Edition 5 (6th April 2008)

Yes there are things happening in the world other than Terminal 5 chaos and a Vegemite Shortage for ex-pat Aussies in London.

Some interesting articles from the mainstream media over the last week (plus a little added sarcasm):

Health:
Pesticide Parkinson's link strong
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7318188.stm
Might be safer to wear a gas mask while driving through the countryside

Medication 'worsens Alzheimer's'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7319393.stm
Story Number 403 of Big Pharma doing what is best for profit not patients

Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking'
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/mobile-phones-more-dangerous-than-smoking-or-asbestos-802602.html?r=RSS
but they are so convenient though…….

Review raises questions over aspartame and brain health
http://foodqualitynews.com/news/ng.asp?id=84424
Yet another reason why not to drink "diet" drinks

Menopause is evolution's way of solving the age-old tensions between wives and their mothers-in-law
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/thehealthnews.html?in_article_id=552911&in_page_id=1797
Explains a lot (and not an April Fools joke either)


Environment:
Labor resurrects Howard's uranium plan
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/labor-resurrects-howards-uranium-plan/2008/04/01/1206850911012.html
The Australian Government slowly gives into the handful of industrialists who own Australia's uranium industry in a bid to save the planet – by creating pollution that will last tens of thousands of years

Food crisis being felt around world
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=412984 a crisis that will impact on us all is brewing, and all the while we use more & more land to grow biofuels. It is even more horrifying when you read this article from way back in 1996:
Kissinger's 1974 Plan forFood Control Genocide
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2249_kissinger_food.html

GM seeds can 'last for 10 years'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7324654.stm No, no there is nothing to fear from GM crops (or Monsanto owning the worlds food supply)


Science:
Global temperatures 'to decrease'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7329799.stm
an inconvenient truth.


http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/483052.html
and yet another inconvenient truth. Implementing schemes to adapt to natural climate change (which has always happened) - this is common sense: Investing in a radical change to the structure of our society based on computer modelling is something only a politician could contemplate.

Boeing: Black's the new black for black-helicopter projects
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/01/a160t_back_in_black/
Just in case you thought you would get advance warning by the sound of the helicopter when they come to take you away.


Civil Liberties:
Google adds US intelligence to its list of clients
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/m.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/01/wintel101.xml
Big brother is becoming net savvy

Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers'
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/03/report-recruit.html
10 steps to fascism. Step number 5 – Infiltrate citizen groups. (The full 10 steps next week)

Immigration 'small benefit' to UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7322825.stm
It is funny that the same is happening in the US and most other major western countries. Are all the leaders incompetent or is there another agenda? Create social unrest, so to reduce your civil liberties further perhaps?

Morality:
Blair urges bigger role for faith
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7327623.stm
Got the blood of a few hundred thousand people on your hands? Don't worry, join our group and not only will we absolve you of your sins against your fellow man, but you can go and pontificate to everyone else too.


Finance & Economics:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003781895
Batten down your (financial) hatches this could get very messy

Treasury’s Plan Would Give Fed Wide New Power
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/business/29regulate.html?_r=3&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1206792090-afujhOAFiCBaiyt9Od6BOg&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
So let me see, your going to give the small cartel of privately owned banks that are the Federal Reserve, massive new (and un-democratic) powers over every company and sector in the economy? Oh that's ok then.


You Heard It Here First:
Dollar Heads for Biggest Weekly Drop Against Euro in a Month
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=arRP1iTbLQ94&refer=home
At some point in the not too distant future the US $ will be at a level when a currency union with Canada & Mexico (stage 1 in the creation to NAFTA is already complete) will be saleable to the general public, and the Amero will be born. If you don't believe me look at the history of the Euro, and look at how NAFTA has mirrored that history at every stage, albeit a couple of decades later.

All eyes on Murdoch as daughter hosts fundraiser for Obama
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/03/rupertmurdoch.barackobama
Oh and Obama will win the US "election"...do you know how I know? Because Rupert Murdoch says so.


The Next War:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7431232
Seems fairly innocuous at first. Until you read the sub-text with the knowledge of Sun Tzu (see quote of the week). This is China saying to the US "Off you go lads, you can start bombing"


The War on Terror:
Rapists in the ranks
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-harman31mar31,0,5399612.story
From the Army that brought you Abu Graib and Guantanamo, a rather shocking article about the abuse of women in the US armed forces


Quote of the week:
"If they are greedy, lure them"...."Use deception to throw them into confusion"..."Wait for them to become decadent and lazy"...."Seduce them with the prospect of gain"; The Art of War by Sun Tzu