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Toyota Motor Corp. announced on Tuesday a recall of 8 models involving around 2.3 million vehicles due to faulty gas pedals.

The are also halting production at six North American plants beginning the week of Feb. 1, and have given no date on when production would restart.

The models recalled included the 2009-2010 RAV4, the 2009-2010 Corolla, the 2007-2010 Camry, the 2009-2010 Matrix, the 2005-2010 Avalon, the 2010 Highlander, the 2007-2010 Tundra and the 2008-2010 Sequoia.

Toyota has stated that they are unaware of any accidents or injuries due to the pedal problems associated with the recall, but could not rule them out completely.

Toyota spokesman Mike Goss said most workers were not expected to be laid off during the shutdown, instead moving on to training or assembly process improvements.

The auto company said the sales suspension wouldn’t affect Lexus or Scion vehicles. Toyota said the Prius, Tacoma, Sienna, Venza, Solara, Yaris, 4Runner, FJ Cruiser, Land Cruiser and select Camry models, including all Camry hybrids, would remain for sale.

Early news reports have confirmed that Tiger Woods, the worlds highest paid sports star and the best golf player in history was injured in an car crash at approximately 2am and has been taken to Health Central Hospital for facial lacerations. His full condition report is not yet known. The Florida highway patrol is currently investigating the incident.

The crash has been reported to have been a low speed incident with no airbags deploying and no one else was injured in the accident.

Tiger was just leaving his 2.4 million dollar home in Isleworth near Orlando when his 2009 Cadillac Escalade struck a fire hydrant and a tree likely shattering some glass causing lacerations.

The golfing great is estimated to be make around $100 million a year in endorsements and prize money and has an impressive array of ststistics including number 1 in the world for Birdie average, par breakers, money leaders and scoring average. A ful list of his current and previous stats can be found at Tigerwood.com

More than 40  people have been killed in El Salvador over the last week following three days of torrential rains caused by Hurricane Ida.

Government officials have stated that the death toll was expected to rise as rescue teams moved into areas that have been cut off by mudslides, Humberto Centeno, the country’s interior minister, said on Sunday.

A separate low pressure system may have also contributed to the rain, forecasters said.

News of the deaths came as the storm gathered strength off the coast of the Mexican resort city of Cancun on the Yucatan peninsula on Sunday

Weather forecasters in the US predicted the storm would head towards the US later this week, where the authorities have issued a hurricane watch for the US Gulf Coast.

“A hurricane watch is in effect from Grand Isle, Louisiana to the Mississippi/Alabama border. This watch does not include the city of New Orleans [Louisiana],” a statement from the US National Hurricane Centre said.

“A hurricane watch means that hurricane conditions are possible within the watch area … generally within 36 hours.”

Forecasters declared Ida a hurricane on Thursday as it passed off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, bringing heavy rains and destroying homes.

The rains caused thousands of people to seek shelter out of the storm’s path.

The storm weakened into a tropical storm before reaching hurricane status again late on Saturday with sustained winds of near 145kph, US forecasters said.

Authorities said Ida could make landfall as early as Tuesday morning, although it was forecast to weaken by then. Officials and residents kept a close eye on the Category 2 hurricane as it approached, though there were no immediate plans for evacuations.

At 1 p.m. EST, Ida was located 510 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and moving northwest near 10 mph. The latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center shows Ida brushing near Louisiana and Mississippi, then making landfall near Alabama before continuing across north Florida.

Yet many residents took the forecast in stride.

Here is a picture of the latest projected path.

Predicted Path Hurricane IDA

California tailback Jahvid Best suffered a concussion and was taken to the emergency room after he leapt into the air, flipped over a defender and lost consciousness after landing on the back of his head in the end zone.

Coach Jeff Tedford has confirmed that initial test have come back normal.
Best had movement in his extremities, spokesman Herb Benenson said. Benenson also stated that a preliminary evaluation showed Best had suffered concussion.

More tests will be completed before a final diagnosis willbe announced by the school. Tedford didn’t know whether Best would be kept in the hospital over night.
Best’s helmet came off on impact. He vaulted into the air over the Safety’s Cameron Collins on the 7-yard touchdown run.

Best’s jersey was removed and he was wearing an oxygen mask when carted out of the stadium. Benenson said Best was taken to an emergency room for observation and examination.
Best missed Tuesday and Wednesday’s practice sessions with a slight concussion sustained in the team’s 23-21 win at Arizona State last Saturday, but participated in full during Thursday’s workout. The concussion wasn’t diagnosed right away.

Here is a video i found of the incident, terrifying (or exciting) stuff!

There has been a nasty trojan floating around called daenol.

This virus modifies system processes in Windows XP or Vista and installs other malware parasites onto the infected computer. Normally Trojan.daonol spread via the following methods:

1. infected codec updates
2. unsolicited spam e-mails
3. or corrupt program files.

Once inside the system, Trojan.daonol trojan will install corrupt executable files and diverse malware causing noticeably slow computer speed. It may also damage system files and steal sensitive data.

The common symptons of this virus are as follows.

1. Strange task processes
2. Corrupt dll’s and Windows files
3. Annoying pop-up ads
4. Restarts at Windows start-up
5. Strange bandwidth use
6. And preventing access to the following sites :
   • CA
   • Comodo
   • EST (Nod32)
   • Kapersky
   • Mcafee
   • Microsoft
   • Panda
   • SuperAntiSpyware
   • Symantec
   • Webroot (spy sweeper)

It also prevents access to sites with the following strings in the url:

1. Adob
2. bleepingcomputer
3. clamav
4. daonolfix
5. mbam-cdn
6. mcafee
7. meikoemoes
8. prevx

It may disable access to system programs such as regedit.exe and cmd.exe.

It may also redirect searches from google, yahoo and live search engines and the results modified so the searcher is redirected to malicious websites.

This virus is also quite difficult to get rid of as it somehow bypasses the normal antivirus programs deletion systems and reinstalls somewhere else on your PC.
Removal can be be a tricky process but there are ways to remove it safely without reinstalling your operating system.

This is a complicated and technical process which can be found at bleepingcomputer

you can also finsd more information at Microsoft.com

The best way to avoid these sort of problems is to use up to date virus programs such as Kaspersky, Symantec or Trend Micro PCCillin

a good firewall and being careful of what websites you visit.

30000 pakistani troops have begun there long waited offensive against the Taliban stronghold in South Waziristan where they have been massing for months.

The Pakistan Army has mounted a three pronged ground  attack and air and artillery strikes have been going on for weeks against militant targets near the border.

Ther are 2 divisions of the pakistan army with 28000 soldiers, The frontier Corps and paramilitary forces from tribal areas who are likely to assist the pakistani army are up against an unknown number of Taliban militants, with estimates ranging from 10500 to 25000.

Thousands of civilians have fled the area and almost all communication in the area has been jammed.

The ground troops were moving from the northern town of Razmak, between North and South Wazirstan; from Jandola in the east; and from Shakai in the west and have been reported moving towards Makeen, Spinkai Raghzai and Tiarza (see map below).

The Pakistan government has been under a lot of pressure from the US to confront the problems in South Waziristan for some time now and it has finally come to a head after Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani attended a meeting of the Pakistan’s  senior political and military leadership.

South Waziristan was considered to be the leading sanctuary of the Taliban outside of Afghanistan since 9/11. It has been described by US officials as “The most dangerous place on earth”. There are also numerous training camps for suicide bombers located there.

It will be a tough battle especially if the number of militants is as large as some estimates have predicted. The taliban know the area well and will set up ambushes and entrench themselves, and could prove very difficult to remove, but the Pakistan army is much better armed with tanks as support, Cobra gunships, F-16 jets and much better maintained equipment.

We can only hope that this will be ended quickly to minimise the loss of life on both sides.

Here is a map of the area.

I will keep you posted.

A six year old boy climbed into a home made experimental ballon earlier, released the tethers and took off.

The experimental craft was quite small and was never actually meant to carry anyone.

The ballon eventually came to a relatively gentle stop in a field  but no signs of the boy were found.

A ground search is underway and officials are reviewing the footage of the craft.

I will keep you updated when they eventually do find the boy.

There was a magnitude 6.0 earthquake in Samoa at 18:00 UTC or 6 am local time on the 14th of October 2009 .

The epicenter was 165 Km north of Hihifo in Tonga and was at a depth of just 10 km.

It is too early to tell if there was any damage or loss of life and there was no immediate tsunami alert issued.

This quake comes just weeks after about 200 people were killed by an earthquake and tsunami in Tonga, Samoa and American Samoa.

I will keep you updated as the story progresses.

A bizarre weather phenomenon occurred in Moscow a few days ago, a cloud nicknamed the hole-punch-cloud which appeared to be a supernatural phenomon was spotted and videotaped, the footage has made headlines around the world and really its not that much of a strange phenomon.

It is simply a hole punch cloud, which is a cloud which appears to have a ‘hole’ in it and is caused by ice crystals being changed by a jet passing throught the cloud.

here are a few pictures of hole punch clouds:

And here is the youtube video of the Moscow hole punch / halo cloud!

not an awful lot of difference to me, but there are conspiracy theories going around all over the joint aaaaaah the aliens are invading!!!!! pfff unless the fly jets through clouds to invade then they most certainly are not!

Attorney Jim Turner is seking an injunction against the FDA on Friday in an attempt to stop the distribution of the swine flu vaccine in the USA.

The lawsuit charges that the FDA violated the law in its hasty approval of four swine flu vaccines by failing to scientifically determine neither the safety nor efficacy of the vaccines.

The suit seeks to  nullify the FDA’s unlawful “approval” of the four H1N1 influenza vaccines and to also ask the court to issue an injunction that would stop any forced vaccination.

“The FDA is required by law to establish that a vaccine is safe and effective before it can be given to the public,” said Turner. “We are arguing that they did not establish that the vaccine was effective, and did not establish that it was safe. They are trying to get it on the market by a waiver.”

The vaccine and adjuvant combination has never been properly tested or approved by the FDA and in many cases is being shipped to clinics and pharmacies seperately requiring them to mix them together themselves, involving a massive risk of improper mixing, dosages and human error.

If these charges prove correct, it will mean that the FDA has violated its own policies in approving the vaccines and the potentially deadly adjuvant as well.

The FDA has not produced any scientific evidence documenting safety tests, no published studies, no safety tests, no paper trail.

Under normal circumstances, for any pharmaceutical product to get FDA approval there is a well documented paper trail of scrutiny, clinical trials and supporting evidence but as far as I am aware there is no such trail for the swine flu vaccines.

Approval of these vaccines in the absense of proper testing puts the FDA in direct violation of federal law.

It would appear that a profit motive is at stake. At $24.95 per vaccine for 100 million people that is a serious amount of money. Why else would the FDA do this sort of thing? perhaps the white house is giving the orders.. who knows

A push for vaccination in the U.S.  could target over 200 million Americans, generating almost $5 billion in revenue. Cashing in on those revenues, however, requires three things:

1) Spreading fear about H1N1 swine flu by exaggerating its dangers.

2) Quickly making a vaccine available for sale, even if it has never been thoroughly tested for safety and efficacy.

3) Aggressively marketing the vaccines before the H1N1 swine flu fizzles out and can no longer be hyped up as “highly virulent.”

Tick, Tick and Tick

In 1976 a previous formulation of the swine flu vaccine paralyzed and killed thousands of Americans. Jim Turner, the same attorney working on this case was one of the attorneys who helped halt the spread of that vaccine.

Jim has been quoted saying “[In 1976] they were intending to inoculate 200 million people. We stopped them… and somewhere between 40 and 50 million people were vaccinated. What ultimately brought it down is that a substantial number of people got ‘French Polio’ [Guillain-Barre syndrome], a paralysis that goes… through the body, and if it goes far enough you die.”

Jim Turner is one of the most accomplished and respected health freedom attorneys practicing today. His firm, Swankin & Turner, represents businesses and individuals on a variety of regulatory issues relating to foods, drugs and health.

Donations to support this swine flu vaccine lawsuit are greatly welcomed. You can donate to Citizens.org/page_id=20

I will keep you updated as the story progresses