A local PBS station ran this blurb in a longer form. Wait for number two for enviromentally friendly recycling. If it's Ok with the EU it's Ok with me!
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Linkee Blankee.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
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Is the blank link the joke?
That you don't have any "Green" Jobs?
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None that don't have to be heavily subsidized (by the gummint, natch), RJ.
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Sorry about that I hit submit rather than preview, and the post with the linkeew went into the twlight zone between the sinktrap and roadside america.
Here is the video makes one really want to recycle.
MEXICO CITY, April 25 -- The World Health Organization rushed to convene an emergency meeting Saturday to develop a response to the "pandemic potential" of a new swine flu virus that has sparked a deadly outbreak in Mexico and spread to disparate parts of the United States.
Health officials reported that at least eight students at a private high school in New York City had "probable" swine flu. They also confirmed three new cases -- two in Kansas and one in California -- bringing the total number of confirmed U.S. cases to 11. The president of Mexico, where the outbreak has killed as many as 81 people, issued an order granting his government broad powers to isolate patients and question travelers.
"This is a serious moment for the nation," President Felipe Calderón said Saturday. "And we are confronting it with seriousness, with all the pertinent measures."
The director general of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, said the "situation is evolving quickly."
"We do not yet have a complete picture of the epidemiology or the risk, including possible spread beyond the currently affected areas," said Chan, who cut short a trip to the United States so she could rush back to the WHO's headquarters in Geneva to convene an emergency meeting of expert advisers to formulate a response to the virus. It is the first time the committee has been called upon since it was created two years ago to help handle disease outbreaks after the SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, epidemic.
"In the assessment of the WHO, this is a serious situation that must be watched very carefully," she said. "It has pandemic potential."
Posted by: Fred ||
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Hmm. Kansas, only one went to mexico... are they illegals? San Diego, San Antonio... illegals there too?
If this turns out to be an epidemic, and people in Mexico panic, they damn sure aren't going to go running for Guatemala. They and their contagion are headed north, and we don't have any way of stopping them short of militarizing the border.
Where is our border control and our fence Mr McCain and all you "Open Border" types?
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Outbreaks now reported from students returning from Mexico in Auckland, NZ and France.
However, though this epidemic is showing cytokine storm effects, with mortality being worst among young males aged 25-44, pneumonia appearing in 85% of cases, about the max mortality under ideal circumstances in the US would be between 100,000 and 200,000. (A typical flu season US mortality has been recently recalculated at around 36,000.)
This compares to estimated US mortality of as high as 30 million for H5N1 Avian flu.
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The US has just declared a "public health emergency" Toughly 12 million doses of the drug Tamiflu will be moved from a federal stockpile to places where states can quickly get their share if they decide they need it. Priority will be given to the five states with known cases so far: California, Texas, New York, Ohio and Kansas.
Sec HHS Napolitano called the emergency declaration standard operating procedure one was declared recently for the inauguration and for flooding. She urged people to think of it as a "declaration of emergency preparedness."
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One CDC report said this was an unusual virus, as the bug contains human virus(A), avian virus from North America and pig viruses from North America, Europe and Asia. Engineered?
NYT's:"Swine Flu Epidemic Spreads: Young Muslims Hit Hardest" The will of Allah? Napolitano even reitterated that the flu could not be caught by eating pork.
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To clarify: My God(Allah) declared ALL things acceptable for food, even swine, as long as thanks are given. I found the irony that Muslims may be the hardest hit sweeeeet!!!
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Tamiflu resistance developes quickly. It helps control small spot outbreaks, but will be useless for larger outbreaks. The strain spreading is almost certainly Tamiflu resitant because Tamiflu would have been used to control the initial spread in Mexico.
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There probably is no way of knowing, JosephM, and even were a culprit discovered, not likely that the public would ever be informed. Instapundit has several useful links for preparing against the worst case, though. Rantburg had a useful thread on the subject yesterday, too.
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Best guess at the moment is (live) vaccine given to pigs (La Gloria, Veracruz), which combined with existing pig flu strain, then infected humans. Unlikely as it sounds initial transmission may have been by flies, then combined with existing human strain(s).
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MEXICO CITY, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Mexican health secretary said on Sunday that suspected swine flu death toll rose to 103, as suspected cases reaching 1,614.
Note fatality rate is 7%, which will rise to over 10% as newly sick die. Although, cases are being undercounted, by perhaps a factor of 10. So real fatality rate is lower.
Also note 1918 pandemic had 3 or 4 waves, most fatalities occuring in the 2nd and 3rd waves.
[Bangla Daily Star] South AfricaŽs ruling ANC swept general elections with just short of two-thirds of the vote, the final count showed yesterday, putting party leader Jacob Zuma at the doorstep to the presidency.
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Congratulations South Africa. The man has only a 5th grade education. The end is near.
[Mail and Globe] Jacob Zuma's election victory in South Africa has been welcomed by ministers in Zimbabwe as intensifying pressure on president Robert Mugabe.
Zuma, whose African National Congress (ANC) looked on course last night to retain its two-thirds parliamentary majority, has been outspoken in his criticism of Mugabe's autocratic rule.
He has since come out in support of the power-sharing agreement between Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Morgan Tsvangirai. Zuma has criticised his predecessor Thabo Mbeki's approach of "quiet diplomacy" towards the crisis-torn neighbour.
Tendai Biti, finance minister in the unity government and secretary general of the MDC, on Friday looked forward to a Zuma presidency. "I don't think it will be quiet diplomacy," he said. "That was buried on 22 September 2008, the day Mbeki was removed. I expect a more forthright, honest and hands-on diplomacy. Jacob Zuma is not Thabo Mbeki and that means a lot. I know the man and meet him regularly and know the way he thinks."
Unlike Britain and America, South Africa has thrown its weight behind the power-sharing agreement, despite concerns that Mugabe and his allies remain dominant. Biti added: "South Africa is leading the way in supporting us directly, including financial assistance. They recognise the problem requires international support. They've been calling for that consistently."
Zuma, who has a track record on brokering peace deals in conflict areas, is thought to be keen to keep the ear of Mugabe. But he has family ties with the MDC: last year one of his daughters married the son of Welshman Ncube, a leading figure in the party.
David Coltart, Zimbabwe's minister of education and an MDC senator, said: "The key for us is that Jacob Zuma wins and assumes the presidency. Of the last three -- Thabo Mbeki, Kgalema Motlanthe and Zuma -- he has been the most outspoken. I think Robert Mugabe will be fairly nervous about his relationship with him.
"Zuma and Mugabe are very different characters. You would never see Mugabe singing a song in front of the faithful and dressed in casual attire."
Coltart added: "There has been concern here that, because South Africans have been distracted, elements of Zanu-PF have been pushing the envelope. I think those who have been blatantly breaching the agreement will now have to watch themselves."
South Africa has long been regarded as the democratic anchor of the continent. After the violent crackdown that followed last year's disputed elections in Zimbabwe, Zuma said: "We cannot agree with Zanu-PF, we cannot agree with them on values. We fought for the right of people to vote. We fought for democracy."
But the long-running bribery and corruption allegations against Zuma, dropped just before the election, left a nasty taste in the mouths of many, and there are concerns that he lacks credibility as a democratic flag-bearer.
Anxieties among Zuma's critics grew yesterday as the ANC remained confident that it would narrowly retain its two-thirds parliamentary majority, giving it the power to change the Constitution. With nearly 14,5-million votes counted, the ANC led with a 66,91% share.
The opposition Democratic Alliance claimed 15,62% while the Congress of the People (Cope), formed by a breakaway faction of the ANC last year, was trailing on 7,53%.
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Until Africa and its richest (resources) countries breaks their cycle of tribalism in selecting their leaders it will always be the "darkest" continent in terms of progress and the future.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Saudi Arabia is cracking down on overly loud loudspeakers used to call the faithful to prayer, as mosques increasingly drown each other out, the official SPA news agency said on Saturday.
Islamic Affairs Minister Sheikh Saleh al-Sheikh ordered teams to inspect mosques in the holy city of Mecca, in Riyadh and elsewhere around the kingdom for too powerful speakers. In Medina, imams have been told to make the initial summon to prayer over loudspeakers outside the mosque, and after that use only the internal speaker system to continue the ritual, SPA reported.
In Bahah city in western Saudi Arabia, ministry inspectors recently removed 100 speakers from 45 mosques because they were too loud and smothered out the broadcasts of other mosques.
The call to prayer is a central part of life for Muslims. There are five every day. Many mosques put imams' sermons on the public sound system as well, so that those unable to go to the mosque can listen from home or the street.
But the ministry says some mosques now have speakers that can be heard as much as five kilometers (three miles) away.
The result is that mosques in close proximity, especially in places where there are many of them like Riyadh and Mecca, smother out each others' broadcasts to the point that they are unintelligible even inside the mosques, the ministry said.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Turkey objected Saturday to U.S. President Barack Obama's statement on the Ottoman-era mass killings of Armenians, claiming it was an unbalanced view of history and ignored the suffering of Turks.
"We consider some expressions in (Obama's) statement and the perception of history it contains concerning the events of 1915 as unacceptable," the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement.
In Obama's message to mark April 24, the date on which Armenians remember the killings, he refrained from using the word "genocide" despite a campaign promise to do so. He instead used the Armenian term "Meds Yeghern" which has been variously translated as "The Great Calamity" or "Great Disaster."
The term predates the use of the word "genocide" but is sometimes used by Armenians to refer to the killings.
Turkey categorically rejects the genocide label and argues that 300,000-500,000 Armenians and at least as many Turks died in civil strife when Armenians took up arms in eastern Anatolia and sided with invading Russian troops.
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[Geo News] Chief Minister Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif Saturday invited Pakistan People's Party to join Punjab government during a meeting with Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani. During the meeting both the leaders discussed matters relating to law and order, wheat purchase and employment of new IG in Punjab. The Prime Minister thanking Shahbaz Sharif, said PPP will make its decision in connection with joining the Punjab government in its parliamentary party meeting.
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[Straits Times] HUNDREDS of anti-government protesters gathered for a rally in Bangkok on Saturday, a day after the prime minister lifted a state of emergency imposed amid violent demonstrations earlier this month. The small protest at a downtown park is the first since supporters of ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra rampaged through the capital and clashed with troops on April 12 and 13, leaving two people dead and 123 injured.
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Following the hand out of cash in envelopes to journalists and free potato handouts to potential voters by Ahmadinejad's election camp, the efforts to buy votes with more hand outs was intensified to help re-elect Ahmadinejad.
In another vote bribing stunt, Ahmadinejad's camp announced free orange handouts to people when Ahmadinejad was due to speak in the poor district of Islamshahr. Of course the stunt worked and as predicted pulled in large crowds who would not miss the opportunity of getting fresh juicy oranges for free. There was however one problem. The oranges were Israeli oranges with obvious 'Jaffa' labels still on them!
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And Granny Smith apples from Israel are sold all over the Middle East. Of course, they are off-sold from Turkey, which sells Azerbaijan pipeline oil to Israel. The pariah state also produces most Pentium processors used in the world.
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I never fail to understand this Bizarro world where something as simple as fruit is considered a luxury. Bribing voters with oranges?
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gromky, when I was growing up in South Alabama oranges were a luxury to us. So were apples, grapes, strawberries, any fruit. The only time we got fruit was at Christmas.
Iran's economy is very bad so I doubht there is much money for people to buy anything but staples.
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They're only being bribed to show up at the rally, in the hope that will influence their vote. And they are being bribed with what everyone knows to be the very best, not the everyday fruit available from the street vendors.
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I remember christmases past, yes we did indeed get oanges and yes they were NOT easily available like today, also bags of pecans, (We had Pecan trees)and other odd fruit like Cocanuts, (Whole, Dad let us figure how to open them. No, hammers and a concrete floor did NOT work)and peaches a kiwi or two, and such odd stuff that's available everywhere today.
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I love to bring a box of Clementines to winter parties. Festive and tasty!
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Dang, I must be a spoiled Californian. I live on what is bascially a fog-bound, wind-blown sand dune and yet we have almost a year-round growing season.
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Gabby, don't worry. The democrats in California are doing what they can to shut down all agriculture in California - things like cutting available water, etc. Eventually, California will import food just like Iran.
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Yeah.
You know, it's sad. We can do the right thing by all -- help the fisheries, help the farmers and cities conserve and resurrect rivers like the San Joaquin -- but folks keep playing a zero sum game...where in the end nobody wins.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
MEXICO CITY, April 25 -- The World Health Organization rushed to convene an emergency meeting Saturday to develop a response to the "pandemic potential" of a new swine flu virus that has sparked a deadly outbreak in Mexico and spread to disparate parts of the United States.
[Bangla Daily Star] South AfricaŽs ruling ANC swept general elections with just short of two-thirds of the vote, the final count showed yesterday, putting party leader Jacob Zuma at the doorstep to the presidency.
