Michigan gets 1st case of swine flu related to fairs

The first case of the flu virus H3N2, also known as H3N2v, has been detected in Michigan, adding to the national spike in cases. The Michigan case is believed to have been transmitted by an Ingham County fair pig to a Washtenaw County child. The case was mild, and the child didn’t require hospitalization, said [...]

Ex-Lincoln, Ala. cop gets 22 years in Louisiana man’s murder; still says he didn’t do it

(AL.COM)   Talladega County Circuit Judge Bo Hollingsworth sentenced former Lincoln Police Sgt. Kevin Wade Jung to 22 years in prison Wednesday afternoon after a jury in September convicted Jung of the 2003 murder of Wayne Earl Ellis of West Monroe, La., the Daily Home newspaper reports. Jung, who did not testify at his trial, [...]

Bradley Manning defence gets report on WikiLeaks damage to US interests

ShareThis Bradley Manning defence gets report on WikiLeaks damage to US interests 06 Jun 2012 Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of being the source of the biggest leak of state secrets in American history, has won a partial victory in his battle to force the government to disclose vital information that could help his [...]

Google Gets Patent for Using Background Noise to Target Ads

Google, on Tuesday, was awarded a patent for “advertising based on environmental conditions.” In other words, Google has patented the technique of using environmental factors gathered through a device’s sensors to target ads at users. “When determining what ads to serve to end users, the environmental factors can be used independently or in combination with [...]

Ex-KBR CEO Stanley Gets 2 1-2 Years in Prison for Foreign Bribes

ShareThis Ex-KBR CEO Stanley Gets 2 1-2 Years in Prison for Foreign Bribes 24 Feb 2012 Albert “Jack” Stanley, the former KBR Inc. chief executive officer, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for bribing Nigerian officials to win $ 6 billion in natural gas contracts for the company and its partners. U.S. District [...]

Globalist Candidate Gingrich Gets Influential Establishment Endorsement

Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com November 27, 2011 The establishment has left the flubber Rick Perry in the dust and may do likewise to Mitt Romney as the 2012 election season gears up. It looks like they are putting their money behind the former Speaker of the House and seasoned globalist, Newt Gingrich. On Sunday, Gingrich received [...]

Occupy Oakland gets second eviction notice

ShareThis Occupy Oakland gets second eviction notice. 12 Nov 2011. OAKLAND, Calif.—Oakland officials are pressuring Occupy protesters camped in front of City Hall to leave. The city issued another eviction notice on Saturday morning. It warns protesters that they do not have the right to camp in the plaza overnight and face immediate arrest and [...]

Fraud-Infested Welfare Program Gets Another $1.7 Billion

In a perplexing waste of taxpayer funds, the Obama Administration has injected $ 1.7 billion into a fraud-infested welfare program rife with corruption that’s routinely exposed in congressional probes and the media. Even for an administration that specializes in doling out record amounts of public assistance, it’s a senseless allocation that deserves scrutiny. This is [...]

iRobot becomes a reality as man gets smartphone built into his artificial arm

By EMMA REYNOLDS, Mail Online iRobot has become a reality after a British man became the world’s first person to have a smartphone dock built into his prosthetic arm. Trevor Prideaux, who was born without a left arm, can now call and text with ease using the Nokia C7 stuck in his fibreglass and laminate [...]

Car Company Gets U.S. Loan, Builds Cars In Finland

By MATTHEW MOSK, BRIAN ROSS and RONNIE GREENEABC, ABCNews.com With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $ 529 million federal government loan guarantee is assembling its first line of cars in Finland, saying it could not find a facility in the United States capable of doing the work. [...]