Thursday, April 30, 2009

ONLY SEVEN!

WHO

Vivienne Allan of the World Health Organisation said the body had confirmed that worldwide there have been just seven deaths from swine flu - all in Mexico.

(Only 7 swine flu deaths, not 152, says WHO - smh.com.au

The Truth Seeker - Only 7 swine flu deaths, not 152, says WHO)

Just 7 deaths from swine flu, but:

A venture capital firm is set to reap rewards on swine flu .

Firms that Look to Prevent a Swine Flu Pandemic, Turn a Profit - ABC News

Swine Flu: Who Profits? Clipmarks


Video from Leonard Horowitz. Leonard Horowitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The World health Organisation has a number of Private sector partnerships:

Aeras: Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation
DNDi: Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative
FIND: Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics
IAVI: International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
IOWH: Institute for One World Health
IPM: International Partnership for Microbicides
MMV: Medicines for Malaria Venture
MVI: Malaria Vaccine Initiative
PATH: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
PDVI: Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative
TB Alliance: Global Alliance for TB Drug Development
etc. etc.


Simon Jenkins writes in the Guardian about a panic stoked in order to posture and spend.:

"The avian flu mania... The media went berserk, with interviewers asking why the government did not close all schools "to prevent up to 50,000 deaths". The Today programme's John Humphrys became frantic...

"Meanwhile a real pestilence, MRSA and C difficile, was taking hold in hospitals... These diseases have played a role in thousands of deaths in British hospitals - the former a reported 1,652 and the latter 8,324 in 2007 alone...

"MRSA and C difficile are not like swine flu, an opportunity for public figures to scare and posture and spend money. They are diseases for which the government is to blame. They claim no headlines and no Cobra priority. Their sufferers must crawl away and die in silence."
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Simon Jenkins: Swine flu? A panic stoked in order to posture and spend.


Why Mexico?

Mexico and the USA have not been getting along too well.

There is a trade dispute.

Mexico raised tariffs on scores of U.S. imports - retaliation for Washington's decision to stop funding a program that allowed some Mexican trucks on U.S. highways under a free-trade agreement.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon and other top officials "let fly unusually sharp remarks about drug consumption and possible official corruption north of the border."
(Mexico's Drug War: U.S.-Mexico relationship hits some bumps.)

Swine Flu, McDonalds and Huntington.

TAMIFLU MANUFACTURER PREDICTED A 531% INCREASE IN SALES IN 2009!






Lockerbie bomber to choose between appeal or going home

Lockerbie bomber 'deteriorating'

Lockerbie Timer Fragment Fabricated: Report - OhmyNews International

aangirfan: Lockerbie Evidence

Operation Ringwind and Lockerbie

The Octopus


Click


Courtesy of Past Expiry Cartoon

Former British Ambassador Testifies On Torture



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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Swine Flu, McDonalds and Huntington.

Photo of La Gloria, Mexico, from: picasaweb.google.com/.../tPNgcKVn2Pb-Xf-o3wB8lA

Here are some pieces of the jigsaw.

1. Swine Flu and McDonalds

Maybe the swine flu is an accident, associated with factory farming and globalisation.

Maybe the swine flu started at a large pig producing facility in La Gloria in Mexico.

However, only ONE case of swine flu has been confirmed as having come from La Gloria.

Local and federal health officials are downplaying suggestions that the epidemic started in La Gloria.

(Swine Flu Baffles Experts And Raises More Questions Than Answers)

The local and federal health officials insist that the other cases of sickness from La Gloria were of a completely different and common strain of flu, H2N3.

Governor of Veracruz, Fidel Herrera has told the media there was not a single indicator that the epidemic started in La Gloria.

Miguel Angel Lezana, the director of the National Centre for Disease Control, said that genetic information in the H1N1 virus show it is more similar to types of flu that affect pigs in Central and East Asia. (Swine flu: Mexico claims it started in Asia)

Disinformation by the media?

By 29 April 2009, the world's media were interviewing the mother of 4-year-old Edgar Hernandez who reportedly got swine flu on 2nd April 2009.

(‘I had a headache and fever' says boy who survived - Times Online / 'I feel great,' says five-year-old Mexican boy living near 'ground ... )

Edgar comes from La Gloria in Veracruz in Mexico, where there is the giant US-owned Smithfield Foods pig production facility.

Edgar is quoted as saying: 'I feel great. But I had a headache and a sore throat and a fever for a while. I had to lay down in bed.'

Reportedly, it was confirmed, on 27April 27 2009, that Edgar was the first known sufferer of swine flu.

Mexico's Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova told reporters a sample taken from 4-year-old Edgar in Mexico's Veracruz state in early April tested positive for swine flu.

Smithfield spokeswoman Keira Ullrich said the company has found no clinical signs or symptoms of the presence of swine influenza in its swine herd or its employees working at its joint ventures anywhere in Mexico.

The company supplies the McDonald’s and Subway fast-food chains.

Mexican Agriculture Department officials said that its inspectors found no sign of swine flu among pigs around the farm in Veracruz, and that no infected pigs have been found yet anywhere in Mexico.

"However, Ochoa, the farm manager, said no one from the government has inspected his farm for swine flu." ('I feel great,' says five-year-old Mexican boy living near 'ground ...)

Smithfields was fined $12.3 million in the United States in 1997 for violating the Clean Water Act.



Mexico City.

The Swine Flu story sounds like a psy-op:

2. Millions die in Mexico each year from diseases such as TB, typhoid and malaria.

But we don't hear much about that.

Due to high levels of poverty in Mexico, there is a tendency for outbreaks of flu to kill large numbers of people.

"During a typical year in the United States, 30,000 to 50,000 persons die as a result of influenza viral infection." - Flu Pandemic Morbidity / Mortality

3. In the USA and Canada, flu symptoms have been described as mild.

Professor Wendy Barclay, chair in influenza virology at Imperial College London says initial indications suggest there is nothing about the genetic make-up of the new virus which is a cause for particular concern. (What scientists know about swine flu )

"Several students experienced flu symptoms after they returned but they were so mild that they didn't raise any concerns." (Swine flu hits Canada)

This swine flu's a "relative lightweight" (Swine flu's a relative lightweight.)

The first reports of swine infections in Mexico came in mid-March.

The current swine flu strain still has fewer than 1,000 reported cases.

Vivienne Allan of the World Health Organisation said the body had confirmed that worldwide there have been just seven deaths from swine flu - all in Mexico.

(Only 7 swine flu deaths, not 152, says WHO smh.com.au / The Truth Seeker - Only 7 swine flu deaths, not 152, says WHO )

Remember: "During a typical year in the United States, 30,000 to 50,000 persons die as a result of influenza viral infection." - Flu Pandemic Morbidity / Mortality

So, why is publicity for the flu coming now?

4. The Flu Kills The Torture Memos

And reports of the Lockerbie Bomb case appeal (Lockerbie bomber launches second appeal).

5. And, certain fascist swine are hoping to make lots of money from selling vaccines.

Venture capital firm set to reap rewards on swine flu .

Firms Look to Prevent Swine Flu Pandemic, Turn a Profit - ABC News

Swine Flu: Who Profits? Clipmarks

"On March 20, 2009, this researcher outlined a peculiar PANDEMIC VACCINE TRAINING exercise in Texas scheduled to occur on Saturday, May 2, 2009." (http://www.rense.com/general85/dsd2.htm)

"There was a Swine Flu outbreak in 1976. President Gerald Ford asked that all Americans be innoculated.

"As it turned out, the disease only killed one person but the vaccine harmed hundreds and may have killed some." (This article addresses that question.)

Video from Leonard Horowitz. Leonard Horowitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

6. And maybe the latest swine flu is meant to target certain groups?

Germ warfare `could target ethnic groups' acording to an article in The Independent

"Viruses ... tailored to detect the differences in the DNA of races could offer warmakers ... a new means to carry out 'ethnic cleansing'," said a panel convened by the British Medical Association (BMA).

7. Why Mexico?

Huntington

Samuel P Huntington saw a new threat to the United States: Mexicans.

"In The Hispanic Challenge, Huntington claims that 'the single most serious challenge to America’s traditional identity comes from the immense and continuing immigration from Latin America, especially from Mexico.'" - The Huntington Challenge: Why The Hispanic Challenge should be ...

Huntington and Hispanic immigration: "The extent and nature of this immigration differ fundamentally from those of previous immigration, and the assimilation successes of the past are unlikely to be duplicated with the contemporary flood of immigrants from Latin America.

"This reality poses a fundamental question: Will the United States remain a country with a single national language and a core Anglo-Protestant culture?" - Civilizations (print)

Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927–December 24, 2008) was an American political scientist who gained prominence through his Clash of Civilizations (1993, 1996) thesis of a post-Cold War new world order.

And, Mexico and the USA have not been getting along too well.

There is a trade dispute.

Mexico raised tariffs on scores of U.S. imports - retaliation for Washington's decision to stop funding a program that allowed some Mexican trucks on U.S. highways under a free-trade agreement.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon and other top officials "let fly unusually sharp remarks about drug consumption and possible official corruption north of the border."

(Mexico's Drug War: U.S.-Mexico relationship hits some bumps.)

Sir Roy Anderson

8. But should we be worried about Swine Flu?

In the UK, the 'spooky' Sir Roy Anderson, a British 'expert' on epidemiology, has told the BBC that Swine Flu is a real problem.

Anderson left the University of Oxford after a unanimous vote of no confidence in him by the Department of Zoology.[2]

This also prompted his resignation in May 2000, from the Wellcome Trust where he had been a Trustee (then a Governor) for nearly 10 years.[3]

Roy Anderson was one of the most prominent scientists who advised the UK Government on the handling of the Foot and Mouth control policy in 2001, a policy that culminated in the destruction of around six million UK cattle.

He was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Ministry of Defence from October 2004 to September 2007.

Spooky?

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aangirfan: Bird flu and profits at Roche

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Teen Model, Bilderberg, Broken Homes, Pigs


Photo of teen model Manohara (right) from jakartasocial.wordpress.com/..

"In brief, the girl is just 17. Reputedly she was the girlfriend of a Bakrie scion when, in December 2006, she, along with her sister Daisy, was invited to dinner by the then Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Abdul Razak. This was where she met her future husband, who reputedly raped her a year later.

"Presumably he took her virginity because they married in August last year. And he is seemingly a right shit because she fled back to Indonesia a couple of months later alleging domestic abuse - he slashed her breasts with a razor and treated her "as a statue" to be brought out at royal functions."- http://jakartass.blogspot.com/

Police Investigate Alleged Kidnapping By Kelantan Prince

Manohara's Mom Says One Smiley Photo Is Not Enough

Who is Manohara Odelia Pinot, Indonesian Model

Turkey

"On March 27, 2008, two teams of agents from the Turkish Ministry of the Interior, acting on information received from a foreign intelligence agency, conducted a heavily armed raid on a house in Balikesir.

"In addition to the reports of the existence of this house, the Ministry also had growing reports from local citizens about loud screams issuing from the building for 'many weeks previously.'

"Ministry officials were able to capture six American citizens, all of whom claimed to be members of the USIA, a known branch of the CIA.

"Taken as evidence were many papers and documents that showed with great clarity that this house had been used as a CIA torture and murder house." - CIA Mossad torture house for snuff kiddie porn

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Madeleine McCann went missing on 3 May 2007.

Reprtedly, Jean-Michel Nihoul was released from jail on 4th May 2007. (Cached )

The Bilderberg meetings began near Istanbul on 31 May 2007. aangirfan: Madeleine McCann; Bilderberg; Belgium; Bush



Westminster School - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ed_g2s/Images

John Rae, who died in 2006, was the headmaster of London's top private school, Westminster school (The Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster).

Rae had some difficult pupils to deal with and he noted that most of the difficult boys came from broken homes.

Rae "noted how often the parents were separated and the father absent."

(The old boys' network The Economist )

The head of one of the UK's top private schools once told us that over half of his pupils came from broken homes.

One boy had had five mothers.


"During a typical year in the United States, 30,000 to 50,000 persons die as a result of influenza viral infection." - Flu Pandemic Morbidity / Mortality

A 23-month-old baby girl who died in Texas was a Mexican taken ill while visiting relatives. - Swine flu: Mexican toddler dies in Texas


Swine flu: Death rate slows in Mexico

New Zealand swine flu sufferers to return to school

Indonesia floats idea of man-made swine flu

Swine flu is a man made virus ?

Was The 'Spanish Flu' Epidemic Man-Made?

Swine Flu Psy Op

UK and Libya make prisoner deal


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The only people ever put on trial in connection with the 7/7 London Bombings have been found not guilty.

Abu Hazma (left) and Haroon Rashid (right) are suspected of having worked for the security services.

There is a suspicion that the 7/7 London Tube Bombs were the work of elements of the security services.

MOHAMMED SIDIQUE KHAN had Links to the security services.

The Bombs went off under the trains according to an eye witnesses.

And, Haroon Rashid Aswat 'the London bomb mastermind' reportedly worked for MI6 in Kosovo?

Now, on 28 April 2009, the only people ever put on trial in connection with the 7/7 bombings have been found not guilty.

The jury unanimously found Waheed Ali, Sadeer Saleem and Mohammed Shakil not guilty of conspiring, with the four alleged bombers who have 'disappeared', to cause explosions.

There was no CCTV footage to show what the trio had been doing and no proof they had even been on the underground, where three of the four bombs would later explode.

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WHY?

Huntington


WHY MEXICO?

Samuel P Huntington saw a new threat to the United States: Mexicans.

"In The Hispanic Challenge, Huntington claims that 'the single most serious challenge to America’s traditional identity comes from the immense and continuing immigration from Latin America, especially from Mexico.'" - The Huntington Challenge: Why The Hispanic Challenge should be ...

Huntington and Hispanic immigration: "The extent and nature of this immigration differ fundamentally from those of previous immigration, and the assimilation successes of the past are unlikely to be duplicated with the contemporary flood of immigrants from Latin America.

"This reality poses a fundamental question: Will the United States remain a country with a single national language and a core Anglo-Protestant culture?" - Civilizations (print)

Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927–December 24, 2008) was an American political scientist who gained prominence through his Clash of Civilizations (1993, 1996) thesis of a post-Cold War new world order.

The Lockerbie Appeal starts on 28 April 2009. A case of swine flu is discovered at the same time.


WHY SCOTLAND?

Lockerbie appeal to hear new witness statement

Scotland swine Flu Psy Op

aangirfan: The Vincennes and Lockerbie and Heroin

Faslane, Devonport and nuclear leaks

April 14-15: FEMA’s Interagency Continuity Influenza Pandemic Tabletop Exercise

CIA Link to Cuban Pig Virus Reported



Ocean Acidification Risks Mass Extinction of Sea Life

US Cities Increasing Use of Armed Mercenaries to Replace Police

"Labour members have demanded the result of the Edinburgh East candidate selection process be overturned after accusing officials of presiding over a postal votes scandal." - Oh Dearie Me

Madeleine: The veil briefly lifts

Barney Frank

THE FOLKS IN CONGRESS



Cameron?

Cameron or someone else?

The Importance of Cyprus

THE CLASSIC PHILOSOPHER

Amnesty tells us some of the bad things about Obama...

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THE FOLKS IN CONGRESS

Adonis by Henry Oliver Walker - Library of Congress

In the USA, the Library of Congress is the research arm of Congress.

Henry Oliver Walker (1843–1929) was an American painter.

His works include a series of paintings honouring various poets for the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Ganymede by Henry Oliver Walker - Library of Congress


Adonis by Henry Oliver Walker - Library of Congress

Lyric Poetry by Henry Oliver Walker - Library of Congress

Reportedly, boys have always been popular with the folks in the US Congress.

Reportedly (Congressional Sex Scandals in History):

In 1973, Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass.) had sexual relationships with a teenage congressional page. Studds acknowledged he was gay.

In 1978, Rep. Fred Richmond (D-N.Y.) was arrested in Washington for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old boy.

In 1980, Rep. Jon Hinson (R-Miss.) announced that in 1976 he had been accused of committing an obscene act at a gay haunt in Virginia.


Musa Regina by Henry Oliver Walker

In 1980, Rep. Robert Bauman (R-Md.), a leading "pro-family" conservative, pleaded innocent to a charge that he committed oral sodomy on a teenage boy in Washington.

Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democrat, hired a male prostitute who ran a prostitution service from Frank’s residence in the 1980s.

Chapter -XXI- Omaha (Bush book: Chapter -21- ):

"On the morning of June 29, 1989, pandemonium erupted in the corridors of power in the nation's capital. Homosexual Prostitution Probe Ensnares Official of Bush, Reagan, screamed the front-page headline of the Washington Times with the kicker Call Boys Took Midnight Tour of White House.

"The Times reported, 'A homosexual prostitution ring is under investigation by federal and District authorities and includes among its clients key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, military officers, congressional aides and U.S. and foreign businessmen with close ties to Washington's political elite'....

"Rumors circulated that a list existed of some 200 Washington prominents who had used the call boy service."


Abraham Lincoln

"The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln", By C. A. Tripp, edited by Lewis Gannett, refers to Lincoln's sexual interest in males.

Trip argues that Lincoln's relationships with women were not deep.

In 1831, when he was 22, Lincoln moved to New Salem, Illinois, and met Billy Greene.

Lincoln shared a bed with Greene.

Greene said of Lincoln's body: ''His thighs were as perfect as a human being could be.''

When Lincoln moved to Springfield, Illinois, he became close friends with Joshua Speed, a young store owner.

Earlier biographers, Nicolay and Hay, described Speed as the only intimate friend that Lincoln ever had.

Lincoln and Speed shared a double bed in Speed's store for four years.

Some of Lincoln's letters to Speed are signed ''Yours forever.''

In 1836 Lincoln began courting Mary Owens. In 1837 Owens ended the relationship.

Lincoln wrote: ''I knew she was oversize, but now she appeared a fair match for Falstaff.''

In 1842, Lincoln married Mary Todd and they had 4 children. Tripp suggests Mary had a psychopathic personality. With Mary, Lincoln was 'remote' and 'unavailable'. Lincoln is reported to have been terrified of the idea of marrying Mary.


Eros et Musa by Henry Oliver Walker

When Lincoln became president, he met Col. Elmer Ellsworth described by Lincoln as ''the greatest little man I ever met.''

Lincoln brought Ellsworth into his Springfield lawoffice and then made him part of his presidential campaign. As war approached, Ellsworth was given a top military post. When Ellsworth was killed, Lincoln was deeply upset.

In 1862-3, Capt. David Derickson was one of Lincoln's bodyguards in DC.

According to Derickson's regiment's history, Derickson ''advanced so far in the president's confidence and esteem that in Mrs. Lincoln's absence he frequently spent the night at his cottage, sleeping in the same bed with him, and - it is said - making use of his Excellency's night shirt!''

Early biographers of Lincoln, such as Carl Sandburg, wondered about Lincoln's homosexuality.

Sandburg wrote: "Month by month in stacks and bundles of fact and legend, I found invisible companionships that surprised me. Perhaps a few of these presences lurk and murmur in this book."

Sandburg wrote that Lincoln and Joshua Speed had "streaks of lavender, spots soft as May violets."

Lincoln's stepmother said of Lincoln: "He was not very fond of girls, as he seemed to me."

Lincoln's fellow lawyer Henry C. Whitney observed once that Lincoln "wooed me to close intimacy and familiarity."

Lincoln produced a humorous ballad in 1829:

But Biley has married a boy
The girles he had tried on every Side
But none could he get to agree
All was in vain he went home again
And sens that he is married to natty.

In 1990, the American Historical Association presented a panel on "Gay American Presidents? — Washington, Buchanan, Lincoln..."

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Cameron or someone else?

Is this Cameron?

Is this Cameron in the centre? (www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1542289/Camer)


Tories deny video 'showing David Cameron at a rave in 1988' is David Cameron.

In the UK, the Conservative Party has denied that a person in a video clip of a 1988 rave is the party leader David Cameron.

The video, called 'Acid House Sunrise 1988 Part 4', has appeared on YouTube and has been picked up by political blogger Guido Fawkes.

Dave the Rave?


Monday, April 27, 2009

Swine Flu Psy Op

Mexico City.

The Swine Flu story sounds like a psy-op:

1. Millions die in Mexico each year from diseases such as TB, typhoid and malaria.

But we don't hear much about that.

Due to high levels of poverty in Mexico, there is a tendency for outbreaks of flu to kill large numbers of people.

"During a typical year in the United States, 30,000 to 50,000 persons die as a result of influenza viral infection." - Flu Pandemic Morbidity / Mortality

2. In the USA and Canada, flu symptoms have been described as mild.

"Several students experienced flu symptoms after they returned but they were so mild that they didn't raise any concerns." (Swine flu hits Canada)

This swine flu's a "relative lightweight" (Swine flu's a relative lightweight.)

The first reports of swine infections in Mexico came in mid-March.

The current swine flu strain still has fewer than 1,000 reported cases.

Remember: "During a typical year in the United States, 30,000 to 50,000 persons die as a result of influenza viral infection." - Flu Pandemic Morbidity / Mortality

So, why is publicity for the flu coming now?

3. The Flu Kills The Torture Memos

And reports of the Lockerbie Bomb case appeal (Lockerbie bomber launches second appeal).

4. And, certain fascist swine are hoping to make lots of money from selling vaccines.

"On March 20, 2009, this researcher outlined a peculiar PANDEMIC VACCINE TRAINING exercise in Texas scheduled to occur on Saturday, May 2, 2009." (http://www.rense.com/general85/dsd2.htm)

"There was a Swine Flu outbreak in 1976. President Gerald Ford asked that all Americans be innoculated.

"As it turned out, the disease only killed one person but the vaccine harmed hundreds and may have killed some." (This article addresses that question.)

5. And maybe the latest swine flu is meant to target certain groups?

Germ warfare `could target ethnic groups' acording to an article in The Independent

"Viruses ... tailored to detect the differences in the DNA of races could offer warmakers ... a new means to carry out 'ethnic cleansing'," said a panel convened by the British Medical Association (BMA).

6. Why Mexico?

Huntington

Samuel P Huntington saw a new threat to the United States: Mexicans.

"In The Hispanic Challenge, Huntington claims that 'the single most serious challenge to America’s traditional identity comes from the immense and continuing immigration from Latin America, especially from Mexico.'" - The Huntington Challenge: Why The Hispanic Challenge should be ...

Huntington and Hispanic immigration: "The extent and nature of this immigration differ fundamentally from those of previous immigration, and the assimilation successes of the past are unlikely to be duplicated with the contemporary flood of immigrants from Latin America.

"This reality poses a fundamental question: Will the United States remain a country with a single national language and a core Anglo-Protestant culture?" - Civilizations (print)

Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927–December 24, 2008) was an American political scientist who gained prominence through his Clash of Civilizations (1993, 1996) thesis of a post-Cold War new world order.

Photo of La Gloria, Mexico, from: picasaweb.google.com/.../tPNgcKVn2Pb-Xf-o3wB8lA

7. Swine Flu and McDonalds

Maybe the swine flu is an accident, associated with factory farming and globalisation.

Maybe the swine flu started at a large pig producing facility in La Gloria in Mexico.

Only ONE case of swine flu was confirmed as having come from La Gloria.

Local and federal health officials are downplaying suggestions that the epidemic started in La Gloria.

(Swine Flu Baffles Experts And Raises More Questions Than Answers)

They insist that the other cases from La Gloria were from a completely different and common strain of flu, H2N3.

Governor of Veracruz, Fidel Herrera, told the press there was not a single indicator that the epidemic started in La Gloria.

Miguel Angel Lezana, the director of the National Centre for Disease Control, said that genetic information in the H1N1 virus show it is more similar to types of flu that affect pigs in Central and East Asia. (Swine flu: Mexico claims it started in Asia)

By 29 April 2009, the world's media were interviewing the mother of 4-year-old Edgar Hernandez who reportedly got swine flu on 2nd April 2009.

(‘I had a headache and fever' says boy who survived - Times Online / 'I feel great,' says five-year-old Mexican boy living near 'ground ... )

Edgar comes from La Gloria in Veracruz in Mexico, where there is the giant US-owned Smithfield Foods pig production facility.

60% of the 3,000 residents of La Gloria reported getting sick, including three children aged under two, who later died.

Edgar is quoted as saying: 'I feel great. But I had a headache and a sore throat and a fever for a while. I had to lay down in bed.'

Reportedly, it was confirmed, on 27April 27 2009, that Edgar was the first known sufferer of swine flu.

According to the Times, 'residents of La Gloria have been complaining since March that the odour from Granjas Carroll’s pig waste was causing severe respiratory infections.'

There have been calls to exhume the bodies of the children who died of pneumonia so that they could be tested.

The Vera Cruz-based newspaper La Marcha blames Smithfield’s Granjos Carroll for the outbreak of sickness.

Mexico's Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova told reporters a sample taken from a 4-year-old boy in Mexico's Veracruz state in early April tested positive for swine flu.

Smithfield spokeswoman Keira Ullrich said the company has found no clinical signs or symptoms of the presence of swine influenza in its swine herd or its employees working at its joint ventures anywhere in Mexico.

The company supplies the McDonald’s and Subway fast-food chains.

Mexican Agriculture Department officials said that its inspectors found no sign of swine flu among pigs around the farm in Veracruz, and that no infected pigs have been found yet anywhere in Mexico. However, Ochoa, the farm manager, said no one from the government has inspected his farm for swine flu.

Smithfields was fined $12.3 million in the United States 1997 for violating the Clean Water Act.


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aangirfan: Bird flu and profits at Roche

The Importance of Cyprus

British bases in red.


Cyprus is important to Obama, because he wants to keep in with Turkey, which invaded Cyprus in 1974, and took over the northern third of the island.

Reportedly, Obama wants Turkey to join the European Union.

In April 2009, in Northern Cyprus, there was an election win by the nationalists who do not want a re-united Cyprus. ( A hawkish problem / Hardliners win N Cyprus election)

This result will damage Turkey’s membership talks with the European Union.

The National Unity Party, led by Dervish Eroglu, won 44% of the vote, giving it 26 of the 50 seats.

The Republican Turkish Party (CTP) won only 29% of the vote.

Mehmet Ali Talat, who is linked to the losing Republican Turkish Party, remains as president.

Talat led the campaign in favour of the UN’s Annan plan to reunite Cyprus in 2004.

But the Greek-Cypriots rejected the plan in a separate vote.

Turkey’s EU membership is opposed by Greece, France and Germany among others.



Britain has two important military bases on Cyprus.

The operation of these bases was guaranteed in the Cypriot constitution, when Cyprus became independent in 1960.

Most of the Greek Cypriots want to be rid of these bases.

In October 2007, Britain signed an agreement with Turkey, the 'enemy' of the Greek Cypriots.

This agreement is about:

1. Supporting Turkey’s EU accession
2. Helping to end the isolation of the Turkish Cypriots
3. Deepening the UK-Turkey defence relationship, including within the framework of NATO.

According to the Associated Press, 25 January 2008 (Status of British military basis in Cyprus to be reconsidered ...):

"The Greek Cypriot government is reconsidering the status of two British military bases on the island, saying Britain implicitly recognized the Turkish Cypriot administration in the north in an agreement signed with Ankara.

"Greek Cypriot Government Spokesman Vasilis Palmas said... that relations with Britain were being reconsidered 'through a different prism.'

"'We are reconsidering our bilateral relations,' he said, after Britain signed an agreement with Turkey on Oct. 23 that referred to the north as the "TRNC" which stands for the Turkish Republic of northern Cyprus..."

The Greek Cypriot government could reduce cooperation with the British military.

However, Cyprus is aware that Britain is its biggest trading partner, and roughly half of the 2.4 million people who visit Cyprus each year are British.

The Americans take a very strong interest in Cyprus.


In the early 1970s, Greece was run by the 'fascist' colonels who, reportedly, had been put into power by the CIA.

In Turkey, the people who pulled the strings were, reportedly, the pro-American military.

A number of books refer to a 1974 Cyprus plot involving the USA:

The Aphrodite Plot by Michael Jansen 1976, The Cyprus Conspiracy: America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion by Brendan O'Malley and Ian Craig (published by I.B. Taurus), The Rape of Greece by Peter Murtagh, and The Wrong Horse by Lawrence Stern.

According to Michael Jansen, at http://www.greece.org/cyprus/Takism6.htm :

A deal was discussed by Greek and Turkish ministers in the early 1970s.

According to this deal:

1. Cyprus would be split.
2. A Turkish military base would be set up on Cyprus, on the Karpass Peninsula.
3. The mainly Greek part of the Island would join up with Greece.

The USA was apparently involved in what was happening.




The U.S. wanted rid of Makarios, the President of Cyprus.

Makarios was seen as being too independent minded; he had left-wing allies; he was a friend of the Arabs; he was opposed to the 'fascist' colonels who ran Greece and who were regarded as CIA assets.

According to Peter Murtagh, the Greek colonels in Athens had allowed Israeli planes to use a U.S. base in Crete to launch the air strikes on Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian air fields that 'decided the outcome of the 1967 war' before Arab and Israeli troops came together on the ground.

According to Jansen: the USA wanted its Greek and Turkish allies in control of Cyprus.

Reportedly, by late 1973, the Greek and Turkish Cypriots were becoming more friendly with each other. They had decided to keep Cyprus united.

Reportedly, Greece and Turkey tried to wreck things.

In July 1974 Greece organised a coup against Makarios. Nicos Sampson became president.

Turkey decided to carry out its plan to split Cyprus. Turkish troops took over the North of Cyprus in 1974. It is thought that the USA supported the invasion.

According to the Cyprus Mail, 13 November 1999, and the Times Higher Education Supplement, the USA vetoed any British intervention in Cyprus.

The USA "vetoed Britain's intervention in the Turkish invasion to protect its spying bases in northern Cyprus, former British Prime Minister Lord Callaghan has revealed in an interview to a British paper."

The US has electronic spying facilities in northern Cyprus.

Callaghan was interviewed for the Times by Brendan O'Malley, co-author with Ian Craig of The Cyprus Conspiracy: American Espionage and the Turkish Invasion.

"Cyprus had extreme value as a centre for electronic surveillance," Callaghan said.

According to a report in the 6 March 6 2004 edition of the Beirut Daily Star, the USA would like its troops stationed on Cyprus. ( http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/585/585p19.htm )

The UK and the US have had intelligence bases on Cyprus for many years. They have sophisticated surveillance equipment on top of Mount Troodos. The USA has its listening post in Northern Cyprus.

According to Greece's Daily Times, the USA has studied the possibility of "sending a military force to Cyprus, in the form of a peacekeeping force".


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Sunday, April 26, 2009

THE CLASSIC PHILOSOPHER


Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is considered to be one of the top philosophers of the 20th Century.

Ludwig was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna.

Ludwig's tyrannical father, Karl, was one of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's top oligarchs, dealing in steel, banking and arms. ('The House of Wittgenstein,' by Alexander Waugh. )

Karl became a Protestant; this was a wise move at a time of anti-semitism.

Ludwig himself became a Catholic.

Of Ludwig's four brothers, three committed suicide.

Oldest brother Hans, who was gay, died in 'mysterious circumstances'.

Rudi, another gay brother, killed himself at a restaurant bar in Berlin.

Kurt, another brother, shot himself in the head.

Adolf Hitler attended the same high school as Ludwig.

While he was a student in Vienna, Ludwig, who was gay, sometimes 'cruised' the Prater, a large public park, where he picked up 'rough trade' boys.

By 1912, Ludwig was studying at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Fellow student John Maynard Keynes got Ludwig into the 'gay' Cambridge society known as the Apostles.

Ludwig became a schoolteacher in a poor Alpine village. He used to slap the children, and he was forced to leave.

By 1939, Ludwig was a professor of philosophy at Cambridge.

Reportedly, Ludwig "believed in mystical truths that somehow cannot be expressed meaningfully but that are of the utmost importance...

"He opposed interpretations of religion that emphasize doctrine or philosophical arguments intended to prove God's existence, but was greatly drawn to religious rituals and symbols..." (Ludwig Wittgenstein [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy])

Ludwig believed that scientists and theologians play different language games.

Ludwig is believed to have had long-term 'affairs' with people such as the philosopher Frank Ramsey and the architect Francis Skinner.

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Amnesty tells us some of the bad things about Obama


Amnesty chief Kate Allen, on 26 April 2009, tells us some of the bad things about Obama

Amnesty chief: At the rate Obama is going, it will take us 65 years to close Guantanamo

According to Kate Allen:

1. More troops are being sent to Afghanistan.

2. Apart from Binyam Mohamed, not a single prisoner has been released from Guantanamo since Obama took office.

3. A Boeing subsidiary company illegally flew illegally detained people between prisons, as part of the CIA's 'extraordinary rendition' programme.

Former victims have tried to bring the Boeing company to book.

The Obama government has blocked all their attempts.

4. In April 2009, White House lawyers sought to stop more than 500 prisoners held at the US-run Bagram prison in Afghanistan from being able to challenge their indefinite detention - detention without charges or trials.

Several inmates have died in custody, apparently after sustained torture.

5. The danger now is of quiet reversal to Bush-era behaviour.

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