Archive for April, 2009
Top Senate Democrat: Bankers “Own” the U.S. Congress
April 30th, 2009Update your Captain Obvious file. Via: Salon: Sen. Dick Durbin, on a local Chicago radio station this week, blurted out an obvious truth about Congress that, despite being blindingly obvious, is rarely spoken: “And the banks — hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created […]
Australia: Government Plan Says to Stockpile Food and Water; “But We Don’t Want a Run at the Shops”
April 30th, 2009Via: Sydney Morning Herald: AUSTRALIANS have been advised to stockpile food and water after the World Health Organisation raised its swine flu alert to phase five yesterday, indicating an imminent pandemic. The Federal Government’s pandemic plan, a 132-page manual issued to medics, media and the public, insists that once the world reaches phase five, Australians […]
Scientists See This Flu Strain as Relatively Mild: Outbreak Won’t Even Be As Deadly as the Average Winter Flu Season
April 30th, 2009If there are eye witness accounts of this thing being much worse than it appears, we need to get at that information. So far, all I’ve seen along those lines is an unconfirmed message that was supposedly sent by a doctor to his email list. Via: Los Angeles Times: As the World Health Organization raised […]
Texas Doctor Claims Swine Flu Cases Far Worse Than Reported
April 30th, 2009Update: Doctor Taken To Task For H1N1 E-mail Via: KSAT: A New Braunfels emergency doctor’s e-mail sent this week about the H1N1 flu outbreak has many people wondering which information is correct and has Comal County health authorities distancing themselves from the doctor’s message. An e-mail sent by Dr. Marcus Gitterle, an employee of Christus […]
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Chrysler to File for Bankruptcy
April 30th, 2009Via: Washington Post: Chrysler, one of the three pillars of the American auto industry, will file for bankruptcy today after last-minute negotiations between the government and the automaker’s creditors broke down last night, an Obama administration official said. U.S. officials had offered Chrysler’s secured lenders $2.25 billion in cash if they would agree to writedown […]
Dr. Russell Blaylock: “Like SARS and bird flu before it, this swine flu scare is a lot of nonsense.”
April 30th, 2009Via: August Review: I was in the military during the first swine flu scare in 1976. At the time it became policy that all soldiers would be vaccinated for swine flu. As a medical officer I refused and almost faced a court martial, but the military didn’t want the bad publicity. Despite the assurance by […]
Will NorthCom Take Over in Swine Flu Outbreak?
April 30th, 2009Via: The Progressive: The swine flu outbreak raises a lot of fears. Here’s one you might not have thought of yet: The Pentagon may be taking over more and more of our civil society in this crisis. Back in 2002, President Bush created NorthCom, the Pentagon’s Northern Command, which has jurisdiction over the United States. […]
Mexico Senate OKs Bill to Legalize Drug Possesion
April 30th, 2009This isn’t a done deal yet, but it’s good news. Via: Reuters: Mexico’s Senate approved a bill on Tuesday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of narcotics for personal use, in order to free resources to fight violent drug cartels. The bill, proposed by conservative President Felipe Calderon, would make it legal to carry up to […]
Obama’s 100 days – The Mad Men Did Well
April 30th, 2009Via: John Pilger: The BBC’s American television soap Mad Men offers a rare glimpse of the power of corporate advertising. The promotion of smoking half a century ago by the “smart” people of Madison Avenue, who knew the truth, led to countless deaths. Advertising and its twin, public relations, became a way of deceiving dreamt […]
