But we all knew that...
Reporter: Every so often, diseases develop in different corners of the world, and disappear after wreaking damage to the tune of billions of dollars. After avian flu, the time has come for pigs. It is a disease that afflicts pigs, but because of the physiological similarity between humans and pigs, this disease afflicts humans as well. Now, the main actors in this great movie must go into action. The director has fulfilled his role very well, and gathered the boldest and most famous actors for this blockbuster. Ummmmmmmm...okay. Angels and Demons? Ya lost me...
The international news networks air the trailers of this movie for free. With the outbreak of this disease, the American president went into action, and said in a sensational speech: "My government has consulted health officials, and they have not advised the closing of the U.S. borders." In his speech, Barak Obama mentioned a medicine called Tamiflu but what exactly is Tamiflu? Who are the compassionate manufacturers of this medicine? This great pharmacist is none other than Rumsfeld, the former American secretary of defense. Rumsfeld! I knew it!! Actually, I figured it was Cheney. It usually is...
He is one of the shareholders, and an active and influential member on the board of directors of Gilead Science, which is the main provider of medicine for this disease. It should be noted that the Gilead Sciences is a Jewish company. Its name, in Hebrew means "holy place," and all its shareholders are Zionists. Ha! Case closed!
Dr. Ali-Reza Mehrabi, Shaid Beheshti University: The United States is one of the few countries with an arsenal of viruses. It is one of the countries with the largest arsenals of smallpox. It is interesting that last year, [Rumsfeld] bought, if I'm not mistaken, 18 billion dollars worth of new Gilead stocks. Oh, I think you might be "mistaken". Rummy probably wishes you weren't...
If we accept the assumption that work was conducted in a laboratory in Mexico whether in a pig farm or some other place the mere fact that this substance found its way out, even if by mistake, shows that the U.S. is conducting experiments in a peripheral country, rather than on its own soil. In this case, the U.S. might have lost control. Geez, maybe a coupla jars of it might fall off a truck in Iran maybe. Them CIA Zionist Mossad guys is tricky, ya know... Continued on Page 47
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Yep, it's caused by Peek Oilz or the 2nd wave of the flying-pig flue or the refinancing thing. Take you pick and have a seat. Odds are most of the audience won't survive until the end of the year.
How bad is it?
Well my friends, even a simple, (albeit heavily armed) goatherd could have seen what would happen when Enron meets ChryCo. If you have any money left at all I suggest flinging it into the wind or getting your ass up to the nearest HomeDepot (McNullery Mangery) and fetch a wheel barrow... you can bring how the flu in that babe. Remember the future is just the past with kooks in every corner.
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WORLD MIL FORUM [GOOGLE Chinglish transl.] > IIUC, ARTIC > BEIJING sees no merit to perceptions of pending US collapse due to vari economic and financial crises becuz even iff it did, IT WOULD TAKE ANOTHER 15-20 PLUS YEARS, i.e. Year 2025-2030 or afterwards, for any POST-US "NEW WORLD ORDER" TO BECOME ESTABLISHED, PLUS THE USA WILL STILL LIKELY REMAIN THE WORLD'S LEADING SUPERPOWER [thru 2050].
Also on WMF > IIUC CHINESE , RUSSIAN BINATIONAL RELATIONS ARE LIKELY TO REMAIN MUTUALLY POSITIVE FOR ANOTHER 5-10 YEARS [2015-2020], THEN MAY BECOME INCREASINGLY STRAINED DUE TO GROWING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL GEOPOL IMBALANCES BETWEEN THEM. THEIR STRATEGIC FOCUS IS NOTSOMUCH TO DIRECTLY CHALLENGE US GLOBAL SUPERIORITY OR EVEN DOMINANCE, BUT TO MAINTAIN THEIR MUTUALLY POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP [Read, as the US overextends/destroys itself].
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The biggest mistake America might ever have made is not to have marched on to Damascus and Tehran in April 2003
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We went to war with the army that we had, European Conservative. We didn't have an army capable of pacifying both countries after conquering them. You're right about how much easier life would be now, though, with only the two Lands of the Pure (Pakistan and Saudi Arabia) as serious contenders. :-(
Two British nationals arrested in Syria almost two months ago have been accused of involvement with terror network Al Qaeda, it emerged today. Mother-of-four Maryam Kallis and Yasser Ahmed were detained separately in the capital city of Damascus by the countrys feared secret police. According to the Syrian authorities, Mrs Kallis, 36, of west London has been raising funds for an organisation linked to the extremist group. The nature of 28-year-old Mr Ahmeds involvement has yet to be explained. However both sets of families deny there has been any wrongdoing. Mr Ahmed's sister Saima Zahur, said: We are a non-controversial British family.
Fears have been growing for the safety of the pair since the arrests on 17 March. Until today there had been no explanation for the detention. Representatives from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office have made urgent demands for access to them. So far they have been seen just twice by consulate officials for less than an hour. During those brief meetings, Mrs Kallis was described as being emotional and weak while Mr Ahmed was described as under strain.
We have visited on two occasions and have requested a further visit,' said a spokesman for the FCO. The Foreign Secretary raised this case on 8 May with his Syrian counterpart to underline our demand for full and proper access. We have repeatedly urged the Syrian authorities either to charge or release the two British nationals. We now look for this to happen as a matter of priority.
Today the Syrian Embassy in London gave the first indication as to why the pair were arrested. A statement read: The Syrian Authorities arrested Mrs Kallis and Mr Ahmed in Damascus on the 17 March 2009, and the interrogations indicated that both Ms Kallis and Mr Ahmed are working for a terrorist network related to the Al Qaeda organisation and other members of the network were also arrested by the Syrian Authorities. Mrs Kallis is involved in receiving funds from her husband Mr. Massoud Ahmad (who resides in the UK) and in conveying the funds to the above mentioned network. The investigation with the members of the network is still going on.
The Syrian Authorities allowed a representative of the British Embassy in Damascus to visit the detainees accordingly and a decision will be taken regarding the detainees as soon as the investigation is over. Suggestions that the British Secret Service were involved in the arrests have been strongly denied by the embassys spokesman Jihad Makdissi.
It is unclear whether the pair were acquainted but both had been studying Arabic at the Abu Nour Islamic Foundation for several years. Pakistani born Mrs Kallis of West London first moved to the Syrian capital with her four children and husband Massoud in 2002 to study Arabic. The young family lived with Mrs Kallis sister while both she and her husband studied. Initially, they had planned to stay for just one year but lengthened their visit as they felt the warm climate was benefiting their disabled daughter.
The couple came back to the UK in 2008 with one of their sons but Mrs Kallis returned to Damascus in March this year to collect her remaining children. It was during this visit she was arrested in the street by ten plain clothes policemen and marched to her apartment in handcuffs and took her travel documents including her passport.
Her sister opened the door and saw her handcuffed, with eight to ten men with them,' said her husband. They were barging into her house, took the passports off the children, off Maryam, off her sister as well and took Maryam away by force in front of her children.'
Meanwhile the family of Yasser Ahmed have told how he travelled to the country with his British wife and daughter to study Arabic in December 2006. Mr Ahmed, who previously worked with mentally ill children in Walthamstow, east London was in the second year of a degree course when he was arrested.
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Why would anyone live in Syria, particularly one of Pakistani birth, if they didn't need to? There are plenty of other places to study Arabic: Egypt, for instance, or Jordan, or Saudi Arabia -- where there are a great many Pakistanis -- or even Israel. I'm just surprised the Syrians suddenly decided to arrest them now.
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Associated (with tyrants) Press is here to explain it away
There has been some dicussion that the foreign press in Teheran was at least as much of a target as the US was. Both the press and NGOs seem very good at licking the boots that kick them.
Al
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Well, here's how the last dumbass idiot that got herself arrested (and released) from Iran's 'most infamous' prison described her ordeal once she got back to the U.S.:
"The women at the prison were truly remarkable, kind and patient with wonderful manners, the exact qualities that someone in such a position in a prison requires".
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See also BHARAT RAKSHAK [India]/OTHER > ISLAMIST ENEMY TO NEW STRATEGIC PARTNER: OBAMA PROPOSES NEW TRANSIT ROUTE THRU IRAN FOR DELIVERY OF MIL SUPPLIES TO AFGHANISTAN!?
Also on BR + PAKIS DEFENCE FORUMS > VARI POSTERS = believe that the BAMMER's new AFPAK STRATEGY gener focuses on RETURNING THE TALIBAN TO DE FACTO POWER IN PAKIS [Govt. power sharing?], IN EXCHANGE FOR TALIB ASSISTANCE IN ENDING THE INSURGENCY IN AFGHANISTAN???
Roxana Saberi, an American journalist convicted in Iran on spying charges, is to be freed after an appeals court downgraded her sentence. Lawyers for the 32-year old said the court had reduced the eight-year jail sentence to a suspended two-year term and she would soon be freed.
The Iranian-American television reporter had lived in Iran for six years before she was charged with "cooperating with a hostile state" after her arrest in January. The harsh sentence provoked an international backlash that prompted Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to express concern that she had received due process. After his intervention the head of the Iranian judicary asked for the appeal court review.
"The verdict of the previous court has been quashed," lawyer Saleh Nikbakht said. "Her punishment has been changed to a suspended two-year sentence and she will be out of prison."
Miss Saberi's father Reza said he and his wife Akiko were on their way to Tehran's Evin jail, where their daughter has been held, "to bring our daughter back home". Mr Saberi said his daughter would be allowed to leave Iran.
The former US beauty queen launched a hunger strike on April 21 in protest at her sentence, taking in only water or sugared water, but she ended it after about two weeks after being briefly hospitalised in the prison clinic.
The sentence was handed down just weeks after US President Barack Obama proposed better ties with Tehran after three decades of severed ties.
Iran, which does not recognise dual nationality, has said Miss Saberi had continued working "illegally" after her press card was revoked in 2006. Miss Saberi, who is also of Japanese origin, has reported for US National Public Radio, the BBC and Fox News.
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I read several blogs and responses on this yesterday and the one that made the most sense to me is that this is a case of extortion. The mullahs seized Saberi for the purpose of receiving something in return from USA. The question is what did they receive from Clinton to release her besides being called a humanitarian country?
[Al Arabiya Latest] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks with President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt on Monday on his first trip abroad since taking office as Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas announced that a new Palestinian government would be formed within 48 hours.
The hawkish Israeli premier will meet Mubarak in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, a week before heading to Washington to meet United States President Barack Obama, who has vowed to vigorously pursue Middle East peacemaking.
Netanyahu will try to secure the support of its main Arab ally for Israeli efforts to halt arch-foe Iran's nuclear drive, which the premier said he considers the main threat now faced by the Jewish state, but which Tehran says is for energy production.
"Netanyahu will tell Mubarak that Israel and the moderate Arab states should act together in the face of the common threat posed by Iran, which is trying to acquire nuclear weapons and interfere in the region," a senior official told AFP.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks with President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt on Monday on his first trip abroad since taking office as Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas announced that a new Palestinian government would be formed within 48 hours.
