Quote of the day

"He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity."

Voltaire

Swine flu scam: the real killer is elsewhere

A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that of the 36 children who died from H1N1 (swine flu) from April to August, six had no chronic health conditions. But all of them had a co-occurring bacterial infection.

The most common co-occurring infection that causes flu-related deaths is staphylococcus aureus. A third of the population carries it, in their noses or on their skin.

Sw flu causes upper respiratory damage, which allows the staph to make its way into the lungs.

Dr Mercola interviews Barbara Fisher, co-founder and President of NVIC, laying bare the scam that is swine flu (6-part autoplay):



60 Minutes on swine flu:



Update:

Related links: The absurdity of swine flu claims

Islamification: Just two years to reach the point of no return

Lord Pearson of Rannoch* predicts that within two years, the Islamification of Britain will have reached the point of no return.

Is anyone still wondering why immigration is causing ex-Labour voters to turn to the BNP?

UKIP has sane immigration policies which disillusioned Labour voters should should find to their liking.



* Lord Pearson of Rannoch is a candidate for the UKIP leadership.

Hat tip:  Calling England

Lemons are dangerous

Oh dear. Now lemons have become offensive weapons and the public must be protected.

In a typical knee-jerk over-reaction of "something must be done", Asda refused to sell a 70-year-old lemons because yobs had reportedly been throwing them at people.

I'm speechless.

Richard Littlejohn has it:

Asda refused to sell Mail reader, 70, two lemons after reports of yobs throwing them at people

Supermarkets seem to take leave of their senses when it comes to proof of identity and elf 'n' safety.

Asda in Aberdeen refused to sell Mail reader Chris Pether two individual lemons.

A supervisor explained that the policy had been introduced to protect the public because local yobs had been known to throw lemons at people.


You can still buy lemons in packs of ten because they are smaller and therefore less dangerous.

Also, a ten-pack is apparently too expensive for your average Aberdonian oik.

Incidentally, Chris is 70. You couldn't make it up.

Update: I say boycott ASDA and let them know why you're doing it!

$60 billion health fraud: 95% of medical companies fraudulent

95% of medical companies in America are fraudulent. They provide no medical services and have no patients, yet each of these companies can defraud the taxpayer by millions each month, before they close up shop and get caught by the auditors. Then they start up another.

This is another fine example of how the government wastes money. They're not focussed on the bottom line, as are private companies. When waste occurs, they don't feel it - it is no loss to them because they can simply take more from you, by way of taxes.

Money as Debt, version II: unsustainable and fraudulent monetary system

Hat tip to Captain Ranty for this find - Money as Debt version 2.

Why is this not taught in secondary schools?

Because the government and bankers have a mutually beneficial relationship.

They want us to be good little consumers and pile up debt, from which they benefit.  They have nothing to lose. We have everything to lose.

Please circulate this widely and feel free to copy this posting.

8-part autoplay:

"Democracy Has To Be Paid For"

The Fabian Window - new world for old (click to enlarge)

On cutting the cost of elections Jack Straw has said:

"I and other ministers had absolutely no knowledge about this exercise. I make no complaint about that but now that it has gone public I make clear what I would have told officials privately: That these proposals are simply unacceptable. The exercise has therefore ended. Democracy has to be paid for."

Maybe so Jack, but we'll be watching.  Does no-one in this amoral government know what the heck's going on anymore?

Cutting The Cost Of Elections

The Ministry of Justice has drawn up a Working Paper for the Treasury which suggests how to make savings of about £65m 'efficiency savings' in the cost of the next General Election. Some of the measures require legislation but others, such as opening fewer polling stations, cutting staff, or reducing security, do not and can be done quite arbitrarily.

Thousands of polling stations would be closed and voting hours reduced under a  plan to cut the cost of elections.  Other proposals include cutting staff, replacing polling cards with e-mail  requests, increasing candidates’ deposits, fixed-term parliaments and  reducing security at election counts.

How dare they?  How bloody dare they even consider the possibility of taking away our right to full, free and fair representation on the grounds of saving money?

Costs have apparently risen enormously in line with checking postal votes so it seems pretty obvious that withdrawing postal voting should be the first simple step to cut cost and also restore some integrity to the democratic process.  But no, that's too easy for them so they'll retain that system which is open to abuse and add a few more ideas to the mix which make corruption even more likely.

At the same time as local councils are considering ending the practice of overnight counting and leaving ballot boxes hanging around they're actually thinking of reducing security.  Regarding overnight voting Jack Straw has said: I must not improperly seek to interfere with the necessary discretion of returning officers or the capacity of the Electoral Commission to give advice as they think appropriate.  It would be inappropriate for the Government to use its control of the purse strings to influence the judgment of the returning officers."

Hey, Weasel! Leave our vote alone!

See here for the full list of possible savings.

Our economy, the standing of MPs, our Parliament, our Constitution, our elections, our country: all being undermined.  All the better to eat you with, said Mr EU Wolf.

UPDATE: There's more on this at  Conservative Home..  Dominic Grieve has spoken out against the proposals and a debate is underway. They also have this gem:

Yet according to the LGC, David Monks, the chief executive of Huntingdonshire council and chairman of the Society of Local Authorities & Senior Managers’ electoral matters panel, "insisted the democratic process could not be treated as sacrosanct".

Lisbon Treaty: Only one obstacle remains to ratification

Some good news and some bad news.

Bad: The EU has accepted the Czech Republic's demand for an opt-out from the Charter of Fundamental Rights - one of the two remaining obstacles in the path of the Lisbon Treaty ratification process. We still await the Czech constitutional court's decision on the compatibility of the treaty ith the Czech constitution.

Good: Tony Blair's chances of getting the job are "fading"; the centre-right countries want one of their own in the job.

If we have to be in the EU, then better that it's not controlled by outright commies.

Evasiveness on an epic scale

There was I thinking that politicians couldn't get more slippery or mendacious than they've already shown themselves to be.

Until ...

Jonah: is Brown's endorsement the death of "President Blair"

Brown does seem to have the kiss of death about him, so his endorsement of Blair as EU President is to be welcomed.



Hat tip: Steve Bell of the Guardian

Guilty until proven innocent: asset seizure by councils and QUANGOs

The Home Office, under our 'friendly' ex-postie Alan Johnson, has extended the draconian powers of the Proceeds of Crime Act, allowing Councils, QUANGOs and their agencies to search homes, seize cash, freeze bank accounts and confiscate property of those they suspect of crime.

As from next week, when the extensions come into force, we are now all guilty until proven innocent.

These extensions have not been debated in Parliament, were not arrived at via consultation and even the chairman of the Police Federation, Paul McKeever, is appalled. He says:

“The Proceeds of Crime Act is a very powerful tool in the hands of police and police-related agencies and it shouldn’t be treated lightly,”

“There is a behind the scenes creep of powers occurring here and I think the public will be very surprised. They would want such very intrusive powers to be kept in the hands of warranted officers and other law enforcement bodies which are vetted to a very high standard rather than given to local councils.”

Given the abuse of RIPA and the terrorism act, and almost all of the loosely drafted legislation this government has brought in has led to abuse of power and gross injustice suffered by ordinary citizens.

How soon before a council, short of money, raids the home of, say, a christian suspected of "homophobia", confiscates her cash and belongings, and seizes her bank account?  What redress would the innocent have?

Think it can't happen?

From the Times (my emphasis):

"The expansion of seizure powers is part of a Home Office plan to “embed” financial seizure across the criminal justice system. Ministers set a target to recover £250 million in criminal assets by 2010, rising to £1 billion per year soon after.

An “explanatory memorandum”* says that a swath of financial investigators attached to the newly empowered bodies will be accredited, trained and monitored by another quango, the National Policing Improvement Agency. The memo adds that asset seizure will result in financial rewards: “Investigation bodies will receive a share of money recovered as additional funding to incentivise further work in recovering the proceeds of crime.”

Does Postman Pat and his delinquent, cerebrally and morally bankrupt cronies believe that this won't lead to corruption?

Update:

* Some eye-watering inclusions in the memorandum:

An accredited financial investigator "has the power to execute search warrants in financial investigations".

Among the additional agencies which have access to these powers are:

• Counter Fraud and Security Management Service
• Department of Health
• Department for Regional Development in Northern Ireland
• Gangmasters Licensing Authority
• Home Office
• Intellectual Property Office 
• a local authority
• Serious Fraud Office 
• Transport for London

Think about how wide-ranging a net these 'agencies' might cast, particularly the Home Office and the Intellectual Property Office.

As you would expect, none of this applies to Scotland.

Impact:

The memorandum asserts that there will be no impact on business, charities, voluntary business or ordinary citizens as a result of this order ... but then states that no impact assessment has been "prepared for this instrument".

Does that mean that no impact assessment was actually done, or that they're not prepared to publish the results of one that was?

If the former, how can the HO declare that there will be no impact?  If the latter, they're obviously hiding something.

Yet another reason to vote anything but Lib/Lab/Con

A £3,300 green tax on new cars is being proposed by a think tank supported by the government by 2020. The plan is to whop an extra £300 tax on new cars, which will increase to £3,300 by 2020. This is on top of all the other motoring taxes we pay already.

This proposal is backed by all three main parties.

Yet another reason to vote for any party but Lib/Lab/Con.

From the Telegraph:

The levy is part of a £150bn package of measures, including a tripling of fuel duty over the next decade and a household energy tax, put forward by the Green Fiscal Commission (GFC).

The recommendations will be published on Monday by the GFC, which was created to develop greener government measures, and will be presented by one of its commissioners, Lord Turner, who is also chairman of the Financial Services Authority.

Greg Barker, the Tory environment spokesman, Alan Whitehead, a Labour MP on the energy select committee, and Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, will also speak at the launch of the 100-page report.

Climate Change Treaty: Glenn Beck interviews Lord Monckton

On 19th October 2009, just ahead of the US government signing the UN's Climate Change Treaty, Glenn Beck interviewed Lord Monckton who is visiting the US in an effort to kill the treaty.

As Monckton eloquently explains, it is designed to herald in World Communism, lately touted as World Government, on the back of the global warming scam.

Every nation that signs it will thereby cede its sovereignty to the UN while wealth passes from the 'rich' nations to the 'developing' nations.

One assumes that one of the developing nations feeling hard done by is China, given that it thinks we've had an unfair head start on it.  Never mind that without the West's technical know-how, bestowed upon it by the US and Europe, it would still be in the dark ages.

(Two- part autoplay):



Hat tip: Banned

EU: Compelling reasons for Blair as President

George Monbiot has decided that were Blair to become President of the EU, we could arrest him all the more easily for war crimes.

As he explains, the UK doesn't have the laws to be able to do this, but other countries do. So, as President Blair swans it around the world, Monbiot's various spies (encouraged by bounty) will conspire to pounce on him at a moment's notice and effect a citizen's arrest.

Monbiot gives the case against Blair:

"The Downing Street memo, a record of a meeting in July 2002, reveals that Sir Richard Dearlove, director of the UK's foreign intelligence service MI6, told Blair that in Washington: "Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." The foreign secretary (Jack Straw) then told Blair that "the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbours, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran". He suggested that "we should work up a plan" to produce "legal justification for the use of force". The attorney general told the prime minister that there were only "three possible legal bases" for launching a war: "self-defence, humanitarian intervention, or UNSC [security council] authorisation. The first and second could not be the base in this case." Bush and Blair later failed to obtain security council authorisation.

This short memo, which should be learned by heart by every citizen of the United Kingdom, reveals that Blair knew that the decision to attack Iraq had already been made; that it preceded the justification, which was being retrofitted to an act of aggression; that the only legal reasons for an attack didn't apply, and that the war couldn't be launched without UN authorisation.

The legal status of Bush's decision had already been explained to Blair. In March 2002, as another leaked memo shows, Jack Straw had reminded him of the conditions required to launch a legal war: "i) There must be an armed attack upon a State or such an attack must be imminent; ii) The use of force must be necessary and other means to reverse/avert the attack must be unavailable; iii) The acts in self-defence must be proportionate and strictly confined to the object of stopping the attack."

Straw explained that the development or possession of weapons of mass destruction "does not in itself amount to an armed attack; what would be needed would be clear evidence of an imminent attack." A third memo, from the Cabinet Office, explained that "there is no greater threat now than in recent years that Saddam will use WMD … A legal justification for invasion would be needed. Subject to Law Officers' advice, none currently exists."

It's just a matter of getting him in front of a judge. The crazy plan to make this mass murderer president could be the chance that many of us have been waiting for."

Doesn't he have a point? It'll boost sales for piano wire, I'll bet.

Islamification: Geert Wilders speaks at Columbia University 21 Oct 2009

Geert Wilders warns America about the dangers of Islamification for America and Europe and tells them time is running out. Act now!

(Four-part autoplay)

Bailed out banks are now our creditors: destruction awaits

Essentially, we've bailed out banks, by giving them our money and they, being the purchasers of government debt, are therefore our creditors.

So we've given them money (created out of thin air) which they are loaning back to us, at interest.

Isn't that a clever trick?

It doesn't stop there.  The money created out of thin air, imaginatively called "quantative easing", will reduce the value of our money.

The question is, if Cameron and Osborne are aware of this, what are they going to do about it?

Listen to Professor Chossudovsky as he explains how our governments have allowed bankers to swindle us.



Where will all this lead?

You need look no further than what happened to Argentina, when most of its utilities and previously state-owned organisations were farmed out to the globalists (which includes the IMF). This is a truly harrowing story and it is well worth watching all 12 parts. They are set to auto-play.



Hat tip: Fekkwitz Ahoy

EU surveillance state: How the EU is watching you

Today, Open Europe published its report "How the EU is watching you: The rise of the surveillance state (PDF), covering:

• Measures already agreed or in force, including surveillance databases;
• What to expect next.

Measures already in force include:

• collection and storage of communications (email, 'phone, internet usage, etc.);
• DNA and fingerprint sharing across the EU, in a massive database;
• EU-wide ID card;
• Mass surveillance;
• Health information on citizens, being available to bureaucrats;
• Making international agreements/treaties without recourse to 'sovereign' states (which would no longer be sovereign, should the Lisbon Treaty prevail).

What to expect next:

• 5-year strategy for 'justice' (read, injustice);
• Collecting and sharing surveillance data;
• Monitoring and sharing data on people's travelling histories, such as information from travel agencies;
• Remote computer searches (which already exist in the US - when you connect to government web sites, you explicitly grant them access to your hard drive);
• Being tried for 'offences' which are not illegal in your country;
• Police to be trained by EU;
• Largest fingerprint system in the world;
• Exploding of extradition** via the European Arrest Warrant;
• EU defining laws on citizens' right to internet access;
• Access to member states' tax databases.
  

What will Cameron on have to say on the above? If he doesn't give us a referendum, we have a bleak future ahead of us - a totalitarian nightmare.

Update:  Fekkwitz Ahoy comments on the similarities between Hitler's rise and our current situation and links to a Chossudovsky interview where we're told that the world has been robbed.

Update: **The Mail reports that "in one recent case, a person was successfully extradited following the alleged purchase of a stolen mobile phone in Poland worth about £20".

Tory activist: UKIP scare the hell out of me

The London Daily News was told by a Tory activist that "UKIP scare the hell out of me".

UKIP will be fielding candidates strategically, particularly in constituencies where Labour MPs have small majorities. Tories hope to win these seats, of course, but where the constituents are eurosceptic, they are more likely to go to UKIP, if Cameron doesn't pull his finger out and make a firm pledge to give us a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, regardless of its ratification status.

Nigel Farage aill actively seek disaffected Tory MPs to stand as candidates who support a referendum on the EU.

The Tories could lose 50 seats due to UKIP.

QUANGO cronyism: Labour's jobs for the boys

It was a bit rich, today on the Daily Politics for Austin Mitchell* to cry nepotism for those MPs who employ their wives when QUANGOs, of which there are at least 1,150, are run by Labour cronies earning 6-figure salaries.

At a staggering cost of £90 bn in 2007/8, these organisations, identified by the Taxpayers' Alliance, are unelected and unaccountable to us. They increasingly define policy, thus further de-democratising this country.

QUANGOs cost each household an average of £3,640 per household.

If Austin Mitchell squeals about MPs hiring their spouses, then surely he should feel the same, if not more 'moral outrage' at QUANGO cronyism.

* Austin Mitchell, MP for Great Grimbsby, claimed over £85,000 over 4 years for his second home - more than many people earnin in a year. Other items he claimed for were:

window shutters, re-covering a settee, whisky, gin and even aspirin.

QT BACKFIRES - APOLOGIES

Sorry, everyone, I would like to apologise for the wrong figures on the BPIX Poll/Question Time post which I have now deleted. I was directed to that poll from a link and wrongly assumed the figures to be current, (the date was not immediately visible). I'll be more careful next time.

Barking Spider

Swine flu: Downgraded by Finland, depsite Obama scare

Euro-med reports (my emphasis):

NewsRoom, Finland 23.7.2009: The swine flu hoax is called off in Finland
Finnish health authorities said in a statement Wednesday that swine influenza would be downgraded as a threat given that the bulk of patients appeared to recover well without medication or hospital care. The health ministry and the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) added that swine flu would be removed from a list of diseases considered dangerous to the public in general on Thursday. Although the reclassification means that the treatment of swine flu patients will no longer be free, future vaccination programmes will continue to be paid by the government. THL has confirmed 155 swine flu cases. No one has died of the virus in Finland.

More, please!

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

BNP: Labour and the BBC have shot themselves in the foot

Most people agree that Thursday's Question Time was an absolute disaster and that it will provide the BNP with many more supporters than it had already - not least because of massive immigration.

I won't go into details because it's been done to death in newspapers and thousands of blogs.

However, it is clear that given Griffin's rebuttal (below), Griffin is coming out of this fighting - nownot cowed, as the political 'elites' and their toady broadcaster had hoped and planned.



I'm not a BNP supporter, but even I can see why this would be:

• Labour's planned immigration policy wasn't a cock-up - it was planned in order to socially engineer England. It has caused incredible hardship on the people of this land.
  
• While everyone can agree that the climate is changing (as it always has!), most people do not believe that it is in the main part due to human activity, as the Warmist extremists would have us believe.
• Our way of life has been massacred by a band of troughing MPs, living high off the hog on our money, while millions have been losing their jobs - thanks to Labour and its sycophantic adoption of all the EU's worst diktats.
• We are arrested and criminalised for littering and taking photographs, for heaven's sake, spied on and have been stripped of most of our civil liberties. All the while, the Labour troughers have given themselves immunity from the laws they created and taxation they introduced - that we have to suffer. 

The list of the atrocities that the ruling 'elite', the swaggering, lying, cheating, conspirators that call themselves our government have inflicted on us would take me weeks to catalog.

Given the revelations from the Telegraph, Griffin's rebuttal and episodes in the European Parliament (see video below) on 20th October 2009, who can possibly doubt that Labour and the media have driven up the BNP's membership?



If the faces were blacked out and the voices disguised, most of us would be cheering to the rafters to hear these words uttered in the European Parliament.

Labour has fuelled the BNP monster and has simultaneously cornered itself. Labour has nowhere to hide.  We all know the truth.

Now, will the Conservatives be any better? At one time, I believed so. Now, I believe that a vote for the Tories will mean more of the same, just as a vote for Obama meant more of the same from the Bush years.

Our hope lies in the smaller parties. My favourite is UKIP but the Libertarian Party has much to offer, as does the Jury Team, the English Democrats and various independent candidates.

If every one of us refused to vote for any of the incumbent MPs and instead voted for smaller parties and independents, we could rid this land of its vile, lying, theiving, parasitic, conniving, corrupt "ruling classes" and start all over.

I urge you to read this article by Dr Sean Gabb. It's a masterpiece. You can also download his new book - free.

Hat tips: Barking Spider for the Griffin rebuttal and to Calling England for the immigration conspiracy.

Update: Iain Dale agrees

ID Cards: They're back!

Well, they're back in a different guise, as we knew they would be. After all, the inititative comes from the EU and very likely, the G20 because Americans are fighting the same battle.

What a coincidence!

Now, it's BioP@ss, as Big Brother Watch reports:

No sooner than the Prime Minister signals a u-turn on the introduction of ID cards in Britain; news has seeped out of the continent that the EU may be next to try and impose a system of biometric cataloguing and identification on its citizens.
According to this report, chip manufacturers are being lined up to participate in a new European research project called BioP@ss, with the intention of developing a 'high-security chip card platform'.
It goes on to say:

..BioP@ss is the biggest chip card research project in the EU. Its goal is to do the technical spadework for the introduction of an electronic ID card in chip card format valid throughout the entire EU.
In addition to its function as an ID card, it will be capable of providing a secure means of authentication for services offered by governments and public authorities..

The BioP@ss research project is apparently due to be completed in 2011 and already has a total budget of €13 million.

How Conservatives lost England, and how to get it back

Dr Sean Gabb has written an excellent piece on the Libertarian Alliance blog. So exceptional is it, that I'll be purchasing his book, which probably deserves to become a best-seller, if his article is anything to go by.

Buy the book here.

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Cultural Revolution, Culture War:
How Conservatives Lost England, and How to Get It Back
Sean Gabb


© The Hampden Press, Sean Gabb, 2007
First edition, August 2007, 109pp
ISBN: 0 9541032 2 X
£9.99/$20 plus £2/$4

An Anglican Bishop nearly arrested for stating Church doctrine. Villagers actually arrested for making fun of gypsies. Museums stripped of "imperialist" symbols. This is life in the England of today.

"Political correctness gone mad" some will say. Not so, says Sean Gabb. In this book, he explains how England in particular, and the English-speaking world in general, have been conquered from within.

We face a new ruling class made up of the student radicals of the 1960s and 70s. Now in power, they are creating in their own behaviour all the corruption and bigotry and hypocrisy that they falsely alleged against the liberal democratic rulers they have replaced.

This being so, the leading writers of the "New Left"—Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, and Michel Foucault—become highly relevant for conservatives and libertarians. They are relevant not because their analysis of liberal democracy was correct, but because it explains what their disciples are trying to do.

Before we can change the world, we need to understand it. This book helps towards that understanding, and suggests what needs to be done to give England back to its people.

Hat tip: Calling England

Update: Watch: One of Dr Gabb's earlier speeches (Sep '09):

Quislings

quisling noun 1 a traitor. 2 someone who collaborates with an enemy.
ETYMOLOGY: 1940s: named after the Norwegian officer and diplomat, Major Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945), who was a known collaborator with the Germans during their occupation of his country.

H/t: Centurean2

Links to the Campaign for an English Parliament and the English Claim of Right are in the sidebar at Calling England.

Swine flu: FDA threatens doctor over immune-system boosting supplements

NaturalNews reports (my emphasis):

In working to protect the business interests of vaccine manufacturers, both the FDA and FTC have declared all-out war against any products that might offer consumers options other than vaccines. This week, that war against natural remedies reached the shores of Dr. Andrew Weil, who is perhaps the best-known alternative medicine doctor in America. In an intimidating, threatening letter jointly issued by the FTC and the FDA, these rogue government agencies threatened Dr. Weil with criminal prosecution for making true statements about his immune-boosting formula such as, "Astragalus ... is ... used traditionally to ward off colds and flu, and has demonstrated both antiviral and immune-boosting effects in scientific investigation."

Read the full article.

Swine flu: 190 serious adverse reactions to vaccination

Health Freedom Alliance reported on 21st October that 190 people in Sweden have had serious reactions to the swine flu vaccination.

Unfortunately, the article has been culled from their site (I wonder why) but it is still cached.  You might want to save a copy for future reference!

Here's the article in full (my emphasis):

Yesterday 30 people had been reporting to the authorities in Sweden that they experienced such severe side effects that they felt the need to contact a hospital. Today the number is 140. The swedish newspaper Expressen is the only one in Sweden reporting on these cases and as usual this is most likely only the tip of a rather large iceberg. UPDATE: According to Dagens Nyheter, the number of reported side effects are now a few hours later 190. 1 person 3 people* die dies after the injection but “no direct relation with the injection has been established”. The biggest medical scandal in the history of Sweden has just started.

* Apocalypse Now says that 3 deaths are now under investigation.

Even so, Annika Linde, director of The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) manages to spin this into something positive by stating “The vaccine has more side effects than the normal flu vaccine. It is a sign that proves that it gives an effective protection.”

Thousands of Swedes have been vaccinated so far and the reports of side effects are “flooding in” to The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI). Annika Linde: “It is obviously so that the vaccine against the swine flu results in more side effects than the normal flu vaccines. That is because the swine flu vaccine contains adjuvants, shark liver oil, which triggers the immune defense to respond. That also results in that the protection against the virus becomes better.”

Several severe cases of allergic reactions are reported to the unit for medicinal safety. “So far the reported side effects are not unexpected”, says Gunilla Sjölin Forsberg. This unit has now asked some of the many units that vaccinate to report side effects to better get a grip on the situation. This statement alone is shocking since according to normal practice, all side effects should automatically be reported - right?

A nurse who took the shot on wednesday last week is still feeling sick. She got high fever and shivers from the swine flu shot. “-I was shaking in my whole body. It was so sever that I could not even hold a glass of water in my hand.”, Lotta Lindström says.

“- I am now thinking about what it is I have been injected with. I really was affected. It feels really unpleasant.”

De blev sjuka av vaccinet - Hälsa - Expressen.se

Maria Strindlund is not so sure she made the right choice to tae the shot. She also got a severe fever and shivering reaction. “- Since I work as a nurse, I decided it was the best thing to do.”, she says. At first she felt nothing from the vaccinaton, but a few hours later the side effects kicked in. “- I got a extreme pain in my arm. I could no longer lift it.” The came the fever and the shivering. ” _ I was lying in bed shivering and was feeling very cold and stood in a hot shower to get warm.” She says many colleguse who also took the vaccine have had similar reactons. She has been taking many vaccines in the past without any reactions whatsoever.

Maria, 27: “Fick fruktansvärt ont” - Hälsa - Expressen.se

Rebecka Andersson was the first person to get the shot in Sweden. She became feverish and felt sick to her stomach from the shot. ” - I lost all energy”, she says. “-I am normally never sick so I understood it must be the vaccine.” Her class mates was vaccinated at the same time and she states that five out of nineteen also got sick from the swine flu vaccine.

Rebecka, 32: “Jag blev orkeslös” - Hälsa - Expressen.se

Lotta Lindström, a nurse, states that she got the shot a week ago and still is not well. “- It feels very worrying”, she says. “- I did not sleep anything the night after the shot since the pain in my arm was so severe.” The day after, at work, the fever came. She later had headaches. She still today, a week after the shot feels sick.

Lotta, 49: “Jag sov inte något på natten” - Hälsa - Expressen.se

Another nurse, Jennely, could hardly walk five meters after she got sick from the “swine flu” vaccination. She was completely healthy when she got the shot but the day after she had 39 degrees centigrade fever (102.2 F). “- I could hardly walk the five meters I had to the bathroom”, she says. The fever lasted for three days. sevreal of her colugueges at work had similar experiences. “- I know of at least ten that got fever , we are about 80 people at my workplace.”

Jennely, 26: “Orkade knappt gå fem meter” - Hälsa - Expressen.se

Johan Niklasson

Update:

Meanwhile, Dr Len Horowitz claims that Big Pharma and governments are deliberately whipping up fear and panic about H1N1 to boost drug sales and profits paying government ministers and officials to push it.

Watch:

Support Václav Klaus: Czech Embassy, London, 26 Oct

Vaclav Klaus
President Czech Republic; Superhero
Say’s “NO!” to the European Union

Support Vaclav Klaus

outside the Czech Embassy

26 Kensington Palace Gardens London W8 4QY

Monday 26th October

starting at 10:00 am

Fall of the Republic: the dismantling of America

Not just America. This is the dismantling of the world of nations.
What has been happening across the globe over the past decade or so? Most of it seems insane - contrary to common sense.

Alex Jones goes over the top quite often, but every now and again he produces truly awesome documentaries which at least, make you think.

His latest, Fall of the Republic (in 14 parts, autoplay, below) is a must-see, particularly if you want a point of view other than that you'll get from the mainstream media.

Watch.

Do your own research - research all the players in this video. Research their papers, their books, their reviews. Research everything.

Then make up your own mind.

Good reads

The Clash of Uncivilisations - Melanie Phillips
Václav Klaus: the last European - Dan Hannan
Why is Parliament so useless? - Douglas Carswell
Passive Obesity - Leg-Iron
When the method is wrong, every use of it is wrong - Ian Parker-Joseph

Are the Tories blackmailing the EU behind the scenes?

OpenEurope reports:

Sarkozy wants impromptu EU summit to 'crown' Blair EU President next month

Under the headline "Sarkozy demands ex-PM Blair's 'coronation'", the Sun reports that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is pressing for a special EU summit to be convened to appoint Tony Blair as the EU's first President as soon as the Lisbon Treaty is ratified. Plans to select him at the EU leaders' summit in Brussels next week have been frustrated by Czech President Vaclav Klaus, due to his refusal to sign the Treaty, which creates the post. But EU leaders are confident Mr Klaus will finally approve it by early next month.

The Mail quotes a diplomatic source saying, "Blair is looking like the clear favourite and Sarkozy wants to get it settled quickly."

The Times reports that Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague has been conducting a behind-the-scenes campaign to convince European ambassadors that Tony Blair would be a bad choice for EU President.

Hague's spokesman said: "Mr Hague wanted to leave the ambassadors in no doubt that the Conservative Party is opposed to the appointment of Tony Blair as president of the European Council and [that] it would only underline the lack of accountability and legitimacy involved in the creation of the position in the first place".

Ah, now this is interesting.  Might the Tories be offering the EU an ultimatum along the lines of make Blair President and we'll offer a refendum on the treaty?

The Economist's Charlemagne blog notes that German Chancellor Angela Merkel "is the key swing voter in the contest for president" and that "a pair of (relatively) senior German Christian Democrat [Merkel's party] members of the European Parliament have co-sponsored a petition denouncing Tony Blair as a possible president of the European Council."

If the Tories are threatening to give us a refendum on Blair's coronation, Merkel is a threat to us.

Reuters reports that four German MEPs and one Luxembourg MEP yesterday sponsored the petition which requested excluding Blair from the candidates for EU President. The MEPs based their petition on the fact that the UK is not member of the eurozone, the Schengen area, and has 'opted out' from the Charter of Fundamental Rights. The petition requires a simple majority in the EP in order to be an official declaration of the Parliament, although it would be non-binding.

Meanwhile, EUobserver reports that the Swedish EU Presidency is still hoping to fix the line-up of the new Commission and the shape of the EU's future diplomatic service at next week's summit. Swedish Minister for European Affairs Cecilia Malmstrom said the Presidency was preparing a report to be presented to EU leaders at the summit, which will include an update on the Czech situation and proposals for the set-up of the new EU diplomatic corps.

Unfortunately, this might be the worst outcome. The Swedish policos appear to be rabid eurofanatics.

Update:

Meanwhile (my emphasis):

The eGov monitor reports that the Northern Ireland Assembly voted for a motion on Tuesday by 47-19 in favour of the UK holding a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and calling on "those parties aspiring to form the incoming Government of the United Kingdom to give an unequivocal commitment to hold, within a twelve month period from assuming office in 2010, a binding referendum on the Lisbon Treaty that is unconditional and unrelated to how other member states choose to vote, and the result of which will not be held in abeyance pending a further referendum on the subject."

Follow the Northern Ireland Assembly debate proceedings here.

Climate change: Lord Monckton debunks with facts and figures

Lord Monckton debunks the AGW (aka "global warming", "climate change") claims with facts and figures. No wonder Al Gore won't debate him!



Hat tip: symplesolutions

Labour is to blame for the BNP's rise

Labour seems to have done away with the word "racialist" (whose meaning is absolutely clear), with the term "racist" which covers just about everything, including culture and religion.

While there are undoubtedly racialists who back the BNP, many people are upset about the way uncontrolled immigration has fractured their societies and is undermining their culture and religion.

Isn't this exactly how the Welsh and the Irish have felt?

Nowadays, due to the new word "racist", one can be accused - by the chattering classes, day-time TV-watchers and celeb addicts - of being prejudiced according to race - simply for standing up for one's own culture.

Labour does like its groupings - we're just numbers to them, to be manipulated as they see fit.

The word "racist" has such a wide meaning that it has become a valuable political tool for an immoral party which, due to it's largely anti-English policies, has fostered BNP support.

Let's not forget that those who support the BNP are mainly disaffected Labour voters who feel that Labour no longer represents them.

This is somewhat akin to conservative-minded people defecting to UKIP because they feel that the Conservatives no longer represent them.

The three main parties have only themselves to blame. Their abuse of power by "consensus" has cost them our respect and trust.

Nick Griffin On Question Time

Much has been said, even more has been debated but they are a valid political party with 2 MEPs, coincidentally the same number of seats that the Pirates party from Sweden has. I found out yesterday that there is a British version of the Pirates party as well.

Yes he should appear on Question Time. Why do I say that being a fourth generation British subject and Citizen of Northern Indian descent?

My reasons are:

1) If there is a problem in society then it should be discussed openly and publicly.

2) Question Time is a debating answer and question forum. I know I've been on it and had a question answered and was even being recognised off the telly three weeks later in Comet of all places. Programme in question Question Time June 9th 1997 man in the royal blue shirt at the front in the middle.

3) The BNP have some wildly badly thought out policies. It is better that they be publicly shown and be made to die in the glare of the hard facts, than for them to remain urban myths that could be made possible if the BNP were ever to make it to the heady heights of government.

4) I have read the BNP constitution cover to cover all 16 pages of it. Nick Griffin has more power than any other party leader in the country, and that includes the Monster Raving Loonies. It is not a good constitution and has quite striking flaws in its theory.

5)Their policies do not stand up to what would be achieved. They have not factored in what would happen and that is fatal. In short their policies are not based in the real world

6) It is better that they be shown quite categorically that their policies and their brand of politics is for want of a better phrase based on cloud cuckoo land.

7) I intend to watch tonight's programme with glee and see how much damage Nick Griffin actually does to his own party. It should be delightful to see how many traps he falls into.

8) This is pure theatre It is not giving the BNP a platform, in fact far from it! It is giving them enough rope to hang themselves with.

I leave you with that thought.

BBC softening us up for RFID

It had to happen sooner or later. The BBC has just pitched for the microchipping of dogs. Because we love them, of course.

Watch HERE.

Microchipping is compulsory for some animals - horses, for instance.

EU regulations state EID must be introduced for all animals born on or after 31 December 2009. (PDF)

How soon will it be mandatory for dogs? Cats? Budgies?

How soon will they offer RFID for people - to keep us safe, of course - just in case we go missing?

Related link:  Mandatory microchipping of cattle (PDF)

Mind The Language

I'm beside myself.  Taxed, fined, penalised, threatened - and all with our own money.  Why do we let them get away with it?  WHY?

Massive expansion of the Big Brother state is planned.  The £200million-a-year sum will give officials access to details of every internet click made by every citizen - on top of the email and telephone records already available.

Here's the latest cattle prod up the taxpayers' collective backside:

A Home Office spokesman said the costs involved were entirely separate from those necessary to comply with the European Data Retention Directive, which requires the storage of phone and email records.

Comfuckingpletely ripping us off
Enfuckingtirely wrong
Unconfuckingditionally authoritarian
Comprefuckinghensively undemocratic

European Data Retention Directive 32006L0024 Directive 2006/24/EC
Intercept Modernisation Programme
EU DRD condemned

DNA database: if not for justice, then what is it for?

The Daily Mail reports:

Traumatised by a sex attack in a park, a teenage girl was at least comforted by the likelihood the man would be identified by DNA.

Priya Francome-Wood, 17, had kicked and struggled free after he lay on top of her.

Police said they were in no doubt she had managed to escape a serious sex attack.

They took away her skirt and T-shirt, telling her 'a surprising amount of DNA' can be transferred in such cases.

But five days later Miss Francome-Wood's hopes were shattered by a phone call from police in Bournemouth, where she was attacked during a weekend visit to a friend.

To her horror, they said they could not justify spending £500 on DNA testing.

Read more

If the taking and storage of our DNA is so imortant for the detection and prevention of crime and the prosecution thereof, why do the police consider the DNA testing of an obvious assault not worth DNA-testing?

What then, could possbily be the purpose of the DNA database?

What's next? RFID?

Answers on a postage stamp.

Farage spot on again: clapped out union

Nigel Farage seldom fails to impress.  Here, he socks it to Borosso - again:

Spot the difference: LibDem & UKIP donor controversies

Well done to Michael Crick for pointing out the differences in the way the LibDems and UKIP are treated with regard to what it the BBC considers to be iffy donations.

Fairness from the BBC!

Iain Dale has also covered this - and has received some interesting replies to his "Spot the difference(s)":

Case A: Alan Bown* gave a political party £363,697

1) It was his money
2) He had a business trading in this country, making him eligible to donate money
3) He was not on the electoral register when he donated although he was the year before, and also the year afterwards.

Case B: Michael Brown gave a political party £2.7m

1) It was not his money, he had defrauded it
2) His business was not trading in the UK, so therefore he was ineligible to donate money
3) He was not on the electoral register; neither was he the year afterwards, nor the year before.

Can you find more?


* As Bloggers4UKIP reported yesterday, the Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the corrupt Electoral Commission and ordered Westminster Magistrates Court to change its ruling that UKIP only has to forfeit £18,481 of the £363,697 in impermissible donations received from Alan Bown.

Please will all UKIPers kindly consider making a donation to UKIP to help it pay back this money and ultimately, assist UKIP gain seats in Parliament to help get us out of the EU!

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Rally in support of Czech president Václav Klaus

Rally in support of Czech president Václav Klaus on Sunday Oct 25, 2009, at 1pm outside the Dáil, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

Speakers so far:

Patricia McKenna – former MEP
Dr Sean O’Domhnaill
Dr Anthony Coughlan of The National Platform
(other speakers to be confirmed)

All No to Lisbon groups and supporters are welcome to attend.

Please spread the word widely - to your own friends, contacts and other group members to make this a pan-group effort.

The event is meant to be a rally in support of the Czech president who wants to keep national democracy alive across the EU.

Please bring large posters, banners and Czech and Irish flags in support.

Organised by the National Platform in conjunction with Democratic Alliance
Democratic Alliance is a network of Irish citizens and groups which campaign in favour of national democracy.

Please visit:

• Online petition in support of President Klaus
• Facebook Group

Lifted (slightly modifed) from:  Infowars Ireland

We can rule you wholesale

Hilarious!

Ankh-Morpork Anthem performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and  soprano Clare Rutter.



The lyrics of the anthem are as follows:

"When dragons belch and hippos flee
My thoughts, Ankh-Morpork, are of thee
Let others boast of martial dash
For we have boldly fought with cash
We own all your helmets, we own all your shoes
We own all your generals - touch us and you'll lose.


Morporkia! Morporkia!
Morporkia owns the day!
We can rule you wholesale
Touch us and you'll pay.


We bankrupt all invaders, we sell them souvenirs
We ner ner ner ner ner, hner ner hner by the ears
Er hner we ner ner ner ner ner
Ner ner her ner ner ner hner the ner
Er ner ner hner ner, nher hner ner ner (etc.)
Ner hner ner, your gleaming swords
We mortgaged to the hilt


Morporkia! Morporkia!
Hner ner ner ner ner ner
We can rule you wholesale
Credit where it's due."

Hat tip: Surreptitious Evil

Government taken to court over RBS's £10bn spent on climate change scam

Lovely!

38Degrees reports that the government is being taken to court for bailing out banks like RBS for loaning money to organisations supporting  ubiquitous "climate change" scams, amongst other things:

Today saw the start of an important court case about the bailed out banks [1]. Since being bailed-out with taxpayers' money, RBS has backed deals worth nearly £10bn for companies and projects linked to climate change and human rights abuses. Today the government is being taken to court for allowing this to happen.

We've teamed up with World Development Movement, Platform, and People & Planet to push the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, to use his power to make bailed-out banks like RBS a force for good. Taxpayers have pumped billions into these banks. Now is our chance to demand that our money's invested responsibly, in projects which benefit people and the environment, not projects that harm them.

Please add your voice to our campaign for bailed-out banks to invest responsibly.

We need to make sure court action is backed up by a strong popular call for change. Court cases make the news, but we know that people power has a critical role to play in shifting the government's position. Over the coming weeks we need to deliver a huge petition to Mr Darling, then back that up with thousands of messages to MPs.

Whether it's on bonuses or human rights abuses, we should have more say in how the bailed-out banks are run. Alistair Darling needs to turn ownership of the banks into an opportunity to improve how they do business. Our money saved them, and now we can push the government to use its powers to bring them into line.

Together we can push him to seize this opportunity, please add your voice today:


[1] Treasury taken to court for RBS loans to Vedanta Resources

A worthy cause, don't you think?

MPs have yet to receive their just desserts

Yesterday, Tim Montgomerie of ConservativeHome posted a controversial piece on MPs, the gist of which is that the public are now a lynch mob. About 90% of responders showed their displeasure.

Old Holborn's "snoozing rottweiler" analogy is apt.

In my view, Tim got this completely wrong.

My sticking point is that MPs have exempted themselves from the vile laws and taxes they've imposed on the rest of us - and made our lives hell, while they live high on the hog. And they've b*ggered up the country and sold it to foreigners for grace and favour - theirs.

How can MPs possibly expect to remain "in touch" with the electorate if they are not subject to the laws they draft and fail to read? How can they attempt to impose on us their upside-down morality when it is plain they have none of any worth.

Nobody should be above the law. As such, until prosecutions for those guilty of fraud and tax-evasion are brought, justly, in the public's view, politicians will be viewed with suspicion and will find their fortunes diminished.

Unless, of course, the EU changes all that, and we descend further into totalitarian hell.

Reminder: Join Old Holborn on his walk on 5th November to the House of Commons Gallery, to send the powers that be, who have overstayed their welcome, a timely message.  

We are not amused by your antics, your laws, your taxes and your plans. We want you gone.

It promises to be a pleasant occasion - with a mission.

Climate Chains: Lord Monckton's new documentary debunking AGW

On 14th October 2009, Lord Monckton* , delivered an excellent presentation debunking Al Gore's and the Warmist extremists' ridiculous arguments on what they like to call climate change "science".

The importance of this presentation shouldn't be ignored because the UN's Climate Change Treaty, to be signed by 18th December 2009, will devastate our economies and our lifestyles - for no good reason.

Warmists refuse to debate their junk science with real scientists, preferring to shut down debate by labelling them as "deniers", as if they were heretics.

Why?

Science is not something you "believe in"; it is not something you have faith in; it is not a religion. Science is a never-ending, systematic study of what exists. AGW is not proven, so why do Warmists avoid debating it?

Anthropgenic global warming is not 'widely accepted' by scientists as Warmists claim - far from it. Warmist fanatics don't want you to hear sane and measured views that oppose theirs.

Here is Lord Monckton's latest documentary, "Climate Chains", which is worth circulating:




Now watch his presentation to Bethel University,

You might also be interested in Michael Coren's Monckton interview (top of this blog's side panel).

* Lord Monckton is a Nobel Laureate, author, lecturer and ex-Science Advisor to Margaret Thatcher.

MPs' Expenses: And you thought it was all over? More to come!

Interactive Investor interviews Henry Gewanter, the whistleblower of the MPs' Expenses scandal.

One not to miss!

Watch here.

Are we being groomed for communism?

Just last week, Lord Monckton warned that we are to have world communism by December this year, after the signing of the UN's Climate Change Treaty.

Now, the Mail - THE MAIL! -carries a story of how wonderful life was under Communist dictatorship in Hungary before the Berlin Wall came down.

We also find that Cameron is considering bringing Heseltine in as an unelected peer - yes, Hezza, the Eurofanatic!

Are we being groomed for communism? Are we being groomed to accept declining democracy?

Have these political nutters learned nothing from the electorate's anger over the last 6 months?

The Tories are going to bleed membership to UKIP. Farage, are you ready?

Update: (Hat-tip to Road Hog). Monckton's full speech - highly recommended!

Europhile Heseltine to join Tory government as unelected and unaccountable peer?

The Mail reports that Cameron is thinking of bringing Heseltine into a Conservative government as a temporary peer and minister without porfolio.

Great! Just what we need!

Another Eurofanatic to match Clarke, and an unelected one, to boot!

Comissioning Heseltine in any role in a Conservative government would destroy what little belief conservative-minded voters have in Cameron's so-called Euro-sceptic credentials.

Secondly, if we are to restore democracy, the last thing we want is more appointees, however temporary. Were Hezza to become a temporary peer and minister without portfolio, he would still be unelected and unaccountable to the electorate - and we couldn't get rid of him.

Such an appointment doesn't quite gel with the notions of primaries or recall, does it? And we don't want him in a 'safe seat', either. Safe seats and government appointees have been malignant cancers in our democracy.

The last thing we want is an unelected Eurofanatic with influence on EU policy, who can't be recalled!

Scepticism is rising, Mr Cameron - not just Euroscepticism, but Tory-scepticism.

For this kind of idiocy, tens of thousands of votes to be earned by UKIP, perhaps?

Best post of the day

... goes again to Leg-Iron, for his cogent analysis of the iniquity of retrospective legislation.

He throws a challenge Frank Field's way.

Well, Mr Field? Isn't Leg-iron correct? What will you do now?

Klaus: articles and blogs today

Klaus has expressed his dismay at the Lisbon Treaty and while some take the view that he has capitulated and will sign the treaty, some believe otherwise.

Read more about Klaus and the Lisbon Treaty.

Klaus has been concerned about 2.5 million ethnic Germans who were expelled from Czechoslovakia after WW2, attempting to reclaim their properties.

As such, he and a group of senators posted a legal challenge to the Czech constitutional court, which is expected to give its decision on 27th October 2009 - in 10 days' time.

Klaus cannot sign before the ruling is delivered and if the legal challenge is rejected, Klaus might have no option but to sign - unless he can find another way to hold up ratification.

Some think he might be able to and some don't ...

Those who think Klaus might not sign:

• Europe does not need President Blair - Adam LeBor, The Guardian
• Vaclav Klaus determined to weather the storm over Lisbon Treaty veto - Roger Boyes, The Times
• Klaus unlikely to sign Lisbon Treaty - poll - CTK, Ceske Noviny

Those who think Klaus has capitulated:

• 'Too late' to stop Lisbon Treaty, concedes last EU leader left to sign - the Daily Mail
• Thanks for Nothing, Vaclav - Blaney's Blarney
• Czech leader resigned to treaty - Rob Cameron, BBC News 
  

Wavering:

• Klaus set to ratify the Lisbon Treaty - is David Cameron secretly relieved?  - Will Heaven, the Telegraph
• How do you solve a problem like Lisbon, David T Breaker, ConservativeHome
  

Vaclav Klaus Prepares For EU Sellout

It would appear that President Vaclav Klaus has merely been using Britain as a pawn in his ongoing political manouevres, to extract more concessions from Brussels on behalf of the Czech Republic, much like the supposed "guarantees" that were given to Ireland to ensure a yes vote earlier this month and the opt-outs that the German Constitutional Court are deliberating. This piece of news does not bode well for Britain's chances of a referendum on the European Constitution/Lisbon Treaty after the expected change of government next year.

Klaus has told  the Czech press that he has no intention of holding out until next May or June - he said that if Britain had an election in a few weeks time it would be fine, but as that is not going to happen, he is expected to sign the Treaty by the end of the year! I do hope we'll be able to offer the President some future help in return for the support he has shown towards Britain - and then not give it to him!

Here is the main part of the story, courtesy of Yahoo News

Czech President 'will likely sign EU Treaty'

PRAGUE (AFP) – Euro-sceptic Czech President Vaclav Klaus, the last European Union leader holding out on signing the EU's reforming Lisbon Treaty on Saturday suggested he would ultimately sign the text."The train carrying the treaty is going so fast and it's so far that it can't be stopped or returned, no matter how much some of us would want that," he told the Lidove Noviny daily. Klaus, who angered EU partners when he further delayed the ratification process by asking for an opt-out on the treaty earlier this month, added he still did not see the text as a good thing for "freedom in Europe."But "its potential validation will not be the end of history. The dispute over freedom and democracy in Europe will certainly continue," said Klaus.Repeated delays have given rise to concerns that Klaus may be waiting for the next British general election, to be held by June 2010, after which the Conservatives, the likely winner, may hold a referendum which could bury the treaty. But Klaus said these fears were ungrounded as "I cannot and will not wait for British elections, unless they hold them in the next few days or weeks."

So, there you have it - straight from the horse's mouth - thanks for nothing! UKIP, anyone?

FULL STORY AT YAHOO NEWS

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