Archive for April, 2009
BLEARS: WHY THE RECESSION COULD LEAD TO RIOTING
The recession could spark riots on the streets of Britain, a minister warned yesterday.
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears said an economic slump had led to the rioting of the 1980s and that the current crisis could see further unrest.
Only 7 swine flu deaths, not 152, says WHO
A member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has dismissed claims that more than 150 people have died from swine flu, saying it has officially recorded only seven deaths around the world.
Vivienne Allan, from WHO’s patient safety program, said the body had confirmed that worldwide there had been just seven deaths – all in Mexico – and 79 confirmed cases of the disease.
UPS makes $750K grant to National Council of La Raza
United Parcel Service Inc. gave $750,000 to Hispanic civil rights group National Council of La Raza (NCLR) to help that organization develop programs and services for Latino communities.
Homeland Security Issues Alert On Mandatory Quarantine Procedures
The Department of Homeland Security has sent out an alert to health care providers outlining how BATF, FBI, and U.S. Marshals will be called upon to impose mandatory quarantines in the event of a widespread swine flu outbreak in the U.S.
As we reported yesterday, so-called “involuntary isolation” is already being enforced in certain areas of the United States. The state’s health director in North Carolina, Dr. Jeffrey Engel, said that authorities were already involuntarily isolating patients who may have the swine flu virus. He refused to divulge the location of where the victims were being quarantined.
Critical Alert: The Swine Flu Pandemic – Fact or Fiction?
I suspect you have likely been alarmed by the media’s coverage of the swine flu scare. It has a noticeable subplot – preparing you for draconian measures to combat a future pandemic as well as forcing you to accept the idea of mandatory vaccinations.
On April 27 Time magazine published an article which discusses how dozens died and hundreds were injured from vaccines as a result of the 1976 swine flu fiasco, when the Ford administration attempted to use the infection of soldiers at Fort Dix as a pretext for a mass vaccination of the entire country.
Despite acknowledging that the 1976 farce was an example of “how not to handle a flu outbreak,” the article still introduces the notion that officials “may soon have to consider whether to institute draconian measures to combat the disease.”
Exhibition opening 1 May: Sea Stallion from Glendalough – from dream to reality
The entire exhibition area of the Viking Ship Museum will invite the public inside (and outside) to tell the story of the reconstruction of the Viking Ship Museum, the world’s longest sailing Viking longship.
Church lot rock actually ancient runestone
An archaeologist says a rock used to mark a parking lot at a church in Sweden is actually a 1,000-year-old runestone.
Stockholm County Museum runic expert Lars Andersson said a rock used to help mark the lot’s boundaries is thought to date back to the Viking Age in Sweden, The Local said Friday.
Big Brother climbdown: Smith does U-turn after admitting public don’t want a huge database
Jacqui Smith put a brake yesterday on Labour’s obsessive drive to build vast Big Brother databases.
The Home Secretary axed plans to store data on all our communications, including phone calls and emails, on a government-run computer system.
She said she accepted the public did not want such sensitive data kept on a single database or under the control of the state.
She still intends to monitor the public’s every internet click and phone call, however, except that the data will be stored by the service providers.
EU judges want Sharia law applied in British courts
Judges could be forced to bow to Sharia law in some divorce cases heard in Britain.
An EU plan calls for family courts across Europe to hear cases using the laws of whichever country the couple involved have close links to.
That could mean a court in England handling a case within the French legal framework, or even applying the laws of Saudi Arabia to a husband and wife living in Britain.
Border Patrol Attack Constitution Defender Who Previously Exposed Them
You may remember that we recently posted a video of a man defending his constitutional rights against border patrol officers who appeared to think that they could make up the law as they went.
Well the same man has been stopped again, only this time he had his car smashed up, was tazed, assaulted and left covered in blood and needing stitches.
You may be tempted to think that this was a revenge attack for him daring to show his previous encounter to the world. I would have to agree.
Baxter To Develop Swine Flu Vaccine Despite Bird Flu Scandal
A U.S. based pharmaceutical company that just weeks ago was involved in a scandal involving vaccines tainted with deadly avian flu virus has been chosen to head up efforts to produce a vaccine for the Mexican swine flu that has seemingly migrated into the U.S. and Europe.
However, Baxter has a very recent and most disturbing connection to flu vaccines.
As reported by multiple sources last month, including the Times of India, vaccines contaminated with deadly live H5N1 avian flu virus were distributed to 18 countries last December by a lab at an Austrian branch of Baxter.
