Blog Smith

Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

What passport did you use to go to Pakistan?

Hitler did not ‘Abolish Unions’ he Augmented them



I think that I have already answered the first question adequately. In the present state of affairs I am convinced that we cannot possibly dispense with the trades unions. On the contrary, they are among the most important institutions in the economic life of the nation. Not only are they important in the sphere of social policy but also, and even more so, in the national political sphere. For when the great masses of a nation see their vital needs satisfied through a just trade unionist movement the stamina of the whole nation in its struggle for existence will be enormously reinforced thereby.

Before everything else, the trades unions are necessary as building stones for the future economic parliament, which will be made up of chambers representing the various professions and occupations.

Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler, Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement Chapter XII: The Trade-Union Question

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Silicon Graffiti, “Start from Zero


-The rapid social and technological gains western civilization was making in the 19th century before…
-…The arrival of Marx, Nietzsche, and other nascent “progressives,” to upset mankind’s Etch-a-Sketch.
-Nietzsche’s 1882 “God is Dead” aphorism, which ol’ Friedrich definitely considered to be a two-edged sword.
-How World War I set the stage for the rest of the horrors of the 20th century, via a quote from Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism.
-A la Woody Allen in Annie Hall, an awards ceremony for the most bloodthirsty leftwing tyrant of the 20th century.
-How the Bauhaus and other elements of the Weimar Republic were helping Germany “Start from Zero,” even before the Nazis arrived.
-A mournful 1966 Time magazine cover echoes Nietzsche, followed by more sixties reprimitivization, Haight-Ashbury style

Tell Maher to Use the Word: Abrogated


When the Muslim apologist tries to point out the peaceful verses of the Koran, and they are there, you need to respond that those are the abrogated verses cancelled out by the later, and authoritative passages when Mohammed created a military force to slaughter his opponents. The point is well documented and indispensable.

MSNBC's Ratigan Admits Left is Scared to Criticize Obama Because He's a Black Liberal


Friday, March 11, 2011

Secret Service Releases Tape of Reagan Assassination Attempt

Incredible Audio

Obama's Oil Lies

Documentation

The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it would retest every full-body X-ray scanner that emits ionizing radiation — 247 machines at 38 airports — after maintenance records on some of the devices showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expected.

The TSA says that the records reflect math mistakes and that all the machines are safe

Bill Clinton:

Drilling delays 'ridiculous'

Facts Don't Support Claims on Gulf of Mexico Oil Production

Salazar's numbers distort the true number of working rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

Oklahoma City Bombing Linked to Muslim Terrorism

Author links man arrested in Quincy to the subject of her book on Oklahoma City bombing.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

1% of the Population Convicted More than 80% of the Time

More than 80 percent of all convictions tied to international terrorist groups and homegrown terrorism since 9/11 involve defendants driven by a radical Islamist agenda, a review of Department of Justice statistics shows. Though Muslims represent about 1 percent of the American population, they constitute defendants in 186 of the 228 cases the DOJ lists.

Toilets that work: Rand Paul

Uncle Sam Endangers Your Air Flights

http://www.click2houston.com/video/27146647/index.html

Safety equipment removed from planes, secretly.

Hope and Change: Gas Prices Have Gone Up 67 Percent Since Obama Became President


Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is seen here in a situation that took place on the Senate floor in 2008 when current Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was a Democratic senator from Colorado and gas was $4-per-gallon in many areas of the country.

McConnell offered a measure to open up off-shore areas to new oil and natural gas drilling when the price of gas reached $4.50-per-gallon. Salazar objected. So McConnell changed it to $5-per-gallon. Salazar still objected.

And so on and so on it went until McConnell said $10-per-gallon. Salazar continued to object, at which point it was clear that, as the Democratic spokesman in that particular discussion, the Colorado senator would not allow America to produce more oil and gas even if Americans had to pay more than double what they were paying then for a gallon of gas.

Death Threats Sent to Republicans in Wisconsin

‘YOU WILL DIE!!!!’

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

ATF "Gunrunner" program may be years old

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTkEFQlLGao&feature=player_embedded&tracker=False

Wis. GOP strips public workers'

bargaining rights

Drivers illegally detained for paying tolls with U.S. currency


Motorist uncovers state scheme to collect personal information.

White House Stands By NPR: "A Worthwhile And Important Priority"

White House Stands By NPR: "A Worthwhile And Important Priority"

NPR CEO Resigns


Over Hidden Video

"We believe that -- or rather we do not support calls to eliminate funding for National Public Radio and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. As is evidenced by -- we think they're -- they are worthwhile and important priorities as our budget makes clear," White House press secretary Jay Carney said today.

TARP Police!


Step Away From the Bailout Money!

Tribal Libya

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Paul Ryan Uses This Chilling Presentation In The Push For Budget Cuts

Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan has been using this presentation to persuade colleagues that dramatic action is needed to cut the deficit.

Obama-Pelosi-Reid’s extra $105,464,000,000, “Pass the Bill So You Can Find Out What’s in it” Mandate.

NPR executives caught on tape bashing conservatives and Tea Party, touting liberals

In a new video released Tuesday morning by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, Schiller and Betsy Liley, NPR’s director of institutional giving, are seen meeting with two men who, unbeknownst to the NPR executives, are posing as members of a Muslim Brotherhood front group.

The mission of the sting group is to promote sharia and NPR readily agreed.

Freshman Democrat Joe Manchin: Obama has 'failed to lead' on budget


Manchin slams Obama.

East-West military gap rapidly shrinking-report

China could match US military power in 10-15 years.

Prepare for holy wars

Op-ed: Pope’s exoneration of Jews may be significant in world shifting towards religious wars.

Hundreds of council tax protesters storm courtroom in attempt to make citizens' arrest of judge

British Constitution Group organized the arrest with supporters in tow.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Profile in Humor: Wisconsin

Recently, the leader of the Wisconsin Senate Democrats-in-exile, Sen. Mark Miller, offered to meet with the Senate GOP at the Wisconsin-Illinois border. This afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald responded to this odd request.

New footage released of 9/11 captured by NYPD helicopter as towers fell


WTC Attack September 11, 2001 from New York Police Helicopter

Video obtained by FOIA to NIST by an anonymous person who directed it be sent to Cryptome. Excerpt of the NIST letter.

Quote: These electronic files image were provided to NIST by the New York Police Department. The City of New York has provided NIST with the following notice:

"Please take notice that the City of New York ("City") has asserted that the contents of the enclosed DVD-ROM is protected under tbe Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. sections 101 et seq. Tbe City expressly reserves its rights in these materials, and requires that you obtain the City's permission prior to any reproduction, modification, adaptation, recompilation, or other derivative use of each DVD-ROM or portion thereof, including any still image extracted or derived therefrom, and that the City's permission be obtained prior to the commercial distribution of any video footage and of still or moving images extracted or derived therefrom in any medium, by sale, rental, lease, lending or other means. The City requires that the instant notice accompany any moving or still images that you disseminate for any reason, including dissemination that complies with the fair use authorized by section 107 of the Copyright Act, and requires that each recipient of these materials comply with the instant Notice. Moreover, the City requires that a summary statement of its copyright be embedded in any moving or still images extracted from the enclosed DVD-ROM that are broadcast in any medium for any purpose. This summary statement shall read as follows: "Copyright (c) NYPD." Please write to the New York City Police Department, Legal Bureau, 1 Police Plaza, Room 1406, New York, N. Y. 10038, for information about obtaining an appropriate license." Unquote

The video has been uploaded as provided by NIST without modification. Original in VOB format, 700MB.

A related collection of 153 still photos from another NYPD helicopter:

http://cryptome.org/0001/wtc-nist-gjs/wtc-nist-gjs.zip (64MB)

Another defeat for Obama, who pledged to close the terrorist detention facility in Cuba within one year of taking office.

Obama to resume military commission trials for Guantánamo detainees.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

World War I Lesson Plan: PBS The Great War

PBS The Great War

Overview
1. WWI: Beginnings & Progression
2. Symbols of the Stalemate
3. No One Spared
4. Killing Fields
5. Breaking Point
6. World War I Ends
7. The "Failed Peace"
8. The Legacy of the "Great War"

World War I Lesson Plan: Paris Peace Conference: Writing a Treaty to End World War I, Versailles

Paris Peace Conference: Writing a Treaty to End World War I

World War I Lesson Plan: The July Crisis: Can you stop the Great War?

The July Crisis: Can you stop the Great War?

Who Owns the West?

Utah Resolution suggests D.C. cede Territory

Natural Law vs. Obama’s Socialist “Change”

Can US Founder’s Natural Law Help Defeat Obama’s Socialist “Change”?

Two Months on the Golf Course

Obama’s 60th Outing as President

Saturday, March 5, 2011

HHS Secretary Acknowledges ObamaCare Budget Tricks


In her first appearance before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee since Democrats’ health care overhaul law passed last year, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius responded to a line of questioning from Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., about whether the estimated $500 billion in Medicare cuts were to be used in sustaining the program or paying for the law.

The Medicare actuary shed light on this so-called “double counting” last year in an April 22 memo. “In practice,” he wrote, “the improved Part A financing cannot simultaneously be used to finance other Federal outlays (such as the coverage expansions under the PPACA) and to extend the trust fund, despite the appearance of this result from the respective accounting conventions.”

In other words, the money can only be used once. However, during her testimony Friday, Sebelius finally acknowledged that the Obama administration had misrepresented its accounting:

“There is an issue here on the budget because your own actuary has said you can’t double-count,” Shimkus said. “You can’t count — they’re attacking Medicare on the CR when their bill, your law, cut $500 billion from Medicare.”

He continued: “Then you’re also using the same $500 billion to what? Say your funding health care. Your own actuary says you can’t do both. … What’s the $500 billion in cuts for? Preserving Medicare or funding the health-care law?

“Both,” Sebelius replied.

Brit Student Video on Junk Food

For the first time in American history, most union members work for the government.

Majority of Union Members Now Work for the Government
Collective bargaining gives government employees the power to tell voters how to spend their tax dollars instead of the other way around. That is why early labor leaders rejected it as undemocratic. As recently as 1959 the AFL-CIO Executive Council stated that “government workers have no right [to collectively bargain] beyond the authority to petition Congress—a right available to every citizen,” Cf. Leo Kramer, Labor’s Paradox: The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO (New York, NY: Wiley, 1962) p. 41.

EDL Rochdale



This is the promo and video footage from the EDL demonstration in Rochdale. The second video features a very vociferous group of what were ostensibly UAF counter-demonstrators, but as can be heard from repeated references to the MDL (Muslim Defence League) as well as chants of ‘Allahu-akbar!’, their Islamic affiliation clearly trumped any other political position. This follows the pattern set by a UAF contingent that morphed into supporters of Muslims Against Crusades at a London demo last summer (once again with chants of ‘Allahu-akbar!’).

The real U.S. unemployment rate is 22.1 percent for February

Federal docs contradict 8.9% hyped by media; the real U.S. unemployment rate is 22.1 percent for February.

Update on Yorba Linda

CAIR Video: Islamic Supremacist Propaganda Lies and the Leftist Apologists Who Carry Their Water

Interior Rejects Judge's Contempt Order

Interior appeals oil drilling ruling.


“The judge in this particular case in my view is wrong," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said. “And we will argue the case because I don’t believe that the court has the jurisdiction to basically tell the Department of Interior what my administrative responsibilities are.”

As Obama Has Voted for Romney; Romney Votes for Obama

Romney calls for 'a new president'

Candidate Obama has already voted for Romney. The Establishment has weighed in already and they favor a Romney vs. Obama campaign. This decision has come early in the campaign cycle but it looks like who the favored candidates are the difference between tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum.

NYC March 6th: Massive Support for “Today, I Am a Muslim Too” Times Square Rally

Details

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Update Kanjorski


A stunning revelation contained in the report is that two unnamed and untraceable investors were the number one traders in all financial companies that collapsed or are currently being propped up by the U.S. Government.

cropped with SnipSnip


Kanjorski Snip

3 House Democrats Join

GOP Effort to Curb EPA Power

Unemployment hit 10.3% in February from 9.8% at the end of January; Underemployment surged to 19.9% in February from 18.9% at the end of January

Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, hit 10.3% in February -- up from 9.8% at the end of January. The U.S. unemployment rate is now essentially the same as the 10.4% at the end of February 2010.

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist gives state-run TV the animation treatment

Sharia, Caliphate, Is Islam knocking at our door?

Tax Dollars to Build Foreign Mosques

http://www.wsbtv.com/video/25764282/index.html

How to Browse Privately on Public Wi-Fi For Free

You'll need an old PC to act as a server and your Internet router will need to be able to work with a dynamic DNS service.

Why the Dollar's Reign Is Near an End

For decades the dollar has served as the world's main reserve currency but it will soon have to share that role.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Congressman West and Fla Small Business Owner on Fox

West: "Don't Blow Sunshine..."

Congressman West on "Multiculturism" and "Political Correctness"

Allen West Defends the Continuing Resolution/Spending Cuts with Veteran Reporter Judy Woodruff.

Why Teachers?

1st call for impeachment by member of Congress: DOMA


Obama Calls Tea Party Racists

Obama Says Race a Key Component in Tea Party Protests

"My People" Holder Will Not Prosecute New Black Panther Racism

Investigated By FBI for Providing Material Support to Islamic Terrorist & International Marxist Groups

Sole Anti-Sharia Member of Pakistan’s federal Cabinet Assassinated

Basketball Trick Shots: American University mens basketball team

Wisconsin Protesters Articulate Their Position

Noodle Boy Wisconsin Socialist

Noodles & Company is a firm that was started by one man and his wife with seed money invested by friends and family. The businessman made a successful business with locations across the United States creating jobs and employing Americans.

Kawabunga Dude has a head full of noodles.

Four Steps for Starting a Business Today | Edward Hess | Big Think

Four Steps for Starting a Business Today | Edward Hess | Big Think


Edward Hess: The hurdles are higher to starting a business today than they were in 2006. 2006, financing was easier, consumers were spending, jobs were plentiful, if you started a business and failed you could easily go get a job. Today financing is not plentiful. Consumers are not spending and if you fail, getting a job is probably very hard, so I would be very risk adverse today and again I would start a business part time nights and weekends and keep my day job until I was sure it worked unless you had substantial wherewithal, money, family and friends that could support you or the other big if, if you’ve got a big customer who says go start this and I will buy from you and I will help finance you or you’ve got multiple customers.

Let’s say for example you want to open up a deli that you don’t have a great New York deli in the town you live in no matter where that is and you want to have a great deli, thick sandwiches, high quality homemade bread.

Step One: Research the Competition

First you need to do your research. There are very few ideas that I'm going to come up with or you’re going to come up with that are truly unique. Somebody has done it before.

Step Two: Identify Your Compelling Customer Value Proposition

Then I would sit back and say how am I going to be different, what am I going to offer to the customer that is compelling and different that is going to get the customer to change.

Step Three: Start Small

Then I would figure out how to try and start small. For example, I wouldn’t go out and borrow a lot of money in the beginning. I wouldn’t go out and rent space before I even tried. I’d look at either farmers markets or some type of kiosk type situation. How can I make some sandwiches and go out and try and sell them and see what customers think?

Step Four: Get Granular

Then you do the numbers if you will and you go down and say what is it going to cost me a month an my operating expenses. If my operating expenses are $5,000 a month how many sandwiches do I have to sell every day?

I would be cautious, conservative. Experiment, try, build up a customer base, but I wouldn’t take a lot of financial risk in today’s marketplace unless you have a big nest egg.

Kelly vs. Weinie (Weiner)

Wisconsin Democrat Gordon Hintz Articulately Explains the Position for Collective Bargaining

Where's the Waldo-in-Chief?

Obama so far has endured just 75 short question-and-answer sessions with the press. During the same period in their own respective presidencies, George W. Bush did 258 short Q&As, Bill Clinton did a mind-numbing 408, and George H.W. Bush did 159.

Paul Kanjorski bank run CSPAN

I still have not digested the original in detail but this report needs to be studied seriously.

Economic Warfare: Risks and Responses by Kevin D. Freeman, originally published in June 2009.


CSPAN Rep Paul Kanjorski Reviews the Bailout Situation


A note on the video states the following which should be double-checked for accuracy as well.

Kanjorski's recollection of the dates may be inaccurate. The NYT shows the bank run as happening on the 17th 18th not the 11th. Some have alleged a 911 connection making the bank run an attack on the nation, but the failure of Lehman seems to have triggered widespread panic which accounts for the bank run.

Cf. http://a1b5jj.blogspot.com/2009/03/confusion-in-ranks-tarp-prevented-total.html

"Times Tough for Energy Overhaul"

"Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe," Chu said in September 2008 (Cf. http://sec.online.wsj.com/article/SB122904040307499791.html).

Chu, now Obama's energy secretary, seems to be getting his wish.

Nun on H1N1

TERESA FORCADES, doctor in Public Health, reflects on the history, and gives scientific data, of A type flu and lists all the irregularities related to this subject.

Teresa Forcades Presentation On H1 N1

[The text below is not a word by word transcript. It is the Dr. Forcades' written summary, with supporting sources and footnotes. We suggest you view the video before reading the written summary, Global Research Editor]


SOME THOUGHTS AND A PROPOSAL WITH REGARD TO ‘SWINE FLU’

September 16, 2009 (modified on October 11, 2009) Dr. Teresa Forcades i Vila, MD (ABIM 1995, 2005), PhD in public health (UB 2004)

This is a translation of the Catalan original version published on Dr. Forcades’ blog at www.catalunyareligio.cat

1. RELEVANT SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION-

The first two reported cases of swine flu (virus A/HINI, strain S-OIV) were diagnosed in California (USA) on April 17, 2009 1.

- The swine flu is not new because it is type A, neither is it new because it is of the subtype H1N1: the flu epidemic in 1918 was of the type A/H1N1 and since 1977 the virus A/H1N1 circulates during the flu season each year 2; the only novelty is the S- OIV strain. 3 .4

- One-third of people older than 60 seem to be immune to the virus of the swine flu 5.

- Since it began until 15 September, 2009, 137 people have died from this flu in Europe and 3,559 worldwide 6. One must remember that each year, in Europe alone, between 40,000 and 220,000 people die because of the flu 7.

- Recognised health specialists, among whom are Dr. Bernard Debré, (member of the French National Ethics committee) and Dr. Juan José Rodriguez Sendín (president of the Spanish Association of Medical Colleges) have publicly declared that the information obtained from the flu season in the southern hemisphere, shows that the swine flu has a lower mortality rate and complications rate than the annual flu 8.

2. IRREGULARITIES WHICH SHOULD BE EXPLAINED

- At the end of January, 2009, the Austrian subsidiary of the North American pharmaceutical company, Baxter, delivered 72 kilos of vaccine material to 16 laboratories in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovenia 9. A laboratory technician from the company, BioTest in the Czech Republic decided on his own to test the vaccines in ferrets.

Ferrets are being used since 1918 to study the influenza vaccines: all the vaccinated ferrets died. Then the material sent by Baxter was investigated to find out what it actually was and it was discovered that it contained live bird flu virus (virus A/H5N1) combined with live seasonal flu virus (virus A/H3N2).

If this contamination had not been discovered on time, the pandemic that without a real basis is being proclaimed by health authorities at the global (WHO) and at the local level, could now be a horrific reality. This combination of live viruses is potentially lethal because it combines a virus that has a 60% mortality rate and a low infectivity rate (the virus of the bird flu), with a virus that has a low mortality rate and a high infectivity rate (a seasonal flu virus) 10.

- On the 29 April, 2009, 12 days after the detection of the first cases of the swine flu, Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of the WHO, declared that the level of alert because of the danger of pandemic was phase 5 (on a scale 1-6) and ordered all governments of the member states of the WHO to activate emergency plans and maximum health alert. A month and a half later, on June 11, 2009, Dr. Chan declared that the A/H1N1 S-OIV pandemic was a reality (phase 6) 11. How could she declare a pandemic if according to the scientific data exposed above, the swine flu is milder than the seasonal flu, and the A/H1N1 is not a new virus but only a new strain of a very well known virus that a subset of the population recognizes immunologically?

Declaring a pandemic was possible despite these circumstances because in early May, the WHO had changed its definition of what a pandemic is. Prior to May, 2009, the definition of pandemic took into account the severity of the disease, which is the most relevant aspect with regard to the clinical and the political handling of a pandemic. However, this requirement was eliminated from the definition in May, 2009 12. The change occurred shortly after the United States declared a state of “national health emergency” despite having only 20 people infected with the swine flu virus and no deaths whatsoever 13.

3. POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE DECLARATION OF PANDEMIC

- In the context of a pandemic, it is possible to require mandatory vaccination of a given segment of the people or even of the whole population 14. - What can happen to a person who decides not to accept the vaccination? As long as it has not been decreed that the vaccination is mandatory, he/she is free to do so: but if the vaccination is decreed mandatory, then the State has the obligation to enforce the law by imposing a fine or a term in prison (in the state of Massachusetts, the proposed fine in this case could be as high as 1,000 dollars for each day that goes without vaccination) 15.

- Taking this into account, one could reasonably conclude: if the vaccination is made mandatory, then I will just go along and get vaccinated; after all, the vaccine is more or less the same as that of the annual flu, so no big deal.

- It is necessary to know that there are three new features that make the swine flu vaccine different from the annual flu vaccine. The first novelty is that the majority of pharmaceutical companies are designing the vaccine in such a way that one injection will not be enough and each person will need to get two doses.

The WHO also recommends to receive the seasonal flu vaccine. As a result, whoever follows this year’s WHO recommendations exposes him or herself to be injected three times. This is something new which, theoretically, multiplies by three the possible toxicities. In practice, there is no way to know the long-term effects of this triple injection because it has never been done in this way before. The second novelty is that some of the companies making the swine flu vaccine have decided to use co-adjuvants which are far more potent than those contained in the seasonal flu vaccine. Co-adjuvants are substances added to a vaccine to booster the immune system: the swine flu vaccine from Glaxo-Smith-Kline, for example, contains ASO3 (a combination of squalene and polysorbate), a co-adjuvant able to increase ten times the immune response. The problem with this rationale is that no one can be sure that this artificial stimulus to the immune system will not provoke serious autoimmune diseases (like Guillain-Barré paralysis) 16.

The third novelty that distinguishes the swine flu vaccine from that of each year is that the manufacturing companies are demanding that the States sign agreements so that they will have impunity if the vaccines have more side effects than expected (e.g. the Guillain-Barré paralysis may affect 10 people in every million who are vaccinated with the annual flu vaccine): The USA has signed a document which frees the politicians and the pharmaceutical companies from all responsibilities associated with unexpected side effects of the swine flu vaccine 17.

SOME THOUGHTS

If the contamination of the vaccine material from Baxter had not been accidentally discovered, an extremely grave pandemic could be by now a shocking reality. The appalling lack of political and mass media reaction to what happened in February in the Czech laboratory it is inexplicable. What is even more inexplicable is the degree of irresponsibility demonstrated by the WHO, by governments and by the national health agencies in declaring a pandemic and promoting a maximum health alert without a real rational basis. It is irresponsible and inexplicable, in the extreme, that billions of Euros from public funds have been spent to manufacture millions of doses of vaccines against a non-existent danger, while there is not sufficient money to help the millions of people (more than 5 million in the US alone) who due to the current economic crisis have lost their job and their home.

As long as these facts remain unexplained, the risk that contaminated vaccines could be distributed this winter and the risk that legal measures could be adopted to mandate vaccination are very real. They should not be underestimated. If the swine flu continues to be as mild as it has been up to now, it does not make sense to expose oneself to the risk of a contaminated vaccine nor run the risk of suffering a Guillain-Barré partial paralysis. If the flu turns unexpectedly worse, as it has been predicted with no scientific basis by quite a few people in high office - among them the General Director of the WHO -, it would still make no sense to allow oneself to be vaccinated: a rise in mortality could mean only two things:

1. that the virus of the S-OIV strain which is circulating now has suffered a mutation;

2. that another virus (or other viruses) are now circulating. In both cases, the vaccine that is being currently prepared will be useless, and, considering what happened last February in the Baxter Pharmaceutical Company, it could even be the means of transmitting the disease.

A PROPOSAL

My proposal is clear: Along with staying calm, do take common sense precautions to avoid infection and avoid getting vaccinated I make a call to urgently activate the legal instruments and the necessary citizen participation to assure, in a rotund manner, that no one in our country will be forced to be vaccinated against his/her will, and that those who freely accept to be vaccinated will not be deprived of their right to claim grievance and be compensated (they or their family) if the vaccine causes them illness or death.

NOTES

1 Zimmer SM Burke, Historical Perspective: Emergence of Influenza A (HINI) viruses. NEJM, July 16, 2009. p. 279.

2 “The re-emergence was probably an accidental release from a laboratory source in the setting of the waning population immunity to HI and NI antigens”, Zimmer, Burke, ibid. p. 282.

3 Zimmer, Bunker, ibid. p. 279.

4 Doshi, Peter, Calibrated response to emerging infections. BMJ 2009: 399: b3471.

5 US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Serum cross-reactive antibody response to a novel influenza A (HINI) virus after vaccination with seasonal influenza vaccine. MMWR 2009: 58; 521- 4

6 Official Data from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (www.ecdc.europa.eu)

7 Official Data from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (www.ecdc.europa.eu)

8 Cf. Debré: Cette grippe n’est pas dangereuse. Le Journal du Dimanche, July 25, 2009. Cf. Rodríguez Sendín: Cordura frente el alarmismo en la prevención de la gripe A. La Razón, September 4, 2009.

9 Baxter denied that the contaminated product were to manufacture vaccines for human use and called it ‘experimental virus material’. Baxter failed to reveal for what use it was because doing so would give away proprietary information about Baxter's production process. Cf. The Canadian Press: Baxter admits flu product contained live bird flu. February 27, 2009.

10 Cf. Virus mix-up by lab could have resulted in pandemic. The Times of India, science section, 6, March 2009.

11 http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2009

12 Cohen E. When a pandemic isn’t a pandemic. CNN, 4 May, ’09. http://edition,cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/04/swine.flu.pandemic/index.html

13 Doshi, Peter: Calibrated response to emerging infections. BMJ 2009; 339:b3471

14 Falkiner, Keith. Get the rush flu jab or be jailed: Irish Star, Sunday 13 September, 2009. 15 Senate Bill n. 2028: An act relative to pandemic and disaster preparation and response in the Commonwealth. 4 August, ’09. Cf Moore, RT. Critics rage as state prepares for flu pandemic. 11 Sept. ’09. WBUR Boston.

16 Cf. Vaccination HINI: méfiance des infirmiéres. www.syndicat-infirmier.com/Vaccination-HINI- mefiance-des.htlm

17 Stobbe, Mark. Legal immunity set for swine flu vaccine makers. Associated press 17 July,’09.

The Great Collective: Moore On Wealthy People's Money: "That's Not Theirs, That's A National Resource, It's Ours"

RealClearPolitics - Video - Moore On Wealthy People's Money: "That's Not Theirs, That's A National Resource, It's Ours"

"They're sitting on the money, they're using it for their own -- they're putting it someplace else with no interest in helping you with our life, with that money. We've allowed them to take that. That's not theirs, that's a national resource, that's ours. We all have this, we all benefit from this or we all suffer as a result of not having it," Michael Moore told Laura Flanders of GRITtv.

"I think we need to go back to taxing these people at the proper rates. They need to, uh, we need to see these jobs as something we some, that we collectively own as Americans and you can't just steal our jobs and take them someplace else," Moore concluded.

Will Mideast strife spark new energy crisis?

Obama's "lack of political will to drill for oil and gas compromises our national security and jeopardizes economic recovery."

Oil and natural gas produced here in the United States are likely to still account for at least 57 percent of domestic energy consumption by 2035.

When Interior Secretary Ken Salazar heads before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday, Americans — particularly the 9.2 million directly or indirectly working in the oil and gas industry — would be ill served if the question isn’t asked: Are the thousands, and counting, of out-of-work Americans in the Gulf region and beyond a worthwhile consequence of your department’s freeze?

The Interior Department’s six-month moratorium on offshore oil production has cost 8,169 jobs, according to a study by one Louisiana State University professor, along with more than $487 million in wages and nearly $98 million in forfeited state tax revenues in the Gulf states alone.

This doesn’t include the impact felt nationwide by truckers who transport goods, farmers who use oil to raise and harvest crops and working families paying more at the pump.

Tennessee bill would make following Shariah a felony

SB 1028/HB 1353

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Wisconsin’s Senator Glenn Grothman Mobbed

Pakistan: Playing dead, video shows children recreating suicide bomber attacks


playground game

Top 10 YouTube Sites for Teaching

Extras

TubeChop is handy for eliminating parts of a video you do not want and to select only portions to show.

An alternative is SnipSnip.It.

To ask questions while the video is playing you can use VideoANT.

3rd March 1924CE and now D.C.


Government Unions 101:

What Public-Sector Unions Won't Tell You

Wis. governor outlines budget

Financial terrorism suspected in 2008 economic crash

A Pentagon study, originally published in June 2009 and now obtained for public release describes financial terrorism.

Financial subversion carried out by "unknown parties" contributed to the 2008 economic crash by covertly using vulnerabilities in the U.S. financial system. The Pentagon contractor adds a new element: “outside forces,” a factor the federal government's report did not examine. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission blamed the crash on such economic factors as high-risk mortgage lending practices and poor federal regulation and supervision which is only part of the story.

According to the author, Kevin D. Freeman, in his report "Economic Warfare, suspects include financial enemies in Middle Eastern states, Islamists, hostile members of the Chinese military, or government and organized crime groups in Russia, Venezuela or Iran. Chinese military officials publicly have suggested using economic warfare against the U.S.

Asked by The Times who he thought to be the most likely behind the financial attacks, Mr. Freeman said: “Unfortunately, the two major strategic threats, radical jihadists and the Chinese, are among the best positioned in the economic battle space.”

Also, the report lists as suspects advocates of Islamic law, who have publicly called for opposition to capitalism as a way to promote what they regard as the superiority of Islam.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Muslims Plan March On Washington To Support A United Shariah Of America

Muslims calling for the adoption of Shariah in this country plan to march near the White House on March 3rd. The leader of the pack is the U.K.’s Anjem Choudary, a Muslim cleric.



Professor Emeritus at Notre Dame Law School: Obama's eligibility could be biggest political fraud in the history of the world

By Charles E. Rice

Why Barack Obama has to be seen as an enemy of the Catholic Church

We need to be alert: he is not without influence, even on this side of the pond

‘Racist’ 2012 Olympic Logo is Offensive to Iran

Iran claims the 2012 logo spells out “Zion,” a biblical term widely recognized to refer to the city of Jerusalem.

Obama to face Shariah court?

Cleric says Obama 'must embrace Islam' or be tried when Muslims take over U.S.

Alveda King: 'The Most Dangerous Place for An African American is in the Womb'

CNN reported on Friday that Lamar Advertising, which owns the billboard, decided to take down the message after people who opposed it threatened workers in the building located next to the billboard.

Democratic Governors Not Sure Voters Should Have Say in Public Employee Pay Hikes


Tom Morello - Wisconsin Protests - Speech and Union Song - Madison, WI 2-21-11

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