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Monday, April 27, 2009 22:38
GMT 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.
Bin
Laden could be dead, whereabouts unknown: Zardari
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday that the
whereabouts of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden remained a mystery and
there was a suspicion that he could be dead.
Oil
Falls Below $49, Flu Pandemic May Hurt Economy
Oil prices fell nearly 6 percent to below $49 a barrel on Monday, pressured
partly by expectations the world economy could suffer another blow if
a flu outbreak in Mexico turns out to be the start of a pandemic.
Obama
gets ahead of prompter
President Obama’s speech at the National Academy of Sciences Monday
morning hit a brief snag when Obama got ahead of his script.
Is
Swine Flu A Biological Weapon?
There are some factors that suggest the swine flu killing people in
Mexico may be a biological weapon, but obviously no such conclusion
can be drawn at this time. The World Health Organization and the U.S.
government have been quick to deny such claims.
Swine
Flu Could Become More Dangerous
The swine flu virus that has killed more than 80 people in Mexico may
mutate into a “more dangerous” strain, the World Health
Organisation has warned.
As
Swine Flu Spreads, Conspiracy Theories of Laboratory Origins Abound
Perhaps due to the genetic makeup of the fast-spreading H1N1 strain
of influenza — which includes genetic elements from bird flu,
swine flu and human flu spanning three continents — there is considerable
speculation that the origins of this virus are man-made.
Ice
at the North Pole in 1958 and 1959 - not so thick
What would NSIDC and our media make of a photo like this if released
by the NAVY today? Would we see headlines like “NORTH POLE NOW
OPEN WATER”? Or maybe “Global warming melts North Pole”?
Perhaps we would. sensationalism is all the rage these days. If it melts
it makes headlines.
Flu
Pandemic Hype: Another Pretext for World Government During the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) Summit
in Montebello, Canada in 2005, the “three amigos” (Bush,
Harper and Calderon) released “North American Plan for Avian
and Pandemic Influenza,” described as a “collaborative
North American approach that recognizes that controlling the spread
of avian influenza or a novel strain of human influenza, with minimal
economic disruption, is in the best interest of all three countries.”
Swine
Flu Vaccines: Dr. Ron Paul In 1976
In the book Swine Flu Expose, a book by Eleanora I. McBean, Ph.D.,
N.D., from 1976, Dr. Ron Paul calls the Swine Flu Vaccination Program
(which was a deadly failure), “a shocking misuse of funds
…and an evil political maneuver”. Dr. Paul continues
“blatant advertising efforts to panic the people into taking
Swine Flu shots will fail.”
Plan
to monitor all internet use
Communications firms are being asked to record all internet contacts
between people as part of a
Flu
fears dampen talk of tentative world recovery
Fears that any tentative green shoots in the global economy could
be trampled by a deadly outbreak of swine flu put markets on edge
on Monday, after world policymakers said over the weekend that a
recovery could begin later this year but plenty of downside risk
remained.
U.S.
Weighs Release of More CIA Memos The Obama administration and senior national-security officials
are reviewing whether to release additional Central Intelligence
Agency memos on interrogation methods, White House spokesman Robert
Gibbs said.
