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Chief: Swine Flu Pandemic Was A Hoax
Appearing on The Alex Jones Show, outgoing Chair of the Council of Europe’s
Sub-committee on Health Wolfgang Wodarg said that his panel’s
investigation into the 2009 swine flu outbreak has found that the pandemic
was a fake hoax manufactured by pharmaceutical companies in league with
the WHO to make vast profits while endangering public health.
“Liberated”
Iraq Imposes Draconian Media Censorship
Battling what it says are broadcasts that incite sectarian violence,
Iraq wants to impose new restrictions on the media that critics say
could bring back draconian censorship last seen under Saddam Hussein.
EU
Threatens Sweden For Not Storing Private E Mails
The European Court of Justice has told Sweden that it must implement
a 2006 measure requiring telecom operators to store information about
their customers’ phone calls and emails.
NY
sues Bank of America alleging fraud in Merrill deal
New York state officials Thursday sued Bank of America and its former
top executives alleging fraud and deception to obtain billions in taxpayer
bailout funds to acquire brokerage Merrill Lynch.
IPCC
Boss Unhinged As Greenpeace Demands Resignation With the pressure on IPCC boss Rajendra Pachauri
increasing as the head of Greenpeace calls for his resignation, one
of the most notorious green con artists is showing signs of cracking
up, comparing his critics to an imaginary group of people who like to
rub asbestos on their faces.
Lawsuit:
Deputies threatened husband as sheriff fondled wife
A sheriff in rural Tennessee has been accused of threatening a husband
and wife by “blowing their f—ing heads off” and “inappropriately”
touching the wife during an unwarranted traffic stop.
The
True State of the Union: We Have No Rights Whatsoever
It has been almost a week since President Obama gave his first State
of the Union address, and it has been analyzed from the left, right,
center, front, and back. Of course, the speech is really about the performance
of the federal government, particularly its wonderful accomplishments
under the leadership of the sitting president.
Taking the ‘Neo’ Out of ‘Conservative’
After Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity are the two most popular
rightwing talk hosts in America, defining for millions the definition
of the term “conservative.”
US
doing ’scientific research’ to boost interrogations
An elite US interrogation unit will conduct “scientific research”
to find better ways of questioning top suspected terrorists, US intelligence
director Dennis Blair said Wednesday.
Google
Re-establishes Relationship With Government Spies
Google is set to establish a working relationship with the National
Security Agency, the government spy force responsible for warrantless
monitoring of Americans’ phone calls and e-mails in the wake
of 9/11.
India
to ‘pull out of IPCC’
India has threatened to pull out of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change and set up its on climate change body because
it “cannot rely” on the group headed by its own Nobel
Prize-winning scientist Dr R K Pachauri.
Intel
Boss Blair: Government Plans to Kill Citizens
Patsies take heed. The U.S. government will kill you. That’s
what the Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair told
a House intelligence committee yesterday.
Phoenix
gives OK to 2% tax on food
Desperate to save police, fire and other city jobs, a divided Phoenix
City Council on Tuesday approved a sales tax on grocery items that
will generate tens of millions of dollars a year.
Does
safer flying mean a risk of radiation?
So-called “naked” body-scanning machines at airports,
the latest defence against would-be plane bombers, have already
raised concern for breaching flyers’ privacy and, potentially,
feeding the voyeurism of security officials. But could being screened
also pose a health risk?
N.Korea
designates new ‘firing zones’ near sea border
North Korea has designated another two “firing zones”
near its disputed Yellow Sea border with South Korea, raising the
prospect of more artillery fire, Seoul officials said Wednesday.
