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I guess everybody has heard by now that the American prezzdent, Obama has been chosen as the best candidate to be awarded the Nobel peace prize. While most of the world is raising eye brows and sayn’ “Say whaaaat?”, cheers and congratulations can not stop from the United States and… Israel. Fortunately, Fox “News” has compiled a list of reactions from major news papers throughout the world. I think the list could be better (one news paper in CHINA(?!) and nothing from Russia?) but here it is.

I think this just shows what many have been saying for years. The Nobel peace price is a bunch of baloney. I think people winning the prize in Chemistry (structure of the ribosome), Medicine (how chromosomes protect their ends) and Physics (optic fibers and digital imaging) are all well deserved. Also notice that the prizes for the latter three categories was awarded for achievements several decades old (which is the proper way of checking the “greatness” of it) while the peace prize was (and usually is) given for recent achievements (which is wrong). Obama was nominated just recently which is why many see it as an “investment for the future”, perhaps to help drive the big world government down our throats one last time.

Here is a link to a GREAT post about the state of world fisheries and the nonsense behind government subsidy revenues that are sustaining unreasonably high fleet numbers. For most readers, I highly recommend reading at least the first page, as it is informative enough, but I will encourage everyone to read the whole three page ordeal. Author of the post is Daniel Pauley, of whom a rather lengthy but interesting video can be seen in the “embedment” below. The subject is essentially the same. The best point he makes, in my opinion, is the vertical pressure that needs to be exerted upon government entities to achieve change (in sustainable fisheries), just like in smoking laws.

We might experience another spike in swine flu cases this fall, but the WHO predictions about the pandemic that will change our lives has less than came trough. By this time, according to WHO, we should all have at least curly tails, that is, if we failed to take their mediated swine flu vaccine, that has not been tested, and the vaccine makers have been made exempt from liability charges if something goes wrong. Luckily the medical profession has somewhat awaken, at least in the US. Health care workers are in first lines of receiving a mandatory jab of swine flu vaccine. When questioning nurses, one third would refuse a jab, and up to one half of doctors would follow suit. In my view, this is a good thing, since we don’t want the people managing our diseases (they generally don’t mange our health - how many times have you been at the doctors office for being healthy?) to fall prey to the Big Brother and Big Pharma scares and exaggerations.

Who is in charge, indeed? Two prime ministers and what seems to be an extreme case of convergent evolution.

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This is a part of comment published at EUobserver. A think tank based in Sweden is criticizing the way EU money is spent for propaganda, instead of informing people.

All this has nothing to do with “trying to reach out to citizens” and “inform them about EU policies” – which is what the EU claims its multi-million Communications Policy is about – and everything to do with trying to control its image and limit dissenting voices.

The EU has even talked about moving to control the EU’s image on the internet. Referring to the blogosphere, the commission has lamented the fact that: “Because of the many different sources of No campaigners on the internet, classic rebuttals are made impossible.”

The European Parliament’s Culture Committee subsequently voted for a report which proposed that the EU should regulate blogs – a proposal which was eventually watered down, but nonetheless indicates a very worrying trend.

All this is bad news for democracy. It is also an unacceptable use of public money – the use of taxpayer funds for government advertising is often strictly regulated at the national level, for instance in the UK, where “information” must be clearly distinguished from “advertising.”

Why does all of this matter? It is more relevant than ever as we move into the next campaign for the Irish referendum on the Lisbon treaty.

Much scorn is poured on those groups which privately fund themselves to fight against the enormous EU propaganda machine and try to offer alternatives to “ever closer union.” But rarely does anybody question the EU’s huge Yes budget, which provides a continuous feed into the population and the media, not only at times of a referendum, but constantly and permanently.

With so much public money at their disposal, the EU institutions are able to propel their own vision of the future of Europe, and also begin to create a monopoly over what should be regarded as the “facts.” The institutions claim to want a wider debate on Europe, but by trying to suppress those who do not support their vision, they are stifling debate.

Next time you see a poster or a website championing EU integration – the idea that more and more decisions should be made at the European level – ask yourself: should I really be paying for this?

This is from top of the page

The US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, has just signed a decree granting vaccine makers total legal immunity from any lawsuits that result from any new “Swine Flu” vaccine. Moreover, the $7 billion US Government fast-track program to rush vaccines onto the market in time for the Autumn flu season is being done without even normal safety testing. Is there another agenda at work in the official WHO hysteria campaign to declare so-called H1N1 virus—which has yet to be rigorously scientifically isolated, characterized and photographed with an electron microscope—the scientifically accepted procedure—a global “pandemic” threat?

What this actually means in Queen’s Vulgar? Imagine a scenario, that “health officials” are recommending you to take a swine flu shot (or even force you to do it, or to your children). Then, because of the vaccine, you or your child develop some nasty symptoms. Think Chron’s disease or paralysis. You by some twist of faith and good luck manage to show that this was in fact done by the vaccine. You take your papers to court and they throw you out on the side walk, your non-insured teeth first, because the producers are legally immune to any lawsuits pertaining the vaccine and possible consequences. In the end, would you still take the shot or gave it to your offspring, even if you know there may be possible undesirable and/or fatal side effects and that was rushed through safety testing?

It happened before. Back in 1976, there was a Swine flu outbreak and a hefty sum of people got vaccinated.

The last time the US Government faced a new swine flu virus was in 1976. Thousands filed claims contending they suffered side effects from the shots. This time, the government has taken steps to prevent any possible legal remedy should thousands of US citizens suffer severe complications as a result of being given untested vaccines.

Doesn’t make you feel much batter knowing that some companies and politicians and other “officials” are working hard to satisfy your needs?

The US is preparing for a major readiness for a terrorist attack drill, which will encompass domestic and foreign law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Do you think the drill can go “live” and a real terrorist attack can happen? It has happened before. Remember the day when NORAD held hijacking exercise? It was September 11, 2001. Remember of the big anti-terrorist drill in London? It was July 7, 2005. These things are known to go live and I would not be surprised if something along the lines of 9/11 or 7/7 happened. Let’s wait and see.

These are some of the most imaginative and funny protests signs I’ve ever seen. They were taken amid a protest against the bailout in downtown Chicago on July 9th 2009.

Does this sound familiar? Aired in March 2001.

Does anyone remember the Somali pirates from a few weeks ago? Doesn’t matter, here is a new set of pirates you won’t hear about at all. They’re not far from Somalia, but in the Mediterranean:

On June 30, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy in international waters illegally boarded the “Spirit of Humanity,” kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries, including former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Laureate Mairead MaGuire, and confiscated the cargo of medical supplies, olive trees, reconstruction materials, and children’s toys that were on the way to the Mediterranean coast of Gaza. The “Spirit of Humanity,” along with the kidnapped 21 persons is being towed to Israel as I write.

Read the rest of the article here.

I went to our biggest shopping center (in Slovenia) to restock our tiny fridge and have the ingredients ready for tomorrows dinner. After shuffling through a stand of vegetables, I couldn’t find a single carrot that has been produced in Slovenia. Major vegetable importers here are Italy and Spain. I find supporting our local growing very important but am too lazy or is too inconvenient to go to the bazaar and buy from a local farmer. I’m willing to pay extra to see home articles in my local market. I don’t think that’s too much to ask for.

There you have it, the House passed a bill on “clean energy”, regulating more or less every aspect of an average person’s life. Did representatives read it? Hardly, there was a copy at speaker’s desk or online (and they would have to leave to access it). Just a note to all the people who put all their money on the Democrats. They’re all the same. I recommend visiting the link and at least watching the 10 minutes long video by Boehner (R-Ohio).

And here it is, HR 2454, 1201 pages of unread material passed the House. Congratulations to all the involved and beneficiaries!

It has been close to nine years since the blunder in the States began. Perhaps not many people still remember the good old 2000 and the Florida hanging chad debacle with Bush and Gore. The media took a big bite and swallowed. Then there was Ohio 2004 and the recount mess, the media bit again, swallowing whole. Not only that, they asked for seconds. And so people of the World (and the States) still remain clueless about the events of 2000 and 2004. At least that would explain how they still remain silent when their president waves his finger at Iran for having a rigged elections. Oh, and forget the fact that 400 million US dollars was poured into Iran (vive la recession) by the CIA (just in time for elections), who is notorious for destabilizing regions, countries and continents. I wonder where the hypocrisy (I call it hypocrazy) ends.

Check out this C-SPAN video with Flynt Leverett (Penn state). What he’s saying is that there is no evidence that the elections in Iran were rigged (favoring Ahmadinejad). Couple that with the way BBC tries to smear Ahmadinejad, you can see that someone is drumming up for war. Dumping the dollar may have something to do with it, among other things.

Let the quote speak for itself:

Russia’s Prime Minister Putin arrived in the town of Pikalyovo, the Leningrad region, after crowds of the local residents took to the streets and blocked a motorway protesting over unpaid salaries. Three major enterprises of the town were shut down, and nearly all of the townsfolk found themselves unemployed.

Putin harshly criticized the authorities of the Leningrad region upon his arrival in the town.

“If you can’t come to an agreement with each other to solve the problem, it will be done without you,” Putin said addressing top officials and the governor of the Leningrad region.

Putin forced the local authorities to pay the salary debts entirely - 41.2 million rubles - within only one day.

When the three major enterprises of the town were shut down, the locals lost their jobs and had their homes cut from hot water supplies: the boiler-house was shut down too.

“Why did you make everything look like a dump here?” Putin asked local officials during the tour of the troubled enterprises – the cement, alumina and the chemical works. The enterprises belong to different owners with Oleg Deripaska’s Bazel being the largest one of them (Deripaska used to be ranked as Russia’s richest men).

“The worst thing that they could do not to make me go there was to start violating the law. I think that it was done in collusion with those who did not want me to arrive in the town,” Putin said later during a meeting with representatives of trade unions in Moscow .

Oleg Deripaska, whose fortune was evaluated at $28 billion last year, was being very nervous during the meeting with Putin in Pikalyovo. He forgot to sign the contract about the delivery of supplies for idle enterprises to resume operations.

“Has Oleg Vladimirovich (Deripaska) signed? I do not see his signature. Come here and sign it,” Putin said, throwing a pen onto the table.

Deripaska signed the document, stood up and left holding the pen in his hand.

“Give the pen back!” Putin told him.

“You have made thousands of people hostage to your ambitions, your lack of professionalism - or maybe simply your trivial greed,” Putin told Deripaska and two other businessmen who own cement and alumina factories in Pikalyovo.

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I wonder if this article is true or fake?

Reports of vans packed with explosives were confirmed at the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 as well as sub level explosions, among many other explosions. Vans were also discovered around the area, one had been exploded, one had been stopped for having a picture on the side of it with a plane flying into the World Trade Center, one had been stopped and found with explosives in it, and many others. The FBI actually had confirmed that a device was found in the complex and the building had begun to evacuate. It was this evidence that made the Federal Agency to speculate that a van packed with explosives was parked in the garage which was detonated to help weaken the structure.

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You hear politicians talk ALL the time how science is important in our state of affairs, with all the global warming hype and other problems pestering our society, but you rarely see them do anything about it. I’ve found another piece of inaction showing the State is subject to lobbying and nothing more. I have gotten the feeling there is no long term plan for anything other than how to transfer money from taxpayers to a few already loaded coffers.

If you look at the budget for 2009 of Slovenia (only in Slovenian) you will notice that there is little (ok, no) mention of scholarships for natural sciences by responsible Ministries. There are, however, predicted 50.732,00 € for scholarships for study of law by the Faculty of law. I fail to see how we need to encourage study of law, given that this faculty receives a lion’s share of new souls each year.
Then there’s the Ministry for culture giving whooping 667 k € for scholarships. I can’t find any other scholarships by specific Ministries financing students for natural sciences specifically. There are predicted scholarships for gifted and poor people, but that’s it.

I did not know that Islamic banking does (did?) not allow charging interest. This article gives some basic information. Basically, in the West, if you want to buy a car, you go to a bank, agree to a loan (with interest) upon which you receive your share of worthless papers (or electronically). In Islamic banking, the bank buys the car and sells it to the customer at a higher price but without interest. That way, the bank takes the risk as well. I see this as a more or less predatory lending proof system.

Here we go… again.

Israeli president has agreed to discuss the creation of the Palestinian state.

Mr Netanyahu, who leads a coalition government dominated by Right-wing parties, faces a new US effort to broker a Middle East settlement.

In the next four to five weeks, President Barack Obama’s administration is expected to publish an outline peace plan.

The crux of this proposal will be the creation of a Palestinian state - something that Mr Netanyahu and most of his coalition partners oppose. (link)

As you might have noticed, the government coalition opposes the creation of such state.

It would come with no surprise if during or just before the talks, a muslim-nazi-commie-hippie radicals launched two rockets towards Israel which would yield a response from IDF and end the talks rather abruptly. I will return to this post as soon as anything new over this happens.

I shamefully reprint the entire story here, however I take no credit for it. With this, I would like to illustrate the duality of the West. Saying one thing but in reality, doing something else, often the exact opposite. This fits with the current administration that talks the talk but doesn’t walk the walk.

At the final reception for Poland’s visiting Gomulka, stubby Nikita Khrushchev planted himself firmly with the Kremlin’s whole hierarchy at his back, and faced the diplomats of the West, and the satellites, with an intemperate speech that betrayed as much as it threatened.
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“We are Bolsheviks!” he declared pugnaciously. “We stick firmly to the Lenin precept—don’t be stubborn if you see you are wrong, but don’t give in if you are right.” “When are you right?” interjected First Deputy Premier Mikoyan—and the crowd laughed. Nikita plunged on, turning to the Western diplomats. “About the capitalist states, it doesn’t depend on you whether or not we exist. If you don’t like us. don’t accept our invitations, and don’t invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not. history is on our side. We will bury you!”

Just the day before, ambassadors of twelve NATO nations had walked out on a Khrushchev tirade that lumped Britain, France and Israel as bandits. Now Khrushchev was off again.

The Kremlin men cheered. Gomulka laughed. Red-faced and gesticulating, Nikita rolled on: “The situation is favorable to us. If God existed, we would thank him for this. On Hungary—we had Hungary thrust upon us. We are very sorry that such a situation exists there, but the most important thing is that the counterrevolution must be shattered. They accuse us of interfering in Hungary’s internal affairs. They find the most fearful words to accuse us. But when the British. French and Israelis cut the throats of the Egyptians, that is only a police action aimed at restoring order! The Western powers are trying to denigrate Nasser, although Nasser is not a Communist. Politically, he is closer to those who are waging war on him. and he has even put Communists in jail.”

“He had to,” offered Soviet President Kliment Voroshilov. Khrushchev turned on him and said: “Don’t try to help me.”

“Nasser is the hero of his nation, and our sympathies are on his side. We sent sharp letters to Britain, France and Israel —well, Israel, that was just for form, because, as you know, Israel carries no weight in the world, and if it plays any role, it was just to start a fight. If Israel hadn’t felt the support of Britain, France and others, the Arabs would have been able to box her ears and she would have remained at peace. I think the British and French will be wise enough to withdraw their forces, and then Egypt will emerge stronger than ever.”

Turning again to the Westerners, Khrushchev declared: “You say we want war, but you have now got yourselves into a position I would call idiotic” (”Let’s say delicate,” offered Mikoyan) “but we don’t want to profit by it. If you withdraw your troops from Germany, France and Britain —I’m speaking of American troops—we will not stay one day in Poland. Hungary and Rumania.” His voice was scornful as he added: “But we, Mister Capitalists, we are beginning to understand your methods.”

By this time, the diplomats—who, in turn, have come to understand Mister Khrushchev’s methods—had already left the room.