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The French health ministry issued a warning on Tuesday after eight people died and seven fell sick in two European countries from using heroin contaminated by anthrax.
“Since December 6, there have been 15 confirmed cases of anthrax among heroin users, 14 in Scotland and one in Germany,” the ministry’s General Directorate for Health (DGS) said [...]

I’m strongly tempted to infer causality from sentence two rather than sentence four.
Twenty-two people, mainly children below the age of 5, have died of measles in Zimbabwe, the country’s state media reported.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said two weeks ago it was “deeply frustrated” by the measles outbreak, which came after it sponsored a vaccination [...]

About 800,000 doses of swine flu vaccine for young children were recalled in the United States on Tuesday when the manufacturer discovered that the vaccine wasn’t as potent as it should be.
Most of the doses – some of which were received in the Bay Area – already have been given to children, but the recalled [...]

…as of November, 19.4% of American men in their prime working years didn’t have jobs. By this measure, the current job situation (for men, at least) is much, much worse than in any downturn since the BLS started measuring this stuff in 1948.

Source/Full Story: Curious Capitalist
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July 29, 2009 — The Real Unemployment Rate Hits [...]

Confidential documents related to the World Health Organization Expert Working Group on innovative financing for research and development surfaced today, revealing the group’s thinking as well as pharmaceutical industry thinking about the WHO process. The documents immediately raised concern about possible undue access to the process by industry; the WHO told Intellectual Property Watch the [...]

Bayer has admitted it has been unable to control the spread of its genetically-engineered organisms despite ‘the best practices [to stop contamination]‘(1). It shows that all outdoors field trials or commercial growing of GE crops must be stopped before our crops are irreversibly contaminated.

Source/Full Story: organicconsumers.org
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November 2, 2009 — Secret court seizes £3.2bn [...]

The share of the U.S. population aged between 40 and 65, when people typically prepare for retirement by building their biggest pile of financial assets, peaks in 2010 and this ratio has shown an uncanny link with real equity prices for 40 years.

Source/Full Story: Reuters
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November 10, 2009 — Creating a false vaccine flu shortage [...]

The federal program now feeds one in eight adults and one in four children, with more than 36 million people using inconspicuous plastic cards to buy staples, Concannon told The Washington Post.…The program is expanding by about 20,000 out-of-work and underemployed people a day, the Post reported, noting the growth has been swift in once-prosperous [...]

The pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline says it has advised medical staff in Canada to not use one batch of swine flu vaccine for fear it may trigger life-threatening allergies.
GlaxoSmithKline spokeswoman Gwenan White said Tuesday the company issued the advice after reports that one batch of the swine flu vaccine might have caused more allergic reactions than [...]

Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu — most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms — have failed to contain the disease.
Despite initially declaring success, Beijing now acknowledges its swine flu outbreak is much larger than official numbers show.
China’s official count of some [...]

The new flu strain, which I contend is spreading in Ukraine and Belarus, is characterized by a lightning form of viral pneumonia — very similar to what happened in 1918. The new flu virus appears to have profound tissue affinity for sialic acid receptors deep in the lungs, replicating in the alveoli. To put it [...]

Medical Doctor Retracts H1N1 Vaccine Advice After Reading Insert!
Dr. Roby Mitchell, M.D. issues a retraction to nurses he originally advised to get the H1N1 flu vaccination. After reading the insert of the vaccine, he retracted his advice. This video exposes what is actually IN the vaccine our government is so eager to inject into our [...]

Slovakia is closing all but one of its border crossings with Ukraine because of the swine flu epidemic there which has claimed 135 lives. Nearly 900,000 people in Ukraine are infected with the A(H1N1) virus which causes the flu (known as Mexican flu in the Netherlands).
The measure is designed to stop the spread of swine [...]

About 22 million Americans have become ill with pandemic H1N1 influenza in the past six months and 3,900 have died, according to new estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The number of pediatric deaths — about 540 — is four times as high as the number that physicians, hospitals and health departments had [...]

Yep…
A 14-year-old Virginia boy is weak and struggling to walk after coming down with a reported case of Guillain-Barre syndrome within hours after receiving the H1N1 vaccine for swine flu.
Jordan McFarland, a high school athlete from Alexandria, Va., left Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children Tuesday night in a wheelchair nearly a week after developing severe [...]

Lone Simonsen is Research Professor and Research Director in the Department of Global Health.
COHEN: Well, it’s an interesting question, though. Would you be against mandating?
SIMONSEN: Well, I think this is very interesting because, I mean, especially for the health-care worker example. I mean, there are many, many good reasons why health care workers should be [...]

Now it turns out that one of the public school students given the swine flu vaccine without parental consent had to go to the emergency room after getting sick. Six-year-old Nikiyah Torres, who suffers from epilepsy (her parents had been waiting to see what their family doctor said about the swine flu vaccine) told WCBS [...]

In Ukraine, schools have been closed, all public events have been banned and restrictions imposed on people’s movements after the country confirmed its first death from H1N1 swine flu.
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced a three-week period of precautionary measures and health officials are said to be considering introducing quarantine across the country..
An outbreak of flu [...]

Securities exchanges have a sound network back-up if a severe pandemic keeps people home and clogging the Internet, but the Homeland Security Department has done little planning, Congressional investigators said on Monday.
The department does not even have a plan to start work on the issue, the General Accountability Office said.
But the Homeland Security Department accused [...]

Securities exchanges have a sound network back-up if a severe pandemic keeps people home and clogging the Internet, but the Homeland Security Department has done little planning, Congressional investigators said on Monday.
The department does not even have a plan to start work on the issue, the General Accountability Office said.
But the Homeland Security Department accused [...]

Sid the Science Kid Gets a Flu Shot

Cases of swine flu in the UK have almost doubled this week, the Department of Health revealed today, as the outbreak imposes increasing pressure on intensive care beds.
So far 122 people have died after contracting the H1N1 virus and more than 500 are being treated in hospital, of whom 99 are in critical care – [...]

At least one pig in the US has tested positive for the H1N1 virus, the US department of agriculture said today, the country’s first case of a pig contracting the virus.
US agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement that USDA officials have begun to reach out to US trade partners and international organisations to [...]

The federal government originally promised 120 million doses of swine flu vaccine by now. Only 13 million have come through.
As nervous Americans clamor for the vaccine, production is running several weeks behind schedule, and health officials blame the pressure on pharmaceutical companies to crank it out along with the ordinary flu vaccine, and a slow [...]

Another eight pig herds in Nord-Trøndelag in Norway have been diagnosed with the swine flu, and Minister of Agriculture Lars Peder Brekk has asked that pig farmers be given priority when the mass vaccination program against the flu begins.
Experts said the flu spreads from humans to pigs more easily than earlier believed. The Minister is [...]

H1N1 flu may be the most talked about bug, but the old-fashioned seasonal flu — which kills more than 33,000 Americans annually — is still a threat, and vaccines for the seasonal flu are running low in some places in metro Detroit.
Oakland County health officials said that they exhausted their supply of seasonal flu vaccine [...]

I would consider the cares and concerns of these parents to be prudent, and not irrational by any stretch of the imagination.  What idiot would even say such a thing!?   Ahh…government officials of course.  And I wonder if Ms. Sebelius would be willing to be held accountable for any damage done by the vaccine, since [...]

A top U.S. military commander says troops will begin getting required swine flu shots in the next week to 10 days. Active duty forces deploying to war zones and other critical areas are at the front of the vaccine line.
Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart also told The Associated Press that as many as 400 troops [...]

The government plans to rush through measures allowing people with suspected mental health issues to be quickly detained because of fears over staff shortages in any forthcoming swine flu outbreak, it has been revealed.
The temporary changes to the Mental Health Act, as laid out in an unusually short consultation lasting just one month, would mean [...]

In preparation for swine-flu vaccinations next month, Washington’s Health Department on Thursday temporarily suspended a rule that limits the amount of a mercury preservative in vaccines given to pregnant women and children under the age of 3.
The preservative, thimerosal, has never been linked to any health problems, said Secretary of Health Mary Selecky. But a [...]

Vaccinations against H1N1 swine flu will start on Oct. 6, CDC Director Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, said today.
Nearly all of the first 6 million doses of swine flu vaccine are the FluMist nasal spray vaccine. By mid-October, the government plans to deliver some 45 million doses — including more traditional flu shots — apportioned to [...]

Mexico was hit with 1,341 new swine flu cases since Monday, bringing the total to 26,338 ahead of the usual autumn flu season, health officials said on Friday.
The Health Ministry said one more person died from the A(H1N1) virus between Monday and Thursday, bringing the death toll to 218 in the country where the virus [...]

More than 2,500 Pennsylvania National Guardsmen have been called up to support the international G-20 Summit, a global economic summit, being held here Sept. 24 and 25.
Operation Steel Kickoff started Sept. 20 with a joint reception, staging, onward movement and integration point process led by the Guard’s 213th Area Support Group, which is working out [...]

The Belgian parliament yesterday voted to give the government emergency dicatorial powers under the pretext of dealing with a pandemic emergency.
Belgium is the first country in Europe to formally suspend democracy and civic rights and to switch over to military rule under the authority of a “a special crisis committee” that answers ultimately to WHO [...]

Three state public health laboratories perform antiviral resistance testing and report their results to CDC. An additional two oseltamivir resistant 2009 influenza A (H1N1) viruses have been identified by these laboratories, bringing the total number to nine.
The above comments from the latest CDC update (week 34) describe two more cases of oseltamivir resistance in states [...]

by Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, September 4, 2009
 
Iowa public health officials have acknowledged the existence of a blank template entitled FACILITY QUARANTINE ORDER in the case of a Novel Influenza A H1N1 pandemic. The official press release states, however, that there is no draft or text of  a “Quarantine Order” by the Iowa Department of Public [...]

by Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, September 4, 2009
 
Iowa public health officials have acknowledged the existence of a blank template entitled FACILITY QUARANTINE ORDER in the case of a Novel Influenza A H1N1 pandemic. The official press release states, however, that there is no draft or text of  a “Quarantine Order” by the Iowa Department of Public [...]

by Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, September 4, 2009
 
Iowa public health officials have acknowledged the existence of a blank template entitled FACILITY QUARANTINE ORDER in the case of a Novel Influenza A H1N1 pandemic. The official press release states, however, that there is no draft or text of  a “Quarantine Order” by the Iowa Department of Public [...]

Some 2,000 students at Washington State University have reported symptoms of H1N1 flu, university officials said, in one of the largest reported outbreaks of the virus on a US college campus.
Washington state’s Whitman County, where the school is located said that tests at a state laboratory late last week “confirmed that the influenza outbreak [...]

Some 2,000 students at Washington State University have reported symptoms of H1N1 flu, university officials said, in one of the largest reported outbreaks of the virus on a US college campus.
Washington state’s Whitman County, where the school is located said that tests at a state laboratory late last week “confirmed that the influenza outbreak [...]