From Jenna Orkin:
Call me the scummiest hypocrite but right now with infinite relief (which feels a whole lot like gratitude) I greet you from the heart of Corporate America, Burger King, which is my sole access to the internet at the moment.
So while it's a thrill to have access to the blog after 36 hours, I can't check video links and am leery of posting them; hence the disappointment some of you may experience.
Before me is a photo of a workman sitting atop a steel girder which is attached to exactly nothing, - like a forty-storey flagpole - having not yet met its horizontal mate in the construction of what is probably the Empire State Building; it's hard to recognize the New York of seventy years ago although given a couple of minutes one could figure it out from the ever- mercurial orientation of Broadway.
The workman is waving triumphantly with his left hand while holding a half-smoked celebratory cigarette (as well as the top of the girder) in the other. His right leg is also wrapped around the back of the girder. Or perhaps he only has one leg; it's all a little dizzying.
Then again, that may be in the eye of the beholder. Life is a Rorschach, as a shrink friend of mine says. And we are feeling a little dizzy these days as the global economic crisis gets forgotten faster than a one night stand (I'm trying to write like a guy for one sentence) in favor of the potential global pandemic.
But back to the matter(s) at hand:
In response to the eyebrow-raising about links from Pravda: Links are sometimes posted on this blog for reasons other than their content. It can be useful to see who's saying what, where; whether on Fox or CBS, in US DOD announcements or Russian propaganda. As you read any links posted here, bear in mind who the messenger is and make appropriate adjustments.
Economic/Flu Crisis
World Bank: Economic Crisis Turning Into Calamity
Has Globalization Made Us More Catastrophe Prone?
Gold Hits Four Week High as Swine Flu Fears Grow and China Builds Reserves
Cryptome on Smallpox
note the mention of David Kelly in this article
From the FTW archives on pandemics:
FDA Warns of Salmonella in Sprouts
Flu Pandemic Timeline - Homeland Security
Obama's Host Dies From Flu-Like Symptoms
Obama Admin. Releases Stockpile of Anti-Flu Viral Drug
Swine Flu Fears Prompt Global Quarantine Plans
Sanofi Aventis Invests 100 Million Euros in New Facility in Mexico to Produce Seasonal and Pandemic Flu Vaccine
Napolitano Says US Should Prepare for New Flu Outbreak Soon Even If This One Fizzles Out Pentagon Prepared for Flu Outbreak
Drug Companies Prepare for Swine Flu Epidemic
Pharmaceutical stocks are expected to rise on Monday morning, after Roche and GlaxoSmithKline said they may need to supply millions of vaccine doses to help protect against the swine flu that has killed up to 81 people in Mexico.
Toxic Asset Plan Stirs Fears
UK
British Economy Shrinks at Fastest Pace For Thirty Years
Revealed: The Titan Prison Sites the Government Kept Secret
G20 Protesters 'Offered Cash' by Police to Spy on Environmental Groups
Plan to Monitor All Internet Use
Russia/Central Asia
Russia Sets New World Record in Conquest of North Pole
Russia Has Five Uneasy Questions to (sic) Finland
All Moscow Police To Be Tested For Sanity After Officer Shoots 9
Russian Bomb Found Near Chancellor Merkel's Apartment
Russian Troops Based Just 40 km. from Georgian Capital
Russia to Move More Warplanes to Kyrgyz Military Base
India to Become Russia's Main Customer for Warplanes
Russia to Sell 6 Submarines to Vietnam, Not Venezuela: Paper
Russia May Fail Foreign Arms Supplies Contracts: Expert
Russian Army is Short of Men: Medvedev
South Caucasus Emerging as Crossroads of Energy Exports
Kazakhstan Expects to Join EU
Turkmenistan Defends Right to Diversify Export Routes
Tajik Border Guards Open Fire on Kyrgyz Bus
Kyrgyz Police Detain 80 After Interethnic Tensions
Unrest in Georgia, Moldova? Blame Kosovo
Russia's Lavrov Calls NATO Drills in Georgia "Dangerous"
Moody's Expects Turkish Economy to Shrink By At Least 4%
Asia
Saudi Arabia Considers Giving Women the Vote
One small step for woman, one giant step off the treadmill. "...the move comes as Saudi women learned they could be forced out of their female-only sports clubs and gyms because the government seems likely to agree licensing of the clubs for men only, the Guardian reports."
Private Banks in Asia Suffer Hangover After Party
Japan Facing Worst Economic Outlook on Record
Bin Laden Could Be Dead; Whereabouts Unknown: Zardari
Surveillance Vehicles Take Flight Using Alternative Energy
It's so interesting seeing how all of this is developing...The economic collapse...the propaganda about how we haven't seen this kind of collapse here in the United States in more than 25 years (I don't ever remember seeing this kind of collapse here in the United States before...but I think they want to make us feel like we've been through even worse times than these before).
ReplyDeleteIf you've ever read George Orwell's book "Animal Farm", this reminds me of how the rules were constantly being changed on everyone while at the same time being told that the rules had never, ever been changed on them.
I'm staying at a major resort hotel right now and a very well-known insurance company is having a luxury retreat for its executives here...all under a completely fictitious business name.
They don't want to deal with all of the fallout over having these kinds of expensive business retreats right now.
And now we've got the Swine Flu scare hitting us...a perfect new distraction for everyone.
These are some very, very interesting times.
Interesting: The Cause and Resolution of Swine Flu
ReplyDeleteFound this on Cryptogon.com Swine flu PSA from 1976...fwiw
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iJLpe1tZl8&feature=player_embedded
The Swine Flu Pandemic – Fact or Fiction? A good antidote to the mass hysteria we are being inflicted with from the mass media.
ReplyDeleteIn summary:
- don't panic
- be warned about taking the global-pharma cures (they may make you sick and may not work - but will certainly make THEM rich)
- the flu is probably man made (either by intent (likely) or accident (less likely))
- there are some natural cures/precautions that will help.
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Alongside the fear-mongering headlines, I've also seen increasing numbers of reports questioning the true nature of this virus. And rightfully so.
Could a mixed animal-human mutant like this occur naturally? And if not, who made it, and how was it released?
Not one to dabble too deep in conspiracy theories, I don't have to strain very hard to find actual facts to support the notion that this may not be a natural mutation, and that those who stand to gain have the wherewithal to pull off such a stunt.
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Oh, well, I suppose it is the coming energy cisis + financial ruin that will deliver us (the world) of the US, er, the US government... and its pernicious influences. I suppose we will even be saved the bother of having to wag our little finger to do anything.
ReplyDeleteHey, what about the Engdahl article. And how many times before is it just been big brother fear mongering, like the 70s Swine flue scare or bird flue or the 2000 computer glitch. They were all hoaxes with much complicity.
ReplyDeleteFlying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms
by F. William Engdahl
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13408
Oh, and as to why no white deaths here yet, Engdahl's article says actual Mexican deaths overstated. And one would also want to consider the different levels of sanitation and poverty, and very importantly, in mexico, antibiotics are over the counter and a dumping ground for other countries banned or failed medications so mexico becomes a breeding ground for antibiotic resistant strains.
ReplyDeleteObama's host dies from 'flu-like symptoms'. Ok Jenna,trying to stay objective and all that, but what's this?!!
ReplyDeleteThen there is the head of Shell Oil (Queen Beatrix) watching as a car crashes a security fence and narrowly misses her bus killing lots of innocents along the way. No connection to the Oil biz I'm sure.
The links keep on coming.