they’re quick to diagnose any flu-like symptoms as Swine Flu–provided the sufferer hasn’t had the vaccination yet. See how that works?

A Shreveport girl is battling a rare disease.

In December 5 year old Hannah Pham started complaining her leg was numb. When her parents took her to the hospital doctors diagnosed her with Tranverse Myelitis. It’s a disease doctors say infects about 1 in a million people.

Experts say the disease is a neurological disorder which typically follows a virus.

Hannah got an swine flu shot in early December.

Read more at KTBS News.

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FBI Defends Tracking People by Their Cell Phones

Not long ago people would say you were a kook if you warned of tracking by cell phone. Turns out the practice has been going on for some time. That’s the modus operandi of the regime: Deny that you’re committing some outrage, and when it can no longer be denied, say “Okay, we’ve been doing it for a long time. So what?”

The Justice Department is poised this week to publicly defend a little-known law-enforcement practice that critics say may be the “sleeper” privacy issue of the 21st century: the collection of cell-phone “tracking” records that identify the physical locations where the phones have been.

It may come as a surprise to most of the owners of the country’s 277 million cell phones, but their cell-phone company retains records of where their device has been at all times—either because the phones have tiny GPS devices embedded inside or because each phone call is routed through towers that can be used to pinpoint the phones’ location to within areas as small as a few hundred feet.

Read more at Newsweek.

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Oklahoma Outlaws Home Fortification

The state wants to be sure its goons can break into your home if they want to. You didn’t think your home was your own private property, did you?

Oklahoma has a new law that makes it a crime to “fortify” a citizen’s home against possible entry by law enforcement.

State Rep. Sue Tibbs was one of the sponsors of a bill that makes it unlawful for “any person to willfully fortify an access point into any dwelling, structure, building or other place where a felony offense prohibited by the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act is being committed, or attempted, and the fortification is for the purpose of preventing or delaying entry or access by a law enforcement officer, or to harm or injure a law enforcement officer in the performance of official duties.”

Read more at The Tulsa Beacon.

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Brit Cops Breaking into People’s Homes as ‘Tests’

British cops should be thankful the slaves in that island prison camp aren’t packing heat. It would be interesting if some British homeowner went ape with the samarai sword dad brought back from Burma.

Anytime you hear someone talking “striking a balance,” you know someone’s rights are being violated.

People whose properties are an easy target could be woken in the middle of the night by police who are promising to try windows and doors in a bid to cut break-ins.

Code-named Operation Golden, householders in Cheshire who fall foul of their checks will be roused with a lecture from officers on what they could have lost.

Insp Gareth Woods, heading up the operation which begins in Macclesfield, admits some people will not be happy about the early hours wake-up calls.

He said: “If we’re told to get lost then that’s a risk we take. It’s a difficult balance to strike. The bottom line is officers get a mixed reception when doing anything like this, but I say to any of my officers that if they see an insecure car or house to let the owner know, no matter what time of day or night.

Read more at The Telegraph.

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Profits for Flu Vaccine Manufacturer ‘Exceed Expectations’

Sanofi is seeking “new opportunities.” Hey, how about another fake pandemic?

Sales of more than 100 million doses of swine flu vaccine spurred higher fourth-quarter revenue and profit for the French drug giant Sanofi-Aventis, the company said on Wednesday in a report that exceeded some analysts’ expectations.

But Sanofi is still seeking new opportunities to counter rising competition from generic drugs.

Read more at the New York Times.

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The Fed is Engineering Another Gift to Wall Street

They call it an “exit plan,” but it’s actually just another way for the banks that own the New York Federal Reserve to milk the ignorant U.S. citizen.

The idea behind giving the banks cheap money was that the banks would lend it to consumers and businesses.  Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened: Since the start of the crisis, bank lending has fallen off a cliff.  The banks are, however, lending to the Federal government, which needs to fund record deficits by borrowing more than $1 trillion a year.  The combination of the Fed’s desire to stimulate lending via cheap money and the government’s desire to stimulate the economy by running a huge deficit has made it a great time to be a bank: Banks can borrow from the government at artificially cheap rates and then lend the money back to the Federal government at higher rates, pocketing the difference.

And now it’s going to get even better to be a bank.

Why?

Because the first part of the Fed’s exit plan will reportedly be to increase the amount of interest the Fed pays on “excess reserves.”

Read more at Yahoo Finance.

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