In the Wake of Economic Collapse. Iceland’s Election: It’s not about Left and Right

So now we know what they wanted from Iceland: Its rich fishing territory in exchange for a loan to pay off the scoundrels in the rest of the world who have been gambling in Derivatives.

When will the same faith befall New Zealand?What is it they will extract from us? The Black sands? Our fish? the remaining Gold in the Coromandel? Or the entire country as their luxury hideaway after the US collapses and the rabble is dusting of that good old Revolution stand by; the Guillotine?

This is what Professor M. Hudson has to say about it:

I can hardly believe the news reports on Iceland’s election on Saturday, April 25. Evidently in an attempt to interest readers in an island few know or have cared much about, the papers tried to attract reader attention by talking about the “left” unseating the “right.” No doubt this political swing is going to continue for many years to come throughout the world. But for Iceland’s voters the issues were more pragmatic. Reckless neoliberal bank privatization is indeed the main problem, but the proposed responses are not inherently left or right as such. At issue is whether voters have become so desperate in the wake of crooks wrecking the financial system that they will seek a more stable currency (the euro) by joining Europe on terms that forfeit control over Iceland’s North Atlantic fishing waters and burden taxpayers with unprecedented public debt to compensate British, Dutch and other European bank depositors and speculators for their losses?
Europe would not dare make such a demand on the United States for the bad packages of junk mortgages it bought and for its losses when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. But Iceland is a small country and may be easier and riper for plucking. For many voters the idea of joining the European Union is an attractive fantasy – adopting the euro to solve Iceland’s financial problems. The alternative is for the country simply to change its destructive bank rules and reverse the giveaways made in times past to politically connected insiders. The victorious Social Democrats favor joining Europe, the Left-Green and formerly dominant Independence Party do not, while the centrist and largely rural Progressive Party (for many decades the second leading party) is wary but at least is willing to discuss the terms on which EU membership might benefit Iceland.
Everyone is against the oligarchy’s insiders who ran up the debts. That is why their major sponsor, the Independence Party, lost one-third of its electoral support (down to just 20 percent from its usual 33-35 percent), the lowest percentage of votes and seats in the parliament (Althing) in the 80 years since it was founded in 1930. The days of the kleptocracy are over – and there is scarcely more sympathy for the foreign lenders and savers who were the enablers of these insiders. But voters are wary of the financial stance England and the rest of Europe have taken against Iceland, and of arrangements with the International Monetary Fund. Former Independence Prime Minister (and later head of the central bank) David Oddsson is adamant that Iceland’s government and people not take responsibility for these bad debts, and shares the view I found to be unanimous among Icelanders: These crooks betrayed the country. The myth of deregulated “free” enterprise has been broken, and privatization is seen to have been a euphemism for kleptocracy.

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Infowars Under Sophisticated Denial of Service Attack

Earlier this evening, Alex Jones’ flagship website, Infowars.com, came under a concerted denial of service (DoS) attack. It is unavailable at the time of this report.

The attacks are coming out of Japan. A Whois database search reveals the origin to be the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre in Milton, Australia.

DoS attacks usually consist of concerted efforts to shut down a web server by flooding the computer with requests and consuming its resources so that it is no longer available to users. DoS attacks commonly constitute violations of the laws of individual nations.

Over the last few days, Alex Jones and his websites have covered the so-called swine flu “pandemic” and have built a solid case that the outbreak is part of a larger campaign by the government to frighten the populace and institute martial law as specifically detailed in the Department of Defense’s “Implementation Plan for Pandemic Influenza” and other government documents. Alex Jones is the primary media source calling the government’s bluff on the bogus “pandemic” elevated earlier today to a level 5 under World Health Organization guidelines.

WHO Director-General Margaret Chan declared the phase 5 alert after consulting with flu experts from around the world. “All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans,” Chan told reporters in Geneva. “It really is all of humanity that is under threat in a pandemic.”

“All countries should immediately activate their pandemic preparedness plans,” the WHO declares. “This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions should now be undertaken with increased urgency, and at an accelerated pace.”

The Department of Homeland Security’s National Response Plan follows the same criteria in the case of a flu pandemic or terrorist attack and relies on the military — specifically the Northern Command — to respond to such events.

Alex Jones has featured a number of guests on his nationally syndicated radio show in the last few days that have outlined the government’s plan to use a bogus pandemic as an excuse to impose martial law and engage in forced vaccination.

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AE911Truth Making History in San Francisco

I’m so proud that Richard Gage has actually volunteered to come to New Zealand after he has attended the 911 Convention later in the year in Sydney. AE911Truth’s unprecedented debut at the prestigious American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2009 National Convention and Design Exposition is coming right up. Obtaining a booth at this year’s convention at San Francisco’s Moscone Center marks a significant accomplishment for us.

During the convention, from April 30 to May 2, we will have the opportunity to inform an anticipated 24,000 architects about long-evaded truths regarding the destruction of the 3 World Trade Center high-rises on 9/11.

Amid hundreds of exhibitions by manufacturers of buildings, tiles, and window coverings, our 10′x10′ booth, with two large LCD screens showing the dramatic demolitions of the WTC Twin Towers and Building 7, will stand out dramatically – especially with the backdrop of our 7 professionally designed banners depicting the rest of the evidence and our mission. Convinced architects will be able to sign on the spot our petition calling for a new investigation into the events of 911.

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Memo: 9/11 Commission Witnesses Were Intimidated By Government “Minders”

Somewhat lost within the flu pandemic media hype this week is an important new revelation concerning the cover up of the events of 9/11.

A recently uncovered 9/11 Commission memo dating from October 2003, half way through the panel’s investigation, addresses concerns that government “minders” were intimidating witnesses and shaping their testimonies.

The document was drafted by Kevin Scheid, a senior staffer who led the commission’s Team 2, which was responsible for reviewing the overarching structure of the US intelligence community.

Names also appearing on the memo are those of staffers Lorry Fenner, an air force intelligence officer, and lawyer Gordon Lederman.

The memo, entitled “Executive Branch Minders’ Intimidation of Witnesses,” states the following:

• Minders “answer[ed] questions directed at witnesses;”
• Minders acted as “monitors, reporting to their respective agencies on Commission staffs lines of inquiry and witnesses’ verbatim responses.” The staff thought this “conveys to witnesses that their superiors will review their statements and may engage in retribution;”
• Minders’ notetaking “facilitates agencies in alerting future witnesses to the Commission’s lines of inquiry and permits agencies to prepare future witnesses either explicitly or implicitly.”
• Minders “positioned themselves physically and have conducted themselves in a manner that we believe intimidates witnesses from giving full and candid responses to our questions.”

The staffers make it clear that intimidation by minders was widespread and had not only occurred with their team’s witnesses.

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Obama Admin. Releases Stockpile of Antiflu Virus Drug

“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.” Biden in the run up to the US elections 2008.

The Obama administration was “all hands on deck” today in response to the quickly escalating swine flu outbreak, with the declaration of a public health emergency and the release of the national antiflu drug stockpile.

Director of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, center, in the White House Press Briefing Room…

Director of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, center, in the White House Press Briefing Room during a news conference to discuss reported Swine Flu outbreaks, Sunday, April 26, 2009, in Washington. Standing behind her are White Press Secretary Richard Gibbs, right, and Dr. Richard Besser, left, Acting Director Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared a national public health emergency, with swine flu now confirmed in at least 20 cases in five states. However, she said, the outbreak has not yet threatened to reach the lethal level it has in Mexico.

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911, Swine flu and 747′s in the sky

Let me explain something to you about trauma triggers. A trauma trigger is an event which reignites trauma. Let me  give you an example.

You have seen someone killed in an horrific traffic accident. It has taken you months to get over it and you no longer have nightmares about the event and you actually manage to concentrate on your work again and then one day you drive past a car wrecker just at the moment a crane lets go of a car wreck and drops it onto another car wreck. The sound, the smell and perhaps even the fact that it was drizzling the same way it was on the day you saw the accident remind you of the accident. In fact it is so intense and sudden that your whole body starts to shake just like on that day. All the factors that ignited that response are trauma triggers.

Now imagine you are a New Yorker and you were in New York on the day of 911 and it took you years to be able to look at the spot that once housed the Twin Towers and your cousin is dying of asbestosis and the children in the school that your daughter attends have Astma related to the events of 911 or God forbid you were one of the ones who got out of the towers alive. All and of themselves to be suffering from 911 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

What you reckon is going to happen when a 747 accompanied by a US fighter jet circles above Manhattan (one of the most secure airspaces in the world) for 30 minutes unannounced.

In the Pentagon they has a special department for these sort of operations. It’s called the Psyops department and they are specialised in Psychological warfare.

Flu Pandemic, 911 fear, and an economic collapse. I reckon the Banksters are getting at tad nervous.

Bad Bank of America

Bank of America reported its fiscal first quarter 2009 earnings today in a fraudulent sham and spectacle rigged to exaggerate profits while hiding losses. It was an old page torn from the remarkably thin play book called Masters Shaft the Universe. Once again, America’s decrepit financial sector has proved that it’s better to have weak competition than good business practices.

The bank reported that it earned $4.2 billion net income — or 44 cents per share after preferred dividends, including $402 million to the U.S. government — in Q1-2009. By earning more in the first quarter than in all of fiscal 2008, the bank sent the clear and false message that the worst of the credit crisis was past and it was safe to throw your money at Bank of America again. It was roughly the sort of thing that had always worked in days of credit bubbles past, but now a large public investor class shredded by the shock wave of the bubble burst would have none of it. They immediately seized upon the fact that the gains were nothing of substance or sustainability, and once it was laid bare, the balance sheet was simply bad.

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The Taliban’s Roads to Kabul

While our happily Smiling Assassin is mulling the US request for SAS troops in Afghanistan it might pay to realise that the Taliban are part of a 30 million strong Pashtun population and that there are only between 30.000 and 60.000 (Full surge numbers) Foreign troops in Afghanistan. Not good odds ladies and gentlemen, not good odds at all.

Hamid Karzai, who played host to the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, in Kabul two days ago, will have been delighted to hear the Prime Minister confirm the long-standing Afghan belief that there can be no long-term success against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan so long as they base themselves in Pakistan.

Afghan leaders blame the Taliban resurgence since 2006 on support from the ISI, Pakistan’s military intelligence, and the use of base areas in Pakistan to regroup, train, and receive weapons and supplies. But Afghans wonder if the US, Britain or their allies are really prepared to do anything effective about Pakistan’s support for the Taliban, which has been obvious since the 1990s.

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Food bowl on brink of $5bn catastrophe

THE nation’s key food bowl, the Murray Darling Basin, is on the verge of economic collapse as the value of production plunges by at least $5 billion, experts say.

Drought and declining irrigation water have plunged inland Australia’s heartland into crisis with the loss of at least one third of the basin’s $15 billion annual income. Worse is predicted for the coming financial year if the drought continues.

The demise of the economic powerhouse has pushed towns throughout the basin, particularly along the River Murray, into a severe downturn and population decline.

An ABS report last week showed the population throughout the basin is declining, or static at best, with the District Council of Berri and Barmera suffering the largest and fastest recent drop in SA with 130 people moving out between 2007 and 2008.

Authorities warn the problem has become the biggest crisis Australian agriculture has experienced, threatening the nation’s food supply.

Murray Darling Association general manager Ray Najar said the basin’s plight will worsen substantially next financial year if the long-running drought continues and there is no water available for irrigation.

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Cloned fluorescent dogs

Now this is creepy

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Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms

While the world wide corporate owned media keep ratcheting up the fear of a pandemic  and Egypt has commenced to kill all its pigs for the fear of a non existent deadly virus the real news slowly trickles through on the internet; While the flu spreads world wide at an alarming rate it turns out only 7 people died of the “Swine flu” in Mexico. Not nice for those who died but hardly the deadly pandemic we have been lead to believe  would decimate the human population and for which the US homeland security has now been given the powers to both “immunise” and “quarantine”  citizens forcibly.

In New Zealand on stuff.co.nz. the  milder face (with only seven deaths in Mexico I put it to you that it is a mild form of flu period) is discussed while John Key worries not about the human cost but about the economic backlash as NZ was one of the first countries outside of Mexico to import this new fangled virus. (Pork roast last week was on special at only $ 6.99). I liked what Vernon Small of the Dominion post has to say about our National debt  and it’s recent history. And this while Stuff.co.nz coos that the Federal Reserve of New York tells us that the recession is easing.

The real news however being the fact that the international banksters have been robbing the worlds population of trillions of dollars, the worlds economy is collapsing and the US economy is shrinking at the alarming rate of more than 6% per quarter and that torture memo’s show that the US and their puppets did torture and did so well before the date acknowledged and the fact that Darth Cheney confessed on TV and that memo’s clearly show that Condi Rice gave the orders have been conveniently wiped of the front pages.

Let’s above all not forget who makes the big profits of this much hyped non event. Oh oops, Rumsfeld and some of his elitist palls.

And isn’t this quaint, all of a sudden it’s no longer called the Swine flu any more it is now officially called; the 2009 H1N1. Doesn’t have quite the same alarming ring to it doesn’t it.

This is what writer and Economist William Engdahl has to say about it:

If we are to believe what our trusted international media report, the world is on the brink of a global pandemic outbreak of a new deadly strain of flu, H1N1 as it has been labelled, or more popularly, Swine Flu. As the story goes, the outbreak of the deadly flu was first discovered in Mexico. According to press reports, after several days, headlines reported as many as perhaps 150 deaths in Mexico were believed caused by this virulent people-killing pig virus that has spread to humans and now is allegedly being further spread from human to human. Cases were being reported hourly from Canada to Spain and beyond. The only thing wrong with this story is that it is largely based on lies, hype and coverup of possible real causes of Mexican deaths.

One website, revealingly named Swine Flu Vaccine, reports the alarming news, ‘One out of every five residents of Mexico’s most populous city wore masks to protect themselves against the virus as Mexico City seems to be the epicenter of the outbreak. As many as 103 deaths have been attributed to the swine flu so far with many more feared to be on the horizon. The health department of Mexico said an additional 1,614 reported cases have been documented.’ We are told that the H1N1 ‘shares genetic material from human, avian and swine influenza viruses.’1

Airports around the world have installed passenger temperature scans to identify anyone with above normal body temperature as possible suspect for swine flu. Travel to Mexico has collapsed. Sales of flu vaccines, above all Tamiflu from Roche Inc., have exploded in days. People have stopped buying pork fearing certain death. The World Health Organization has declared a ‘a public health emergency of international concern,’ defined by them as ‘an occurrence or imminent threat of illness or health conditions caused by bioterrorism, epidemic or pandemic disease, or highly fatal infectious agents or toxins that pose serious risk to a significant number of people.’2

What are the symptoms of this purported Swine Flu? That’s not at all clear according to virologists and public health experts. They say Swine Flu symptoms are relatively general and nonspecific. ‘So many different things can cause these symptoms. it is a dilemma,’ says one doctor interviewed by CNN. ‘There is not a perfect test right now to let a doctor know that a person has the Swine Flu.’ It has been noted that most individuals with Swine Flu had an early on set of fever. Also it was common to see dizziness, body aches and vomiting in addition to the common sneezing, headache and other cold symptoms. These are symptoms so general as to say nothing.

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The deconstruction of the AIDS myth

In these troubled times of mystery viruses and a world wide not so deathly pandemic,hyped up by our mainstream media, distracting us from the very real and disastrous economic meltdown handed to us by the international Financial fraudsters it may be useful to watch this excellent documentary about the AIDS epidemic and what might possibly have caused it.

23 years after Chernobyl

Only  99,977 more years to go and the world will be back to “normal” before Chernobyl radiation levels. Pff, that’s a relief!

I remember the day we started to hear the first news about Chernobyl like it was yesterday. At the time I was living in Holland and I was listening to the radio, the sun shone and the news caster said that higher than normal radiation levels were measured above Sweden. Only hours later the news said that the amount of radiation above Sweden indicated a serious radio-active event, most likely and accident with a nuclear reactor somewhere in Russia.

As the news started to seep out of Russia and the severity of the accident became clear we were approaching our day of festive abandonment, “Queensday” the birthday of the previous queen declared a national holiday and a huge party Nationwide.

On the day itself I found myself sitting in the late afternoon on the stone steps of a four  hundred year old house in the centre of Amsterdam. It was squatted at the time and I was sipping wine, sharing my day with some fellow activists. I was looking at the throngs of people passing by wearing crazy hats, laughing, drinking and dancing to the music of the many bands performing on the streets. The sun was shining and it was hot and as the sun slowly went down and the day made place for a raucous night of more drunken partying I remember thinking, these idiots actually believe what we’ve been told: Somehow the radioactive cloud had landed everywhere in Europe, the middle east, China, Japan and Africa but due to freak wind movements it had totally  missed Holland.

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On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station reactor number 4 exploded at 1:24 a.m. “Tons of radioactive dust was” unleashed “into the air…transported by winds, [and] it contaminated both hemispheres of our planet, settling wherever it rained. The emissions of radioactivity lasted [short-term] for 10 days.”(1)

On 29 April, “fatal levels of radioactivity were recorded…in Poland, Austria, Romania, Finland, and Sweden.”(2) The day after (30 April), it hit Switzerland and Italy. By 2 May, it reached France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Great Britain, and Greece. The next day, Israel, Kuwait, and Turkey were contaminated. Then, over the next few days, “radioactive substances” were recorded in Japan (3 May), China (4 May), India (5 May), and the US and Canada (6 May).

The radioactive spew from this explosion was “200 times greater than the atomic bomb at Hiroshima.”(3) Not one person was safe from this catastrophic nuclear explosion; and “65-million people were contaminated…more than 400,000 people were forced to evacuate the area [around Chernobyl], losing their homes, possessions and jobs, as well as their economic, social, and family ties.”(4)

The long-term and hidden costs of radioactive contamination have never been adequately reported by mainstream news. According to the authors (including the distinguished Dr. Rosalie Bertell) of a new book, “Chernobyl: The Hidden Legacy” “[i]t will take millennia to recover…[before an area] as large as Italy, will return to normal radioactive levels in about 100,000 years time.”(5)

This week, 26 April 2009, marks the 23rd anniversary since this catastrophe; so we have another 99,977 years to go, until things return to “normal” again.

With a myriad of on-going social costs ignored by most of the world’s media, the staggering medical consequences of now systemic radiation poisoning, and the enormous tragedy of genetic malformations, while the nuclear industry touts how “safe” nuclear power is, it is time to look again at the very real costs –most especially with the US financially bankrupt and the global economy in a deliberately created train wreck of proportions never seen in our history. Given this global economic collapse, there are neither enough financial or technological safeguards available today or long term to protect humanity from the already present and ubiquitous radioactive toxicity to which we are all exposed.

Social Costs

The surrounding area of Belarus was the worst hit, with “30 percent of its territory rendered useless.”(6) While hundreds of thousands of people were initially evacuated, over these 23 years, many have returned “home.” Today, their lives and  homes remain permanently devastated. Poisoned. However, the Soviet government did not either report to its own people how catastrophic this explosion was, or what were to be the real, long-term radiation consequences. Further, people who were working to supposedly “contain” the crisis, died shortly thereafter from massive radiation poisoning. Cover-ups and suppression, by the government and various international agencies, of what happened made the extent of this nightmare inaccessible to the Russian population affected as well as the rest of the world.

The Chernobyl reactors were built under a post-Stalin, 5-year plan by Moscow bureaucrats who had absolutely no understanding of the complex problems of building four reactors: (1) with such an unrealistic deadline; (2) the dangerous instability of running reactors for long periods on less than half power [that] made them unstable;”(7) and (3) a lack of realistic safety measures in the event of a nuclear meltdown.

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Unique form of swine flu surfaces

Huh, Is this guy really saying it’s laboratory cultured? Hmm, let me guess; Parts of an Asian avian bird flu virus, an American swine flu virus and a human flu virus all combined in a never before seen brand spanking new combi-virus popping up in smog ridden, 20 million population rich, Mexico city with all these tourists from all over the world to spread it around. Hmm.

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4,000 Florida National Guardsmen to be called up for active duty

More than 4,000 Florida National Guard soldiers, including some 600 from South Florida, are to be called to active duty in the next few months in what is the largest mobilization in state history.

Most of the troops called up will be deployed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Guard spokesman Lt. Col Ron Tittle. Others could be assigned to federal security missions in the United States.

”I’m not sure what to expect,” said Coral Springs resident Ernest Mason, 20, who will leave behind his wife of four months, Camilla, when he heads to a yearlong combat tour in Iraq with the 124th Infantry’s First Battalion. “It’s a worry. But I’ve thought about being in the military since I was 14. I’m getting as much training as I can.”

Florida Guardsmen will also be sent to Afghanistan as part of the Obama administration’s plans to double the number of U.S. troops there, even as the draw-down of forces in Iraq continues. There are now 40,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and 142,000 in Iraq.

President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. combat mission in Iraq would end by September 2010, but he has not set a timetable for U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

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‘Will you open fire on UK citizens’ Army personnel being asked

This from the UK.

In a stunning conversation with a friend, who is a serving member of the Armed Forces, over the weekend, it was revealed that transfers to regiments and other units in the UK on home duties are being undertaken by the MOD based upon whether an individual was prepared to ‘open fire’ on UK citizens during civil disturbances.

I found this long and extracted conversation to be both bizarre and frightening. I will state at this point that he is someone that I have known for years, and trust implicitly. The fact that service personnel are actually being asked in special briefing sessions whether they would fire on their own nationals indicates that the rumours about the Army being put on standby are indeed very true.

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Lot’s and lot’s more background info on the swine flu pandemic and it’s possible connections with the upper echelon of the ruling elite

From the website for legitimate government this article in it’s entirety. Find more recent posts below.

Flu Kills The Torture Memos By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org
26 April 2009

In a ‘Holy convenience, Batman!’ moment, a ‘unique‘ flu virus (one likely concocted in US Army labs) overtakes media coverage of revelations that the highest levels of the US government instructed the CIA (and private contractors) to torture terror suspects.

Scientists said the virus combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before. “We are very, very concerned,” World Health Organization spokesman Thomas Abraham said. “We have what appears to be a novel virus and it has spread from human to human,” he said. “It’s all hands on deck at the moment.”

Guess where the first swine flu outbreak occurred? That’s right, Fort Dix, New Jersey, in 1976. Also likely created in a US Army lab. Thirteen soldiers died, leading the US government to force a questionable vaccine on the population — backed by a legal liability escape clause mandated by and for the pharma-terrorists. Next, people started dying not from the flu — but from the *vaccine.*

Update: Swine flu hits the European and African continents

36 hours and Swine flu has already spread from Mexico into the US, New Zealand and overnight into Europe and Egypt. Click on the map above for updates.

Swine Flu Is Deadly Mix Of Never-Before-Seen Viruses

On March 5th ago vaccines contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus were distributed to 18 countries by the American company Baxter. It was discovered and published by a  Czech news paper. It turns out that our friend Rumsfeld amongst others in going to make a big profit with his Tamiflu anti flu medication. Him and a few Bilderbergers. Funny how it’s always the same guys that seem to be making a profit from other peoples misery. Funny how three years ago these same people were already ratcheting up the fear for a worldwide pandemic.

The last time a swine flu outbreak happened it happened when they infected soldiers in fort Dix in 1976.

Alarm spreads as human to human infection confirmed, bug  is an intercontinental mix of never-before-seen human, avian and pig viruses, top globalists stand to benefit from Tamiflu stockpiling

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Saturday, April 25, 2009

Swine flu panic is spreading in Mexico and soldiers are patrolling the streets after it was confirmed that human to human transmission is occurring and that the virus is a brand new strain which is seemingly affecting young, healthy people the worst, and that the bug is a never-before-seen intercontinental mixture of human, avian and pig viruses from America, Europe and Asia.

Clues that the virus may be a synthetic creation are already manifesting.

According to reports, the virus is  a “never-before-seen form of the flu that combines pig, bird and human viruses” which consists of an intercontinental mix of viruses from North America, Europe and Asia.

“CDC officials detected a virus with a unique combination of gene segments that have not been seen in people or pigs before,” according to an Associated Press report.

Mexico: the swine flu situation is already way out of hand

This is from the BBC. We are looking at a full blown Pandemic. Good timing, we’ll al be scared shitless while the bankers rob us blind.

I work as a resident doctor in one of the biggest hospitals in Mexico City and sadly, the situation is far from “under control”. As a doctor, I realise that the media does not report the truth. Authorities distributed vaccines among all the medical personnel with no results, because two of my partners who worked in this hospital (interns) were killed by this new virus in less than six days even though they were vaccinated as all of us were. The official number of deaths is 20, nevertheless, the true number of victims are more than 200. I understand that we must avoid to panic, but telling the truth it might be better now to prevent and avoid more deaths.

New and much more detailed map

This new map show the shocking speed with which the new Swine/Bird/Human flu has spread around the globe. Beware that this map also shows other diseases. You can tick the ones you want to see. I can give no guarantees as to the accurateness of the map

WHO: Likely to Declare Swine Flu ‘A Public Health Event of International Concern’ | Crooks and Liars

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Fannie, Freddie Defaults Rise as Borrowers Cite Lower Income

April 21 (Bloomberg) — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage delinquencies among the most creditworthy homeowners rose 50 percent in a month as borrowers said drops in income or too much debt caused them to fall behind, according to data from federal regulators.

The number of so-called prime borrowers at least 60 days behind on mortgages owned or guaranteed by the companies rose to 743,686 in January, from 497,131 in December, and is almost double the total for October, the Federal Housing Finance Agency said in a report to Congress today.

Of all borrowers who ended up in default, 34 percent told Fannie and Freddie they were earning less money, about 20 percent cited excessive debt as a reason for missing mortgage payments, and 8.1 percent blamed unemployment, FHFA said.

Fannie and Freddie are the largest U.S. mortgage-finance companies, owning or guaranteeing 56 percent of all U.S. home loans. Regulators seized Fannie and Freddie in September and forced out top management after examiners said the companies’ capital may be inadequate to weather the worst housing market since the Great Depression.

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Predators starve as we plunder oceans

Starving sea life – from whales to puffins, tuna to seals – is being found all over the world’s oceans, as the food on which it depends is being fished out, startling new evidence shows. And much of the depletion, ironically, is caused by raising captive fish – for the table.

New figures from the Food and Agriculture Organisation show that the small fish on which birds and marine mammals feed have become the main target of fishing fleets since stocks of bigger fish have become exhausted. Four times as much of these “prey fish” are now brought to shore as half a century ago, and seven of the world’s largest 10 fisheries now go after them.

More than four-fifths of this catch does not go directly to feed people, but is ground up into fish oil and fish meal and increasingly used to raise carnivorous species such as salmon in fish farms. A captive fish needs up to 11b of food to put on a single pound in weight. And, as a result, there is less and less left for its natural predators.

“We have caught most of the big fish and are now going after their food,” says Margot Stiles, a marine scientist for Oceana, the leading international sea protection pressure group.

A new report by the group, Hungry Oceans, describes how “scrawny predators – dolphins, sea bass and even whales – have turned up on coastlines all over the world”, adding that scientists are finding them and seabirds “emaciated from lack of food, vulnerable to disease and without enough energy to reproduce”.

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IMF predicts worst recession since Great Depression

Let me give that some background. In the “great” depression 7 million people died of hunger in the US alone. The “Great” depression led to WWII and the abject world wide poeverty that some of the oldies still remember and which prevents them from spening even the smallest amount of money on themselves. I’m sure you all know of such a person. They had every reason.

At he time of the great depression 90% of the US population grew their own food and had their own small family farms. Now perhaps 15% of the US population has access to homegrown food and the rest of the population works in the service industry or the financial industry and only some 12% work in factories actually producing something that can be sold.

More than  600.000 people a month for the last four months have lost their jobs in the US alone. The expectation is that more than 8 million houses will be foreclosed on in the next two years with millions already having been foreclosed on.

So let me set you straight on this littel issue. The IMF says it will be the deepeset depression since the “Great” depression? No, It will be a depression that will dwarf the “great” depression.

Let’s start calling it the “Mega” or the “4 trillion and more lost in the financial world through irresponsible gambling” depression.

WASHINGTON – The global economy is likely to shrink this year for the first time since World War II.

The International Monetary Fund projected the 1.3 per cent drop in a dour forecast released overnight. That could leave at least 10 million more people around the world jobless, some private economists said.

“By any measure, this downturn represents by far the deepest global recession since the Great Depression,” the IMF said in its latest World Economic Outlook. “All corners of the globe are being affected.”

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Update on this blog and the postings

While I would love to write more of my own stuff, like the NWO and the privatisation of our armed forces or John Key and his connections to the Federal Reserve of New York, at the moment life away from the computer has to have a bit of a priority. Life happens while you’re trying to write.

I hope that as of next week I can start posting some more of my own stuff again.

Thanks for reading my blog.

Trav

Full Text of President Ahmadinejad’s Remarks at U.N. Conference on Racism

While the general Kiwi population happily accepts that just because the MSM tells them so that President Ahmadinajad is “like” Hitler, Pot pol and any other tyrant combined I thought that perhaps, for those of you who would like to form their own opinion based on as diverse as possible information, it would be prudent to publish the complete text of President Ahmadinajads speech to the U.N. Conference on racism.

Full Text of President Ahmadinejad’s Remarks at U.N. Conference on Racism

By President Ahmadinejad

April 21, 2009 “ICH” — -In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful… [Protestors in clown costumes escorted out by security] May he bestow upon his prophets… Praise be upon Allah, the Almighty, who is just, kind, and compassionate. May he bestow upon his prophets his blessings and his grace from Adam to Noah; Abraham, Moses, Jesus Christ, and His last prophet, Mohammed. Peace be upon them all who are the harbingers of monotheism, fraternity, love … [Applause] … human dignity and justice.

Mr. Chairman. I call upon all distinguished guests to forgive these ignorant people.

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Praise be upon Allah, the Almighty, who is just, kind, and compassionate, and praise and salutations of the Almighty God to the great prophet. May he bestow upon [us] His blessings, His grace. We thank the Almighty God. Praise be upon him who is just and who is compassionate. And the salutations and regards of Allah to his prophets, from Noah to Abraham, Moses, Jesus Christ, and his last prophet Mohammed. Peace be upon them all who are the harbingers of monotheism, fraternity, love, human dignity, and justice.

Mr. Chairman. Honorable Secretary General of the United Nations. Madam High Commissioner. Ladies and Gentleman. We have gathered here in the follow up to the Durban conference against racism and racial discrimination to work out practical mechanisms for our holy and humanitarian campaigns. Over the last centuries, humanity has gone through tremendous suffering and pain. In the middle ages, thinkers and scientists were sentenced to death. It was then followed by a period of slavery and slave trade, when innocent people in millions were captivated and separated from their families and loved ones, to be taken to Europe and America under worse conditions; the dark period that also experienced occupations, lootings, and massacres of innocent people.

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Neturei Karta protest during moment of silence

Members of radical anti-Zionist stream hold protest in Jerusalem during moment of silence for Holocaust victims, saying ‘Zionists cynically abuse the Holocaust for their own purposes’

Kobi Nahshoni

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04.21.09, 13:24 / Israel News

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Lecture from Norman Finkelstein about The Holocaust Industry, and on the on the Israel Palestine Conflict

Very interesting lecture from Norman Finkelstein about how Israel exploits the Holocaust for it’s own Zionist goals such as the Slow but irreversible annexation of Palestinian lands and the latest genocidal attack on Gaza

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Morgan Stanley Follows Goldman’s Lead And “Skips” Reporting December Losses

Let me put it this way: If we did the same we’d go to jail for fraud and embezzling.

Goldman Sachs posted a profitable quarter by skipping December, during which it realized huge losses.

Now Morgan Stanley is doing the same thing.

Specifically, Morgan’s first quarter results report states:

As a result of the change in the Company’s fiscal year end from November 30^th to December 31^st, the Company had a December 2008 fiscal month transition period. The results for this period, which reflected a net loss applicable to Morgan Stanley of $1.3 billion, are presented on page 19 of the financial supplement accompanying this release.

Presto, Morgan’s performance massaged to look better than it really was.

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