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The H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating the Data to Justify a Worldwide Public Health Emergency

“Over the course of the next few months, with the assistance of our partners in the private and public sector and at every level of government, we will move aggressively to prepare the nation for the possibility of a more severe outbreak of the H1N1 virus. We will do all we can to plan for different scenarios. We ask the American people to become actively engaged with their own preparation and prevention. It’s a responsibility we all share.” (US Government advisory, flu.gov: Vaccines, Vaccine Allocation and Vaccine Research )

A Worldwide public health emergency is unfolding on an unprecedented scale. 4.9 billion doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine are envisaged by the World Health Organization (WHO).

A report by President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology  “considers the H1N1 pandemic ‘a serious health threat; to the U.S. — not as serious as the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic but worse than the swine flu outbreak of 1976.”:

The Goldman Connection..Important read for my Geoeconomic friends.. 8/21/09…!!!!!

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Bruce Wiseman Online  Written by Bruce Wiseman

Friday, 21 August 2009 06:17

There will be a war. I’m certain of it.

No, not with Iran, though I’d like to introduce Mahmoud – I refuse to wear a neck tie under any circumstances – Ahmadinejad to a woman I met several years ago. She and her twin sister had been experimental subjects of Nazi madman, Dr. Joseph Mengle. Mengle had tried to change the color of their eyes with dye. The woman was blind. Her sister died at Auschwitz.
Mahmoud, who thinks the Holocaust was a hoax, forgot to pay his brain bill.

And they are a few clowns short of a circus in Pyongyang. Still, I don’t think the Chinese will let Kim Jon Il and his newly appointed secret police chief son, Kim Jon Un, drag the West into a military confrontation on the Korean peninsula. It’s a little too close to home and a Korean War II is not part of Beijing’s master plan. At least not yet.

No, this is a war brewing between two iconic American institutions that couldn’t be more different: the voice of America’s rock culture, Rolling Stone Magazine, and the country’s premier, Armani clad investment bank,Goldman Sachs.

Rolling Stone recently published an article called The Great American Bubble Machine, a masterful expose by Matt Taibbi revealing Goldman’s greed and corruption in the creation of several investment “bubbles” that have made the firm and its partners – the term “filthy rich” comes to mind – but that have been devastating to Americans and to the US economy.

I rarely use those two words together. I have no problem with people making money – barrels of the stuff. Boat loads. But this needs to be done with some sense of ethics. Some sense of morals. Some sense of responsibility toward one’s fellow man.

I was informed that Goldman is preparing a response. One wonders if the Wall Street veneer will crack: if they’ll come out with their pinstripes pressed or PR guns blazing trying to marginalize Taibbi.

As those of you who have followed my recent articles on the financial crisis know, I have pointed out the all too coincidental participation of Goldman executives in the creation of the financial crisis. Machiavelli himself would be proud of what has been nothing less than a coup d’etat of the planet’s financial systems. The Guys from Goldman have played their part.

Obama: Staged In Montana

Nothing surprises me anyone. The following is an account from “ordinary people”, not the adoring press…

By now you have probably heard that President Obama came to Montana last Friday. However, there are many things that the major news has not covered.

On about Tuesday Joe found out that they would be holding the “Town Hall” at the airport. (This is only because Joe knows EVERYONE at the airport). Our airport is actually located outside of Belgrade (tiny town) in a very remote location. Nothing is around there. They chose to use a hangar that is the most remotely located hangar. You could not pick a more remote location, and you can not get to it easily. It is totally secluded from the public.

But wait… there’s more!

THIS is YOUR AMERIKA…read it and weep…I did~jude

by Nicholas Monahan

This morning I’ll be escorting my wife to the hospital, where the doctors will perform a caesarean section to remove our first child. She didn’t want to do it this way – neither of us did – but sometimes the Fates decide otherwise. The Fates or, in our case, government employees.

On the morning of October 26th Mary and I entered Portland International Airport, en route to the Las Vegas wedding of one of my best friends. Although we live in Los Angeles, we’d been in Oregon working on a film, and up to that point had had nothing but praise to shower on the city of Portland, a refreshing change of pace from our own suffocating metropolis.

At the security checkpoint I was led aside for the “inspection” that’s all the rage at airports these days. My shoes were removed. I was told to take off my sweater, then to fold over the waistband of my pants. My baseball hat, hastily jammed on my head at 5 AM, was removed and assiduously examined (“Anything could be in here, sir,” I was told, after I asked what I could hide in a baseball hat. Yeah. Anything.) Soon I was standing on one foot, my arms stretched out, the other leg sticking out in front of me à la a DUI test. I began to get pissed off, as most normal people would. My anger increased when I realized that the newly knighted federal employees weren’t just examining me, but my 7½ months pregnant wife as well. I’d originally thought that I’d simply been randomly selected for the more excessive than normal search. You know, Number 50 or whatever. Apparently not though – it was both of us. These are your new threats, America: pregnant accountants and their sleepy husbands flying to weddings.

Showdown with Russia and China: U.S. Advances First Strike Global Missile Shield System

Stop NATO

On August 13th the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Chicago-based Boeing International announced a test of their joint Airborne Laser (ABL) missile defense system, which “successfully tracked and hit the mark earlier this month during its first in-flight test against an instrumented target missile.” [1]

Employing a modified Boeing 747-400F prototype airplane, on August 10 the Missile Defense Agency had the adapted commercial airliner use infrared sensors against a missile launched from San Nicolas Island, California and “found, tracked, engaged and simulated an intercept with a missile seconds after liftoff. It was the first time the Agency used an ‘instrumented’ missile to confirm the laser works as expected. Next up this fall will be the first live attempt to bring down a ballistic missile….” [2]

A newspaper from Alabama, the state where the MDA headquarters is based, mentioned that “The news came today [August 13], just a few days before the 12th annual Space and Missile Defense Conference opens next week in Huntsville.” [3]

PETA protests National Hot Dog Day…

Webster Definition Of Hubris: Ben Bernanke

http://www.market-ticker.org/archives/1361-Webster-Definition-Of-Hubris-Ben-Bernanke.html

From his speech at Jackson Hole:

A year after the onset of the current crisis in August 2007, financial markets remained stressed, the economy was slowing, and inflation–driven by a global commodity boom–had risen significantly. What we could not fully appreciate when we last gathered here was that the economic and policy environment was about to become vastly more difficult. In the weeks that followed, several systemically critical financial institutions would either fail or come close to failure, activity in some key financial markets would virtually cease, and the global economy would enter a deep recession. My remarks this morning will focus on the extraordinary financial and economic events of the past year, as well as on the policy responses both in the United States and abroad.

And ignore your role in creating it. Don’t worry, I’ll take care of that for you.

Health Care Counseling: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

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Links for the week…but not the weak hearted!!..

Fla. Population Drops For 1st Time Since 1946
MyWay (17 Aug 09)

China’s CIC Set to Invest in U.S. Mortgages
Reuters (17 Aug 09)

Sec Review of AIG Probed Disclosure “Inconsistencies”
Reuters (17 Aug 09)

China Swaps Dollars For Oil
Money Morning (18 Aug 09)

Australian Senate Rejects Rudd’s Cap and Trade Emissions Plan
Bloomberg.com (18 Aug 09)

UBS Clients Used Foreign Shells to Hide Income
The Seattle Times (17 Aug 09)

BB&T takes over Colonial BancGroup
Dallas Business Journal (17 Aug 09)

Cuomo Likely to File Suit Against Schwab: Report
Yahoo Finance (17 Aug 09)

The “Zimdollar:” Dead, But Still Used For Bus Fare
Yahoo News (16 Aug 09)

The Way to a Macro Recovery That Includes Not Only The Privileged
Telegraph.co.uk (16 Aug 09)

Business Survey Buried, Say Tories
Telegraph.co.uk (15 Aug 09)

Iceland: What Ugly Secrets Are Waiting to be Exposed in The Meltdown?
Telegraph.co.uk (15 Aug 09)

Gulf Arab Money ‘Behind Purchases of Israeli Land’
Breitbart.com (15 Aug 09)

There’s no Quick Fix to The Global Economy’s Excess Capacity
Telegraph.co.uk (15 Aug 09)

Toxic Loans Topping 5% May Push 150 Banks to Point of No Return
Bloomberg.com (16 Aug 09)

California to Redeem IOUs Early
The Wall Street Journal (14 Aug 09)

A Hand Up for Students Facing a Mountain of Debt
The New York Times (14 Aug 09)

Alternative Yardsticks For US Earnings Tell Different Stories
Financial Times (13 Aug 09)