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US life expectancy falls as failure of conventional medicine becomes obvious

December 10th, 2010 admin

(NaturalNews) U.S. life expectancy has dropped yet again, according to a report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. While overall life expectancy slipped from 77.9 years to 77.8 years, the report uncovered a surge of deaths from chronic lower respiratory diseases . This report reveals a disturbing disconnect between the increasing money being spent on health care (“sick care”) in the United States versus the lack of positive results we’re getting in return. The U.S. health care system is the most expensive in the world, and yet life expectancy is falling while U.S. citizens are nowhere near the healthiest in the world. So why is life expectancy falling? Primarily because the U.S. health care system does nothing to prevent disease . It is a system based entirely on treating symptoms of disease — “managing” disease — rather than teaching people how to avoid disease through nutrition, foods and natural remedies. In fact, the very idea of preventing disease and increasing life expectancy is strongly opposed by the medical system as well as the U.S. government: – The conventional medical system thrives on disease and would lose money and power if fewer people were stricken with cancer, diabetes and heart disease. – The U.S. government, facing financial bankruptcy due to its runaway entitled program obligations, actually saves money when people die younger . The younger people die, in other words, the less the government pays out under Medicare and social security programs. The two largest organizations currently in charge of health care in America — the government and the sick-care industry — both have a financial incentive to keep Americans sick or to see them die earlier. Your value to the sick-care machine is measured in dollars alone This shocking economic reality never occurs to many people who still mistakenly assume that drug companies want people to get healthy (they don’t) or that the government wants you to enjoy a long retirement (it doesn’t). From the sick-care industry’s perspective, if you prevent disease , you are useless to them because you won’t need their drugs, surgeries or chemotherapy. And from the government’s point of view, you’re useless as soon as you retire and stop paying taxes on your wages. At that point, you transition into a net financial drain on the government. Obviously, you are the only person who benefits from your own good health . No corporation receives any benefit when YOU are healthy. No government receives any benefit, either. This is why no television ads or public service announcements will ever encourage you to prevent disease and live a long, healthy life. If you wish to pursue such a path, you must do it for your own reasons and in opposition to the agendas of the groups that are trying to keep you diseased . This is why here at NaturalNews, we always seek to empower individuals to take charge of their own health, learn about nutrition and become independent thinkers who can dismiss the manipulations of Big Pharma or Big Government — both of which are trying to keep you as sick as possible. To achieve lasting good health, a person must rebel against the system being shoved down Americans’ throats: Junk food, mammograms, vaccines, radiation treatments, chemotherapy, prescription drugs and more. Those elements are merely designed to keep you trapped in a state of chronic degenerative disease so that doctors, drug companies and hospitals can extract as much of your money as possible before you expire. That life expectancy is falling in the United States is not some random phenomenon. It is an artifact of the very design of our sick-care system — a system in which human beings are considered profit-generating machines to be manipulated, misinformed and ultimately drugged or irradiated into a lifetime of chronic disease that generates outrageous profits for the sick-care industry. The good news is you don’t have to participate in that system. Instead, educate yourself about health and disease prevention by reading NaturalNews (and sharing it with others). We will continue to bring you independent, truthful news on natural remedies and cures that can keep you healthy and keep you out of the hospitals and doctors’ offices that will only attempt to exploit your body for profit. If you want to “live long and prosper,” as Spock famously said, you’ll need to pursue health truth and health freedom on your own. Keep reading NaturalNews, and we’ll keep bringing you information that helps you rise above the sick-care system and experience a long, healthful life, free from the disease traps that have ensnared so many others.

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Protest Fizzles for Opting Out of Airport Security Checks

November 27th, 2010 admin
Tom Ramstack – AHN News Correspondent

Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The protest that was supposed to tie up check-in lines at airports nationwide Wednesday fizzled into a few minor cases of grumbling while most passengers moved smoothly toward their flights.

Some travelers upset over the Transportation Security Administration’s aggressive new screening tactics tried to organize a National Opt-Out Day for Thanksgiving eve.

Through a series of Internet postings, they encouraged travelers to choose pat-down searches at airport security checkpoints instead of walking through body scanning machines that make people appear nearly nude on a video screen.

The TSA operates 385 of the scanners at 68 airports.

Pat-down searches, in which TSA security agents rub their hands along people’s bodies, take longer.

The protesters hoped a large number of travelers suddenly choosing pat-down searches would overwhelm TSA security agents, slowing check-in times and disrupting flight schedules on what is commonly the biggest travel day of the year.

“I hope to see deserted airports,” James Babb, a co-founder of the protest group “We Won’t Fly,” wrote on his Web site. “But if you want to do it, I say, have some fun with it. Be creative. Wear the kilt. Leave your phone on record. You could be the next YouTube star.”

The group says the TSA screening techniques create an invasion of privacy.

Instead of being overwhelmed by protesters, TSA officials reported little evidence of slowdowns at major airports.

Most of the protests consisted of a few travelers wearing T-shirts mocking the screening procedures or isolated incidents, such as a Utah man who wore a Speedo swimsuit as he passed through airport security and a woman in Los Angeles who showed up in a bikini.

John Pistole, the head of the safety administration, said on ABC television’s “Good Morning America” program that the TSA was prepared to handle the estimated 1.6 million air travelers on Wednesday.

Pistole, along with Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, urged flyers to avoid participating in the National Opt-Out Day protest.

“I just feel bad for the traveling public that’s just trying to get home for the holidays,” Pistole said about possible delays from a protest.

He said the TSA was trying to develop less intrusive screening techniques but would keep the body scanners and pat-downs for now.

At Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, airport officials estimated 70,000 travelers would pass through the security checkpoints Wednesday.

By mid-afternoon, the only obvious sign of protest came from a group that distributed fliers at the airport protesting the new security procedures.

Passengers at airports in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere also reported few disruptions.

The security checks appear to be having little impact on the number of Thanksgiving holiday travelers, according to the AAA, formerly the American Automobile Association.

More people are traveling this year than last year as the economic recession eases, AAA officials said.

About 42 million Americans are expected to travel during the holiday, most of them by automobile.

The increasing number of travelers this year pales in comparison with the record year of 2005, when about 58.6 million left home for Thanksgiving, the AAA reported.

Some of the biggest increases are expected on Amtrak, which has been reporting a record number of riders for most of this year.

About 686,000 travelers used Amtrak during last year’s Thanksgiving holiday.

Amtrak reported that tickets for nearly all of its trains were sold out by early this week.

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TSA now needs false flag security incident to convince Americans to accept obscene pat-downs

November 21st, 2010 admin

(NaturalNews) With the grassroots backlash over the TSA’s obscene pat-downs growing by the day, it’s becoming fairly obvious that the only way the U.S. government is going to get the public to accept these Fourth Amendment violations is if there is another “terrorist incident” that’s stopped by the TSA and its naked body scanners. So far, the TSA is molesting children, teens and grannies without being able to demonstrate that this gross violation of Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights is having any effect whatsoever on improving air travel safety. But if there’s anything to be learned from 9/11, it’s that the sheeple are always willing to give up their rights if they can be scared into doing so . (http://www.naturalnews.com/030452_Ron_Paul_enough_is.html) “After 9/11 people were scared and when people are scared they’ll do anything for someone who will make them less scared,” said Bruce Schneier, a Minneapolis security technology expert, in an AP story (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101121/ap_on_re_us/us_airport_security_backlash). “But [this TSA] is particularly invasive. It’s strip-searching. It’s body groping. As abhorrent goes, this pegs it.” TSA is fighting for its survival The TSA is being threatened right now in a big way: One airport in Florida is already planning to ditch the agency and hire private contractors to run security. A NYC lawmaker has called for the “dismantling” of the TSA, and Rep Ron Paul has introduced legislation that would result in TSA agents being arrested for felony crimes if they touched peoples’ junk. The TSA, in other words, is fighting for its very survival right now. What it desperately needs is some new terrorist incident to remind the American people how much they need to give up their freedoms in exchange for security. Now, I’m not saying the TSA is going to plot to blow up an airplane or anything, but if there’s anybody who has the access to sneak something past airport security, it’s the TSA. How false flag operations achieve government goals The United States government has a long and detailed history of “staging” events in order to sway public opinion. The Gulf of Tonkin event in the Vietnam War era was deliberately staged by U.S. government officials in order to justify an escalation of military attacks on the North Vietnamese. Documents that were finally declassified just this year prove beyond any doubt that the U.S. government conspired to stage this “false flag” event. (http://www.prisonplanet.com/de-classified-vietnam-era-transcripts-show-senators-knew-gulf-of-tonkin-was-a-staged-false-flag-event.html) Operation Northwoods was a similar plot. As Wikipedia relates: The planned 1962 Operation Northwoods plot by the U.S. Department of Defense for a war with Cuba involved scenarios such as hijacking or shooting down passenger and military planes, sinking a U.S. ship in the vicinity of Cuba, burning crops, sinking a boat filled with Cuban refugees, attacks by alleged Cuban infiltrators inside the United States, and harassment of U.S. aircraft and shipping and the destruction of aerial drones by aircraft disguised as Cuban MiGs. These actions would be blamed on Cuba, and would be a pretext for an invasion of Cuba and the overthrow of Fidel Castro’s communist government . It was authored by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, nixed by John F. Kennedy, came to light through the Freedom of Information Act and was publicized by James Bamford. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag#As_pretexts_for_war) On the conspiracy theory front, there have long been accusations that the 9/11 attacks were an “inside job” staged as a pretext to clamp down on Americans’ freedoms and roll out the Patriot Act — the very law that coincidentally gives TSA agents the right to have anybody arrested and detained for 48 hours without cause, without a warrant and without legal representation. The evidence surrounding the collapse of the WTC 7 building now has literally thousands of engineers, scientists and citizens realizing the building was obviously brought down by demolition explosions (http://buildingwhat.org) and not an “office fire” as was the official explanation. The point of all this is that when governments are cornered but don’t want to give in, they will sometimes resort to falsifying events in order to continue moving their agendas forward. As David Icke explains, it’s the old “problem-reaction-solution” approach. First, create the problem , then wait for the public reaction that allows you to enact the government solution . The formula works like a charm for everything from pushing flu vaccines to justifying a war. In fact, there is evidence that U.S. agents may already be working on this plan. The fake bomb recently found on board a German passenger jet, we now know, was manufactured by a U.S. company (http://www.prisonplanet.com/fake-bomb-aboard-german-passenger-jet-was-made-by-u-s-firm-to-test-airport-security.html). How government agencies keep themselves alive (and get more funding) Is the TSA at that point of desperation yet? I’m not sure, but it would certainly be easy for high-level TSA operatives to find some patsy who hates the government, convince him that he should carry some liquid explosives onto an airplane, and then “catch” him at a TSA security checkpoint, thereby proving that we need to keep giving up our freedoms in the name of security. The mainstream media would have a field day with that story, and for the next two weeks on the news, we’d all hear how important the TSA is and what a great job they’re doing, and how this “terrorist” was caught by the naked body scanner machine, and so on. Don’t be surprised to see such a scenario unfold. It’s not that I personally distrust the TSA in particular, because there are some good people who work there and who are not to blame for all this, but at the same time I’ve been around long enough and studied enough true history to know that government organizations will do practically anything to stay in power . The DEA, for example, is desperately fighting against marijuana legalization not because marijuana is some highly dangerous drug (it isn’t), but because it’s job security for DEA agents . The CDC, likewise, went completely out of its way last year to spread fear about the H1N1 Swine Flu for the same reasons: Job security. There’s nothing quite like declaring a stage-six pandemic to keep the Congressional funding flowing your way, huh? The CDC also has a fascinating history of completely distorting the AIDS epidemic in order to boost its own funding, by the way. Watch this eye-opening video from House of Numbers to learn more: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=4FE73A67EAEC6D7D2E8F8CF30E63A37E Every government agency — the TSA, CDC, FDA, USDA, FTC and so on — fights for its survival every year. That’s because in an era of budget cuts, every agency knows it could potentially be on the chopping block for severe cuts. And funding cuts translate into job losses. So the unspoken rule at all government agencies is to “make ourselves important” in order to keep the money flowing. This is also why the food contamination scares have been hyped up beyond all reason over the last two years: The FDA wants new powers to control the food supply, and the best way to do that is to latch onto stories about e.coli and salmonella and blow those all out of proportion in order to pass reactionary legislation called Senate Bill 510 (http://www.naturalnews.com/030461_Senate_Bill_510_Food_Safety.html). The truth about this food safety situation is that right now something like 80% of the chickens sold in grocery stores are contaminated with salmonella (http://www.naturalnews.com/021258.html), yet you don’t hear a peep about that story. And the FDA is making no effort whatsoever to “ban chicken meat” from grocery stores. Their fear mongering about food contamination is very selective, it seems. Perhaps the TSA has been learning its lessons from the FDA. Simply stage a false flag attack and you, too, can have increased Congressional funding to “fight terror” or whatever. We do need protections, but we need our rights even more All this isn’t to say that America doesn’t have enemies who really do want to destroy us. It’s true that there are really bad people out there — people and groups who want to bring America down. There are some good people in Washington who are fighting for our safety behind the scenes. Yes, the FBI, CIA and NSA all have “a few good men” who are doing things around the world that you and I don’t even want to know about. Stuff that would make you cringe if you knew about it. The sacrifices being made by some of these individuals in the name of protecting America’s interests on the international stage will never be fully known, nor recognized by anyone in the mainstream. The everyday American people who go about their lives shopping, watching TV, collecting a paycheck and surfing the ‘web have no idea what goes on behind the scenes to give them the luxury of pursuing such a carefree lifestyle. That’s why nothing I print here is intended to disrespect the front-line warriors who are fighting for America’s interests — soldiers, the few “good” feds, etc. But at the same time that there are some “good men” (and women) in these agencies, there are also some rotten apples (like in any organization, I suppose). There are some people working in the government who absolutely would not hesitate to stage a false flag attack if it meant increasing their power, their pay and their importance. And those people must be scratching their heads right now, thinking, “Gee, it sure would be easy to pull off a staged event of some kind that keeps us all in power.” I just hope they come to their senses and realize they should not be at war with the American people . They’re supposed to be fighting to protect our freedoms, not to take away our freedoms. The real war is with the true enemies of America — those state-sponsored terrorist groups that genuinely want to destroy America and everything it stands for. Certainly, we must not let the terrorists win. But neither must we allow freedom to perish in the process. Reasonable security is fine As a freedom-loving American who values both my freedom and my safety, I will gladly submit to having my luggage X-rayed and walking through a metal detector. I will gladly sit beside an armed Air Marshal on the flight, captained by an armed pilot on the flight deck who hopefully has a couple of spare mags along with his Colt 1911, too (pilots carry firearms on airplanes right now, most people don’t even know..). Yet as much as those security precautions seem reasonable, I refuse to subject myself to a body X-ray that emits ionizing radiation, and I refuse to give in to an obscene pat-down that involves government personnel feeling up my genitals, with or without a latex glove. At that point, “security” has become tyranny. And the terrorists have already won. We need to rise up and stop this. Just as some of our undercover federal agents (and active soldiers) are fighting for America’s interests overseas, you and I need to be fighting for our freedom right here at home, on American soil, with this airport security issue. We are not subjects. We are not cattle. We are sovereign citizens and we will not surrender our bodies to be fondled by government agents with the excuse that “it’s for our own good.” And be on the watch for a “staged” security event designed to convince the American people that they need to give up yet more freedoms in the name of police-state security. I’m willing to bet that precisely such a plot is on the drawing board in Washington D.C. right now.

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Senate Bill 510 Food Safety? The FDA has killed far more people than contaminated eggs or lettuce

November 20th, 2010 admin

(NaturalNews) Proponents of Senate Bill 510 — the Food Safety and Modernization Act — keep trying to claim that we need the FDA to protect us from tainted eggs, lettuce, onions and spinach. On the surface, it seems like a reasonable argument: No one should ever die from unsafe food in America, right? But to accomplish a net reduction in deaths, you’d need to grant power over the food supply to some organization that actually respects human life… and the FDA is not that organization. In fact, as we have documented here on NaturalNews over the last seven years, the FDA is responsible for far more deaths of Americans than all the terrorist events in the history of the world — combined! How is that so? How the FDA has killed millions of Americans Well, for starters, the FDA has a long and rather dubious history of keeping dangerous, deadly drugs on the market even after it knows those drugs are killing people. The FDA has even gone out of its way to ignore critical evidence about dangerous drugs in order to appease its Big Pharma clients and keep those high-profit drugs selling while people are dying. To see one example of this, look at the history of Vioxx — a drug the FDA kept on the market while it racked up well over 60,000 deaths according to the FDA’s own scientists! (http://www.naturalnews.com/011401_Dr_David_Graham_the_FDA.html) As Dr David Graham said in an interview, “The FDA is responsible for 140,000 heart attacks and 60,000 dead Americans. That’s as many people as were killed in the Vietnam War. Yet the FDA points the finger at me and says, Well, this guy’s a rat, you can’t trust him,’ but nobody is calling them to account. Congress isn’t calling them to account.” If you want more evidence of the FDA’s outrageous disregard for human life, look at the agency’s handling of the drug Ketek (http://www.naturalnews.com/019698.html). Or check out how the FDA kept the liver-damaging drug Rezulin on the market while diabetic Americans were dropping dead. The FDA’s own scientists have repeatedly accused the agency of engaging in routine intimidation of scientists who try to call attention to dangerous products (http://www.naturalnews.com/025298_the_FDA_scientists.html). The FDA censors natural remedies that could save lives On top of all that corruption and fraud leading to negligent deaths caused by the FDA, this agency also censors the scientific truth about natural remedies and nutritional supplements that could save millions of lives each year. The FDA won’t, for example, allow vitamin D supplement companies to tell the truth about how vitamin D prevents cancer or how vitamin D prevents the flu and makes seasonal flu vaccines obsolete (http://www.naturalnews.com/029760_vitamin_D_influenza.html). The FDA also won’t allow any supplement companies to tell the truth about their natural remedies for preventing or even reversing diabetes, heart disease, breast cancer and more. In doing this, the FDA is complicit in the deaths of at least 250,000 Americans each year . According to the groundbreaking 2003 medical report Death by Medicine , by Drs Gary Null, Carolyn Dean, Martin Feldman, Debora Rasio and Dorothy Smith, 783,936 people in the United States die every year from conventional medicine mistakes. The FDA has a hand in at least one-third of those deaths, mostly from its willful corruption and fraud in the world of deadly pharmaceuticals, which have proven to be far more deadly than terrorists (http://www.naturalnews.com/009278.html). If you do the math on all this, you are forced to reach some startling mathematical conclusions: – The FDA is more dangerous than all the terrorists and terror events in the history of the United States. – The FDA has killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War. – Even more than that, over the last 20 years the FDA has killed more Americans than the total number who died in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and even the Civil War — combined! – The FDA is the single most deadly agency that has ever existed in the history of the United States. It is responsible for more body bags, more funerals, more pain and suffering than even the Department of Defense! – The FDA does not value human life. It has no compassion for real people. It is driven by politics and money , and it answers to the demands of powerful corporations who control its agenda (http://www.naturalnews.com/019497.html). So now, let me get this straight. With Senate Bill 510 we are going to hand over control over the food supply to the most nefarious, corrupt and deadly agency that has ever existed in the history of the United States of America? FDA could outlaw all raw vegetables The FDA has killed more people than the CIA, FBI, ATF and DEA combined. This agency is technically responsible for the negligent homicide of countless American men, women, children and senior citizens. It has stood by and allowed modern psychiatry to drug our children into violent behavior. It has censored the truth about nutrition and natural remedies, and it has enforced a campaign of nutritional ignorance among the American people, making sure that virtually all competition to Big Pharma’s patented drugs is completely wiped out (or criminalized). The FDA has criminalized your raw milk , turning farmers into felons. The FDA once ordered the burning of recipe books containing stevia recipes as part of its effort to outlaw this natural sweetener (in order to protect aspartame profits). (http://www.naturalnews.com/001552.html) And now the U.S. Congress wants this agency in charge of your food? What madness is this? We’re going to take the largest killer in the history of America and give it the power to control the growing of foods, the saving of seeds and even the operations of small family farms? Can you imagine what the FDA is going to do with that kind of power? Trust me: It won’t be pretty. It may even be fatal. I can just see this agency outlawing all vegetables unless they’re irradiated . They might outlaw raw food and require all food be pasteurized. They could ban not just raw milk but even raw broccoli . Sound crazy? Sure it does! But so does the idea of raw milk being criminalized in America, too. America was raised on raw milk . What do you think Thomas Jefferson drank at his farm? What do you think kept the pioneers alive in the harsh Midwest winters? If the FDA can outlaw raw milk, they can outlaw anything. And Senate Bill 510 would give them all the power they need to do this. Never give a psychopath explosives It’s a dangerous deal with the devil, of course. Handing the FDA power over the food supply is like giving a violent psycho access to military-grade explosives. The net result can only be catastrophic and deadly. I’m all for the idea of “safe food,” but not if it involves taking the most dangerous government agency in the history of America and putting it in charge of the way we grow food, store seeds, harvest crops and package food products. Do we need to “modernize” our food creation systems in America? Sure we do, but not at the cost of making us all victims of a dangerous, corrupt and downright disastrously managed U.S. Food and Drug Administration. And besides, virtually all the contamination of food we’re seeing today is due to factory animal farming runoff. That’s where e.coli comes from, by the way. E.coli is an intestinal pathogen and plants don’t have intestines. It can only be harbored in animals . (http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_20002.cfm) So the problem with our food supply is not that the FDA doesn’t yet have enough power; it’s that we have abusive, cruel and ridiculously unclean factory animal farms operating in America that are contaminating the vegetables. If you really want to clean up the food supply, just crack down on the factory animal farms and let the veggie growers get back to work doing what they do best: Growing healthful, nutrient-rich vegetables that help keep America healthy. Take action now to stop S.510 Your voice needs to be heard on this issue. The vote on this bill has been delayed until after the Thanksgiving recess, so you have more time to oppose this dangerous legislation. Call the Capitol Switchboard and ask to be directly connected to your Senator’s office: 202-224-3121. You can find other contact information for your US Senator at http://senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm Other petitions on the ‘net where you can voice your opposition to this bill include: Citizens for Health http://www.citizens.org/?page_id=2312 Natural Solutions Foundation http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613 Take action NOW to protect our food, seeds and crops from the deadly control of the FDA.

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Google’s Holiday Gift to Airline Passengers; Free Wi-Fi Internet

November 11th, 2010 admin
Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor

Mountain View, CA, United States (AHN) – For the second year in a row Google is offering free Wi-Fi service in the skies during the holidays. Millions of passengers on AirTran, Delta, and Virgin America flights will have access to surfing the Web for free on flights between Nov. 22 and Jan. 2, 2011.

AirTran, Delta, and Virgin America have all outfitted their entire domestic fleets with Wi-Fi capability, totaling more than 700 planes. 

Google is hoping that the Gogo Inflight promotion will boost users of Google Chrome. 

“Not too long ago, flying home for the holidays meant disconnecting for several hours until you touched down at your destination,” said Sundar Pichai, Google’c vice president of product management for Chrome.

“Today, Wi-Fi technologies allow us to stay connected even at 30,000 feet above the ground, so we can read the news, browse the web and send that last-minute planning email before the family reunion.”

All three airlines have fleet-wide Wi-Fi that typically costs between $6 and $13.

 

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The West Coast Advantage

November 11th, 2010 admin

Each day, Inc.’s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here’s what we found today:

Are West Coast women more entrepreneurial? Deborah Perry Piscione thinks so. The Silicon Valley transplant raised $5 million from a single female investor to start her own business – within 18 months of her move from the East Coast. “There’s such a disconnect between the two coasts,” she tells The New York Times, adding that women back East may work in the pinnacle of corporate America, but lack the risk-taking edge to stay relevant in today’s new economy. That’s why she and other West Coast women are organizing what they call “Alley to the Valley,” an invitation-only event this week for 50 top-earning women, 25 of whom are flying in from the East Coast. The schmooze-fest aims to inject Wall Street women, who are often too risk-averse to invest in startups, with a dose of entrepreneurial spirit. Oh, and no men allowed.

Accidental spying. Google Street View is now under FCC investigation, just two weeks after the FTC dropped its own probe of the three-year-old service, The New York Times reports. The FCC is looking into whether or not Google violated wiretap laws when it intercepted Wi-Fi data, including personal e-mails and passwords, during its Street View campaign. Google admits the data was amassed inadvertently, but still, offers its apologies. “As we have said before, we are profoundly sorry for having mistakenly collected payload data from unencrypted networks,” Google said. “As soon as we realized what had happened, we stopped collecting all Wi-Fi data from our Street View cars and immediately informed the authorities.”

That Facebook post? You’re fired. By now we’ve all heard the horror stories of employees ranting about their tasks or workplaces or bosses over social media. But when is doing so a firing offense? The Harvard Business Review ponders this question in the wake of a recent National Labor Relations Board complaint, which alleges that a Connecticut company wrongfully terminated an employee after she criticized her supervisor on Facebook. Since privacy in social media is an issue the law barely addresses, and this is the first time the NLRB has taken action on the issue , this is important news for HR and managers around the country.

Start-up advice from a peanut-butter guru. Peanut Butter & Co. grew from a tiny retail shop in New York City’s Greenwich Village to a peanut-butter behemoth, whose ten varieties of all-natural peanut butter can be found in over 10,000 retailers nationwide. Prior to launching the business, founder Lee Zalben had zero experience in the restaurant or retail industries, but was determined to learn as he went along. He discusses the lessons he learned in a video interview on the American Express OPEN Forum. According to him, the golden rule is, “You don’t know what you don’t know, until you don’t know it,” meaning that newbie business owners should be prepared to deal with problems they never even imagined they would have to deal with. How exactly does one do that? “Build in enough flexibility to your plans to be able to move quickly and be nimble,” he says.

Boomerang business owners. Today’s Wall Street Journal identifies a number of entrepreneurs, who sold their businesses years ago when the going was good, and bought them back in hopes of saving them once the recession took its toll. The Journal calls them ” boomerang business owners ,” and though they’re rare, the story reports that the average going price for businesses is down 30 percent since 2008. That means for anyone who’s recently sold a company and faced that nagging question, ” What am I if not my business? ” it may be an opportune time to get back on the horse.

Avoiding tax troubles early on. Getting your taxes in order might not be the most exciting part of starting a business, but a story in the LA Times reminds us just how important tax planning is to your future success. Some aspiring business people don’t realize, for instance, that they have to file a tax return even if they haven’t made a penny or started formal operations. Other necessities include tax deductible items, jobs credits, and income tax regulations. It’s a good idea to have an accountant on hand from the beginning, the article notes. It’ll save you money and headaches down the road. And here’s how to find the right one for your business.

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HealthyPlace.com, The Largest Consumer Mental Health Site On The Internet, Wins 3 Prestigious Web Health Awards

November 9th, 2010 admin

HealthyPlace.com: America’s Mental Health Channel Wins 3 Prestigious Web Health Awards from the Health Information Resource Center. HealthyPlace.com, the largest consumer mental health site on the net with over 1 million visitors a month, won a Merit award in the Best Health Website category, a Merit award in the web-based resource category for its innovative Mood Tracker Tool (online mood journal), and a Bronze award for its blog, Breaking Bipolar, written by Natasha Tracy. Nearly 500 entries were submitted in the 2010 Web Health Awards and winners were announced on November 5th…

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Susan Boyle Forced To Cancel “DWTS” Performance Due To Sore Throat

October 6th, 2010 admin
Anne Lu – AHN Entertainment Contributor

Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN) – Web sensation Susan Boyle has canceled her “Dancing With the Stars” appearance on Tuesday night after getting sick. The “Britain’s Got Talent” famous runner-up developed a sore throat during her trip from Scotland to Los Angeles.

It would have been her second “DWTS” appearance following her successful performance of her signature song “I Dreamed A Dream” last year. But unfortunately for Susan and her fans, she won’t be taking the stage because of an illness.

Her rep said in a statement to People, “Her doctor advised her not to sing due to severe throat infection. Susan is very upset at letting her fans down. Their continued support means so much to her.”

Last month, she was due to sing on “America’s Got Talent,” but she scrapped the performance at the last minute after singer/songwriter Lou Reed allegedly refused to grant her permission to sing “Perfect Day” because he wasn’t a fan.

Boyle was seen fleeing to the airport to go back to the U.K. in tears.

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Health Care Reform Provisions Take Effect Amid Controversy Over Costs

September 24th, 2010 admin
Tom Ramstack – AHN News Correspondent

Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Key parts of a controversial health care reform law took effect Thursday even as Republicans continued complaining about the high cost for the American public.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which President Barack Obama signed into law six months ago, now restricts the authority of insurance companies to put lifetime limits on health benefits of consumers.

It also forbids insurers from denying health benefits to children with pre-existing conditions.

Another round of requirements under the law takes effect next month, all of them seeking to extend health benefits to a larger number of people.

Even as the law took effect Thursday, Republican leaders were announcing an agenda that would repeal many provisions of the law.

House Republicans said their “Pledge to America” represented “governing principles” they would follow if they regain a majority in Congress during the November elections.

Many of the principles, including one on health care reform, are designed to curb government spending.

The health care principle calls on Congress to “Repeal the Obama health care bill, replacing it with Republican proposals, including limits on malpractice lawsuits.”

Obama seemed to anticipate Republican statements against his heath care reform law when he held a televised meeting Wednesday evening with residents of Falls Church, VA, on the back porch of a local home.

“The single biggest driver of our deficit is the ever-escalating costs of health care. . . . It was bankrupting families, companies and our government,” Obama said.

Economists say it will take years to determine whether Republicans or Democrats are right on how the health care law will affect the national deficit.

Republicans say it will drive up the deficit. Democrats say it will lower insurance premiums for everyone, thereby driving down the deficit.

Recent public opinion polls show Americans are evenly split on whether they favor or oppose the law.

Obama used folksy anecdotes from members of the audience to demonstrate the importance of his health care reform program.

A Jacksonville, FL, woman said she was grateful the new law would relieve her of the obligation to pay for eye surgeries her son is likely to need.

A Keene, NH, teacher said she was disqualified from getting the cancer treatment she needs until the new law abolished the right of insurance companies to deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.

Other provisions of the law that took effect Thursday require:

  • Health insurers must allow the children of covered parents to stay on the family policy until they are 26 years old;
  • Health plans cannot charge deductibles, co-payments or co-insurance for routine preventive services such as cancer screenings, vaccinations and counseling;
  • Insurers must grant direct access to obstetricians, gynecologists and pediatricians without referrals from other doctors;
  • Insurers can no longer cancel health policies retroactively without first proving fraud;
  • Patients now have a right to appeal their denial of insurance benefits to an independent reviewer;
  • Patients can choose which emergency room they want to use without penalty and without getting prior approval from their health insurers.

The Obama administration has set up a Web site for public information on the new health care reform law. It can be found at www. healthcare.gov.

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Recession Over or Not?

October 21st, 2009 admin

Recession Over or Not? The International Monetary Fund says we are in the worst recession
since World War II, and we are recovering very, very slowly. But still
not enough to keep unemployment from growing next year. They have now
borrowed Ten Billon dollars from Canada. Recession over? It really
does not look that way. Congress is even thinking about another Stimulus Package. From what I
read the first one has not done a bit of good. Those that needed the
help, did not even receive it. Those that did not need the help, did
receive it, like the people in prison.  They are also talking about
limiting future spending on health care and retirement security. So
what is going to happen to the elderly without health care, or the
retirees without retirement? I say the government should take a cut in pay and help the elderly,
not take from them, they have already paid their dues.  There are just
too many questions on what the future holds for us.  I do not know
about anyone else, but I am going to do something about it, I am doing
something about it. I found a work from home business that is
recession proof. It is world wide an in over 100 plus countries right
now. With this work from home business everyone has a chance to get
out of the recession we are in. Because the recession is not over. As mad as the news about the economy and the recession makes me, I
still have to read some of what is going on and hope that in some way
I can help. No one likes to hear about all the bad stuff that is going
on in the world, and no one likes to be told what to do, that is why
most of us live in America. If there is a way out of this recession, which there is, with a work
from home business, then why not give it a try. It would just be
great, not to have to deal with the recession or what the government
is doing by cutting health care, retirement benefits and social
security.  No more stress, no more worries, just Freedom, Health and
Wealth. So is the recession over? Yes, for those people with a work
from home business.

Julianne Rowat, the author, has other articles and videos on motivational and self improvement. She is an internet marketing consultant that enjoys helping others with different types of advertising to grow their business without all the expense. If you want to know more about her, visit her blog at: http://www.juliannerowatsblog.com or her website at: http://www.ultimatewealthfromhome.com

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