Mexicaanse griep, Afghanistan, klimaat het KNMI en dieren, milieu, privacy en EPD, scheutjes, Monsanto, waslijnen en pijlinktvis

Gezondheid en vaccinaties Mexicaanse griep
The Times verwijderde reacties van lezers bij artikel over vaccinaties Mexicaanse griep


Afghanistan

Foto’s Afghanistan Boston Globe
Zeer indrukwekkende foto’s uit Afghanistan

U.S. Threatens Afghans Over Kidnapped GI
At least two Afghan villages have been blanketed with leaflets warning that if an American soldier kidnapped by the Taliban two weeks ago isn't freed, "you will be targeted."

Villagers near the border of two volatile provinces, Ghazni and Paktika, tell CBS News' Sami Yousafzai that aircraft dropped the leaflets during the past several days.

Military spokeswoman Capt. Elizabeth Mathias confirmed that the leaflets were produced at Bagram Air Base, the primary U.S. installation in Afghanistan, and distributed in the region.

She told CBS News correspondent Mandy Clark "that they were distributed by hand, not aircraft".

According to CBS: “The papers show on one side an image of a soldier with his head bowed so that his face is not visible (above). A message in the local Pashtun language over the image says, "If you do not free the American soldier, then…"”
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/07/16/world/worldwatch/entry5163670.shtml

CNN - World: Pamphlets aid search for U.S. soldier missing in...
Washington Post - U.S.: U.S. Soldier May Be a Captive of Taliban Forces
CNN - World: 2 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan


Afghanistan now is Obama's war (by Helen Thomas)
I had an historical flashback recently when I read a Washington Post news story about how the U.S. commander in Afghanistan thinks he may need many thousands more troops to win the war.

Shades of Vietnam. Do we ever learn?

It brought back memories of the late Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the U.S. commander in Southeast Asia, who kept escalating the troop numbers after the 1967 Tet offensive in Vietnam. His strategy produced a debacle for us.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=1275

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Klimaat

Opwarming Nederland en nieuwe insecten
Krekelsoort en sprinkhanensoorten erbij in Nederland door opwarming klimaat

Methoden en technieken van het KNMI
Het KNMI en communicatie en klimaatonderzoek


Milieu

Milieu en zelfreinigend systeem atmosfeer
Onderzoekers K.U.Leuven vinden verklaring voor zelfreinigend systeem atmosfeer

Privacy en EPD

11.000 EPD’s gehackt met 'Trojaans paard'
De elektronische patiëntendossiers van meer dan 11.000 Canadezen zijn mogelijk in handen van hackers gekomen. De hackers hadden het netwerk van zorgorganisatie Alberta Health Services (AHS) weten te infiltreren.
http://www.ictzorg.com/nieuws/nieuw/2857/11-000-epd-s-gehackt-met-trojaans-paard


Voeding

Monsanto en graan
Monsanto richt zich weer op genetisch gemanipuleerd graan

Scheutjes zijn het nieuwste 'supervoedsel'
Het nieuwste supervoedsel heet 'Brocco shoots' en zou helpen kanker te verslaan door alle vitamines en antioxidanten die het bevat. Een pakje 'brocco shoots' bestaat uit de unieke combinatie van scheuten van broccoli, alfalfa, klaver en radijzen.
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/39/Lekker-Eten/article/detail/930601/2009/07/15/Scheutjes-zijn-het-nieuwste-supervoedsel.dhtml


Verboden dekens aan waslijnen te hangen in VS

Clothesline bill hung out to dry
Rep. Pricey Harrison, a Greensboro Democrat, got a little bill (H 1353) through the House that would prohibit cities and counties from adopting blanket prohibitions on clotheslines, NewsRecord reports.

The idea is to allow people who want to save energy by hanging out their laundry, rather than use their dryers, even if some folks in the community turn up their nose at the idea.

Originally, the bill started out as an effort to keep homeowners associations from adopting restrictive covenants prohibiting clotheslines, but Harrison took that out of the bill after getting a lot of resistance.
http://www.news-record.com/blog/53964/entry/64277


The Pope breaks his wrist in fall
Pope Benedict XVI has suffered a small fracture to his wrist after falling while on holiday in northern Italy, the Vatican and hospital officials say.

The Pope, 82, went for a check-up at a hospital in the alpine town of Aosta. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8155372.stm


Californië wordt belaagd door reuze squid, een pijlinkvis
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=14544116&ch=4226713&src=news

Doden door vaccinatietest Polen, GM en landbouw, zandstorm Irak, vleermuizen en wilde dieren in Kenia

Fox to Guard Henhouse? Former Monsanto VP May Be Named To Head FDA Safety Working Group

Sometimes I'm just rendered speechless, and this is one of those times. Natasha Chart via Sustainable Food at Change.org:

Obama's considering appointing a former Monsanto vice president, Mike Taylor, to head the Food Safety Working Group at the FDA.

As Jill Richardson writes at LaVidaLocavore at the link above, Taylor thinks the FDA wastes too much time on food safety inspections at meat packing plants. Further, he believes that one of their main problems is that they have to slow down their line speed too much.
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/fox-guard-henhouse-former-monsanto-vp

Homeless people die after bird flu vaccine trial in Poland

Three Polish doctors and six nurses are facing criminal prosecution after a number of homeless people died following medical trials for a vaccine to the H5N1 bird-flu virus, according to The Telgraph.

The British newspaper reports: “The medical staff, from the northern town of Grudziadz, are being investigated over medical trials on as many as 350 homeless and poor people last year, which prosecutors say involved an untried vaccine to the highly-contagious virus.”

Authorities claim that the alleged victims received £1-2 to be tested with what they thought was a conventional flu vaccine. But according to investigators, it was actually an anti bird-flu drug.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2235676/Homeless-people-die-after-bird-flu-vaccine-trial-in-Poland.html


Baby kan toe met een prikje minder
Baby’s kunnen een vaccinatie minder krijgen. Nu krijgen zij voor hun eerste verjaardag vier keer een vaccin tegen pneumokokken, bacteriën die levensbedreigende ziekten kunnen veroorzaken, maar het geven van drie vaccinaties blijkt net zo effectief.

Onderzoekers van het UMC Utrecht, het Nederlands Vaccin Instituut en het Spaarne Ziekenhuis hebben dit in een studie die is verschenen in het internationale wetenschappelijke tijdschrift JAMA gemeld, aldus De Volkskrant.

http://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/article1255468.ece/Baby_kan_toe_met_een_prik_minder#1


GM-free zones to ‘protect’ farmers

Welsh farm leaders have welcomed tough new proposals to tighten controls on genetically modified crops.

According to the Daily Post, the Assembly Government wants GM-free zones in Wales and a ban on GM crops in national parks and SSSIs.

The newspaper reports: “Also proposed is strict liability for GM crop growers, and a new voluntary industry-funded compensation scheme. Cardiff will even consider a statutory scheme.”

The Farmers Union of Wales said it backed measures which protected growers of traditional crops from accidental contamination by genetically modified organisms (GMOs). FUW president Gareth Vaughan said the industry had invested heavily on added-value food products.

“Going down the GMO route will quickly lead to us losing that competitive edge,” he said.
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/farming-north-wales/farming-news/2009/07/02/gm-free-zones-to-protect-farmers-55578-24053650/


Strange Martial Law via Food Control: HR 2749
HR 2749 is a strange bill in many ways. While the other “food safety” bills have been around since winter, allowing for much public discussion on the internet, HR 2749 has only suddenly appeared. It is a mutant conglomeration of the worst of the other bills, with the addition of one very original part – martial law.

Who did write these bills? It seems Monsanto had not only a hand, but a “defining” influence. http://farmwars.info/?p=594

Zie ook:
http://farmwars.info/?p=1145


Huge Iraq Dust Storm Seen From Space

A giant dust storm that has raged through Iraq and other Middle East countries for more than a week has been imaged by satellite, according to LiveScience.

LiveScience said: “Many Iraqis considered the storm to be the worst in living memory, according to news reports. Hundreds of people reported to the hospital for respiratory distress, and the blowing dust interfered with travel by air and on land.”

The new picture, released today, comes from NASA's Aqua satellite. It shows the region at the height of the storm July 5.
http://www.livescience.com/environment/090707-dust-storm.html


Media en privacy, AIVD versus Telegraaf
De Telegraaf eist samen met de journalistenvakbond NVJ en het Genootschap van Hoofdredacteuren dat de AIVD onmiddellijk stopt met het afluisteren, volgen en observeren van journalisten. Het recht op vrije nieuwgaring is in het geding. Dat meldt NOVA.

De Telegraaf wil de misstanden over de inval in Irak aan de kaak stellen. Er is nog veel meer informatie in handen gekomen van de AIVD. Dat zijn de verkeerde handen.

Bij NOVA: Telegraaf sleept Staat voor rechter: stop afluisteren, volgen, observeren journalisten!

Unieke dieren in de natuur

Video wilde dieren in Kenia
Veel van de wilde beesten in een van de belangrijkste reservaten in Afrika worden met uitsterven bedreigd. Dat bericht de BBC.

Zo leven er nu 95 procent minder giraffen in het Masai Mara reservaat in Kenia, een van de meest wonderbaarlijke natuurlijke wonderen op aarde. Een video met prachtige opnamen van wilde dieren als buffels, wrattenzwijnen, leeuwen en zebra’s in dit unieke reservaat.
Bij de BBC: Veel wilde dieren ernstig bedreigd in belangrijk Afrikaans reservaat

Natuur en vleermuizen
Vleermuizen die in bomen wonen leiden een bijzonder verborgen bestaan. Ze leven ver buiten het bereik van mensen. Meestal zijn de geluiden die ze maken voor ons blote oor niet hoorbaar. Maar juist nu kan men ze de boom uit horen piepen.



Informatie op Natuurbericht: Unieke opnamen van vleermuizen in holle boom

11 september, vaccinaties, de maan, klimaatverandering en voeding in onze tuin

American Airlines Exposes Bush's Big Lie: Flights 11 and 77 DID NOT FLY on 9/11 (dit moet uit te zoeken zijn)
http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-airlines-exposes-bushs-big-lie.html


Klimaatverandering: legende of werkelijkheid? Over de duurste controverse in de geschiedenis van de wetenschap

Het is de grootste en de duurste controverse uit de geschiedenis van de wetenschap. Een omvangrijke bureaucratie geeft reusachtige bedragen uit aan ‘klimaatpolitiek’, ‘ondersteunend’ wetenschappelijk onderzoek en de propaganda daarvan, aan windmolens, emissiehandel en koolstofopslag…. maar het is allemaal weggegooid geld.

De aarde is in de tweede helft van de vorige eeuw enkele tienden van graden opgewarmd, maar dat is een gevolg van natuurlijke oorzaken. De mens stoot weliswaar heel wat CO2 uit maar dat heeft geen merkbare invloed op het klimaat. Professor Dick Thoenes prikt de zeepbel door.
http://www.klimatosoof.nl/Thoenes


Falling Economy Spurs Home Gardening Boom
The economic downturn has led to a concurrent resurgence in the popularity of backyard food gardening, according to industry surveys and analysis of this year's seed orders.

"People's home grocery budget got absolutely shredded, and now we've seen just this dramatic increase in the demand for our vegetable seeds," said George Ball of Burpee Seeds, the country's biggest mail-order seed company. "We're selling out. I've never seen anything like it."
http://www.naturalnews.com/026480_gardening_home_gardening_food.html


U.S. Army Scientists Exploring DNA Vaccines
U.S. Army scientists are studying a new DNA vaccine-delivery method that is needle-free and painless, said a senior Army research scientist at Fort Detrick, Md.
http://www.dodlive.mil/index.php/2009/06/us-army-scientists-exploring-dna-vaccines/


Wetenschap en gezondheid, vaccinaties

Inventory Uncovers 9,200 More Pathogens
An inventory of potentially deadly pathogens at Fort Detrick's infectious disease laboratory found more than 9,000 vials that had not been accounted for, Army officials said yesterday, raising concerns that officials wouldn't know whether dangerous toxins were missing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/17/AR2009061703271.html


Government Readies Schools As Mass Vaccination Clinics
The government is telling schools across the country to prepare to be used as clinics for mass vaccination programs set to be instituted later this year, according to an Associated Press report.

Schoolchildren are being targeted as the first recipients of a swine flu vaccine currently being developed, despite the fact that swine flu has proven far less lethal than originally feared, killing just 160 people worldwide, a figure dwarfed by the number of people who die annually from the regular flu virus.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/government-readies-schools-as-mass-vaccination-clinics.html


Medical Experts Push For Priority AH1N1 Vaccination For Below 40 Canadians, Natives
While all Canadians are supposed to be vaccinated against the Influenza A (H1N1) virus under the country's pandemic plan, since the shots will be available only in batches, health experts are suggesting residents below 40 and natives get first priority in being immunized.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7015567910#ixzz0JHoGJ4Nw&D
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7015567910http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7015567910#ixzz0JHnXPbw5&D


NASA Moon Bombing Is Cause For Worry: What's NASA up to now?

The closer we look at this mad science experiment, the more we can see a bigger, hidden ugly picture. Our Moon is extremely important to our Earth and our survival. It acts as a flywheel/stabilizer for Earth's non-spherical shape.

Simulations show that without the Moon oceans would become dead zones. Tides would no longer ebb and flow, which are vital to numerous forms of life world wide. Many sea turtles, crabs and other animals rely on tides for their survival. This ties directly into our food chain, too.
http://rense.com/general86/moonbomb.htm


'Supermarkets set to refuse cash ('Thursday 11 June 2009)
Dutch supermarkets are hoping to phase out the use of cash by 2014, the Financieele Dagblad reports on Thursday, quoting the retail board CBL.

The aim of the ban on cash is to make supermarkets less vulnerable to armed robberies, the paper says. Other solutions will be found for customers who do not want to use direct debit cards, a CBL spokesman said.
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2009/06/supermarkets_set_to_refuse_cas.php


Muziek: Antony and the Johnsons

Agent Orange en Vietnam, biometrische aderscan, 120.000 jaar oude microbe ontwaakt, poliovaccinatieslachtoffer krijgt geld

Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13974

Cash to become extinct as chips take off
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,,25637102-5014239,00.html


Wereldwijd bezig zo te zien, een zorgelijke ontwikkeling: Polio Vaccine Victim Wins Lawsuit Against Big Pharma

A New York jury has concluded that pharmaceutical company Lederle Laboratories was responsible for the injury to a man who contracted polio from a vaccine 30 years ago, and ordered it to pay him $22.5 million.
http://www.naturalnews.com/026458_polio_polio_vaccine_disease.html
http://quest.law.com/Search/Search.do?Ntt=polio&x=0&y=0&Nty=1&N=0&Ntk=SI_All&cx=1&sortVar=1


Mensenrechten
Mensenrechten en levenslange gevangenisstraf

Systeem om aders in vingers te identificeren; vingerafdruk achterhaald
Men kan stoppen met het nemen van vingerafdrukken. Bedrijven in Europa zijn al begonnen om een geavanceerd biometrisch systeem uit Japan in ontwikkeling te nemen dat mensen via unieke patronen van aders in hun vingers identificeert.

Naar verluidt is het de snelste en veiligste biometrische methode om mensen te identificeren.

From Times Online: November 11, 2008: “Why veins could replace fingerprints and retinas as most secure form of ID”:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5129384.ece

Why veins could replace fingerprints and retinas as most secure form of ID
Forget fingerprinting. Companies in Europe have begun to roll out an advanced biometric system from Japan that identifies people from the unique patterns of veins inside their fingers.
(Oud, maar fascinerend; nog steeds niet geïmplementeerd blijkt).


Microbe Wakes Up After 120,000 Years
After more than 120,000 years trapped beneath a block of ice in Greenland, a tiny microbe has awoken. The long-lasting bacteria may hold clues to what life forms might exist on other planets.
In: Live Science: Microbe van Groenland na 120.000 jaar ontwaakt
Na meer dan 120.000 jaar vast te hebben gezeten onder een blok ijs op Groenland is een kleine microbe ontwaakt. Deze taaie doorzetter kan volgens wetenschappers sleutels bevatten over welke levensvormen er kunnen bestaan op andere planeten.


Natuur en stad en dorp
De gemeenten hebben onvoldoende oog voor de ontwikkeling van natuur in stad en dorp. Het ontbreekt aan inzicht welke beschermde planten en dieren waar precies leven en er is bij de lokale overheden te weinig kennis van de beschermde soorten.

Er wordt maar weinig rekening gehouden met de Flora- en faunawet, zo meldt het Friesch Dagblad: Gemeenten houden te weinig rekening met natuur in de stad

Burgerdoden in Afghanistan, GM, vaccinaties en HPV, chemotherapie in de VS, Guantanamo, Gaza en Iran

Air Strike Kills Civilians in Afghanistan
Western air strikes sparked fresh controversy in Afghanistan on Wednesday as NATO said a bombing killed eight civilians and the US military estimated that up to 30 villagers died in an attack this month.

According to Truthout, “the announcements came after Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded an end to air strikes by foreign forces helping his government fight a Taliban insurgency, because of the growing and increasingly controversial civilian death toll.”
http://www.truthout.org/052009S


Guantanamo Closure Funds Stripped by Senate
Senators on Wednesday followed through with their vow to deny the Obama administration the necessary money to close the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Thruthout reports: “Voting 90-6, the Senate stripped $80 million from a supplemental military funding bill, $50 million of which was designated to close the controversial prison and $30 million for a Justice Department investigation into interrogation techniques used there.”
http://www.truthout.org/052009R


CIA head: J'lem knows not to attack Iran
Israel knows it needs to coordinate its strategy on Iran with other nations and that attacking Teheran's nuclear facilities would mean "big trouble," CIA director Leon Panetta said on Wednesday
http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/1997.html


VN-onderzoek Gaza
Environment team UN completes study Gaza conflict damage
Ban Ki-moon briefed about UN rights probe into Gaza conflict


Voeding en GM
A silent forest;het gevaar van genetisch gemanipuleerde bomen (gepresenteerd door een genetisch wetenschapper). Een simpele uitleg en een mooi weerwoord voor pro-genetici.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5rHZE9H7OA&feature=player_embedded

Genetisch gemanipuleerd spul is weer een stapje dichterbij. “Major wheat industry organizations from the US, Canada and Australia have announced that they intend to work together to commercialize genetically modified (GM) wheat crops.”
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Financial-Industry/US-Canadian-and-Aussie-wheat-industries-unite-behind-GM/?c=TJ6pZf%2BpD7dWK0vm8g2HTQ%3D%3D&utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter%2BDaily


Gezondheid en chemotherapie
Verplichte chemo voor 13 jarige, de rechtbank beslist. De ouders zijn op zoek naar alternatieve methodes maar ze worden uit de ouderlijke macht ontzet als ze verhinderen dat hun kind chemo ondergaat, zo meldt NaturalNews:

Court Orders Parents to Poison Their 13-Year-Old Child with Chemotherapy
http://www.naturalnews.com/026283.html

Vervolg; de ouders zijn gevlucht en ondergedoken. Als ze worden ontdekt worden ze gevangen gezet.

“It is interesting that pharmaceutical medicine is the only industry in America that's forced to recruit its patients at gunpoint.”
http://www.naturalnews.com/026305.html

Het Nieuwsblad meldt: “Uit de foto’s bleek dat de tumor van Daniel, die de Ziekte van Hodgkin heeft, was toegenomen sinds hij was gestopt met de chemokuur.”

Verder schrijft de krant: “Reguliere artsen schatten dat de kans voor genezing voor Daniel rond de negentig procent ligt. Het Hodgkinlymfoom is volgens hen zeer goed te behandelen met chemotherapie en bestraling.”
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/Article/Detail.aspx?articleID=DMF20052009_035


Gezondheid en vaccinaties tegen HPV
Natural News meldt: "1300 Girls Harmed by HPV Vaccines in UK; Bizarre Side Effects Like Paralysis and Epilepsy."
http://www.naturalnews.com/026293.html

Het oorspronkelijke artikel in The Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1160516/Paralysis-epilepsy-blurred-vision-1-300-girls-reaction-cervical-cancer-vaccine.html

Aantekeningen

Willem Middelkoop over de G-20 top in Londen



Volgens de financieel journalisten Willem Middelkoop en Mathijs Bouman die afgelopen donderdag te gast waren bij De Wereld Draait Door (DWDD), is de G20-top uitgelopen op een fiasco. Wereldleiders lieten donderdag weten dat de G20-top een 'historisch keerpunt' is voor hernieuwde economische groei en het oplossen van de wereldwijde financiële en economische crisis. Meer informatie is te vinden op FOKnieuws:
http://frontpage.fok.nl/nieuws/108673

Nicolas Sarkozy campaign against tax havens hit by reports of Swiss contacts

President Sarkozy's efforts to purge tax havens were hit by reports that he helped clients to put money in Switzerland.

The Times reports: "He faced claims that in his previous job as a lawyer he often helped rich French clients to open tax-friendly bank accounts in Switzerland."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/G20/article6023886.ece


Gezondheid

Kinderen, straling, mobieltjes en DECT
Het bizarre van onze mobiele telefonie is dat we ook hier weer met een experiment bezig zijn. Dat is een feit, want de gevolgen van deze apparaatjes zijn niet op termijn onderzocht, omdat ze gewoon nog niet zo lang bestaan.
http://www.wanttoknow.nl/overige/kinderen-straling-mobieltjes-en-dect/

Vaccinaties
Vaccinaties blijken onwerkzaam
http://zapruder.nl/portal/artikel/vaccinaties_blijken_onwerkzaam/rss

HPV en vaccinatie
In de ritse krant The Daily Mail stond afgelopen week een artikel waarom jongens ook ingeent dienen te worden tegen HPV: “Why boys need a jab for cervical cancer: Only then will girls be totally protected, say experts.”

Daniel Martin reports: “Boys should be vaccinated against the sexual infection which causes cervical cancer because so few girls have had the jab that protects against it, say campaigners. Even though boys cannot get cervical cancer, they can contract the human papillomavirus which causes 70 per cent of cases - and pass it on to girls.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1166593/Why-boys-need-jab-cervical-cancer-Only-girls-totally-protected-say-experts.html

Indonesia reconsiders vaccinations for children, citing mistrust of drug companies
(March 25, 2009 ) Indonesia's controversial health minister says she wants to end vaccinating children against meningitis, mumps and some other diseases because she fears foreign drug companies are using the country as a testing ground.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2008919288_apindonesiachildhoodvaccines.html?syndication=rss



Midden-Oosten en Afghanistan

Barack Obama fails to win Nato troops he wants for Afghanistan

President Obama made an impassioned plea to America’s allies to send more troops to Afghanistan, according to The Times Online. He warns “that failure to do so would leave Europe vulnerable to more terrorist atrocities."

But though he continued to dazzle Europeans on his debut international tour, the Continent’s leaders turned their backs on the US President.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6032342.ece

Afghanistan en gevangenen
Court rules detainees in Afghanistan can challenge imprisonment
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/bagr-a04.shtml


Israel en Gaza
Een vertaling van de Britse krant The Daily Telegraph over Israel en Gaza
Analyse: Israël riskeert te worden gezien als belangrijkste obstakel voor vrede
http://www.ditkannietwaarzijn.info/?p=11149

Gaza
http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/04/gaza-aid-prevented-by-us.html

Howard Schneider in The Washington Post
Israel Anticipated a Stronger Hamas in Gaza War

Irak
(By Anthony Shadid, The Washington Post) In the wake of clashes this week that pitted government forces against U.S.-backed Sunni fighters in Baghdad, the divergent views of two of the fighters' leaders brought to light two visions of the direction Iraqi politics are headed.
In Iraq, Political Ambiguity


Should Obama Control the Internet?

Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?

Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor—an arm of the executive branch that would have vast power to monitor and control Internet traffic to protect against threats to critical cyber infrastructure. That broad power is rattling some civil libertarians.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/should-obama-control-internet


Bilderberg-chairman: ‘Bilderberg helped create the Euro’

http://www.prisonplanet.com/bilderberg-chairman-%E2%80%98bilderberg-helped-create-the-euro%E2%80%99.html


Foto’s:
Uitbarsting Mount Redoubt in Alaska