Sunday, April 30, 2006

Pandemic: dilemmas of preparedness and equity

Infectious Disease News
"Companies may be able to make 900 million doses of a pandemic influenza vaccine, but there are 6 billion people in the world."

Saturday, April 29, 2006

300 trillion dollar derivatives dominos

FSU
Another superlative for the Bush era.

Chevron earnings soar 49% to $4 billion

t r u t h o u t
"Chevron released its results after two of its biggest rivals, ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil Corp., already provoked public outrage with similarly large first-quarter profits. Combined, the three oil companies earned $15.7 billion during the three months of the year."

Iraq invasion kills over 250000 civilians

agoracosmopolitan.com

Not counting Afghanistan as usual.

Indonesian man dies of bird flu

Al Gore on global warming

MSNBC
"At some point,reality has its day"

Friday, April 28, 2006

Bird flu detected on Great Britain farm

Bird Flu Confirmed in Ivory Coast

Bird flu speads in Afghanistan

Human H5N1 confirmed again in Sichuan China

Rice says UN must act on Iran nuke plan

Panic could overwhelm communications in pandemic

Thursday, April 27, 2006

US efforts might not slow pandemic flu

Bubonic plague detected in 6 Colorado counties

TheDenverChannel.com
Everybody else gets the mumps or the flu, but Denver, home of the evangelical zionoid christophrenics, gets the plague. They must think it's good news.

World system on Weimar collapse curve

EIR

Britain to cull 35,000 chickens after bird flu found

10 states sue EPA over global warming

Mobile phones affect brain function

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Jury convicts Calif. man in terrorism case

BREITBART

"They presented no evidence to show that such attacks were imminent or even planned. But in closing arguments, a prosecutor said the case was intended to prevent terrorist attacks 'long before anybody is hurt.'Defense lawyers for both men argued that the government didn't have a case against their clients because it had produced no evidence that the son ever attended a terrorist training camp."

Convicted for thought crimes in California. This is truly the age of irony.

Ukraine remembers Chernobyl

Mumps case confirmed in SD

Mumps outbreak spreads to Colorado

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

911 Conspiracy

Bush explains how God shapes foreign policy

Editor and Publisher
How does God pronounce "nukular?"

Rumsfeld sued over recruiting database

Israel to launch "eye in the sky" over Iran

Hundreds of Iraqi girls have gone missing

TIME
"an unknown number of Iraqi women and girls being sent to Yemen, Syria, Jordan and Persian Gulf countries for sexual exploitation." Future capitalism.

Republicans seek to 'dispel environmental myths'

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Bush warns of 'tough summer'

BREITBART


PR crisis; roll out the "prototype" hybrid car again. Say, didn't that thing run on hydrogen last year?

Saturday, April 22, 2006

A million dead Iranians

ICH
I guess it's not whether you would choose to worship a deity who enjoys this way of handling sin and correcting evil-doers. That's the creator of this universe, like it or not, and if you're not with Him, you're with the ducks. I don't see why we have to enjoy it, though. He also insists on applause when His cluster bombs of wrath puree families in their houses. The wounds of Jesus bleed whenever someone of little faith grumbles at His good works.

Hastert, Frist to ask Bush for probe of gas prices

Washington Post
Instead of impeaching him I guess. Fighting corporate profit interests owing to their detriment to the working class. They must be Republicans.

Pumps go dry at some gas stations

RadioShack shocked by poor earnings

CNN
Another pun? It's better than "bird flu waits in the wings."

New Orleans election in 'uncharted waters'

CNN
Another pun? What's on the ballot? Row vs. wade? I prefer my bourbon neat.

Friday, April 21, 2006

Bird flu shows up in Sudan

Russia will deliver air defense systems to Iran

More poultry suspected of bird flu in China

Record increase in US greenhouse gas emissions

ENS
Another superlative for the Bush era.

Health workers won't show up in pandemic

German Defense Minister: 911 attack was run from WTC 7

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Rice: US to use varied means to stop Iran

Reuters



She is the varied means.

Midwest snowstorm kills 4 and cuts power

BREITBART
At the vernal equinox. Their ancestors would be slaughtering birds by now. Oh that's right; we are slaughtering birds.

Kraft crafts tasty quarterly results

CNN
I couldn't have put it better.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Worst president in history

Rolling Stone
Another superlative for the Bush era.

Summer forecast doesn't hold water

China using artificial rain to clear dust

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

The new breed of soldier: Robots with guns

US to attack Iran next year

Floods threaten 160,000 in southeastern Europe

Unbridled capitalism will lead to problems

The most evil people in the world

ICH
Zionoid Christophrenics; who else? Another superlative for the Bush era.

Oil settles at record high, $70 per barrel

The Huffington Post
Another superlative for the Bush era.

Tons of coke on CIA plane from Venezuela

GNN
Just too funny.

Mumps spreading In 9 midwestern states

AP

Aspartame Is a carcinogen

PRWeb.com
More hysterical European scientists.

Another avalanche hits CA

Bird flu hits young Danish man

Dallas temps break two records

KFWD
Another superlative for the Bush era.

Iraq theme park planned

New York Times
Another of my satires come true.

Brownouts roll through Crawford TX

Monday, April 17, 2006

The Dead Sea is 'dying'

The fate of the ocean

The ecosystem point of no return is behind us

1,000 miles of devastation on the Danube

Times Online



"The worst Danube floods for a century." Up the blue Danube without a you-know-what. Another superlative for the Bush era.

Exxon chairman gets $400 million retirement

ABC News


ExxonChevronTexaconNeocon. Another superlative for the Bush era.

US plan for flu pandemic

Bird flu spread by smuggling

New York Times
Not migratory birds.

Sand storm, pollution envelop Beijing

NYPD to deploy 500 security cameras

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Retired colonel: operations 'underway' in Iran

Rice hints at Iran attack

Friday, April 14, 2006

17 Iraqi police officers killed in ambush

ContraCostaTimes

"...90 officers from four stations in Najaf had just picked up new cars in Taji and were traveling south to get new weapons and ammunition when they found the main road blocked by U.S. troops. The Americans told the Iraqis that they had discovered a bomb on the road and told them to take a detour through the countryside, following them part of the way before letting them go on alone, Shukor said. A roadside bomb exploded, and attackers hidden in the orchards and farmhouses flanking the road opened fire on the convoy with Kalashnikov assault rifles and RPK machine guns. Over the course of a two-hour firefight, all the police cars were destroyed, Shukor said, and survivors fled to a nearby military base on foot and by hitching rides."

Won't be withdrawing troops today.

Iowa mumps epidemic continues to broaden

Cheney takes 2 million dollar tax refund

Yahoo! News

Does he write off the shotgun shells? Poor Spiro Agnew is rolling in his grave.

Pope rebukes 'satanic' society

Times Online

Opus Dei? P2? Skull and Bones? Illuminati?

"At the Third Station of the Cross, where Jesus falls for the first time, Archbishop Comastri has written: 'Lord, we have lost our sense of sin. Today a slick campaign of propaganda is spreading an inane apologia of evil, a senseless cult of Satan, a mindless desire for transgression, a dishonest and frivolous freedom, exalting impulsiveness, immorality and selfishness as if they were new heights of sophistication.'"

Among which social classes?

Mexican migrants' death toll sets record

sfgate

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Britain's top scientist sees dangerous global warming

BREITBART

"[I]f nothing is done to manage such change, few eco-systems on Earth will be able to adapt. ... up to 400 million people around the world would find themselves at risk of hunger, because 20 million to 400 million tonnes of cereal production will be lost. '... temperature rise could well be in excess of three degrees centigrade... Yet we are saying 500 parts per million in the atmosphere is probably the best we can achieve through global agreement.'"

You might add that global agreement is not going to happen.

Deadly severe weather in Iowa City

KCRG















Gaia's "auto" immune system at work.

US counts cost of Treasury yields

Telegraph

"Yields on 10-year US Treasuries have risen above 5pc for the first time since 2002."
Another superlative for the Bush era.

Gas prices soar for holiday weekend

Herald-Coaster

"Crude prices approached the record high of $70.85 per barrel earlier this week."
Another superlative for the Bush era.

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Terrorist 'chief' is US spin

ICH

The ugly 'D' word

ICH

Draft

US aircraft carriers head to Caribbean

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

"Chavez accuses US of planning an invasion."

Physicist says heat substance felled WTC

The Al Qaeda myth

Top official predicts reduced bird flu impact in US

Fatal Azeri bird flu familial cluster grows again

More human H5N1 fatal clustering in Indonesia

Government spending hits record in March

Yahoo! News

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Mumps sweeping through Midwest

UPI

CDC eyes air travel in mumps epidemic

AP

Northern California mudslides force evacuation

AP

New Italian PM to pull Iraq troops

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Rice calls for 'strong steps' against Iran

Parents sue soft drink cos. over benzene

Cheney admits throwing out spitball

Reuters.com




just kidding

Monday, April 10, 2006

Bush: talk of Iran attack 'wild speculation'

CNN



Didn't he say that about Iraq?

Global warming stopped in 1998

Telegraph | Opinion



Professor Bob takes it as proof that truth is being distorted by scientists suffering apparently either from a characteristic hysteria or the attempt to suck up the millions in grants being lavished by sympathetic hysterics on anyone willing to contradict corporate interests in the public discourse that "each such alarmist article is larded with words such as "if", "might", "could", "probably", "perhaps", "expected", "projected" or "modelled."" The NASA scientist quoted below, however, tells CBS that his reports were systematically emended by his Bush appointed boss who then left without comment to work at ExxonChevronTexaconNeocon: "the editor at the Council on Environmental Quality ... 'was obviously passing it through a political screen. ... He would put in the word "potential" or "may" or weaken or delete text that had to do with the likely consequence of climate change, pump up uncertainty language throughout.'" Professor Bob's scientific method leaves much to be desired. As long as nobody disputes the right end of the above graph, alarmist hypotheses cannot be dismissed except by prostitution to corporate interests.

Washington considering nuclear strikes against Iran

Sunday, April 09, 2006

E-voting 2006: the approaching train wreck

Pentagon's war on the web

Sunday Herald

"Firstly, the Pentagon says it will wage war against the internet in order to dominate the realm of communications, prevent digital attacks on the US and its allies, and to have the upper hand when launching cyber-attacks against enemies.

Secondly, psychological military operations, known as psyops, will be at the heart of future military action. Psyops involve using any media ? from newspapers, books and posters to the internet, music, Blackberrys and personal digital assistants (PDAs) ? to put out black propaganda to assist government and military strategy. Psyops involve the dissemination of lies and fake stories and releasing information to wrong-foot the enemy.

Thirdly, the US wants to take control of the Earth?s electromagnetic spectrum, allowing US war planners to dominate mobile phones, PDAs, the web, radio, TV and other forms of modern communication. That could see entire countries denied access to telecommunications at the flick of a switch by America."

US lung cancer epidemic from DU

H5NI increasing human-human transmission efficiency

H5N1 spreads into East Atlantic flyway

US immigrants mobilizing

UK schools will shut in flu pandemic

Bird flu reports soar though only one positive

Secret No 10 plan for bird flu food shortages

Monster rabbit devours English veggie plots

Yahoo! News

'"It is a massive thing. It is a monster. The first time I saw it, I said: 'What the hell is that?'"

Iran accuses US of "psychological war"

Saturday, April 08, 2006

Afghan drugs barons flaunt their wealth

US mulling Iran strikes

Scottish bird flu coincided with drill

Cats could fuel bird flu pandemic

Tornadoes kill 10 in Tennessee

World 'cannot meet oil demand'

Tornado, sand-storms and hail strike Israel

Friday, April 07, 2006

When the water runs out

Fed Aspartame 'study' cockamamie claptrap

Deadly dollar dominos

Missing link solves a mystery of evolution

Guardian Unlimited

"The animal lived in the Devonian era lasting from 417m to 354m years ago, and had a skull, neck, and ribs similar to early limbed animals (known as tetrapods), as well as a more primitive jaw, fins, and scales akin to fish. The scientists who discovered it say the animal was a predator with sharp teeth, a crocodile-like head, and a body that grew up to 2.75 metres (9ft) long."

But why would a predator move onto land if there was nothing to predate there? Salad bar? This is the beginning of social class with the predator class living above the masses.

Third Egyptian human H5N1 fatality

Gold powers to 25-yr high on dollar

CNN

Another superlative for the Bush era.

FDA to review cell phone safety

Reuter

I trust they won't pay too much attention to studies by hysterical foreign doctors who only hate our freedoms.

Thursday, April 06, 2006

Egyptian HA H5N1 sequences similar

Is predicting mass die off advocacy?

Climate researchers feeling heat from White House

Snow in April in NYC

Seattle man dies from flesh-eating bacteria

Hawaii man dying from flesh eating bacteria

Swan tests confirm deadly virus in UK

EPA conducting criminal probe of BP

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Top UK brass plan for Iran strike

Iraq much worse off than before we "liberated" it

Capitol Hill Blue
So are we.

Government says Aspartame is good for you

DeLay implicated in FL casino boat murder

Aspartame and MSG damage nerve cells

Flu not nukes to be Iran war pretext

UCSD

"His paper "Influenza as a bioweapon" has a grand total of 5 citations... His only other paper on the subject, "Influenza as a bioterror threat: the need for global vaccination" has zero citations. Nonetheless, Dr. Casscells' outstanding credentials as a scientist will be invoked by the administration if he vouches for the credibility of 'intelligence' indicating that a dangerous mutated bird flu virus has been developed in an Iranian underground bioweapons laboratory. [Because he] has predicted the use of influenza as a bioweapon, he is likely to be inclined to believe such claims. Similarly his scientific colleagues at the "Defense of Houston" committee, that work on anticipating bioterrorism threats and are highly lauded by the administration and very well funded by Army grants."

Fujian bird flu throughout eastern Asia

Human H5N1 from China to Malaysia and Laos

Bird flu confirmed in Burkina Faso

Human H5N1 raises pandemic concerns in China

Unions retreat though millions protest "First Job Contract"

Iraq's US/UK permanent bases

INDEX




"Whilst Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence, continues to deny a permanent US presence there, the facts appear to contradict his statements."

Tax cuts on investment income a windfall for rich

CNN

Experts forecast active hurricane season

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Grapefruit sized hail

Monday, April 03, 2006

Chávez warns Iran invasion impending

2 killed as storm batters metro St Louis

Tornadoes, hail strike 4 midwest states

Sunday, April 02, 2006

Beware! Cell phones cause tumours

Times of India

"Children should avoid using cell phones whenever possible because they are most vulnerable to tumour risk than adults, the study warned."

They make you stupid long before giving you a tumor.

First human bird flu case in Jordan

Azeri bird flu familial cluster grows

Random flu mutation theory false

UK bird flu may kill 320,000

Time running out to form Iraq govt

Reuters

Dr Rice when losing patience with the slow progress of the impossible task of forming a stable government in Iraq after US mass destruction does not point out that its ultimate failure means no US troop reduction around the oil fields and pipelines. Where does she expect to get the troops?

Mass graves fear in bird flu attack

Mumps epidemic in Iowa

Secret UK talks about Iran strike

Telegraph



If you look at the lower right of the diagram, you'll see the the term "250,000 conscripts" without further comment. That means "draftees." Although it says "US" at the top left, I assume they mean UK conscripts.

UT professor says doomsday is imminent

Saturday, April 01, 2006

Pressure on Iran may spur attacks

Washington Post
Follow me here. Citing the security threat they say exists if they reveal details of the security threat they say exists, they're using terrorist attacks they say will result from their plans to attack Iran to seem to justify their plans to attack Iran.

Pacific Ocean getting warmer, more acidic

Long-term mobile phone use raises brain tumor risk

Yahoo! News

They obviously make you an idiot long before giving you cancer.

SF sets March rain record

SFGate

Two more superlatives for the Bush era.

Record driest March set at Central Park

Weather Underground

"Only 0.80 inches of rain was measured at Central Park during the
month of March. The makes March the driest on record. This breaks
the old record of 0.90 inches for the month of March set in 1885."