Swine Flu Nondemic: How to Make Money Using Media Scare Tactics
2009-05-04 22:48:00 In 1976, two humans actually contracted Swine Flu. But in the resulting media froth surrounding the flu, and the resulting panic to get vaccinated against it, 25 people died. Hundreds more suffered from horrible diseases caused by the vaccine and many became paraplegic as a result of taking the vaccine. That is, the cure was many orders of magnitude worse than the ailment.In this iteration of the Swine Flu, so far, 25 people have died, most in Mexico, with little or no information about the condition of the victims before they contracted the illness (were they elderly? infirm? etc.). One person has died in the U.S., and the victim was not a U.S. citizen. Almost everyone who is diagnosed with Swine Flu experiences mild symptoms and then recovers.The new strain of Swine Flu has never been seen before in pigs and you cannot contract it from eating pork. But amazingly enough, it seems to respond well to an anti-influenza medication called, Tamiflu, and the stock in companies that supply...
By: Tumerica
For the G20: Bank Corruption Advice from Thomas Jefferson
2009-04-02 02:27:00 My wonderfully prescient and perhaps brilliant French writer and astrologer friend, Suzanne White, writes this:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~On- the eve of the G20 conference, let us reflect on the quote below and hope that the leaders in London will be doing likewise."I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, if by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."?Thomas Jefferson (Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, year 1802
By: Tumerica
China Marches Forward with Gigantic Military Spending Increase for 2009: D
2009-03-04 18:24:00 The entire globe is experiencing an economic meltdown, from the super-powers down to the little guys. Suddenly, China announces a double-digit increase in its military spending. Does this sound ominous to anyone besides me? To put it in perspective, China's military spending is still small compared to, um, the U.S. But still. China has been bold about moving rapidly ahead in its defense spending. Perhaps it is playing catch-up with the Western world. Perhaps it has big plans. Perhaps this increase is all part of their economic stimulus package.Apparently, I am not alone in speculating about this determination on the part of the Chinese. Japan, India, Australia, and Vietnam have all expressed concerns about a more powerful China. Surely Taiwan is quaking in its boots at this development, too.China's defense budget to grow 14.9 % in 2009, Xinhua, ChinaChina announces double-digit military spending boost, The Guardian, UKChina boosts military spending, Voice of America
By: Tumerica
Free trade for New Zealand with Korea possible following China?s deal
2009-01-25 11:08:00 New Zealand’s Trade Minister Tim Groser has called on submissions on a possible free-trade-agreement (FTA) wtih the Republic of Korea. This follows the first ever FTA secured with China by the former Labour-led New Zealand Government. The incumbent National-led Government said that the submissions are now being called as part of a review of the possibility ...
Nat Geo heart Genocidal Warlord
2009-01-24 04:53:00 The good news coming out of Africa today is that Rwanda has arrested General Laurent Nkuda, and is planning to turn him over to the DRCongo so that he can be prosecuted for war crimes. Human Rights Watch noted in January 2006: ?An arrest warrant was issued against Nkunda for war crimes, crimes against humanity and insurrection ...
Whalers flee Australian waters, head for New Zealand
2009-01-05 11:18:00 Japanese whalers have left Australia’s Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ), and are now heading for the waters of the Ross Dependency, which is under the claim of New Zealand. The Sea Shepherd, an envrionment conservation group, said that the three whaling vessels are now heading eastward. Sea Shepherd’s Captain, Paul Watson, said, “They are now in the ...
Operation Shut them up:kidnapping activists in Zimbabwe
2008-12-28 14:09:00 Reporters in third world countries know reporting the wrong thing can be dangerous. Here in the Philippines, for example, our press knows that spilling the beans on a corrupt politician may result in being shot at by an unknown hitman on a motorcycle. But in Zimbabwe, things are more open: according to the Zimbabwe Times, the ...
Who will rid us of these turbulent priests?
2008-12-24 11:36:00 “Pope Benedict was accused of stoking homophobia today after a speech in which he declared that saving humanity from homosexuality was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.” The Times 23rd December 2008 [The Archbishop of Canterbury] Dr Rowan Williams insisted that the country had been “going in the wrong direction” for decades by ...
?Smacking law has not made a big difference? - Police; lobby group claims o
2008-12-20 05:11:00 The latest six month review of the repeal of Section 59 of the Crimes Act (commonly referred to as the “anti-smacking law”) has shown the amount of police intervention to claims of a ’smack’ has remained minimal. However, lobby group Family First claim that the law is a “spectacular failure”. The repeal of Section 59 was ...
Overseas Kiwis change election results
2008-12-18 08:58:00 It is somewhat ironic that analysis of the overseas New Zealand votes has shown that the Green Party’s increase of one seat in Parliament is owed to Labour, due to discrepancies between the New Zealand voters and the overseas New Zealand voters. This is despite the fact that once the special overseas votes were counted ...
13 airliners accused of cartel behaviour to be prosecuted
2008-12-15 03:04:00 New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has filed proceedings in the High Court of New Zealand against 13 international airliners for alleged cartel behaviour for more than seven years. Seven airline staff of a high level in their respective companies also face prosecution. In a press release the Commerce Commission said, “Airlines throughout the world colluded to raise ...
The four horsemen of Harare
2008-12-12 01:32:00 The modern city of Harare has descended into hell as the four horsemen of the Apocalypse have descended into Zimbabwe. The traditional four horsemen are war, anarchy, famine and disease. War? Not a war so much as Mugabe using his henchmen to destroy his enemies. Harare has seen riots of soldiers in the capital, terror by the ...
Peter Davies on Zimbabwe: Cholera Epidemic
2008-11-26 17:44:00 At least 3,000 people have died of cholera in Zimbabwe during the past two weeks, reports Basildon Peta in ?The Independent? today, November 26, quoting a senior official in Zimbabwe?s Health Ministry. This is more than ten times the number widely quoted until now. Meanwhile, Mugabe?s government have denied that they have any problems with cholera. ...
Greens gain a seat, National loses one
2008-11-22 03:38:00 On November 8 New Zealanders headed to the polls to determine who would lead the next Government. On the night supplementary counts gave National 59 seats and the Greens had eight seats. Now, with the release of the special votes, those two numbers have changed with National losing one seat to the Green party (58-9 respectively). The new amount of ...
New Zealand First cleared by police
2008-11-04 10:04:00 The New Zealand Police have just announced that they will not prosecute New Zealand First?s party secretary for false election returns in 2005 and 2007 because ?no offence was committed?. The 2006 return may have also been false, but it is unsure at this stage. In September leader of the minor party ACT, Rodney Hide, laid a ...
Liberty Schmiberty ? Gives Us Our #$&^%* Goodies!
2008-11-02 14:54:00 (See Charlie?s smash new YouTube video: ?Say the Magic Word and Vote Obama?) “There can be no doubt that socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state. Socialism is in its essence an attack not only upon British enterprise, but upon the right of the ordinary man or woman to ...
One Step At a Time
2008-10-20 16:53:00 So, while in Canada, as the global financial crisis driven election campaign reached an end on October 14, elsewhere on another continent, an indirectly elected president of a theocratic nation-state (at least on paper), is not only tackling religious extremism and power shortages, but is also determined to stabilize what for many is Pakistan’s worst ...
Nationally-Syndicated Radio Host Mike Gallagher Takes Cheap Shot at Obama?s
2008-10-15 21:31:00 I’ve respected conservative nationally-syndicated radio talk show host Mike Gallagher (pictured) for his willingness to take tough stands, such as during the Elian Gonzalez saga in 2000, when Gallagher was one of the few conservatives in the country who said plainly and clearly that Elian belonged with his father, Juan Gonzalez. During the Clara Harris trial, ...
Zimbabwe Negotiations ?stall?: the non judgemental way to view evil in Afri
2008-10-09 10:36:00 One does of course understand that no reporters are allowed into Zimbabwe, making actual reporting difficult. But that doesn’t excuse the AP from their admiring reporting on Mugabe. Analysis: Zimbabwe’s Mugabe confident on Cabinet Yup. Not stubbornly refusing to cooperate with the agreement: he is confident! It’s a waiting game, and no one is better at outlasting his competition ...
End Child Poverty Campaign Rally: Gordon Brown urged to increase DLA, CLA
2008-10-01 16:51:00 (London, UK) The biggest ever event to End Child Poverty takes place in London this Saturday, 4th October, with thousands expected to participate in a march from Millbank via Westminster to Trafalgar Square. According to the latest statistics from the End Child Poverty Campaign - 1 in 3 children are in poverty. They say 5.5 ...
?Very unsatisfactory?
2008-08-21 09:46:00 Following Russia’s military intervention in Georgia, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s more than skeptical view of Russian foreign policy is slowly but surely gaining ground over the atmosphere created by her predecessor?s hopes for a special relationship with Moscow. As her spokesman made clear yesterday, there is still no firm evidence indicating that the promised Russian withdrawal ...
Musharraf?s Prolonged Stay May Sink Pak Rupee / Economy
2008-08-18 02:34:00 Musharraf has always shown great concern for the economy of the country. Indeed economic progress was self professedly the most important objective of his military coup. He then seemed to have great dislike for his predecessors for they had been responsible, in his view, for bringing economy into ?deep trouble?. His economic objective stated in ...
Russians Attempt Another Barbaric Genocide
2008-08-15 21:09:00 David Schussler Russia is invading Georgia the same as it invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Many of the the tactics of the Russian army are the same as it pertains to the outrageous slaughter and pillage of the civilian population. This is a gross attack against any standards of decency or morality. For those who do not ...
The War Is Over
2008-08-12 14:23:00 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered a halt to military operations against Georgia. The war is over. I’m sure civilians in Georgia and South Ossetia will be breathing a sigh of relief. The cost of Saakashvili’s mad gamble has been around 200 soldiers and 100 civilians on the Georgian side, about 50 Russians, and around 2,000 ...
Zimbabwe: Deal imminent?
2008-08-11 12:25:00 All weekend, speculation has been that Mugabe and Tsvangirai would reach agreement on Sunday and seal the signing by making a joint appearance at today?s (Monday) Heroes Day Ceremony in Harare. But journalists who had been waiting 16 hours for the expected breakthrough were disappointed when talks that had gone on all day Sunday were adjourned ...
The public mood in Britain is still (just) with the parties of the Left.
2008-08-09 19:35:00 Americans and others who live in two party democracies must be puzzled by the political scene in Britain. Ever since the Liberal Democrats started to gain significant numbers of parliamentary seats (46 in 1997, 52 in 2001 and 62 in 2005) we have had a three party system across the whole of Great Britain. If ...
Fantastic Olympic Opening Ceremony in Beijing Gives Hope and Promise for Bi
2008-08-09 07:34:00 Anyone who watched the opening ceremony for this year?s Olympics experienced the energy and desire of the Chinese people to be free. The artistry and pageantry were fantastic and all was performed to perfection. As the athletes paraded in, the cheers for the USA, for Australia, and for Iraq among many free countries were contrasted ...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Cancer survivor
2008-08-07 09:36:00 They buried a giant of literature and human rights yesterday in Russia. Alexander Solzhenitsyn Solzhenitsyn was a witness to the horrors of communism, writing about the Gulag in such detail that after his trilogy was published, no longer could the elites of the west pretend that communism was a benign system of government whose successes outweighed ...
Iowans Arrested While Arresting Rove: Iowa, the Coolest State in the Union
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By: Tumerica
World Hunger Summit Leaders Dine on Cockroach Ragout and Yakitori of Rat, w
2008-07-09 17:53:00 File this under major irony of 2008, but this past Sunday, the world leaders who represent all the countries concerned with the global food crisis, "sat down to an 18-course gastronomic extravaganza at a G8 summit in Japan, which is focusing on the food crisis."Did any of the diners ponder their own hypocrisy for a nanosecond as their ivory chopsticks ascended to their well-fed jowls? Jowls quivering with such delicacies as milk-fed lamb, sea urchin gonads (known as "uni" in Japan), as well as the usual sturgeon roe and sparkling wine from the Champagne region of France (ho hum)?One wonders what an appropriate dinner menu for such an illustrious gathering might be. Anyone care to add to this list? The rules are that it must be:AbundantInexpensiveEasily attainedNot harmful to the environment to raise/growHere's my suggested menu:Mosquito fritter appetizerGarden snail popcornJellyfish sashimi on kudzu leavesPinto beans puree with a soybean reduction sauceCockroach ragoutYakitor...
By: Tumerica
Zimbabwe: ?Generals? Wage War On Unarmed Civilians?
2008-07-07 11:10:00 Mugabe is no longer in charge of Zimbabwe, he?s a puppet. When it became evident that he?d lost the March elections, he wanted to concede defeat (See ?Mugabe Admits Defeat?, April 03.) He was ready to slither into the undergrowth to enjoy retirement on the vast riches he?d stolen from the people he claims to ...
Will David Cameron Now Eschew The Centre Ground?
2008-07-04 06:22:00 The political genius of Tony Blair, and unquestionably the main reason that he won three successive British General Elections, was that he colonised the centre ground. The traditional rhetoric of British politics was always predicated on the ideological divide between ?Left? (Labour) and ?Right? (Conservatives). In essence those on the left were socialists who believed ...
Zimbabwe: ??Beaten, Bloodied, Scared? in Mourning?
2008-06-23 05:32:00 With his supporters beaten, arrested and murdered, Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC leader) was forced on Sunday to withdraw from the so-called election ?runoff? (Daily Mail). Mugabe?s Zanu-PF thugs have succeeded in terrorising the population of Zimbabwe and, according to resident Cathy Buckle, ?a blanket of fear has descended? on the country. Mugabe?s Zanu-PF militia, military and police ...
Zimbabwe: What is the difference between Zimbabwe and Britain?
2008-06-09 15:38:00 There?s a tired Zimbabwean joke that asks the question, ?What did Zimbabweans use to light their homes before candles?? The answer, of course, is electricity? This joke epitomises the sad decline in Zimbabwe?s living standards after more than 20 years of socialist rule. Now that Zimbabweans can?t even get candles, they go to bed at ...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe In Rome For Food Summit, While Zimbabwe Suffers Mass Intim
2008-06-02 15:28:00 While Mugabe takes a holiday in Rome (Reuters), are Chinese officials and/or military personnel based in Zimbabwe coordinating the mass intimidation, beatings, torture and killing back home? Directed from Zimbabwe?s Joint Operations Command (JOC), many of the most senior Zimbabwe military personnel have been moved temporarily into areas where Mugabe?s Zanu-PF was badly beaten during ...
Panty Power: Use Your Underwear to Fight for Peace in Myanmar!
2008-05-31 23:33:00 Questions: How do you scare the bejesus out of the Myanmar (Burma) regime?Answer: Send them your panties!You got that right. A new movement is underway to protest for peace and regime change in Myanmar and the methodology, while a tad unorthodox on the surface, apparently has substance to it. The Panties for Peace campaign plays on the regime leaders? superstitious fear that contact with a woman?s underpants will rob them of their power. Women around the world are asked to post their panties to local Burmese embassies in a bid to strip the regime of its power and bring an end to its gross violations of human rights, especially those committed against Burma?s women. The leaders of the Myanmar military regime are make and superstitious. They fear any contact with female undergarments will sap power from them, effectively, emasculating them. (I am NOT making this up.) To send a loud message to a regime that has murdered thousands of its people, enslaved countless others, subjugates...
By: Tumerica
Net Neutrality in Canada
2008-05-30 02:23:00 A new bill put before the House of Commons in Canada will mean forcing the very few ISPs to stop throttling the speed at which people can use the internet. At the moment Bell and Rogers are the two largest carriers in Canada with a few smaller companies trying to compete - the main problem ...
Zimbabwe refugees in South Africa, and Mrs Mandela?s necklace
2008-05-26 12:38:00 ?Necklacing? is the primitive and barbaric method of punishment killing used by Nelson Mandela?s political party ? the ANC ? against ?sellouts? in South Africa during the 1980s and 1990s. Anyone who did not support the ANC during their ?struggle? against Apartheid back then was ?sentenced? by ?people?s courts? (lynch mobs) to die by necklacing ...
What Is The Job At Hand?
2008-05-24 18:12:00 I read stories like this all the time in the world of politics. What still amazes me is that so many politicians come out with it when they actually mean they have nothing left to give. Gordon Brown, Britain’s PM has only been in office a very short while and is losing support hand over fist! The ...
Violence in Zimbabwe spreads to South Africa
2008-05-19 10:53:00 The conditions in Zimbabwe continue to deteriorate, with Mugabe postponing the run off election until June 27. In the meanwhile, violence against opposition leaders continues, with numerous reports of attacks against Anglican churches whose priests don’t recognize a former bishop who has become Mugabe’s henchman, and reports too numerous to list against opposition leaders, trade unionists, ...
An International Language
2008-05-18 18:20:00 European languages have been around a long time. Many of them are even older than the true international language, English. Many a-reader will know how the English language was transported around the globe - yet, many still don’t understand that as English was - so were many others. It wasn’t a matter that Elizabeth I decided ...
Gordon Brown - Parrot or Phoenix?
2008-05-12 11:39:00 The two dominant characters of British politics in the 1950s and 1960s were Harold Wilson (Labour) and Harold MacMillan (Conservative) and each has contributed an aphorism the truths of which political observers forget at their peril. Wilson said that “A week is a long time in Politics” and MacMillan, when asked by a journalist for ...
Burma: Cyclone ?Nargis? Killed At Least 80,000 People Which More Than 40% A
2008-05-11 12:14:00 BURMA: The poorest nation on this earth has been hit by the most deadliest Cyclone of 2008 at May 2 unknown and unprepared, and facing the worst disaster the world have never seen before. And yet the infamous (in-fact the most infamous) Military Junta Government is really quite busy with the REFERENDUM to approved self written ...
Frontiers of the Human Spirit
2008-05-08 21:11:00 From Churchill’s Parrot blog “To me the greatest issue in this part of the world is not deserting Israel.” - Sir Winston Churchill There is at present but one flag upon Earth?s moon; for only a society which values the liberty and enterprise this flag represents could achieve such a miracle. That flag yet stands alone, a colorful ...
Yemeni Hunger Striker, Hassan Baoum, Seriously Ill
2008-05-03 02:18:00 Southern Yemeni activist Hassan Baoum is seriously ill and has been transferred to a police hospital, his family reports. Baoum is on a hunger strike in protest of his “illegal arrest” on April 1, 2008. He has had a diabetic reaction, and his blood pressure is very high. Baoum has been held incommunicato since his ...
The Global Election Effect
2008-05-03 00:21:00 This past week I was contacted by Andy Orin from Link TV to write about a new project that he manages and maintains called “Dear American Voter”. The essence of the site is that it allows people from around the world to post videos about their issues and concerns for the upcoming American election. Some Americans ...
Shoddy Goods from China: It?s Not Just Heparin
2008-05-02 03:58:00 That heparin contamination that killed a few dozen folks might have been a deliberate act, not an accident…well, duh… I noted that two weeks ago… And this is on the heels of the fake protein in cat/dog food, and the lead in the kids’s toys. But in Africa and Asia, things are worse. The tainted cough medicine that ...
Greenpeace vs GM Food: keeping food from the hungry
2008-04-29 05:56:00 Rice prices have skyrocketed from 18-25 pesos/kg to 24-32 p/kg at the local Palenke. For farmers and workers who average 100 pesos a day (roughly two dollars), this puts a strain on their budget. So to prevent rice riots, the President is planning to allow poor people to buy subsidized food, and because of the worry ...
The Missing African Link
2008-04-28 00:35:00 Thanks to the folks at Wikileaks, I have come across an interesting document which is the shipping order for the weapons from Poly Technologies Inc. in China to the Ministry of Defense in Zimbabwe. Now, Zimbabwe has been in the news quite often in Europe because it used to be a British colony back however ...
Arming the Zimbabwe Opposition? Reality Check Please
2008-04-26 01:32:00 The Wall Street Journal has an editorial essentially saying that if guns were available to Zimbabwe’s opposition, there would be less of a problem for the people to worry about government persecution and intimidation. Reality check, please. The majority of people in Zimbabwe belong to the Mashona tribe. Traditionally, the Mashona are passive and friendly. They have endured ... |
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